Towards Universality, Again.

From an entry on the Kill the Buddha blog:

"I’ve written too many novels, many too many, and as I get older I regret that when I was starting out, some forty years ago, I didn’t trust a vision of universality enough."

Signs that we are beginning to cope with the limits of postmodernism and resolve its distaste of Universals.

Shining

The above is the best video I've seen of a band that I saw last Thursday night in Beijing that blew my face off. They were absolutely revelatory, and I mean that literally. The best part in the video, I think, comes around 5:22 seconds in and lasts for twenty or thirty seconds. I've just been watching it over and over again.