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Keith Kong

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like

About Me

"Although I also know that it's true that a writer's country isn't his language or isn't only his language.... There can be many countries, it occurs to me now, but only one passport, and obviously that passport is the quality of the writing. Which doesn't mean just to write well, because anybody can do that, but to write marvelously well, though not even that, because anybody can do that too. Then what is writing of quality? Well, what it's always been: to know how to thrust your head into the darkness, know how to leap into the void, and to understand that literature is basically a dangerous calling." rb

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Ira Glass, Myla Goldberg and the Pope walk into a bar...

Music:

belle and sebastian, the pixies, sleater-kinney, the smiths, joanna newsom

Movies:

annie hall. donnie darko. Chinatown. sunset boulevard. a bout de souffle. raging bull. band of outsiders. spirit of the beehive. bride of chucky. bill and ted's excellent adventure. jules and jim. bill and ted's bogus journey. my night at maud's. the graduate. 8 1/2. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. children of men. 400 blows. rushmore. hearts and minds. the new world. and a little film I like to call Heavyweights.

Television:

The Colbert Report. and on the radio "This American Life."

Books:

Anything by the following: Juan Rulfo, T.S. Eliot, Nikolai Gogol, Tobias Wolff, Joyce Carol Oates, Orhan Pamuk, Myla Goldberg, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jean Cocteau, Roberto Bolano, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wislawa Szymborska, and, above all others, Jorge Luis Borges, Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

My Blog

Sigh...

Steve Lopez LA Times You knew it had to happen.The moment firefighters began to get an edge on the fires, pundits, bloggers and other gasbags couldn't wait to proclaim San Diego's superiority over New...
Posted by Keith Kong on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:16:00 PST

Ethan Hawke: Sensitive, Artistic, Kind of Douchey

Ethan Hawke Really, Really Recommends You Check Out This Guy Tolstoy posted by: Amelie Gillette August 29, 2007 - 12:04pm This week, alongside their coverage of the "25 Most Scandalous Scandals From ...
Posted by Keith Kong on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:24:00 PST

New Music

The new Rilo Kiley album makes me sad. What happened? They used to make sweet songs full of witty, terribly sad songs, and now it's just hook after hook with generic lyrics. They sound like a shadow o...
Posted by Keith Kong on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:03:00 PST

Today I ate a carrot...

...and, despite being somewhat full before consuming the carrot, I ended up even hungrier afterwards. It was like the carrot was taking up negative space in my stomach. I fear that if I keep...
Posted by Keith Kong on Tue, 29 May 2007 02:41:00 PST

Important Bill That Affects Our Health

By MICHAEL POLLANPublished: April 22, 2007A few years ago, an obesity researcher at the University of Washington named Adam Drewnowski ventured into the supermarket to solve a mystery. He wanted to fi...
Posted by Keith Kong on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:00:00 PST

Keep Warm, Burn The Rich

It Didn't End Well Last Time Not since the Roaring Twenties have the rich been so much richer than everyone else. In 2005, the latest year for which figures are available, the top 1 percent of Ameri...
Posted by Keith Kong on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:27:00 PST

Just Purchased: Tickets for Jarvis Cocker, Peter, Bjorn & John

Jarvis Cocker: April 23rd Peter, Bjorn and John: May 1st Both at Webster Hall Buy tickets and come with me!
Posted by Keith Kong on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:09:00 PST

The Real Reason Bush Won't Back Down on Guantanamo

Absolute Power - The real reason the Bush administration won't back down on Guantanamo.By Dahlia LithwickPosted Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007, at 6:52 AM ET George Bush Why is the United States pois...
Posted by Keith Kong on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:36:00 PST

Top 5 Albums of 2006

Here are my top 5 albums of 2006. The females ripped it up this year, because all my picks are women or feature women lead singers. What can I say, I love the ladies.   Joanna Newsom-Ys This isn...
Posted by Keith Kong on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:59:00 PST

Emily Dickinson

From: [email protected]: [email protected] Dear Students, I would like to apologize to the class for the remarks I made last Thursday during my lecture on Emily...
Posted by Keith Kong on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:21:00 PST