Author Archives: AJ Duldulao
Week 2 Notes
4/9/2019 ABC- American Born Chinese FoB– Fresh off the Boat UBC- University of a Billion Chinese UCLA- University of Caucasians Living Among Asians Panama Hotel- Japanese-American architect, last remaining Japanese bathhouse in the U.S Four Creative Genres Fiction Poetry Drama Creative Non-Fiction- Non-fiction that borrows from fiction and poetry Slanting the truth Art is a … Continue reading
A salute to nostalgia, featuring: Simple and Clean
Simple and Clean is the English version of the song Hikari originally composed by Utada Hikaru. The original Japanese version Hikari was recorded for her third Japanese album Deep River. Simple and Clean is known most famously for its appearance in the first Kingdom Hearts game which released in the United States September 17, 2002. The instrumentation is limited, composed … Continue reading
The album Fragile by the band Yes
The fourth album by the band Yes is Fragile. The center of the album is filled with the depiction of a globe. Landmasses in bright green coloration fill the globe as a representation of continents. A large ocean occupies the space between landmasses in a dark shade of blue. As the ocean approaches the shorelines, … Continue reading
Why I Write
I write to bring imagination into reality. I write for the joy of fantasy that can never exist in the world. I write as a guilty pleasure. I write for the joy of creation. I write to give a voice to the characters in my mind.
Talking Points: Alien Encounters
Four Quotes from Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu’s Alien Encounters “… the imagining of the “third-world” city as a criminal underbelly—to dramatize the narrative of “ethnic subjects in pursuit of social equality, law, order, and economic rationality, rendering grotesque an invisible global network of discipline that enacts violence akin to the torturing of … Continue reading