Wonder or Wander

The egony of being, at the Museum of Rodin, Paris, 2005.

Trio! Stanley Clarke, Bass Béla Fleck, Banjo Jean-Luc Ponty, Violin ...at Chicago Symphony Center A week ago, I told my friend that it was not easy for me to appreciate the bass itself because the tone tends to be very low and never predominant. But today, I need to change what I said. Most of all I haven't seen a more wonderful picture of a man with a bass than tonight. The big instrument always seemed to suspend the player in an awkward position. But Mr. Clarke dominates the instrument and plays with it. The gigantic instrument sometimes becomes a drum with trembling strings or sometimes becomes a guitar which seems to be passed onto a Spanish flamenco music player. All the time he looks much more passionate than any flamenco dancer. I am deeply impressed that one can explode such dynamic sound and rhythm from the bass. Mr. Ponty also presents violin sound which I never heard before. It seems that he doesn't care making beatiful melody and he likes to go beyond the tone withi...

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Director: Wen Jiang China, 2000 The movie tells a story in a peaceful Chinese village when it was occupied by Japaneses between 1944 and 1945, but it is not about the horrendous historical events but about human's devilish mind and its conflicts. In a such small town, the villagers seem to get along with japanese occupants until a Japanese soldier and a Chinese translator were mysteriously deposited by an armed stranger for a limited period of time. Threatened by the stranger, the villagers get together and discuss how to handle the two. Even after a few months passed, the stranger doesn't come back to get them, so the villagers decide to kill them for their own safety. The one, Da San(?), who is destined to kill them couldn't do it, so hide them in a secret place and feed them. Not knowing this fact, his pregnant wife shuns him and doesn't like even a slight touch from him. The man is too conscientious to stand all the situation. For all the efforts that he made, the d...