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Hey everyone and a very special shout-out to Peke, our number one student poster.
Peke, thanks so much for the Patty Boyd attachment and the Japanese comedy attachment.
Apparently Eric Clapton wrote "Wonderful Tonight" for Boyd. Did Harrisson write any songs for Boyd? I hope she wasn't used by Clapton and Harrisson and that they didn't use her. If she inspired Eric to write a hit should she get money for that? What do you think? Has anyone seen the movie, "Muse" starring Sharon Stone who plays a muse (someone who inspires creative men)? Sharon's film character got some Tiffany jewerly and a nice hotel room for inspring some screenwriter characters in the movie "Muse".
Which brings me to the question: how much should a housewife be paid? Recently in America someone calculated that a mum or "mom" as American's say should recieve roughly $100,000 U.S. a year. What do you think, is that fair, or is that too much, or too little, or should a mother's work be for free?
Recently I read an interesting article about a woman who was the former girlfriend of Peter Frampton in Esquire magazine. Apparently she was part of the reason Frampton took a break from music, and his follow-up album wasn't successful, so it seems she didn't inspire him and she also tried to sue him unsuccessfully. But there are always two sides of a side right? It seems many women associated with males stars are demonized by the press or the public, doesn't it?
Being married to or dating a rockstar definitely has it's good and bad sides. Yoko Ono, etc have said as much. Have any Japanese women or men written about their lives with rockstars? If they have what did they say?
Moving away from rock, what did you think of the Olympics? There were some great performances from so many athletes and China apparently was a great host for the games. Let's hope though that China becomes even more internationalized and open and democratic in the futureas a result of having hosted the Games.
Time magazine had a lot of very interesting articles on all aspects of the Olympics and I learnt a lot from those articles. One small article that I found very interesting was about how well Chinese women athletes did. However the same article pointed out that in the not so distant future there will be more men then women in China or is the other way around?! I've heard in Kansai there are more women than men is that true?
Has anyone read any books by the author Oe Kenzaburo? He sounds like an interesting guy. As you probably know, Oe like Kawabata won a Nobel prize for literature. I found a book at the library which is collection of speeches he made called "Japan, the Ambiguous and Myself". That book was interesting because Oe talked about many things: his childhood, World War 2, his opposition to the S.D.F. and the Joint Security Treaty that Japan has with America and the themes of his work and his opinion of many Japanese writers. If someone has read Oe ou there, please tell me what you think of him and his books, I'd love to know. I have a Korean acquaintance who told me Oe is her favourite Japanese writer and he is a hero for supporting the Korean writer Kim Ji Ha, who was imprisoned in Korea in the 1970's.
BFN,
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