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...funny/scary anecdotes on the life of a foreigner in what may be the most hyper-controlled society in the world. One typically smart sequence examines the ubiquitous side-by-side portraits of the leader Kim Jong-Il and his dead-but-technically-still-in-charge father Kim Il-Sung. They appear in every single room, ?except in the shitters of course.? He notes how both men have been made to look nearly identical, "same size, same age, same suit. That way nothing ever changes. It's always the same head at the helm." He even notices that the portraits always...
...jokes also lighten up the grim totalitarian atmosphere. One panel imitates a Sunday comics puzzle, depicting a police lineup of ordinary-looking North Korean citizens with the quiz, "Which one is the spy?" The answer, upside down, reads, "No. 6 because he is not wearing his official Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong...
Over the course of four albums and innumerable appearances inside the heads of characters on The O.C., the Seattle-based quartet Death Cab for Cutie has established itself as the go-to band for a particular kind of postadolescent melancholy. The standard Death Cab song, sung in the earnest and always reasonable voice of Ben Gibbard, hews to the belief that the world is big and tough, that we are small and bruise easily--so let's stay small, stay together and hope for the best...
...uniform to cut a CD of new military anthems geared to the MTV generation. Love You, Love Me is an ode to the bonding that occurs among soldiers. Let's Go, Let's Go and My Comrades, are long on patriotism ("If we retreat, our country will fall") but sung to a beat 50 Cent would dig. A traditional marching song, Real Men, is sung by rising female singer Jinjoo?the only performer on the recording who isn't a soldier. The ministry says recruits will be given the CDs "to enjoy during leisure time." Barracks culture may still have...
...knows it is a fairly important word). But I remind myself that Russian isn’t as bad as Mandarin, for example, which has a writing system divorced from its spoken language. That is like having the text of “Fiddler on the Roof” sung to “Cats.” It makes no sense...