CINEMA SOLORIENS-FILM PROGRAMS BY JAMES HARRAR

I have been working with the moving image since 1989, which is a small spark in the tradition of cinema. I am happy and fortunate to share a relationship with this special discipline. My films are often meditations on beauty, perception, allegory, sensuality and visual phenomenon. I strive to reacquaint the viewer with the moment of becoming aware of witnessing something - perhaps capture the essence of visual thought that is empty of fixed meaning.

Friday, May 19, 2006

MUFFINTOPS!

Let's face it, we Americans are generally an overweight society. Love those cheese fries, love dem so-dee pops!

In Japan, they recognize an American girl tourist by spotting the muffintops.

What is a muffintop?

It is that tidbit of fat that squelches over lowrise tight jeans or a skirt, displaying a peek of belly.

I told my daughter. She wrote an endearing homage to our culture.

MUFFINTOPS

Dancing, Dancing,
Tight little bottoms
See them in the café
Giggle, giggle, fatties,
Wrappers are too small or
They're on too tightly
Find larger cups
So they fit them rightly
Hanging over tops
They're just so nasty
Fit the larger cups
And make them tasty
Silly, silly muffin tops
Fix them nicely.


The same poem attempted in Japanese...

MUFFINTOPS

ダンス、ダンス、堅く小さい底 cafe のくすくす笑い、くすくす笑い、fatties のそれらを見なさい、 ラッパーは小さいまたはそこに堅くにある より大きいコップを見つけなさいそうすればそれらに正しく合う 厄介な上にそこに掛かることちょうどそう より大きいコップに合い、風味がよくさせなさい 愚かで、愚かなマフィンの上はそれらをきちんと固定する

Here is the poem translated back to English.

MUFFINTOPS

Dance and dance,
hard small bottom
cafe
laugh laugh those of fatties
do to see secretly, secretly,
the wrapper it is small
rather than or being hard there,
to find the large glass do it may,
if it does, catching there with respect to the trouble which is agreeable
to those just to an exactly
so it is agreeable larger glass,
flavor does points well being foolish,
on the foolish muffin those are locked securely

3 Comments:

At 9:26 PM, Blogger Mark Crummett said...

"... love dem so-dee pops! "

I know you were think of me when you wrote this.

Too true!

 
At 2:30 PM, Blogger iames said...

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At 2:36 PM, Blogger iames said...

i will never forget your brave effort trying to "kick" the pop.

shoot, i sport to 'top me-self.

 

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