Pseudo-update

Today I discovered what is likely to be the nearest equivalent to paradise that I will ever find here in Seoul: the eighth floor of one of the city's largest electronics complexes, replete with enough DVDs (at fairly cheap prices) to keep me occupied -- audiovisually -- either (1) for as long as I remain here or (2) until I run out of money. My failure to write any fresh blog entries over the past several day, however, cannot fairly be attributed to cinephilia; it's just that I've been lazier than usual. But I shall try to write something at least semi-intelligible within the next few days -- in between the movies that constitute my chief means of diversion nowadays.