Funerals used to be strongly community-centered and those preparing the bodies were very often the same women who acted as midwives. Now, the role of the undertaker has evolved into a profession in itself and the majority of those involved in every aspect of a funeral work for companies. Rather than being your typical impersonal companies though, they are typically small family ones with a long established history.
What do we watch? Why do we watch films? What is our relationship with this enigmatic film? What is it that we cherish about sitting amongst one hundred other strangers, in the dark, watching theatrical drama play out on a sixty-foot screen? What is it about the experience, and the medium, that captivates us to the extent we allow other human beings, pretending to be other human beings, shanghai our mental and emotional space?
One of my favorite hobbies is going to see live bands give concerts. There bands I have seen once and wouldn’t rush back, whereas some bands I have seen many times. There are also those that I haven’t got around to seeing yet, but intend to.
People loved and still love 80′s music but what about the 90′s? The 90′s were full of forgotten treasures that set the stage for future acts. Bands such as Green Day, Radiohead and Pearl Jam made it big back then and are still huge today.
Japanese people still give enough significance to the family system and so the family symbols also haven’t lost their significance until today. This concept of family symbols called ‘Ka-mon’ has been influencing them for the the last eight centuries. The word ‘Ka’ stands for family with a genealogical tree of its own and ‘mon’ means emblem.