For
perseid in particular, but of interest to anyone who has ever sampled Japanese popular culture and found it bizarre, kooky and oddly fascinating at the same time (I'm looking at
eirivan too).
http://www.yayapapayaz.com/handofgory/2006/10/23/kinsella#more-568 I'll keep an eye out on the lecture, if and when it gets published, but it certainly sounds something worth looking at.