Saturday, December 26, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Yo Gabba Gabba!
Move over Teletubbies and Boobahs! - oy!
And check out Elija the puppetmaster- or better yet- the puppet!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Russian Symbolist Poetics-
Vladimir Solovyov, 1853-1900:
And man, as one who belongs to both worlds, can and must by an act of rational contemplation concern himself with the divine world, and finding himself yet in a world of contention and vague apprehension, he must enter into communication with vivid images from the kingdom of glory and eternal beauty.
Dmitri Merezhkovsky, 1865-1941:
... the three major elements of the new art are a mystical content, symbols, and the expansion of artistic impressionability. Only a creative faith in something infinite and immortal can ignite the soul of man, create heroes, martyrs and prophets. People have need of faith, they need inspiration, they crave a holy madness in their heroes and martyrs.
Valeri Bryusov, 1873-1924:
A Sonnet To Form
Rare and powerful harmonies exist,
Shaping both scent and contour in a flower.
Thus brilliance lies unseen by us until,
Beneath the chisel, it blazes in the diamond.
And I desire that all my dreaming visions
That reach the light embodied in the word,
Find for themselves their long-sought forms.
Konstantin Balmont, 1867-1943:
Beneath A Lunar Sign
Beneath this youthful, sickle-Moon
That glows above the emerald Sea,
You walk beside the waves with me.
I whisper words, we silently dispute.
This came to me in dreams one night,
As combers roared in you and me.
I saw the moonlight-flooded sight
That you and I were sinking in the Sea.
We were, in crespuscule and brine,
Two ocean flowers, entwining blooms
Of salt and sea- dreaming Moons
And stars of novel lands and strange designs.
Vyacheslav Invanov, Thoughts on Symbolism, 1912:
And thus I am not a Symbolist if in the heart of the listener I do not arouse with intangible nuance or influence those incommunicable sensations which resemble at times some primeval rememberence... I am not a Symbolist if my words do not summon forth in the listener sensations of the connection bewteen that which is his "ego" and that which he calls his "non-ego"... if my words do not convince him immediately of the existence of a hidden life where his mind had not suspected life; if my words do not move in him the energy of love towards that which he was previously unable to love because his love did not know of the many abodes it possessed.
Fyodor Sologub, The Created Legend, 1907-1913:
I take a piece of life, coarse and barren, and from it I create an exquisite legend, for I am a poet. Whether life, dull and common, stagnates in the gloom, or bursts forth in a raging fire, I, the poet, will erecet above you, life, my legend which is being created, my legend of the enchanting and the beautiful.
And man, as one who belongs to both worlds, can and must by an act of rational contemplation concern himself with the divine world, and finding himself yet in a world of contention and vague apprehension, he must enter into communication with vivid images from the kingdom of glory and eternal beauty.
Dmitri Merezhkovsky, 1865-1941:
... the three major elements of the new art are a mystical content, symbols, and the expansion of artistic impressionability. Only a creative faith in something infinite and immortal can ignite the soul of man, create heroes, martyrs and prophets. People have need of faith, they need inspiration, they crave a holy madness in their heroes and martyrs.
Valeri Bryusov, 1873-1924:
A Sonnet To Form
Rare and powerful harmonies exist,
Shaping both scent and contour in a flower.
Thus brilliance lies unseen by us until,
Beneath the chisel, it blazes in the diamond.
And I desire that all my dreaming visions
That reach the light embodied in the word,
Find for themselves their long-sought forms.
Konstantin Balmont, 1867-1943:
Beneath A Lunar Sign
Beneath this youthful, sickle-Moon
That glows above the emerald Sea,
You walk beside the waves with me.
I whisper words, we silently dispute.
This came to me in dreams one night,
As combers roared in you and me.
I saw the moonlight-flooded sight
That you and I were sinking in the Sea.
We were, in crespuscule and brine,
Two ocean flowers, entwining blooms
Of salt and sea- dreaming Moons
And stars of novel lands and strange designs.
Vyacheslav Invanov, Thoughts on Symbolism, 1912:
And thus I am not a Symbolist if in the heart of the listener I do not arouse with intangible nuance or influence those incommunicable sensations which resemble at times some primeval rememberence... I am not a Symbolist if my words do not summon forth in the listener sensations of the connection bewteen that which is his "ego" and that which he calls his "non-ego"... if my words do not convince him immediately of the existence of a hidden life where his mind had not suspected life; if my words do not move in him the energy of love towards that which he was previously unable to love because his love did not know of the many abodes it possessed.
Fyodor Sologub, The Created Legend, 1907-1913:
I take a piece of life, coarse and barren, and from it I create an exquisite legend, for I am a poet. Whether life, dull and common, stagnates in the gloom, or bursts forth in a raging fire, I, the poet, will erecet above you, life, my legend which is being created, my legend of the enchanting and the beautiful.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
THE TIME IS NOW- AGAIN!
Check out OpEdNews...
http://www.opednews.com/articles/THE-TIME-IS-NOW-by-Chris-Keith-091212-955.html
http://www.opednews.com/articles/THE-TIME-IS-NOW-by-Chris-Keith-091212-955.html
Friday, December 11, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
SERGE & CREW...
POWERS OF SCIENCE
Friday, December 4, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
THE MASTER REVIVED!
*keep an eye out for the briefly shown hooded figure- skulking Master or new Doctor in waiting?
CHARLOTTE-
She's my new alternative for the, um, truly alternative and unique songtress along the lines of my ancient diva Marianne Faithfull. Beck helps here, but this song is a true testament to Ms. Gainsbourg's original sexiness, intelligence and aloof charm...
http://www.vimeo.com/7703592
http://www.vimeo.com/7703592
TANGO SONG-
Even after 30 years, nobody can top MA for picking obscure, bizarre and beautiful songs to cover-not to mention his own vast origanl catalogue. Revisit him asap!
http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/marc_almond_covers_aleister_crowleys_tango_song/
http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/marc_almond_covers_aleister_crowleys_tango_song/
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thoughts of A Tribal Elder...
Do not forget your queer history and journey. Share it with young and struggling gay men- and do not forget the power of magic, the mysterious and the spiritual!
http://queerwitness.blogspot.com/
http://queerwitness.blogspot.com/
Sunday, November 15, 2009
More on the God Concept...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The America We Need-
http://theswivet.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-do-you-think-i-voted-for-at-omaha.html
He gets it- why not everybody else??
... and the Swivet is a pretty cool and literate blog!
Perhaps he should talk to New York State Senator Ruben Diaz who is currently rasing a ruccus among fellow Democrats for his opposition to a state gay marriage bill...
I would only remind the Senator who is apparently African American and Latino that minorities who oppose equality on all levels for GLBT people are simply racists.
It's a shame that our Left has never mastered the art of "religious zeal" to the extent that conservative Republicans have in order to champion a true and inclusive morality while defending its existence in a state of freedom. The Democrats need to re-explore the power of words driven by passion and not be afriad to display both. Without this, it's just one more plank knocked out of the platform Barack Obama is trying to hold steady on while he attempts to turn the world perhaps a bit too gently into the light.
He gets it- why not everybody else??
... and the Swivet is a pretty cool and literate blog!
Perhaps he should talk to New York State Senator Ruben Diaz who is currently rasing a ruccus among fellow Democrats for his opposition to a state gay marriage bill...
I would only remind the Senator who is apparently African American and Latino that minorities who oppose equality on all levels for GLBT people are simply racists.
It's a shame that our Left has never mastered the art of "religious zeal" to the extent that conservative Republicans have in order to champion a true and inclusive morality while defending its existence in a state of freedom. The Democrats need to re-explore the power of words driven by passion and not be afriad to display both. Without this, it's just one more plank knocked out of the platform Barack Obama is trying to hold steady on while he attempts to turn the world perhaps a bit too gently into the light.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Science of Sleep-
Michel Gondry gives us everything that American movies are not here with characters who are characters, nuance, playfulness, whimsy and yes- love! And both Ss are so cute as to be almost blissfully painful! The unique language-switching is also a refreshing European way to learn to speak by speaking, rather than by hearing alone and scribbling...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
THE CASE FOR GOD-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/04/case-for-god-karen-armstrong
Karen Armstrong leans heavily on the distinction that Greek philosophers made between "logos" and "mythos" says Alain de Botton in the London Observer as noted in the October 9 issue of The Week. One mode of knowledge allowed an individual to function effectively in the everyday world, while the other addressed the pain and mysteries of life. Religion (properly) belonged in the same realm as art and music, and the practice of both art and religion was a means of "stepping outside of the norm for the sake of release and consolation" (and personal transcendence). A belief in the God of the ancients requires uncertainty, not unlike the condition necessary prior to the search for scientific proof of natural phenomena.
Karen Armstrong leans heavily on the distinction that Greek philosophers made between "logos" and "mythos" says Alain de Botton in the London Observer as noted in the October 9 issue of The Week. One mode of knowledge allowed an individual to function effectively in the everyday world, while the other addressed the pain and mysteries of life. Religion (properly) belonged in the same realm as art and music, and the practice of both art and religion was a means of "stepping outside of the norm for the sake of release and consolation" (and personal transcendence). A belief in the God of the ancients requires uncertainty, not unlike the condition necessary prior to the search for scientific proof of natural phenomena.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Cowboys & Immigrants
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Presence-of-Mind-Cowboys-and-Immigrants.html
"The Frontier and Ellis Island analyze problems in different ways and arrive at different decisions. The Frontier assumes the drunken soldier is a rapist or murderer and shoots him between the eyes. Ellis Island may see him as a confused fool and hope to talk him into a cup of coffee and a 12-step program. Roughly the same choices present themselves to a president: the planet is the Frontier; the planet is Ellis Island. Genius is the ability to hold two contradictory truths in the mind at the same time without going crazy."
While genius might be asking too much from our current politicians, it is not to much to ask that that they be able to hold opposing views in mind, put extreme partisanship aside and make rational decisions and the occasional compromise to reconcile these competing but not mutually exclusive demands of a free people. Obama has striven for reconciliation on many levels, but the other party has to come to the dance.
"The Frontier and Ellis Island analyze problems in different ways and arrive at different decisions. The Frontier assumes the drunken soldier is a rapist or murderer and shoots him between the eyes. Ellis Island may see him as a confused fool and hope to talk him into a cup of coffee and a 12-step program. Roughly the same choices present themselves to a president: the planet is the Frontier; the planet is Ellis Island. Genius is the ability to hold two contradictory truths in the mind at the same time without going crazy."
While genius might be asking too much from our current politicians, it is not to much to ask that that they be able to hold opposing views in mind, put extreme partisanship aside and make rational decisions and the occasional compromise to reconcile these competing but not mutually exclusive demands of a free people. Obama has striven for reconciliation on many levels, but the other party has to come to the dance.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
HOPEFULLY NOT!
Frightening- http://worldofwonder.net/archives/2008/09/09/holey_apocalypse/
Fact- http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/large_hadron_collider/index.html
FICTION? http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/10/is-a-time-travelling-higgs-sab.html
According to today's New York Times: "A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather." We certainly live in amazing times, people.
Fact- http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/large_hadron_collider/index.html
FICTION? http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/10/is-a-time-travelling-higgs-sab.html
According to today's New York Times: "A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather." We certainly live in amazing times, people.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
THE COVENANT
While not quite as darkly sarcastic and bitchy as the girl version which is The Craft, this movie is actually modestly entertaining and if there was no other reason to watch it, I would just offer that it has one of the hottest boy candy casts ever filmed- complete with high school-esque swimming pool and locker room scene. Go to the Fall Fest and feast the eyes in preparation for THG-
REQUEST!
Hi All-
For any of you who read and find any fascination from my blog, I would encourage you to leave a comment so that in this age of existence-altering realities we could connect and enrich each other through some meaningful dialogue. I am all for silence to center the soul, but let's consider ourselves centered and start speaking up to move our world through our answers, and more importantly, our questions!
Inspiration for this task:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ldQggHj78I&feature=fvw
EXTRAS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuUnTJgD9M&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=9702C829585B23A4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhQR8wlsInI&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=9702C829585B23A4&index=20
For any of you who read and find any fascination from my blog, I would encourage you to leave a comment so that in this age of existence-altering realities we could connect and enrich each other through some meaningful dialogue. I am all for silence to center the soul, but let's consider ourselves centered and start speaking up to move our world through our answers, and more importantly, our questions!
Inspiration for this task:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ldQggHj78I&feature=fvw
EXTRAS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuUnTJgD9M&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=9702C829585B23A4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhQR8wlsInI&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=9702C829585B23A4&index=20
Friday, October 9, 2009
RETARDED
Too much Kabbalah...? Our girl has grown so harsh and jagged-edged! Perhaps she is feeling the loss of youth and diva-lution in her ever-more simplistic and poppy new dance tunes instead of slowly evolving into the black & white photo, middle-aged, mature and wry Dietrich-like woman I was waiting for... after years of preaching and demonstrating tolerance and uninhibited self-expression, why all the piety and petty preachiness? Maybe she's now just Mom-a-Donna? Hmmm
Perhaps she just grew out of love, joy and fun before she found them in full after the two decades long journey away from her inner issues... hopefully, she will avoid imprisoning her kiddos in their own!
http://worldofwonder.net/2009/10/08/ritchie/
Perhaps she just grew out of love, joy and fun before she found them in full after the two decades long journey away from her inner issues... hopefully, she will avoid imprisoning her kiddos in their own!
http://worldofwonder.net/2009/10/08/ritchie/
LEGITIMACY
The President's greatest challenge now, while continuing with his exemplary skills of tact, diplomacy and negociation on the world stage, is to apply the intellect behind these methods to a blunt, forceful and decisive attack against the unrelenting partisanship, ignorance and obstructionist guile of the Republicans to expose their own form of domestic "treason" and push his policy initiatives through Congress on behalf of the American people to whom he has promised change and reform AT HOME! thus overcoming his admirable yet ineffective strategy of compromise away from his promises and first principles. I wish someone would tell him simply that the tough process of defeating evil should not be seen as an affront to his morality, but as the necessary and logical manifestation of it for the long-term higher good of our country.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
BOO!
Wow- Margaret Hamilton, Witchie Poo, Betty White, Florence Henderson, the Osmonds and KISS!? Again I say, the culture is failed when we can no longer produce something like this and laugh...
Monday, October 5, 2009
SUSPIRIA-
Ignore the upcoming Natalie Portman remake (what is the point of remakes anyway? why can't the original first versions be left as art and filmmakers be forced to engage their creativity to create something new as if the time, place and ambience of these films could even be imagined to be capable of duplication? Very boring Hollywood!) and bask in the insanely delicious eye candy of this photography while being really terrified Gallo-style for Halloween! Nothin beats this Euro-creeep stuff! The Goblin music is the perfect background for enhanced terror...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8zbV_fFkYs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6zJGUUiG0c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8zbV_fFkYs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6zJGUUiG0c
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
HUSK
Wonderful poetry by Sam Warmack...
I’m not the one for the big idea, Those cold fronts moving in over the waters with the clouds That sleep their way across the sky, The air growing dim and cool. So much quiet here, Laid down by God all over the earth To echo in the absence of love, To grow in an orchard’s line, Guiding us to the ends and means To build those towers high. Under this bridge that spans the width of the bay In a boat that soughs and creeks, Cars thundering overhead to places like home, In the arms of people without names Or pasts, no stories to tell, Only those familiar touches to assure them that they breathe.” ~excerpt from “Oxygen,” as seen in Husk
CAT CONGRESS
I just don't have any idea how our cat, Goo Marzipan, gets back and forth to DC completely without our knowledge to be in charge of the cat Congress? Hmmm...
Thursday, September 24, 2009
HERO
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
TRANCECASTS-
*If these grab you, the essential next listens are: Oakie's Perfecto Fluro & Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise mellow global jet-set trance-athon! Take it up!!
Monday, September 21, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
This seems awfully small...
http://www.towleroad.com/2009/09/mehcad-brooks-wont-get-married-till-gay-people-can.html
... but we love Mehcad (grrrrrrr!) and if everybody with a conscience would hold off on marriage til DOMA is repealed and all marriages are respected, this issue would vanish in less time than it took for the aforementioned BANG to occur!
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
WE ARE HERE!
http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/123/doctor-who-the-waters-of-mars.jsp
... new Doctor coming soon! Perhaps he needs a hotty male "companion" to help him, er,
Regenerate! Wonder if Patrick Wolf is too busy? Couldn't hurt to ask...
... new Doctor coming soon! Perhaps he needs a hotty male "companion" to help him, er,
Regenerate! Wonder if Patrick Wolf is too busy? Couldn't hurt to ask...
Way Outside The Box...
POETRY SCIENCE TALKS BACKGROUND: Poetry Science Talks is a salon/discussion group -- an ongoing series of out-of-box discussions and good fellowship -- hosted in New York City (and now in Woodstock and in Sag Harbor, NY) since April, 2001 by partners Neal Goldsmith and Ed Rosenfeld.Poetry Science Talks is NOT about the science of poetry, nor poetry about science, but rather focuses on a poetical science (and philosophy) broad enough to serve as a conceptual umbrella for quantum mechanics, meditation, psychosomatics, psychedelics, spontaneous remission, peak experience, stigmata, artificial intelligence, emergent properties, cosmology, placebo, relativity, healing, creativity, that spark of knowing/insight - phenomenon of a poetry science.Our interest with PST is in a broader understanding of reality than can be attained through either creativity, intuition, and shamanism, for example, on the one hand, or science, matter, and logic on the other. This third, transcendent view of reality might be labeled "integral" science and philosophy - a "poetry science" if you will - a world view that can accommodate and integrate opposites: of science and art, mind and body, matter and energy, spirit and flesh. Our original "mission statement" for Poetry Science Talks had the following points:- Ideas, analyses and solutions regarding the...- Development, implementation, diffusion, use, and positive and negative impacts of...- New ideas, new technologies and new ways of interacting as a culture.While we have evolved significantly since we crafted that statement five years ago, our general intent remains the same: We are working to forge a broader, more parsimonious and inclusive view of reality, one that is discriminating among concepts, flexible to change, reasoned in assessment and systematic in perspective. Our ultimate goal is a more curious, open, accepting intentionality toward the future - and present moment - of humanity's development.
http://www.nealgoldsmith.com
http://www.eintelligence.com
http://www.nealgoldsmith.com
http://www.eintelligence.com
the absurdity of nature
http://craphound.com/EnormousAbsurdityofNature.pdf
... if follows it's own rather indirect logic but still unifies our spiritual quest in a way few things i have read have or will in the future methinks!
... if follows it's own rather indirect logic but still unifies our spiritual quest in a way few things i have read have or will in the future methinks!
One pretty skull...
... have been trying to find an Interview magazine shot of Jude Law at 17 holding a skull in hand during a Broadway run way back when, but have been unsuccessful. But he's back so take a look-
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/theater/06lyal.html?_r=1
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/theater/06lyal.html?_r=1
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Saturday, August 8, 2009
JULIA HAW
Check out this gifted artist-
"The Headless Surgeon" is my favorite!
http://juliahaw.com/section/58161.html
"The Headless Surgeon" is my favorite!
http://juliahaw.com/section/58161.html
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
BE VERY AFRAID!
Here's the whole book- have a read...
And previously...
And before that...
Much better option...
Monday, August 3, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
TRIUMPH OF NATURE...
... brave large tree being hoisted atop huge skyscraper in Chicago, but even the giant crane failed to get him to the top and had to lower him back down. Hopefully, he will succeed next time because heaven knows an 80-story building made from metal and glass and powered by lofty ego must still be somehow sheltered and grounded by nature! Or maybe it's just an application of power. Maybe somebody is in the office too much and should take a walk by the lake...?
Friday, July 31, 2009
SPEECHLESS...
I am rarely speechless... but I am upon viewing this...
And I love Roseanne, but just not quite sure where this one was meant to go...?
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
MF MOVIE REFRESHER-
Filmography2007 - Irina Palm2006 - Paris, je t'aime2006 - Marie Antoinette2004 - Nord-Plage2004 - Letter to True, A2001 - Intimacy2001 - Far from China1996 - Crimetime1995 - Moondance1994 - Shopping1993 - When Pigs Fly1992 - Turn of the Screw, The1975 - Assault on Agathon1974 - Ghost Story1972 - Lucifer Rising1969 - Hamlet1968 - Girl on a Motorcycle, The1967 - I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Attempt at theatre turned soft porn...
I was tragically unable to find the clips I wanted from Danny Radcliffe's NYC stint in Equus...
But I did find this- and there certainly are a lot of little minds out there busy at making the HP fantasy into another, er, fantasy!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDbJGYO8wZE&feature=related
But I did find this- and there certainly are a lot of little minds out there busy at making the HP fantasy into another, er, fantasy!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDbJGYO8wZE&feature=related
and...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
WRINKLED
Madeleine L'Engle was an Episcopalian and believed in universal salvation, writing that "All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones." As a result of her promotion of Christian universalism, many Christian bookstores refused to carry her books, which were also frequently banned from Christian schools and libraries. This is somewhat ironic, since some of her most secular critics attacked her work for being too religious. Her views on divine punishment were similar to those of George MacDonald, who also had a large influence on her fictional work. She said "I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love."
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
CUTTLEFISH
Friday, July 17, 2009
CALIGULA
Hard to say that we have gone anywhere but backwards in the evolution of our taste for appreciating extreme and varied forms of sexulatity. I find it shocking that this film made more than twenty years ago, well, kinda shocked me. Put down those Cheers & Friends dvds and get a load of this America!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ximzxs7ELII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxm3Z7s5ZI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ximzxs7ELII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxm3Z7s5ZI
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
CRUISING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noWm_IKq5oI
In a role of subtlety that at times makes Scarface seem a bit banal, Al Pacino goes far beyond delivering in this 1980 film directed by Exorcist master William Friedkin... take a look at the trailer and the surreal popper snorting scene and then watch the movie. Watch it at least a few times, for while so nuanced and fluid it appears a fairly simple story, there are so many killers and so many personalities at work that one's head can't stop spinning and begins constantly questioning all the motivations at work. Filmed on location in the late '70s rough leatherclubs, bars and bookstores of a NYC West Side that has long since been vanquished by both plagues and time, it makes the most hardened wax for the time when freedom was really this free and not the watered down value we can barely cultivate today. While protested for equating homosexuality and violence by the nascent gay rights activists in the pre-AIDS era, it is actually a bold historical record and affirmation of those times. It is not in the least judgmental, and on the contrary, promotes the idea of people as people whether they be engaged, friends or homosexual lovers. The Pacino character speaks out against abusing people simply because of a label. In the true spirit of irony that wraps the film up like a dark bruised package, while considered by some to be exploitive, it is actually liberating far in advance of its time in ways that would not be seen coming to full fruition for twenty more years. Don't let the shallow arrogance of hindsight deprive you of the stunning depth of this film or make you dismiss its proactive relevance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlrkUmMk3U4
In a role of subtlety that at times makes Scarface seem a bit banal, Al Pacino goes far beyond delivering in this 1980 film directed by Exorcist master William Friedkin... take a look at the trailer and the surreal popper snorting scene and then watch the movie. Watch it at least a few times, for while so nuanced and fluid it appears a fairly simple story, there are so many killers and so many personalities at work that one's head can't stop spinning and begins constantly questioning all the motivations at work. Filmed on location in the late '70s rough leatherclubs, bars and bookstores of a NYC West Side that has long since been vanquished by both plagues and time, it makes the most hardened wax for the time when freedom was really this free and not the watered down value we can barely cultivate today. While protested for equating homosexuality and violence by the nascent gay rights activists in the pre-AIDS era, it is actually a bold historical record and affirmation of those times. It is not in the least judgmental, and on the contrary, promotes the idea of people as people whether they be engaged, friends or homosexual lovers. The Pacino character speaks out against abusing people simply because of a label. In the true spirit of irony that wraps the film up like a dark bruised package, while considered by some to be exploitive, it is actually liberating far in advance of its time in ways that would not be seen coming to full fruition for twenty more years. Don't let the shallow arrogance of hindsight deprive you of the stunning depth of this film or make you dismiss its proactive relevance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlrkUmMk3U4
Sunday, July 12, 2009
The Purest of Treats...
So I read Frank Rich's column in the NYTimes every Sunday to keep me connected to a sane and responsible view of politics... however, today's was something about Sarah Palin. I had to abstain. It made me a little sad to cheat Frank out of a loyal read, but the only person in America less deserving of serious commentary in the nation's finest paper would be Michael Jackson. Ooops- I guess they covered him pretty fully this week too! very sad face... It remains a puzzle to me that the serious citizenry of our country are so acutely fixated upon an ignorant, arrogant political opportunist and an utterly fractured yet self-obsessed child molester for whom the only responsibility appears to be the satisfaction of their own empty egos. In a time when real heroes who actually help and contribute have never been more essential, this bottom feeding is not only lamentable, but gratuitous. Fortunately, a few are still thinking... like Alan in his post below on DC's about Milton. While it is about angels having sex, it is also scholarly and eloquent. Enjoy it along with his fascinating blog below that pulls us out of the shallow moment and back into the stream of
history.
http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2009/07/alan-presents-question-do-angels-in.html
http://the-purest-of-treats.blogspot.com/
history.
http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2009/07/alan-presents-question-do-angels-in.html
http://the-purest-of-treats.blogspot.com/
Thursday, July 9, 2009
PLAY THE GAME!
Director Robert Mulligan who gave us To Kill A Mockingbird really vears into American gothic with this lesser known 1972 horror tale that could only be compared to The Waltons meets The Omen on the set of Cold Comfort Farm. Vintage rural summer creepiness...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmMqWkudgA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmMqWkudgA
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
MALA NOCHE/WALT CURTIS
A friend's thoughts on this film:
We shall have to cover Mala Noche- I
cannot watch it again or I will drown in
my own ejaculate! The irony of street
hos reinforcing Neo-Platonism w a
uniquely American 1950s romantic
Existentialism... def saw the roots of Idaho
and stuff Ang Lee swiped for BB Mtn.
Luv the black and white that can even
make migrants look sexy...
I say that w love! Van Sant digs into my
consciousness on screen like Sondheim
does in music- something about the
WSS ethos... lonely, longing, angry outsiders
lost in silent, less musical shadows...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjzmk4kPkqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHxGji8Ho9E
http://www.offoffoff.com/film/2000/waltcurtis.php
*pay special attention to what Curtis has to say
in several snippets about the destructive nature of
the endless cycles of American Puritanism and his
choice of the Humansexual~~
We shall have to cover Mala Noche- I
cannot watch it again or I will drown in
my own ejaculate! The irony of street
hos reinforcing Neo-Platonism w a
uniquely American 1950s romantic
Existentialism... def saw the roots of Idaho
and stuff Ang Lee swiped for BB Mtn.
Luv the black and white that can even
make migrants look sexy...
I say that w love! Van Sant digs into my
consciousness on screen like Sondheim
does in music- something about the
WSS ethos... lonely, longing, angry outsiders
lost in silent, less musical shadows...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjzmk4kPkqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHxGji8Ho9E
http://www.offoffoff.com/film/2000/waltcurtis.php
*pay special attention to what Curtis has to say
in several snippets about the destructive nature of
the endless cycles of American Puritanism and his
choice of the Humansexual~~
Sunday, July 5, 2009
WERE THE WORLD MINE
It's campy and cool and upliftting and has Shakespeare, Mendelssohn, Patrick Wolf and a bunch o' hotties- just watch it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sH-ro9JkG8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIl4N82gLck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sH-ro9JkG8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIl4N82gLck
Friday, July 3, 2009
ANATOMY OF BEING
Nihilism has a truth and an emotional value worthy of expression, but the Nihilists espousing "no exit" from the catastrophe of humanity have only grasped the first noble truth of being and therefore deprived themselves of the journey higher and deeper out of the one-dimensional "flatland" of modern culture...
http://www.alexgrey.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08R8tgvXa7o
http://www.sacredmysteries.com/
http://www.bytrent.demon.co.uk/otto1.html
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln101/Otto.htm
http://www.alexgrey.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08R8tgvXa7o
http://www.sacredmysteries.com/
http://www.bytrent.demon.co.uk/otto1.html
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln101/Otto.htm
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The Mystery of History Can Happen in the Least Likely of Places...
LEAP
"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
A SUMMER MOVIE NIGHT FAVORITE-
If only we lived in these days again- when this song could be sung on network tv and be both provacative and innocent... a duality our culture now seems to be unable to grapple with or comprehend?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3VbSfQ3nAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3VbSfQ3nAM
Friday, June 19, 2009
SUPERNOVAS
Thursday, June 18, 2009
HOPING FOR AUDACITY
Even ardent supporters must sometimes or maybe even often call their leaders back to reality... especially when the stakes are high and the opportunities are great and may not come along again for many years. Caution was a great strategy to get Barack Obama elected, but he's elected and now must govern- or Rule! He won, he's in charge, the Republicans have disintegrated into a poisonous pool of anger and reaction. There is no need to fear them or anyone else who has helped push America to the edge of the abyss. It's time for the President to exercise the high powers of the Office with urgency in the name of Good...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KUj3sBRSZQ
http://earth2obama.org/?m=20090612
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KUj3sBRSZQ
http://earth2obama.org/?m=20090612
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
A few words on Patrick-
So Patrick Wolf was here in Chicago this past week at the Bottom Lounge and I have to say the short but powerful appearance far exceeded my expectations! With Brit lad sweetness and a very genuine demeanor, he pounded out his extremely nuanced sound to a small audience that by the end of his hour on stage was completely wrapped up in a total give and take spellbinding musical interchange with him. For this, he was surprised, overwhelmed and expressive about how much fun HE was having. The supporting band was skillful, but his violinist wore a slightly stressed and wee bit scared smile while trying to keep up with his violin and the fact that while acting, singing, and posing, it never seemed quite certain exactly which of the many disparate instruments lined up on the stage he would pick up next. While he has obviously picked up much from other British alternative pop performers including Bowie, the Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Marc Almond and on and on (as well as a healthy classical influence), his pop-rock-folk-lounge-cabaret-torch combo is completely unique in its youth, wisdom, political acuteness, passion and clarity. He unleashed equally spirited rebellion against the Iraq war and Proposition 8. His music contains beauty, love, anger, calls for revolution and understanding, but is always eerily uplifting and reassuring throughout. He is both versatile and sage enough to collaborate with an icon like Marianne Faithfull or an icy beauty like Tilda Swinton. His skillful use of all the tricks technology offers does not in any way undermine the earth-bound soul of his music. He is vastly talented and currently underappreciated in my view, but still manages to see farther than most singers his age while remaining humble enough to share his journey which is where he manages to connect at heart with his fans. I couldn't have asked for more- except a better camera and a little more stamina after standing for several hours of opening acts to hang out and get a picture with him. But there's always the next show. Chicago awaits til the fall, but in the meantime we'll be listening... to his current album The Bachelor, and his upcoming entitled The Conqueror. His previous albums include: The Magic Position, Wind In The Wires and Lycanthropy. Hit him up for some videos on uTube, or search him on my blog for some clips at:
www.seeingpastred.blogspot.com. You can also leave him a note on his site: http://patrickwolf.com/
http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/06/17/patrick-wolf-brings-his-battle-to-chicagos-bottom-lounge-615/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6IAtn-myak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oCNFBY-ODc&feature=related
Meryl at Plan B in the UK said:
“Life will surely never be anything but these falls and crawls back up - it can never be good or bad forever … but all I can see is Wolf continuing, unfailingly, to document life’s elegant cycle.”
www.seeingpastred.blogspot.com. You can also leave him a note on his site: http://patrickwolf.com/
http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/06/17/patrick-wolf-brings-his-battle-to-chicagos-bottom-lounge-615/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6IAtn-myak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oCNFBY-ODc&feature=related
Meryl at Plan B in the UK said:
“Life will surely never be anything but these falls and crawls back up - it can never be good or bad forever … but all I can see is Wolf continuing, unfailingly, to document life’s elegant cycle.”
Saturday, June 13, 2009
WHATEVAMAKESYAHAPPY!
Beyond prescient- 20 years ahead of their time.
I met an anarchist in Tompkins Square Park he was an angry man, spinning words so dark he called for death to rich men, death to Yuppies, death to art fags, bourgeois blacks, death to landlord Jews! Kill the bankers, kill the cops, kill him her and me, kill them all for CBS, NBC, ABC, TBN, CNN, HBO, "Life At Five", MTV Spring Break Party Weekend, Sally Jesse Raphael, Geraldo, Oprah, Arsenio, Regis and Kathy Lee... And I said, "Hey, I admire your get up and go, your youthful brooding and sexually charged enthusiasm and all your other utterly naïve and thoroughly endearing adolescent qualities and I bet you can keep it up all night, can't you? Oh, I bet you don't even use a rubber, no you don't even use a rubber... do you? Because You think you can live forever. Or do you have this adorable and misguided notion that death is something really radical and cool but I still can help being wildly attracted to your fresh-faced uncompromised tattoo'd rebel stance and goddamn! I'd like to help you sing your tune." But I've been making friends with this here death and it seems a might too soon. And I said, "Hello death, goodbye Avenue A I'm getting tired of waiting, tired of being afraid. Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved. So I sing, 'Hello death, goodbye Avenue A.'" Now I'm not trying to be flippant here, or irreverent, or exploitive, or sarcastic, or ironic, or post-modern, and this is not a parody. Get it? Got it? Good. I've been thinking what he told me, that it's okay to cry when we held the crystal Tina Child spent 12 Grand to buy; homeopathic mantras, fresh-squeezed wheat grass juice, doctors up in Bellevue, Doctors Salk and Suess. And it's time we'll all be going home, if you can find the way, yes, everyone is going home, going home to stay. And it's time we find a way to cope, a way to find some hope, for some it's the Bible or Buddha or Mohammed or Krishna or cheesecake or the Butthole Surfers or Giorgio Armani or Romeo Gigli and you really can't afford it but it looks so fabulous on you so why don’t you take it on home, and speaking of home, isn't it about time you move out of that East Village hellhole, the one with the Honeymooners view of the brick wall out the window because you deserve something more life affirming like a tree, or a flower, or a patch of grass, or a singing little bluebird, or maybe you just want to take your boyfriend to Europe because he's never been or quit the job you always hated or learn how to play the guitar (it's easy) or get obscenely drunk in a piano bar and sing show tunes... show tunes! ...and don’t be embarrassed, because at this point I'd rather see "Brigadoon" than "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", or maybe you'd like to get politically active so you disrupt a Presidential press conference by shoving a 5 pound week old stalk of broccoli between those thin lying lizard lips that no one can read anyway because half the country is illiterate and the other half is apathetic including the First Lady who couldn't step just 500 feet out of the overdecorated White House to visit the goddamn Quilt or maybe you'd like to put a bullet into Jesse Helms peabrain but you know when you start thinking like that, when you start thinking like they do, then it's time to let go of the material world, so maybe you'd like to get yourself some religion 'cause, "Jesus is the Way, Jesus is the Way, Jesus is the Way, Jesus is the Way, Jesus is the Way." ...Besides, it's a lot easier to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior when He looks like Willem DaFoe. But maybe that stuff turns you off, so you rent "Power of Myth"; it made me feel really good (for about ten minutes), or maybe you'd rather do acid and listen to Led Zeppelin... Then again, the last time I took hallucinogenic drugs was about five years ago; I took mushrooms in Joshua Tree looking for that Carlos Castaneda kind of experience. I got off, my boyfriend didn't; he fell asleep, left me alone with the TV, turned on PBS, you know what was on? ..."Berlin Alexanderplatz". So I started watching it, and you know what...? I got really bummed out. And that's when I said "No to Drugs", "No to Drugs", no no no no no to drugs, and maybe you'd like to say no to drugs too or maybe you want to join Atheists of America or the Madonna Fan Club or watch Richard Gere follow the Dali Lama around the world and then do those oh-so-Zen like movies with those oh-so-Zen like messages like, "Hey! It's fun to be a prostitute!" I can't wait to spread my legs across Hollywood Blvd. Because then maybe some rich, handsome billionaire in a Jag will come driving up and take me shopping on Rodeo Drive and that's what a woman's all about anyway, right? Sucking and shopping and sucking and shopping and sucking and shopping but hey, who am I to argue because it's the feel good movie of the summer, it's the feel good movie of the year, it's the feel good movie of the Nineties, it's the feel good movie of the Millennium, and you know what? If it puts a spring in your step and a song in your heart, well... whatever makes you happy, Whatever makes you happy, Whatever makes you happy, Whatever makes you happy, Whatever gives you hope. Even if it's a truly tasteless joke. So... Fax a manifesto. Pencil in a date. Let me know when something gives I hope it's not too late, 'cause I'm getting tired of waiting, tired of being afraid. Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved. So I sing, "Hello death, goodbye Avenue A..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdNW0qRh5s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkClQXMwVg0&feature=related
I met an anarchist in Tompkins Square Park he was an angry man, spinning words so dark he called for death to rich men, death to Yuppies, death to art fags, bourgeois blacks, death to landlord Jews! Kill the bankers, kill the cops, kill him her and me, kill them all for CBS, NBC, ABC, TBN, CNN, HBO, "Life At Five", MTV Spring Break Party Weekend, Sally Jesse Raphael, Geraldo, Oprah, Arsenio, Regis and Kathy Lee... And I said, "Hey, I admire your get up and go, your youthful brooding and sexually charged enthusiasm and all your other utterly naïve and thoroughly endearing adolescent qualities and I bet you can keep it up all night, can't you? Oh, I bet you don't even use a rubber, no you don't even use a rubber... do you? Because You think you can live forever. Or do you have this adorable and misguided notion that death is something really radical and cool but I still can help being wildly attracted to your fresh-faced uncompromised tattoo'd rebel stance and goddamn! I'd like to help you sing your tune." But I've been making friends with this here death and it seems a might too soon. And I said, "Hello death, goodbye Avenue A I'm getting tired of waiting, tired of being afraid. Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved. So I sing, 'Hello death, goodbye Avenue A.'" Now I'm not trying to be flippant here, or irreverent, or exploitive, or sarcastic, or ironic, or post-modern, and this is not a parody. Get it? Got it? Good. I've been thinking what he told me, that it's okay to cry when we held the crystal Tina Child spent 12 Grand to buy; homeopathic mantras, fresh-squeezed wheat grass juice, doctors up in Bellevue, Doctors Salk and Suess. And it's time we'll all be going home, if you can find the way, yes, everyone is going home, going home to stay. And it's time we find a way to cope, a way to find some hope, for some it's the Bible or Buddha or Mohammed or Krishna or cheesecake or the Butthole Surfers or Giorgio Armani or Romeo Gigli and you really can't afford it but it looks so fabulous on you so why don’t you take it on home, and speaking of home, isn't it about time you move out of that East Village hellhole, the one with the Honeymooners view of the brick wall out the window because you deserve something more life affirming like a tree, or a flower, or a patch of grass, or a singing little bluebird, or maybe you just want to take your boyfriend to Europe because he's never been or quit the job you always hated or learn how to play the guitar (it's easy) or get obscenely drunk in a piano bar and sing show tunes... show tunes! ...and don’t be embarrassed, because at this point I'd rather see "Brigadoon" than "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", or maybe you'd like to get politically active so you disrupt a Presidential press conference by shoving a 5 pound week old stalk of broccoli between those thin lying lizard lips that no one can read anyway because half the country is illiterate and the other half is apathetic including the First Lady who couldn't step just 500 feet out of the overdecorated White House to visit the goddamn Quilt or maybe you'd like to put a bullet into Jesse Helms peabrain but you know when you start thinking like that, when you start thinking like they do, then it's time to let go of the material world, so maybe you'd like to get yourself some religion 'cause, "Jesus is the Way, Jesus is the Way, Jesus is the Way, Jesus is the Way, Jesus is the Way." ...Besides, it's a lot easier to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior when He looks like Willem DaFoe. But maybe that stuff turns you off, so you rent "Power of Myth"; it made me feel really good (for about ten minutes), or maybe you'd rather do acid and listen to Led Zeppelin... Then again, the last time I took hallucinogenic drugs was about five years ago; I took mushrooms in Joshua Tree looking for that Carlos Castaneda kind of experience. I got off, my boyfriend didn't; he fell asleep, left me alone with the TV, turned on PBS, you know what was on? ..."Berlin Alexanderplatz". So I started watching it, and you know what...? I got really bummed out. And that's when I said "No to Drugs", "No to Drugs", no no no no no to drugs, and maybe you'd like to say no to drugs too or maybe you want to join Atheists of America or the Madonna Fan Club or watch Richard Gere follow the Dali Lama around the world and then do those oh-so-Zen like movies with those oh-so-Zen like messages like, "Hey! It's fun to be a prostitute!" I can't wait to spread my legs across Hollywood Blvd. Because then maybe some rich, handsome billionaire in a Jag will come driving up and take me shopping on Rodeo Drive and that's what a woman's all about anyway, right? Sucking and shopping and sucking and shopping and sucking and shopping but hey, who am I to argue because it's the feel good movie of the summer, it's the feel good movie of the year, it's the feel good movie of the Nineties, it's the feel good movie of the Millennium, and you know what? If it puts a spring in your step and a song in your heart, well... whatever makes you happy, Whatever makes you happy, Whatever makes you happy, Whatever makes you happy, Whatever gives you hope. Even if it's a truly tasteless joke. So... Fax a manifesto. Pencil in a date. Let me know when something gives I hope it's not too late, 'cause I'm getting tired of waiting, tired of being afraid. Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved. So I sing, "Hello death, goodbye Avenue A..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdNW0qRh5s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkClQXMwVg0&feature=related
CORONA
Corona
Aus der Hand frißt der Herbst mir sein Blatt: wir sind Freunde.Wir schälen die Zeit aus den Nüssen und lehren sie gehn:die Zeit kehrt zurück in die Schale.
Im Spiegel ist Sonntag,im Traum wird geschlafen,der Mund redet wahr.
Mein Aug steigt hinab zum Geschlecht der Geliebten:wir sehen uns an,wir sagen uns Dunkles,wir lieben einander wie Mohn und Gedächtnis,wir schlafen wie Wein in den Muscheln,wie das Meer im Blutstrahl des Mondes.
Wir stehen umschlungen im Fenster, sie sehen uns zu von der Straße:es ist Zeit, daß man weiß!Es ist Zeit, daß der Stein sich zu blühen bequemt,daß der Unrast ein Herz schlägt.Es ist Zeit, daß es Zeit wird.
Es ist Zeit.
Paul Celan (b. 23 November 1920)
Corona
Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends.From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk:then time returns to the shell.
In the mirror it’s Sunday,in dream there is room for sleeping,our mouths speak the truth.
My eye moves down to the sex of my loved one:we look at each other,we exchange dark words,we love each other like poppy and recollection,we sleep like wine in the conches,like the sea in the moon’s blood ray.
We stand by the window embracing, and people look up from the street:it is time they knew!It is time the stone made an effort to flower,time unrest had a beating heart.It is time it were time.
It is time.
Translated by Michael Hamburger
http://matthewsalomon.wordpress.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Celan
Aus der Hand frißt der Herbst mir sein Blatt: wir sind Freunde.Wir schälen die Zeit aus den Nüssen und lehren sie gehn:die Zeit kehrt zurück in die Schale.
Im Spiegel ist Sonntag,im Traum wird geschlafen,der Mund redet wahr.
Mein Aug steigt hinab zum Geschlecht der Geliebten:wir sehen uns an,wir sagen uns Dunkles,wir lieben einander wie Mohn und Gedächtnis,wir schlafen wie Wein in den Muscheln,wie das Meer im Blutstrahl des Mondes.
Wir stehen umschlungen im Fenster, sie sehen uns zu von der Straße:es ist Zeit, daß man weiß!Es ist Zeit, daß der Stein sich zu blühen bequemt,daß der Unrast ein Herz schlägt.Es ist Zeit, daß es Zeit wird.
Es ist Zeit.
Paul Celan (b. 23 November 1920)
Corona
Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends.From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk:then time returns to the shell.
In the mirror it’s Sunday,in dream there is room for sleeping,our mouths speak the truth.
My eye moves down to the sex of my loved one:we look at each other,we exchange dark words,we love each other like poppy and recollection,we sleep like wine in the conches,like the sea in the moon’s blood ray.
We stand by the window embracing, and people look up from the street:it is time they knew!It is time the stone made an effort to flower,time unrest had a beating heart.It is time it were time.
It is time.
Translated by Michael Hamburger
http://matthewsalomon.wordpress.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Celan
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Debbie-
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/music/05reyn.html?_r=1&ref=arts
For extra fun, Netflix her on the double feature dvd:
"What's The Matter With Helen?/Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?!"
For extra fun, Netflix her on the double feature dvd:
"What's The Matter With Helen?/Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?!"
FRIDAY OBSCUREINSANEBUBBLEGUMPOP NOSTALGIA
http://www.afterelton.com/people/2009/6/wesleyeure
Yup- loved that show for lizard people and time travel via crystals which I used to replicate from gemstone studs at TG&Ys fashion counter and then build my own Sleezstak time portal control panel which I placed in front of a black curtained door w a flashlight behind and dry ice so that I could escape from Kansas as a queer 8 yr old from one Lost Land to another!!
Gay, gay gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!
And add the backdrop of this song and I wonder why I find things dull and dreary at times in 09?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOB4tdabgoA
I live in a cucumber castle
On the banks of a cranberry sea
And starfish dance under my drawbridge
And blackbirds make nests in my tree
I enjoy being a boy, in love with you
I enjoy being a boy in love with you
In love with you girl, oh yeah
I live in a purple plum mansion
In the mist of a strawberry stream
And mellifluous bells ring out softly
From a hill of vanilla fudge cream
I enjoy being a boy, in love with you
I enjoy being a boy in love with you
In love with you girl, oh yeah
http://floweringtoilet.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html
http://www.walrusmusicblog.com/blog/valentines_day_bubblegum_by_the_banana_splits/
Graeme was watching too...
Well, they need to get out of my childhood fountain o' camp! ;)
I would watch that show, and original Star Trek episodes, and some other Canadian shows (I was in BC at the time)... like Rocket Robin Hood! http://www.kevinmccorrytv.com/rrobin.html
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
FUTURE BIBLE HEROES
The only term that really works is wowfantabulous!
http://www.myspace.com/futurebibleheroes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPaieTcFnSU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSodgfSahdE
http://www.myspace.com/futurebibleheroes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPaieTcFnSU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSodgfSahdE
ERASURE UPDATE-
http://www.erasureinfo.com/
*I must admit I am behind after Andy Bell's last solo album- Electric Blue- as I took in the acoustic album Union Street but have yet to hear and let Light at the End of the World drill into my brain! And stand by for a darker dance solo album due on the way from Andy soon...
*I must admit I am behind after Andy Bell's last solo album- Electric Blue- as I took in the acoustic album Union Street but have yet to hear and let Light at the End of the World drill into my brain! And stand by for a darker dance solo album due on the way from Andy soon...
PINK
Check out this great blog...
And the article on Bjork!
http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2009/06/bjorks-interview-magazine-photoshoot/
And the article on Bjork!
http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2009/06/bjorks-interview-magazine-photoshoot/
PROVOCATION
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
BERTRAND for summer...
New At The Pet Shop
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
FAMILY GUY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqvTwklfZP4
http://open.salon.com/blog/lalucas/2009/05/09/a_jab_at_bill_maher
Seth's best quote of this appearance about gay rights really should be reflected upon by biggots of all stripes:
"History has proven again and again that anyone who is on the wrong side of freedom and the expansion of individual rights loses!"
http://open.salon.com/blog/lalucas/2009/05/09/a_jab_at_bill_maher
Seth's best quote of this appearance about gay rights really should be reflected upon by biggots of all stripes:
"History has proven again and again that anyone who is on the wrong side of freedom and the expansion of individual rights loses!"
WONDERFUL-
Overlay #1 on #2 below-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0_XfxnXWI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-p83MR9TK0&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0_XfxnXWI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-p83MR9TK0&NR=1
Sunday, May 17, 2009
TURN THE PAGE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17rich-5.html?_r=2
To quote Elizabeth Warren who heads the TARP Commission to oversee the spending of $700+ billion as part of the first economic stimulus package said on Bill Maher this week:
"It is not about religion or even morality. Quite simply, this is the United States of America, and there are rules about how we conduct ourselves- even in a game of Candyland!"
To quote Elizabeth Warren who heads the TARP Commission to oversee the spending of $700+ billion as part of the first economic stimulus package said on Bill Maher this week:
"It is not about religion or even morality. Quite simply, this is the United States of America, and there are rules about how we conduct ourselves- even in a game of Candyland!"
EUROVISION 2009-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiH4BFTELME
Hmmmm... please see Lotion's blog below for the real scoop on this one!>>
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Hmmmm... please see Lotion's blog below for the real scoop on this one!>>
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
NYLONSUMMERMUSICTOUR
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Rogue Diva of Doom
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/opinion/13dowd.html
Such a bright way to tag a homophobe as a bloated old yammering queen... kinda like that octopus thing in Little Mermaid!
Such a bright way to tag a homophobe as a bloated old yammering queen... kinda like that octopus thing in Little Mermaid!