My friend Anna Kippervasser, artist and filmmaker, has a blog up detailing some of the magical coincidences and human connections she encounters in her five week trip to Cairo. Anna is an awesome gal, a woman of many worlds, cosmopolitan, with an international soul able to find connections with, and meaning in, the remarkable souls […]
Pleasures
life’s simple pleasures
Are you… a betting man?
“that’s a weak hypothesis… So.. you’re probably a betting man.” -Satan, as played by Tom Wait’s in the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnessus “.There is no black magic, only cheap tricks..” -Doctor Parnessus, in the same movie. The old yarn “life imitates art” makes no logical sense, of course waking life cannot imitate art, the work […]
Melancholia, and random thoughts, on the CD deck is Death in June
When walking in Melancholia, I tend to listen to Death In June’s NADA! on a repeat loop. Something about that record is kind of soothing to me. NADA is, I’m convinced, one of the best Industrial and dark synth-pop records of the 80’s, and one of Death In June’s own masterpieces. Though the collaborations with […]
To relax in strength
Tension generated as the coil is pressed down. It quivers and is sprung. Released in a direction it exerts force. The coiled spring, the tensed muscle, the panther on its haunches waiting to leap. With the tension unleashed, the energy is transferred. The spring is sprung. The fist, it flies forth. The cat leaps through […]