next stop

(Leh, Ladakh - India)

Exotic destinations

(from the book "Quotidiania Delirante", by Miguelanxo Prado)

Slumberland II

Morning arrives with audacity. Anguish and light, spilling with disdain over anonymous objects. Dreams fading so quickly that I forget to write them down again. I stare at the notebook and try some words:

"morning arrives with audacity"

and I forget the rest.

I decide to follow my shadow back into the night, hoping that uncounciousness will feed my pen. To my surprise, darkness is a blaze. It could be the moon or just open shutters.
I reach my notebook and write, believing that I am actually writing on my notebook:

"morning arrives with audacity"

I don't seem to be getting too far so I open my eyes. There are two moons in the sky. Could be two bulbs on a ceiling but I swear it is two moons. One of them tells me there is no such thing as two moons. I don't believe her because moons cannot be trusted. I reach for my notebook and write:

"never trust a moon you have never seen before"

and then morning arrives.

with audacity.



(text by O Coxo)

snowman in slumberland

(sunset over glacier du Trient, 3100m, Valais-Switzerland. Photo by: O Coxo)

barriers

("Al Ram checkpoint" - scene from Elia Suleiman's film "divine intervention")

La Bâtie

Theatre, dance, music, visual arts: La Bâtie is getting better with age...
This year I even bought myself the "carte de festivalier".
From 3 to 18 September, Geneva.

(picture: performance by Pierre Rigal, France)

teoria do rejuvenescimento

(texto de O Coxo)

Pensar a areia que escorre
entre dedos animais
devorando o movimento antes da queda
(grão-a-grão)
imitando a elegância dos ossos
rente à pele
deslizando com a tangencial devoção
da matéria corpuscular

del abismo

del abismo que arroja al aire
esta última flor
trepo como la araña que soy
frágil y rencorosa
deseando tocar alguna luz
que endurezca mi corazón

(Blanca Varela in "concierto animal")

Anachronisms

What would it be the best way to present a product from today's technology if you were to sell it in the 70's?

This the question posed by Alex Varanese, a San-Francisco based artist which has explored that idea in a series of works by re-imagining four common products from 2010 as if they were designed in 1977: an mp3 player, a laptop, a mobile phone and a handheld video game system.

Ali Farka Toure

dizia o Sérggio Godinho: "estou com os azuis"....

Zeus and the Greek crisis

A day after Standard and Poor's slashed the debt rating on Greek bonds to junk status, Zeus held a press conference in which he admitted that things were getting out of hand under the rule of his son, Hermes.

Hermes is popularly known as the messenger god with the winged hat, but he is also the god of thieves. He holds the record as youngest felon in history, thanks to his remarkable heist of a herd of sacred cattle from elder sibling Apollo mere hours after he was born.

"We've been taking turns at the helm, you see; all part of this family counseling we've been going through," Zeus said while toying with a small lightning bolt in his left hand.

"Things were pretty good under Hephaestus," Zeus said, "got the country through the beginning of the Industrial Age quite nicely there. And Athena did all right in establishing national autonomy back in the 1830s. But Hermes... Hermes is another story entirely. I'm still not sure why I agreed to this in the first place."

Hermes, whose divine guidance is currently emanating from an undisclosed but extremely luxurious location, has insisted that everything is fine, really, and that he has a sure-fire plan to turn things around if people could only provide him with their bank account and social security numbers.

With most of the more competent Olympians either ineligible for a rotation in the driver's seat or otherwise unavailable - Athena emigrated to the United States nearly a century ago, and Hera has been on vacation since 1982 - Zeus is rapidly running out of options to deal with the fiscal legacy of his wayward son.

"Maybe it's time to give Dionysius a turn," mused the divine patriarch. "If ever the country needed to start drinking heavily, it's now."

(complete text in http://www.watleyreview.com/2010/042710-1.html)

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