She controls her emotional objectivity because she is a scholar, an occupation that literary critic Bregman believes embodies that "cold intellectuality that precludes empathy." Her studies of Donne's texts, even to the point of analyzing the significance of the placement of a comma, allow her to maintain control over her analysis of that text.
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Commas, inverted commas and no commas
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Moving Castle and the Balance
[walks away]
Howl: And while you're at it, make hot water for my bath.
Calcifer: Fine, like moving the castle isn't hard enough!
Thursday, 30 October 2008
La Sylphide and Les Filets de Vulcan
from the plot of ballett "La Sylphide"
(Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850)
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Gertruda Stein and kōans
Gertruda Stein
Hakuin Ekaku
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Sylvia Plath, Nicaragua and People Who Don't Read
In my diary on my fieldwork in Nicaragua in 2007 I wrote:
In July 1950 Sylvia Plath wrote in her diary:
Friday, 19 September 2008
Police is going Red. Belief vs. Sale
"The Internationale" anthem to the Slovenian Police Brass Band
(10th anniversary of the Metelkova City Autonomous Cultural Centre, September 2003)
Sunday, 4 May 2008
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Who is and who wants to be Britney?!
and I thought: Hmmm, what's up with her actually? So I visited her webside! Yes, I did it! And I was thinking how cool is that to have so many wigs and extensions!! Yes, I spent at least 30 minutes on her pictures hehe. Well, I would have probably forgotten this episode, but...
today I saw that a friend of mine made a post on her blog titled Britney Spears Dream.!!!!!
A little bit creepy....
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Radioactivity and the Bomb
Yesterday I was looking through a book that literally changed my life some years ago. One of the best books I've ever read.At night my husband said rather unexpectedly (hihihi) that I had to see Dr. Strangelove
Today I heard Kraftwerk in a radio
Saturday, 22 March 2008
Saturday, 15 March 2008
Double booking
This happens when you order too many books at the same time and start losing track of your reservations:)
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Haunted by Sylvie Guillem
Sylvie Guillem
It turned out that I actually had seen her before, some weeks ago, when I tried to find some movie image of smoke and found an extraordinary ballet where she danced with Niklas Ek (choreography by Mats Ek, music by Arvo Part)
"Smoke"
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
In the middle, somewhat elevated
Sylvie Guillem and Laurent Hilaire
Svetlana Zakharova and Andre Merkuriev
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Archery: the Art of Repetition
Vandermark is playing with The Ex in Oslo soon. Old times! (dictionary says: "that's old HAT"!!!) The Ex recorded with Tom Cora. Read that he recorded Archery with John Zorn!! Wanted to find the cd and instead of this
The same
"As usual, the same guests, the same twaddle, the same food (...)"
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
why I love Philip Glass
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Knock Knock. Who's there? Philip. Philip Who? Who's there? Philip. Philip Who? Who's there? Philip. Philip Who? Who's there? Philip. Philip Who? Who's there? Philip. Philip Who? Philip Glass.
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One two three four. One two three four. One two three four. One two three four. One two three four five six seven eight. One two. One two.
Philip Glass is a composer of music that repeats, then Philip Glass is a composer of music that repeats, then Philip Glass is a composer of music that repeats, then Philip Glass is a composer of music that repeats, then phiLip glass is a composer of music that repeats, then does a lot of Ravi Shankar.
Koyaanisqatsi watsi watsi. Watsi.
Oooooh-ah. Ooooooh-ah. Short arpeggio.
Two lovers sat on a on a on a park bench, their parts bench bench bench touching each other, holding genitals in the moonlight in the moonlight in the moonlight.
Eins zwei drei vier. One. Two. One two three four. One two three
same chord. same chord. different chord? nope, same one.
The Dull Flame of Desire
wrote a poem.
Their splendid sparkling fire
When suddenly you raise them so
To cast a swift embracing glance
Like lightning flashing in the sky
But there's a charm that is greater still
When my love's eyes are lowered
When all is fired by passion's kiss
And through the downcast lashes
I see the dull flame of desire
one of best movies on earth
Bjørk and Antony Hegarty sang the beauty
Monday, 25 February 2008
Neurology and the Hat
or micropsia, is a disorienting neurological condition which affects human visual perception. It is the reverse of macropsia. For example, a family pet, such as a dog, may appear the size of a mouse, or a normal car may look shrunk to scale.
Love the frustration of Alice:
`At any rate I'll never go there again!' said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. `It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!'
Sunday, 24 February 2008
Invitation To A Suicide
I am listening to radio nisha.pl now and for about 5 minutes ago I heard some beatiful music there. I checked. It was Filmworks XIII: Invitation to a Suicide by John Zorn. Strange I've never heard it. It's a soundtrack to the movie of the same title. You can watch the trailer here.
Need to order the cd. The one track I've heard was amazing!
Saturday, 23 February 2008
The man who mistook his wife for a hat
Oliver Sacks wrote The man who mistook his wife for a hat
"Here Dr. Sacks recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders: people afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations; patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
Michael Nyman composed an opera based on this book.
"The plot concerns the investigation by a neurologist of the condition of a singer who suffers from visual agnosia. According to the liner notes, Morris, Rawlence, and Nyman had to spend much time convincing the real Mrs. P. (whose husband is implied to have been a known name) that they were not proposing a musical (her word) that would trivialize her late husband's situation in order to gain her consent"
Still waiting for the book. The opera is just brilliant! Can't stop listening to it.
Book of longing
Leonard Cohen wrote Book of Longing
Have not read the book yet. Have not listened to the music yet. But I love the idea!
-Philip Glass