They call him the Roger Federer of the composer’s baton. Classical music’s latest rising star Gustavo Dudamel, known for his flamboyant and overly enthusiastic on-stage performances and for his out of this world curly hair. He has become very popular quite fast, with the show 60 minutes doing an article on him among other honors. [...]
The lost tribe of Judah wandering, shambling through the suburbs of Minneapolis. Caught in this strange web of dependency and interdependency, on each other and on their omnipresent identity which hangs over them like a black cloud with intermittent and infrequent rays of tainted optimism.In the Coen brothers, A Serious Man, it is actually a [...]
Kids love writing on stuff. Crayola disasters on walls, spilling paint all over the place. And some kids just never lose that urge to vandalize walls. this is the origin of graffiti in my opinion. People who feel the urge to spread their creativity on public walls and places. And the authorities don’t agree most [...]
Activist, feminist, and ultimately a poet of creative non-violence. The narrative ebbs and flows, capturing the imagination with lyricism ,substance and form; the cacophony of empty rhetoric relegated to the recycle bin. Its a critique against racism, militarism and materialism poetically unfolding, stanza after stanza as a convincing paen against the culture of violence, in [...]
Ask a 12 year old girl about what movies she likes, what books she’s been reading, what guy she thinks is cute. The answer will probably be the same for all of those questions. She’ll probably tell you something like “Oh My God! Twilight is so awesome, Edward is soooo hot. Oh my god I’ll [...]
Soutine once shocked his neighbours by hanging a side of beef in his garret so he could paint it. The carcass collected fleas, putrified , and this death on exhibition alarmed the tenants to bring the gendarmes to put an end to the stench and proceedings. His loft was an abbatoir of art where the [...]
In business terminology Luck= A Prepared Mind. However, when you make the rules and shape the outcome, luck can become the normal, even banal. Matt Taibbi’s reporting in Rolling Stone, ”The Great American Bubble Machine”, is like a bad rash, that won’t quite go away. He asserts that Goldman-Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation [...]
Until Death Do Us Part…But until then there is a lot of road to haul. How does one explain a condition that has been genetically stamped into humanity since the origins of the oral tradition and the hieroglyphic scrawling of recorded history. Hatred, violence , its containment,control, and rationalizations, reading like fairy tales on the [...]
Sex and guilt taken to an illogical extreme or a battle of the sexes following the established occidental trilogy of sex-guilt and death. Mortified by guilt, degraded, hung, mutilated ; A combination Alfred Hitchcok and Agatha Christie without the mystery. But, intuitively a lot of Werner Fassbinder. A similar sincerity, in a desire to offend [...]
Take a phenomenon. And then de-fang it. Commodify it. Beatnik, a media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s, was a synthesis of the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s into moralized and unflattering film images and a animated cartoon misrepresentation of the real-life people and the spirituality found [...]
