Entries from February 2008

February 29, 2008

Music & Lyrics

Been racing through the master’s new book hoping to unravel some clandestine element in each of the songs. Remarkably, he discloses quite a bit on the history and background of his collected works, commenting as well on the mood of the times and the various ideologies surrounding the compositions. Some commentaries are startlingly strange. For [...]

February 28, 2008

Paint It Black

Vietnam is only just around the wicked corner.
Only just a page away on my desk calendar (why count when you can flip?). But first I must brave the onslaught of to-do’s that relentlessly rape my rest and free-time. Meetings, workshops, retreats… all on my prized don’tspeaktomeaboutwork Saturdays. Shouldn’t one have a choice in these matters? [...]

February 27, 2008

Food Manchu

Dinner appointment earlier. The atmosphere was light, the orders were placed, the moods were merry and I was…late. My life is ingloriously furnished with maddening meetings and the nefarious expanse of highways. From dawn to dusk my horny sunny copulates with the sexy tarmac pimped by electronic road pricing thugs: on and [...]

February 26, 2008

The Perforated Entrance

Out of some barren rage or quiet burning, I begin this now (in a slow chugging crawl) at the beginning. I admit, I’ve been meaning to enlist some portion of my time for quite awhile to splash these meandering messages on the soft of my screen but have only just gotten down to doing it. [...]