Archive for January, 2007
The piano has been drinking
my necktie is asleep
and the combo went back to New York
the jukebox has to take a leak
and the carpet needs a haircut
and the spotlight looks like a prison break
cause the telephone’s out of cigarettes
and the balcony’s on the make
and the piano has been drinking
the piano has been drinking…
- the piano has [...]
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11. Baba O’Riley
“And so it was I entered the broken world
To trace the visionary company of love, its voice
An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled)
But not for long to hold each desperate choice.”
- Hart Crane
“Sally ,take my hand
Travel south crossland
Put out the fire
Dont look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Lets [...]
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10. my sad captains
” One by one they appear in
the darkness: a few friends, and
a few with historical
names. How late they start to shine!
but before they fade they stand
perfectly embodied, all
the past lapping them like a
cloak of chaos. They were men
who, I thought, lived only to
renew the wasteful force they
spent with each hot convulsion.
They remind me, distant [...]
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9. Crime and Punishment
is a good book. dostoyevsky has proven once again why he is close to becoming my favourite author. it seems that i have a soft spot for fiction of a more sweeping philosophical nature- books that deal with the metaphysical and universal, rather than the physical, the political, the social, and the immediate. also, i [...]
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8. 8pm
2nd, january 8pm, 45 minutes before another book in. before this, quiet steamboat dinner with family and wine. before that, 4n class reunion at crystal jade followed by a random bout of lanning. after that- beach road to purchase needed army supplies.
the cycle of the year is at an end. it would be very [...]
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7. ikiru
ikiru, being the transitive verb to live in japanese. As time magazine declared upon reviewing akira kurosawa’s film nearly 50 years ago- “to live is to love, the rest in cancer.”
and indeed ikiru was humane and compassionate and brilliant. from the acting (the watanabe look of utter abject self effacing resignation and despair) to [...]
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6. the steamer bears news
“WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF SADDAM’S DEATH SENTENCE: That Saddam has been tried for past atrocities is in most respects a positive development for Iraq. The use of capital punishment, however, might be symbolic of a systemic flaw in the US approach to the occupation since the fall of Baghdad.
With self-serving mea culpas abound, and more and [...]
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