Alex - Flower Pot
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
J'ai Deux Amours
Josephine Baker J'ai deux amours 1950's TV
Josephine Baker - Cha Cha Cha
Grace Jones with Pavarotti
Grace Jones La Vie En Rose
Miriam Makeba - The Click Song 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxkiXALQjU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74f9eIi9c0
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes [Official Music Video]
Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop 1964
Josephine Baker - Cha Cha Cha
Grace Jones with Pavarotti
Grace Jones La Vie En Rose
Miriam Makeba - The Click Song 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxkiXALQjU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74f9eIi9c0
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes [Official Music Video]
Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop 1964
Friday, March 28, 2008
Amor
That night, I really wanted to kiss Love before leaving. Instead, I unnaturally hesitated. I was a little upset. I said I swore I wouldn't talk to Love anymore. How silly. How could I do that? I really admire Love. I reacted out of fear since I thought doing so would only make me think about Love more, miss Love after actually leaving and then result in me "falling" or caring about Love more. Instead, as I rode the train home, I regretted it!... I listened to my iPod and shoved the thought in the "back" of my head. Then, walking home I thought about it again and shoved it. As I walked up the steps towards my room I reflected. As I undressed I thought about Amor more. I proceeded to pull the covers over my body and head and began to think to myself, maybe I care about Love more than Love cares about me. Thoughts echoed in my head. Do I really? Or are the feelings mutual? Well, now that I think about it, of course Love cares. I'm Love's favorite girl! The most beautiful he's ever laid eyes on! So... As I lie in bed, I feel the warmth spread across me. How can I explain the feeling? How can I articulate those feelings through words? As best as I can describe it at the moment, I felt an opening at the core of my being. My spirit awakened. There was a very pleasant sensation at the center of my chest. Warm like light, quickly spreading like a wildfire. I channeled all my feelings and called out Love in my mind. I spoke to Love. Love is in my spirit! My body, mind and soul. And then, I really missed Love and began to cry. I missed Love, even though I just saw and kissed Love a couple of hours ago. My heart did not ache. My mind and spirit expanded. I called out to Love in the beautiful dark. It felt so surreal, like an "outer" body experience, except I was still in my body. Or rather, otherworldly--yet I was still in this world. I transcended. I realized fear of "getting attached" to Love was silly, since Love and I are already connected. Just as everything in this world is. Love is in my soul. It's more than what I wanted to hear. It's what I want to feel. It is at the core of my being. My very existence. There is no need to fear. I am a Bravebird.~*
Ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. Crazy life. 2. Life in turmoil. 3. Life disintegrating. 4. Life out of balance. 5. A state of life that calls for another way of living.
THE HOPI PROPHECIES
If we dig precious things from the land,
We will invite disaster.
Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs
Spun back and forth in the sky.
A container of ashes might one day be thrown
From the sky, which could burn the land
And boil the oceans.
http://www.philipglass.com/html/recordings/koyaanisqatsi.html
Who am I to be brilliant?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of G-d. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of G-d that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
----from A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson.
Quotes from bell hooks:
"The transformative power of love is the foundation of all meaningful social change,"
- bell hooks
"I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love."
"I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism."
"We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved."
"When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us."
"Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things."
"Love is an action, never simply a feeling."
"If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue."
"In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable."
"Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform."
"I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not."
"The overall impact of postmodernism is that many other groups now share with black folks a sense of deep alienation, despair, uncertainty, loss of sense of grounding even if it is not informed by shared circumstance."
" Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. "
"Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression."
"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books."
"The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom..."
"Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy –‘to stand outside’—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.” –bell hooks, Remembered Rapture: dancing with words"
----from A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson.
Quotes from bell hooks:
"The transformative power of love is the foundation of all meaningful social change,"
- bell hooks
"I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love."
"I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism."
"We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved."
"When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us."
"Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things."
"Love is an action, never simply a feeling."
"If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue."
"In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable."
"Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform."
"I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not."
"The overall impact of postmodernism is that many other groups now share with black folks a sense of deep alienation, despair, uncertainty, loss of sense of grounding even if it is not informed by shared circumstance."
" Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. "
"Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression."
"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books."
"The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom..."
"Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy –‘to stand outside’—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.” –bell hooks, Remembered Rapture: dancing with words"
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