KAIROS HADITHIs it possible to be a champion of the underground / alternative scene and to continue to be culturally relevant, prolific, popular (yet subversive), and, for want of a better word, cool, all at the same time? I believe David Byrne answers all those questions with a resounding Yes. Much has been written about David […]
“There’s a city in my mindCome along and take that ride[…]And it’s very far awayBut it’s growing day by day” Talking Heads Standing in a cultural airlock, surrounded by unfamiliar faces, anxious to be catapulted from my comfort zone, into a colossal neon-lit metropolis…. I pass through hours, through evening and morning, back into evening. […]
Fear is often a necessary response for survival – an evolutionary early warning system. Fear is complex; it can be based upon known facts, immediate stimuli or memories of previous encounters, or it can be completely fabricated. In other words, it can be rational or irrational. I am interested in the fear that lives somewhere […]
What drives creativity? Once it was reverence of the gods, celebrating the universe and all existence. Story telling.Tribal. Spiritual. Abstract. In our post-Freudian world, it seems creativity has become increasingly driven by personal desires – desires to see an object of the imagination manifest, to appease the ego / gain recognition /status / money et […]
Power is blood Flowing freely and soundlessly Life blood: bringing ripe life and breath to those it fills and pumps full with life. But it also kills: Its absence leaving only a cold vacuum and a carkas of confusion and pain Lust, Red, sins and enemies! Is this a dagger, Or a shard of myself […]
To slip between existences, between cultures, with open eyes and ears…and all the senses fired up, as they probably once were…that’s true adventure. Hemingway knew it, knew that there was fire in this life besides the sun, and he never stopped looking for it. Numbing routines sustain us in a half-life of passivity. We panic […]
For all the Romans surely left their mark on Britain, their Latin spirit didn’t remain here after they left. What is your culture? What is your heritage? Your customs? Cuisine? Standing in a room filled with passionate music, all those about don’t hesitate to grab one another and dance like it’s a tango under spotlights. […]
The morning sun glistens on the still wet pavements….but this is no rainwater. Council workers arm themselves with hoses and wash the city’s effluent away, into the road, ready for the eager whirring road sweepers to take their fill. But they will not be sated. Sweet smells trickle through the peeling narrow streets; baking dough […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5QhxGyAwcM To truly live in three dimensions you must abandon oxygen; the serenity of drawing breath under atmospheric pressure. To truly live in three dimensions you must seek unfathomable depths, where sunlight cannot penetrate the viscous unknown. To truly live in three dimensions you must conquer your fear, become the master of ancient reflexes that […]
It’s all theory Notes on a page Knowledge accumulated from books Written by somebody else Hands clasped, or wringing Nervously picking at the quicks Around the nails Staring at an array of tools Waiting for them to speak Identify themselves Their purpose and import But they sit dumb Idle useless Just as he sits, facing […]