When F-16s
fly overhead
I sense the bulging wall
of a blood vessel
and worry the unchecked aneurysm
will rupture
into an airburst
vaporizing
sunbathing
torsos [Read more…]
Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna – El Baile del Kkoyaruna | Video Worth Watching
From the Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna Oficial YouTube page:
This song is dedicated to so many people who leave their hometown, their family to look for a job. This poetry wants to remind you that you can leave a geographical territory, but your origin, your myth, will be with you wherever you are. In the video, the “Kkoyaruna” (“miner” in Quechua language), is accompanied by a carnival on the way to the mine, the masked dancers and musicians, we remind you that through the Carnival rite you can clean up the degradation of work and connect with your root. The recording has dear invited friends; Freddy Torrealba (charango), Alex Johnson (quena) and Francisca Vilches (trombone). The video was recorded next to the comparsa ̈La Gritona ̈ at the Olmué Aerodrome, under the old mine called Cerro la Campana.
A Hand Without Teeth | Geo-Poetic Spaces
A hand over
mouths
Fingers forced inside
throats
words choked
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‘Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful)’ – Marc Ribot, and featuring Tom Waits | Video Worth Watching
After two years without Tom Waits on the music scene, he’s back! He joins Marc Ribot in a version of Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) with video by Jem Cohen. (h/t to AGD) [Read more…]
Paul Taylor Dance Company – Promethean Fire | Video Worth Watching
A little over a week ago the Washington Post reported the death of dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor on August 29th at the age of eighty-eight. He was considered the last of the 20th-century cohort of American Dance titans. Here is a work from 2002—Promethean Fire—where he used Bach’s Toccata & Fugue as the musical framework for his dance. I’ve always been smitten by the Toccata & Fugue, and watching Taylor’s expression of this work is double happiness. [Read more…]
Political Golf Tip #1 | Geo-Poetic Spaces
His swing was long
before he teed off
The ball spun
into an unplayable lie
prior to the drive
The game lost
because of the player’s poorly executed pre-shot routine [Read more…]
Refugees Cast in ‘The Jungle’, an Earnest Play about Migrant Camp Life in Calais
As a response to its successful run at the Young Vic (December 2017-January 2018), The Jungle opened at Playhouse Theatre in London in June 2018 for a 20-week engagement. Created by Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy and directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin, The Jungle tells the stories of the inhabitants of the makeshift camp in Calais, France, known as the Jungle.
The Jungle was an unofficial refugee camp with more than 8,000 individuals from over 17 countries including Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Sudan, Ethiopia, Libya, Somalia, Egypt, Chad, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kurdistan, and Iran. The inhabitants of the camp were awaiting a chance to cross the Channel to the UK. [Read more…]
‘Seize the King’ at La Jolla Playhouse: Self-Righteousness, Greed and Lust for Power
If you come to Will Power’s reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Richard III at La Jolla Playhouse expecting to hear that line about the winter of our discontent, or at the end of the play hoping to watch Richard stumble around the battle of Bosworth Field, crying for his horse, you will not find it in Seize the King.
But you will find a powerful tale of a contemporary Richard, lusting for his own power, lacking a conscience, and spouting his lines in a modern iambic pentameter, tinged with hip hop. (Will Power, playwright of the piece, is partially responsible for the development and popularity of hip-hop theater).
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Street Scenes of San Diego | A Photographic Look
As I mentioned last time, and in the great words of lyricist Sammy Kahn: “It very nice to go trav’lin’ … but it’s oh so nice to come home.” That’s especially true when you live in one of the most magnificent and temperate places on the planet.
It’s natural that whenever anyone travels to other places folks who live there always want to know where the traveler is from. When I’m the traveler and I tell them I live in southern California – and in San Diego, no less – the response is often something along the lines of, “It’s so beautiful there; why do you bother to leave?” My answer, by the way, is always: “Just to see how things are different elsewhere.”
Sometimes, I’ll grab my camera and spend some time walking around San Diego as if it were a city I was visiting. I try looking at familiar things and scenes like they were new to me. [Read more…]
It’s Time to Talk About God | Dear Ohio, Part 9
Dear Ohio,
The midterm elections are soon to be here. Maybe it’s time to talk about God.
Oh, I know what you’re thinking. Is she nuts? Two topics you’re never supposed to bring up in public – religion and politics – and she wants to talk about them. But here’s the thing, Dear Ohio. It’s not God who is killing this country. It’s religion. Specifically, it’s the desire of some religions to harness the power of government to force us all to do as they believe we should on any issue they choose. It seems as if they want to ban personal conscience if it does not comport with their own beliefs. If they are successful, then much of what we have accomplished as a society will be turned back to a time when the law was unconcerned with the suffering of those who did not hold power.
A list of the conduct religious powers are apt to remove from personal conscience can be garnered from the current public dialogue: [Read more…]
Skin Deep – featuring Buddy Guy | Video Worth Watching
From the Playing for Change YouTube website:
Playing For Change and Buddy Guy united to record and film his anthem, “Skin Deep” across America. The song includes over 50 musicians from coast to coast featuring Buddy Guy, Tom Morello, Billy Branch, Chicago Children’s Choir, and Roots Gospel Voices of Mississippi. Originally, this was going to be a song across Chicago to bring light to all the violent shootings across the city but as time marched on, along with various shootings across our country, we realized we needed to expand our vision and use this song as a tool to unite our divided nation.
Stonewall Jackson’s Arm | Geo-Poetic Spaces
Stonewall Jackson’s
amputated arm
clawed itself
out of the grave it was given
after succumbing
to friendly fire
When the rebel General
fell ill from pneumonia,
he summoned the limb
that never refused an order
—be it to shoot
bootless deserters
or exchange money
for slaves— [Read more…]
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