. Here is the vernacular as the purest verbal music, singing the culture from which it is pulled, clots of earth still clinging. You may find it hard to separate the units of meaning on first read. It will be easier on second, and if you listen here to the poet reading it, you will […]
Higgs Boson, or What’s the Meta in Metaphor for?
. Let’s get God out of the way to start. The Higgs Boson particle/field is not the God particle. (I keep telling everyone – the neutral B-meson is the God particle.) In part because of that name, and, certainly, the momentous confirmation at the largest site of physics experimentation in the world of a near […]
CineFile – Drive
. with Ryan Gosling, by Nicolas Winding Refn. Primal eruption and withdrawal. Related articles New Images of Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn’s ONLY GOD FORGIVES (collider.com) WTF: Nicolas Winding Refn Directing ‘Barbarella’ TV Series (slashfilm.com) ‘Only God Forgives’ Will Share The ‘Language’ Of ‘Drive’ (moviesblog.mtv.com) Behind the Scenes Photos: Ryan Gosling in ‘Only God Forgives’ […]
Eating Poetry (XXXVIII) – To the One Who is Reading Me
. To the One Who is Reading Me by JORGE LUIS BORGES Translated from the Spanish by Tony Barnstone You are invulnerable. Didn’t they deliver (those forces that control your destiny) the certainty of dust? Couldn’t it be your irreversible time is that river in whose bright mirror Heraclitus read his brevity? A marble slab is […]
Jazz Is: 41 – KLAZZ Brothers and Cuba Percussion
. “Summertime” I’m feelin’ it. All hail Kilian Forster, solo bassist with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, founder, Klazz Brothers. Related articles Eating Poetry (XXXVII) – The New Physics (sadredearth.com)