Posted in Poetry on October 20, 2005 | No Comments »
Les Portes du cimitière
If I could roll the corners of the sky
To pipe down the blue air or bend
It like a sheet of metal, tint it yellow
Like an angel’s sleeve, then I could indicate
The presence in these all-too-real fields
That we move through of their hidden maker.
But this machine of mine, this sled of wire,
Which pushes [...]
Posted in Poetry on October 20, 2005 | No Comments »
Some Angels of Europe and North America
An angel bends the gleaming sleeve
Bends the groaning sieve
The angel who breaks the gleaming sleeve
Broke the golden skin
With its voice full of golden sand
With its voice full of golden seed.
All across Central Europe
Cold angels
Rise from ledges
Rise off of ledges
In black and white
With voices of silver crystal
With voices of moonlit [...]
Posted in Poetry, Writers on October 19, 2005 | 3 Comments »
I just read Qiu Xiaolong’s “Treasury of Chinese Love Poems.” It exceeded my hopes. It was really quite excellent. My previous relationship with Chinese poems was primarily through Rexroth’s “One Hundred Poems from the Chinese” (especially the excellent Wu Tsao) and an occasional Pound hilarity.
Then I started reading Qiu’s Shanghai political police procedurals*, in which [...]
Posted in Projects, Travel on October 15, 2005 | No Comments »
Looks like we’ll be heading back to San Francisco on November 6, until the 9th. During this time we’ll pitch our documentary to The Gentlemen. I don’t think it would be a good idea to talk about the story itself yet, but I can whisper this into your ear: Alien Bikini Monkey Car Wash.
“Do you [...]
Posted in Africa, Journalism on October 13, 2005 | No Comments »
South Africa’s Scorpions, whom I’ve called a modern-day Untouchables, are starting to feel the heat. The Directorate of Special Investigations, as they are officially known, have investigated high-level alleged criminals, such as Deputy President Jacob Zuma and 54 parliamentarians. They enjoy broad support in South Africa. Now, according to Commentary, governmental officials are trying to [...]
Posted in Flamenco, Granada, Gypsies, Publications, Spain on October 8, 2005 | No Comments »
Some years ago a friend and I were all suited up and, with business plan and letters of introduction in hand, were a day away from flying to Los Angeles to chew the ears off half a dozen weasel-headed entertainment executives in the hopes of scoring some backing for an “entertainment property” we had created. [...]
Posted in Poetry, Superintelligent sea cucumbers on October 7, 2005 | No Comments »
My friend Mike, a bioinformatics… shepherd (?) currently working on imbuing sea cucumbers with superintelligence for outerspace robots in Canada just shared his latest with me.
It’s a poem about an isolated polypeptide selected from a group consisting of a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4, a polypeptide comprising an amino [...]
Posted in Projects on October 7, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I’m considering various names for my fictional production company.
Five South
Global Wig Out Productions
Clang Association
Fugue State Expeditions
Idée Fixe
Sponge on a Stick
Sacromonte Productions - Hay que tener arte
Pyroclastic Events Management
Glass Master
King Thistle
Disposable Ensign
Stop Drop & Roll
Flambango
Rude Boy
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Here are some projects I’d like to tackle.
My Life on the Holy Mountain: Manolín in Granada (the Gypsies of Granada, Spain)
A [...]
Posted in Projects on October 7, 2005 | No Comments »
I have spent some of my time over the past couple of weeks putting together a proposal for a documentary, which my producing partner and I have pitched to a group called The Pitch Room. The Pitch Room is a documentary project for HBO. In a sense it is the blueprint for a “reality show,” [...]
Posted in Flamenco, Friends, Gypsies, Music on October 2, 2005 | No Comments »
My friend Ian, in addition to having a website devoted to the philosophy of science, Project Genesis, has now gone hog wild on blogs. He’s got them for poetry (very nice stuff too, very unusual and attractive) at Star Poems; on various things, including a sound file of one of Ian’s bulerias (a flamenco guitar [...]
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