Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
Were you there at the time? This song comes back to me every few days, one of the all-time greats. Look at her dance (isn't she beautiful?), AND listen to that guitar! PLAY IT LOUD.
Harmful elements in the air
Symbols clashing everywhere
Reaps the fields of rice and reeds
While the population feeds
Junk floats on polluted water
An old custom to sell your daughter
Would you like number 23?
Leave your yens on the counter please
Hong kong garden
Tourists swarm to see your face
Confuscius has a puzzling grace
Disoriented you enter in
Unleashing scent of wild jasmine
Slanted eyes meet a new sunrise
A race of bodies small in size
Chicken chow mein and chop suey
Hong kong garden takeaway
Hong kong garden
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Indeterminacy 133
A mother and son visited the
Seattle Art Museum.
Several rooms were devoted
to
the work of Morris Graves.
When
they came to one
in which
all of the paintings were
black,
the mother,
placing
a hand across her son’s
eyes,
said,
“Come, dear,
mother doesn’t want
you to see these things.”
- John Cage
Vignettes #15
While in Malta our friend Michael told us about a shop owner he had met. This pot-bellied man could be seen day in and day out sitting on his swivel chair behind the horseshoe shaped counter of his optician's store. Beyond the counter there were endless shelves with his merchandise, and if anyone asked him for a particular item he'd just swing around in the direction where the piece would be and tell one of his assistants to get it. He always knew where something was, and he'd never leave his chair.
Michael got to talk to him one day buying some goggles and introduced himself as a vacationer spending his time there on Gozo. He asked the shop owner, whether he ever went on vacation. "Yes, in fact I will go on vacation in 2 weeks", the man replied with his heavy Maltese accent. "I'm going on a cruise, because: I love to eat, but I don't like to move!"
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