February 2013
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As the spirit wanes the form appears. –Charles Bukowski.
Feb 22nd
January 2013
1 post
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Structure the Strangler
Structural rigidity prevents access into the very constituents of life and things. It is through intuition that we can encourage an openess that comes from perception, that is, from direct contact with our surroundings, ourselves and others. Systems –like ideologies– replace the need for intuition with a sense of structure and order. The problem is that when structure begins to take over, it...
Jan 28th
August 2012
2 posts
“The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values,...”
– Anaïs Nin, 1939 (via explore-blog)
Aug 2nd
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Aug 2nd
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July 2012
2 posts
“The economic pressures have also turned into intellectual pressures. When humans...”
– One university professor’s poignant meditation on leaving academia. The above excerpt explains a tragic lot today, well beyond education, including the precarious non-future of space exploration.   (via explore-blog)
Jul 31st
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“Silence is not acoustic. It is a change of mind, a turning around.”
– John Cage (via explore-blog)
Jul 9th
192 notes
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Jul 1st
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June 2012
14 posts
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¿Qué puede hacer el arte? ¿Qué puede no hacer el arte? ¿Qué no puede hacer el arte? ¿Qué puede el arte deshacer? ¿Qué puede el arte hacer? IS
Jun 20th
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On ideology and life
To sustain ideology, humans need to degrade others. To sustain life, well, that’s another matter. Ideology takes us away from life, out of matter.
Jun 19th
Jun 19th
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Jun 17th
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Jun 15th
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“I’m a pessimist in the sense that we are approaching dangerous times. But I’m an...”
– Slavoj Žižek on sex, politics, the economy, and more sex. (via explore-blog)
Jun 14th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 7th
38 notes
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Jun 6th
24 notes
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Shit Talk
Everything we say about a work/ouvre/creation is shit. We may or may not like what we eat, but no one likes shit. Nevertheless, if we eat we shit.
Jun 3rd
Jun 3rd
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Intensities and Intentions
The psyche manifests physically through intensities. Intentions mold and restrict that manifestation.
Jun 3rd
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Intensidad e Intención.
Lo psíquico se manifiesta en lo físico a través de intensidades. La intención moldea y restringe esa manifestación.
Jun 3rd
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May 2012
12 posts
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Creación y destrucción
El espíritu creativo es el principal detonador de conciencia. Le sigue de cerca el error destructivo.
May 21st
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Al descubierto
Un día sin pensar Los abanicos de techo partieron con rumbo desconocido. Ahora veo las estrellas desde mi cama. Y al caminar me siento más Alto.
May 18th
Fight for sound
Sound is the underdog in music. Lets not stand idle and fight for it!
May 17th
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Conciencia Creativa
Sin creatividad no hay conciencia.
May 12th
May 11th
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Blanco y Negro
La más oscura de las noches puede encontrarse a plena luz del día.
May 11th
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“Quien dice la verdad, casi no dice nada.”
– Antonio Porchia
May 10th
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El Espacio Temporal de la Música.
Que el tiempo sea “el medio” de la música me parece una idea obsoleta que se ha convertido en cliché. La música es tiempo y crea espacio.
May 5th
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“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression...”
– C.D. Wright
May 5th
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“Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y toda, es silencio.”
– Antonio Porchia
May 5th
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POETS.org: The Shy Pornographer →
poetsorg: A receipt buried in my crumbling paperback copy of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake shows that during his lunch hour on September 9, 1965, my grandfather — presumably in an alcoholic haze and definitely packing a concealed .45 caliber pistol — stumbled into Doubleday Books on Fifth Avenue and…
May 2nd
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Old Ez Was Not A Very Nice Person
poetsorg:
May 1st
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April 2012
10 posts
Carta abierta a Antonio Porchia.
Muchas gracias por las capas infinitas que crean la dimensión de profundidad en tus concisos poemas. Tus sentencias se disuelven en el presente haciéndolo eterno. IS
Apr 26th
“El misterio apacigua mis ojos, no los ciega.”
– Antonio Porchia. Voces.
Apr 24th
Apr 23rd
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Open letter to C.D. Wright
Dear C.D. Wright, While reading poetry at the Marfa bookstore last week, certain I wouldn’t take any book on account of an uneasy mood, I started to read Cooling Time. One random page after another and I was immersed. The book is with me now. Strong and beautiful words that resonate within. Thank you. Sincerely, IS
Apr 15th
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“it is about how differently things actually play out if you come and go by...”
– C.D. Wright, from Cooling Time.
Apr 13th
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Apr 10th
Contacto directo.
El poeta escucha la vida y siente con ella. La verdad del poeta no es parcial, mas sí detallada. Aunque hay de poetas a poetas.
Apr 10th
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You are me.
Can you or anyone else be anyone else? No.
Apr 2nd
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Silence
The wonderful silence of having nothing to do.
Apr 2nd
Cerebral music?
Cerebral music is like a freak show.
Apr 2nd
March 2012
6 posts
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Cristo Zen recuerda a Scodanibbio →
La voz profunda que no se olvida.
Mar 30th
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Scelsi y Okanagon
La música europea ha cambiado mucho a lo largo de los siglos, pero una variable permanece constante: la textura como medio de diferenciación y estructuración. Una de las excepciones notables es cierta música de Giacinto Scelsi, donde las cualidades textúricas pueden ser constantes y los cambios se dan en la intensidad global generando sensaciones de expansión y contracción, así como de...
Mar 29th
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“Be a literalist of the imagination. The concrete is most poetic.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti in Poetry as Insurgent Art.
Mar 26th
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ListenSome music. ...
Mar 23rd
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Time and space
Day and night are just a camouflage for time to get lost in space.
Mar 23rd
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Tiempo y espacio
El día y la noche son sólo un camuflaje del tiempo para perderse en el espacio.
Mar 23rd
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January 2012
1 post
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ListenThis is a recording of “detalle núm....
Jan 29th