August 2012
2 posts
Summer Midnight Blues
Loose ends, tied together.
The incredible stars scream for attention, flickering.
Smell of summer mango fills the air.
Entrapped in Donald Byrd’s “I’m A Fool To Want You.”
Friday night scent of roses, and sunflowers.
Summer, don’t go…don’t go…
April 2012
1 post
“Here exists no sign, no path, no distance and no time.” e.e. cummings, poet.
“Artists don’t wonder, ‘What is it good for?’ They aren’t driven to ‘creat art,’ or to ‘help people,’ or to ‘make money.’ They are driven to lessen the burden of the unbearable disparity between their conscious and unconscious minds, and so,...
January 2012
1 post
“The average gives the world its substance, the exceptional its value.” Oscar Wilde
November 2011
1 post
I’ve been featured on Flight001’s November Country Per Year Challenger blog! http://1cpy.com/
October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
1 post
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” - Henry David Thoreau
“The people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” “Only dead fish go with the flow.”
August 2011
4 posts
“Cleverness pursues its own little aims. Intelligence sees the larger whole in which all things are connected.” - Eckhart Tolle
Listening to… Francisco Tarrega
Two of my favorite quotes from McQueen’s show at the MET:
“You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.”
—Alexander McQueen
“I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as...
July 2011
2 posts
March 2011
2 posts
December 2010
2 posts
Bourdain in Paris
Couldn’t keep my eyes off of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations: PARIS
The amazing culinary “temples” they hit up in the city of love:
1) Je The
2) Le CoCottes
3) Frenchie *
4) Butcher shop - Huge Desnoyer
5) Jeu Quilles (next door to butcher shop)
6) Open air street market - Rue Mouffetard
7) Le Papillon (for the Pieds Paquets, or tripe & pig’s foot)
8)...
July 2010
4 posts
May 2010
5 posts
April 2010
16 posts
Quote by Goethe
I am the Decisive Element
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my...
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Amsterdam
the city. with its light, screams silently.
bicycles. rush of bells sing tunes unheard of.
love. passion. pure satisfaction of innate needs.
smell. the grass, being burnt through dawn.
the dutch. sharp minded, intelligent beings.
canals. paint pictures of Van Gogh’s modern world.
