‘Their Lonely Betters’ As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made, It seemed to me only proper that words Should be withheld from vegetables and birds. A robin with no Christian name ran through The Robin-Anthem which was all it...
STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Live at Lee’s Palace (Toronto) February 22, 2014 Review by Eduardo Carli de Moraes It was a chilling night of this long Canadian winter, and Toronto’s streets were all covered with slippery layers of ice and mountains of snow. Radiohead’s words occured to me –...
PAVEMENT “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain” (1994) Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine: It may be a bit reductive to call Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain the Reckoning to Slanted & Enchanted‘s Murmur — not to mention easy, considering that Pavement recorded a song-long tribute to R.E.M.‘s second album during the Crooked Rain sessions — but there’s a certain truth in that statement all the...
“Among Nietzsche’s works there is a strange book which bears the title Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It consists of 4 parts, written during the years 1883-85, each part in about 10 days, and conceived chapter by chapter on long walks – “with a feeling of inspiration, as though each sentence had been...
The Union – Business Behind Getting High Canada, 2007, 105 min Directed By: Brett Harvey http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1039647/ “Ever wonder what British Columbia’s most profitable industries are? Logging? Fishing? Tourism? Ever think to include marijuana? If you haven’t, think again. No longer a hobby for the stereotypical hippie culture of the...
* * * * * ANGELA DAVIS in The Meaning of Freedom. * * * * * “Beware of those leaders and theorists who eloquently rage against white supremacy but identify black gay men and lesbians as evil incarnate. Beware of those leaders who call upon us to...
Claude Lévi-Strauss Par Lui-Même (Pierre-Andre Boutang, 2008) “No doubt we take comfort in the dream that equality and fraternity will one day reign among men, without compromising their diversity.” – Lévi-Strauss, Race and Culture SYNOPSIS: This film recounts the extraordinary career path of Claude Lévi-Strauss, the father of structural...
Psychedelics and Religious Experience by Alan Watts The experiences resulting from the use of psychedelic drugs are often described in religious terms. They are therefore of interest to those like myself who, in the tradition of William James, are concerned with the psychology of religion. For more than thirty...
The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,...