Friday, August 19, 2011

"Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. Today, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!"

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Friday, August 12, 2011

On poverty, seriously

Collaborative stop-motion sculpture

MÖBIUS from ENESS on Vimeo.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Beggin'


So you'll have to forgive some of the video (and some of it is pretty awesome), but the song is super boss. Contemporary music which can hang with the classics which birthed its genre is how I personally validate something as "Super Boss"---the word "good" also suffices.

Mostly just the milk drinking and ninja kick are weird, but maybe I just don't get it. Considering the gyration of hips 'over the top' says more about me than the gyration I suppose.

Friday, August 5, 2011

If at first you don't succeed.

I hate how much I try. I am falling into hate; a dark cynicism is digging its roots in with a tighter grip into the dirt of my mind. My heart's beat weakens and clarity is leaving my eyes—you can’t help me, and I can’t promise I can help myself--how I wish I could.

I can’t even pray confidently for it to pass right now. The fruits of its branches ripen and fall, and burst in throws of anger and rage, this fear isn’t going away at all anymore—and it promises to leave me alone in my old age. I am too tired to find another hatchet right now; and if found--then what? Another set of hack, hack, hack. Spit, chew. Hack, hack, hack.

It doesn't go down; the attempts against her, the black tree, dark and suffocating, work like antibodies that viruses become accustomed to--my attempts make her stronger, and weaken
me. My heart's beat grows quieter and is slowing down, the clarity is leaving my eyes.

Then, there's Somalia. Famine by definition must be at least 10 child deaths daily attributed to malnutrition for a set period of time. You live in a world that has created a definition for famine. Maybe it all stems from an unspoken fear of death. What does it matter if I have tangible evidence of my youth for my children? What if I have no children? Why must I need tangible
evidence to prove I once existed and had a mind?


This is probably back with my Grandmother. She was completely undignified for the last eleven years of her life. Her only real joy and pride seemed to come from watching her old movies. Unable to clean herself or even ask for what she wanted, it was when she would see herself a youth, acting a villain that I would watch her joy emerge.

My Grandfather on my fathers side, K.N. Singh. He had a family, but he bed my Grandmother on my Fathers side (not the same as the one above) and created my Father, who for his life called him "uncle". A piece of film picked out of his long career spanning 15 seconds or so is still taught in Indian Acting schools today.

I've lost my train of thought, too many distractions. Hack. Hack. Hack.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

L'amour fou

"Some men have passion for horses, others for birds, others for wild beasts; but I from childhood have been possessed by a passionate longing to acquire books"
- Julian the Apostate