One beautiful photo

Well, if you too would like a picture of a mime shooting with a mime gun...
http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/voutes/voute4/p622119-a.jpg

Free and good book

So I read this book a few years ago and found it inspiring. Now I see I can download it for free! It's about a guy that started a punk band for Christian ministry in Amsterdam.

http://www.steiger.org/books/lionsden/Den.PDF

-you should be able to right click that and choose "save link as" or something like that to download it. Left clicking will open it.

More Carousels

More work on my Carousels project (see below). I'm thinking it will be a carousel/merri-go-round with humans riding fantastic figures and animals riding fantastic human beings. In the center will be a man standing (spinning in place) with three heads or faces. This was my initial visualization of this concept...

Betrayal Intersection

I wrote this soon after watching “House of Flying Daggers.”  I’m pretty sure that movie had some deep meaning but I really don’t know what.  So I opted for the post-modern and siphoned my own from it.


Dagger in the back – stabbed in the heart
You were watching all along
Fight for me, I run from you
Like Judas, “I belong!”

What’s the difference between left and right?
They’re both well-worn, both bend out of sight…
I’ve never been, so how can I know?
Seed shoved dead into dirt, I watch others grow:
“This is my choice, I’ll make it alone”

Sun’s now gone
Dark
Shivering
Cold mud
No one
…

I remember the warmth
The beach
The waves
Innocence
…

Every agreement has two sides
Every argument one
I’ve taken the wrong path so many times!
(Betrayal intersection has lost its fun)

Carousels, Ben & Art?

I’ve been assigned the task of creating a visual work of art from the following mewithoutYou song…I think I’m going to make a landscape with two carousels – one representing religion and one representing capitalism.   Should be good….

“On a bus ride into town, I wondered out loud, "Why am I going to town?"
As I looked around at the billboards and the stores I thought, "Why do I look around?"
And I kissed the filthy ground...the first dry spot I found...
I didn't have to wonder why I was laying down. ”Before long I was too cold...took a bus back to the station,
I found a letter left by a pay phone with no return contact
And it read like a horn blown by some sad angel,
"Bunny, it was me...it was me who let you down"
It was the shyest attempt I'd ever seen at conversation.
”But if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai,
Counting the plates of cars from out-of-state,
How I could jump in their path as they hurry along!
And You surround me, You're pretty but You're all I can see
Like a thick fog...
If there was no way into God,
I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.
”And St. Cyril's fair always came through the first week of September
But it's already the 19th...and there's no sign of it...
Yet I have a hard time remembering all the things I should remember
And a hard time forgetting all the things that I was supposed to forget.
And, Christ, when You're ready to come back,
Then I think I'm ready for You to come back;
But if You want to stay wherever exactly it is You are,
That's okay, too...it's, it's really none of my business.
”And if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai
Or down by the tracks watching trains go by
To remind me: there are places that aren't here.
And I had a well but all the water left,
So I'll go ask Your forgiveness with every breath,
And if there was no way into God,
I would never have laid in this grave of a body...so long, dear.”

Painful creates

Distaste in common hates

“Just food, please”

But continues and time

Eats the purposeful rhyme

“just me, it’s all I have”

Question’s debated

In art, in part

“answers-questions questions”

“Not species, kingdom, get it right.

It’s by spirit, not might.

Perspective matters less when you look right.”

Why beats how for fun

My muscles are undone