I'm really excited too! (not just you, rachelle HA)

I have just completed my necessary work for now and I would like to share with everyone, these links that have been shared with me. There was a whole list of useful links but these 2 really touched me and I am soo motivated to get there :)

1) Opera of the Future - this video is all too enticing. I could learn as much as i want independently, but even if i did, i don't know if I will ever be given the opportunity in life to participate in something else that could be as exciting as this.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/Powers-ShortDemo11-07.mov

2) News Report on Music Therapy - Before this, I read about (from some other online news articles/ the book Musicophilia) ways in which Music Therapy works on patients. But the practice just felt so distant, until I saw this article. It really puts so much more meaning into research.

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/articles/2007/10/29/the_power_of_music/?rss_id=Health

Enjoy !

To Darryl

GARDEN says:
u know what is zomba records or not?
Calicocali indeed proposal week says:
britney spears right?
GARDEN says:
YES!
GARDEN says:
hahahah
Calicocali indeed proposal week says:
why? who got signed on?
GARDEN says:
haha no one

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Let me congratulate a certain cat who is more than half way through in realising her dream! Allow me to give you all a hint that is not in my diaper :

BOSSTONE!

If you ever work with PRINCE, please sing raspberry beret, the kind you'd find in a 2nd hand store.

This is so your SPRINGTIME! I'm really so happy for you, getting all nervous and jittery on your behalf. This is really just too too cool. I can't wait for you to kick them butts. You and jamesT can go get chummy o, just like my favourite morsels. Imagine telling this to Sakamoto, he will congratulate you in some way I'm sure! (the japanese way, haha) You know, I was just gonna ask about our graduate trip yesterday, and seems like it's most likely NYC at the rate things are going! O WICCKITY! Hon would be pleased too, in more ways than one! O MASSIVE!

Someone also has some tips to share:

Yasuyoshi says: i miss clam chowder
Yasuyoshi says: boston has only few nice food
Yasuyoshi says: its one of them

HAHA. Charming, isn't it!

Cheers to the cat!

:D :D :D

First Breath After A Coma

Yesterday I met someone whom I have not seen for 10 years. I dare not call him a 'friend' because I don't think I've ever treated him properly as one. He was always nice to me, in many ways. Perhaps too many that I often got irritated over small details of him; for instance, copying my 90s sexband style (HAHA). I also recall tricking him into buying me Stabbing Westward + Type O Negative albums when I never intended paying him back. He also got many shits from me for being a skater, which automatically translated to poser in those days. (And he still skates!) Anyways, we finally stopped talking after I cheated him of 20bucks over a dumbass necklace. I was 14 and a massive terrorizer ...!

I feel like I owe him the world. Especially now, after meeting him and realising that I've sort of screwed his life up, and the possibilties of me being a better friend then. My heart is filled with guilt. I'm trying hard as hell to kick these remaining terrorizer habits. Both because I'm remorseful after meeting him and the series of events that happened to me in the past year had just been plain uncool.

My life right now feels like Explosions In The sky's -First Breath After A Coma- hopeful but melancholic.

Francis Bacon

Despite the GARDEN-er not thinking very highly of the Master of Sensation, artist Francis Bacon, he has been all that I have been losing sleep on & having nightmares about, for the past week or two and so in this first post, I shall dedicate to F. Bacon. His works obviously don't touch me as much as such of Edward Hopper, but he is (!) to some extent, quite a joy to read about - especially in this book Portraits and Heads which fills us in on his involvement with the people he painted. Hehee! His portraits do look somewhat monstrous, but there is a sincere melancholy about them -especially in these favourites of mine - of one of his partners, George Dyer. . Not as brutal as you might think, eh? Hopefully the Gardener would change her mind!







Triptych - In Memory of George Dyer (1971)



Triptych May-June 1973



Study for head of George Dyer 1967

I found this brilliant website which talks alot on his relationships with the people he paints. Is indeed quite a good read. His entire life feels like an art film, somewhat tragic and really poetic. And if you do read on him, the stuff he says are really rather amazing. I found this quote on the website which i quite liked :)

http://francis-bacon.cx/biography/index.html

"I myself and the life I've lived happen to be more profoundly curious than my work. Then sometimes, when I think about it, I'd prefer everything about my life to blow up after I die and disappear". Francis Bacon