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The Snow Birds
Saturday, 31 March 2007
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I had the pleasure of attending a concert by the choral group WomenSing. Martin Bienvenuto, the choir's Director, is a master of unearthing little-known gems from the classical and modern choral repertoires and bringing them to life with the enthusiastic cooperation of the 55-women group. 
From the WomenSing website: "Believing that music is transformative and enlightening for both singer and listener alike, WomenSing is devoted to the study and performance of great choral repertoire and to sharing it with a broad audience."

The evening's repertory did not disappoint, ranging from Vivaldi's Beatus Vir to Haydn's String Quartet in Eb Major to the Snow Birds—Words by Sri Ananda Acharya (born 1883 to the Brahmin caste, later renouncing the world and settling in Norway) and music by Michael Head (1900-1976). The lyrics for the song cycle came from an early edition of Sri Ananda's poetry, entitled "The Snow Birds."

The lyrics to "Only A Singing Bird" I found particularly wonderful.

I am not God nor His messenger.
I am only a singing bird.
I am not Poet nor his Muse.
I am only a singing bird.
I am not Prophet.
I am not Sage—
I am only a singing bird.
 

I fly in the heav'ns across the seas.
And come to sing at thy door.
Each dawn when the morning God
smiles on the ocean,
Each eve when the twilight God
sings at earth's end,
Each night when the God of thy heart
sits in silence alone with the God of my heart.
I am only a singing bird.

 
Kathy I'm Lost I Said, Though I Knew She Was Sleeping
Friday, 16 March 2007

David Bowie sings Simon and Garfunkel's "America." "Changes" at rehearsal in 1976.

 

 
Riding The Wild Bubble: Porn Premiers and HoneyBun Hits Vegas—The HoneyBun Chronicles detour
Monday, 12 March 2007

Here are we, one magical moment, such is the stuff
From where dreams are woven
Blending sound, dredging the ocean, lost in my circle
Here am i, flashing no colour

Tall in this room overlooking the ocean     
David Bowie, Station To Station

Dredging epistles past. The following from early 2005, right when I had plunged into composing the pastel works which would comprise [working title] Sun Change: Summer of '68, Autumnal Sun, Winter Blue, Isle of Islay Revisited—technicolor reworkings of which to be released later this year.

Friends-

I've been remiss with my updates, I know. After my last epistle in September, wherein I described going to the Playboy radio talkshow, Night Calls, to talk about HoneyBun, several people suggested I write a book about the vagabond marketing of HoneyBun and my newfound gypsy lifestyle.

Then it was time to go the International Lingerie Show in Las Vegas, preparing for which consumed every waking minute for almost a month. After Las Vegas, I was waiting for some major revelation to come to me about Las Vegas to come to me that I might share some grand new insight. Alas, what can I say about that place which hasn't already been said?

I just finished a stint of house-(and dog)-sitting in Laguna Beach. Lovely house. The dogs were three adorable pugs, cute, affectionate, prolific beyond any expectation in befouling and beshitting the lovely home up on the hill.

My cup runneth over.vegasbomb

Acquiring one of these pug dogs (rescue cases) is both noble and honorable, I think; two: evidence of neurotic and masochistic tendencies of the most narcissistic and grandiose kind; three: symptomatic of mental illness, unimaginable grandiosity, borderline megalomania, plain and simple.

But the house was lovely and when the dogs were peaceful or sleeping, afforded a magnificent view of the Pacific Ocean.

In the afternoons, the sunlight on the water shimmered like a great silver pavilion stretching to the horizon, rippling into blue at the edges.

At night, the moon rose in the sky and its light made a shining pathway across the waters. Venus shone brightly right above the moon in the dark, star-splattered sky. The multi-colored lights of jets, whispering in and out of the Long Beach airport, floated across the muted blur of the horizon in the distance.

Along the reef in the bay, calamari boats lined up, perhaps two hundred feet apart, halogen lights burning down into the sea to attract the squid—an incandescent necklace on the calm waters of the bay. They moved night after night, following the squid.


 
Flower Power Vs. Venus In Furs
Sunday, 11 March 2007
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I was working on a series of photograms with an artist friend. The idea
was to make images (photograms) with everyday household items that
get used as spanking implements. Then I made some rose photograms
and was fooling around and found the bottom image and put
the two together. My friend flipped out and
wouldn't work on the project anymore.
Oh well, I like the picture.
Think I'll do a limited edition of erotic art prints.
And if she ever gets rid of her deeply-closeted boyfriend,
I'll give her the spanking I know she so desperately craves.
 
 
Scientists Confirm Existence Of The Arshole Molecule
Thursday, 01 March 2007

arsholeArsole Molecule from Wikipedia.             

Arsole is a chemical compound of the formula C4H5As. The structure is like pyrrole except that an arsenic atom is substituted for the nitrogen atom and that arsole is only mildly aromatic. Arsole itself does exist but is rarely found in its pure form. Several substituted analogs called arsoles also exist.

When arsole is fused to a benzene ring, this molecule is called benzarsole.

Furthermore, we can observe its profound effects on human beings when detected.  Scientists believe there may even be a cure in the future for those afflicted..

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