The dream is gone

1/6/2010 12:11:00 AM

Elvis Presley would have been 75 this Friday. That is, if his heart hadn't stopped on 16 August 1977, just before he was scheduled to fly out of Mephis to begin another tour. He was all alone and 42 years old.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pink+floyd/comfortably+numb_20108779.html

Annus Musicalis 2009

12/22/2009 5:22:00 AM

Here we go again. The objective list of the best gigs in 2009, in chronological order:

Oasis, Forest National, 13 January

Get over it, lads. A few cans of Red Stripe will surely do the job.

Kira Kira, Recyclart, 30 January

This girl seemed to emerge from some strange geyser. Amazing, relaxed charisma that filled the whole club.

The Do, Cirque Royale, 13 March

Paris-Helsinki all night long.

Morrissey, Elisabethzaal, 8 June

You've got everything now. Hold on to it.

Ghinzu and Soldout, Het Depot, 12 November

A Brussels tour de force. Sadly, the last chance to see you guys in a small club.

SUPERMASSIVE

12/17/2009 12:18:00 AM

I rarely get excited about news. But now I can't stop staring at the new photos of star formation provided by the Herschel telescope.

If you want to know why this is all so exciting read "Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines" by Jim Al-Khalili. It's a great book to keep on your bedside table. Read a chapter before going to sleep and your dreams will be amazing.

No, we can't

11/12/2009 6:53:00 AM

For no particular reason, I got an urge to cite a haiku:

Listening
as the wave retreats
into itself

- Geraldine Little

She rules

11/5/2009 7:33:00 AM

Sometimes a portrait has a hypnotic effect - you cannot escape from its gaze. One such portrait of Elisabeth I hangs now in the National Portrait Gallery of Washington. When in town, go check it out. Photographs don't do it justice. They just don't make queens like her no more.

http://www.marileecody.com/gloriana/elizabethclopton.jpg

The bright side of life

10/23/2009 12:43:00 AM

Monty Python was instrumental in the liberation of my generation. After seeing them, we never looked at a policeman, a teacher or a priest the same way again. A recent documentary on them leaves a strange, bittersweet aftertaste. What a drag it is getting old.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-monty-python18-2009oct18,0,4352012.story

The scheme of things

10/16/2009 7:35:00 AM

Dan Brown has made it all up. There is no such conspiracy, just a bunch of old men.

But Murray Gell-Mann exposed the real conspiracy 15 years ago: the whole universe is out to get us. His book "The Quark and the Jaguar" renders all other books redundant.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/book-review--quantum-leap-of-model-professor-the-quark-and-the-jaguar--murray-gellman-little-brown-1899-pounds-1414474.html