MUSIC | DARK NIGHTS

MUSIC | THE ORWELLS

POEM | TRISTRAN TZARA

A poem by one of my favourite poets for another of my favourite poets.


Tristran Tzara was a Romanian/French avante garde poet, essayist, performance artist, journalist and filmmaker and a central figure in the Dadaist movement, working on the infamous Littérature magazine. Tzara was greatly influenced by Guillaume Apollinaire (buried in the stunning Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris)Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism movements. 

Appolliniare 
The Farewell (Alcools: L’Adieu)
I’ve gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we’ll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever

Tzara
Vegetable Swallow
two smiles meet towards
the child-wheel of my zeal
the bloody baggage of creatures
made flesh in physical legends-lives

the nimble stags storms cloud over
rain falls under the scissors of
the dark hairdresser-furiously
swimming under the clashing arpeggios

in the machine's sap grass
grows around with sharp eyes
here the share of our caresses
dead and departed with the waves

gives itself up to the judgment of time
parted by the meridian of hairs
non strikes in our hands
the spices of human pleasures 

KEITH HARING | Musée d’Art Moderne

It's taken me ages to post this. Back in August I caught the Keith Haring retrospective at Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. The retrospective was vast, with over 250 paintings, and focussed on the political aspects behind Haring's iconic work. So pleased that I didn't miss this well curated exposition on a fascinating 
American artist and his iconic work. It was a right treat!

MUSIC | ALMOST THERE

NICE THINGS

“God damn it, there are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.”

—	J.D. Salinger

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different - C.S Lewis 

                

The less you know, the sounder you sleep - Russian Proverb 

               

I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget ― Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” 

                

'You wouldn't worry so much about what others think if you realised how seldom they do' - Eleanor Roosevelt

             

There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand without you even speaking a word - Yasmin Mogahed

               

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go - Mooji

                

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created - Yoko Ono

                       

MUSIC | EERO JOHANNES