Jules Deelder - "Lof op Pilatus"

De rol van Pilates in het lijden van Christus
is in de loop der tijden te zwart afgeschilderd.
Dat hij wel degelijk een hart had, en meer nuance
dan zij die over hem schreven,
moge blijken uit het feit dat hij,
toen hij hoorde dat Jezus timmerman was,
deze zelf zijn kruis liet kiezen.
Dat Jezus Jelti koos, het hardste hout ter wereld,
op dat zich niet of nauwelijks laat bespijkeren
waardoor zijn kruisigin ernstige vertraging opliep,
en het lijden onnodig gerekt werd,
kon Pilates niet worden verweten.
Net zomin als dat deze zich na de confrontatie
met Jezus de handen wies, met het oog op mogelijk 
besmettingsgevaar.
Hij dient daarvoor veeleer geprezen.

Chet Baker - "The Thrill Is Gone"

this is the end
so why pritend
and let it linger on
the thrill is gone

Hoshi no koe (Voices of a distant star) (2003)

watched it again. still phenomenal.

The truth of living in a single hand.

Diary snippet

Writing (nanowrimo) went ok. Snooker didn't go well. Didn't feel like continuing.

Watched episode #5 of "Last Chance To See" with Stephen Fry. Love it. New Zealand. Ozzie accent.

Now: Tanita Tikaram, Tori Amos and most of Leonard Cohen. No (live-)TV please. No mail, God no, no facebook, twitter...

No.

The mesmerizing beauty of the 3D Mandelbrot and the last edge of Earth as photographed by the Osiris sonde fit this mood quite well.

Rudy Rucker - "As Above, So Below" (short story)

Found it alongside the stunning 3D Mandelbrot images. It's not bad, but again I was hit by what a thin line separates the good cyberpunk from the "hey I talk hacker-lingo".

Can't help but think William Gibson is so good at what he does because he hints, never tell. It's not even the film-rule "Show, don't tell", it's even more subtle. Show the edges, never the inside. Show its shadow, never its shape.

Perhaps it's the same after all.

Radiohead with Björk - "I've seen it all"

Never realised it's Radiohead that performed it... 

Is that true for the "Dancer in the Dark" version (the film that made her write to Nicole Kidman: "Don't work with Lars van Trier. He destroyed my soul") as well? Yup, "performed by Björk, Thom Yorke". Composition and the such all courtesy of the Iceland woman.

Tracy Bonham - "Give us" (album "Down Here" - 2000)

Come to our emotional desert
Come to our emotional desert
Then leave us high
Then leave us high and dry

A less aggressive sound. More classical, violins, rusty records,... 

Tracy Bonham - "The Burdens of Being Upright" (1996)

Oh I did knew "Tell it to the sky". Like so many songs, I knew it but didn't knew it.

"Kisses" has a low repeating "oh...oh..I......oh...oh...I" Like it.

A, "Sharks Can't Sleep" is also familiar. More so than "Tell it to the sky". I wonder whether her music becomes repetitive after a few albums. Skunk Anansie had the same problem, though it never became too repeating.

3D Mandelbrot

http://www.google.nl/images?client=opera&rls=en&q=3d+mandelbrot&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=B3Q3TZW_J4T4sAOO1MChAw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=6&ved=0CD8QsAQwBQ

http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html

Mr T-Bone & Friends - "Give Me A Call"

From the KinkFM playlist:

Mr. T-Bone & Friends - "Give Me A Call" (Mr. T-Bone Sees America (2004, Megalith Records))

"Ska with an Italian accent"

I want to live without you

[...]

Every day is a sunny day

happy!

Coraline

Nice, but can't help to be a bit sad that my own images are shattered by watching this film. It lacked the magic from "Nightmare before Christmas" and the such.