nature poetry

THE CALL OF THE WILD

The heavy old manin his bed at night
Hears the Coyote singing
in the back meadow.
All the years he ranched and mined and logged.
A Catholic.
A native Californian.
and the Coyotes howl in his
Eightieth year.
He will call the Government
Trapper
Who uses iron leg-traps on Coyotes,
Tomorrow.
My sons will lose this
Music they have just started
To love.

***

The ex acid-heads from the cities
Converted to Guru or Swami,
Do penance with shiny
Dopey eyes, and quit eating meat.
In the forests of North America,
The land of Coyote and Eagle,
They dream of India, of
forever blissful sexless highs.
And sleep in oil-heated
Geodesic domes, that
Were stuck like warts
in the woods.

And the Coyote singing
is shut away
for they fear
the call
of the wild.

And they sold their virgin cedar trees,
the tallest trees in miles,
To a logger
Who told them,

”Trees are full of bugs.”

***


The Government finally decided
To wage the war all-out. Defeat
is Un-American.
And they took to the air,
Their women beside them
in bouffant hairdos
putting nail polish on the
gunship cannon-buttons.
And they never came down,
for they found,
the ground
is pro-Communist. And dirty.
And the insects side with the Viet Cong.

So they bomb and they bomb
Day after day, across the planet
blinding sparrows
breaking the ear-drums of owls
splintering trunks of cherries
twining and looping
deer intestines
in the shaken, dusty, rocks.

All these Americans up in special cities in the sky
Dumping poisons and explosives
Across Asia first,
And next North America,

A war against earth.
When it’s done there’ll be
no place

A Coyote could hide

envoy

I would like to say
Coyote is forever
Inside you.
But it’s not true.

(from Gary Snyder's 1975 Pulitzer poetry book "Turtle Island" )

old BLU project in berlin, but the music!

by now probably everyone has seen this little film of BLU contributing to the walls of berlin.
what i can't shake out of my head (and i think i shouldn't) is the amazing song on the background. it's the berliner dj-cum-painter siriusmo , a shy appearance in the local electronic music scene, originally a punk musician, when punk still had a word to spread out. there's no label behind him, but he collaborates with 'der jungs' from modeselektor(moderat) . i never saw any of his works, but he calls painting his job, while music just a hobby with no artistic pretension. it's gets better when he starts lining up the unexpected names of camille or phoenix on which he'd like to remix. on top of that he has a rather kewl one of marlene dietrich's "ich bin von kopf bis fuss auf liebe eingestellt". techno meets romantic, oder? ok, if you're not inlove yet, i should tell you that the man makes music for his bike.his socio-phobia stops him from using public transport so he always rides his bike or walks. he gets ideas on his bike. i'll try getting ideas while listening to his truff on my bike for now on. check out "mein neues fahrrad" and disregard the writing on the screen. i fuck (pardon my French!) on the sound of nature, not on electro :D

oh, the info is fresh from a magazine article that i read last night while not working on my school stuff. today i decided by hazard to download the music from the BLU video forgetting it was siriusmo once again!

Birdie N-am N-am :(

This blog needs a New Birth, not necessarily a french, charming one, but a revival !
verdamnte scheisse, zis is Germany and it's swarming with reasons to write.
Damn white screen nausea and clumsiness with words, and the lazyess...be gone, never to let matters die again!

Birdy Nam Nam (which you can also find as 'Birdie') are playing in berlin, precisely when i'm taking wing to Weimar, that is on the 1st of May weekend. Bar 25 will also open its narrow door to hipster-land...and many nasty fumes will fill this city on a swamp. e-nough about berlin, let's be melancolic and try not to desecrate Goethe's gartenhaus out of frustration. but jesus, look at the line-up the size of toilet paper roll at the opening. what i'd like to know is whether kate moss is throwing her own stash in the game or would two or three ibiza puppets have to help her our again. either way, happy sodoma and gomorra mashing up! see you next week :D

the century of the self

" what was beginning to emerge in the 1920s was a new idea of how to run mass democracy. at its heart was the consumming self, which not only made the economy work, but was happy and docile, and so created a stable society. "
(extract from a gripping documentary that i strongly recommend-the century of the self)
first episode here:

scenes from a toilet

suuuuuuuuuuit-ed

BO-no-BO

SAW HIS SHOW 2 WEEKS AGO. outcome: M hates electronic music after all (hm...c'est la vie), N picked up a guy (hehe!) i merely danced and let the music sink in.
'twas a chilly good night, esp. since the monkey acts quite cool and friendly.

you know much too much, too much...

i can't help myself.found a tragically good Berlin band: BONAPARTE.correct me if i'm wrong.
"attention deficit disorder muzik"
they are delicious, and this video is shot in Mauerpark, a place for drumbeats, sun and friends.

Luke A'Laik

mabe i'm just obsessed, but does not this picture of Paul Kalkbrenner look like...<Blush>?

it crossed my mind many times while watching Berlin Calling, featuring P.K. as techno DJ Ikarus. the film does not rock in its storyline, but this character keeps it together through charisma and a some pretty good acting. music is also inspiring for many unhealthy activities, jogging included :D

must see if you want to relax and remember the great city, its traps and trails, but not if you're out for a modern epiphany.

Momentous Moment

read into the future!

here have a look at today's paper (Saturday, the 4th of July 2009) whipe that frown from your face, and put on that satyr mask i got you for Christmas. too sleepy?
i'll read you some headlines from today's Times:

IRAQ WAR ENDS
COURTS INDICT BUSH ON HIGH TREASON CHARGE
USA PATRIOT ACT REPEALED
NEW YORK BIKE PATH SYSTEM EXPANDED DRAMATICALLY
CONGRESS RETURNS CIVICS TO HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM
ALL PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES TO BE FREE
HARVARD WILL SHUT BUSINESS SCHOOL DOORS ...come on!


pay special attention to the ads in this edition, and you see the hand of the YES MEN

everybody got it now, or at least everybody:


New York Times Special Edition Video News Release - Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.