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Pure pulp adventure spirit
There’s a reason people find themselves compulsively hooked on “House,” and it’s little surprise you can build an entire empire on the kicks afforded by a “CSI.” Both have their origins in Sherlock Holmes and his ongoing adventures with his trusted friend, Dr. John Watson. These two characters have been played on film more [...]
And because a sick person is always deserted - to say anything else would be a gross lie.
2006 © Bostan Alexander
The healthy have never had patience with the sick, nor, of course, have the sick ever had patience with the healthy. This fact must not be forgotten. For naturally the sick make far greater demands than the healthy, who, being healthy, have no need to make such demands. The sick do not [...]
The things nobody tells you about Berlin
Misprejudices self-correct automatically. The first thing one notices is the thing one hasn’t been told in advance.
Bodhisattva in metro
This video will cheer you up even if there is no reason in the world to be anything but miserable. Quite something.
Vertical multiculturalism
Against horizontal multiculturalism - by which we intend a socio-cultural activity oriented towards minorities, or a decorative employment of mainly non-European expressive cultures (Brook, Barba, Mnouchkine), a moussaka which tries to convince us, with a bit of Indian make-up, majestic Japanese costumes and roars of two to three dark-skinned actors, that it is engaging with the rest of the world.
Bookmark: Look at this effin hipster
“…as time marches forward, hipsters seem to be quite adaptable. When they were first identified as a demographic, circa 1998, the two most dominant hipster aesthetics were twee—think Belle and Sebastian, sweater vests, and Ira Glass—and a white trash-chic epitomized by the tattoos and wifebeaters found in Vice magazine. (Greif referred to these two types [...]
Very quick note: Lisboa
Image from Estudo-V, a blog which is, against all odds, Lithuanian.
Lisboa is as beautiful as ever: weather very much like Sydney’s, but with a history and a society and a certain gravitas only Portugal has. It has become more popular with tourists, which makes me happy, because it’s finally being recognised as a fine, fine [...]
Bookmark: Timbuktu
I will, in the years to come, try to establish a section along the lines of ‘Guerrilla Semiotics Presents…’, a kind of evil twin to 5th Wall’s Critic Watch, with theatre writings notable & worth pointing out.
For now, though, they will remain ‘Bookmarks’, and here is another one. A very dear friend of mine, and [...]
The question of soul
I was struggling, back in Melbourne, to explain what the difference was, when I thought I found it.
“We have a lot of soul.” I told my perplexed friend. “That’s really the best way of putting it. We’re soulful people.”
“What do you mean by soulful?” he asked diplomatically, being of a race that prides itself on [...]
Tell me how many laws I’m breaking, I’ll tell you what country you’re from
Drawing and Painting class in ŠPUD.
ŠPUD is Škola Za Primjenjenu Umjetnost i Dizajn, or School of Applied Arts and Design. In the Croatian high school system, divided between the general academic gimnazije, and academically much more lax trade schools, ŠPUD is an oddity. A lair of self-selected weird kids, of an academically suspect, but artistically [...]
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