on a personal note

Hello it's me, i just had a breakfast for 32.000 HUF. I am planning to move to Tokyo but for the moment I am just glad to be alive here. I don't have any plans to quit my dayjob, i keep on smoking tobacco and sometimes weed (if our dealer has any), and i am still afraid of genetic engineering, or more blunt, I am afraid of plain engineering. oh yeah, and flying saucer attacks.



yours
Mihai

Jehanne Complex

Exquisite

Research & Performing Group

Presents

Jehanne Complex

Jeanne Hamilton-Bick (US) will perform.

Deniz Gőzler (TUR), Trever Hagen (US) and Serhan Kazaz (TUR) will play live music.

Arany Gitta (HU), Lányi Katalin (HU), Rencsisovszki Beatrix (HU) and Seregély Beáta (HU) will dance.

A performance by Mihai Lucaciu (RO).

Tuesday, 20th of May, 8.00 PM – open rehearsal

Wednesday, 21st of May, 8.00 PM - premiere

In front of CEU Auditorium

Nador utca 9, Budapest

Everyone is welcomed but seating is limited

Boys and their plastic toys

Say no to GUNS! the whole imaginary argument is such a hoax. give them a pink truck or a barbie doll and their imagination will trully explode :)

an article from BBC News, Toy weapons 'help boys to learn'

I'm going to the doctor

this time...

BENWAY
by William S. Burroughs

Burroughs as Dr. Benway

The lavatory has been locked for three hours solid…. I think they are using it for an operating room….

NURSE: 'I can’t find her pulse, doctor.'

DR. BENWAY: 'Maybe she got it up her snatch in a finger stall.'

NURSE: 'Adrenalin, doctor?'

DR. BENWAY: 'The night porter shot it all up for kicks.' He looks around and picks up one of those rubber vacuum cups at the end of a stick they use to unstop toilets…. He advances on the patient…. 'Make an incision, Doctor Limpf,' he says to his appalled assistant…. 'I’m going to massage the heart.'

Dr. Limpf shrugs and begins the incision. Dr. Benway washes the suction cup by swishing it around in the toilet-bowl….

NURSE: 'Shouldn’t it be sterilized, doctor?'

DR. BENWAY: 'Very likely but there’s no time.' He sits on the suction cup like a cane seat watching his assistant make the incision…. 'You young squirts couldn’t lance a pimple without an electric vibrating scalpel with automatic drain and suture…. Soon we’ll be operating by remote control on patients we never see…. We’ll be nothing but button pushers. All the skill is going out of surgery…. All the know-how and make-do… Did I ever tell you about the time I performed an appendectomy with a rusty sardine can? And once I was caught short without instrument one and removed a uterine tumor with my teeth. That was in the Upper Effendi, and besides…'

DR. LIMPF: 'The incision is ready, doctor.'

Dr. Benway forces the cup into the incision and works it up and down. Blood spurts all over the doctors, the nurse and the wall…. The cup makes a horrible sucking sound.

NURSE: 'I think she’s gone, doctor.'

DR. BENWAY: 'Well, it’s all in the day’s work.' He walks across the room to a medicine cabinet…. 'Some fucking drug addict has cut my cocaine with Saniflush! Nurse! Send the boy out to fill this RX on the double!'


photo from here

Glume

Gigi Becali a fost sambata, 22 septembrie 2007, la Arad. Printre altele, s-a trezit sa declare că în cazul în care va ajunge preşedintele României va desfiinţa cluburile pentru gay, iar pe homosexuali îi va izola la marginea oraşelor, în cartiere speciale. Stirea este puternic difuzata.

„Sex-shop-urile nu au ce căuta în centrul oraşului, să le vadă toată lumea, copiii şi cei care nu vor să le vadă. Cluburile pentru gay le voi desfiinţa. Dacă aceşti oameni păcătuiesc, nu au decât să o facă la ei acasă. Îi sfătuiesc să meargă la preot dacă au probleme cu capul, pentru că eu voi desfiinţa cluburile de homosexuali şi lesbiene“

„O să le fac cartiere speciale, să stea acolo şi să ne lase pe noi în pace“

Ceea ce este interesant aici este lipsa de reactie, cel putin pana acum. probabil vor urma zilele urmatoare cateva pozitii sau cineva isi va aduce aminte de chestiunea asta prin campania electorala. Ziarele online s-au limitat la a transmite "faptele asa cum sunt". Vorbim aici nu de un personaj marginal, de un individ total lipsit de putere politca: Becali este cotat în sondajele de opinie pe locul al doilea, la categoria încrederii în politicieni, cu circa 30%, imediat dupa Băsescu. Partidul condus de Becali este situat pe locul al patrulea, după PD, PSD şi PNL, cu şanse clare de a intra în Parlament.

Vara trecuta Becali era prezent pe majoritatea posturilor TV in emisiuni sportive, talk-showuri politice, lifestyle etc. popularitatea sa este remarcabila. Faptul ca este considerat in multe cazuri un bufon inofensiv si simpatic, greu de crezut si pe care nu poti sa te superi, nu poate scuza luarile sale de pozitie deosebit de violente. Numarul 1 in sondaje recidiva acum cateva saptamani cu remarcile sale discriminatorii: de data asta nu era vorba de tigani, ci de armenii cei rai. Doctorul sau era un caz rar de "armean bun". Comisia impotriva discriminarii a reactionat. Oamenii lui Basescu au raspuns dezinvolt ca era doar o gluma, in stilul caracteristic al presedintelui. Si asa a ramas.

Si Becali probabil glumeste pe seama gaylor, femeilor, tiganilor etc. Treptat, stilul sau a devenit unul caracteristic, un produs mediatic foarte bine vandut si usor de reprodus. De unde si succesul sau. Usor usor, cu asemenea reprezentari, puternic sustinute de viitori alegatori, Romania ramane o gluma si inca una proasta de tot.

Passions of Vsevold Meyerhold

Reading again about Meyerhold, I found some disturbing elements that are making him such an impressive character in the history of theatre. From comisar of the people and a major influence on Soviet art to decay was such a small step.

Because Meyerhold was openly against socialist realism and in the 1930s, when Stalin rejected any form of avantgarde art or experimentation, his works became antagonistic and alien to the Soviet people. His theatre was closed down in 1938 and in 1939 Meyerhold was arrested and imprisoned.




In Simon Sebag Montefiore's Stalin: The court of the Red Tsar from 2004 there are some terrible details related to Meyerhold's imprisonment. The file on Meyerhold contains his letter from prison to Molotov: "The investigators began to use force on me, a sick 65-year-old man. I was made to lie face down and beaten on the soles of my feet and my spine with a rubber strap... For the next few days, when those parts of my legs were covered with extensive internal haemorrhaging, they again beat the red-blue-and-yellow bruises with the strap and the pain was so intense that it felt as if boiling water was being poured on these sensitive areas. I howled and wept from the pain. "When I lay down on the cot and fell asleep, after 18 hours of interrogation, in order to go back in an hour's time for more, I was woken up by my own groaning and because I was jerking about like a patient in the last stages of typhoid fever." The interrogator, he added, urinated in his mouth. Meyerhold wrote this letter on January 13 1940 having confessed to whatever it was they wanted him to confess to (spying for the British and the Japanese, among other charges). He was sentenced to death by firing squad on February 1, 1940. The date of his death is unclear; some sources say he was killed on February 2, 1940.

Scriitoarea Taslima Nasreen risca trei ani de Inchisoare pentru ofensa adusa islamului

"Femeile sunt asuprite in est, in vest, in sud, in nord. Femeile sunt asuprite acasa si in afara casei. Indiferent daca este sau nu credincioasa, o femeie este asuprita. Frumoasa sau urata, este asuprita. Infirma sau nu, bogata sau saraca, educata sau needucata, este asuprita. Acoperita sau goala, este asuprita. Tampita sau nu, lasa sau curajoasa, este intotdeauna asuprita", scrie Taslima Nasreen.

"Nu cred in Dumnezeu. Propovaduitorii segregheaza femeile de rasa umana, si eu sunt separata, nici mie nu mi se respecta drepturile".

Mai multe despre Taslima Nasreen aici.

Instrumente pe cale de disparitie

Titera, caraba cu talv, fifa, fisconiu’ da pipalac, piscalaul sunt instrumente uitate care au fost reconditionate, adunate de un muzicolog din Timisoara, Ovidiu Papana, in singura colectie de instrumente muzicale traditionale din Romania. Aici se afla tot articolul din Romania libera.

Dilated body

here is my thesis on dilated body and Eugenio Barba. enjoy

my performances

there are some photos from old performances at this link

i've rediscovered it a few minutes ago...enjoy