Laughter

Shake shake shake off winter melancholy with it.

Loneliness

Lonely. Loanly.
Moon is above the head of loneliness. [Sohrab]

Mr. TSB

Thank you for being.

Identity crisis

In logic, the Law of Identity states that an object is the same as itself: A ≡ A. A=A is a tautology.
There are different forms of identity in different fields. Identity in Logic philosophy is the sameness of two things. In Philosophy of mind, mind is identical to the brain. In Psychology, we are dealing with the collective self image of an individual that can be further integrated in the image of a community an individual is part of, and later on a bigger society where the field is changed to the Social identity. In Biological identity, we go back to the genotypes and phenotypes and environmental factors (nature and nurture). These are wonderful topics feeding the thoughts and lives of many investigators.

What engaged my mind today is: Identity in the field of Art. Is this known? Has there been research done on this?

My thoughts so far: the work of art created by an artist does not show the identity of the artist. The identity of artist is to be found in the many fields I mentioned above. An artist is just bold enough to express dreams, realities, illusions that show absolutely nothing about the identity of artist as a totality. Therefore, a work of art should be looked at independent of the artist. Knowing the biography may add a bit of humanity zest. Art in addition to peace, love, beauty is independent of us. Once produced, the identity can then be investigated and may be realized with an universal, mystic, philosophical, psychological, social, biological eye.


Why all this? I don't know what is happening to my identity. It is under a crisis. An explosive crisis like the world war III. Heal me. Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? Who aren't we? Who can we be? Who can't we be? Tell me. Tell you. Tell us. Don't tell. How public to tell. Words...words...signs...signs...silence...si...

[.Science.]

[...All there was
All there is.
All there will be...]

When not you, who?

Consider the history of civilization, read Will Durant if you don't know the history (all 20 volumes, I can't lend this to you ghosts, because it's one collection I am very sensitive at, I want to take the history of civilization to grave with me!). Then, whom would you chose to be if you could be someone other than yourself? (you could also chose an animal or a plant).

If I had only one choice, I would chose to be Einstein. My second choice is Gandhi. Third, Shakespeare. Fourth, elephant. Fifth, Siberian Tiger. Sixth, Arizona cactus. Seventh, Marijuana leaf (leave me alone). Eighth, water. Nineth, a cell (bone cell for the time being). Tenth, Myself (Nobody). Eleventh, Nietzsche.

10 Reasons: 1. He didn't make it in Durant's books, so he is even more original. 2. He was a German and a Jew (how stronger can you get in terms of race and religion?) 3. He was the best scientist but he had a profound sense of the divine (read his quotes). 4. He was best at what he did (Nobel prizes). 5. He was always alone (even with his closest family members). 6. He didn't need to go to a hair stylist, his hair would always look awesome, especially when he woke up in the morning (I am not making fun). 7. His ideas are closest to how I see the universe (this is my utmost egotistical statement). 8. He devoted his life to something bigger than himself. 9. I love him (he is my idol). 10. Leave private issues private!


References to find out more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

Stuck Market

How do you not get stuck in the world of your own makings? what are the Tools? do you Wait"s? listen to the Queens? Guns and Roses? become a Radiohead? Nirvana? Yeah. Yeah what? Yeah stuck. Ha-ha. Yeah stuck. Ha-ha. Yeah stuck. Ha...

Chicken or Egg?

Bunny!

In other words...

One page in one language is written in one page in another language. What happens during this? Is the translator an artist or a craftsman? Is there a difference between art and craft? I see a thin line. A very fine hair, like the line between love and hate, friends and enemies, men and women, yin and yang, one country and a second, one home to another, one page and another.

Translate your life from the original language (Myths) like an artist or a craftsman, paint it with bright colours, adorn it with music, write it with an expensive pen, mold it into a sculpture, frame it onto the wall of history.

Inner Child

Have you ever been at the age of four, fourteen, twenty four, thirty four, forty four, fifty four, and sixty four all at the same time? Sometimes it is hard for me to be contained and only contained in my skeletal box at a particular space at a particular time. I fly to the past, future, present, sky, earth, east, west, and all over the place.

In a movie by Bergman [I think Fanny and Alexander], someone says, you are always a kid, you just assume different roles in the course of your life. You become a daughter, a lover, a wife, a grandmother. However, you always remain that little kid. Dear ghosts, get to know your little kids, they are full of energy. They dance until they can't stand on their feet anymore. Let your kids live.

Life Pill

Take it one day at a time
It is only then that it will take a lifetime

Writings

I read them again, and I ask myself did I write this? or was it my hatred? my jealousy? my blue insecurity? my dotted confidence? my dark ignorance? my light knowledge? my smashed brain? my hand motions? my eye direction? my god's voice? my little playful kid? my rushing emotions? my mother? my father? my country? countries? pure madness? my friends and enemies (simultaneously)? my rock hard keyboard? my fanatic ego? How was I feeling at the time except that rush of blood to express?
Just so that my ghosts know what I write at a particular time may not apply at another particular time! World of uncertainty after all, right?

Shots of Hedonism

Relieve your stress of being by taking refuge to drugs, sexuality, shopping, movies, books, music, poetry, work, parties ... this is how we turn the wheels of social, economical, political, and religious systems.
Another alternative is shooting oneself in the head...don't try this at home though...or at least don't make a mess. Call me up before, I like brains...especially when they are smashed...

Spring

Make a wish...
Spring up...Spring down...
Spring sprung...
Happy Spring...

My will

Hereby, my being consists of my past, present, and future. If I die, which I suspect is sometime very soon (can't provide evidence here), I declaim all my being going to my mom and dad except for my heart and liver and kidneys and bladder that are taken with my consent by the ministry of health for those in need. Mommy, daddy, please be strong, and fake your sadness every second. I was a good girl except for once, no twice, actually, um, more, no, no, more, um, yeah, oh oh, oops, yucks, what the heck, dang, darn, many times. God bless me. I love you both (in past present future tense).

..Um, mm, hmm, but it's not fair, I don't want to die yet. I want to die when I am 90.
...Shut up. Just die.
..ok :(

Arthur C. Clarke

Your inspirational contributions do not rest in peace, even if you do, at 90.

Festival of Fire

Fire fascinates. Everything can be thrown into it, but nothing comes out. It has room for everyone and no one.

Burn your bad habits, sins, judgements, expectations, (selves and egos) in the fire within to purify and beautify your body and soul (selves).

Happy 4shanbeh soori.

Dog Party

You can't live your life happily unless you are following some profound guides. Otherwise, you are bound to wander until you find the guides. Wander, escape, or stick to the guides.
I escape the unsecure dog-eat-dog world for peace and happiness. No expectations from anyone.

Theatre Day

Hi. Why is theatre only for a small audience? I don't want to be cliche but Shakespeare never gets cliche so bear with me. He says "All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players". If we are all mere actors on life's stage, then we wouldn't go to a theatre to see someone else play, right? We want to be the actors, forever, and we want all the world to look at us, and see how we play, this could be called narcissism, but face it, we all have it. No, don't deny it now, if you do, you're not being honest with yourself. So, those few, who go and watch theatre live are able to share their world of acting. They can let another actor in, and be with them momentarily, while they are on life's stage on the stage with a spotlight. Support them so they can keep on showing you to yourselves like mirrors, 'standing in front of you to make an eternity of you' [I think this is Shamloo's loose translation into English]. Anyways, where was I? I don't know, but watch more theatre, it's good for your blood. I have to go back to the quote now, so when you're living, I mean right now, or whenever that you're living, think of yourself being on stage with spotlights on you and think of others around you as being on stage always and forever. This way, you bear the unbearable heavy load of the lightness of being (Stolen from Kundera with integrity). That's it about what I wanted to say, but I have to say something else that's pending. I have to say it because of the respect I have for Shakespeare, I think he knew something we don't know, a genius, and I try not to use this term loosely. Anyways, here it is: If you act on the stage of theatre, then you are an actor in life! This is to acknowledge my friend who acts Shakespearean on the stage of theatre, so this friend may also know something we don't know because he has chosen to play what Shakespeare has chosen to say to show you to you (mirror analogy coming back here thanks to Shamloo). This is all I wanted to say. Don't scratch the mirrors, look at yourselves in them. I mean go watch more theatre. Okay, I said too much. Enough say said. Bye.






"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. "
William Shakespeare

Pray

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

On Love

Love can not be personified. It is not a human, it's a shape, a voice, a note, a tone, a song, a book, a line of poetry, a flower, a colour, a pattern, a picture, a memory from pre-historic times, a light, a dark, a shadow, a music, a rain, a dog, a word, a bird, an eagle, a plant, a cell, a movie, a hug, a kiss, a wine, the sun, the moon, the clouds, an idea, a cup of hot chocolate in the snow, a smile, a cry, a gray Sunday afternoon. Love is life. Love is being. Humanity. Forever.

Intelligence

Intelligence is the selective process of discarding certain visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory (plus your 6th and 7th sense) information and choosing some others instead. This is first done consciously until it becomes second nature. Be intelligent.

Art of Puppetry

For animating the inanimate, we need a stage with light, sound, music, shadows, materials, objects, colours, characters, voices, tastes, language, words, words, words...
Re-animate your body and soul on your life's stage by learning a new language.

Twilight

The day, the night.
The snow came down.
The light in sky.
The wind blew songs.
The blow got strong.
The dark in sky.
The sun came up.
The snow melt down.
The light in sky.
The day, the night.

Wolverines

So, California identifies first wolverine in 80 years! This animal doesn't cease to amaze me. Should it go extinct just because it's a mutant? Is the animal kingdom that destructive that it leaves no space for the survival of this animal's keen sense with healing physical capabilities? Whatever it is, wolverines know where they stand. That is why they hide, and you see one in every 80 years, and by pure coincidence too, a photographer passing by lake Tahoe's International Forest. They know where they stand, that is why they don't stand on your way, nor in animal kingdom's way either. Their strong survival instincts recover these masters of hand-to-hand combat and martial arts from virtually any wound. Is that why they have been used as fictional characters, like in the Incredible Hulk? The first written wolverine's catch phrase is "I'm the best there is at what I do, but what I do isn't very nice". So dear ghosts, here's my request. For the sake of their integrity, and instead of having one minute of silence in their remembrance, put yourself in their body and read this post again, and then walk in their shoes with my words, just so that you live with their spirit this once, if not with their actual presence, like the dogs and cats and fish you keep! Why would we always keep the roses and throw away the leaves and thorns? I am a thorn myself, so I am a big advocate of a thorn campaign. The meeting place is behind the bushes. With the wolverines I mean.




References:
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/wolverine-california-47030803?kw=ist
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/printable/wolverine.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine

Strange mingles

Dance to the music beats of your life with your dancing heart beats...everyday...

Beckett

Let's go.
We can't.
Why not?
We are waiting for Godot.
Oh.

How many social, political, economical, religious systems can you see in these five lines? Count them all up. Let me know what I missed.

Metamorphasis

Watching faces on monitors. Looking at self on the screen. Listening to dead ipod voices. Talking through typing. Touching the keypad buttons. Smelling vitamin pills on the desk. Tasting fresh brewed coffee out of a vending machine. Ordering grocery online. Keeping warm with a heater by the desk. Passing technological time in a technological space. Loss of muscle mass, bone density, eye sight, and skeletal balance. Where are the real eyes? ears? tongues? skins? Masters transformed to slaves, of their own machines.

Volume V, Chapter IV, Page XII, Paragraph III

Line II
Find me there

Your name is no accident!

Live it up high!

Creativity with Integrity

Be a creator of your life not a creation of your life. Refuse to accept what others create for you if it's not your choice. And don't get dissapointed if your creativity gets put down, create another one! You will love life better that way.

Organic Living

Listen to your body. It tells you when and what you need to drink or eat. What color dress suits you today. Where and why and when you need to go, or come. What you need to do. Your body talks to you every second with every heartbeat.
If you don't listen to it, it gets fat, or skinny, or dehydrated, or hungry.
If you are not in a conversation with it, you get headaches, backaches, poor vision, and insomnia.
If you still refuse to listen after these signs, you will get cancer and die.
Be in a conversation with your body. Sleep with your body sometimes. Take care of it. Consult your soul. Get it checked sometimes. Do what it takes you to do to live it up high before you get cancer and die! See it rhymes!

Snowy Leap

Leap year is a year where everyone leaps. Leap it up! Leap it down! You have another option, and that is not leaping. Leaping to the left and right is another possibility but I don't recommend. Whatever makes you happy. Whatever you want. At the end of the day. You will hug the ground anyway