By Your Salonniere Lists, we can drown ourselves with well-intentioned lists. Some of us may get carried away enough to make lists out of lists, where each item slowly becomes a link to a never ending chain that may shackle us. Lists can stifle spontaneity and keep us from living in the present. The benefit […]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
automatic writing- the act of writing through trance when the writer serves as medium for otherworldly spirits. William Butler Yeats’ wife, George Hyde Lees claimed to be possessed by automatic writing. Also defined in The Guardian’s “John Gray on humanity’s quest for immortality” published January 8, 2011, where Gray defines automatic writing as “texts produced […]
By Your Salonniere Prometheus brought us fire and paid for it. Arguably, he was one of the first techno geeks, and, like him we all pay a price for progress, but I’m pretty sure if Prometheus had to choose between his innards plucked out of him for eternity or staying at home twiddling his thumbs […]
by Rio Liang I will resort to desperate means to get an early hold of anything by Kate Bush. Thankfully, NPR has precluded any brash relocations to the UK or any (god forbid) illegal downloading on my part by posting online the entirety of ”Director’s Cut” (which is set to be released on American shores on May […]
