For Cushla There is so much space Between me And the sky In every way Less between us That heart of yours Sends shockwaves Sun blasts from the sky Heats the back Pacifies Drawn deep from the belly Of Papatuanuku You are wild You are Full of storm You are the eye of your own […]
Category: Uncategorized
This is where you’ll find the stuff that doesn’t fit anywhere else …
Omoiyari ~ take time to really care about others
A Seido karate meditation by Kaicho Tadashi Nakamura, founder of World Seido Karate Organisation, from the book: Karate ~ Technique and Spirit by Kaicho Tadashi Nakamura. I often use this meditation as it really speaks to me. Osu! I want to concentrate on the word omoiyari which means thoughtfulness, sincere thoughtfulness. It means caring: caring for […]
Deliverance (In Progress)
For Amy Is this the torture I am to be delivered of? You With your Abu Ghraib eyes That bore me Bore into me Sodomise my spirit I plead guilty Yes, it was me Who stole that moment How was I to know that this was it That this was Your moment of truth? I […]
An End To Indifference ~ Zurich See
Sometimes it’s just good luck! From Berlin I was to travel to Rome via, I was to discover later, the Czech Republic. Fortunately, as apparently happens often, the trains were on strike. I say fortunately because I hadn’t realized that the train I was booked on detoured into Czechoslovakia and I had none of the […]
Saoirse ~ Without Freedom and Liberty, Life Is Just Skin and Bone
It was the second time I’d tried to find his grave. Having traveled twelve thousand miles to sit with him and reflect on how our ‘lives’ had crossed I wasn’t going to give up and go home with this ambition unfulfilled, with just some solo, dangling conversation to reflect on. Twelve months earlier I had […]
Rosemary ~ That’s For Remembrance
A reflection on Shakespeare’s old home town … The harshest European winter for over one hundred years and there I was in a short-sleeved blouse in Warwickshire. Stratford to be totally accurate, and staying at the Greensleeves Guest House just over the bridge to the north of the town. In the afternoon of the first […]
Girls are from Gaia, Boys are from Penis ~ the truth about gender difference as might have been mooted by Tiresias
It’s all about sex. Like, you didn’t know that. Not sexuality, not gender, but simple fucking. You knew that too, didn’t you? You just don’t like to admit that it’s something so primitive ~ so without love, so without affection, so without … meaning. Fucking, of course, is never that simple. Why? Because we, as […]
‘A Copy is a Copy if it Looks Like a Copy’
Below is an essay I wrote for one of my master’s law papers: Yvette Lawrence is an artist. In 2000, Yvette, whose specialist genre is photo-realism, painted a work depicting two figures, one male and one female, seated on a slat bench and holding eight large Alasatian puppies, four each. Yvette sold this work to […]
From Stag to Hard-Core ~ How The Genre Evolved
Observations ~ Probably the most significant developments in the evolution from stag to hard-core film relate to the move to full-length, feature complete with colour, sound and cohesive narrative along with the shift to an ending that enabled the audience to ‘withdraw satisfied’. The hard-core form became more sophisticated as the technological and philosophical move […]
Conventions for Representing Sex in ‘Last Tango in Paris’ and ‘Deep Throat’
Observations ~ ‘Last Tango in Paris’ represents sex in a conventional mainstream 1972 European art house style but ‘pushes the envelope’ of the genre by introducing edgy, dark content such as the digital anal penetration of Paul, the butter-assisted sodomising of Jeanne and the final public ‘handjob’. The gaze appears to be neutral or male […]
dykiegirl 