Since Rumi has always been a favorite, I was more than delighted to find this RUMI Card and Book pack for around Php225 at Booksale. Spent the afternoon using it with my officemates. It's divided into the following categories: Birth, Love, Ordeal, Transformation, Warning and Reward. If you know me, you'd know that I'm new-agey, believing in the Universe, reading horoscopes for fun (and sometimes for guidance haha), dabbling a bit in palmistry and numerology (with the help of a book), so this is a very thrilling purchase. Just like a mini-tarot box card set I bought for only Php60 at some sale eons ago, where the cards are as large as your thumbnail.
I found the RUMI card set the day I also found a hardbound "Wilderness Tips" from Margaret Atwood for Php50. A great Booksale day. :) I'm documenting my book obsessions and latest acquisitions at my book blog, which is one of my latest obsessions.


I'm also looking forward to finishing "We have always lived in the castle" by Shirley Jackson and starting "The Forest of Hands and Teeth". I've read the first few chapters of WHALITC and so far I'm loving it. There's also this book starring Maggie Quinn, which reminds me of Veronica Mars/Buffy re the feistiness/spunky factor. If you have a copy, could I borrow it? Anybody here with an ebook? :)

( 30 before 30: Try aromatherapy. )

"Unhappy Hour"
Richard Siken

Going to a party where I knew you'd be,
dudes bobbing for boyfriends, eyes shining
like candy apples. I want to be a lamppost,
or the history of plumbing. I am tired of being
mysterious. You are drinking rum next to
the laughing skullheads and I am unhappy
because I am dead and I miss you. Once
a year, day of the dead, you think you'd think
of me more often. These people shoulda
dressed up as their best selves to mix and
mingle in the courtyard garden. If everything
is green then why do I feel so blue? I would like
to be a plain-faced man, living with you quietly.
Leave the party but you can't hear me you can
no longer hear me. The dead are boring.
Enlightenment is boring. We can read the minds
of dogs. We make the black cats scatter across
the grass. There is a better party where I am not
a ghost and you are not Aquaman. I am like
a pornstar, we are all of us pornstars aching
to get back into our terrycloth robes. Gives me
a headache, all this intellectual stimulation.
It's cold out tonight. I am here by the back wall,
in the museum of the afterlife. I would like to
be a flickering cowboy. I like the live music--
we only get the recorded stuff here. I would like
to be alive again. I would like to say something
about grace.

---

Unrelated: Why do people feel that other people strangers' business is their business and that they have the right to ask any deeply personal question that they want and then get frustrated when the stranger doesn't answer? And how are you supposed to respond to one of those bothersome people asks such a question?

Нашему большому другу - магазину Banya очень нужна ваша поддержка! Журнал Афиша, выбрав 10 ритейлеров, среди которых и глобальные корпорации сетевики, и независимые идейные сторы, начал голосование за премию лучший магазин года.

Друзья, не поленитесь проголосовать за “Banya” по ccылке - http://www.afisha.ru/article/6142/ Для нас это тоже крайне важно! Процедура проста - просто переходите по ссылке и выбираете Banya. Никаких регистраций и прочих движение.

Заранее спасибо.

P.S. В случае победы обязательно состоится вечеринка - прямо в магазине с free баром. VOTE for PRTY!

Christmas Wish List!

Graphic novels:

- "Elmer" by Gerry Alanguilan

- "The Love Eaters" by Andre Drillon

- The "Trese" series by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo

- Will Eisner titles: A Life Force, A Contract With God, Dropsie Avenue

- Any book from the "Love and Rockets" series by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. I'd particularly like "Flies on the Ceiling" and anything to do witht the village of Palomar.



Things that are not comic books:

- Doc Martens!!! Doc Martens! Red or classic black.

- Marc Jacobs "Daisy" or YSL's "Baby Doll"

- New Mac brown eyeliner

- Shue Uemura make-up remover because I'm almost out of it

- The best moisturizer and primer with SPF in the world. Actually I'm into anything with SPF. I'm alarmed at the freckles that have formed on my face since I moved here (and Asians are not supposed to have freckles unless you are Erica Paredes)

- New hard drive (terrabyte sana)

- Point and shoot camera i can stuff in my pocket and run out the door with. Or a Flip! ehehehe

- Big-ass computer monitor to work on!

- Tickets to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Sydney on January 8.

- For Manny Pacquiao to WIN!

- Love, peace, happiness; for all the destruction wrought by typhoons to heal itself; for smooth, clean elections; a noble and non-corrupt new president to lead our country forward; a new pollution-free and sustainable way of living for all humanity; enlightenment and compassion for all humankind.

- For my big goals to come true next year.

Ребята, может подскажет кто, а то я как слепой котёнок...Где вы берёте 120мм плёнку, а главное как вы её проявляете и сканируете?..а то мне тут вот такую милую игрушку предлагают в дар...

 

 
Вот такие дома все еще стоят в центре Иркутска. 

Пленка Fuji Superia 200
Камера Lomo-Compact 
Сентябрь 2009 г.

Сканируя плёнку, отснятую еще летом, обнаружил вот такой кадр.  Показалось что он интересен.

Городской двор, поздний вечер.
Пленка Fiji Superia 200
Камера Lomo-Compact

Август 2009 г.

Ссылка на обсуждение этой фотографии на сайте fotosniper.ru

 

We were fortunate enough to be included in the list for Our Awesome Planet's Ultimate Food Taste Test 3.0.




This being our first taste test event, we didn't know what to expect. We were pleasantly surprised by mouth-watering concoctions, which included the following:

Callos. Various meatloafs. Cookie monster cheesecake. Avocado Sansrival. 3 kinds of lechon. Mangoes and cream cupcakes. Homemade jams (Strawberry mint, Mango ginger, etc.), Yummy flavored teas and jelly drinks from Kimco (guava tea and blackcurrant, among others, see above photo).
Chocolate-covered bacon. Bacon and potato chowder, clam chowder. Happy cream puffs. Chicago-style popcorn. There are other yummy food items that I wasn't able to taste since at the end we were too full to go on.

( Foodtripping when you're pms-ing is <3 )

Hi everyone,

Hopefully this is allowed, if not, feel free to delete my post.

I'm having some trouble with finding an original idea for a series about 'spaces' and my time is limited. I'm more into portraits myself. I don't want to take photos of an old fabric, I would like to take it to the next level...

It needs to be a series of 5-10 photos.

Your help would be appreciated. Thank you!

ребята !!!
есть ли ломографы в одессе??? давайте объединяться !!!

[more -> flickr]

"When A Man Hasn't Been Kissed"
Jeffrey McDaniel

When I haven't been kissed in a long time,
I walk behind well-dressed women

on cold, December mornings and shovel
the steamy exhalations pluming from their lips

down my throat with both hands, hoping
a single molecule will cling to my lungs.

When I haven't been kissed in a long time,
I sneak into the ladies room of a fancy restaurant,

dig into the trashcan for a napkin
where a woman checked her lipstick,

then go home, light candles, put on Barry White,
and press the napkin all over my body.

When I haven't been kissed in a long time,
I start thinking leeches are the most romantic

creatures, cause all they want to do is kiss.
If only someone invented a kinder, gentler leech,

I'd paint it bright pink and pretend
Winona Ryder's lips crawled off her face,

up my thigh, and were sucking on my swollen
bicep. When I haven't been kissed

in a long time, I create civil disturbances,
then insult the cops who show up,

till one of them grabs me by the collar
and hurls me up against the squad car,

so I can remember, at least for a moment,
what it's like to be touched.

---

This evening I attended a reading by a woman who won an award from my university for the novel she published last year. There was a question and answer section during which someone asked if she ever had writer's block. Her response was that no, she never had writer's block, but she did have spells of depression during which she could not bring herself to work on her book. To combat those feelings, she wrote anything and everything. She would turn on movies and transcribe the entire thing or watch televisions shows and write down everything that happened and sometimes snippets of what she had copied down inspired her to write. I just found that interesting - that someone depressed could still work even if she felt she could not. (I did not express that very well. My apologies.)

Fuji 64T, expired in 1997.

Клуб Редких Вещей DЕФИЦИТ провел первый в Екатеринбурге art-open-air “Ярмарка DЕФИЦИТА”. Музыканты, дизайнеры из разных городов России и прочие интересные люди собрались в одном месте, в один день. А именно 5ого сентября.

Яркое событие лета не могло обойтись без ярких ломофотоаппаратов. На Ярмарке была экспонирована ломостена, которая переехала из Уральского государственного университета на открытый воздух.


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