Tuesday, October 31, 2006
fin
I am listening to my usual angry lesbian music, sorry, I let myself go to sad thoughts, but the fact that this year at Berkeley, and university in general, that these fun years are so ephemeral seems so unjust but fair at the same time...
Cough demMmerde!
when I woke up this morning my cough caught me more violently than any other day.
It's getting worse and worse, and I really want to get better, I can't stand it anymore.
Therefore...
Tonight I really cannot come,
and I feel bad abt it and regret it, and it's Halloween and... I'm sick.
Fuck.
Monday, October 30, 2006
(special advice: this has nothing to do with Schlampe, although it's set in the Thuringian Forest, the forest of the Germans' [mostly] bad dreams)
photo: stefan06/02/12, 15.28pm
Gute Nacht, Freunde. Süße Träume seien Eurer harten Arbeit verdienter Lohn.
s-o-m-a.berkeley.edu
is anything happening tonight?
i'm kinda coughing and overloaded with work, what would be the attractive distraction offered tonight?
/slash/
what's happening tomorrow halloween? castro?
HALLOWEEN
Let's meet tomorrow at my place at 6:30
(2023 Delaware Street between Shattuck and Milvia)
There will be wine and Pasta
(Nico I hope you will come so you can crtisize)
We can all prepare at my house and then go trick or treating on Russel Street.
And then we can improvize!
No excuse will be accepted, it's Halloween for god's sake!
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Tomorrow
here is tomorrow's (sunday) plan. Emilie and I are going to have breakfast at Saul's 1475 Shattuck three blocks up north Delaware at 10:30 (is that too early?) and then later, around 2:00 we are going to head up to San Francisco for a nice walk along the beach towards Golden Gate Bridge. Whoever wants to join us is very welcome! Don't find any lame excuse like i have to study for example because you are going to need to eat anyway and some fresh air would do you good!
Thursday, October 26, 2006
What about seeing each other tomorrow night for dinner? We could meet around 7? I'll be at the library tomorrow all day (in the grad services), you can contact me through the magic internet.
Other than that I was thinking we could go on a walk sunday in the city from Golden Gate Park to Golden Gate bridge, are you in?
Good night, sweet dreams.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
No worries, vive les sixties
What's next? What do we do this week end?
Monday, October 23, 2006
Incontri ravvicinati del secondo tipo
Close encounters of second kind: oresetti lavatori ovvero procioni, altrimenti detti racoons!
These awesome pretty cute little thingies wander around at night in search for tasty garbage, in the area of co-ops and frat/sororities. This encounter precisely occurred close to Wilde co-op, if i'm not mistaken.
jam session tonight
and i have edited everything with music... so what i offer to all of
you is a special one time only recording session featuring all the
actresses/actors/assistants and director of the previouly recorded and
unreleased "fall in ever changing blue"... i would like to show you
the edited movie and talk about how we can approach making an
inovative, all acappela soundtrack!!! but it's got to be tonight!
please, if you can spear an hour or two, tonight (10ish) your help
would be immensly appreciated... so prep your voice, drinking a lot of
tea/coffee with honey, and bring your vocal cords and your fine self!!!
please reply asap
location to be announced (but most likely on campus)
thank you so much soma folks!!!
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Donc
今晩は何をするの?
What are we doin' tonight?
Qu'est que nou vait faire cette soir?
My french is amazing...
Saturday, October 21, 2006
soyez informé
Friday, October 20, 2006
Il n'est pas de chose
@8 meet in front of PFA
@8.35 the movie starts
@ after the movie we-ll come to my place and eat a risotto ai funghi.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
new word of the day : SOMA
It is described as prepared by pressing juice from the stalks of a certain mountain plant, which has been variously hypothesized to be a psychedelic mushroom, cannabis, peganum harmala, or ephedra. In both Vedic and Zoroastrian tradition, the drink is identified with the plant, and also personified as a divinity, the three forming a religious or mythological unity.
The Rigveda (8.48.3, tr. Griffith) states,
- "We have drunk Soma and become immortal; we have attained the light, the Gods discovered.
- Now what may foeman's malice do to harm us? What, O Immortal, mortal man's deception?"
In Hindu art, the god Soma was depicted as a bull or bird, and sometimes as an embryo, but rarely as an adult human. In Hinduism, the god Soma evolved into a lunar deity, and became associated with the underworld. The moon is the cup from which the gods drink Soma, and so Soma became identified with the moon god Chandra. A waxing moon meant Soma was recreating himself, ready to be drunk again. Alternatively, Soma's twenty-seven wives were daughters of Daksha, who felt he paid too much attention to just one of his wives, Rohini. He cursed him to wither and die, but the wives intervened and the death became periodic and temporary, and is symbolized by the waxing and waning of the moon.
- There has been much speculation as to the original Proto-Indo-Iranian Sauma plant. It was generally assumed to be hallucinogenic, based on RV 8.48 cited above.
(for more go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma)
* Botanic identity of Soma-Haoma
From the late 1960s onwards, several studies attempted to establish haoma as a psychotropic substance. A number of proposals were made, included an important one in 1968 by Robert Gordon Wasson, a hobby-pharmacologist, who (on Vedic evidence) asserted that haoma was a hallucinogen, and suggested fly-agaric mushroom, Amanita muscaria, as the likely candidate. (Wasson, Robert Gordon (1968). "Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality". Ethno-Mycological Studies 1.)
(for more go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanic_identity_of_Soma-Haoma)
* Somatherapy (or Soma) was created by the writer Roberto Freire in the 1970s as a group therapy, based on the research of the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. With the objective of freeing the individual to be more creative, the exercises in Soma work with the relationship between the body and emotions are evident in the work of Reich. They work with concepts based on the vital organisation of the self stemming from Gestalt therapy. Other essential ingredients in Soma are the studies of Antipsychiatry related to human communication and the Brazilian martial art / dance Capoeira Angola. Soma groups last a year and a half, with frequent sessions, including usually one full weekend per month for the entire group, as well as frequent capoeira classes, study sessions, social activities, and two self-organized group trips. These times together allow the participants to build and develop the group dynamic, in line with the principles of Anarchism. The originality of Soma stems from the fusion of pedagogy and politics within the therapeutic process, in which pleasure and freedom construct the notion of health which combats the neurosis of capitalism in our globalised society.
(for more go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatherapy)