Battle of the universities

What about experiencing a real American thing and going to the big pre Stanford game Rallye tomorrow night at the Greek Theater?
We could meet a little before, around 6:00 pm at FSM and then go there together.
What do you think?

if you are concerned/concernés.

I'll be studying at the usual place between 6 and 10 tonight.
bises.

Fun Fun Fun

wasn't last night super fun?
Of course the picture does not illustrate that very well...

let's all become more intelligent

Before the nignt falls
and the party begins
let us meet all
and study things
Let's go to the library
cet après-midi!

Yoram wants to meet at 1pm
in front of PFA so we can help
him carry his stuff (let's buy him
a horse for his birthday)
Otherwise we could study where we
filmed last time?

party anyone?

so, nico, are we having a party saturday night? your place?

Belle et la bête, La

Oui.
Il film di Jean Cocteau.
Il 2 dicembre, alle 5:00. PFA.
Si va?

string bean theory

And this is why it is so important to be alone and attentive when one is sad: because the apparently uneventful and fixed moment at which our future sets foot in us is so much closer to life than that other loud and fortuitous point of time at which, as from outside, it happens to us. The more still, more patient and more open we are when we are sad, so much the deeper and so much the more unswervingly the new goes into use, so much the better do we take it to ourselves, so much the more will it be our destiny, and we shall, when on some later day it "happens" (that is, goes forth out of us to others), feel in our inmost selves akin and near to it. And that is necessary.

- Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Light in the dark

Where there is shadow it is to create light.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all. I am grateful I found you.

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

angelesque

yeeeeeeaaah let's shoot some more

so far so good... but we can do more!
let's all meet tomorow (except nico, have a good trip!) and shoot some more projections!
what do you say?

time and place tba

Should we stay or sould we go?

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From our correspondant in Berkeley:
If Juliette does not give any news before 8:00 , the organizer of the reloaded birthday party are thinking the could do it tomorrow night.

Birthday Party Reloaded

Let's do the second part of the birthday party this week before it's too late...
What about tomorrow night, maybe a little dinner in a nice and cheap little restaurant, we give the presents and then we go stydy at the library, how exciting!
What do you think?

this afternoon in the bedroom with mrs Rose.

Ou, a quelle heure?
Wo, Wenn?
When, where dear friends?

Were your respective parties good?

Bizz

soma folks, let's make a movie!

ok, so we're all meeting at 4pm sharp (!) in front of kroeber... dress warm and please come inspired, motivated and with plenty of patience... merci!

a bientot

y

p.s. if you have a long power cord extension (bibia?) please make it available, i can come pick it up if it's easier and you don't want to be walking around with 20feet of power cord in your hands...

movie brainstorm

to whom it may concern: friday evening @ bibia's place for pasta and talking about movie project and going over the shoot which will be this weekend, saturday and sunday evenings...

thank you

(time to be announced in comment section, please respond asap so we can determine necessary pasta quantity)

film screening this evening!

raising goodwill donations in efforts to
DISCOVER THE UNSEEN
www.invisiblechildren.com

film screening on thursday 11/16 begins 8:30pm @ 2050 VLSB (big science building south west of moffit)

(this is a movie shown by my friend kevin and his classmates about children-soldiers in uganda, please come, it's free!)

thanks for the party guys, let's do it again with bibia!

thank you tylenol

Hello,
I am sorry I missed a cool party last night, I slept and slept and now I feel better. Of course I still have this horrible headache but thanks to tylenol I can survive...
I hope to see you soon. Thank you for your support!

driving back from the airport, last sunday morning - fall 06

Latest news

Catastrophe!
I am sick, in bed with fever and everything...

Sun, for rainy days. Bisous to you all.

Back in Business

Hello my dear friends, I am back!
Can't wait to see you today. Should I bring Nutella?
See you.

4h30, l'heure du goûter!

The pate à crèpes will be ready,

bring miscalleanous stuff to put in them,

I don't have much!

C'est la rentrée

et bon voyage aux autres qui partent

Another dictation: Meet at Juliette's place on Sunday at about 4.30 pm for "Der Himmel über Berlin/Les Ailes du Désir/Wings of Desire". Sudden switch-overs to my home for a projector would still be possible.

let's partay!

so here's the plan guys, we're all going to sf tomorow night (thursday) to party ! same place as last time for halloween, so please write a comment to this post to say if you can make it and we can plan how we'll get everybody over there...

HELP

Guys,
I need your help.
The more we are the better it is.
I would like to have a recording session in our usual Kroeber studio room.
What we would do is just reading Molly Bloom, the chapter without punctuation from Joyce's Ulysses.
I will direct you guys, and select certain sentences which will have to be read by somebody in particular. Some words will overlap with somebody else's, and one of us will more or less be reading the whole thing.
I know I'm not making any sense...
Anyway.
Yo'all free this Thursday night?
No wait, Yoram, we had something this thursday right? Tomorrow - wednesday night?
Bibia, are you here?

Vote online!

Democracy's the game of the year. On 11/7, it's even in one of the many play stations near you! Save the date.

If you wish to engage in a more decent act of voting, register for the following.

Proposition 1
[] In order to enhance our collective experience of watching movies, we shall all meet on Sunday for a dreaming screening of "Der Himmel über Berlin". A record of the film will be provided.


Measure A
[] We are strongly in need of an appropriate location for the purpose described above. As this goes into effect, further efforts for the availability of equipment and side servings, such as projector, player, crêpes, and/or a screen of any kind, will have to be made. Please use the space in the comment section to make your dreams available for discussion.

Absentee Ballots Welcome!

Doemino

Paris

Dear all,
I am back in Paris, city of lights. The Flight went well and just a few hours after arriving I was already in a coktail party at the Senate, pretty weird experience. My talk at the conference went fine, even though I hate to tell you I suck at talking in public...It was pretty amazing to be at the Sorbonne (picture) and to listen to that many very interesting women.
I hope you are all enjoying your week end in butiful Berkeley. Is it still raining as hell?
Love you all.

towards chronic insomnia - fall 06

?

come at my place on Sunday!
right after alcatraz on telegraph,
elongated. around 7pm.
peanuts, pinapples and paprika pirates are welcome to be
eaten with
some delicious


?

winter avant-garde

biip biip biip

sophie sophie! has anyone seen sophie or will see her? In her beautiful 70s purse, my cell phone was forgoten.I'll be at milanos today at 6 30.Good rainy day to you all. juliette.

Wilde Party

Somebody immortalized Johannes last saturday...

Bon

voyavvoyage, Bibia! Paris, août 2004

fin

I understand that in order to be beautiful, everything has got to have an end.
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!

My apologies to all of you,
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.

photo of the country of the fountain of eternal winter
(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

s-o-m-a.berkeley.edu should be our address, but it doesn't matter.
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!

Bye Bye Indian Summer

voila!

Tomorrow

Hello everybody,

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!

How it All Began

Faisez de beaux Rêves.

That's me when I was 4, already contesting the established order !
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.

No worries, vive les sixties

We were a little desappointed not to see you guys tonight but we got over it. We finally watch ed Berkeley in the sixties, it's such an awsome documentary, Johannes, Juliette and I got very political and talked about what form our social movement would take...
What's next? What do we do this week end?

Lorsque l'enfant /etait enfant,
il ne savait pas
qui'l /etait enfant,
tout pour lui avait une /a\me

Als das Kind Kind war,
wuBte es nicht,
daB es Kind war,
alles war ihm beseelt.
Peter Handke

aujourd'hui.18.35 heures.centre des resources médiatique de la bibliothèque moffit.cave

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

deadline approaching! i finished my video BUT there can be no music,
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!!!

exercising love

http://bp.berkeley.edu on Nov. 11th

Would that be a thing to do?

Fin

Finally!

Too bad I missed the sunset, I was in Santa Cruz where I met with Juliette who was there too today...Life is all about coïncidences.

Projections

voir le soleil quand il se couche

let’s hike up the berkeley hills (above clark-kerr campus). i’ll go there, whoever wants to join me: come to 2228 carleton at 5.45pm. bring whatever you like. for next time: 5.45 is too late, actually. quand je suis monté, le soleil se couchait dans mon dos...

Donc

Che si fa stasera?
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...

soyez informé

pour ceux qui rêvent et aiment
plus d’un film, plus d’une histoire

«der himmel über berlin« de wim wenders.n&b127min.rfa 1987.

mercredi, le 25 octobre 2006.18.35 heures.centre des resources médiatique de la bibliothèque moffit.cave

photo: new york times.12.12.1989, page 34.

good day sunshine

Isn't California' sun wonderful?
Would ramyo be a helpless romantic?
Is the movie tonight going to be good?
Is masculinity an always changing social construction?
Will the Cal women volley-ball team win their game tonight after having lost yesyerday?
Do I have time to do this while I should be studying?

remember to dream

Returning to love of any kind

Broke Back Buena Vista Park September 2006

fall preview

Il n'est pas de chose

Just so that it's clear to all of us:
@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.

try this http://users.ids.net/~salberg/soma/Soma.html

One time

if we keep going this way, we all gonna end up like this

or this.

It's a big country.

Actors always get ripped off, you work hard and at the end your are not even in the movie...
It looks good though

a sect of love!

Apparition

Is our blog going to become a sect?

new word of the day : SOMA

* Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian sauma-, was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic and greater Persian cultures. It is frequently mentioned in the Rigveda, which contains many hymns praising its energizing or intoxicating qualities. In the Avesta, Haoma has an entire Yasht dedicated to it.

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.

In Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World, Soma is a popular hallucigenic drug which is sometimes used in a psuedo-religious capacity.

(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)