Maya

La Roux

2010-01-12T21:32:00.000-08:00

So long away from the music vigil. What glad tidings to bring on this decimal beginning to the decade. What else but an act that touches all of those ironic buttons. La Roux proving that the synthetic baroque 80's were not all a garish experiment gone awry. What can I say, I'm blown away. Hypnotized by the point blank stare, the bold delivery of clean lyrics. The colors and lines in those

New Year's Day - U2

2009-12-31T20:00:00.000-08:00

Rithu Mukherjee

2009-12-16T14:50:00.000-08:00

na tv evāhaḿ jātu nāsaḿ na tvaḿ neme janādhipāh ̣na caiva na bhaviṣyāmah ̣sarve vayam ataḥ param keeping watch...

It's underway

2009-11-07T23:12:00.000-08:00

Narrow Vote of 220-215 Provides Victory for Obama NYT President Obama pushes through a key bill. Those who say he has done nothing in his first year are clearly blind to the effects of the economic bailout and now to the potential energy that has gone into putting this latest effort into place

Hi Fidelity ( Bryan Ferry- Slave to Love)

2009-11-04T23:48:00.000-08:00

Faith in one another For a lifetime Is what every one of us would proclaim If the thunderbolt would strike and stop us in our tracks lead us to sweet servitude in thrall to the body that lies beyond us in harmony with every one of the celestial signs Slave to love

Lightning strikes ( Pink - Please don't leave me)

2009-09-21T18:07:00.000-07:00

I imagine you as I see youlaced up to the knees in red doc martensgrey blue eyes changing with every emotionpower surging up in every stepa blind force of natureat timesgrace and deliverance at othershair color a whim of the lunar cyclethat takes care to calibrate itself on your personal rhythmrules are always of your inventionan ordnance that tumbles fromtempestuous skieslightning strikeswith

Better Days

2009-09-10T20:16:00.000-07:00

September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low dishonest decade:Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the brightAnd darkened lands of the earth,Obsessing our private lives;The unmentionable odour of deathOffends the

Nothing

2009-06-13T10:58:00.000-07:00

“Nothing is unstable,” Frank Wilczek, a physicist and Nobel laureate from MIT, finally said to a general murmur of agreement of his colleagues on stage, John Barrow of Cambridge University in England, Paul Davies of Arizona State and George Ellis of the University of Cape Town in South Africa. John Tierney NYT If nothing is really nothing then why do we have the physics of nothing

Angular Slide

2009-06-05T19:43:00.000-07:00

Summer comes in on an angular slidewary at first, witdrawing at the first signof popular acclaimreticient as an aging movie starshe phones ahead books a placeand then arrivesoh so fashionably lateIt is during this time of hesitant arrivalwhere I find myself there but notreally thereas she is so quick to remind meNot one for moment by moment awarenessI am reminded by one elgant as a swanof

Breathe

2009-05-29T19:17:00.000-07:00

The Prince's Rainforest project is worth your attention. Prince Charles, Britain's long standing monarch in waiting has lent his name and all the cache that entails to bringing attention to the astounding rate of loss of the world's rain forests. The most famous lie along the Amazon but as a whole they are scattered across an equatorial belt around the planet.Development projects pushed by a

The French Open is on

2009-05-26T17:37:00.000-07:00

It has been on almost a week and this year offers intriguing possibilities. Rafael Nadal the tireless power house looks to win his fifth straight. Roger Federer is the most talented among those trying to dethrone the French Open king. Already Nadal has broken Bjorn Borg's record for consecutive victories at the French, 29 now and counting. Nadal's streak of consecutive victories on the clay

A Star is Born: Fusion

2009-05-25T19:20:00.000-07:00

Nuclear fusion is nature's power source. From the Sun to the most distant stars, the energy that lights up the Universe is released by sticking hydrogen nuclei together to make helium. Since hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe, it seems sensible to ask whether we might endeavour to do the same and power ourselves out of our serious energy crisis by building stars on Earth.The

Death of a Star

2009-05-24T19:06:00.000-07:00

Astronomers said Tuesday that they had smashed the long-distance record in astronomy when they recorded an explosion, probably a massive early star, that lived and died 13 billion years ago, only about 600 million years after the Big Bang. NYTAs obituriaes go, I can't imagine them arriving any later this one, 13 billion years, give or take a few million.People everywhere are wonderstruck when

Dancing in the Moonlight ( Thin Lizzy)

2009-05-12T20:35:00.000-07:00