© 2010 Anne Bentley
Monday, 21 March 2011
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Sunday night - already!
I feel like I'm walking through knee-high mud - it's Sunday evening and I'm off, out to dinner and then it's the day job on Monday... AGAIN - and nothing productive to show for 3 days except some notes and enjoyable head-space ideas that began to fruit but need that lovely space of hours & tranquility to form in the real, material way.
Then again, I've read up on some interesting artists this weekend and probably bought too many books. And I've done a heap of laundry that is sodden on the clothes line and hung through the house - no flash flooding this time but the rain has been bucketing down all weekend.
A collage I put together a few months ago comes to mind when frustration sets in, kick some bugs!
wonder what we'll have for dinner...
Then again, I've read up on some interesting artists this weekend and probably bought too many books. And I've done a heap of laundry that is sodden on the clothes line and hung through the house - no flash flooding this time but the rain has been bucketing down all weekend.
A collage I put together a few months ago comes to mind when frustration sets in, kick some bugs!
© 2010 Anne Bentley
of course there's probably something deeper here but today, it's just kicking things - ahh, that's better.wonder what we'll have for dinner...
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
wrote a bit of a poem last year
I wrote "Choice - how to vote in Australia" after reading that poet Peter Porter died April 2010 and was inspired by Antoinette Kennedy, the retiring chief judge of the WA District Court speaking on the law report – ABC radio national 20 April 2010 (I listened when it was repeated Sat 24th on news radio).
Antoinette Kennedy: It's becoming an increasing problem. The community has become more frightened of disorder than of tyranny, and the history of the law, and the history of Australia, shows us that in reality there's no reason to be more frightened of disorder than tyranny, and when you frighten people so that they are more frightened of disorder than of tyranny, they're likely to give up the rights that have been fought for since the 13th century, and they're likely to let politicians do whatever they please.
Choice - how to vote in Australia
Disorder or Tyranny
Are there only two choices?
You can
drive your car
They can
pull you over
Lock you up
Don’t argue
You may be shot
It’s in the National Interest
Not tyranny
No, not tyranny
Who said that?
We are keeping you safe
But what is dis
And when does it straddle order
Demanding its fuck
In and out
Out then
Out of order
What is out or order?
The dis-miss-kiss (order) must be put in order
Under the law
Overseen by your tyranny
Only then is our safety absolute
Is it?
24 April 2010 ©Anne Bentley
Antoinette Kennedy: It's becoming an increasing problem. The community has become more frightened of disorder than of tyranny, and the history of the law, and the history of Australia, shows us that in reality there's no reason to be more frightened of disorder than tyranny, and when you frighten people so that they are more frightened of disorder than of tyranny, they're likely to give up the rights that have been fought for since the 13th century, and they're likely to let politicians do whatever they please.
Choice - how to vote in Australia
Disorder or Tyranny
Are there only two choices?
You can
drive your car
They can
pull you over
Lock you up
Don’t argue
You may be shot
It’s in the National Interest
Not tyranny
No, not tyranny
Who said that?
We are keeping you safe
But what is dis
And when does it straddle order
Demanding its fuck
In and out
Out then
Out of order
What is out or order?
The dis-miss-kiss (order) must be put in order
Under the law
Overseen by your tyranny
Only then is our safety absolute
Is it?
24 April 2010 ©Anne Bentley
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Friday, 4 March 2011
a good flick & give it the flick
AH bought her & I a treat the other week; a 5 ticket deal the The Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival - it was fun to sit down & choose our sessions from a big line up. We chose only to go to films screening near home (there were a number of venues) and saw a couple of ok films - enjoyable enough to sit through & be in France & Spain for a while (Gigola & Eloise) , 2 of the worst films I think we may have ever seen (The Owls - dreadful & Room in Rome - dreadful - both were cringe worthy & it's hard to really say which film was the worst).
Film festivals are fun to attend - a bit of a lucky dip - with the final film we chose being, Howl, we hit the jackpot - an excellent film.
How do you make a feature film out of a poem?
Choose Alan Ginsberg's Howl, cast James Franco & end it with the song Ginsberg wrote after the death of his Father:
I could chat futher about the film, the poem, death of the father, seeking passion, empty, unfullfilling jobs that sap one's creative fire but I'm going to sign off & listen to Ginsberg once more instead.
Film festivals are fun to attend - a bit of a lucky dip - with the final film we chose being, Howl, we hit the jackpot - an excellent film.
How do you make a feature film out of a poem?
Choose Alan Ginsberg's Howl, cast James Franco & end it with the song Ginsberg wrote after the death of his Father:
I could chat futher about the film, the poem, death of the father, seeking passion, empty, unfullfilling jobs that sap one's creative fire but I'm going to sign off & listen to Ginsberg once more instead.
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