Desire By U2 (Yeah) Lover, I’m on the street Gonna go where the bright lights And the big city meet With a red guitar…on fire Desire She’s a candle burning in my room Yeah I’m like the needle, needle and spoon Over the counter with a shotgun Pretty soon everybody got one And the…
I have more to say about Bonnie Tyler’s great hit tune, Total Eclipse Of The Heart composed by Jim Steinman (November 1, 1947 – April 19, 2021) . Even if one could interview Steinman, to ask explicitly what he meant by his lyric lines — I am satisfied that would not help. Steinman passed…
I thought to write about this song for several days. The lyrics are ethereal, with a mystical meaning, admitting multiple interpretations. Listening to several Youtube presentations of Bonnie Tyler singing her great hit, I felt the tears. This is not a “feel good” love song, triggering pointless emotion. The story line has a texture…
Where did One go? Am I still One when I analyze, or am analyzed? Yes, but with an unidentifiable identity, without a fixed center, or mortiferous* repetition; serial music rather, a dance improvised and yet supported by an underlying, open order. …a long history that never stops coming back, catching up with us. p….
Getting started is the crux of the matter. The ending depends upon the beginning, or as T. S. Eliot wrote in Burnt Norton: Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time future,And time future contained in time past. What immediately follows, the very next line dumbfounds me.. If all time is eternally…
A few days ago I stopped in at the Roadster Shop in Mundelein. This business builds custom street roads for customers all over the United States. They have been kind over the years to allow me to shoot photos of their work parked on the showroom floor. I can hardly remember a time when…
Last night we viewed “Stowaway,” a Netflix film about a three man mission to Mars. Or rather, a two woman, and one man mission that becomes a four person mission with the discovery of a stowaway, after the launch of the spacecraft Kingfisher. The acting is excellent. Toni Collette is mission commander Marina Barrett. …
It is not often that I offer more than one post per day. Since this is EARTH DAY I am obligated to draw attention to the matter that is before all of us. Are we not at a “live or let die” juncture? We are “of the earth” and will surely share whatever is…
Πολιτεία (Politeia) The Greek word translates into English as Republic. It is the title of Plato’s well known work, The Republic. The Greek word comes from the term polis, a description of a commercial, administrative community such as Athens in her heyday, a city-state. A polis is more sharply defined is the administrative and…
My reading in Julia Kristeva’s This Incredible Need To Believe continues. Here are some quotations from the book that are particularly arresting this morning. What is art? …adventures of immanence. Infinite intellectual love (literature, art, etc.) when they are carried out and received not as “objects of consummation” but as the very being of…
