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<title><![CDATA[Scary Friday Night video]]></title>
<link>http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/?p=2338</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>richmx2</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[This would make me think long and hard about crossing the border.  I really wouldn&#8217;t want to ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This would make me think long and hard about crossing the border.  I really wouldn't want to run into these guys:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/AEMETcT75Mw'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/AEMETcT75Mw&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span class="huge">... the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;">(Alfred Hitchcock, who knew something about terror)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Spotlight on... UpcycleMe]]></title>
<link>http://pennydog.wordpress.com/?p=53</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pennydog</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve decided to start showcasing the work of other jewellery and accessory artists that I h]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I've decided to start showcasing the work of other jewellery and accessory artists that I have discovered and admire, and have started by featuring <a href="http://upcycleme.etsy.com">http://upcycleme.etsy.com</a> a fellow UK etsyer, who shares my love for plastic and my birthday! She recycles items that would be otherwise hard to dispose of in an eco-friendly way into beautiful pieces of limited edition art jewellery. I particularly like her warped lego bracelets, available for around $20/£10! Here's some of my favourites:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10890547"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.23893192.jpg" alt="" width="279" height="217" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12689575"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.29776972.jpg" alt="" width="279" height="229" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10913296"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.23967298.jpg" alt="" width="278" height="185" /></a></p>
<p>If you have any great tips for sellers to feature, please drop me an e-mail at <a href="mailto:kerry@penny-dog.co.uk">kerry@penny-dog.co.uk</a></p>
<p>Happy shopping!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Bionic Woman]]></title>
<link>http://girlspy.wordpress.com/?p=63</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>girlspy</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We can rebuild her. We have the technology.We can make her better than she was before: better]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"We can rebuild her. We have the technology.We can make her better than she was before: better, stronger, faster."</p>
<p><a href="http://girlspy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/220px-bionicwoman.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-241 alignright" src="http://girlspy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/220px-bionicwoman.jpg?w=220" alt="" width="220" height="165" /></a>And so begins the career of Jaime Sommers, <em>The Bionic Woman</em> (1976-1978). A tennis pro nearly killed in a skydiving accident, she is rebuilt and becomes an agent for the Office of Scientific Intelligence a fictional and secret branch of the CIA and working for the fantastically bureaucratic Oscar Goldman.</p>
<p>(As a matter of note: this Agent actually had a Bionic Woman Halloween costume one year. Complete with blue jumpsuit, face mask and elastic armband to expose the arm's "circuitry")</p>
<p>Hmmm, so what is there to say about this show? That it was as silly and ridiculous as the "Six Million Dollar Man"? At least it had good company.</p>
<p>Mostly it was about Jaime poking around in a situation (which I suppose the writers would have you believe is investigating), getting drugged/knocked unconscious, kidnapped, and then using her super strength to escape. Oh! And there was the pop-culture rise of Jaime's nemesis: The FEMBOTS! Truly, one could watch the show for nothing else if only to see the Fembots.</p>
<p>This blog tries to find even the smallest morsel of actual intelligence work in every fictional spy character out there, but this show? This show bothers me on so many levels but mostly for the fact that there's <strong>just nothing there</strong>. No logic, methodology, research, analysis, <em>mental exertion</em>...this Agent has put more effort into writing this lone post than the writers of that show did in making it, oh say, <em>realistic</em>...</p>
<p><a href="http://girlspy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bionic.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-242 alignleft" src="http://girlspy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/bionic.jpg?w=150" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></a>But nothing bothers me so much as to why <em>The Bionic Woman</em> was remade in 2007. Reasons I do not wish to venture a guess about. No new ground was covered. Ridiculous "covert ops" any sexed-up-killer-fembot could perform. Just more <em>emotions</em> and <em>feelings</em> about being "bionic" and "different", sheesh...The Powers That Be over there at NBC really should have let that sleeping dog lie.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Now we are ten]]></title>
<link>http://noreille.wordpress.com/?p=57</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>noreille</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Pour une série de raisons difficiles à cerner, le milieu des années nonante a vu l’éclosion d]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><!--[if gte vml 1]&#62;                     &#60;![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left:15px;margin-right:15px;" src="http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s134/lamediatheque/nowweareten-1.jpg" alt="" width="246" height="240" /><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Pour une série de raisons difficiles à cerner, le milieu des années nonante a vu l’éclosion d’un nouveau genre musical. Non pas une renaissance, un revival, le retour ou la prolongation d’un style musical, mais une nouvelle frénésie, au sein du public, pour la découverte, la collection, voire l’écoute, de disques rares et étranges. Généralement centré sur des répertoires indéfendables, considérés jusque là comme ringards, ou même carrément douteux, cette frénésie a transformé la signification du mot <em>kitsch,</em> d’une insulte prononcée avec une grimace de mépris en un cri de joie prononcé avec des étoiles dans les yeux. David Toop consacrait dès 1994 un <a href="http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/219/">dossier</a> entier à la question dans le magazine The Wire, à la suite de la parution de quelques disques-clé de ce nouveau mouvement encore sans nom. Les anthologies culte <a href="https://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?ser=&#38;intervenant=&#38;titre=+&#38;morceau=&#38;descripteur=&#38;label=&#38;ref=X+436O+&#38;supa%5B1%5D=1&#38;supa%5B2%5D=1&#38;supa%5B3%5D=1&#38;supa%5B4%5D=1&#38;supa%5B5%5D=1&#38;supa%5B7%5D=1&#38;supa%5B6%5D=1&#38;supa%5B8%5D=1">“Incredibly Strange Music”</a> du label RE/search et le livre qui les accompagne ont ainsi lancé une génération entière à l’assaut des greniers, caves et brocantes du monde entier. Elle en est revenue avec dans les bras des piles de disques dont la bizarrerie et l’ineptie était la plus grande qualité. Focalisée à ses débuts sur un répertoire et une période bien précise, la musique Exotica des années 50 aux Etats-Unis (Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, etc..), l’effervescence de cette nouvelle manie a débordé en tous sens pour englober le rockabilly le plus trash, le futurisme électronique à consonance spatiale, les interviews de stars hollywoodiennes et alcooliques, les disques de mimes et de ventriloques, les cours de rattrapages en langage beatnik, le songbook des Beatles interprété par des chats, des chiens et des canaris, bref, un pan entier de l’histoire culturelle de l’humanité dans ce qu ‘elle a de plus incongru, de plus saugrenu, en somme, de plus ridiculement humain. Oscillant entre une ironie affectée et une régression totale vers un premier degré inquiétant, un nouveau public de connaisseurs définissait alors une nouvelle esthétique, faite de cocktail-parties intersidérales et de safari-photos en Atlantide. Comment tout cela a t’il commencé, et pourquoi, reste encore à expliquer. Est-ce une forme de dégoût face à une industrie du disque trop, disons … industrielle, qui a fait rechercher dans un passé récent des formes de musiques si improbables qu’elles ne pouvaient avoir été cyniquement voulues et calculées ? Est-ce un rejet des diktats des mass-médias, qui a lancé les collectionneurs sur la piste de l’idiosyncrasie, de l’échelle de valeur auto-proclamée, envers et surtout contre le goût du grand public? Etait-ce une simple blague de potache et serions nous tous tombé dans le panneau ? Toujours est-il que le phénomène s’est aujourd’hui répandu, et que les rééditions de ces disques se poursuivent à tour de bras, débordant le cadre du CD pour se retrouver sur une pléthore de site internet, possédant chacun sa spécialité, sa période de prédilection, et la rhétorique justifiant son enthousiasme. Une culture entière, chinée, récupérée, recyclée, avec ses codes, ses convenances, ses affections, ses entichements, se constitue depuis quelques années dans les marchés aux puces, les bacs « tout à 1 euros » des soldeurs de disques, et les mythiques caves et greniers des parents et grands-parents. Une culture entièrement et résolument alternative, avec ses références et ses défenseurs.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Le label Tunk est de ceux-là. Il célèbre aujourd’hui dix ans de bons et loyaux services avec une anthologie intitulée avec pertinence « Now We Are Ten ». Il serait fastidieux de retracer l’historique du label et de ses parutions (une histoire du label en <a href="http://www.trunkrecords.com/turntable/nowweareten.shtml">4000 signes</a> se trouve sur son site) mais on peut brosser un portrait sommaire en signalant les principales lignes directrices qui ont guidé le choix de ses publications. Inaugurant son catalogue en 1995 avec une compilation intitulée « The Super Sounds Of Bosworth », réalisée à partir d’archives de « musiques de fond » pour<span> </span>radio, il entamait une longue série de « musique trouvée », de ready-made sonore. Ces musiques,<span> </span>sorties ici d’une de ces librairies de morceaux inédits, généralement libres de droits, et servant de jingles, de musique de fond, ou d’interludes, qui étaient fort courantes dans les années soixante et septante, étaient quelques fois étonnamment en avance sur leur temps. Ce premier succès lancera Jonathan Benton-Hughes, désormais rebaptisé Johnny Trunk, sur la piste suivante, la réédition de musiques de film rares, disparues, voire totalement inédites. Puisant dans le répertoire du cinéma ou de la télévision britannique, il allait ainsi éditer pour la première fois<span> </span>la bande-son des films « <a href="https://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?ser=&#38;intervenant=hardy&#38;titre=wicker+man&#38;morceau=&#38;descripteur=&#38;label=&#38;ref=&#38;supa%5B7%5D=1">The wicker man </a>», « <a href="https://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?ser=&#38;intervenant=+&#38;titre=kes&#38;morceau=&#38;descripteur=&#38;label=&#38;ref=&#38;supa%5B7%5D=1">Kes</a> », « <a href="https://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?ser=&#38;intervenant=+&#38;titre=psychomania&#38;morceau=&#38;descripteur=&#38;label=&#38;ref=&#38;supa%5B1%5D=1&#38;supa%5B2%5D=1&#38;supa%5B3%5D=1&#38;supa%5B4%5D=1&#38;supa%5B5%5D=1&#38;supa%5B7%5D=1&#38;supa%5B6%5D=1&#38;supa%5B8%5D=1">Psychomania</a> » et des feuilletons télévisés « <a href="https://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?ser=&#38;intervenant=+&#38;titre=ufo&#38;morceau=&#38;descripteur=&#38;label=&#38;ref=&#38;supa%5B7%5D=1">UFO</a> » et « <a href="https://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?ser=&#38;intervenant=+&#38;titre=tomorrow+people&#38;morceau=&#38;descripteur=&#38;label=&#38;ref=&#38;supa%5B1%5D=1&#38;supa%5B2%5D=1&#38;supa%5B3%5D=1&#38;supa%5B4%5D=1&#38;supa%5B5%5D=1&#38;supa%5B7%5D=1&#38;supa%5B6%5D=1&#38;supa%5B8%5D=1">The Tomorrow People </a>». Il allait en parallèle développer une série de disques pornographiques, compilant par exemple des flexis-discs offerts, dans les années septante, à l’achat de certains titres de la presse britannique spécialisée, ou mettant en musique le courrier des « lecteurs » reçu par sa sœur, actrice de soft porn. Il allait également éditer quelques anthologies à thème comme « <a href="https://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?ser=&#38;intervenant=+&#38;titre=fuzzy+felt+folk&#38;morceau=&#38;descripteur=&#38;label=&#38;ref=&#38;supa%5B1%5D=1&#38;supa%5B2%5D=1&#38;supa%5B3%5D=1&#38;supa%5B4%5D=1&#38;supa%5B5%5D=1&#38;supa%5B7%5D=1&#38;supa%5B6%5D=1&#38;supa%5B8%5D=1">Fuzzy Felt Folk </a>», compilation « représentant l’aspect naïf, enfantin et charmant du son folk britannique », ou « Music for Biscuits », compilation de spots publicitaires psychédéliques. Au milieu de toutes ces entreprises disparates et parmi toutes ces directions hétéroclites, le label va aussi suivre avec une fidélité absolue une sorte de Grande Œuvre, la réédition des travaux complets de Basil Kirchin.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> </span><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left:25px;margin-right:25px;" src="http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s134/lamediatheque/BasilKirchin.jpg" alt="" width="173" height="215" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><!--[if gte vml 1]&#62;   &#60;![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><!--[if gte vml 1]&#62;                     &#60;![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Musicien jusque là quasi inconnu du grand public, Basil Kirchin est un de ces précurseurs que seul un label comme Trunk pouvait faire sortir de l’ombre. Débutant en 1941 dans le big band de son père, en tant que batteur, Kirchin allait passer quelques années de formation dans des orchestres de<span class="bodytext"> théâtre, des big bands de night-clubs, des jazz-bands, des fanfares, et des ensembles radiophoniques. Il se lança ensuite en parallèle dans la composition, réalisant la musique de dizaines de films britanniques, ainsi que des musiques pour films imaginaires, avant de se concentrer sur l’élaboration de SA musique, une musique entièrement neuve, inédite, résolument originale, tirant parti de ses connaissances en techniques de studio pour donner vie à sa « musique des sphères », un concept qu’il baptisa </span>"Worlds within Worlds" et consistait à incorporer des sons tirés de la faune et de la flore, des bruits de moteurs, des cris d’enfants, métamorphosés en studio, à des compositions pour ensembles de jazz moderne. Cette approche, précurseur du sampling à une époque où chaque son devait être découpé sur bande magnétique à la main, était alors totalement novatrice, et profitait de l’invention en 1967 par le suisse Kudelski, du premier magnétophone portable de qualité, le Nagra. Célébré à posteriori par des gens aussi divers que Brian Eno, stereolab ou Nurse with Wound,<span> </span>Basil Kirchin est un pionnier, un visionnaire, dont l’œuvre étrange prend tout son sens aujourd’hui.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">C’est une des merveilles qui vous attendent sur cette anthologie rassemblant dix ans de publication inattendue du label Trunk. Une anthologie reprenant les meilleures sorties du label, mais aussi des pièces inédites, ou des titres épuisés, et démontrant l’étrange cohérence d’un label extravagant et excentrique.<span class="bodytext"></span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Have Your (Ugly Misspelled) Cake and Eat it Too!]]></title>
<link>http://kitschnglam.wordpress.com/?p=93</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kitschnglam</dc:creator>
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One of my new favorite Food Network shows is Ace of Cakes. I know, I&#8217;ve been writing about re]]></description>
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<p>One of my new favorite Food Network shows is <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_db"><em>Ace of Cakes</em></a>. I know, I've been writing about reality TV a lot lately, but Duff and his gang of cake makers are irresistible! I can see why they have such a big following. The cakes are pure art and the people who make them are so fun and talented, they make a show about <em>cakes</em> Must See TV!</p>
<p>So...today I heard about a blog called <a href="http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/">Cake Wrecks</a> - good-intentioned cakes gone horribly wrong! Some of the accompanying stories make the cakes even more hilarious. My favorite is the "Good Luck in China" fireman cake. (You must read the story.)</p>
<p>Some things I learned: Cake decorators should know how to spell "Congratulations" and they should really use spell-check. Who knew cake decorators loved quotation marks so much? And in the case of the fireman cake mentioned above, do not order a cake when you have a migraine. There are some really bad cakes out there!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[[august 16th 2008] The Kosmic Festival @ Southern California]]></title>
<link>http://breakcoreworld.wordpress.com/?p=140</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[hello kitschy]]></title>
<link>http://dirtymartini.wordpress.com/?p=444</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dirtymartini</dc:creator>
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a collection of tunes that are crying out for a super kitsch cartoon video.
download here
amerie ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;">a collection of tunes that are crying out for a super kitsch cartoon video.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong><a href="http://www.zshare.net/download/1566571934429498/" target="_blank">download here</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>amerie - crush</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">possibly just meant to sound happy, not kitsch, but this remix conjures up images of bubbles, flying candy and glitter and there's nothing amerie can do about it...</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>basement jaxx - romeo</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">you can tell the jaxx heart kitsch by their album covers, even if you haven't heard the music. who else would put snowflake, the albino gorilla from barcelona zoo, on a cd?</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>bjork - big time sensuality</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">more quirky than kitsch, but bjork does look a bit like a japanese cartoon.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>confection - i gotta thang 4u</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">confection are a group who make 80s jheri soul a la loose ends. i honestly didn't realise for a long time that they weren't authentic 80s.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>daft punk - digital love</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">kids of the 80s went 'aaaah...' when they saw the video to this tune, featuring battle of the planets style anime.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>deee-lite - say ahhh</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">unashamedly kitsch, and psychedelic at the same time.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>groove armada and mutya buena - song for mutya</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">whoever thought they would be describing the chavtastic mutya as kitsch? not me...</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>keyshia cole - superstar</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">hate jameila. this is the only song of hers that i could remotely stand so i was happy that keyshia covered it for the us market. clearly, bitter brummie bitches don't go down too well across the pond, either...</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>mariah carey - touch my body</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">eternally 12 apparently...mariah is the physical embodiment of kitsch and youth obsession taken too far. and no i don't buy the nick cannon thing, that boy just looks uncomfortable to me.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>model 500 - the flow</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">i doubt that derrick may intended to make anything that sounded remotely kitsch. but it so does...</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>st etienne - who do you think you are</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">if all of st etienne's video has been animated kitsch, i think their music would have been more appealing. i liked it, but the oh-look-at-us-we're indie!-and-quirky! band members ruined things somewhat.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>sub sub and melanie williams - ain't no love</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">the most cartoonish club classic i can remember - shouldn't have worked but it did.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[Wie mehrfach angekündigt werde ich mich nun eine Woche lang erholen. Oder zumindest bleibt das zu h]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wie mehrfach angekündigt werde ich mich nun eine Woche lang erholen. Oder zumindest bleibt das zu hoffen. Eine weitere Woche ohne eine Nachricht von ihm, meinem Menschen mit der Engelsstimme, der mir in so kurzer Zeit so sehr ans Herz gewachsen ist.<br />
"Du kennst ihn doch kaum", sage ich mir immer wieder. "Wie kannst du wissen, dass dieser Mensch wirklich der ist, für den du ihn hältst? Er hat dir bestimmt erst seine positiven Seiten gezeigt."<br />
Aber wo bleiben Vernunft und Verstand, wenn man plötzlich Hoffnung hat, den passenden Menschen gefunden zu haben? Wie kann ich es verantworten, aufzugeben, bevor ich überhaupt zu kämpfen begonnen habe? Aber unerreichbar bleibt unerreichbar. Fast schon habe ich mich damit abgefunden. Seufzend schaue ich nach draussen. Es regnet stark. Nebelschwaden ziehen vorbei. Der Himmel ist grau, grauer als sonst. Am liebsten würde ich... <!--more--><br />
STOPP! Aufwachen! Hier ist kein Platz für kitschige Dramatik, Aprikose! Versuch nicht, dich durch theatralische Aussagen in Depressionen zu ziehen und dich zu fragen, warum das Leben doch so unfair sei. Tu nicht so feige. Wenn du dich nur in Selbstmitleid ertrinkst, dann hilft das niemandem, am wenigsten dir selbst. Dein Leben ist, was du daraus machst. Alles ist möglich. Und auch wenn nur eine kleine Chance besteht, so ist sie dennoch vorhanden. Ganz sicher nicht werde ich sie verstreichen lassen. Die Chance, mein Leben mit jemandem zu teilen. Mit meinem Traummenschen.</p>
<p>Durchs Fenster beobachte ich ein Pärchen, das sich am Bahnhof verabschiedet. Es regnet immer noch, aber das stört keinen der beiden. Er steigt in den Zug und wirft ihr dabei einen Blick zu, der sie verträumt lächeln lässt. Er sieht durchs Fenster, wie ich, dass sie langsam zurückgeht zum Fahrradunterstand, und durch das Maschendrahtgitter, welches letzteren von den Geleisen trennt, kreuzen sich ihre Blicke. Dann, einige Augenblicke später, für die beiden wohl eine Ewigkeit, fährt der Zug ab, langsam und stoisch, unabwendbar. Sie bleibt eine Weile länger stehen, als der Blickkontakt unterbrochen wird, und schaut dem Zug nach, bevor sie sich umdreht und langsamen Schrittes aus meinem Blickfeld verschwindet. Und dann wende auch ich mich ab, mische mich nicht länger in anderer Leute Glück ein.</p>
<p>Ach, wie schön könnte das Leben sein. Nein: Kann es sein. Denn <em>mein</em> Zug ist definitiv noch nicht abgefahren. Der fährt erst morgen früh, in Richtung Ferien. Und vielleicht noch weiter.<br />
Der Regen hat aufgehört, und vom Horizont aus scheint auch schon wieder die Sonne, genau zu meinem Fenster hinein. In diesem Sinne: Haltet die Ohren steif und schreibt nicht zuviel, da ich ja nach den Ferien noch arbeiten sollte. Eine angenehme Woche wünsche ich euch   :)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cel mai tare citat din Dilema Veche. Ever! ]]></title>
<link>http://stirimess.wordpress.com/?p=338</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Olivian BREDA</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[BAU,
Va recomand astea doua vorbe din Dilema Veche. Criminale:
Nu ştiu dacă v-aţi uitat vreodată]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BAU,</p>
<p>Va recomand astea doua vorbe din Dilema Veche. Criminale:</p>
<blockquote><p>Nu ştiu dacă v-aţi uitat vreodată sîmbătă seara pe OTV. E un delir kitsch regizat parcă de Kusturica. Sînt aduse mirese furate (ştirbe şi coafate penal), se negociază în direct cu miri agramaţi, iar la final anturajul de şmenari descheiaţi la cămăşi şi cu lanţuri groase la gît şi de piţipoance de onoare se fotografiază cu telefonul în „juru’ lu’ domnu’ Dan“. Cu zece minute dintr-o astfel de emisiune te-ai putea duce la orice bienală de artă contemporană. (M. C. )</p></blockquote>
<p><a title="http://www.dilemaveche.ro/index.php?nr=230&#38;cmd=articol&#38;id=8655" href="http://www.dilemaveche.ro/index.php?nr=230&#38;cmd=articol&#38;id=8655" target="_blank">Sursa</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Chanel Cruise Collection 09.]]></title>
<link>http://monopoliodamoda.wordpress.com/?p=274</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Monopólio da Moda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://monopoliodamoda.wordpress.com/?p=274</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Posso definir a coleção Cruise Chanel 2009 como Kitsch e Chic. Em Miami, Karl Lagerfeld no comando]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Posso definir a coleção Cruise Chanel 2009 como Kitsch e Chic. Em Miami, Karl Lagerfeld no comando e a grife mais celebrada do mundo não poderia ser diferente, um verdadeiro Show montado na piscina do Raleigh Hotel.<br />
E o que me chamou atenção no desfile foram os novos sapatos da coleção.</p>
<p><a href="http://monopoliodamoda.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/miami-vice-chanel-cruise-2009-gun-s.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-275" src="http://monopoliodamoda.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/miami-vice-chanel-cruise-2009-gun-s.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="222" /></a></p>
<p>Pois é, uma pistola como salto.<br />
Loucura né?<br />
Ao meu ver soa até como crítica social.<br />
Porque não é qualquer um que anda por aí com peças da chanel, não é?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[I brought this upon myself]]></title>
<link>http://liliblogs.wordpress.com/?p=90</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lilbooks</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The top four all-time searches that have led viewers to my blog:
#1 duct tape prom dresses
#2 duct t]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The top four all-time searches that have led viewers to my blog:</p>
<p>#1 duct tape prom dresses<br />
#2 duct tape prom dress<br />
#3 duct tape dresses<br />
#4 duct tape dress</p>
<p>then we also have<br />
#7 duck tape prom dresses<br />
#11 duck tape prom dress<br />
#12 duck tape dresses<br />
#14 prom dress made of duct tape<br />
#15 duct tape prom</p>
<p>And I only posted that entry a couple weeks ago.<br />
Who knew duct tape dresses were so popular?</p>
<p>For the fun of it, here are the other searches in my top 20:</p>
<p>#5 wildflowers<br />
#6 galen rowell<br />
#8 deer<br />
#9 kip<br />
#10 thomas kinkade<br />
#13 wildflowers %2<br />
#16 pavlova cake<br />
#17 bodleian library<br />
#18 my little pony snuzzle<br />
#19 washington wildflowers<br />
#20 trinity college library</p>
<p>I enjoyed this search from today:</p>
<p>how could people be so dumb</p>
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<title><![CDATA[No More Boxes!!!]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With the pending arrival of my sister and her BF tomorrow, a small flame had finally ignited under m]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the pending arrival of my sister and her BF tomorrow, a small flame had finally ignited under my ass for me to finish unpacking my boxes and find a home for all my kitsch in my new apartment.   </p>
<p>When I realized that tonight was also the premiere of <em>Project Runway</em>, and that I'd have to be at the Good D's to watch it since we still don't have cable... or a TV, that flame turned into a forest fire.  </p>
<p>I was planning to do a half day at work, but thanks to Ms. Heidi Klum and my love of all things reality TV (and all things gay), I went ahead and took the entire day off...  Which of course meant that I spent all morning procrastinating.  By mid-afternoon I finally got in the swing of things.  But by early evening I was over it, and I had to start drinking in order to keep going.</p>
<p>8+ hours and few cans of cheap beer later, and I was finally done.  I'd like to thank the makers of Miller High Life (classy, I know); the Dixie Chicks; Adam, who was home and had to listen to me listen to (and sing along with) the Dixie Chicks; and the makers of the Swiffer, a mop that's fun to use while slightly tipsy!</p>
<p>I'm finally unpacked and I finally feel at home in Crown Heights.  </p>
<p>We probably won't be having a house warming party until Sept. to coincide with my b'day.  But for those of you just <em>dying</em> to see it, here's a sneak peak of my room:</p>
<p><a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/img_0345-1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-753" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/img_0345-1.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><br />
This is my tiny, tiny closet.  Not much to see here (literally.)  But I am proud that I finally found a spot for my pink circle mirror!  I love this mirror because it reminds me of something you would have seen in the Stephanie and DJ's room on Full House.  I've had it for awhile, but never on display.  Before my move, I told myself I should just throw it away.  Sure glad I didn't.<br />
<a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/img_03415.jpg"><img src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/img_03415.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-784" /></a><br />
Random shit I hung above my dresser.  I have very little storage space in my new apartment.  So everything must go up!  Looking at this pic now, I realize that the frame around the Virgin Mary looks crooked.  Ugh.<br />
<a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/img_03571.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-762" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/img_03571.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><br />
The place I lay my head at night.  To the left is my great-great grandfather.  Above my bed (starting top left and going clockwise) is: Dolly, Judy, Crystal, the Judds, Judy (again), and some chick who is holding her hands together in prayer.<br />
<a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/img_0349.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-764" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/img_0349.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><br />
And my favorite part of the room: My mantel of kitsch!  Hanging on the wall to the right, is Tipsy (or Tripod as Jeanne calls him.)  He's a three legged cat that I purchased during my last trip to Mary Land.  He was also the very first thing to go up on my wall when we first moved in two weeks ago.</p>
<p>AND NOW BACK TO PROJECT RUNWAY!</p>
<p>Here are my initial impressions...</p>
<p><strong>People I Am Rooting For:</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-767" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/keith.jpg?w=48" alt="" width="48" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-768" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/kelli.jpg?w=48" alt="" width="48" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-770" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/kenley1.jpg?w=48" alt="" width="48" height="64" /><br />
<em>Keith, Kelli, Kenley.</em>  Only people who's first name begins with a 'K.'</p>
<p><strong>People I Am Rooting Against:</strong><br />
<a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/blayne.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-771" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/blayne.jpg?w=48" alt="" width="48" height="64" /></a><a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/suede.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-772" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/suede.jpg?w=48" alt="" width="48" height="64" /></a><br />
<em>Blayne, Suede.</em>  And if their name's didn't give me reason enough to hate them, their hair sure did.</p>
<p><strong>Hipster Twins I Can't Tell If I Like Or Loathe:</strong><br />
<a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/emily.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-773" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/emily.jpg?w=48" alt="" width="48" height="64" /></a><a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/leanne.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-774" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/leanne.jpg?w=48" alt="" width="48" height="64" /></a><br />
<em>Emily, Leanne.</em>  I swear I see these girls everyday in Brooklyn.</p>
<p><strong>Bitches In Waiting:</strong><br />
<a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/jerell.jpg"></a><a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/daniel1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-778" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/daniel1.jpg?w=48" alt="" width="48" height="64" /></a><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-776" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/jerell.jpg?w=48" alt="" width="48" height="64" /><a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/terri.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-777" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/terri.jpg?w=48" alt="" width="48" height="64" /></a><br />
<em>Daniel, Jerell, Terri.</em>  Mark my words, one (or possibly all three) of these people will act like a major cunt.</p>
<p><strong>People Who's Bio Pic Looks Like A Mugshot:</strong><br />
<a href="http://bdkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/stella.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-779" src="http://bdkennedy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/stella.jpg?w=48" alt="" width="48" height="64" /></a><br />
<em>Stella.</em>  Love her!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Interview mit Ruben Talberg ( Maler, Bildhauer, Fotograf )]]></title>
<link>http://kukrheinmain.wordpress.com/?p=252</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bianka Schüssler</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[link to the english version    

 
Kurzbiografie mit den wichtigsten künstlerischen Stationen   
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><a href="http://kukrheinmain.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/interview-ruben-talberg-july-2008/">link to the english version</a> </strong> </span> </span> </span></p>
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<h2 class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Kurzbiografie mit den wichtigsten künstlerischen Stationen</span> </span> </span> </em></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Wann und wo wurdest du geboren, <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_Talberg">Ruben </a> ?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">1964 im wunderbaren Heidelberg.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Bist du künstlerisch durch deine Familie vorbelastet?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Durchaus. Meine Großmutter war Opernsängerin und hat viel am Theater gearbeitet. Meine Verwandtschaft in den USA weist zurück auf einen gewissen <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Thalberg">Irving Thalberg</a> , dem Stifter des Thalberg Awards für Filmproduzenten der Oscar Academy. Mit einer anderen Verwandten und Malerin in New York habe ich die Basics der Ölmalerei studiert. Das war noch während meiner Schulzeit. Danach habe ich dann in Heidelberg die Matura gemacht. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Wann hast du dich entschieden, dein Leben der Kunst zu widmen?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Mit meiner Hochbegabung (Mitglied von <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International">MENSA International</a> ) hätte ich alles machen können. Aber merkwürdigerweise war es die Kunst, die einem unruhigen und freien Geist die meiste Entfaltung bot. Kunst kommt auch eher von einem „Müssen“, denn von einem „Wollen“, d. h. sie ist mehr Berufung als Beruf. <!--more--> Von daher war es auch weiniger ein Zeitpunkt, zu dem ich mich entscheiden musste, sondern eher ein Weg, ein Lebenspfad. Ich nehme mal an, dass ich gerade wegen meines autonomen Denkens in einem anderen Beruf auch nicht klar gekommen wäre.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Was war deine Motivation?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Viel Geld und viel Sex (lol)… nein ernsthaft…Wenn es um Dinge geht, die getan werden müssen, fragt man weniger nach den Gründen. Es gibt ja mitunter ganz komische Motivationen für Kunst, z.B. auch die politische. Aber das hat meines Erachtens gar nichts mit der Qualität der artworks zu tun, die man produziert. Im Umkehrschluß bedeutet dies, dass ich rein gar nichts von artworks halte, die nur politische Statements illustrieren (Kitsch). Noch ermüdender sind Künstler, die dem Betrachter politische Statements aufzwingen wollen. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Was waren damals deine Vorstellungen, wie dein Künstlerleben aussehen könnte?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Wie <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys">Beuys</a> auch, hatte ich vor, mich in einen Bulldozer zu setzen, und zu allererst einmal die Mauern des Frankfurter Rathauses einzureißen, d.h. Zeichen setzen, Aufmerksamkeit erregen etc. Da ich aber mehr zu der introvertierten Fraktion tendiere, lag mir letztlich wenig an solchen Äußerlichkeiten. Als nicht-darstellender Künstler steht man auch nicht so im Rampenlicht wie z.B. die Kollegen von der Schauspielerei, seien es nun A, B oder C Promis.<span> </span> </span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Was waren in deinem Leben die wichtigsten künstlerischen Stationen inhaltlich wie regional?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Rein geographisch spielte sich bei mir viel im Spannungsfeld Israel, USA, Europa ab, d.h. das waren bzw. sind bis auf wenige Ausnahmen meine bevorzugten Orte der Inspiration. Regional gesehen hatte ich lange Zeit ein Atelier in Frankfurt, dass ich mir mit einem älteren Künstlerkollegen teilte und von der Stadt Frankfurt gefördert war. Irgendwann wurde auch das zu klein, und ich sah mich auf der anderen Seite des Mains um, genauer gesagt in der „Kreativ-Stadt“ Offenbach.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Thematisch hatte ich mich in der Vergangenheit länger mit dem Holocaust auseinandergesetzt, u. a. mit der Frage, ob eine künstlerische Produktion nach <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZ_Auschwitz-Birkenau">Auschwitz </a> überhaupt noch möglich ist. Dann beschäftigten mich Fragen, die viel mit antagonistischen Begriffspaaren zu tun haben wie Gut – Böse, Schönheit – Wahrheit, Bewusstsein – Unbewusstsein, Symmetrie – Asymmetrie, Eros &#38; Thanathos (Liebe &#38; Tod), Wahn &#38; Gesellschaft, Alchemie &#38; Wissenschaft etc. Zu den wichtigen Komplexen wurden begleitend zu den jeweiligen Ausstellungen auch Kataloge publiziert, zu beziehen über <a href="http://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_ss_w?__mk_de_DE=%C5M%C5Z%D5%D1&#38;url=search-alias%3Daps&#38;field-keywords=ruben+talberg">amazon.de </a> , sofern noch nicht vergriffen.<span> </span> </span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Wieso sollte eine künstlerische Produktion nach Auschwitz nicht mehr möglich sein?</span> </span> </strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Das Leid, die Folter, der Massenmord an Millionen meiner Glaubensbrüder ist nicht nur in unserem kollektiven Gedächtnis eingebrannt. Das Unsagbare, das Unfassbare, der <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust">Holocaust </a> ist geschehen und kann weder vergessen noch vergeben werden. G’tt hat in dieser Hinsicht total versagt und ist für mich seitdem auch nicht mehr existent. Wo aber G’tt nicht mehr existiert, existiert auch kein Glaube mehr, keine Liebe und Hoffnung. Was übrig bleibt, ist Leere und eine graue Wüste. Ein ewiges Exil, in dem ich mich gerade bewege. </span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gab es wesentliche künstlerische Umbrüche in deiner Laufbahn?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Dazu kann ich nur sagen, dass der Weg des Künstlers extrem hart und steinig ist, d.h. mir wurde trotz meiner Herkunft und Hochbegabung nichts geschenkt. Mein Studium hatte ich mir bereits durch den Verkauf meiner artworks finanziert. Im Rückblick kann ich nur sagen, ich kann niemand raten, diesen doch mitunter einsamen Weg der Kunst zu gehen. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Wenn du heute zurückschaust auf deine Laufbahn, deckt sich dein Weg dann mit deinen damaligen Vorstellungen davon?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Ich würde sagen, es ist so wie die Ehe mit einer Hure. Man hat zwar gewisse illusorische Erwartungen, aber man weiss nie, wohin sie einen treibt, wo letztlich alles endet. Somit kommt es praktisch nie zur einer vollen Kongruenz von Erwartung und Realität. Sowie es auch praktisch nie zu einer völligen Kongruenz von Imagination und Realisierung von artworks kommt. Es kommt immer wieder zu Rissen, Brüchen, Asymmetrien, die aber ihrerseits als Ausgangspunkte für neue artworks dienen können. In gewissem Sinn kann man auch von dem Versuch einer Aneignung sprechen, die aber letztlich nie ganz gelingt. Mitunter wird der Künstler auch zur Hure seiner eigenen Kunst. Das ist eine Gratwanderung auf des Schwertes Spitze. </span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Was ist anders gekommen als du dachtest? Welche Illusionen musstest du aufgeben?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Letztlich hat mir der Erfolg recht gegeben im Sinne einer selbsterfüllenden Prophezeiung. Wie zuletzt das <a href="http://www.kunstmarkt.com/pagesmag/kunst/_id148546-/marktberichte_detail.html?_q=%20">Auktionsresultat </a> bei <a href="http://www.kettererkunst.de/kunst/kd/details.php?obnr=410800156&#38;anummer=335">Ketterer-Kunst in Hamburg</a> . Wie auch diese einzigartige Atelier – Location, die <a href="http://rubentalberg.com/contact/index_1.htm">TALBERG FACTORY </a> in Offenbach, in der ich meine artworks der interessierten Öffentlichkeit präsentieren kann. Die Atelier-Situation ist absolut elementar für die künstlerische Produktion! </span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Die Schattenseite des Erfolgs bilden hier die Neider, Missgünstigen und Zukurzgekommenen, die sich ebenso - scheinbar einem Naturgesetz folgend - wie die Fliegen vermehren. In den USA oder Israel habe ich das nicht so krass erlebt. Das war übrigens auch eine der Illusionen, die ich hatte: Dass man durchs Leben gehen kann, ohne angefeindet oder mit hasserfüllten Blicken betrachtet zu werden. Ganz ohne <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitismus">Antisemitismus </a> geht es eben doch nicht! Am Ende hatte ich nur Glück, in Tel-Aviv nicht von einem Hamas-Selbstmord-Attentäter in die Luft gesprengt worden zu sein! Mazel-tov! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Einer meiner jüngsten Werk-Zyklen trägt den Titel &#34;<a href="http://rubentalberg.com/portfolio/index_1.htm">Malchut</a> “, was auf hebräisch in etwa „Königreich“ oder „Herrschaft“ bedeutet. Es handelt sich um eines der Schlüsselworte der jüdischen Mystik . So sehe ich mich in diesem Zusammenhang als Medium, welches sein künstlerisches Werk auf Erden schafft, sein persönliches Königreich. So hat Kunst für mich letztlich eine alchemistische Funktion, und zwar den „philosophischen Stein der Weisen“ zu finden. D.h. aber auch Transformation, beständige Umformung und <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphose">Metamorphose </a> von Material, Zeit und Raum. Und im Sinne einer ewigen Wiederkehr des Gleichen (die Schlange, die sich selbst in den Schwanz beißt) formt man nicht zuletzt auch sich selbst um. </span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Definitiv NO. Wie ich kürzlich in einem FAZ – Artikel („Malend im Exil“) gesagt habe, treibt mich ein archäologisches Interesse, jenseits der ideologischen Inhalte von <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythen">Mythen </a> und <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemie">Alchemie </a> nach den Formen und der Zeichensprache, nach den verdeckten Schichten im kulturellen Gedächtnis verschiedener Völker zu forschen. Das alles umfasst Kunst. Und noch viel mehr. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Bist du jemals zufrieden mit deinen Werken?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Es kommt tatsächlich vor, dass mich eine gewisse Form der künstlerischen Auseinandersetzung zu langweilen beginnt. Dann ist es höchste Zeit, etwas ganz neues zu schaffen. Zufrieden in diesem Zusammenhang heißt nur, dass man den richtigen Zeitpunkt für den „Absprung“ vom jeweiligen artwork schafft. Das gelingt leider nicht immer und man zerstört mehr als man kreiert. Aber wen interessiert das schon? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Um es deutlich zu machen, bei mir ist bis jetzt noch nicht der Moment eingetreten, wo ich stillstehen und mir auf die Schultern klopfen kann. Ich fühle eher so, dass die wichtigsten Schöpfungen (artworks ) noch bevorstehen. Ich bin davon so voll wie das Meer Tropfen hat… </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Zur Zeit arbeite ich an einer neuen Serie von Skulpturen. Da ich in gewisser Weise abergläubisch bin, spreche ich nie über Arbeiten, die noch nicht abgeschlossen sind. Das verhindert den bösen Blick!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Was ist deine Motivation für deine aktuellen Arbeiten? Möchtest du dem Betrachter eine bestimmte Botschaft mitgeben?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Ich beziehe mich auf eine deiner früheren Fragen. Die Motivation ist für mich völlig unerheblich, wichtig und elementar ist allein die Frage nach der Qualität. Prinzipiell gesehen sollte der Betrachter meine artworks in seinem Kopf fertig stellen. So gesehen entstehen dann unendlich viele artworks ! Darin liegt ja gerade die Wirkung guter Kunst, dass sie nachhaltig wirkt, zumindest im Auge des Betrachters. Ganz klar, die „Königsklasse“ <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstrakte_Kunst">abstrakte Kunst </a> verlangt mehr als die „Realisten“. In Zeiten, in denen flacher Konsum G’tt ist, keine leicht Aufgabe! <em></em> </span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Viele Künstler verlassen den Frankfurter Raum und gehen nach Berlin. Du hast dein Atelier vor gar nicht langer Zeit in Offenbach eröffnet. Was hat dich dazu bewogen dich entgegen des Trends hier niederzulassen und warum gerade in Offenbach?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Ich habe kein gesteigertes Interesse an Berlin, eher zieht es mich nach Süd-Frankreich. Mit meinem neuen Atelier, der TALBERG FACTORY habe ich einen absoluten Glücksgriff getan, ein Jahrhundertgeschenk sozusagen. Daran werde ich auch festhalten. Zumindest vorerst bewege ich mich oft zwischen Offenbach und Süd-Frankreich.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offenbach_am_Main">Offenbach </a> ist für mich eine Stadt der krassen Gegensätze, des Laisser faire, wo man den Bürgermeister sowie die anderen Personalities noch persönlich kennt, insofern ein den „Kreativen“ höchst aufgeschlossener Ort. <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochschule_f%C3%BCr_Gestaltung_Offenbach_am_Main">Hochschule für Gestaltung</a> , Rosenheim-Museum, <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingspor-Museum">Klingspor-Museum</a> , Leder-Museum, <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyne-Fabrik">Heyne-Fabrik</a> etc. Übrigens befindet sich mein Atelier in der gleichen Straße wie die Heyne-Fabrik. </span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Ich habe gelesen, du schreibst auch Gedichte und hast eine CD veröffentlicht? Worum geht es in deinen Gedichten und was haben sie zu tun mit deiner Kunst? </span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Guter Research! Interessant daran erinnert zu werden...lol. Die CD wurde 2000 produziert und veröffentlicht und kann noch über meine website bestellt werden. Ich hatte ja zwischenzeitlich eine Art Code, d.h. eine Geheim - oder Symbolsprache entwickelt, die auf sehr alte Zeichensätze wie die der Inka, Phönizier oder Aramäer zurückgeht. Mit Hilfe dieser <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyphen">„Hieroglyphen“</a> verweise ich in meinen artworks auch öfter auf Sentenzen aus diesen Lyrics, die ich einst geschrieben habe.<span> </span> </span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Welche Ausstellungen stehen an und mit welchen Inhalten oder Schwerpunkten?</span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">Da derzeit über diverse Termine für 2009 noch verhandelt wird, kann ich als nächsten konkreten Termin die „<a href="http://www.offenbach.de/offenbach/themen/unterwegs-in-offenbach/kultur/article/kunstansichten2008.html">Kunstansichten Offenbach</a> “ am 20./21. September 2008 nennen, in deren Rahmen auch die TALBERG FACTORY geöffnet ist. Titel meiner Einzelausstellung ist „Psycho I“, was thematisch auf die Fragestellung von Wahn &#38; Gesellschaft rekurriert.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Am 19. Oktober 2008 wird die TALBERG FACTORY eine Gruppenausstellung mit neuen Arbeiten von Patientinnen der Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie in Offenbach präsentieren. Die Ausstellung trägt den Titel „Lebenskrisen“ und ist eine Kooperation mit der renommierten Psychiatrie-Stiftung Offenbach (PSO). </span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><em><span style="font-size:small;">Vielen Dank, Ruben, dass du uns diesen Einblick in dein künstlerisches Schaffen und Leben geschenkt hast. Viel Erfolg bei deinen kommenden Ausstellungen und Projekten.</span> </em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">20. September 2008, TALBERG FACTORY, „Psycho I“, 14.00 – 22.00 Uhr</span> </span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">21. September 2008, 12.00 – 20.00 Uhr </span> </span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">19. Oktober 2008, TALBERG FACTORY, „Lebenskrisen“, 12.00 – 16.00 Uhr,<span> </span> Gruppenausstellung von Patientinnen der Klinik für Psychiatrie u. Psychotherapie, Offenbach</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-family:X-Files;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">TALBERG FACTORY</span> </span> </span> </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:X-Files;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Ludwigstr. 151</span> </span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:X-Files;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">63067 Offenbach/M</span> </span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:X-Files;"><a href="mailto:mail@rubentalberg.com"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">mail@rubentalberg.com</span> </span> </a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:X-Files;"><a href="http://www.rubentalberg.com/"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;">www.rubentalberg.com</span> </span> </a> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Das Interview führte Bianka Schüssler für den Blog „<a href="http://kukrheinmain.wordpress.com/">Kunst und Kultur im Rhein-Main-Gebiet</a> &#34;</span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Frankfurt, 16. Juli 2008<strong><span> </span> </strong> </span> </span></p>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/dining/16paris.html?em&#38;ex=1216612800&#38;en=5e7a3c6187a87ecc&#38;ei=5087%0A"><em>New York Times</em></a> has an interesting article about the gourmet burger trend in Paris. Apparently, Parisians and tourists can't get enough of them!  Though I understand American expatriots' need to have a burger once in awhile while <em>living</em> in Paris, I've never understood the tourists who scream for burgers and ranch dressing while <em>traveling</em> abroad.</p>
<p>Confession: While traveling in England, I would use a French accent if anyone spoke to me. Luckily, my name is French and sounds really good with an accent! There were so many loud obnoxious Americans on the trains and planes, that I just didn't want to be one of them. I wanted to blend in.</p>
<p>I'm a big believer in "When in Rome..." and would never scoff at being served one lone ice cube in my Coke while sitting at a Parisian cafe' (as one commenter said her husband did.) I've endured plenty of warm Coke and really bad egg-covered pizza in England, but who am I to judge? I learned to love so many English foods - even Marmite! I just find it bizarre when Americans travel outside of the US and expect it to be just like home. If it was, <em>why would you go?</em> Just go to Vegas instead. They've got the Eiffel Tower - and plenty of ice.</p>
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Laptopväska från PikMee, Halsband från Puss.se, Gucci inspirerade solbrillor, Butter Face &amp;]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Laptopväska från <a href="http://www.pikmee.se/" target="_blank">PikMee</a>, Halsband från <a href="http://www.puss.se/" target="_blank">Puss.se</a>, Gucci inspirerade <a href="http://www.solbrillor.se/" target="_blank">solbrillor</a>, Butter Face &#38; Body Cream från <a href="http://www.neaofsweden.se/" target="_blank">Nea Of Sweden</a>, Dockor från <a href="http://www.voodolls.se/" target="_blank">Voodolls</a>, Spel från <a href="http://www.kitsch.se/" target="_blank">Kitsch</a>, Sminkprodukter från <a href="http://www.smink.nu/" target="_blank">smink.nu</a>, Halsband från <a href="http://www.jammla.com/" target="_blank">Jammla</a>, Armband från <a href="http://www.lash.se/" target="_blank">Lash</a> och Guess Örhängen från <a href="http://butik.tidlust.se/" target="_blank">Butiken Tid &#38; lust</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Goodiebagen har ett värde av cirka 2600:-</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Tävla du med <strong><a href="http://wysteriiasblogg.se/2008/july/tavling-vinn-en-goodiebag.aspx">HÄR!</a></strong></p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A water gap is a &#8220;geological formation where a river cuts through a mountain ridge.&#8221;  
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A water gap is a "geological formation where a river cuts through a mountain ridge."  </p>
<p>You're welcome.</p>
<p>Saturday the Good Doctor and I went canoeing down the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Water_Gap">Delaware Water Gap</a>... which is actually in Pennsylvania.  And Jersey.  But not Delaware.</p>
<p>Yes, I know I swore off Jersey after a 5th of July BBQ that almost left me stranded at a bus stop out there.  But this time we had a rental car.  And we didn't actually have to step foot in Jersey.  We just had to drive through it.  My window stayed rolled up the entire time.</p>
<p>Once in the Keystone State, we coasted down the Delaware River where I sang songs from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DE5a80I8EU"><em>Pocahontas</em></a> and worked on my life vest tan:<br />
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The Good D. and I were the only gays on The Gap that day.  While rafts full of frat boys and their soon-to-be-gangbanged girlfriends rolled by drinking 6-packs of Bud Light, we nibbled on cheese wedges and sipped our vodka and o.j. on the rocks.  </p>
<p>Later we pulled our canoe up on the real rocks (not ice), and had a picnic courtesy of Whole Foods.  Old wives' tale be damned, we went for a swim right after eating.   The rental company suggested wearing water shoes.  Um, no thanks:<br />
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If only I had listened...  While laying on a mossy, submerged rock I felt something about the size of a silver dollar on my foot.  <strong>IT WAS A FUCKING LEECH!!!</strong>  I hate leeches.  They're right up there with centipedes and worms that lay out in the rain and get run over by cars for me.  </p>
<p>After I pulled the sucker (literally) off of my foot and threw it back in the water, I had a mini-freak out and decided that I was done swimming.  I began to tell the Good D. about the time I went swimming as a child and stepped in a pool of baby leeches, when I felt something on my back.  </p>
<p><em>Please don't let it be more leeches.  Please don't let it be more leeches...</em>  Sure enough, I scratched my back, and when I pulled my hand back around to inspect it... it was crawling with <em>baby leeches</em>.  Now it was time for a MAJOR freak out.</p>
<p>After a lot of whimpering and hyper-ventilating, I got back in the canoe and rowed like there was no tomorrow.  I wasn't trying to row fast to get away from the leeches.  But rather, I was picking up the pace because on our way into town I spotted a Flea Market store that was only open until 6pm.</p>
<p>This is me in heaven:<br />
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<p>The Good D. knew about my sick love affair with kitsch, but this is the first time he had seen it in action.  I could have spent hours in that store.  They had a whole room full of boxes where everything was a dollar.  There was a sign on the wall that said if you spent $25 in that room, you got $5 for free.  It was a challenge that was just begging for me to accept it... but I didn't want to freak the Good D. out too much.</p>
<p>So instead I just decided to freak out the local shoppers by buying the gayest shit in there.  </p>
<p>My conquests:<br />
1. Culture Club's <a href="http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B0000562T9.09.LZZZZZZZ.jpg"><em>Colour by Numbers</em></a>.<br />
2. A white leather bracelet, with the word "PUNK" in pink rhinestones.<br />
3. Rainbow elbow pads.</p>
<p>and my crowning glory...</p>
<p>4. Teenesha Campbell-Jones.<br />
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That's the name I bestowed upon her.  I'm working on her backstory, which I'll post soon.</p>
<p>I told the Good D. that he had to buy at least one thing.  He did me proud by buying <em>The Ungame</em>, "the world's most popular self expression game" where everyone is a winner.  Good D. bought the "Christian version" that tacks such bible-riffic questions as "<em>If you could add two new commandments to the Ten Commandments, what would they be?</em>"  </p>
<p>Surprisingly, he also bought this:<br />
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He said he wanted it for the picture on the front.  But I suspect that some day I'm going to come home and find him lounging on the couch, waiting for me with nothing but the body suit, a Princess Leigh wig, and a crooked smile.</p>
<p>In the dollar section, I found the perfect purse to match:<br />
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But I ended up passing on it.  I just couldn't bring myself to carry it up the register where the lady with the side-ponytail and pink scrunchie was waiting with judging eyes.  Besides, the theme for my purchases was "faggot," not "drag queen."</p>
<p>Driving back home we got stuck in Jersey traffic for at least an hour, which only solidified my hatred for the Garden State.  But after a fun day of canoeing and thrifting... it was almost worth it.  </p>
<p>For those of you wanting to see a picture of the Good D... I'm sorry, but I've decided to protect the innocent.  Instead, here's an artist's rendering of us in a cornfield:<br />
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Here's a look at our booth in Atlanta. Doesn't it look cozy by the (cardboard) fire?</p>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Apartment Therapy
Some of you sensible people out there might have well insulated homes, but I don]]></description>
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<p>Some of you sensible people out there might have well insulated homes, but I don't and frankly "dahlings" I'm finding living in a 90 meter square fridge and having condensation streaming down the walls terribly last year.  If I was sensible I'd take a trip to Bunnings and invest in some pretty pink batts and investigate heating options but instead I'd rather redecorate and I've found the perfect inspiration;<a title="Apartment Therapy" href="http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Catalogue/keyword.asp?TI+apartment+therapy">Apartment therapy presents real homes, real people, hundreds of real design solutions</a>, a funky and stylish mixture of rented and owned flats accross America.</p>
<p>Most of the apartments are on the compact side and present significant spacial and aesthetic challenges. Many of the home decorators also admit to having more dash than cash forcing some cunning shopping and innovative solutions. The "real people" owners use flea market vintage and quirky collections, such as kewpie dolls, metal wrenches(!) and street signs to add that little "je ne sais pas" to the mix. I particularly loved a wall covered entirely with post-it notes. This is a fantastic and achievable source book for anyone drawn to the cheap, cheerful or kitsch in interior decoration.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Iron Chef and Me]]></title>
<link>http://kitschnglam.wordpress.com/?p=78</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Recently, Fine Living Network began airing daily Iron Chef Japan episodes at 11:00 PM EST - the ori]]></description>
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<p>Recently, Fine Living Network began airing daily <a href="http://www.fineliving.com/fine/iron_chef_japan/">Iron Chef Japan</a> episodes at 11:00 PM EST - the <em>original</em> Iron Chef! And I couldn't be happier!</p>
<p>Although Food Network now produces <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ia">Iron Chef America</a>, it just can't compete with the original. Sorry, Mario! Part of the fun of Iron Chef is the commentary, translations and Chairman Kaga! Originally, the show aired from 1993 to 1999, but they still <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd4f7hR3F7s&#38;feature=related">feel as fresh</a> as the sushi they're preparing!</p>
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<link>http://cronicasatipicas.wordpress.com/?p=1176</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The comic book character, Memin Pinguin, is back in the news.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The comic book character, Memin Pinguin, is back in the news.</p>
<p>While there is a good case to be made (and it is made very well by Marco Polo Hernandez Cuevas of North Carolina Central University in the attached video) that the comics are symptoms of a racist Spanish influence in Mexican culture,<a href="http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/miss-usa-memin-speedy-and-jose-vasconcelos/" target="_blank"> I don't think Mexico is nearly as "racist" as the United States</a>, and looks at stereotypes, like Memin, differently than we do in the U.S.</p>
<p><a href="http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/memin1.jpg"><img style="float:left;cursor:hand;margin:0 10px 10px 0;" src="http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/memin1.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="275" height="315" /></a>The cartoon is not as popular as the U.S. press makes out, the series having been discontinued in 2001. The only translation I've seen of a Memin comic, in a <a href="http://www.culturaspopulares.org/textos5/articulos/katz.pdf" target="_blank">scholarly article </a>sent to me by Professor Hernandez Cuevas, has Memin speaking "Hollywood Ebonics".    If I recall correctly, Memin speaks Veracruz/Caribbean Spanish.  He certainly doesn't talk like Buckwheat.</p>
<p>In the comic, he's being raised in the Mexico City dump by his long-suffering mother (his father having been killed in an accident).  Like another popular Mexican stereotype (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Elena_Velasco" target="_blank">Maria la India</a>) he's an uneducated naif, but making his own way amid sterotyped representatives of the other social and economic groups within Mexico. However, he does indeed drawn with exaggerated "Negroid" features.  For that matter, so was Colin Powell, when he was U.S. Secretary of State during the build-up to the Iraq War, which made him extremely unpopular in Mexico.  At that time, the most popular foreign actor in Mexico was Denzel Washington.</p>
<p>Mexicans, apparently, don't "get" racial stereotyping.  It was not Mexicans, but Mexican-Americans who complained about Speedy Gonzales (beloved in Mexico) and the Frito Bandito.  Back in July 2005, when the Mexican Postal Service issued stamps featuring Memin (part of a series on comic book characters), the outrage from the United States was simply not understood in Mexico.   David Brook wrote -- in Spanish -- <a href="http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/07/01/a05n1cul.php" target="_blank">an excellent overview of the polemics</a> surrounding the issue.    The over-eagerness of the Bush Administration to take up the anti-Memin cause seemed a little out of character... and to the Mexican press, appeared to have more to do with strained relations between the Fox and Bush administrations than anything else.  Vicente Fox didn't help any when he agreed to meet with Rev. Jesse Jackson about the "controversy."  At the time, Jackson had been making noises about a "black-brown coalition" to oppose certain Bush Administration policies, and it seemed terribly convenient for Bush to make a postage stamp into an international issue.  And meeting with Jackson (who has no official position in the United States government) made it appear as if Fox was giving special concesions to foreigners.  In other words, giving in to whatever some gringo wanted.</p>
<p><a href="http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/memin2.jpg"><img style="float:right;cursor:hand;margin:0 10px 10px 0;" src="http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/memin2.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="275" height="315" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/memin2.jpg">According to the </a><a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5879616.html" target="_blank">Houston Chronicle's Neil Stratton</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Wal-Mart announced Wednesday it will no longer sell the controversial comic book featuring Memín. The national chain recently made the comic book available in its stores as part of a series of Spanish-language titles. The books prompted outrage this week from community activist Quanell X, who demanded that Wal-Mart apologize for selling the racially charged books.</p>
<p>However, the decision by the nation's largest retailer to pull the books wasn't enough for Meyerland resident Shawnedria McGinty, 34, who originally brought the matter to Quanell X's attention. She said the statement released by Wal-Mart addressing the comic book was tantamount to "a slap in the face."</p></blockquote>
<p>Shawnedria McGinty may read Mexican comic books, and may regularly shop for them, but somehow that doesn't seem likely.   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanell_X" target="_blank">Quanell X, a controversial Houston political figure,</a> is the head of the "New Black Panther Party of Houston" (disavowed by the Black Panthers themselves), described by the Anti-Defamation League (the Party itself does not seem to have a website) as</p>
<blockquote><p>... feeding off of the nostalgia for, and presenting itself in the image of, the original Panthers, the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense has been able to ... maintain its influence in the black community. While the NBPP still attracts some followers under the guise of championing the causes of black empowerment and civil rights, its record of racism and anti-Semitism has overshadowed any of its efforts to promote black pride and consciousness.</p></blockquote>
<p>From my time in Houston, I remember Mr. X as being very good at stirring shit up (which sometimes needed stirring), but without a huge following.  Whether or not this is true here, I'll leave to the Houston media to figure out.</p>
<p>One other thought crosses my mind.  Mexico's first mixed Afro-Mestizo President was elected in 1828, and there have been several (Juan Alvarado, Lazaro Cardenas del Rio) since then.  It's only now that the United States has a serious mainstream candidate for president who is of mixed race.  While the United States lumps Mexicans and Afro-Cubans and Afro-Dominicans and a lot of other people together in the false "racial" category of "Hispanic," it's Mexican-Americans -- especially in states that normally vote Republican, like Texas, or are closely contested between the parties (like New Mexico) that are of special concern to the two political parties.  The U.S. press hasn't picked up on this yet, but Juan José Gutiérrez, of LatinosUSA, and an Obama supporter has.  <a href="http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2008/07/10/index.php?section=espectaculos&#38;article=a09n1esp" target="_blank">In today's Jornada, </a>Gutiérrez is quoted as saying (my translation):</p>
<blockquote><p>"What were the odds that the protests would come from a Republican bastion like Texas?  It seems that there are some people interested in creating a pretext to accentuate differences between Hispanics and African-Americans, based on something that has nothing to do with the political reality of the United States."</p></blockquote>
<p>I'd originally planned to post this video later, but given the political ramifications of comic-book-gate, Prof. Hernandez Cuevas' short documentary is well worth posting now:</p>
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