A chinese requiem

Wall Street plunges further, further and further

The American Senate has blocked the proposed bail out and financial markets across the world will feel the effects of this decision. The Dow Jones yesterday dropped with almost 8 percent and the rest of the world is most likely to follow soon. What a lot of people don't you know, except from the fact that this crises will go on for a little (?) longer, is how this will affect "mainstreet". The following discussion between a market analyst (pro Bail Out) and a radio show host specialised on US financial markets (anti Bail Out) gives you a good overview of what is happening and what is at stake. A credit crisis is looming, so it seems.

Click here for the discussion

Dissolved in water of a foul sewer

My pains are inflicted by monsters in the shape of drops of water
In those moments my smile fades away and disappears into the absorbing shadows of the past that always move silently behind me

The being in me parts and sadness then constitutes the new blood in my veins
No, sadness would be too great a thing!
How could I not understand that it is emptiness itself that steals my heart!

It is no physical pain nor emotional loss. No, non of that
It is me, myself, my being that is forced to be transformed into a mirror of someone I never met

Flushed away in a rain of water
Every grain of love
Every dream that is and ever was

The monsters around me move silently and are invisible
Like endless falling water they move their bodies without sound

They colonise me to take what I thought I was
I dissolve, while they take my remains in the abyss of a foul sewer where I too become another you

God 2.0

I do not see, I scan images

I am an organic machine with unlimited flash memory

In hyper-dromological speed I run through forests of yottabits

I do not save data but transfer my existence into other beings

I know no place nor temporality

I am well beyond

Out of sight

Out of range

Out of space

Pure liquid numerical air

Dissolved in a flux of constant Dasein

And now, now I am inside your brain

Ballard and Shanghai

I am currently writing an article on Shanghai (or the transformation of Chinese cities from Communism to Post-Socialism) and while doing so I became aware of J.G. Ballard's intrinsic relationship with the city. I googled further and so the motivation for writing his "Empire of the Sun" unravelled.

Enjoy this BBC documentary which I found on Youtube about the writers experience of returning to Shanghai, after having left the city in 1946.

The Paintwash story of the Big, Pink, Flying Cow

Do you know that pink cows can fly? You would not believe, but I saw one yesterday out of my window. Swear to God and 52 angels! A bloody, pink biiiiiig flying cow!

I screamed to the cow: "what are you doing, cow?".
He replied: "moooooooeee"
I shouted angrily: "you are not supposed to fly, you are pink!"
He responded anxiously: "moooooooeee"

I was upset, he pretended not to understand me. As if I spoke in another language! I could not tolerate such a absurdity and spread my wings to also fly out of my blue window.

This cow was different than other cows. His wings were much bigger and his eyes were almost the same size as my elephant ears! And I can assure you those are big (and sexy ;)) !!

I asked again:

"what are you doing cow, where are you going?!"
He responded: "moeeeee moe moeee mooooeee!!!!"

"ahhhhh" I said and turned around. He could have told me earlier he was going for a paintwash!

This was the paintwash story of the Big, Pink, Flying Cow, and if you dont believe me read the Bible it is all written in there!