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August 31, 2005
Reflect
Sometimes the energy ebbs and flows: on some nights it is good, and the body feels strong and alert and limber and able to do most anything. Other times I just don't feel quite right, and class becomes something to be gotten through and endured, clock-watching every 5 minutes. I want to perform; yet I don't; I feel like I can solo; I don't know what the heck I'd be doing onstage with the higher cords… I've known nothing but support and encouragement from the group; sometimes I feel that Mestre is disappointed in me. I've definitely not been as dedicated as I once was -- these days it seems I'm pulled in even more directions and occasionally I wonder at the simplicity that once governed my day-to-day. Capoeira on certain nights, Loose Change for the others; photography and friends during the rest.
Perhaps it's just the inevitable, residual Catholic guilt in me constantly resurfacing to remind me of my former passions, now somewhat neglected.
But despite this (hopefully temporary) turmoil, I have to admit: life has changed in a wonderful way indeed...
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August 25, 2005
@ the Getting Up Block Party
See Flickr friend Caromira's photos from the Getting Up Block Party
Flickr photos tagged "gettingupblockparty".
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Bravo
"So, the only real issue is whether the City can lawfully proscribe an otherwise-approved public art exhibition on its streets because that exhibition involves painting graffiti on mock subway cars. The City does not suggest, nor could it, that such painting is itself a crime, since the 'subway car' panels are plainly mock-ups. But it claims the right to censor this exercise of free speech expression because, in the words of the Mayor on his radio program last Friday, the exhibition is tantamount to 'encouraging vandalism.' By the same token, presumably, a street performance of Hamlet would be tantamount to encouraging revenge murder. Or, in a different vein, a street performance of 'rap' music might well include the singing of lyrics that could be viewed as encouraging sexual assault. As for a street performance of Oedipus Rex don't even think about it."
Other links:
- Gothamist on the Marc Ecko vs. Bloomberg grafitti party drama
- Marc Ecko's (yes, that Ecko) blog on the matter.
- via Wooster, NYT article on the revoking of the party permit
- via Wooster, Bucky Turco's take on the above ruling
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