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The Tibetan Book of The Dead as explored by the national film board of Canada, NHK and the voice of Leonard Cohen.

"When you are born, you cry, but the whole world is overjoyed. When you die, the world cries, but you may find...the great liberation."

An IPA ditty

dʒɛŋhəs kɑn, dʒɛŋhəs kɑn, wɪl ju mɛri mi?
ajv hərd əbawt jɔr mɑŋgəl hɔrdz, so wajld ænd blədθərsti.
ajv hərd ju sajərd ə θawzənd sənz, pərhæps wil mek wən mɔr?
o pliz, pliz mɛri mi dʒɛŋhəs kɑn, ju hɛlmətəd mæn- hɔr.

Also.

From an old file I found.

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Salif Keita

One of the week's best lastfm discoveries:

Budleigh

Seagulls to the left of me

 

and seagulls to the right.

Rocksteady

Further Kabloona-isms

"I pointed, we moved towards it, and there was no doubt about it: that black dot was a man. In this land of one million square miles inhabited by six thousand men, the sight of a human being is overwhelming; it creates an emotion that is like a seizure, difficult to describe."

"I am going to say to you that a human being can live without complaint in an ice-house built for seals at a temperature of fifty-five degrees below zero, and you are going to doubt my word. Yet what I say is true, for this was how Father Henry lived; and when I say 'ice-house for seals' I am not using metaphorical language. Father Henry lived in a hole dug out by the Eskimos in the side of a hill as a place in which to store seal meat in Summer."

A Portion Of Jagger Craziness

Watched Performance recently, still trying to piece together what I make of it. Think it'll take a few more viewings but for now this is one section of it that keeps resurfacing in my brain.

The thing turned towards you.

"Their word for polar bear is tara-i-tua-luk,'he who is without shadow' (though the polar bear is also

called 'the eternal vagabond'.

There is a sort of poetry of the concrete in their speech that is very moving. Thus, mi-kse, the

word for 'reality/ is literally translatable as 'the thing turned towards you.'"




- Gontran De Poncins on Inuit languages in 'Kabloona'.

Stuck in my head all week.