31/10/2006

In the Meantime You're We're not Happy.

"Sometimes we spend so much time thinking about the future, and that imagined happiness is so important to you, that you do all kinds of things in the hope it might work. But in the meantime you're not even happy. That's not how is should be."

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30/10/2006

Pain Doesn't Make Art.

Using pain for art? Nope it doesn't work like that. it can be agonising trying to tease out ideas but the source of art isn't pain. It's the entire inferno of life, and then it's a methodical, technical slog no different from scientists firing satellites to other planets.


Frances D'Ath, Choreographer


Our parents became migrants, they'd move countries once and start anew, like in australia, but now we move all the time, like migrant workers but we fly instead of catching busses.


Frances D'Ath, Choreographer

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18/10/2006

Just a little Bit Wrong...

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"Even the smallest action has great consequences, and even the ones that you take for granted every day that just might be a little bit wrong can lead to terrible, terrible things."
David Evans.

When I heard that I thought it's so very true. Especially when it comes to men, and probably women as well, in terms of how they treat the opposite sex, the people they date, have sex with or go out with. So many people do small things that are wrong, that isn't the best, that could hurt someone thinking there are no consequences or that they can get away with it. But over the years it all adds up. In this case it just blew up.

The person who said that was one of the three men who are accused of raping a stripper just off the Duke University Campus. He's probably not the first person to come to mind to say anything worthy to listen to. However, I make no judgement on them as I do believe in the tenants of the legal system which is "innocent until proven guilty." Which seems most people have forgotten not only in this case but nearly all circumstances.

I just wanted to put it up because when I heard him say that, it had a lot of meaning for me in a different context.

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