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Surrendering to the Inevitable - Chris Farmer

Chris Farmer — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:00:38 GMT

This is terrible.

As much as the city is being held in the grip of Nature and the adamantine grip of her snow, so do I - after having resisted for several days - feel inexorably pulled into the Snow Trap. I have to write about the snow. I do not WANT to write about the snow! I rebel against its banality in subject matter! I push against its encroaching walls!

Yet here we are....

Of Women and Men - Chris Farmer

Chris Farmer — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:00:58 GMT

This is the trouble with crowdsourcing.

I have been asked to write about the relationship between men and women. In order to do so, I am forced to call upon my many years experience as a male and attempt to relate the relative truths and gleanings from this experience into a form which will elucidate and provide the invaluable insight which this topic requires and deserves. The effort has been extreme, but I finally believe that I might impart this wisdom - the sum total of my understanding of the relationship between women and men.

[68] INTERVIEW: VOJA DRAGOJLOVIC [HS] - bojan ljubomir jugovic

bojan ljubomir jugovic — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:00:34 GMT

Hipnagoga slike are...

- Hipnagoga slike are a three member band which on deeply honest way is trying to realize its musical ideas, trying as much as it's in our power that the music we create is at the highest level in, both, its technical and its artistic domain. That's what we owe to the Music at the first place, that's what we owe to the people who make music seriously and of whom we had learned, as well as to the audience who are interested in it.

The bands that perform instrumental music have hard time struggling even abroad. With what sort of things one such band encounters while trying to survive and to produce that kind of music nowdays in Serbia?

- First of all we meet people who are true fans of music, who also compose music or they listen to it from the deepest need. Many of them were willing to help us dealing with various sorts of things - with recording music, shooting videos, designing the band logo, making an interesing interviews... As we speak, one modern dance troup is creating a coreography for the one composition that we made. All these things are beautiful and valuable experiences which we must note in these times. I really don't know how things are going on abroad but the easiness that could be by any chance available to us, I'm afraid that it would be unbearable . Time is the most important resourse we really don't have.

Drunk and Disorderly - Chris Farmer

Chris Farmer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:00:41 GMT

There is nothing more sobering than being pulled over for walking under the influence.

According to the brain scientists and rocket surgeons whom we have elected to public office in Belgrade ("we" being loosely applied here), it is NOT enough to switch off the music early. It is NOT enough to close the bars, cafes, and restaurants by midnight. It is NOT enough to curtail the sale of alcohol after a certain hour. Now, if we have a few too many, we will have to sleep in the bars until morning.

No Going Back Now - Chris Farmer

Chris Farmer — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:00:21 GMT

No matter what we do, the next step is always forward.

It is a fact of our linear time-space continuum that the life in the world is a one way street. 2011 cannot be followed by 2010 (nor by 1526 as far as that goes) or anything other than 2012. Tonight we celebrate that passage in our odd and somewhat superfluous tradition marking the passage of time. Even as I write this, we could be celebrating the passage of 11.59 into 12.00...

The Dead - albicilla

albicilla — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:00:23 GMT

"A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland.

Just for Show - Chris Farmer

Chris Farmer — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:00:31 GMT

Strolling through the walkways of one of our illustrious shopping malls last night, I was bludgeoned on the head.

The instrument used to whack me was a nicely crafted bit of Consumer Nonsense such as often seems to happen to me. The attack was unprovoked (or not very much so) and left me in a bit of a daze for hours after. Let me explain....

Red Star brings 2011 to a close - Mark Pullen

Mark Pullen — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:00:25 GMT

The Red Star Rugby League senior squad marked the end of the woeful 2011 season with a festive reception at Belgrade's Little Bay Restaurant on 20th December. All players were presented with certificates for their personal contributions to the past season, while special awards went to the players recognised as having excelled on the pitch during 2011.