Sunday, April 27, 2008

Muxtape

A friend recently introduced this website to me. It's cool. People make their own "mixtapes" with MP3's on this site and then other people can listen to them. Or you can listen to anyone's tape. Check it out!

http://muxtape.com/

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Wavering

Between Going and Staying

Between going and staying the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.

The circular afternoon is now a bay
where the world in stillness rocks.

All is visible and all elusive,
all is near and can't be touched.

Paper, book, pencil, glass,
rest in the shade of their names.

Time throbbing in my temples repeats
the same unchanging syllable of blood.

The light turns the indifferent wall
into a ghostly theater of reflections.

I find myself in the middle of an eye,
watching myself in its blank stare.

The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause.

-Octavio Paz
trans. Eliot Weinberger

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Spring Has Sprung!

Someone who goes with half a loaf of bread
to a small place that fits like a nest around him,
someone who wants no more, who's not himself
longed for by anyone else,

He is a letter to everyone. You open it.
It says, Live.

-Rumi