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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Ode

We are the music makers,
And we are the reamers of dreams,
Wandering by long sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful dethless ditties
We build up the wold's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory;
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new son'gs measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying, 
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Ninevah with our singing
And babel itself with our mirth.
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
to the old of the new world's worht;
For each eage is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.



-Arthur O'Shaughnessy.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Special Agent Dale Cooper's Dream, from Twin Peaks

One of the most mysterious and erie scenes from the early nineties television series by David Lynch, Twin Peaks, in which Special Agent Dale Cooper dreams about the identity of Laura Palmer's killer...

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Hieratica Street

"They dream against warm breasts and empty beds of the four black pools in Orlande's house. They stare straight ahead into her pink and gray-speckled mouth, and the red thread sweeps tight against their wrists. On four laps the frog-oracle lays four cards, but they do not look down, yet."

-from Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente

Monday, May 23, 2011

Jackie Evancho: Chasing Her Dreams

Check out this brief interview with the young and talented Jackie Evancho and find out how she is chasing her dreams. You can also hear part of her original song which is, ironically or not, about dreaming...

Jackie Evancho: Chasing Her Dreams, from National Public Radio's All Things Considered 05/23/2011.