all the pretty scooters

eldorado. woke up to find my scooter gone. dwelled on stories about locating and rescuing it. they almost all ended with storylines from cormac mccarthy novels. decided to pull a zen cap on that thought.
bad luck.
we shall see.

goodbye, old friend.

dropped off sp at the airport. bought three tubs of hummus and a can of ginger beer at the foreign market in gwangan. sat on the beach eating my hummus with crackers while being watched by curious, hungry pigeons. spent most of the afternoon at the pulitzer prize photo exhibit in the knn building in centum city.

wabi sabi aesthetic

Zen and Mahayana Buddhism influence.
Imperfection. Simplicity. Transience. Economy. Asymmetry. As opposed to western Apollonian aesthetics.

Three marks of Existence.
Emptiness. Impermanence. suffering.

Wabi sabi style music: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shikanotoone_new.ogg

Desolation and solitude.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_garden

Read essay In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ali/2010ema8600/tanizaki_in%20praise%20of%20shadows.pdf

see
mono no aware http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware

Found it while listening to The Man In The High Castle.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

cockney rhyming slang

Brown bread – dead
daisy root – boots
dog and bone – phone
loaf of bread – head
north and south – mouth
khyber pass – arse
trouble and strife – wife
whistle and flute – suit
pork pies – lies
jam jar – car

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/

the great war

BBC documentary of WWI

The Great War(1964)
Part 1:

Strong intro.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_(documentary)

Big Bertha and the invasion of Belgium:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(howitzer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium

Paris Gun and the siege of Paris:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun