Until the moment I withdrew my sons from state education in the UK, I confused education with schooling. It’s a common mistake, and one which is easier to make if you have been through the state education machine yourself. The state spends considerable amounts of money – our money! – persuading us that the two […]
THEATRE AND DREAMS. ARRABAL – a psychoanlitic perspective
Unlike psychological theatre, which clearly expresses through language and situations, the characters’ superior truths, the 50s theatre changes the language and the situations from means of revealing the insight life of things into autonomous, independent objects. The exposed objects produce the life of characters. The avant-garde theatre, as essence of world and of playing, doesn’t […]
Eddie “Fingers” Ojeda Rocks On
Eddie Ojeda Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda is a guitarist who rose to fame as one of two guitarists in the popular 80s heavy-metal band Twisted Sister. He joined the band in 1975, several years before they broke into commercial success with hits such as "We’re Not Gonna Take It," and "I Wanna Rock." Ojeda, born in Cuba and […]
ALTERNATIVE MEMORY
TEXT 9 Mnezicus, mnezica, mnezicum. Three violins, three rooms. I gave birth at 30 years old standing on my feet. The father is a Train Station worker. I did him in the train toilet. 29 degrees Celsius. 14:27. 2 min 36s. I moaned. Have you come? xxx I always find better solutions when […]
Soccer Fanatics
La Plata, Argentina — It is difficult to overstate the importance of soccer in Argentina. In Castellano, the dialect of Spainish specific to the River Platte and greater Buenos Aires province, you are not a supporter of your favorite soccer team, you are from that team. “I have been from Estudiantes before I […]
Rahsaan as Orpheus
City Bell, Argentina — "That’s what freedom’s all about; learnin’ somethin’ then throwin’ it away." Rahsaan Roland Kirk One afternoon, about two years ago, I was sitting in my bedroom with a view of a strange, new city, listening to a piece on NPR about dreams and art. It was a cold day and […]