lost in translation

Author: sponkers  |  Category: Uncategorized

i am as most of you would know, not an artistic person. however as of late, i’ve been immersing myself in things very related to art or even design. so here i am plugging in another great site which will be something i am gonna be browsing on a constant basis;

http://www.de-online.co.uk/

Death is the mother of beauty.

Author: sponkers  |  Category: Uncategorized

props to Wallace Stevens.

Excerpts from preface of The Sandman, Book of Dreams.

To be conscious a all is to be conscious of time, and of time’s arrond: of destiny. And to know that is to know that time must have a sto: to imagine death. Faced with the certainty of death, we dream, imagine paradises where it might not be so: “Death is the mother of beauty,” wrote Wallace Stevens. And all dreams, all myths,  all the structures we throw up between ourselves and chaos, just because they are built things, must inevitably be destroyed.  And we turn, desperate in our loss, to the preishable but delicious joy of the moment, we desire. All desire is, of course the hope for a fulfillment impossible in every nature of things, a boundless delightl; so to desire is always already to despair, to realize that the wished-for delight is only, after all, the delirium of our mrotal self-delusion that the world is large enough to fit the mind. And so we return to new stories — to dream.

and also, another lovely sentence from the preface,

“In the beginning, God made man?” Quite and quite precisely– the reverse.

I have always loved Gaiman’s work, since i was a young, when i was exposed to his Sandman comic in the papers. I grew up, got separated from the comic and of recent years, i began, to start reading his works again.  and thus, the romance restarted with American Gods, Anansi Boys, Good Omen’s,Neverwhere,  The Graveyard Book and a full circle later, back to The Sandman.

Band of the month: Fanfarlo

Author: sponkers  |  Category: Uncategorized

I have been off the music radar for weeks, haven’t been picking up any new stuff for my playlist.

Well, my mindless surfing on the web brought me in contact with a new album from a band i’ve never heard before and i enjoyed them tremendously. Meet Fanfarlo, very British, very folkish, just my type. they remind me very much of Arcade Fire, and a little of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. popsy folkish music. easy on the ears, keeps you humming and sits there in your head the whole day, can’t get that tune out of your head.

No sample here, but you can just visit their site http://www.fanfarlo.com/ and see if they suit your taste.

In the dead of the night

Author: sponkers  |  Category: entertainment

Damn i should be sleeping, but i’ve picked up the nasty habit of going to bed very late/”early” if you prefer.

Had dinner with 2 “lovely” ladies who “loved” me so much that they force feed me with whatever food they could not finish, according to them, that is a sign of “affection”. Note to self, torture someone in the future, that will show them how much you care and love them. :p Not to mention, mutilating the body aka SAW style is another method. That is to let them know that you will want them by your side all the time, how much you can’t bear to live without them.  LOL! with “lovely” friends like these, who needs enemies. :p

I just hope I won’t have any nightmares of them doing their deed on me. Not helping of course, would be my out of a sudden need to check my brother’s blog,site, whatever you call it. I wouldn’t want to spoil it for you. It’s a good read but try to do it in broad daylight, preferably with the SUN shining brightly on you especially if you have a heart the size of a mouse. Check out the link below;

http://abnerd.com/the-third-house-from-the-right/

Well, there’s nothing much happening in my life lately. Rather, I have been feeling out of place and down in the dumps. No idea why, but I’ll live. It happens from time to time. Maybe, it’s quarter life crisis? just kidding.

Found another nice site to visit if you are bored. SFW, I have not thoroughly gone through all the pages yet but it sure caught my attention. Actually, this is what caught it in the first place

Visit it, http://recoveringlazyholic.blogspot.com

On another note, another funny picture that I found lurking on Nerviosismo

Crap, look at the time. Off to bed!

NSFW ?? Not anymore! then again..maybe not!

Author: sponkers  |  Category: photography

for those who are easily offended by photos of nude women, you can still enjoy graphical and photographic inspiration over at the following link ;

http://nervioso.enjoysthin.gs

okie..i haven’t really gone through all the pictures from the above link but it seems some pictures are still NSFW, but they aren’t so obvious. so for you closet pervs, i know you are gonna secretly enjoy this new link a lot more ;)