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Philemon's Solstice Fire

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Meryl Streep, Al Gore, Wim Wenders, Jesse Jackson, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sam Shepherd, Natalie Merchant, Michael Stipe, William Shakespeare, Dalai Lama, Crazy Horse, Johnny Depp, Vaclav Havel

Music:

Depends entirely on the mood

Movies:

Once upon a time in America, JFK, Mindwalk, My Dinner with Andre, Il Postino, Until the end of the world, Repulsion, Reds, American Beauty, Good Will Hunting, Crash, Hearts of Darkness, Kieslowski's films

Television:

Television is an urban wasteland

Books:

CG Jung, Pablo Neruda, Joseph Campbell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, WB Yeats, Howard Zinn, Aldous Huxley, Tao te Ching, Robinson Jeffers, Marie-Louise von Franz, Thomas Mann, William Blake, Friedrich Nietzsche, Carolyn Forche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sharon Doubiago, Goethe, Alan Watts, Henri Corbin, Carolyn Forche, Michael Ventura

Heroes:

Martin Luther King, Crazy Horse, Robinson Jeffers, Carl Jung

My Blog

The Memory of That Flame

In the naked morning, I turn to the stars, now fading, and seek meaning. a tear comes: my life, my passion falls with that tear. The dream of his touch  last night the fires burned once more...
Posted by Philemon's Solstice Fire on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:48:00 PST

How Evil is George Bush?

Reflections on Evil  Part I I watched "The Sopranos" on dvd last night and woke up this morning thinking about evil  go figure. A working psychological definition of Evil: "A one-sided, dis...
Posted by Philemon's Solstice Fire on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:55:00 PST

Conceptual Fire

The blood dims as the mind closes. Passion breathes with the taste of thought. The dream, each night, of meaning rests on the slow, worded step: stringing letters together in a fit of uncontroll...
Posted by Philemon's Solstice Fire on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:24:00 PST

Concepts concepts throwaway all concepts

There's a lot of confusion about the word "concept" and the thinking related to it. Oftentimes, there's also a certain animus, even a noticeable prejudice, against people who are so brazen to take ple...
Posted by Philemon's Solstice Fire on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:36:00 PST

briefly from boston

A few words before I head off to bed . . .Boston is a beautiful city. Could very well enjoy spending more time here. Had one of the city's best margaritas (according to one magazine) tonight in the Ca...
Posted by Philemon's Solstice Fire on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:54:00 PST

24 hours in Boston

I'm now in splashy new digs. Last night I stayed at a youth hostel. It was alright -- cheap and good location. I shared the room with two other guys, much better than some previous hostel living arran...
Posted by Philemon's Solstice Fire on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:12:00 PST

Adventure in Boston and New York

So I'm off later this morning for a conference, in Boston. A few days in Boston and then a few days in the center of the Universe, New York for straightforward debauchery and cultural enlightenment.An...
Posted by Philemon's Solstice Fire on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:15:00 PST

Incandescent dawn

In the casual night, low and fierce when black demons swim in and out of focus, I reach out for you. You. Black enchantress still haunting my nights. Creatress of the restless electricity that r...
Posted by Philemon's Solstice Fire on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:25:00 PST

Insomnia 6666

the heart bleeds amidst swollen veins,ventricles shut via mass intake of waste.the air smolders with repressed toxins bought with smiles and glee.follow your bliss into oblivion.the muscles, taut, wea...
Posted by Philemon's Solstice Fire on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:58:00 PST

Suicide Girl

suicide girl   Cold, dry nights locked in battle with a voracious Snake that ever chatters  he can't stop talking! Somewhere water drips: a maddening sound, omnipresent  omnipotent  N...
Posted by Philemon's Solstice Fire on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:08:00 PST