GOD
music
growing
sowing
masks
dreaming
art
words
love
life
sunrise etc
Floating
Floating/
Light and weightless/
On a soft cloud of fragile bliss,/
I permit my soul to soar and explore;/
My senses to escape and indulge;/
My mind to spread and seek;/
And my spirit to commune with kind.
Life isn’t so bad after all/
Where I float/
The firmament and I/
We blend/
And humanity is but a fantasy/
In reality
Where speech is useless/
And entities thrive on intentions;/
Where justice is the life-enriching blood stream,/
And punishment is the possession of conscience.
I float/
With stratospheric bolts/
At blinding speed/
Through quantum time/
And catch myself/
Thinking of the journey to start/
Still sprawled on my soft cloud/
Intending greetings to other spirits/
Who smile sunshine/
And rain happiness/
In response.
I float/
Across borders of mortals/
Beyond the tongues of Babel/
Vaulting above reason/
But still engulfed/
By nature’s common sense.
I flit between races and phases/
And spaces and stages,/
Mixing with notes/
And blending with hues and tones,/
Assuming a new essence/
That the spirit all-embracing/
Intends commendable.
Floating,/
Mindless, thoughtless, effortless,/
I spread across the entirety of the cosmos/
And experience the cover/
Of the nothingness/
That is mortal life.
I'd like to meet:
bright stars...!some of the videos i shot in the past decade.
Music:
.jazz
.hip hop
.psychedellic
.afrobeat
.dub
.reggae
.bossa nova.salsa
.drumnbass
.raindrops on the window pane
.laughter etc
Movies:
robert altman.
spike lee.
darren aronovsky.
fespaco.
indies.
foreign.
kung-fu etc
Television:
obviously, i produce for television and would want ratings for my programs. but truly, we all know 93-one-third of programming is rubbish - shallow, twisted, biased, repeats. so i do not watch too much of it.
i hope those in this eastern seaboard market area will patronize my new series though.
Books:
'venusplazadotcom' is Achampong’s eighth book. This second novel, a sequel of sorts to the critically acclaimed 'Dream A Song', is an eerie, disturbing and misty introspective of the immigrant underground in Maryland, as seen through the lives of an intergalactic cast whose incursions into Cyberia, the supernatural, and the back streets of Baltimore leave behind a trail of darkness and chills.http://www.lulu.com/content/2261877
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'Floating': “From the daily death of the sun to the cry of a sister for the life of a brother, from [John] Coltrane’s melodic place in history to the griot’s spoken path creating history, we view places seen and unseen. Paths traveled with timeworn shoes and an international vision. Pain and joy from a heart full from the sights of many missions.†Sandi Mallory, WEAA 88.9 FM, Lite FM. http://www.lulu.com/content/240473
'Dream A Song' leads you through the dark, pathetic and comical psyche of urban Africa. In Ansong’s world, nothing is sacred. Except facts. His uninhibited disposition drags one through a wretched yet hopeful Africa that is lived everyday yet remains unseen by outsiders.
Through his warped sense of logic, one is ushered into an analysis , nay dissection, of the fundamental tenets of West African urban life: the middleclass which he describes as “a bunch of privileged, pampered plonkers [undergoing] an awesome abortion; the press as “a conduit for nonsenseâ€; tribalism as a virtue; and, Nigeria as the cause of everyone’s problems.
The author tackles these and other sensitive pressing issues through discussions among a motley assortment of opinionated nincompoops and Ansong’s own twisted observations, fantasies and nightmares.
'Dream A Song' is like a strange feast of foreign food – delicious, spicy, sometimes utterly repulsive in an empathetic way, but always leaving one with a funny lingering aftertaste. http://www.lulu.com/content/248257
'Sun of God' is a play in five acts about a story of greed for power through the mad pursuit of copper. The story has everything - a pinch of avarice here, another of envy there, a little taste of love and hate, and of great deeds and fate. This landscape is filled with tales of ambition with lofty mountains of deception and passionate valleys of corruption, all set in pre-colonial Central Africa http://www.lulu.com/content/757253
Adinkra (i'kon')-cepts: [concept ikons of the Asante Akan of West Africa] is Achampong's seventh book. This book, his second non-fiction, traces the history of the symbology and the Akans of West Africa and discusses the phenomenon’s nuances, evolutions and current applications. The author enhances the definitive work with a sumptuous buffet of pictures and illustrations. http://www.lulu.com/content/2208748 - Hard Cover
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‘Empowernomics: understanding the system of God’s purpose for mankind – an outline of the teachings of Rev. Gene C. Bradford’, is an effort to invite Christians to a journey of understanding the system of God’s purpose for mankind. As the title says, it is an on outline of the core teachings of Rev. GENE C. BRADFORD. Like the governor Nehemiah says of the skilled scribe Ezra, Bradford “read[s] distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and … [gives] the sense, and help[s] [us]… to understand the readingâ€. He speaks about pain and problems. For instance, he explains that these are experiences that Christians have to go through. Or there would be no Calvary, and therefore no salvation. “Why then do you pray your problems away? You are supposed to endure and learn from them so that God may be glorified. Remember that it rains on both the sinner and the righteous alike,†he says.http://www.lulu.com/content/1353719
ayn rand.
wole soyinka.
huysman.
chaucer etc
Heroes:
all around me -
CHRIST.
my mum.
my 3princes
