I had a spiritual experience in the theater yesterday. Facilitated by Marion D’Cruz.
Surrounded by an audience of awkwardly dressed students, she walked, danced and Gostan-ed Forward about the room, recounting her artistic history in the most natural way.
‘Is what I do called ‘dance’?’
She threw that question at us and just waited. Sipping from her plastic [...]
Archive for the ‘Muses’ Category
Penipu Chilayu!
Posted in Everyday Heroes, Muses, Recipes for Creativity, tagged art, dance, marion d'cruz, performance, retrospective, theatre on 2 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hopeless Industry
Posted in First Encounters, Muses on 6 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
I just met a gentleman yesterday at a funeral.
He must have been very upset that night, because he told me right to my face that I worked in a hopeless industry. (He even sighed heavily when Gin told him that she was married to me. I gave him my best smile, but he still hung [...]
The Reluctantly Retired Stunt Man
Posted in Everyday Heroes, Muses, Recipes for Creativity, tagged actors, committment, pain, sacrifice on 23 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
At 15, Beto began his film career as a stunt man. (Let’s ignore for a moment the fact that a 15 year old is allowed to do stunts on a film set.)
I learned a very important lesson from Beto: You can take the actor out of the stunt, but you can’t take the stunt man [...]
Zee Avi
Posted in Muses, Recipes for Creativity, tagged artist, malaysian, music on 20 May 2009 | 8 Comments »
She appeared in the papers last year.
But sadly, scientists have yet to figure out how to embed YouTube videos into newspapers and many of us may have missed this all-important piece of news.
What a shame! What a waste! What a terrible pity!
This 23 year old is one of us, folks!!
Discovered on the internet posting her [...]
Life of Pi
Posted in Inanimate But Alive, Muses, Spirituality, tagged books, life of pi, progressive revelation, religion, Spirituality on 6 May 2009 | 6 Comments »
“I have a story that will make you believe in God.”
You must have read it before. I know, I’m a little slow on the pick-up.
I’m only 101 pages through but I HAVE to make a post about this book.
It’s made me laugh every 2 pages or so. Out loud. Which made it difficult for Gin [...]
The Freak for the Teh Tarique
Posted in Inanimate But Alive, Muses, Now where do I put this?, Recipes for Creativity, tagged mamak, music video, teh tarik on 30 April 2009 | 8 Comments »
I recently had a few hours free, aight.
[oh btw, just a little warning: hip-hop rapper speak ahead...or a bad imitation thereof]
5 were spent waitin’ for Ashraf, Alfred and DJ Taraz to finalize the toon and muzique (how am I doing so far?).
3 were spent shootin’ at the local eatery.
Let me give you the low-down of [...]
The Jack Sparrow of Dogs
Posted in Inanimate But Alive, Muses, tagged dogs, marriage, movies on 28 April 2009 | 2 Comments »
I can’t keep this secret inside any longer… One of my ALL TIME favourite films is… SOUND OF MUSIC!
There, I said it. Now nothing will surprise you.
Last Saturday I watched 2 films that made my sad and happy hormone glands work on overdrive, each pumping alternately in quick bursts, swelling my arteries and capillaries, turning [...]
Terpesong
Posted in Muses, Recipes for Creativity, tagged bully, childhood, children, education, justice, school on 27 April 2009 | 3 Comments »
Alayna, one of the most brilliant and radiant young school-going ladies I know, does not answer essay questions critically and with creative abandon. Why? “I’ll get a big ‘x’ and ‘terpesong’.”
Ahh…that word brings back memories of my own schoolhood.
Terpesong…
There is not a single good person I know who was never at least once terpesong. Sit [...]
Really, how are you?
Posted in Days of Solitude, Everyday Heroes, Muses, tagged cancer, healthcare, love, medicine, mental health, nursing, patients on 17 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At about 11pm every night, just as the other patients are falling into a deep sleep, Susan would get out of bed and start making a racket.
She would walk up and down the halls in the ward, talk to people, disrupt the work of nurses and prevent the ill from a restful recovery sleep. Her [...]
