Wanda Waterman is a poet, spoken word artist, blogger, cultural journalist, and digital nomad. She’s been writing regularly for The Voice Magazine since 2004, not long after she began studying psychology at Athabasca. Her poetry has been published in Descant, The Talking Leaves, Chizine, Our Times, The Best of Tigertail, and Pottersfield Portfolio and her articles in Design is Political, Rawckus Magazine, Coastal Life, The New Internationalist, This Magazine, and in her blog, The Mindful Bard. She grew up in Nova Scotia, but after having lived in New Hampshire and North Africa she’s now settled in Montreal.
Film: Gerhard Richter Painting (Kino Lorber 2011) Writer/Director: Corinna Belz ?Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we’re trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn’t.? Brad Holland Who Cares if They Like it?Is It Right?… Read more »
Album: Seinn (2012) Artists: Mary Jane Lamond and Wendy MacIsaac ?Moch ‘s a ‘mhaduinnrinn mi éirigh Early in the morning I arose Dhirich mi àirighnaspréigheadh I climbed the shelling Fhuair mi a’ chruinneagdhonn gun éirigh I found the brown-haired maiden not yet risen? ?ÒranLuaidh? (traditional Scots Gaelic song) The Importance of Being Gaelic Years ago,… Read more »
Album: Khaled, C?est la vie ?Make prayers, Mother?your poor son is suffering. Pray hard. I know one day the moon will sleep, so pray until the day comes. God doesn’t break His promises! At the door of Paradise I will dance with my mother, at the door of Paradise I will dance with my mother,… Read more »
?The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.? Thomas Jefferson ?A thief not caught becomes a king.? Kurdish proverb Moustafa Mala Bozan is a… Read more »
Film: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) Director/Screenwriter: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Cast: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Firat Tanis;, Ercan Kesal Genre: Art House, International, Drama ?Life is but a dream for the dead.? Gerard Way ?Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and… Read more »
Film: Happy (Wadi Rum Films 2011) Director: Roko Belic Genre: Documentary ?A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.? Proverbs 17:22 NIV ?One must choose happiness.? Stratis Myrivilis, in Life in the Tomb The Care and Feeding of the Bluebird of Happiness A handsome young Japanese businessman has, by… Read more »
Panic and Bravado in Assad’s Syria ?A hundred men can sit together quietly but when two dogs get together there will be a fight.? Kurdish proverb ?Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.? William S. Burroughs Moustafa Mala Bozan is a Kurdish poet and musician from the city of Kobany in northern Syria, not far… Read more »
