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: The Turin Horse (Hungarian with subtitles) (2011) Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky Cast: János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos Screenwriters: Béla Tarr, László Krasznahorkai ?Man is the cruelest animal.? Friedrich Nietzsche ?Acquire, debase, debase, acquire. Or I can put it differently if you’d like. To touch, debase, and thereby acquire, or touch, acquire, and… Read more »
?A red apple invites stones.? ?A heart in love with beauty never grows old.? Kurdish proverbs Part II: A Heart in Love With Beauty Moustafa Mala Bozan is a Kurdish poet and musician from the city of Kobany in northern Syria, not far from Aleppo. He’s been corresponding online with Wanda Waterman for the last… Read more »
Part I: The Smell of a Soul ?The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.? Meridel Le Sueur ?Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has… Read more »
Film: Chico & Rita (Music Box Films 2012) Directors: Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, Tono Errando Music: Bebo Valdés Cast: Bebo Valdés, Idania Valdés, Estrella Morente, Limara Meneses, Eman Xor Oña, Mario Guerra ?All art is political in the sense that it serves someone’s politics.? August Wilson How Politics Crush Love and Art It’s 1948 in… Read more »
?We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.? Joseph Campbell Giacomo Gates is a baritone chanteur known for his engaging vocalese, a form made famous by Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, among others. Vocalese is composed by fitting new lyrics to… Read more »
Film: Le Havre (Janus Films 2011) Writer/Director/Producer: Aki Kaurismäki Cast: André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel ?Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.? Hebrews 13:2 (NIV) God Smiles on Port City Ghetto Saints Marcel’s wife, Arletty, is in… Read more »
?Gates is more than a jazz singer. He’s a musician, a hornman who ?plays? through a wonderfully weathered baritone voice. He’s also a storyteller, a traveler who’s seen and lived a lot of life. It’s a combination that gives his performance an unusually deep emotional and musical resonance. Giacomo Gates just may be the Dennis… Read more »
