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.
Album: Philip Glass, Symphony No. 9 (2012) Bruckner Orchester Linz, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies ?Artists do not experiment. Experiment is what scientists do; they initiate an operation of unknown factors to be instructed by its results. An artist puts down what he knows and at every moment it is what he knows at that… Read more »
The Creative Value of Twisted Emotional States ?Nobody’s eyes should have seen what your eyes have seen, Should have felt all the pain and all of the sadness from all of those years. But now I’m on the outside, now I’m looking in, Not able to touch you, not able to hold you?I’m helpless back… Read more »
Film: The Artist (The Weinstein Co. 2011) Writer/Director: Michel Hazanavicius Cast: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Malcolm McDowell, Missi Pyle Genre: Romantic comedy ?Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?? Gena Showalter, The Darkest Seduction ?Love,… Read more »
Rhythms of Stability and Freedom ?The essential thing in form is to be free in whatever form is used. A free form does not assure freedom. As a form, it is just one more form. So that it comes to this, I suppose, that I believe in freedom regardless of form.? Wallace Stevens Hauschka is… Read more »
Album: The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Leaving Eden (2012) Musicians: Dom Flemons (four-string banjo, guitar, jug, harmonica, kazoo, snare drum, bones, quills), Rhiannon Giddens (five-string banjo, fiddle, kazoo), Adam Matta (beatbox, tambourine), Hubby Jenkins (guitar, mandolin, five-string banjo, guitar, bones), Leyla McCalla (cello) Genre: Folk/Americana/Old Timey ?When you want genuine music?music that will come right home… Read more »
Film: Zero Bridge (2011) Director/Screenwriter: Tariq Tapa Cast: Mohamad Imran Tapa, Taniya Khan, Ali Mohammad Dar Genre: Art House, International ?Mother tells me ?Happy dreams!? An? takes away the light, An? leaves me lyin? all alone an? seein? Things at night.? Eugene Field ?It is because nations tend to stupidity and baseness that mankind moves… Read more »
?I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.? John Cage ?Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.? John Cage Replicating Electronic Experimentation on an Acoustic Instrument Hauschka is the pseudonym of German pianist Volker Bertelmann. Classically trained from childhood, he used his percussive piano skills… Read more »
Album: Izenzaren, Akal (2012) Well I’m Goin? to Souss, Morocco, With a Banjo on My Knee Gnaoua music developed when members of black sub-Saharan tribes were forced to assimilate as slaves in urban post-colonial Morocco. The word ?Gnaoua? refers to both a specific black Muslim spiritual sect and its music, and was derived from the… Read more »
Film: And Everything is Going Fine (Washington Square Films 2012) Director: Steven Soderbergh Genre: Documentary ?Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows . . . It’s not desiring the fall; It’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ?don’t!? and ?Hang on!? can understand… Read more »
Film: Thunder Soul (Roadside Attractions 2011) Director: Mark Landsman Cast: Conrad O. Johnson, Jr., Conrad O. Johnson, Sr., Craig Baldwin, Craig Green, Bruce Middleton, Timothy Thompson, Gerald Calhoun, Gwen Walker, Kirbyjon Caldwell, Martha Samson, Gaila Mitchell Genre: Music Documentary ?Should we not be putting all our emphasis on reading, writing, and math? The ‘back-to-basics curricula,’… Read more »