I recently came across a press release stating that “this year, the contemporary music festival Gaida will host a unique show commemorating the 50th anniversary of the launch of the legendary US spaceship Apollo and its moon landing. The song ‘Apollo’ by the legendary music producer and composer Brian Eno will be played live in Lithuania
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road-tie to confuse similar sounding words can mean that one morning in a hurry you tie on not a neck-tie but a road-tie on which all sorts of vague vagabonds gather sticking out their thumbs for non-existent routes they’ll smoke while waiting and stub their cigs all over your laundered shirt your collar will grow
Raised by Lithuanians in Chicago, I naturally gathered that little in the world was more important than being Lithuanian. This was self-evident: how could being Lithuanian be less than paramount if people like us, Lithuanians, had been born Lithuanian? Naturally, I did all the important things that Lithuanians do to demonstrate their importance: I danced
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Alvydas Šlepikas – Incantation Read More »
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Kierkegaard xxx I look out of the café window, just sitting, not thinking about whether anybody will come in. Different people come into the café every day; nobody has breakfast, lunch, or dinner here regularly. The café gets flooded with visitors, a
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When I must describe the poetry of Tomas Petrulis, I am at a loss for words. Perhaps it is a symptom of having come into contact with a unique poetic logic—a poetic logic of nonsense—an “Alice’s world,” though in Petrulis’s poems the Cheshire Cat is often also accompanied by Behemoth, part of Woland’s entourage. Petrulis’s
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Mindaugas Nastaravičius – I thought I had already written… Read More »
Music in their Eyes It’s windy this morning; the trees growing along the shore let loose their leaves, sending them to the centre of the lake. This lake is deep, and full of hungry leeches. Its shores are silty. The area is enclosed by a high electric fence, with cameras everywhere. The white-hulled expedition yacht
