You know when an animal dies they go off on their own & into a dark space…I am feeling the same need. I have been contemplating becoming a Buddhist monk in Thailand or going on a spiritual retreat where I do not speak. There is a part of me that is dying, not in a bad way. I just know that who I have been for the last 30 years is going to be gone, and I am very attached to who I am, but I have to let that umbilical balloon go.
I walked up the stairs towards my apartment the other night & the words ‘I am satisfied’ came out of my mouth- without a thought. My third eye has been totally blocked for 2 weeks, like a rock jammed in between my eyes. I do not know what is to come in my life, but something, a little easier I imagine. Like a rebirth of the soul…
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
music picks of the day
How I dearly love Pandora for introducing me to music - it is such a joy to find a new song that thrills me!
Welcome to Spring! Introducing two female vocalists accompanied by strings: one daisy, one black-eyed susan.
Maria Taylor: leap year
(a spring mix of Frou Frou & Sara Bareilles)
Emilie Simon: Desert
Engaging, haunting, & thrilling.
a medley reminiscent of Martina Topley-Bird, Lykke Li, Bjork, Portishead, Lush, & Rasputina.
notes from the All Music Guide:
Although Emilie Simon is a conservatory-trained experimental musician with a strong theoretical grounding, she has also made a name for herself both as a mainstream soundtrack composer and as an electronic pop musician not far removed from Björk or the Knife, with a distinctively soft, almost babyish voice that at times recalls both early Kate Bush and Claudine Longet. Born in the small coastal city of Montpellier, France, in 1978 into a musical family (her mother is a pianist, her father a sound engineer), Simon began studying music at a young age, and followed her conservatory training in voice with advanced studies in early music at the Sorbonne and electronic composition at the Institute de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique (IRCAM) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The combination of cutting-edge electronic theory and a strong grounding in ancient vocal traditions gives Simon's work its unique tension. Simon's attractive mixture of art rock and catchy electronic pop was first unveiled on 2003's Emilie Simon, released to positive reviews and eventually winning a Victoire de la Musique (the French equivalent to the Grammy) for best electronica album of the year. Documentary director Luc Jacquet then contacted Simon to score his immersive 2005 nature documentary March of the Penquins; Simon's expressive soundtrack won the composer her second Victoire de la Musique and was nominated for a Cesar (the French equivalent to the Oscar) but lost to Bruno Coulais' score for Les Choristes. Inspired by the musique concrète elements of the soundtrack, which featured sounds of cracking ice floes and other elemental source recordings, Simon's third album, 2006's Vegetal, outdoes Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants by not only including lyrics about vegetation but also sampled sounds taken from actual plants. In late 2006, Emilie Simon was finally properly introduced to American audiences through the release of The Flower Book, a compilation of tracks from her first three European albums. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
Welcome to Spring! Introducing two female vocalists accompanied by strings: one daisy, one black-eyed susan.
Maria Taylor: leap year
(a spring mix of Frou Frou & Sara Bareilles)
Emilie Simon: Desert
Engaging, haunting, & thrilling.
a medley reminiscent of Martina Topley-Bird, Lykke Li, Bjork, Portishead, Lush, & Rasputina.
notes from the All Music Guide:
Although Emilie Simon is a conservatory-trained experimental musician with a strong theoretical grounding, she has also made a name for herself both as a mainstream soundtrack composer and as an electronic pop musician not far removed from Björk or the Knife, with a distinctively soft, almost babyish voice that at times recalls both early Kate Bush and Claudine Longet. Born in the small coastal city of Montpellier, France, in 1978 into a musical family (her mother is a pianist, her father a sound engineer), Simon began studying music at a young age, and followed her conservatory training in voice with advanced studies in early music at the Sorbonne and electronic composition at the Institute de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique (IRCAM) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The combination of cutting-edge electronic theory and a strong grounding in ancient vocal traditions gives Simon's work its unique tension. Simon's attractive mixture of art rock and catchy electronic pop was first unveiled on 2003's Emilie Simon, released to positive reviews and eventually winning a Victoire de la Musique (the French equivalent to the Grammy) for best electronica album of the year. Documentary director Luc Jacquet then contacted Simon to score his immersive 2005 nature documentary March of the Penquins; Simon's expressive soundtrack won the composer her second Victoire de la Musique and was nominated for a Cesar (the French equivalent to the Oscar) but lost to Bruno Coulais' score for Les Choristes. Inspired by the musique concrète elements of the soundtrack, which featured sounds of cracking ice floes and other elemental source recordings, Simon's third album, 2006's Vegetal, outdoes Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants by not only including lyrics about vegetation but also sampled sounds taken from actual plants. In late 2006, Emilie Simon was finally properly introduced to American audiences through the release of The Flower Book, a compilation of tracks from her first three European albums. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
Friday, March 20, 2009
getting it- edited
thanks a million, Mai.
thank you for teaching me things tonight that i never learned. why is there not a class or life-manual given to us when we are children? they say 30 is the year of the transformation of life...i'm living it, and learning to just sit & be taught. it's rather refreshing not trying to have all the answers.
you know when you learn that you didn't know things?! sitting across from this woman whom i both hardly know and yet know so well, seeing ourselves in each other she taught me more in an hour about being a woman in relationships w/men than i have learned in years. i did not see guys as wanting to provide something- insight, protection, care. i was fighting them all along, trying to prove myself good enough as them. acting so 'free' and 'strong' and 'self-reliant' -- in doing so i created no space for them. my communication with guys was so screwed up! there is no need to go into the story, to justify, to make right. no need trying to clear things up over & over to make sure he knows i've changed...bringing up the past only dredges up garbage. the butterfly does not carry around the legs of the caterpillar, does it? no. being bliss & ease, that is how i am going to live my life. the only way to transform anything is to let it go & come fresh. ask a question, a simple question. get a simple answer. easy as that...
i've got it. no more beating myself up over what i didn't do or say or said and regret. no more creating drama. simple conversation with people. keep it clear... my middle name...clara...i was born with it, right now, i regain the space inside of it.
Clarity - John Mayer
thank you for teaching me things tonight that i never learned. why is there not a class or life-manual given to us when we are children? they say 30 is the year of the transformation of life...i'm living it, and learning to just sit & be taught. it's rather refreshing not trying to have all the answers.
you know when you learn that you didn't know things?! sitting across from this woman whom i both hardly know and yet know so well, seeing ourselves in each other she taught me more in an hour about being a woman in relationships w/men than i have learned in years. i did not see guys as wanting to provide something- insight, protection, care. i was fighting them all along, trying to prove myself good enough as them. acting so 'free' and 'strong' and 'self-reliant' -- in doing so i created no space for them. my communication with guys was so screwed up! there is no need to go into the story, to justify, to make right. no need trying to clear things up over & over to make sure he knows i've changed...bringing up the past only dredges up garbage. the butterfly does not carry around the legs of the caterpillar, does it? no. being bliss & ease, that is how i am going to live my life. the only way to transform anything is to let it go & come fresh. ask a question, a simple question. get a simple answer. easy as that...
i've got it. no more beating myself up over what i didn't do or say or said and regret. no more creating drama. simple conversation with people. keep it clear... my middle name...clara...i was born with it, right now, i regain the space inside of it.
Clarity - John Mayer
The Roots present: The Jam
Highline Ballroom, NYC 3/19/09
What a phenomenal show! The Roots bring it together: Black Thought on vocals, kick-ass Capt. Kirk Douglas on guitar, Questlove keepin the nasty beat, and Owen Biddle jammin on the bass. The special treat guestlist last night featured Bilal, Wale, Antibalas, Dee Dee Bridgewater, & Corey Glover. They sung more than Black Thought, but they added so much to the mix. Ten beans is enough for me to want to go to another show. My ears are still vibrating.
Way with words: a musical orgasm happened on stage between two guitars.
Living Colour's, Corey Glover, has one of the most amazing voices I have heard from a male vocal. The lyrics were simple: I tried to save the world, this is the life I have, live life. The delivery was out of this world! Upper octive, long phrasing, and an energy that was entrancing.
Antibalas, the dude can move! Sax & trombone added a perfect mix to the roots reggae groove.
Capt Kirk did a rendition of 'You Got me' - fantastic! Did not know he could pull off those high notes.
Dee Dee Bridgewater, wow! She got the crowd movin. She's got so much energy, beautiful voice, and taking her hat and stroking Capt Kirk's thigh was enough to cause another near-orgasm.
more videos: youtube.com/user/kboldrini
Untitled from kim boldrini on Vimeo.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
12:12
the clock has read 12:12 for the past 2 hours. seems not only my mind, but time itself has stopped for a few short moments to breathe.
recollecting my thoughts after a small blow-out with a friend, have not had one of those in a very long time. you ever have someone hit your buttons and those around you so well that you do your best to not let it control your emotions but somehow it does anyway? like there's a light switch that you don't know you hit but all of a sudden a very calm lady changes in a moment? likely a nerve she hit that had my ego storm out & insult her. argh...the human condition...
i'm reading 'the new earth' and there's a lot of gold on those pages, but fitting it into the very moment, being present to everything & not letting emotions take me or anyone else hold is not so easy.
ego, pride, vanity...love... reaction versus thinking...versus being... living the moment in the present, and letting my emotions pass through my soul like a small gust of wind, scented with pain from the past.
bob seems to be a good fit for the moment.
Bob Dylan The Of Best[UK]
recollecting my thoughts after a small blow-out with a friend, have not had one of those in a very long time. you ever have someone hit your buttons and those around you so well that you do your best to not let it control your emotions but somehow it does anyway? like there's a light switch that you don't know you hit but all of a sudden a very calm lady changes in a moment? likely a nerve she hit that had my ego storm out & insult her. argh...the human condition...
i'm reading 'the new earth' and there's a lot of gold on those pages, but fitting it into the very moment, being present to everything & not letting emotions take me or anyone else hold is not so easy.
ego, pride, vanity...love... reaction versus thinking...versus being... living the moment in the present, and letting my emotions pass through my soul like a small gust of wind, scented with pain from the past.
bob seems to be a good fit for the moment.
Bob Dylan The Of Best[UK]
Friday, March 6, 2009
Dream Stand
Julian's Dream Stand project: Web for dreamers and what really matters in life!
DreamStand's First Gathering, Feb 24th 2009 at OST Cafe, East Village, NYC from Dream Stand on Vimeo.
DreamStand's First Gathering, Feb 24th 2009 at OST Cafe, East Village, NYC from Dream Stand on Vimeo.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
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