First and foremost, I attended this stage play upon invitation from Chee Boon who was one of the performers. I have no idea that this play was in Mandarin neither my other friends. Luckily, I still managed to understand the general idea of the play.The Fallen Utopia is presented by Oh Beh Gong Drama Studio. The stage play brought us to 2038 in which the world is bleak and dreary. Fertile lands hav
Hi there everyone and welcome to my new blog =)First question you are probably asking yourself is: 'What the heck is wakkaoaka?' wakkaoaka is name I came up with more than two years ago as I was very frustrated with all of my alias's being unavailable on myspace.com. I may have stumbled upon it, but hopefully if you stay with this blog for long enough you will begin to understand the symbolism beh
Rinai hujan basahi akuTemani sepi yang mengendapKala aku mengingatmuDan semua saat manis ituSegala seperti mimpiKujalani hidup sendiriAndai waktu bergantiAku tetap tak'kan berubahAku selalu bahagiaSaat hujan turunKarena aku dapat mengenangmuUntukku sendiriSelalu ada ceritaTersimpan di hatikuTentang kau dan hujanTentang cinta kitaYang mengalir seperti airAku bisa tersenyum sepanjang hariKarena huja
Island where all becomes clear.Solid ground beneath your feet.The only roads are those that offer access.Bushes bend beneath the weight of proofs.The Tree of Valid Supposition grows herewith branches disentangled since time immemorial.The Tree of Understanding, dazzling straight and simple.sprouts by the spring called Now I Get It.The thicker the woods, the vaster the vista:the Valley of Obviously
I made a mad dash from Santa Monica to West Hollywood then over to Culver City in a matter of hours today. FashionKitty insanity at it’s finest. I was glad I got to Culver in enough time because I had backstage access to the Leila Hafzi runway show. Now, LA Fashion Week excites me as much as spending the afternoon being locked out of my apartment in 100-degree weather but this show seemed more
01. Y el amor (J. M. Serrat)
02. Toca madera (J. M. Serrat)
03. Juan y José (J. M. Serrat)
04. Disculpe el señor (J. M.Serrat)
05. El hombre y el agua (J. M.Serrat)
06. Mírame y no me toques (Joan Barril - J. M.Serrat)
07. Pendiente de ti (J. M. Serrat)
08. Maravilla (Mario Benedetti - J. M. Serrat)
09. Cuando duerme el rock and roll (J. M. Serrat)
10. Utopía (J. M. Serrat)Ctña.: El.rincón.
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utopia - mithali cintaku (rock prima)Persembahan kumpulan Utopia secara unplugged di Rock Prima@batang kali...menyanyikan lagu mithali cintaku secara beramai2 dengan artist2 kumpulan yang lain... iaitu kumpulan Gamma, Kumpulan Putra, dan kumpulan May...Turut hadir burn meditasi , mus satira dan lain2 (erk tak tau nama heheh)Seronok tgk diorang semua happy..maybe pulun habis..Lama dah tak perform..
utopia - inikah cinta kita (Rock Prima)Okay kali ini ...master letakkan pula persembahan video kumpulan U-TOPIAyang dinyanyikan secara unplugged di persembahan Rock Prima @ Batang kali 2008.Gitarist jemputan adalah mus satira dan pojej
Discernevo in lui un barlume di lealtà. Ed ora il nulla.
La capacità d'essere un amico reale e costante è pregio di pochi, l'inettitudine d'esserlo è lacuna di molti. Ed ora che ho compreso la fondata essenza dei componenti di quest'ultima fazione, esco in punta di piedi dalla sua vita, annullando chi è stato, anzi chi ha fatto si che credessi chi lui fosse.
Ed ora lo prometto, mai più.
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Dr. James Lovelock tells the paranoid worried to relocate as far up north (to Canada, Nordic/Scandinavian countries or Russia if you're a nutter to boot) as possible. ...You know about my love affair with Catalonia and Provence, but realistically, those will be no-go zones in the future. ...Actually, in more lucid moments, I've long-admired the effortlessly-green Scandinavians. You can see why her
Dr. James Lovelock tells the paranoid worried to relocate as far up north (to Canada, Nordic/Scandinavian countries or Russia if you're a nutter to boot) as possible. ...You know about my love affair with Catalonia and Provence, but realistically, those will be no-go zones in the future. ...Actually, in more lucid moments, I've long-admired the effortlessly-green Scandinavians. You can see why her
Autor: Thomas MoreFormação / Entidade: Poeta, Escritor, HumanistaTítulo: UtopiaEditora: Publicações Dom QuixoteAno: 2004SinopseEm "Utopia", Thomas More dá-nos a visão de uma sociedade ideal onde é praticada a tolerância religiosa, uma sociedade em que todos trabalham e a riqueza está equitativamente distribuída e onde a violência, o vício e o derramamento de sangue estão ausentes. In
Utopía E, la candidate à un concours EPSO qui aurait préféré être traitée comme un marché public.20/04/2008 et 15/06/2008 pour la version finale.Si j'étais assimilée à un marché public…Je pourrais lire l'avis d'appel à candidature publié dans le JO Section S dans toute langue officielle de l'Union européenne et pas seulement en anglais, français ou allemand. Une section « séle
Green has been coopted as the new black. And the race is on to find “sustainable” means to travel more efficiently, quickly, and quietly along the earth’s surface. For a world increasingly hooked on speed and mobility, visions of utopia seem to be appearing in the shape of mass-producible compact cars powered by alternative [...]
UtopiaThe episode begins where the last episode of Torchwood left off – with the Doctor picking Jack up from inside Torchwood's dank HQ. No, wait, in this version, the TARDIS lands outside, and Jack runs towards it screaming "Darrk-torrrrrrrrrrr!!!!" before leaping in slow-motion towards it as it dematerialises.This is already not working for me.The TARDIS lands at the end of the universe. This
If you’re in or near Austin, here’s a way to have a great time, and help some pets out at the same time.
Joe King Carrasco Utopia Animal Benefit
According to our count down clock we have only 4 days, 23 hours, 10 min and 52 seconds until the big Joe King Carrasco Utopia Animal Rescue Benefit [...]
Client-side interactivity is the key to improving the user experience. DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM will teach you to create slick, interactive and usable Websites that work across all browsers and platforms. DHTML, the marriage of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the Document Object Model (DOM), can provide an amazing level of client-side interactivity, as many of today’s lea
From the glad to be back in Austin department... Panoramic Utopia (DJ Drez & Zaire Black) @ Karma Lounge on May 22nd for The Gathering.-----Ahh... back in Austin and on the couch, where I belong! I am so tired! The conference this week was insane and crazy and I learned alot. Last night for the closing ceremonies, Hootie & the Blowfish performed and then I proceeded to get plastered... goo
¿Acaso la visión de la nueva tierra no es más que otra visión utópica? De ninguna manera. Todas las utopías tienen en común una proyección mental de un futuro en el que todo será perfecto, todos nos salvaremos, habrá paz y armonía y desaparezcan todos nuestros problemas. De esas utopías ha habido muchas; algunas terminaron en desilusión y otras en desastre.Todas las utopías tienen en
Comentário do poeta Thiago de Mello sobre a saída de Marina Silva do Ministério do Meio Ambiente:.“Marina é a figura mais luminosa do governo deste País. Primeiro, pela sua coerência com seus princípios, com seus valores éticos e com seu profundo amor à floresta da qual ela é filha.- Marina é a mesma adolescente que se deitava no chão pra impedir, em Xapuri (AC), a passagem dos trato
I’d like to start by apologizing for the title of this post. I just had to somehow cram the Nozick reference in, no matter the cost. A while back, Alex Zalben, writing at SciFi Scanner, posted the following: Find me a sci-fi movie where there is a Utopia, and I will point out the worm in the apple. Every single time we are presented with a Utopian society on film, there is also a corrupt
Some high profile employees seem to be itching to get out of Google. The image of Google being "a utopian place to work" as Craig Silverstein, director of technology, (and Employee #1 at the company) said in an interview with CNBC, seems to be waning.
Some recent announcements make it clear that the utopian atmosphere may be fading. Just within the last few months we've seen their vice president of engineering, Douglas Merrill, VP for global sales and operations, Sheryl Sandberg, and their CFO George Reyes step down. (see a more comprehensive list in Appendix A)
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Film sur la révolution espagnole de 1936:
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"The journey of flossing defines who we are," said Flowers, who hopes to help his patients break free from the doctrines of established tooth care. "The traditional methods tell you that floss spirituality comes from outside one's self, but I encourage my patients to look within and find their own flossing way." ~ from Transcendental hygienist urges patients to shift flossing paradigm ~
“Verranno stabilite delle date entro le quali verrà organizzata la raccolta differenziata“. Queste le ultime parole famose che arrivavano da Napoli. La data stabilita è ora scaduta e, con essa, le speranze campane.
Solo 258 comuni, grosso modo la metà di quelli interessati dall’emergenza rifiuti, hanno presentato un piano per differenziare i rifiuti. Ma questa volta [...]
When we moved to Canada, my friends & family somehow inferred that I believed Canada was Utopia. I've tried to explain some of Canada's core issues. Here are some current event articles illustrating some of those:A UN Special Rapporteur was sent to Canada to investigate the housing problem. Here is his report- un.orgCanada is supposed to be supporting the mission in Afghanistan, but what is not commonly known here is that a lot of resources indirectly support the Iraq mission. In June 3 Canadian Navy warships will join the US patrol of the gulf.- canada.comHarper copies Bush: Cuts social programs & boosts military funding- man with broken hip & bad heart dies because Calgary Alberta hospital refuses to treat him.- medbroadcast.com
Luxury Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa in UK
The Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa combines contemporary design with period opulence at one of the leading Spa destinations in the UK. This 17th-century mansion, once the family seat of the poet Shelley, lies in 175 acres of gardens overlooking exquisite Sussex views. In [...]
No, oggi non lo farò. Non tormenterò nessuno con i classici interventi riflessivi o esistenziali. Sono troppo stanco mentalmente per infliggermi sadicamente il colpo letale. Star qui a blaterare su questioni morali o non morali, su questioni vitali o non vitali, o su qualsiasi tipo di argomento che implichi un atteggiamento intellettuale andante.No, no. Oggi proprio non è giornata. Già, perchè voglio pensare che domani mattina, tutto sarà diverso dalla piega che hanno preso queste ultime giornate. Fine settimana a parte (Venerdì - Sabato - Domenica), il resto della settimana si ripresenta puntualmente alle porte di casa con la solita monotonissima routine (termine in sè stesso ripetitivo ma che rende ancor meglio l'idea).Giorni di fatiche, bruciate tra ore di lavoro, ed anche tra o
Posted by:MaxxAh...Midterms are done and I can get back to the gaming community, hope you guys didn't miss me. Well this time I'm reporting on a game that I'm having a major nerdgasm just waiting for the release! Yep, reporting on Super Smash Bros. Brawl!!! If ya haven't heard some of the new additions this time around, I'll gladly inform ya! And if you didn't hear of the series before, I have one thing to say... What the hell is wrong with you?! GO and get a Gamecube or N64 NOW and buy Super Smash Bros. or SSB Melee!Ok I'm good now... Anyways there are a lot of new things this time around! New characters, items, stages, and game mechanics! Nintendo certainly aren't pulling the punches in this game! (No pun intended). Well let's stop screwing around and go straight to the good stuff!Charac
Posted by:KalHaving 2007 recently come to a close, I searched the internet gazed into the future to see the upcoming games for 2008. I was rather impressed by the creative games of 2007, but the anticipation for the new 2008 strikes me harder than I ever thought possible. So with that in mind, I created a list of 10 games that strike my fancy (or the fancy of others) and I’m sure that they will interest you as well. 10. Will Wright is probably one my favorite game designers geniuses of our time…at least I think he is a genius. But with games like The Sims and SimCity, who would doubt that claim. His success is shown by the popularity of the games he designs and Spore will not be out of that loop. Though Spore is still TBA and there is no guarantee that it will be released in 20
Posted by:KalBlood, swords, death…*sniff* *sniff* Smells like Soul Calibur to me! That’s right gamers; Namco has just released news about their upcoming sequel to their famous Soul Calibur franchise. Soul Caliber IV will be hitting stores sometime in summer ’08. Sadly, the Wii will be excluded from the usual trio, but that’s alright because Namco has already released a Wii Soul Calibur game called Soul Calibur Legends. The most exciting news about the upcoming Soul Calibur game is, of course, the new characters. And when I mean exciting, I mean it. Namco released that there will be an exclusive character with each game console (as in 360 and PS3) and they should be characters that we all know about. Bundled with the 360, Yoda will be busting moves like there is no tomor
Posted by:KalThe film 300 was, by far, one of the greatest, if not only, Greco-roman themed film of 2007. Not even a year later, somebody has to make some kind of crappy parody about God-knows what, to feed off 300’s money wagon. And let it be the team who created Epic Movie, to parasitically nourish itself off of 300’s success. That’s right; Meet the Spartans will be hitting theaters at the end of January. Hopefully without a bang…we wouldn’t want viewers to have seizures while watching the movie, would we? There is a bit of negativity in my tone when writing about Meet the Spartans. I mean, they “steal” a perfectly alright movie and then completely mock everything the movie was about. However, that’s really not what makes me angry, it’s the fact that people will actu
Posted by:MaxxYeah this is my first post on this blog (I'm a new person around here besides Kal, if ya didn't know). So I figured why not break the ice with my review of my current addiction/obsession, .hack//GU. And just to let you know, my review for it is different than the ones in magazines and websites. .Hack is a rather popular hit, in games, anime and manga. The basic back story is about this HUGE MMORPG called "The World" (And when I say huge, I mean it's like every kid and their dad playing). "The World" did have its problems; problems that are by far worse than a crashed server. For you see, data anomalies infected the monsters, making them un-killable. And that's not the worse part, for you see if you get killed by an infected monster, you become comatose. In the first s
Posted by:KalPondering my childhood, I remember my very first Nintendo 64 game. It was a classic; there was nothing like play that game for hours on end. That game was Mario Kart 64. I raced against friends and my sister, celebrated in my victory, sobbed in my defeat. *sign* such good memories. Well, Nintendo is at it again with another one of their famous Mario Kart games, however, this time it’s more interactive and you guessed it, it’s for the Wii. Currently, the game is projected to be released by spring 2008 and I am more than ecstatic. Like Mario Karts predecessors, Mario Kart Wii will have a single driver against a gang of opponents (unlike Double Dash). It will include various tracks from the past games such as Yoshi Falls and Dk Mountain and will support Nintendo WiFi c
Posted by: KalLittle did we all know, but Square Enix, is actually making another sequel for their famous Final Fantasy franchise. Now, I know what you’re thinking, “Square Enix doesn’t make sequels for Final Fantasy; they are totally different games with different stories.” And of course, that statement is true (other than FFX-2, which I try to forget about); however, that statement will be false, in a few months, when the sequel for Final Fantasy IV comes out in Japan. The story takes place 17 years after the original (or the DS version) and will center on a young man named Ceodore (son of Ceril Harvey and Rosa Farrell-the protagonists of the original Final Fantasy IV). Most of the other details have been left out by Square Enix and true fans of Final Fantasy will have to keep ch
Chiunque fornisca al pubblico servizi di connettività e servizi online e verifichi traffici o upload di immagini pedopornografiche dovrà innanzitutto registrare le proprie generalità presso il CyberTipline del National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, organizzazione che si regge su 40 milioni di dollari di finanziamenti statali. Sarà poi costretto a fornire tutte le informazioni
“Bridges to Utopia”9th International Conference of the Utopian Studies SocietyUniversity of Limerick, Ireland, 3-5 July 2008The 9th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society will be held at the University of Limerick on 3-5 July 2008. The conference will begin at 2:30 pm on 3 July and end at 4:30 pm on 5 July.With the theme of “Bridges to Utopia,” the conference will examine a range of topics related to utopia and utopianism, in its historical articulation and contemporary realisation. Keynote speakers are Joe Cleary (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Bernard Gendron (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Peadar Kirby (University of Limerick), and Nicole Pohl (Oxford Brookes University).Call for PapersProposals are invited for papers and panels on any aspect of the utopian tradition – from the earliest utopian visions to the utopian speculations of the 21st century, including art, architecture, urban and rural planning, literary utopias, dystopian writing
The Utopian mantelpiece must surely now have collapsed! Further to Daniel Swee's prize for casting last week, the entire design crew have now picked up a 2007 Henry Hewes award in the esteemed category of 'Special Citation for Outstanding Achievement in Theater Design'. Here is Playbill's list of the clever eleven:[...] Angelina Avallone (makeup), Mark Bennett (sound), Bob Crowley (scenery), William Cusick (projections), Paul Huntley (hair and wigs), Natasha Katz (lighting), Brian MacDevitt (lighting), Scott Pask (scenery), Kenneth Posner (lighting), Tom Watson (hair and wigs) and Catherine Zuber (costumes) [...]The Orlando Sentinel explain the special recognitive significance of the awards:[...] The annual awards, named for the late esteemed New York theater critic Henry Hewes, recognize work that is regularly glossed over or ignored completely on the Tony Awards show -- design work from Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway. [...]And just as it did at the Tonys, The Coast o
When two of the largest Ford enthusiast groups in the world decided to get together to celebrate some of the hottest Ford performance vehicles from the past, present and future, all in one place at one time – Ford Racing was at the top of their invite list.
Maybe it was because the people at Ford Racing are kindred souls with the folks who make up the Shelby American Automobile Club (SAAC) and the Special Vehicle Team Owners Association (SVTOA) when it comes to high performance Fords. Or was it that the “SAAC 32″ annual convention was being held in tandem with the “SVTOA Experience III” national get-together over an extended “dream” weekend at Utah’s spectacular Miller Motorsports Park?
Whatever the reason, Ford Racing and SVT Engineering came out in force – bringing display trailers, show cars and prototype vehicles – as well as a panel of Ford managers to give club members an exclusive look at a new plan to deliver Ford performance in t
Mais um dos bons textos que recebo por email:Qualquer coisa no mundo precisa de um paradoxo para existir (o editor vai adorar esta frase). Isso é fato! Não existe salgado sem doce, mal sem bem, paz sem guerra, carioca sem paulista, Corinthians sem Palmeiras. Tudo é um contra-ponto de outra coisa, e não tem mandinga ou novena que dê conta de mudar isso. No seu novíssimo livro (Aritmética), Fernanda Young, apresenta a personagem Mariana, que reflete: "Eu preciso dele para ser? Está certa de que houve, e sempre há de haver, mulheres que simplesmente são. Alguma coisa. Sem necessitar do homem como paradoxo. E ela não é a garotinha de marmanjo algum. Pode perfeitamente viver sem Rigel ou sem nenhum outro." Vá lá que Mariana, ou qualquer mulher, possa viver sem o seu Rigel, Paulo, Júlio, Marcos, ou quem quer que seja. Mas, antes de tentar isso, deve-se perguntar se realmente vale a pena. E, em que outro paradoxo, que não um peludo de educação duvidosa, ela vai basear sua
Frank Zappa - The Man From Utopia1. Cocaine Decisions2. Sex3. Tink Walks Amok4. The Radio Is Broken5. We Are Not Alone6. The Dangerous Kitchen7. The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou8. Stick Together9. The Jazz Discharge Party Hats10. Luigi And The Wise Guys11. Moggiohttp://tinyurl.com/35hou2If you want more visit my site: http://softeca.forumlive.org
With birds twittering gently in the background, Aras Agalarov explains why he has decided to build a housing estate for Russia's super-rich. Next to him work has almost finished on a vast neo-classical villa; down the muddy track a Scottish baronial mansion rises magnificently above a line of newly planted birch trees. "The people who will live here are of normal social status," Mr Agalarov says. "But there are certain rules. One potential buyer had an Afghan shepherd dog. We don't allow big dogs on this estate. So I wouldn't sell him a house.
Last night I finally received a message that I've been eagerly awaiting for quite some time now. DAMPFBAHN!'s ambitious project has been completed and 9 remixes of All Is Swell are done and ready, and have been published at the band's remix page (these are the days of Radiohead, so all the remixes are obviously free to download - a bit more information on the remixes/project can be found there as well). In the band's own words "It's a wonderful compilation of remixes of our song All Is Swell. Ranging from beautiful to bizarre!" and who am I to disagree? It certainly is quite a bumpy, but at the same time a highly entertaining, ride listening your way through all of the remixes. Have to admit that I simply love this concept (who doesn't love getting a string of new remixes for free?) and sincerely hope that other bands will get inspired to do the same!+ All Is Swell - Zvook Mescalin+ Hank Swelliams remix - Forest and CrispianFirst single/teaser from the forthcoming Skywriter album
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Utopia: An imaginary island described in a book of the same name by Sir Thomas More (1516) as having a perfect political and social system. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Third Edition, 1996 (ah, graduate school).
When the Age of Conversation or similar memes are written about, I think of utopia. The promise of an ideal community where everyone respects each other, intellectual discourse occurs, and differences may happen, but with respect and understanding. When fences break, they are mended. In the end, patience, kindness, tolerance and forgiveness reign.
The W List/PR Power Women discussion about a united community really revolved around this idea of utopian community. Or as fellow marketing blogger friends have communicated, a world where pink, blue and green gumballs can be different, but in the end they all taste the same.
To get there we had discourse, including some tumultuous, painful and humbling exchanges. But in the end we felt differences needed to be set
While watching Star Trek, I was always led to believe that The Federation was some sort of utopia. Their ships seem to be built for science and exploration just as much as they are for battle, and there is economic cooperation between the member worlds. Half the time they are off to stop some epidemic or to solve some dispute, or getting caught in some sort of alternate time period, but there really isn't that much warfare (honestly to my annoyance). Humans have stopped fighting one another, disease has been pretty much eradicated, starvation solved, and Earth seems to be a peaceful and as Q put it, "boring" place. I always questioned what the government was, and the economic system and about the freedoms of the place, but they seem to make it a pretty damn nice place to live.That all changed when I watched the Deep Space Nine episode "If Wishes Were Horses". How the hell am I supposed to believe this utopia if humans have stopped playing baseball? That's just ludicrous.
Non da molto sono terminati gli esami di maturità ma ancora molti stanno lottando con gli ultimi esami universitari prima delle sospirate vacanze.
Insomma è ancora tempo di libri e quanti di voi si sono addormentati proprio su di essi mentre studiavano?
O anche semplicemente mentre si legge un romanzo all'ombra della palma in giardino.
Non importa dove, come e quando, la cosa importante è che ci
Precious little on the news front, so below are the Utopia-related bits from Catherine Zuber's interview about her work as a costume designer for Downstage Center.About the process from idea to finished product:[...] There were 600 costumes, and I did a sketch for every costume. ... I had to, I had to know what was going on. ... If I didn't have a sketch then I really would be lost. I needed to see where we were going with the images. Maybe if there were three soldiers, I'd do a sketch for one soldier, but for the most part, every idea had a sketch. ...I choose all the fabrics, I supervise the construction, we have fittings in the costume shops, we have a muslin fitting which means it's in white, inexpensive material just to get the shape and fit, and then we go into...what they call the 'fashion fabric' and add the trims and it's a more complete structure. ...On the necessary considerations when working in the theatre:It [a costume] has to last quite a long time, and ... about
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Sorry this is late.Carlin Romano of the Philadelphia Inquirer compares contemporary Russian intellectuals to those portrayed in Coast of Utopia.Walter C. Uhler challenges Mr Romano in the Huffington Post, with a long article that discusses the ideas of some of the main players.Subscription-only reviews abound this week. Terry Teachout has one in Commentary, Brooke Allen in New Criterion, and Robert Brunstein in New Republic. Complete Review keeps an eye on the debate.Blogger Simon Crowe attended a marathon, and responds to Mr Brunstein thusly:[...] Some critics (Robert Brustein in The New Republic) claim the plays are too much about ideas and not enough about character, but I can honestly say I was never bored since the production is acted, directed, and designed by top-drawer artists. [...]Jeff Goldstein, an usher at the Vivian Beaumont, notes how some Utopian actors tend to flock together at mealtimes during the marathon.At Gorky Rises, another marathon survivor who's impressed -
=I have read quite a few reviews of this show over the past few months, and they have increasingly led me to one conclusion - that The Coast of Utopia is like Marmite: you either love it or you hate it.While there are some drifters around the middle, the majority of people seem to fall into one of two camps - those who would happily set up home in the Vivian Beaumont, and those who wish they'd been sedated before entering it. Utopia critics are like the weather - you never know what they're going to do...From the 'Love It' camp:Terry Teachout of ArtsJournal.com gives a big thumbs up to the show and hits the nail on the head for me with this first paragraph:I am in no doubt whatsoever about the merits of Jack O’Brien’s production. It is a sublime work of theatrical art, a commingling of play and performance so complete that no one lucky enough to see it will ever again read Mr. Stoppard’s words without remembering how Mr. O’Brien and his colleagues brought them to hot-blood
I wrote "Cyanide in Utopia" a while ago and then I was an advocate of serious violent offenders being given the choice to kill themselves rather than do jail time. I have not changed my stance on this issue since and it's unlikely that I ever will. The only difference between then and now is [...]
This from the Herald Sun...
Execute me, says killer
December 12, 2006 12:00am
A MAN who raped and murdered a Melbourne real estate agent in a house she was selling says he wants to be punished with the death penalty.
Shaoyi Liu, 36, of suburban Sydenham, has been found guilty of the rape and murder of Lorelle Makin, 48, [...]
All that Chat reports that the Coast of Utopia will extend for two extra months and run through to May 13.
TICKETS FOR EXTENSION GO ON SALE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8 at 10AM
EXTENSION WILL OFFER AN ADDITIONAL 21 OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE EACH OF THE THREE PARTS OF THE TRILOGYINCLUDING SIX THREE-SHOW MARATHON SATURDAYS
Parallels between the Russian intelligentsia and Livejournal? Tis so.I feel like I just started some important project last night but really I just saw a play. Tom Stoppard's "The Coat of Utopia" is a trilogy, and I just saw the first part "Voyage." It's about a circle of Russian intellectuals in the nineteenth centur: Michael Bakunin, Nicholas Stankevich, Vissarion Belinsky, Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Herzen and Nicholas Ogarev. In last night's show they were all young and stupid--especially Michael Bakunin. Ethan Hawke did a great job playing somebody who was charismastic and idealistic and thinks the universe revolves around him. Billy Crudup was also great as Belinsky.On the way out I pushed through what I swear I thought was a group of college students standing around near the entrance and then realized it was the cast I just saw. Billy Crudup is a tiny, tiny man.There were times when the play actually reminded me of lj, I guess because it's one modern place where people sometim
(thanks BS!)Broadway.com has box office stats for last week. Voyage filled the Vivian Beaumont to 90.54% capacity, grossing $280,898, making it the 4th from bottom "underdog". The Broadway.com page for The Coast of Utopia also says that seats for the three marathon performances are sold out.There's a post at Martha Plimpton's blog recounting what happened the night of Richard Easton's collapse (it was indeed her onstage with Ethan Hawke, not Amy Irving as reported elsewhere) and providing an update on his condition (going well). A couple of brief "saw it, loved it" sorta blog reports, chez Ryan Capps[...] Amber and I saw Coast of Utopia at the Lincoln Center with Ethan Hawke and Billy Crudup, both of whom were awesome. Billy Crudup wandered out of the theatre and bumped into us on the street, so we got to meet him and chat with him for a bit. [...]and Dave: [...] Pidge and I had a weekend in NY (four shows: Grey Gardens [good, not great]; Heartbreak House [brilliant]; The Drowsy Ch
A special thanks to all those who have made great contributions to this discussion.
**WARNING: This post is a long diatribe, please prepare yourself.**
No imagined society can be complete without a discussion of government. Government controls the flow of society by regulating and protecting it’s citizens as well as (in theory) managing the resources and product of the people and representing their interests at home and abroad.
Up to this point, the Democratic society, while flawed, has provided the best form of government for the time being. The problem with that form of government and indeed most governmental functions in our current world is that because of their power they inherently lead to corruption. In addition television and other visual media combined with a less then fully educated and critical thinking populace have left the election process as little more than a combination popularity contest and beauty pageant. Added to this is the maddening and overwhelming bureau
We were going to be discussing the role and structure of Government in our Humanist Utopia today, but our newest commenter, Michael Bindner has brought up some discussion questions that I think are worthwhile to explore.
I thought we might explore this topic by making it more of an open discussion, since his questions pose some challenges that I am not fully clear how to mitigate.
Ultimately the question is what role religion can and/or should play in our utopian Humanist society.
This puts us in a bit of a conundrum because while we want to allow everyone to explore, learn and grow, some aspects of religion actually run in opposition to the society we would hope to create.
As Modern Humanists, we do not have the desire for or need for traditional religious practice and belief. As a result we tend to reject (sometimes vehemently) the idea of supernatural forces or personages as well as many of the attendant beliefs and activities of those who do subscribe to them. At the same time, w
So we have an aesthetically pleasing, culturally rich and centrally located village with ample pedestrian and cycling capacity as well as viable public transportation system leading to a vastly reduced pollution quotient.
The Village would also provide continued opportunity for growth. In our utopian village there would be free wi-fi capability as well as wiring throughout to ensure that everyone had access to global information. In addition, this would allow us to open the local learning centers to those outside of the village and participate in a true global community.
Each village would also be fitted with a healthcare center as well as several satellite stations for the health and well being of all. Within each Village, alternative health and health maintenance practices would be advocated and supported alongside traditional practice to allow people to maintain their health without always resorting to hospitals and medical doctors. In this way classes and facilities are ava
The next step in our discussion of a Modern Humanist Utopia is a discussion of The Village. The Village is a term we’ll use to describe the place where we live and the community involved. The Village also describes an alternative to the current urban sprawl and suburban landscape that has been consuming our living spaces. This is the lifeless sprawl of subdivisions, malls, and cookie cutter strips that turn our communities and towns into uninspired heaps filled with McMansions, chain stores and streets that contain nothing but large over-priced homes separate from everyone.
The Village model is based on the one that developed in the old world. It centered around a blend of independently owned shops and residential districts where everything was built around a centrally located center or green with agricultural offerings on the periphery.
The Village is our base for the modern equivalent and the foundation for what we see as the Humanist model. As always we stress the education, g
As education transitions to the world of work then so shall we. The discussion of work is really in two areas; the world of work - where and how we do our jobs and then what job we do and how we do it.
Work is a vital part of life, community and society. Work and vocation should flow with all the other aspects of life, but unfortunately for most people, work has become a matter of survival or at least requirement - and may in no way benefit humanity or society. As we tackle work in our Humanist vision, we need to see that work is important, but it is also a part of our lives and should never be the primary focus of our existence.
As society progresses there is an ever increasing need for work to be done. This can range from sweeping the streets to creating art to discovering new medicine and technology. Each person can use their particular talents and skills to help build a better society through their work. Unfortunately this has become less and less the case and community a
Since we’ve been talking about the Humanist Perspective on many aspects of life and society, the question has come up as to how things might be different if there was a larger Humanist population and if they had the power to change things. I’m not sure if that will ever happen in our lifetime. Nor do I know if those Humanists would become corrupt, but what I do know is that there are plenty of alternative choices to make across the spectrum of society and culture that could have a profound impact. I wanted to spend some time in the next few posts talking about what life would be like if true Humanists ran things and how everyone’s life might be different.
Humanists are often said to be controlling the school system and turning everyone into Humanists. If only this were true. But since Humanists are so often accused, I wanted to start this exploration by looking at what the education system would actually be like if Humanists ran the schools and universities.
Malcolm Johnson of the Hartford Courant gives descriptive report of Macbeth. In CurtainUp's review Les Gutman admires the leads' elocution but finds their marital passion lacking, and William Wolf doesn't feel it either. But look, there's video! NY1 has a RealPlayer-format review with clips from the play. Roma Torre doesn't get Ms Ehle's interpretation though. Luckily Michael Criscuolo of nytheater.com does:As for the performances, Liev Schreiber is a blessing as Macbeth. His is not a flashy performance, just a solid, grounded one, in which he reveals a deep understanding of the role. His Macbeth is not ambitious or power-hungry—he's just a good soldier who makes a bad decision (albeit, one that triggers a domino effect from which he cannot extricate himself). Schreiber plays him as a once strong man who breaks himself. Indeed, the Thane of Cawdor shall sleep no more, as Schreiber uses Macbeth's foretold insomnia to escalate his deterioration.He's the perfect antithesis to J
From Rob Kozlowski's blog.Lincoln Center has settled on start and finish dates for the fall 2006 U.S. debut of Tom Stoppard's ambitious series of plays known as The Coast of Utopia.The trilogy will begin on Oct. 10 with the first performance of the first play, Voyage. All three works will have opened and concluded their runs by March 3, 2007. The plays will open separately, one after another. They will begin to play in rep later in the schedule.Jack O'Brien, the Broadway director of Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Henry IV and The Invention of Love, will helm the New York bow of the nine-hour Coast of Utopia triptych. The works first appeared under the direction of Trevor Nunn in 2002 at the National Theatre in England.The Coast of Utopia is centered on the political and philosophical idealism and debates of mid-nineteenth-century Russia, examining the movements that excited artists and thinkers in those days. The show moves chronologically on from the 1830s, when the great Roma
From Playbill NewsTom Stoppard's ambitious three-part play The Coast of Utopia, set to make its American debut at Lincoln Center Theater this fall, will be published by Faber and Faber on June 30.The 288-page volume will include all three of the play's parts: Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage.Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Ethan Hawke, Martha Plimpton and the previously reported BrÃan F. O'Byrne will star in the U.S. debut of The Coast of Utopia, Lincoln Center Theater confirmed.The cast includes quite a few Stoppard experts. Easton won a Tony Award for his performance in 2001's The Invention of Love. Ehle won her Tony for the 2000 revival of The Real Thing. And Crudup first made his mark as part of the 1995 Lincoln Center Theatre U.S. premiere of Stoppard's Arcadia.Plimpton and O'Byrne are currently in the Broadway cast of Conor McPherson's Shining City. Hamilton most recently acted on the New York stage in Hurlyburly, which also feature
This is excerpted from a 2003 interview with Jack O'Brien, who will be directing The Coast of Utopia.Q: Why are you interested in Tom Stoppard's play, Coast of Utopia, which deals with a subject and characters that most of us know nothing about.JG: And the history is unknown. I think in England, as well. Jack, does this worry you at all in making it accessible to an audience?JO: Yes, it does. In other words(and that's what I said) it's my job. And it's Tom's job. And we have to find a way to awaken an immediate sense of excitement and accessibility to you. There are a lot of characters in theater you don't know when you walk in the door. You think you do, but you don't. And, quite frankly, if they're not rendered in three dimensions, they don't grab you. There are other productions of this play itself that could be intolerable to you if you saw them not properly handled. And so I have to believe, as I inevitably do, in the quality of the writing. And when a writer, like Shake
Update on the LCT blog that mentions the spiffy Coast of Utopia calendar featuring photos of the leading ladies and signed by them. It's in support of Broadway Cares and copies can be bought online or in the lobby from March, for $50 a pop.The NY Times and Guardian report that Utopia has increased demand for Isaiah Berlin's Russian Thinkers book. It has sold out at bookshops online and off, prompting a reprint. This news is being widely reported in the blogosphere as well.Coast of Utopia distilled - another NY Times article about the guy who designs cocktails for plays, including a recipe for the Voyage one.And yet another Times article, on how Utopian blokes spend their days off - in helicopters apparently.Reminder in the Post-Gazette about their Utopia tour.Word from the LCT is that there will be a Platform Series Q&A discussion with Tom Stoppard on February 14th. Details aren't up on the site yet.Quotage from the man at the recent Drama Desk "Conversation with Tom Stoppard" event
