Seven Years In Tibet
(bowie)
Are you ok
You've been shot in the head
And I'm holding your brains
The old woman said
So I drink in the shadows
Of an evening sky
See nothing at all.
The stars look so special
The snow looks so old
A frail form is drifting
Beyond the yoga-zone
Time to question the mountain
Why pigs can fly
It's nothing at all.
I praise you
Nothing ever goes away
I praise you
Nothing ever goes
I pray to you
Nothing ever goes away
I pray to you
Nothing ever, nothing ever
Nothing ever, nothing ever
I pray to you
Nothing ever goes away
I pray to you
Nothing ever goes, nothing ever goes.
Nothing ever goes away
I pray to you
Nothing ever goes, nothing ever goes.
34 comments:
Mountain picture is not mine obviously. The artwork is.
Some good sedimentary strata in the mountain. The blue picture has cardiac overtones to me. It even appears to show the severed aorta, though I am no anatomist.
Yeah, that's a really cool mountain isn't it? It's called Kailash and is in the Himalayas, one of the more picturesque peaks, in my opinion. I found the picture on Google and it had not credit, or I'd have listed it, but I had to use the image.
Above that is the mist that one gets physically in the air of the high altitudes, and also in the mind as it is deprived of oxygen, and as a sort of transitional aether (metaphorically) as one stays in meditation striving to reach Satori, a feels the fuzzy edges of the world begin to dissolve.
The top picture IS of a heart x-ray originally (good catch Maalie) but has been altered creatively to show bands of stars not unlike the milky way, and a color I imagine an evening in the Himayalas might show you. It's an imagining of a vision from deep in meditation, the heart/soul and the universe become as one.
Sorry for the typos above.
Which country is Kailash in?
Have you been to the Hymalayas?
I trekked to above Annapurna base camp a couple of years ago, but only about 15,000 feet. It was brilliant. I love Nepal and want to go back.
Lorenzo.
Mr Meta, in answer to your question on Magdalene's blog, I do let nice people stroke me. I really love it, especially under my chin.
Thanks, Scaredy. If I ever meet you in real life I'll be sure to spend a few minutes giving you a nice long chin scratching, followed by your favourite treat - a live mouse! I'll bet you're a real mouser.
...or a bird, if you prefer.
Shhh, don´t let Maalie hear you say that, you´ll be in real trouble if he does. My own cats were fearful of their lives at one point when Maalie and I had a little debate about killing feral cats. I don´t think either of us convinced the other but I enjoyed the debate.
Bird? Did I say bird? I meant... um.. brad.. Yeah, Brad, this really mean mouse that lives near me. You can have at him all you want, Scareds. Lay off those birds though, k?
Bringing this post back "on topic", in relation to the organ depicted in the top image, has anyone else noticed the sudden proliferation of stylised blood-pump images on greetings cards in shops recently? And, you know what, I even saw some stylised blood-pumps cast in chocolate and covered with red metal foil.
Any explanation?
The World's Heart is breaking.
I love the blue heart btw.
empath: Thanks. "Arteries of stars" - well the always say we're made of stardust.
maalie: Actually, no, I haven't noticed an abundance of realistic looking hearts this Valentine's season, just the usual fake-shaped ones, if that's what you mean. Maybe it's a UK thing? I'll keep my eyes open.
Where'd that traditional "heart" shape come from anyway I wonder? It really looks nothing like a real heart.
You're on 13 comments which is unlucky, so here's another one.
I think the stylised blood pump used on greetings cards is a bit of artistic un-licence to give an impression of symmetry. I think that a projected shadow of such a pump that retained the stubs of the associated blood vessels might appear roughly like that.
The Salt book has just been delivered. It looks great, thanks for tipping me off.
You're probably right about the idealised heart. After all the anatomical one is quite unplesant to look at, or to thrust forward at one's sweetheart. Anyway the sylised version is a pleasing graphic device much like the happy face or the peace sign. I suppose it just caught on somewhere along the line. I'm gonna so some research and try to find out when that was, now that my curiosity is piqued.
Enjoy the book! I hope it's a good read; it got good reviews on Amazon but you know how fickle people on that site can be. Everything is either 5 stars and the best things they've ever read, or 1 star and complete shite, in such a ratio that most items usually come out with an average of around four stars. Anyways, I hope it's good. -Meta
Wad'ya mean, you can't polish a turd?
Lorenzo
Actually I prefer birds to mice. They are horrid little buggers.
Oh yes, that's next isn't it? Flippin' Valentine's Day. Another ludicrous Hallmark holiday. I mean how contrived can you get? I'm not unromantic, in fact quite the opposite, but I've always loathed having society dictate how I should be behaving or expressing myself just because it's a particular date. I did smile at the idea of putting realistic medical imagery on greetings cards though. How about a fresh placenta congratulating Jeremy and Angelica on the birth of their new baby? (That one was to get Maalie back for his vile tales on my blog.)
That sounds a very appropriate idea, Magdalene. I'm not expecting to receive any stylised blood-pump icons myself this year though.
I bet you love dressing up for Halloween!
Meta:
"the mongrel cat came home
holding half a head
Proceeded to show it off
to all his new found friends
he said "i been where i liked
i slept with who i liked
she ate me up for breakfast
and screwed me in a vice..."
coddingtenemos
Loverly.
Magdalene, I share your opinion on Valentine's Day. And really, if you love soneome, you should do something to let it be known more frequently than once a year, once a day would be nice. I hate being given flowers and chocolate, there's nothing less romantic - put a bit of thought into it please!
Same opinion I've always held of Valentine's Day. Why spend money on your bird when you can get a couple of pints for the same price at the local and tell her it's just a "Hallmark holiday" and that you love her 365 days a year, minus all the days that she goes psycho on you.
Lorenzo, I've neglected your question way up there for far too long. Kailash is a mountain in Tibet. According to Wikipedia, "There have been no recorded attempts to climb Mount Kailash; it is considered off limits to climbers in deference to Buddhist and Hindu beliefs. It is the most significant peak in the world that has not seen any known climbing attempts."
So I'm afraid you might have to skip scaling this one, but there are many beautiful pictures of it around the web and I imagine it would be breathtaking (literally!) to see in person, even from the base camp.
´Bird´?! So charming.
Just call me Michael Caine.
Raehla: I agree! "Sheila" sounds so much better; the Aussies have got it right.
>It is the most significant peak in the world that has not seen any known climbing attempts.
I bet there are a few "unknown" ones! Mountaineers are just collectors. It would be like asking a birder not to go to see some mega-rarity that has blown in from somewhere!
Maalie, how about the Spanish - they use the word 'mujer' (woman) to also mean wife. And the official word for wife - esposa - which is hardly ever used in that context, is instead used in its plural to mean handcuffs.
Will someone please explain, clearly, to me how I put italics and links into my commnets? I've tried several times before and always fail miserably.
An old one in America (and maybe elsewhere) that I still like to use is "betties."
"Let go check out the pool, I'll bet there are some nice betties down there."
Great for the misogynistic male.
Raelha, to make italics, you have to enclose the text you want italicized in opening and closing HTML italics tags, like this:
<i>This text is bent.</i>
To make it bold instead, replace the 'i' with a 'b' in both tags.
Hope that helps.
So why isn´t your text bent?
Woo hoo, it works. Finally. Cheers for that.
Betties? Just lovely. And you still like to use it eh?
Every chance I get, baby cakes. I also serenade them with this:
(Censored)
My, it's enough to get a girl's heart fluttering (actually, they wouldn't let me watch, but the title was enough).
Meta - pass this on to Maalie. I have visited the Sandhill Crane preserve near us, been scared out of my wits by a Swainson's Hawk flying over me like a 747, watched a Bald Eagle land in my backyard on a branch in a very tall fir tree, where it flew off with the branch attached and plummeted towards the ground, dropping the branch just in time to fly back up. Incredible. We also live near one of the biggest if not the biggest watersheds anywhere - California Central Valley. Swans, snow geese, cranes, ergrets, herons, many many more. I saw a loggerhead shrike in my backyard - this isn't even their territory, we also have killdeer, hummingbirds, western meadowlarks (my favorite singer), and probably a lot of the same birds he does. Just thought I'd talk birds for a bit.
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