Mostly Words

Something I wrote in an email recently and thought I'd share. It's nothing new, just putting in my own words a philosophy I deeply believe in .

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Humans evolved with a certain lifestyle and rhythm of life: living in close-knit social groups, sleeping/waking with the sun, alternating intense exercise with rest and lots of leisurely play, socializing, exploration. We're still pretty much the same organism... any time we start departing from the way nature made us, things start to go awry. Just because something is "normal" for these times, doesn't mean it's the right or healthy way. A "normal" health-conscious person spends the day under even artificial lights until he switches them off abruptly and expects to fall asleep. Stuffs food down his gullet at regular intervals. Exercises in movement patterns made for domesticated rodents and machines. Is chronically stressed - rarely peaking, never relaxed and worry-free. Pushes the round pin of relationships into the square hole of cost-benefit analyses. No wonder our bodies and minds become deranged.

Not saying we should all give up the advantages of modern technology and go live in a cave, or that we should forgo science as a tool for optimizing our health and quality of life. But I definitely think 200,000 years of homo sapiens should give us some guideline as to what things we can not leave out of our lives."

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Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple

Capoeira & Beyond

I'd like to share the latest from Ido Portal, with whom I trained since 2001.

"Floreio is a movement modality that involves high end development of joint mobility, strength, endurance, control, balance,
quality of movement, flexibility and dominance of one's body all blended into a flowing, beautiful art."

Here is one of Ido's demos of Floreio flow. He also has excellent taste in music =)

Some creative applications from my "classmates". I'm so proud of them *sniff*

Visit Ido's blog for more.

Week's Soundtrack

Just the moods from the last few days:

None Of Us Are Free - Solomon Burke (courtesy of House again)

You Can Leave Your Hat On - by Randy Newman, performed by Joe Cocker.

Bizarre Love Triangle - originally New Order. This version is attributed to Jewel but I think it's by Australian band Frente! - the idea for the remake is theirs anyway.

Umami

Zera e Reza - Caetano Veloso

Jabberwocky (by the Rev. Charles L. Dodgson, famed as Lewis Carroll) - three expressions:

Muppet Show Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky as a Celtic ballad by Donovan

Progressive rock Jabberwocky by Ambrosia

And -

You Can't Always Get What You Want - the Rolling Stones

זיעה קרה מיונה וולך

יונתן / יונה וולך

אני רץ על הגשר
והילדים אחרי
יונתן
יונתן הם קוראים
קצת דם
רק קצת דם לקנוח הדבש
אני מסכים לחור של נעץ
אבל הילדים רוצים
והם ילדים
ואני יונתן
הם כורתים את ראשי בענף
גלדיולה ואוספים את ראשי
בשני ענפי גלדיולה ואורזים
את ראשי בניר מרשרש
יונתן
יונתן הם אומרים
באמת תסלח לנו
לא תארנו לעצמנו שאתה כזה.

ביצוע מעורר חלחלה באלבום "בציר טוב" של אילן וירצברג ושמעון גלבץ

Some Post-Beatles Beatles

Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy

John Lennon - Watching the Wheels

I Met the Walrus - an award-winning short animation film. Soundtrack is an interview of Lennon by a 14 year old fan who snuck into his hotel room in Toronto. Turns out they were saying "like" in every other sentence even back in 1969.

Guilty Pleasures / Sleepless Again

Teardrop by Massive Attack

I love "House, M.D.". I know it's not "good", I just love the sleuthing that goes on in clinic.

I love it when I get a whiff of connection between seemingly unrelated things. Usually the "connection" is my delusion at best. But one of these days one of those perceptions will happen to be a stroke of genius.

I could never be a doctor. I definitely could never get through med school. For one thing, I don't absorb; information just slides off me like water off a glass dome. I know the "thing", just not its label. I'd probably be a more useful member of society if I had a good memory. But maybe it's just my brain playing tricks on me: it'll only make room for things I really care about.

So, I'll trade intuition for rigor. Dreaming up random associations for having a grounded sense of reality. Grasping the whole for remembering the details.

It's just the way I am. And why I should only date left handed men =)