Cheers with Giger’s Absinthe!

"What is there in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? ... Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men". Aleister Crowley (1875-1947).

"What difference there is between absinthe and sunset?". Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).

The spirit that soothed the spleen days of the French poets of the 19th Century, which, it is said, made Van Gogh sever his ear, that inspired the finest writings of Baudelaire, Coleridge, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Wilde and Crowley, comes back lavishly dressed by H.R. Giger, himself a magnificent outcast of our times.

Of highly alcoholic contents, this anise flavored drink stems from Artemisia absinthium, long ago considered a concoction of black alchemists, an arcane predecessor of modern day psychedelics, a generous instigator of the so called green madness: a delirious, verbose condition, that ends in terrible, lucid nightmares. It is said that it pays its victims drowning them in their own abysses of self indulgence, after years of addiction.

Thanks to the increased demand, the European Union, backed by strong scientific investigations, that suggests that this brew is no more dangerous than any ordinary spirit, lift the centenary ban imposed on its sales.

Therefore, Lion Absinthe Distribution, a German vendor, sells it freely, and announced recently the launch of its product catalogue number 1148: the Brevans H.R. Giger, distilled according to the formula left by J. de Brevans in his, La Fabrication des Liqueurs, a 19th Century formulary. “Only the finest wormwood and aromatic plants are used for its distillation and coloration. The result is an internationally acclaimed liquor that reflects the true spirit of the best absinthes of the Belle Époque”, says the brochure.

The label is something very special. Designed by Giger, it reproduces two of his most known works: Brain Salad Surgery II and Brain Salad Surgery I. Both originals were stolen in 2005 during a retrospective held in Prague (the Giger Museum offers a USD $5,000 reward for information about them, and a paid weekend in its facilities).

The Giger label not only embellishes the black legend that goes with this beverage, but makes it a very desirable collectable object. I advice you to buy two bottles, one to keep unopened and the other to cheer with friends.

I hope that, upon enjoying it you will not be tormented by the demons sealed inside the bottle. Like the ancient djinn of the tales of the book of One Thousand Nights and a Night, they are anxious to spread their green madness spell upon you, with its terrible but delicious deliria.
To: Claudia Navas.

Narciso Yepes

Narciso was one of the greatest lute masters of the 20th. Century. Here you can watch his ability with a 10 string guitar, one of his inventions. He was also an able composer, in fact, one of his compositions, Romance, was recently covered by My Chemical Romance. Therefore I don't fully understand why recent history ignores him, instead of honoring his career as is the case with the Marqués de Solobreña, aka Andrés Segovia. His interpretations of almost all of J. S. Bach works for lute comes along with my teen memories, when I found one of his albums, a double Archiv (2708 030), in which he played a 16 strings lute; never released in CD format as far as I know. There is a similar one, a Deutsches Gramophon, but with this same 10 stringed instrument. Generally, it is hardest to find his music in digital format, something that does no happen neither with Segovia, nor with the organist, E. Power Biggs. Luckly, YouTube saves his legacy, albeit in a very small quantity. Enjoy!

Yeees!!! I was selected!!!

Thanks Tania, your Japanese assistant is very able and I, as a true believer in virtual reality, am more than happy. But I am waiting for you! Meanwhile, you'll keep me in a perennial morning wood like condition!

Oral Sex for Votes in Old Belgium

She will perfom oral sex on you in her quest for a place in the Belgian Senate. At least, that's the promise of NEE, a political group supporting her endevours. You can apply, visiting their webpage.

NEE, says their leterature, is an impartial protest movement running for senate in the Belgian elections of June 10th 2007: NEE works around political awareness and offers voters in Belgium the option to vote 'NEE' if they find that none of the parties deserve their vote. NEE votes would simply go to empty seats in parliament, resulting in a loss of income and power among the other parties and giving the voters the power to sanction politicians if needed.
For further questions, you can e-mail us atmailto:info@nee-antwerpen.be

Farewell Mother

I cannot find words to say bye
I do not need them
You are not away
You are in me
flowing through my veins
in the kernell of my bones
Dee, deep, embedded in my memories
from my earliest years to my latest adulthood
I will carry You in my heart, in my brain, in my soul
As You carried me, deep inside Your body
Months and months before my birth
As it was great news for You when I was born
So it was great, beautiful, wonderful and a exultant pride
To be along with You
to see how life
(a mystery, a secret unveiled)
found a channel, a passage, an embodiment
to Express itself just once with blissed grandeur
Image: William Blake