Ballet flat shoes aren't really cute...
but platform shoes are...

I know, the chicks reading this may be seething b/c they have "perfectly cute" ballet flats in their closets or on their feet; and the dudes reading this are going to be indifferent, or maybe care quite deeply, which is all good...

Anyway, those ballet flat shoes are everywhere now -very trendy- but I am a platform shoe type of girl! It's getting more and more difficult to find a killer platform shoe or at least a snappy chunky heel! These ballet flats are taking over the shoe universe (shoeniverse?)

Fact: Platform shoes just make you look industrially cool.

Halcyon, hardcore modifier that he is, made a video about resurrecting a pair of platforms shoes which died from overexertion due to his mad dance skills.. The platform sole/soul lived, but the shoe's body was wasted. In his vid, he rips off the shoe from its platform and drills another pair of shoes onto the platform . It freakin' worked, too.

I may have to take up his modification bait :-)

Video Updated - Razorlight
Here's a dandy cover of the Beatles' "W/A Little Help From My Friends" by the jolly good blokes of Razorlight. Cheers ;-)

Think with the senses, feel with the mind...

When I was in Venice, there was an art show with the above title. I love that concept, and I realize that I do tend to follow that drift. It doesn't necessarily have to apply to all aspects of one's life -- there are certainly elements of one's workday that wouldn't be compatible with all that artsy smartsy daydreamy stuff. But when my mind drifts freely, it's kind of nice to float more, steer less...

So being said artsy nerd, I wrote some poetry about it :-)

All the while
Looking for something to take you back.
Something out of your reach.
Leaving you from the corner of your eye.

See the outsider.
But that stranger is familiar.
How could you let the connection pass you by?
Can you tell me why?

When you nearly have the correlation
It slips right away from your mind
And timing is off, and things go chaotic
But I know who's in there behind those eyes.

There can never be an ending --
Everyone is endless like the sky.

Awake and discern the sensation
Of your cells dividing
In time with the universe expanding
Can you feel it?
Would you dare to understand why?

Hi guys -- I'm back and the trip was mad scathing fun! Highlights:

Mykonos -- Warm, golden light, delicious food, busy town, turquois water. Also visited island of Delos -- amazing ruins still being excavated dating from 800 B.C.

Athens -- Awe-inspiring Acropolis -- Parthenon, stadiums, temples. Very crowded city -- mostly cubist modern buildings co-exiting with ancient ruins.

Cruised thru strait of Ithaca...mountainous, gorgeous, I understand Odysseus better now! Boat is spec-freakin-tacular. Love this beachy, yet academic, trip!

Croatia -- Split = Pretty port city! Did a historical tour, and shopped my brains out.

Venice -- I love this city! St Mark's Basilica, water everywhere, architecture is so elaborate -- Byzantine/Gothic blend. People are awesome. Was here for a Venetian festival celebrating the building of the Church of Redemption in the 1500's after black plague was subsiding. Saw fireworks and lots of Italians dancing in the streets. Mad dance skills!

I ate a lot of good food for the whole trip. I still dream about that... :-)

Video Updated - E Muzeki

I am going to Italy, Croatia, and Greece this first part of July ( ...OMG!) so I am sharing my high level of psyched-ness with you by posting a video of the most excellent E Muzeki. I'm talking bouzouki shredding, fingertip ripping, supreme Mediterranean thrash bash. See ya soon, guys!