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Emotions are at the nexus between matter and mind

Posted in Uncategorized on 30 June, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Emotions. What are they and why have they come about? In her book Molecules of Emotions, Candace Pert gives some very interesting explanations based on her cross-disciplinary research on peptides and their receptors.
Each of the neural, the hormonal, the gastrointestinal, and the immune systems is set up to communicate with one another, via peptides and their reciprocal [...]

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An Artist

Posted in Art on 28 June, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

A friend of mine called me an artist some days ago. I responded spontaneously that I’m not an artist, and that because I do not perform my own plays or songs. Until now I have only played other playwrights’ plays and performed other musicians music.
I really would like to become a real artist, and am [...]

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Molecules of Emotion

Posted in Uncategorized on 27 June, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve started to read the book Molecules of Emotion: Why you feel the way you feel by Candace B. Pert. A very quest is what emotions are, and how they work together with other parts of the human being. Candace Pert gives an account of her research in peptides. Very intesting reading, even if still [...]

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The show is over. The audience get up to leave their seats.

Posted in Art on 27 June, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

For about 10 years a favourite work of art of mine has been hanging at a friend’s place, as I didn’t have a place of my own. When I was in Sweden over the midsumer weekend I got it back and it now hangs in my own apartment here in Geneva, from this morning.
The artist is the New Yorker Christopher Wool [...]

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Fête de la Musique – Genève

Posted in Music on 20 June, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Three days of free outdoor music and dance. Wow.
Among this year's concerts that I visited:

Alenko (Alex, the vocals teacher at EPI, performs well. He refers to the concert as a journey, where the songs make up a whole)
Silecie (Charlotte Nordin sings and moves very well, and has a song in Swedish, "Svek")
Tango de Sueño
Malavida (a local [...]

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Song writing

Posted in Music on 20 June, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

We are about to take a step forward in the band, with starting to compose our own songs.
So now I am asked to come up with the lyrics for the first song.
Ah, how to do that?
I think I will start by looking in my journals that I've kept since 20 years. The problem is that there's [...]

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