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After mentioning Dogme95 the other day, I finally managed to catch one of the films. Italiensk for begyndere (Italian For Beginners) is the 12th Dogme film and the first by a female director (not credited here, as per the Vow of Chastity). The players congregate in a Copenhagen suburb, including a substitute pastor who’s lost …
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Second Chances for Beginners
Cover Story
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A really good book cover has to work regardless of what it’s about, on a visceral and emotional level. ~ Chip Kidd
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I am mad about covers. Covers of books, CDs, comics, anything. Face it, the cover and packaging is the first thing you see when you purchase something these days and they do matter. Trust me, …
No Name #1 & #2
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No Name #1
Kiss thief dream beauty:
When you are here before. Look into your eyes.
Are you an angel? Your skin crawls over me like a butterfly.
Beautiful world makes me wish
I was like you too.
This dream will take me away;
I can’t come back.
We laid by the bank together -
the dreams we had together
melting into each other
the water …
Lost Days (Part II) : The Hours
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I am no longer an artist. I swear to refrain from creating a “work”, as I regard the instant as more important than the whole.
~ from the Vow of Chastity, DOGME 95
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The rest of the weekend would have been a disappointment, if I had any expectations of it. As it were, I just spent the days …
Lost Days (Part I) : The Devil’s Hunger
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Amazing how the days just fly by when you don’t pay attention. What have I been doing? Let’s see: Last Wednesday had me taking Christine around Malacca, simply walking along old narrow streets bordered by Hokkien temples, bohemian cafés and Chinese clan houses guarded by oriental stone lions. I told her these lions may have …
Low Red Mood
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The past couple of days have spent in a frenzy of worthless ambition. Chasing after distractions that only lead me to feeling more disatisfied, more useless. It’s difficult not being able to, not having to work. This time of listless drumming, the restless hours that do not turn, the me that seeks something that is …


