Red Wolf's Room

Hello, I know I haven't been doing very much on my blog which can be considered a good thing.  Here is some of my new and old work.  For more, check out my short stories and The Goblin Tunnels series. Nothing All I see is white. All I see is black. A void.   I am here, forced to bear the numbness. I can only speak within. There is no one.   When it all ended, I thought I was making a difference.   But I'm back where I started. I was dropped into the void before I could save myself.   The same smells, same sights, same feelings. The pain of despair.  The despair of hope.   Everything changes. But I don't.   I am outside. And I am cold. ____________________________ The following  was inspired by David Bowie’s songs “She’s All I’ve Got” and “Segue - Ramona A. Stone/I am With Name” *Some dialogue are direct quotations from Bowie’s so...

The beginning opens with a lot of clapping which could be alluding to Lady Gaga's recent attempt at a song called "Applause" , but I don't know for sure.  The puppets in the video allude to Bowie's past work, (obviously), and the DIY atmosphere to the video could be what Bowie means by "Love is Lost", as in the professional filming and lighting, the elaborate costumes, the big name actors and the special effects are the only reasons we love a video and not for the real content such as the singer's words and message.  As for why the human Bowie is in the bathroom and washing his hands might be because he is saying he is through with dressing up his meanings and "washing his hands" of it, like Lady MacBeth.  The scene is the opposite to the one he shot in his video "Thursday's Child" where he was with a young woman and a large decorated apartment; now he is alone, in a small bare bathroom. He speaks of his beginning where eve...

As we already know from Lady Gaga herself, David Bowie is one of her influences.  With her new single "Applause", all I see and hear is David Bowie.  First the picture of her with the smeared clown make-up reminds me of Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes" song. Copyright:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pco91kroVgQ Copyright: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusZZDbIoiQi5p9sEkrp_gI5AzZsYlCDXsQfp4x0cbjDSn-T5Dj7fnTt_t78C3C9AEIgOLmbb_o2L0sT33bcIznJJJISxu7e0kiHbKOqFVfMMHd4owqVI0n9wm9Z9cpkdEImVvsAXtksQ/s320/ashes_bowie.jpg Then in the first stanza of Lady Gaga's song, the intonation of her voice is very much like the intonation Bowie used in his album "Hours."  I'm not a fan of Lady Gaga, but I do like a few of her songs like "Bad Romance" because it was different.  The concept of "Applause" just reminds me of Bowie's song "Fame."  She is using too many Bowie elements so that she is not influ...

This is my newest poem:  Doctor, Slice me open! Rid me of this endured sickness Infecting the penetralia of my soul. I worship the true musician With locks of gold; A god of treasured words. He makes me retch. Staring at the blue liquid, I know, I am trapped among ghosts. My face is red, you ask. It's from bloody tears. The past is forever present Only untouchable. I hit the pane of glass by day. Breaking through by night. He says we will creep together. He yearns for my love, But he is deaf to my speech. Oh, erase these ballads of woe swirling in my head! My heart has bled a thousand times From the razors and daggers of life. A myriad of broken vows, murdered dreams. Wrench it out, I beg you! Saw off my blistered feet. I don't wish to run after love. A cruel wind I cannot catch. A beat I fail to ke...

Once again, I feel as though everything has been done.  Check out these images:  I understand that Lady Gaga likes David Bowie's stuff and is inspired by it, but was there really NO OTHER symbol she could have used.  I wonder if she even knows why Bowie used it.  I personally don't like her music.  Their beat sticks with you, but it is jam-packed with meanings that people are sticking onto her music instead of the meanings already being there as in Bowie's case.  I feel when I hear her music and see her ridiculous outfits, it's just for the attention; there is no loneliness or soul-searching or wisdom that Bowie has in his music.   I think I was born too late and ended up in the wrong era.

Today, as you may know, is the last day the Canadian penny, (or as it is technically called "the cent"), will be made.  Today's post will therefore be to its dedication.     Are there any coin collectors out there?  Are you sad about the penny's demise? Lastly, a poem by William Butler Yeats titled "Brown Penny". I whispered, "I am too young", And then, "I am old enough"; Wherefore i threw a penny To find out if I might love. "Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be fair." Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.

 Remembering a Woman and Her Bookstore   In Paris, there is currently a bookstore named "Shakespeare and Company", but it is only a copy of the original store that was located at 12 Rue de L'Odéon and ran by a woman named Sylvia Beach in the 20s.   Ernest Hemingway described Miss Beach in his book A Moveable Feast and wrote "She had a lively, sharply sculptured face, brown eyes that were as alive as a small animal's and as gay as a young girl's, and wavy brown hair that was brushed back from her fine forehead and cut thick below her ears..."  Hemingway also wrote that Miss Beach "was kind, cheerful and interested, and loved to make jokes and gossip.  No one that I ever knew was nicer to me."   In the year 1917, Sylvia Beach was a student in Paris studying contemporary French literature.  One day, she read an advertisement for work in a bookshop called "La Maison des Amis des Livres" and soon became friends, (and eventually ...