Publications

Girl in the Window

The protagonist of Girl in the Window sits at home. He stares outside and is tired of being alone at home again. He takes a walk into the city from Gramercy to the East Village, finishes a drink and walks back home around midnight. He enters a massage parlor, leaves, and returns home. He stares at the windows across, and observes a single lighted room.

Girl in the Window is a short story that takes place in New York. In one sleepless night, it describes an evening in the life of one man.
"I feel like an erratic dust particle twirling in a ray of sun light, revealing the inconsistent essence of the heaven. I make my way down, floating on the gusts of air. The streets slowly fill with a lively activity of young men and women. I feel more lighthearted from the younger energy here. The buzzing activity of hipster boys and attractive girls on the street is contagious. I feel the rush of adrenaline, dopamine and oxytocin, being amongst people again. The brush of physical contact awakens an uncanny desire. I pass the tinted windows of an Irish pub, the transparent window of an Asian fusion restaurant, the spotless glass facade of a Korean beauty parlor, the mirror window of a barber shop with its vintage interior, and the colored displays of a corner store with advertisements pasted across the window. All invite a myriad of gazes into their projected worlds."
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Recordings

Cretan Bulgari

I have a Cretan bulgari, a short-necked tamburas in Greek or baglama or saz in Turkish, sometimes called a çöğür in Turkish, tuned in the style of the saz, with a quarter tones. I have it tuned in C G D. From upper to lower strings the first and fifth are the round-wound metal strings, which are the thickest strings, and third and fourth, and the the sixth and seventh strings are the same. The rosetta style sound hole is on the upper side.  

Blog

Nikolas Kazantzakis, The Rock Garden (1963)

Nikolas Kazantzakis, The Rock Garden (1963), 251p.
date: June 15th, 2013 | categories: read | tags: ,

Run: 5.3km Prospect Park

Duration: 31:12 minutes Distance: 3.31 miles; 5.3 km Speed: 9:26 minutes/mile kCal: 553
date: April 28th, 2013 | categories: runs | tags: