whacking day, recycling & clubbing, Easter over here...

Easter, eggs, lambs and other whatnots.... traditional essentials in France and other countries I'm sure..
throwing buckets of water in Poland...
men whacking women with sticks (that will heal them of all illnesses and other ailments apparently)....
here's me WA??!!Whack your woman, and she'll be guaranteed fertility... doesn't sound that Christian to me....
I feel that Easter's got a lot more to do with paganism than anything else...
Have you ever seen processions of crucified people? Well, it's not what you'd call most people's idea of fun... bank holiday and long weekend usually don't rhyme with nails and wood...... Fact.
But still, It's not widely admitted that we commemorate some Pagan myths...
This brings me to recommend THE Easter film, if there's any...
Surprisingly enough, it tends to be found on 'horror' shelves....
Denial? pfff.. just don't know what that's all about........

Somehow, it makes me feel better to think that Easter is more to the effigy of the god of spring than to the one of Jeesy


Here's the man who knows how to laugh at the discrepancy between what the bible says and what is actually commemorated at Easter...
(true enough... Which gospel mentions the Easter bunny?!!)
Hope yo find it as funny as I do!!

On other fronts, went to Prague last weekend, while my infamous brother Jah-Mi was visiting...
good times were had....

here's a quick review of what we saw:

ORBIS PICTUS exhibition
Astonishing audio-visual installations at the Czech Museum of Music....
luscious imaginations... interactive principles where all are free to touch, experiment, look, play... fantastic for all generations.. and sure, from toddlers to the white hair confederacy, all were wearing wide smiles...

visit to the Museum of Communism
Fairly bookish, but widely informative...
It focuses on the communist era in the Czech Republic, and explores the dream of the ideology as well as the nightmare that followed.
when it comes to books about communism in Central and Eastern Europe, I've found the two following books deeply insightful and easy to read (magic combo for a reader as lazy as me)..
the author is Slavenka Drakulic
How we survived communism and even laughed
Cafe Europa

So, that's all for the museums..
Strolled loads and, naturally in Prague, we came across some beautiful and random artefacts...
Oh, that city really is gorgeous!!

And as a Saturday night in Prague as a dutiful tourist is to go clubbing and get pickled... we carried out our mission in the futuristic Cross Club ..
truly amazing, welcome to some far away century, a century that will be recycled or won't be at all... the whole club, which is like a maze, is a display of sculptures made from parts of what seem to be disintegrated engines belonging to a long gone past... a place that screams of Paddy Bloomer and Nicky Keogh ( as seen on the dodgystereo blog)..
fine evening...
not drinking rhum again in a hurry though...


pic of happy tourists.. Jah-mi, wordsboogie and dodgystereo


Be well,
breathe in the spring wherever you are

Peace out