Lead article
Writing about writing
I write not to be remembered, but to remember. I do not write to impress, or to confer meaning upon life or as a hobby; I write to understand. I write a life for myself I know I won’t live. I don’t write about lives that I neither want nor don’t want; there is a […]
Editorial
So this is a bit of a fly by editorial – its late, I’m tired and it’s very nearly the 3rd March. I’m way behind, standards are slipping (although I’m always late). This kind of online publication always lulls you into a false sense of security - everything is automated so you think uploading some text and images will only take a couple of hours...nup. Never works like that. There’s always something driving me to distraction.
Anyway back to business. A few articles will be late this month but should be up in the next day or two. I’ll be updating our UPCOMING EVENTS page by the end of the week as it’s about time to get mutantspace.ie back into the physical world so I hope some of you will get involved in that.
We increased our readership again this month which is great news – we’ve been solidly getting bigger and better since January 2009 when we started with a few hundred readers (which, at the time I was delighted with, myself and Stan were beside ourselves!) I’m hoping we can hit the 10,000 reader mark in the next few months...and then from there who knows? In the meantime keep telling everyone where we can be found, stay safe and enjoy this months issue
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Featured articles
Scars of love
As I have said before one thing leads to an other…. In my last foray I met up with Sinead O ...
Miami to New York…………and beyond
Hy Mayerson and Sean Corcoran step onboard an Amtrak train in Miami on the 12th of March for a not ...
Cauliflower recipes
Cauliflower is especially plentiful and delicious this time of year. It grows enclosed in its swirling green leaves – and ...
Spoonfed culture
Let’s make this clear. No ambiguity. Culture has been appropriated and compartmentalised and departmentalised and soon that is all we’ll ...
Diary of a Punk Poet
‘Selling it that’s the problem’ a friend said to me when referring to my poetry. It’s getting an audience in to ...
Exchange Dublin
Exchange Dublin is a collaborative artspace, an extended tribe, a social experiment, and a bit of a laugh. We were ...
Stanleys essential music of a decade
So here is the second series of tracks that have inspired me most over the last 10 years. I'll be adding ...
Sending Zen - “Reichs Or Sex gone - part I”
Wide, huge, splayed, murky, dispersed, nowhere, everywhere, confused, enmeshed, despotic, kind, contradicted, conflicting, intimate, private, gregarious, zany, veiled, unharnessed, expropriated, ...
John, Shelly & the Creatures new album and more…
John, Shelly & the Creatures: Dinosaur John Shelly and the Creatures are on the crest of a wave, garnering much momentum, ...
Jay Flavin, profile of a mutantspace member
Jay Flavin is an actor based in Youghal, Co. Cork. He has been a professional actor for the past 6 years ...
About Corkarts.org
Cork Arts Network (working title) is a follow up by various artists and arts workers to participation in the National ...
Things I keep going back to
The things that inspire the Inside Gardener “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can”
Audio Stories from The Moth
Her Way - an audio story by Malcolm Gladwell An audio story from The Moth on New York. This month Malcom Gladwell speaks of a well-intentioned wedding toast goes horribly awry for a young man and his friends. Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the best sellers “Blink,” “The Tipping Point,” “Outliers,” and “What the Dog Saw”.
Books of the month
Books on cultural theory, new social movements, sound art This months choice books from our arts blog are; Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction by Ben Highmore, Tribes by Seth Godin, Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage
Band of the month
In Valour IN VALOUR would describe their musical style as song based electronica. The duo first met in Sydney where they were members of trip-hop band ‘Kinetic’. Re-acquainted in Jan ’09 they thought they might work on a handful of tracks, but found that their musical connection was still alive and kicking. They took the name ‘IN VALOUR’, and forged their unique sound from a blend of cultures, styles, tastes and experience
Recipes from our Kitchen
Memorable meals with aubergines a friend recommended a taverna near the famous Minoan ruins at Knossos; we were told to order mezédhes, similar to the Spanish tapas or the Italian antipasto. As the holiday neared its end, we remembered that we had a wedding anniversary to mark and off we went to the Knossos restaurant. As instructed, and with no great expectation, we ordered the mezédhes. We were blown over; this was a truly memorable meal.
The inside gardener
The Signal Tower The signal tower, elusive behind the brow of the hill, was one feature of the island I had wanted to see. Martello towers have always interested me- it’s their proud replication in so many different parts of their globe coupled with a universal redundancy. From the height of the tower is a full round view of the Bull, Cow and Calf islands, the stump of lighthouse on the latter like a charred log, the Mizen and Sheep’s Head to the south, the Kerry peninsulas to the North, and the Skelligs haunting on the horizon. On such a day it was not hard to imagine the fleets of fresh, white billowing sails floating past in the heyday of the pirates.
Conversations on film
Oscars, animation, and New Waves.. It’s almost Oscar time again, and although it can seem like nothing more than a Hollywood showcase, look closer, and the Academy Award nominees can provide us with some good suggestions for entertaining viewing. I know that I particularly like to scan the short film lists, and this year sees two Irish shorts take their place in both the Live Action Short and the Animated Short film categories
Mutant blog
the new language of thinkers I don’t have the tools to talk about the large political, philosophical, sociological issues of our times. I don’t have the language, the exactness to express that need I have, that desire to explain my frustration with the system in which I live. The control it has over me, the all pervasiveness of it. I am frustrated in my attempts to try and articulate the situation I find myself in – like a baby who knows what they want but can’t say it, can’t be succinct, can only point in the general direction and grunt until someone eventually gets it. I am a babble machine vomiting goobledegook as I try to make my way beyond the shadow of control into the light of freedom.
Mutant space newsletter
March Newsletter February has been a frantic month for this blog in particular. I’ve been busy trying to optimize it in the hope that I can get more visibility online, more readers attracted to what our contributors are writing about every issue. It is working but will take time. This month I’ll be concentrating on finding more likeminded blogs out there to link to thereby attracting a larger audience for what we’re doing here. I’m very proud of what everyone has achieved with this project, with this ezine, blog, whatever.
Poetry now
Poetry by Alan Maguire Two poems from our resident poet Alan Maguire; Manical Monsters and Urban Gorilla
Website of the month
againstthegrain.org Every month we pick a website to profile. This month it’s againstthegrain.org, a radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters — political, economic, social and cultural — important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. We’re based at the studios of Pacifica station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California.
