My siblings, Alexandra, Andrew and I traveled to Brooklyn on Saturday the 2nd of October. We arrived for lunch at Roberta's, which is a restaurant based on a poetic concept.
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Eat the Food,
Where the food is grown,
Where the food is prepared.
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Here is the picture of Roberta's garden in the spring.
We ate and then just hung out among hoards of “Hep Cats” who crowded in and out of this chill spot. “You dig?”
It came time for us to “Fade Out” so we rolled out on “Badnews.”
Next stop was this tight scene where my sista was playing a live score for this Avant Garde “like” film screening thing called, “the secret fundraiser.” The concept of this fundraiser was as paradoxical as the city-garden at Roberta's. Somehow it works in Brooklyn.
We bounced from that scene to go to see a band called Liturgy.
They describe themselves as “Pure Transcendental Black Metal”
Actually the show was a poetry recital trampled by a charge of banging instruments.
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Ecstatic Rite
And the yoke weighed heavily
Upon the neck
And the tractors placed their tracks
Upon the cowering soil
The arrow cast
The bow pulled back
The arrow cast
And the chains were linked to other chains
Forged obliquely, freeing no one and everyone
Ecstatic rite
Divide the father
Ecstatic rite
Divide the father
From river to sea
The waves sing and shine
Untrained, unrestrained
Desiring nothing
From hill to vale
Form gives way to form
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This is one of the most beautiful poems but it cannot even be deciphered in the crowded music. I do not expect anyone to get though this whole video.
That one evening reminded me of the people of the "Beat Movement." Brooklyn is the new Greenwhich Village. It is an escape from "squaresville" for the youth.
http://www.cityfarmer.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/robert3.jpg
http://www.robertaspizza.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lvIER0Mr0o
http://www.myspace.com/liturgynybm
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