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STORY
07-Oct-2011 (2 comments)
همیشه ی خدا این مامان و خانجان دعوا دارند. مامان یک «یا امیرالمومنین هیتلر»ی میگوید که بیا و تماشا کن؛ صد تا از دهانش میریزد؛ ولی مامان بزرگ کلی «بد و بیراه» بار «بوش»ها میکند. خانجان حمله ی آلمانها به فرانسه را یادش هست؛ برای همین هم گول مدیای مامان را نمیخورد. اما مامان یک تنه یک مدیای حسابی است؛ کلی هم تبلیغات بلد است. تا کم میآورد، به «ولای امیرالمومنین هیتلر» قسم میخورد، تا طرف را آچمز کند!>>>
POETRY
07-Oct-2011 (one comment)
پول را گرفت و لخت شد تا به آخر
چفیه را ولی بست دورِ كمر!
برای بركتِ كسب‌و‌كار باشد، گفت
كه بوده‌است این چفیۀ شریف روزی >>>
چفیه را ولی بست دورِ كمر!
برای بركتِ كسب‌و‌كار باشد، گفت
كه بوده‌است این چفیۀ شریف روزی >>>
CIRCUMSTANCE
05-Oct-2011 (7 comments)
دو سه روز پیش با دوست بسیار عزیزی به تماشای فیلم " شرایط" (Circumstance) رفته بودم. فیلم قصد دارد که زندگی دو دختر همجنسگرا و به طور کلّی زندگی شبانه و زیر زمینی جوانان ایرانی را نشان دهد. به نظر من به غیر از کارگردان این فیلم که یک خانم ایرانی ساکن خارج از کشور است بقیّۀ مطالب فیلم می تواند در هر یک از کشورهای اسلامی اتّفاق بیفتد و منحصر به کشور ایران نیست و نمی توان انگ ایرانی بر آن نهاد>>>
STORY
05-Oct-2011 (2 comments)
Leaving the frog’s euphoria behind, the Princess rambled through the narrow, high corridors of the Castle, down the stairs to the first-floor kitchen where she ordered a specific menu with her favourite wine from the chef for the coming occasion. As she climbed the stairs up to her living quarters in the company of her two attending servants, she pondered how much she needed to come to terms with her Shadow-Prince without delay>>>
STORY
03-Oct-2011 (12 comments)
In the first years of war nothing looked like any of the images we’d seen in the movies. Tehran’s trees didn’t grow burnt leaves, or dead dangling legs. The mountains of the north, bordering the city, didn’t vanish behind fuming hurricanes of smoke. The black flock of planes didn’t drop bombs over the shelters where women and children screamed and hopeless men held their heads high to die with dignity or patriotism. An expanding mushroom cloud didn’t rise in the horizon to give us incurable diseases>>>
STORY
03-Oct-2011
"My dear Princess,” said Mother Simorq, “a huge dreadful-looking frog has stopped at the garden gates, asking permission to enter the Castle. I suppose he is your friend, the Frog-Prince?” “Oh my! I’m sure he is. What can I do now? What does he want?” “No matter what his demands, this is a great opportunity for you to welcome your Shadow-Prince,” said Mother Simorq, fixing her reassuring gaze on Nisha. “Nothing but good will come out of this meeting.”>>>
POETRY
03-Oct-2011 (6 comments)
اوهام فرمانبردار
ساقه خراشید درخت
فصل فصل بی تاریخ وزید
دل خواه خندید تن زجر
زمین می چرخیدم رازنبودم فرمان ستاره رقص >>>
ساقه خراشید درخت
فصل فصل بی تاریخ وزید
دل خواه خندید تن زجر
زمین می چرخیدم رازنبودم فرمان ستاره رقص >>>
ORIENTALIST
01-Oct-2011 (4 comments)
I discovered Jean Chardin’s name by coincidence in a dictionary of biographies. I learned that just like Tavernier in 1665, but barely at twenty one years of age, Chardin also went as far as India in search of rare diamonds. I was immediately intrigued all the more that this young ambitious man had written many books on Persia with great detail and accuracy. After reading one of his books I was puzzled. I needed to know how a young French Protestant Jeweller was able to become an expert on Persia and publish a first book in 1670>>>
CLUB
01-Oct-2011 (6 comments)
یکی از روزهای هفته گذشته بود که دوستی تلفن زد و گفت: "یکی از دوست‌هایم که اقای دکتری است تازه از ایران امده و از من خواسته است او را به کافه لختی‌ها ببرم. تو بیا و ما را ببر..." با وجود سردرد و سرماخوردگی درخواستش را رد نکردم. این اواخر طرح فیلم مستندی را برای تلویزیون ملی کانادا فرستاده بودم که در آن ادعا کرده بودم مهاجران میانسال و مسن تورونتو، مشتریان پروپاقرص روسپیان شهر هستند. این طرح البته رد شد>>>
IDEAS
01-Oct-2011
آبژکت کردن گاهی بدنها را ترسناک می کند. مگر تجربه نکرده ای که بدنت چطور بین بعضی ها به خصوص مردان سفید انگلوساکسن ونکووری ترسناک شده؟ بدن یک زن خاور میانه ای ابژکت ترست است. ترسی بزرگ. ترس اینکه این بدن نصف شبها از خواب بیدار شود و نماز بخواند. ترس اینکه چند بار در روز رو به کعبه دولا راست شود>>>
POETRY
01-Oct-2011 (one comment)
His heart in his mouth,
leaden legs, crossed arms
he faces the studded door.
Clouds of plaster,
exhaled by the poor ceiling,
redden with every butt
as they reach the floor>>>
leaden legs, crossed arms
he faces the studded door.
Clouds of plaster,
exhaled by the poor ceiling,
redden with every butt
as they reach the floor>>>
MUSIC
29-Sep-2011
In an era of machine-generated music, difrent: is a live recording, played with soul by some of the best musicians alive. There’s no artifice, no grandstanding. I wanted it to be pop and accessible, but undeniably human, handmade. So when people see it live, with real players interacting with them taking the energy higher, it’s even better>>>
STORY
29-Sep-2011 (one comment)
The thrill of having regained her soul did not change Princess’s determination to break her promise to the ugly frog as she had found his demands abominable. Without showing any gratitude, she ran away from the clearing in such a hurry, she tumbled over the forest path several times before reaching the Castle. The more the Princess distanced herself from the jet-black gigantic frog, the more the greedy creature cried his croaks from the top of his lungs>>>
POETRY
29-Sep-2011 (2 comments)
چه کسی می داند
چرا نیمه های شب
وقتی که بی خوابی دانه دانه مان می کند
به این انارها ی کال می بالیم
سرنوشتهای ترش
آخرتهای گس،
>>>
چرا نیمه های شب
وقتی که بی خوابی دانه دانه مان می کند
به این انارها ی کال می بالیم
سرنوشتهای ترش
آخرتهای گس،
>>>
POETRY
27-Sep-2011
Shams of Tabriz was
Rumi’s soul mate
And Golestan
Forough’s.
Rumi and Forough both
Changed their love into a poem
The eternal poem! >>>
Rumi’s soul mate
And Golestan
Forough’s.
Rumi and Forough both
Changed their love into a poem
The eternal poem! >>>
US-IRAN
27-Sep-2011 (38 comments)
Anyone who’s ever driven down an American highway, idled in America’s city streets surrounded by gas-guzzling SUVs, or shivered in the Arctic-cold air conditioning of a US office building, knows the truth: the United States has an insatiable thirst for oil. Certainly Iran’s shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, understood that need, and for eight years, 1969 to 1977, exploited it, negotiating a series of secret oil-for-arms deals with America’s best and brightest>>>
STORY
27-Sep-2011
Nisha placed a saddle on the horse, attached the basket on his back with a shiny leather rope, led him outside on the smooth cobblestone walkway. As they passed the ponds encircled by flowerbeds, the Princess jumped on Atash. She had him walk down the short steps built for the sake of horses walking up and down the mount, before making him trot away in the meadow. As she rode her strong stallion through the forest, she experienced euphoria as if she had left the disciplined life of home-schooling for another dimension of time>>>
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