the word labyrinth is neither derived from the name of labyris, the egyptian monarch of the 12th dynasty, nor from labrys, the double axe, which can be found as a symbol all over the labyrinth of knossos. labrys/labra also means lip/lips. king minos of crete had daedalus build him the labyrinth of oblivion, originally so that he could forget the fact that the world emerged from female labia. later minos used it as a nursery for minotaurus, the son of his wife pasiphae and her favourite bull. he spent quite some time sitting on the chair of oblivion in order to forget where his daughter ariadne had had her red thread from.

the woman with the polyphonic throat knew how to deal with faulty schedules: when in doubt, stay at home.

he was all enthused about that trailblazingly new idea. "rachael plays that mousey, bespectacled geek in dungarees with those uncool ideas about creating boring art, avoiding all the hip parties, totally unpopular. no one thinks that ugly duckling could ever become prom queen..." -- "wait a moment", she interrupted him, "rachael is supposed to look ugly because of the lack of a nice haircut and decent rags? her beautiful face is totally screwed up by spectacles?" -- "yeah, well, it's her whole personality, she's totally uninteresting. but then they pluck her eyebrows and do her hair and paint her face and she's looking really..." -- "womanlike, tarted up, classy, feminine, adapted, decent. like wendy in pygmalion, like audrey in my fair lady, like julia in pretty woman, like sandra in love potion no. 9, like hilary in the next karate kid; like everyfuckingone else." -- "exactly", he agreed, "and this is what makes her so interesting!"

when you fold a piece of paper in half, put a butterfly in between, press the halves together and then open them up again, you will get something that looks like a blot of ink.

when he stood up right at the end of the talk and went straight out of the auditorium, i asked him, "you've been so enthusiastic about coming here, told me how great his ideas were; don't you want to ask any questions?" -- "nah", he replied, "i want to be alone now and think about his concepts, about the stuff he worked weeks and weeks on to get it on the point in a refined two-hour-format; essentially 20 years of experience destilled. i don't want to be disturbed by stupid questions from the audience and answers he has to make up instantaneously."
he didn't let me talk to him again that day.

if a spell checker can't detect it, it isn't a spelling mistake.

the difficulty levels of the next lemmings sequel won't stop at mayhem; they will continue up, over sodomy and drive-by-shooting, to train-wrecking.

4:1: semitone pentatonic (japan)
3:1: chromatic genus (eastern europe)
2:1: diatonic genus (western europe)
3:2: whole-tone pentatonic (china)
4:3: whatsitcalled (scotland)