March 2011
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February 2011
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One of the most beautiful baroque arias,...
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Suffering is unnecessary... →
January 2011
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“Life Gets In The Way”...
December 2010
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October 2010
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September 2010
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“A heart that’s full up like a...
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August 2010
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Amanao's beautiful soft color photos of Prague →
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Die Anrufung der Welt [Invocation of the World]
Happy birthday, Wim Wenders. Danke!
Wie ich bergauf ging und aus dem Talnebel in die Sonne kam… Das Feuer am Rande der Viehweide… Die Kartoffeln in der Asche… Das Bootshaus weit draußen am See… Das Kreuz des Südens… Der Ferne Osten, Der Hohe Norden, Der Wilde Westen, Der Große Bärensee! Die Insel Tristan de Cunha. Das Delta des Mississippi. Stromboli. Die...
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The elephant is slow to mate
The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate; he finds a female, they show no haste they wait for the sympathy in their vast shy hearts slowly, slowly to rouse as they loiter along the river-beds and drink and browse and dash in panic through the brake of forest with the herd, and sleep in massive silence, and wake together, without a word. So slowly the great hot elephant hearts grow full...
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What fault is it of the masks? →
A professor of anthropology, José Antonio Fernández de Rota, very dear to me, has recently passed away. What little comprehension I have of what is human; that we are our own gods, that we can ultimately understand each other and, thus, that there is always some posibility of talking, and sharing and being-with-others; all this and more I owe, above all, to his words. So, I join another of his...
July 2010
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Thursday
I have had my dream -like others- and it has come to nothing, so that I remain now carelessly with feet planted on the ground and look up at the sky- feeling my clothes about me, the weight of my body in my shoes, the rim of my hat, air passing in and out at my nose- and decide to dream no more. —William Carlos Williams, “Sour Grapes”, 1921 ∗ ∗ ∗ “Jueves” He...
June 2010
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Smile and soar with Tiësto’s 2007...
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The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
—John Milton, “Paradise Lost”, Book I
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La mente es su propio lugar, y en sí misma puede hacer del infierno un cielo y del cielo un infierno.
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L’esprit est son propre lieu, et en soi-même peut faire un ciel de l’enfer, et un enfer du ciel.
May 2010
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April 2010
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In the “Meadow” the time-traveler met...
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The transcending space of the Sainte-Chapelle →
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A tranquil moment at the Sistine Chapel →
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Le bain
Ils nagèrent tous les trois vers le large. Couchés au ras de l’eau, ils voyaient accourir de l’horizon le poids régulier des vagues, et dans un capiteux vertige il leur semblait qu’il tombât tout entier sur leurs épaules et dût les écraser, - avant de se faire au-dessous d’eux un flux de silence et de douceur qui les élevait paresseusement sur un dos liquide, avec une...
March 2010
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WatchOne of the most elegant musical masterpeices of the eighties: Duran Duran’s “The Chauffeur”, written by the band’s lead singer, Simon Le Bon. [Many thanks to Ana for the link discussing the “classiomatic”]
Out on the tar plains, the glides are moving All looking for a new place to drive You sit beside me, so newly charming Sweating dew drops glisten,...
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Reading: march 2010: "L'ignorance" by Milan...
2 The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. * * * In Spanish añoranza comes from the verb añorar (to feel nostalgia), which comes from the Catalan enyorar, itself derived from the Latin word ignorare (to be unaware of, not know, not experience; to lack or miss). In that...
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Love yourself first
All humans are imperfect (…) When I was young I wanted to be anybody but myself. Dr. Bernard Hasselhoff said if I was on a desert island then I would have to get used to my own company, just me and the coconuts. He said I would have to accept myself, my warts and all. And that we don’t get to choose our warts, they are a part of us and we have to live with them. We can however choose...
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Il est de ces maisons, de ces existences qui stupéfieraient les personnes raisonnables. Elles ne comprendraient pas qu’un désordre qui semble à peine devoir continuer quinze jours puisse tenir plusieurs années. Or ces maisons, ces existences problématiques se maintiennent bel et bien, nombreuses, illégales, contre toute attente. Mais, où la raison n’aurait pas tort, c’est que si...
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In your face!
Uri Caine’s 2007 wild...
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Penelope or Calypso?
navigolucky: Penelope. I like fidelity over the exotic.
Yatusabes :-D: If today’s Calypso would be tomorrow’s Penelope… then choose Penelope. Or sooner or later, you will find yourself at the same crossroads.
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Neon Bible →
Click on the link above or on the picture below to enjoy Arcade Fire’s interactive video for their 2007 “Neon Bible”
A vial of hope and a vial of pain, In the light they both looked the same. Pourred them out on into the world, On every boy and every girl. It’s in the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible Not much chance for survival, If the Neon Bible is right. Take the poison of...
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Sandrine Piau sings the most beautiful...
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February 2010
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L'espace (suite et fin)
J’aimerais qu’il existe des lieux stables, immobiles, intangibles, intouchés et presque intouchables, immuables, enracinés; des lieux qui seraient des références, des points de départ, des sources;
Mon pays natal, le berceau de ma famille, la maison où je serais né, l’arbre que j’aurais vu grandir (que mon père aurait planté le jour de ma naissance), le grenier de mon enfance empli de souvenirs...
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As mentioned in the previous post, the piece...
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For a long time I have known this enchanting music...
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January 2010
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Reading: January 2010, "Le diable au corps" by...
Yesterday I read Raymond Radiguet’s “Le diable au corps” (“The Devil in the Flesh”). Published in 1923 -the year of the Cocteau’s protégé’s untimely death at twenty- it’s the story of the relationship between a sixteen year-old boy and a young newly-wed woman whose husband is away fighting in the Great War.
…personne n’échappe à son...
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Yes, I still am hopelessly romantic and some...
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“White Sky” from Vampire...