June 2013
- Pumpkin: Forget it. Too risky. I'm through doing that shit.
- Honey Bunny: You always say that. That same thing every time, "I'm through, never again, too dangerous".
- Pumpkin: I know that's what I always say. I'm always right, too.
- Honey Bunny: But you forget about it in a day or two.
- Pumpkin: Yeah, well the days of me forgetting are over, and the days of me remembering have just begun.
May 2013
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?
“Family pictures are the most precious. I have a set of prints I carry around in my wallet of my kids, my husband and my parents. I look at those rather than writing a diary: they’re very evocative and textural and emotional, and take you back to specific moments. I change them every so often, after they get worn out. The picture I carry of my parents is a little old colour print of them hugging in the 70s, which is sweet. The one of my husband and me was taken in a photobooth a friend rented for a birthday party. I love the old-fashioned booths where you get four different shots; they feel unique because you’ve got the only version that will ever exist. I also have a great photobooth strip of my son when he was really young. He’s crying at the beginning – then in the next photo my hand’s in there, giving him an ice-cream.” (Mary McCartney)
“A te darò tutto! Tu sarai uno di quei giorni rosso fuoco che brillerà nel ricordo quando tutti gli altri saranno dimenticati”.
Questo è uno di quei giorni. Non per tutto il genere umano, naturalmente.
Molti, moltissimi stanno piangendo in questo istante e ricorderanno questo strano giorno come un giorno di disperazione. A pensarci è strano. Ma per noi, per i Melkerson della Casa del Falegname dell’Isola dei Gabbiani, questo giorno trabocca talmente di gioia e allegria e splendore e contentezza che non so dove andremo a finire.
Nemmeno Melker lo sapeva. Sedeva su di uno scoglio al Capo delle Cornacchie con i piedi immersi nell’acqua per rinfrescarsi le galle. E intanto pescava. Pelle e Ciorven lo stavano a guardare, lì vicino. Pelle con Jum-Jum sulle ginocchia e Ciorven con Nostromo accanto.
- Non hai lo strappo giusto, zio Melker - disse Ciorven - In questo modo non prendi neanche un pesce di sicuro.
- No, non voglio prendere un pesce - disse Melker sognante.
- Allora perché te ne stai seduto qui? - chiese Ciorven.
E Melker, con la stessa espressione sognante, le recitò:
Perché doveva calare il sole in quell’istante
e ne voleva vedere il fuoco sfolgorante…” —[da “Vacanze all’isola dei gabbiani” di Astrid Lindgren]
April 2013
Over the period of more than two decades, Wolfgang Tillmans has explored the medium of photo-imaging with greater range than any other artist of his generation. From snapshots of his friends to abstract images made in a darkroom without a camera or works made with a photocopier, he has pushed the photographic process to its outer limits in myriad ways. For this collection of photos, his fourth book with TASCHEN, Tillmans turned away from the self-reflexive exploration of the photography medium that had occupied him for several years by focusing his lens on the outside world—from London and Nottingham to Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania, Saudi Arabia, and Papua New Guinea. He describes this new phase simply as “trying out what the camera can do for me, what I can do for it.” The result is a powerful and singular view of life today in diverse parts of the world, seen from many angles.
Says Tillmans, “My travels are aimless as such, not looking for predetermined results, but hoping to find subject matter that in some way or other speaks about the time I’m in.”
- Charlotte: I just don't know what I'm supposed to be.
- Bob: You'll figure that out. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
March 2013
Paul Weller - You Do Something to Me
È la guerra al pistacchio.” —Ascanio Celestini
Presented and narrated by former Manchester United star Eric Cantona, Football Rebels is a five-part documentary on five football legends whose social conscience led them to use their fame and influence to challenge unjust regimes, join opposition movements and lead the fight for democracy and human rights in their countries.
- Didier Drogba and the Ivorian civil war
- Mekhloufi and the FLN team
- Predrag Pasic and the siege of Sarajevo
- Caszely and the demise of Allende
- Socrates and the Corinthians’ Democracy
Trap you with their beautiful eyes
They’re broke and shamed or drunk or scared
But I hope they live forever” —The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
February 2013
n. People who mindlessly agree on an issue or idea because it fits in with their ideology or because they are followers of the person who put forth the idea in the first place. Also: ditto-heads.
- F. : Come si chiama esattamente quel momento in cui ti accorgi che per vivere bene nel presente devi dare un taglio netto al passato e poi ti rendi conto che proprio non ce la fai e ti viene un groppo in gola e ti senti come sepolto sotto cinque metri di terra e batti batti batti ma nessuno là sopra risponde perché non c'è nessuno a rispondere? Ci sarà pure un nome per un momento simile.
- Io: Sì, c'è. "Kill Bill Vol. 2"
Depeche Mode - Heaven
Flood is back
Ever since Disney bought “Star Wars” and announced they would be putting out stand alone spinoffs in addition to continuing the main storyline, folks have been speculating just what those new films will be about.
The origin of Salacious Crumb? The story of the Millennium Falcon making the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs? Jar Jar Binks: The Untold Story?
All great ideas. But now, according to Ain’t It Cool News, the real answer has been revealed — and the first “Star Wars” spinoff will actually be about Yoda.
January 2013
Talk Talk - Tomorrow Started
- Kate: I feel like I just walked into a bad episode of Miami Vice.
- Richard: There are no bad episodes of Miami Vice.
Since 1984, under the auspices of its founder and chief auteur, Hayao Miyazaki, the studio has rolled out a succession of dense, ambitious fantasy adventures, almost all of them led by strong, intelligent, independent-minded girls. Miyazaki’s movies are exciting and fantastical, often involving flying machines, ecological disasters, clashing civilisations and precarious spiritual values – all rendered in clean, colourful, hand-drawn animation. His heroines also tend towards a certain type. They are adventurous and active, but also compassionate, communicative, pacifist and virtuous. Their “female” qualities and childish innocence are often what resolve the crisis at hand and bridge conflicting worlds.
Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind