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June 2013

Jun 18, 20135 notes
#Where I’m Calling From #Raymond Carver
“Se siamo fortunati, non importa se scrittori o lettori, finiremo l’ultimo paio di righe di un racconto e ce ne resteremo seduti un momento o due in silenzio. Idealmente, ci metteremo a riflettere su quello che abbiamo appena scritto o letto; magari il nostro cuore e la nostra mente avranno fatto un piccolo passo in avanti rispetto a dove erano prima. La temperatura del nostro corpo sarà salita, o scesa, di un grado. Poi, dopo aver ripreso a respirare regolarmente, ci ricomporremo, non importa se scrittori o lettori, ci alzeremo, e, “creature di sangue e nervi”, come dice un personaggio di Cechov, passeremo alla nostra prossima occupazione: la vita. Sempre la vita.” —[Raymond Carver]
Jun 16, 20131 note
#Raymond Carver #Da dove sto chiamando
Jun 14, 20133 notes
#Quattordici
Jun 4, 20136 notes
#Ukraine #Klevan #Tunnel of Love #railway
Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • 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.
Jun 2, 20137 notes
#Pulp Fiction #Quentin Tarantino #Amanda Plummer #Tim Roth

May 2013

(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?

May 30, 20137 notes
#The Boatman's Call #Nick Cave
May 28, 20136 notes
#Dante Gabriel Rossetti #Elizabeth Siddal #Pre Raphaelites #Art #painting

“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)

The power of photography: time, mortality and memory

May 22, 20132 notes
#Photography
May 20, 20136 notes
#David Sylvian #Yuka Fujii
“A volte è come se la vita cogliesse uno dei suoi giorni e gli dicesse:
“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]
May 14, 20135 notes
#Astrid Lindgren
May 10, 20133 notes
#Roy Lichtenstein
May 8, 20135 notes
#Flickr #Berlin
“I geni sono quelle persone che ci stai a fianco senza nessuno sforzo. Ecco chi sono i geni.” —[Paolo Sorrentino, Hanno tutti ragione]
May 6, 20136 notes
#Paolo Sorrentino #Hanno tutti ragione

April 2013

Play
Apr 19, 20137 notes
#Depeche Mode #Black Celebration #1986
Life as Wolfgang sees it → taschen.com

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.”

Apr 18, 201311 notes
#Wolfgang Tillmans #Neue Welt #Taschen #Photography
Apr 12, 201348 notes
#James Purefoy #The Following #Valorie Curry
Apr 10, 20133 notes
#William Blake #The Marriage of Heaven and Hell #Tattoos I will never get #Maybe
Lost in Translation (2003)
  • 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.
Apr 8, 201317 notes
#Bill Murray #Lost in Translation #Scarlett Johansson #Sofia Coppola
Apr 5, 201332 notes
#Katie Alves #The Lion King #The Nightmare Before Christmas #Make up #makeup
Apr 2, 20131 note

March 2013

You Do Something to Me Paul Weller

Paul Weller - You Do Something to Me

Mar 28, 201318 notes
#Stanley Road #Paul Weller
Mar 26, 201315 notes
#Sherlock #Mark Gatiss #Benedict Cumberbatch
Mar 25, 20134 notes
#Katharine Hepburn #Gpoy #Cecil Beaton #Photography
“Io ascolto quelli che raccontano e non faccio differenze tra quello che è tornato a piedi dalla Russia in tempo di guerra e quello che aspetta l’autobus e mi parla del gelato al pistacchio. Perché la storia è fatta di guerre camminate a piedi, ma la nostra vita è anche il pistacchio. Invece la letteratura è un’invenzione che mette insieme tutto.
È la guerra al pistacchio.”
—Ascanio Celestini
Mar 22, 20134 notes
#Ascanio Celestini
Mar 20, 201311 notes
#Only You #Fucking Åmål #The Way We Were #High Fidelity #Witness #Big Trouble in Little China #Innerspace #Angelique #The Killers #A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Mar 20, 20139 notes
Mar 19, 201318 notes
#There Will Be Blood #Daniel Day-Lewis #Paul Thomas Anderson #Dillon Freasier #Daniel Day Lewis
Football Rebels → aljazeera.com

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

Mar 18, 20133 notes
#Football #Eric Cantona #Didier Drogba #Socrates #Predrag Pasic #Rachid Mekhloufi #Carlos Caszely #Sport
“They burn you with their radiant smiles
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)
Mar 2, 20136 notes
#David Bowie #The Next Day #Iselin Steiro is beautiful beyond words
Mar 1, 20134 notes
#Abbott Handerson Thayer

February 2013

dittoheads

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.

Word Spy - The Word Lover’s Guide to New Words

Feb 28, 20132 notes
Feb 24, 2013217 notes
#The Breakfast Club #John Hughes
Cinefilìa portami via
  • 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"
Feb 20, 201318 notes
Feb 18, 201321 notes
#René Gruau
Heaven Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode - Heaven

Flood is back

Feb 14, 201314 notes
#Delta Machine #Depeche Mode #MLG
“The truth is a beautiful thing.” —[Joe Hallenbeck, The Last Boy Scout]
Feb 12, 20135 notes
#Bruce Willis #Tony Scott #The Last Boy Scout
Getting His Own Movie, Yoda Is? → nextmovie.com

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.

Feb 6, 20134 notes
#Star Wars #Yoda
Feb 4, 20139 notes
#The Jacksons #Janet Jackson #Michael Jackson #La Toya Jackson #Randy Jackson
Play
Feb 4, 201310 notes
#High Fidelity #Stephen Frears #John Cusack #Todd Louiso #Jack Black

January 2013

Jan 29, 20134 notes
Tomorrow Started Talk Talk

Talk Talk - Tomorrow Started

Jan 20, 20133 notes
#It's My Life
Castle - The Limey (2012)
  • Kate: I feel like I just walked into a bad episode of Miami Vice.
  • Richard: There are no bad episodes of Miami Vice.
Jan 14, 201322 notes
#Castle #Miami Vice #Nathan Fillion #Stana Katic #Word #Kate Beckett #Richard Castle
Jan 12, 20133 notes
#Eilean Donan #Scotland #Highlands #castle #Europe

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

Jan 9, 20134 notes
#Studio Ghibli #Hayao Miyazaki
Jan 6, 201313 notes
#La prima cosa bella #The First Beautiful Thing #Paolo Virzì
“You learn early the basic thing is loss. Then spend the rest of your life trying to forget it.” —[Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf]
Jan 2, 201313 notes

December 2012

Play
Dec 30, 20122 notes
#1989
Dec 26, 20124 notes
#Niagara
Dec 22, 201224 notes
#Vertigo #Kim Novak #Edith Head #Alfred Hitchcock
Dec 14, 201217 notes
#Chow #recipes #cookies #Christmas #food
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