December 2009
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San Silvestro, addio al 2009 con un'eclissi →
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E’ stato un anno lungo un giorno, ma siamo ancora indietro di un mattino. Strike another match, go start a-new. Now that the past is gone.
The Red River Shore
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“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is...”
– [Alan Bennett]
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WatchMust watch: second phenomenal teaser trailer for Inception
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Sospensione
Resto sospesa. Mi guardo poco attorno. Le persone passano, mi parlano… chissà cosa dicono. Le mie comunicazioni col mondo sono interrotte, danneggiate, disturbate. Ogni tanto ci si spiega, a gesti. Dopotutto qua dentro non si sta poi così male. [Millimetrica]
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We have lost one of our great ones. Michael Stipe “I flew around a little room once.” A line from Supernatural. He was just that. He possessed an unearthly energy and yet was humanistic with the common man in mind. He was entirely present and entirely somewhere else. A mystical somewhere else. A child and an old guy as he called himself. Before he made an album he said he was a bum....
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I liked it because it sounds like exactly what we set out to be: An ’80s buddy cop movie, without sounding like Loaded Weapon, or some such s—. But more importantly, to me, the title tells the story of what happened to our other title. I think it’s kind of ironic. It’s win-win. For 100 percent of the potential audience for this movie, I would say 0.5 percent knows that we were once called A Couple...
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Studio Ghibli made the official announcement of their new full length feature film titled Karigurashi no Arrietty (The Borrower Arrietty). The film will be an adaptation of Mary Norton’s Carnegie Medal winning novel The Borrowers and, as hinted earlier on GhibliWorld, will be directed by Yonebayashi Hiromasa. Unlike the original novel, which tells a story about tiny people who...
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Look at that. There’s a quarter of the world’s bleach allocation, in that room alone. Thousands of pounds went into maintaining every crumpled trouser. Each rolled-sleeve blazer might as well have had shoulder pads made of rolled-up bills. And yet, there they were, doing what they could to help people. By singing. Together. While pulling extravagantly caring faces. And that’s...
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WatchFirst official trailer for Kevin Smith’s Cop Out
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Curtis Mayfield - Make Me Believe In You
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Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas - the whole Christmas season. Now, please don’t ask why; no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. Or it could be that his head wasn’t screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all may...
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Christmas Day Feast, Italian Style
Trade your mashed potatoes for pasta, your turkey for capon. (And along the way, learn what capon is.) We’ve created a Christmas Day feast inspired by some of our favorite regional Italian traditions. This multicourse extravaganza will look impressive on the table - and will taste amazing - but won’t require outlandish feats in the kitchen.
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Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
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Merry Christmas from Amazon.com
Hit the link for a nice little Christmas present from Amazon. They have listed 1,298 mp3s of all types for free. If you ever wanted to fill out your music collection here is your chance. Holiday Music, Rap, Rock, Alternative, Classical, Jazz, Country, and more… Thank you Amazon. [via]
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“Nella vita non esiste il pareggio.”
– [L’uomo in più]
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Peter Jackson is bringing Mortal Engines to the...
Stuff.co.nz (via SlashFilm) is reporting a scoop that Jackson is secretly working on adapting the Mortal Engines series of fantasy novels written by Philip Reeve. There are four books in the series and Jackson is said to be working on adapting the first one. The paper wasn’t able to get in touch with Jackson for confirmation, but they do say he’s had the rights to the books for some...
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Winter solstice at Stonehenge →
Pagans and druids gathered for a foggy sunrise ceremony
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Ritorno al Barocco - Da Caravaggio a Vanvitelli
Una rassegna che intende raccontare il barocco come passione per la vita, il barocco come passione per l´arte. È un evento che coinvolge Napoli e il territorio circostante attraverso un ricco programma di mostre presentate in sei musei cittadini e varie altre iniziative che includono arte e architettura, musica e teatro. 12 dicembre 2009 - 11 aprile 2010
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Nel nuovo film di Sofia Coppola ci saranno Laura Chiatti, Simona Ventura, Valeria Marini e Nino Frassica. [Non ci posso credere.]
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Tori Amos - Winter
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Cormac McCarthy: America's great poetic visionary →
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Billie Holiday - It Had to Be You
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Gli anni di Grace Kelly Principessa di Monaco Roma, Palazzo Ruspoli - Fondazione Memmo 16 ottobre 2009 - 28 febbraio 2010
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“Everybody loves you when you’re six feet in the ground.”
– [John Lennon]
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Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (2002) A story written in floridly broken English - the narrator is Ukrainian student Alex Perchov - is interleaved with the author’s own imagining of his grandfather’s origins. Moving, fantastical, ultra-ambitious.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (2005) The stories of this Japanese master are sometimes little more than glimpses of...