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February 2009

Nature always finds a way to amaze me

Dracunculus vulgaris, Hydnora africana, Rafflesia arnoldii, Conophytum wittebergense.

Feb 28, 2009
An American in Paris (1951)
  • Jerry Mulligan: That's... quite a dress you almost have on.
  • Milo Roberts: Thanks.
  • Jerry Mulligan: What holds it up?
  • Milo Roberts: Modesty.
Feb 28, 20091 note
#Vincente Minnelli #An American in Paris #Gene Kelly #Quotes
Kiss

Feb 28, 2009
#Kiss
Listen

Beth, Kiss

[From “Beautiful Girls” soundtrack]

Feb 28, 20094 notes
#Kiss #Beth
In the Mood for Love


[Kozyndan] *

Feb 27, 2009
#Kozyndan #In the Mood for Love
100 Essential Female Film Performances → popmatters.com
Feb 27, 20095 notes
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” —[Virginia Woolf]
Feb 27, 20093 notes
#Virginia Woolf #quotes
My Top 5 "As for me you can burn the video tape or pickaxe the dvd" Movies

1. Boys Don’t Cry (Too stifling, in the end I was very upset)
2. Crystal Heart (My brother is to blame, but at the time we were “Fame” fans)
3. Hannibal  (Dreadful, I still wonder why I went to the cinema that night)
4. Casshern (Absurd)
5. The Ninth Gate (Inconclusive)

Feb 27, 2009
#Top 5 #Movies
Feb 27, 2009
Federico Rampini su "The Millionaire"

Slumdog Millionaire è una felice combinazione di cinema-verità e di favola bollywoodiana. Questa seconda dimensione forse è quella che colpisce per prima: da Bollywood il regista Danny Boyle ha preso in prestito le onnipresenti canzoni e perfino qualche balletto.

[continua qui]

Feb 27, 2009
TV cushion → funktionalley.com

                                      

Feb 27, 20091 note
Avvistamenti


missvengeance:

Wire - One of us (2008) official video.

26/02 Roma, Circolo degli Artisti
27/02 Torino, Spazio 211
28/02 Modena, Vibra
01/03 Milano, Circolo Magnolia


Incrociati ieri in aeroporto. Loro tre e Margaret McGinnis.

Feb 27, 20091 note
#Wire #Life
E' giornata...


shoegazer:

Ho fatto anche io il giochino che rimbalza da giorni in ogni blog, forum e sito del pianeta.

Go to “Wikipedia.” Hit “random” and the first article you get is the name of your band.
Then
go to “Random Quotations” and the last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. Then, go to Flickr and click on “Explore the Last Seven Days” and the third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. [#]

(Le istruzioni le ho prese da qui)

 
Non ho resistito e l’ho fatto pure io.
 
                   

Feb 26, 20091 note
Giochino sièmo arrivato via mail


placidiappunti:

(Le risposte devono avere tutte l’iniziale del tuo nome)

Il tuo nome: Grace
Un personaggio storico maschile: Giuseppe Garibaldi
Un personaggio storico femminile: Giovanna d’Arco
Qualcosa di bello: Giocare
Qualcosa di brutto: Gastrite
Una parolaccia: Giuro che non ne conosco nessuna con la G
Un mestiere: Giornalista
Un oggetto: Gruccia
Un animale: Gazzella
Un colore: Giallo
Uno stato d’animo: Gioia
Un capo di abbigliamento: Gonna
Un artista: Guercino
Un mobile: Guardaroba
Qualcosa da mangiare: Gruviera
Qualcosa da bere: Genepy
Un luogo: Guadalupa
Una parte del corpo: Gomito
Un film: Goodnight and Good Luck
Un libro: Grandi speranze
Un titolo di blog: Garnant
Un attore: Gianni Garko
Un cantante: Gloria Gaynor
Una canzone: Gone to Earth

Feb 26, 2009
Posters

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Tara McPherson, again.   *

Feb 26, 2009
Se penso

A chi parla di “sacralità della vita”, chiedo:
quante Peg (il buco nello stomaco per l’alimentazione forzata) si fanno al giorno?
A quanti col cervello distrutto che non si sveglieranno mai?
Quanti vengono riconsegnati ai parenti come fantocci o bambolotti, ma ben nutriti in nome della vita?
Quale multinazionale produce il nutrimento?
Quanto ci guadagna?
E poi, a chi parla di “dignità della morte”, chiedo:
che cosa c’entra la dignità, che è una condizione morale, con lo stato fisico
di chi è malato, immobilizzato?
La dignità è forse poter compiere da soli le funzioni fisiologiche e animali o,
invece, non poter compiere cose indegne come inganni, frodi, furti,
soprusi, assassinii?

[Patrizia Valduga]

Feb 26, 2009
Invader Wall Graphics → whatisblik.com
Feb 25, 20091 note
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
  • Swan: Phoenix, Swan here. I want you to answer a question for me.
  • Phoenix: Yes.
  • Swan: What would you give me to sing?
  • Phoenix: Anything you want.
  • Swan: Anything? Would you give me your voice?
Feb 25, 2009
Feb 25, 2009
Listen

Canzoni da ascoltare almeno una volta nella vita (©L22)
The Scent of Magnolia, David Sylvian

Feb 25, 2009
#David Sylvian
Memorable Opening Credits

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“To Kill a Mockingbird”, Stephen Frankfurt, 1962.
The slow pen over the jumbled contents of the cigar box - a man’s pocket watch,
crayons, some marbles - lets you inside the minds of the film’s child characters.
The modern typography offers a perfect contrast.

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”Dr. Strangelove”, Pablo Ferro, 1964.
The title sequence that inspired a thousand hand-drawn title sequences.
With an orchestral version of “Try a Little Tenderness” playing,
this footage of one jet refueling another in mid-air is delicately,
beautifully sexual and creepy.

[and others here]

Feb 25, 20092 notes
“La stupidità ha fatto progressi enormi. È un sole che non si può più guardare fissamente. Grazie ai mezzi di comunicazione, non è più nemmeno la stessa, si nutre di altri miti, si vende moltissimo, ha ridicolizzato il buon senso, spande il terrore intorno a sé.” —[Ennio Flaiano - 1969]
Feb 25, 20091 note
#Ennio Flaiano
Piece of Mind

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Feb 25, 2009
Michel Gondry to direct "Green Hornet"? → cinematical.com
Feb 25, 2009
Chocolate brownies

Impara a farli insieme a Tamasin.
[Che è brava e bella, degna sorella di cotanto fratello.]

Feb 24, 20091 note
#Brownies #Chocolate #Chocolate brownies #Food #Tamasin Day-Lewis #Cooking #Recipes
Play
Feb 24, 20091 note
Listen

Motorcycle Emptiness, Manic Street Preachers

Feb 24, 2009
#Manic Street Preachers
Fame

“You’ve got big dreams. You want fame. Well, fame costs.
And right here is where you start paying - in sweat.
”

Feb 24, 2009
Feb 24, 2009
மாதங்கி 'மாயா' அருள்பிரகாசம் → en.wikipedia.org


(No, non s’è svalvolato il computer…)

Feb 24, 2009
Wrong

I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
I used the wrong method with the wrong technique
Wrong
Wrong
There’s something wrong with me
Chemically
Something wrong with me
Inherently
The wrong mix in the wrong genes
I reached the wrong ends by the wrong means
It was the wrong plan
In the wrong hands
With the wrong theory for the wrong man
The wrong lies, on the wrong vibes
The wrong questions with the wrong replies
Wrong
Wrong
I was marching to the wrong drum
With the wrong scum
Pissing out the wrong energy
Using all the wrong lines
And the wrong signs
With the wrong intensity
I was on the wrong page of the wrong book
With the wrong rendition of the wrong hook
Made the wrong move, every wrong night
With the wrong tune played till it sounded right yeah
Wrong
Wrong
Too long
Wrong
I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
I used the wrong method with the wrong technique
Wrong

DM are back.
[E spaccano. Anche se il video mi turba non poco.]

Feb 24, 2009
#Depeche Mode #Wrong #Video #Lyrics
Born in the U.S.A.



[Sotto casa]

Feb 24, 2009
#Bruce Springsteen #neighborhood #Born in the USA
La mia mamma

Neppure la pancia della mamma era un posto sicuro.
Nasco terrorizzato.
Stavo nel mio bel mondo, nella pancia della mamma, quel mondo perfetto,
dove io solo ci stavo, tranquillo a vivere e galleggiare, con il calore di un corpo
tutto intorno e come cielo carne, la volta celeste era un immenso corpo che mi portava a spasso.
L’orizzone non esisteva, non esisteva la guerra, c’ero solo io ma non mi sentivo solo.
Non avevo problemi di mangiare, tutto mi arrivava senza sforzo di masticare e nessun pianto di fame.
E non avevo bisogno di nulla.
Era un posto sicuro stare nella pancia della mamma, fino a che un giorno non mi arriva una vampata di fuoco, la mamma si irrigidisce, il cielo mi si stringe addosso e diventa duro, di pietra, e mi fa male, mi schiaccia.
Sono nato a sette mesi, dopo un’ustione della mamma.
Mi sono cacciato fuori, perché dove stavo non era sicuro come sembrava.
Sono nato da solo, mi sono ribellato a un dolore che non capivo.
Sono nato da un dolore.


[Da “Tuttalpiù muoio” di Filippo Timi]

Feb 24, 2009
Mallrats (1995)
  • T.S. Quint: I was going to propose to her.
  • Brodie: Where?
  • T.S. Quint: The Universal Tour.
  • Brodie: You're kidding. What part?
  • T.S. Quint: When Jaws popped out of the water.
  • Brodie: That's the most romantic thing I've ever heard.
Feb 24, 2009
#Mallrats
Good to the last drop → yankodesign.com
Feb 23, 2009
The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Feb 23, 2009
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” —[T. S. Eliot]
Feb 23, 2009
2009 Academy Award Speeches


nightswimming:

2009 Academy Award Speeches (da /Film)

The speeches from Danny Boyle (Best Director), Kate Winslet (Best Actress), Penelope Cruz (Best Supporting Actress), AR Rahman (Best Sound, Best Score), Heath Ledger’s Family (Best Supporting Actor), and Sean Penn (Best Actor).


 Il mio cortisolo deve aver raggiunto picchi elevatissimi: ho pianto per quasi tutti i discorsi.
Mah.

Feb 23, 200914 notes
Feb 23, 2009
#Joan Fontaine
Tito

Te tu t’hai ritinto il tetto

Feb 23, 2009
#Raimondo Vianello #Ugo Tognazzi
Sweet tooth



Looks like a bunch of maggots, I know, but it’s my torta mandorlata.
The perfect cake for cold winter afternoons like this.

Ingredients:
- Pastry -
300 gr flour
150 gr sugar
100 gr butter
1 whole egg 
baking powder
- Filling -
300 gr. ricotta cheese
80 gr. sugar
70-80 gr. crumbled amaretti cookies
50 gr. minced almonds (better if mixed with hazelnuts)
1 whole egg
- Garnish -
a little bit of dark chocolate
icing sugar

Prepare as a common tart, but leave some pastry for the end and after the filling crumble it on top with fingertips.
Then bake at 180° (already warm oven) for 40 to 45 minutes and finally garnish with chocolate flakes and sprinkle icing sugar.

[Leftovers]

Feb 22, 2009
Save bookmark → icoeye.com
Feb 22, 2009
Lady for a Day (1933)
  • Happy McGuire: That should be a cinch.
  • Butler: I beg your pardon, Sir.
  • Happy McGuire: I said that should be a leadpipe cinch!
  • Butler: If I had choice of weapons with you, Sir, I'd choose grammar!
Feb 22, 2009
Feb 22, 200920 notes
Listen

Band of Gold
[Perché una Freda Payne d’annata è più efficace del paracetamolo.]

Feb 21, 2009
“Ce n’est pas la peine de parler des quelques milliards de gens qui sont sur terre, puisqu’après tout il n’y a qu’un homme et qu’une femme, donc des éléments complètement épurés.” —[Philippe Garrel]
Feb 21, 2009
National flags of the world

                   


              
                               with clients’ comments

Feb 21, 2009
Because The Night

Michael, come out and sing one with me, please!

Feb 21, 20091 note

quatsch:

“You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!… All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”

 
Norma Desmond
(Sunset Blvd., 1950)

Feb 21, 20092 notes
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