Today the storm was strong… The wind blew me around morning time… Back and forth, left and right… My nose was running and my ears had no feeling in them … Unfeeling… The snow, however, was falling beautifully, crystal white…
Today is creative… and dynamic… Should I expect some good things to happen? Or should I perhaps aim to make good things happen…
Today I will make it smiles all round...
S
“Time is no law of nature. When you look at it with awareness, or start to touch it, then it starts to disintegrate.”
Peter Høeg, Danish author
It’s sweet to see that people actually miss you… Not so much “you” as a person, but your writings… I admit, I’ve been pretty lazy blogging since the new year began and I just realized we are almost done with January… How scary is that?! It’s not actually the days of the year passing; it’s more like the days of our lives are flying by so quickly… So quick that it becomes hard to grasp hold of them in a way you want… Wondering whose life we are really living… Yet another challenge!
I’m reading a lot these days… Jumping from one book to another… A lot of poetry, actually, to the point that I print a few to read on the train back to home everyday… They have an incredibly calming effect on me… You just read them, and read, and read… There’s no story (as such) to follow and no ending to look forward to… For me, they summarize a moment’s enjoyment…
I’m planning to watch a lot of movies… Foreign,
Oh, and have I told you about my favorite new snack: almonds with dried cranberries?! How bizarre you would think, right? It’s very tasty, though… Especially when the flavors melt together in your mouth at same time, washed down with white tea in the end… 🙂
S
“The need for society which springs from the emptiness and monotony of men’s lives drives them together; but their many unpleasant and repulsive qualities once more drive them apart. The mean distance which they finally discover, and which enables them to endure being together, is politeness.”
Darlings:
I know, I know… I haven’t been blogging for some time… But before going anywhere, let me raise a toast to you all and wish you cheerfulness and loveliness in the year 2008… Let me also thank you for reading my posts in the past year…
Now I’m back… Refreshed and revived… I won’t talk about the drama I went through the first few days of the year… What’s important is that it’s over now… What’s even more important is that I’m back in
Much love,
There was a time when Tony fell in love with Maria in “West Side Story“… Singing aloud in New York’s streets… Full of passion… Bringing Romeo and Juliet back to life once again… There was a time when you admired Holly in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s“… Thinking how sophisticated one can be… There was a time when you were laughing your ass off at Eliza Doolittle and her cockney slang in “My Fair Lady“… There was a time when you would learn happiness… loveliness… liveliness…
Today, they teach you something completely different… All nonsense… lifelong hatred… terror and fear… Today it’s all about the bloody wars… It’s about killing and even more killing… As if the media didn’t produce enough propaganda…
Over the last weekend, I saw three films which made me make my initial comparison… I saw the musical, “Fiddler on the Roof“, made almost 40 years ago… It was laughter, tradition, reality accompanied by messages… Being a fan of French cinema, I saw “Clara et Moi“, a French film made not too long ago… So real and pretty… It was about two normal people… It was about how something as simple as eye contact can change your life forever…
And I saw “Lions for Lambs“… A typical Hollywood film which was recently released… And boom… More wars and bullshit… Full of meaningless dialogues that make you sleep and regret the time you spend sitting in a dark theatre… Seriously… Do they think if they get well-known actors together, it makes it a good film? Who gives a damn if Robert Redford directed Mr. Cruise, whose acting hasn’t budged since “Top Gun” 20 years ago… or to my shock Meryl Streep… Out of 5 trailers before the actual movie started, 4 of them were about the war… I’m sick and tired of war news, true as it may be… It’s like you’re watching BBC News even in the cinema these days!
What a shame…
S
“The most exciting, challenging, and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that’s just fabulous.”
— Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker – Sex and the City)
Last night’s group photography exhibition, “the too-explicit injustice of kind population!”, was a great experience… So many impressive art pieces by a host of artists including a great friend, Sam, all gathered together at Whipper Snapper Gallery.
Every one of the pictures represented a moment… a great moment, all framed in four corners, making you wish you could be there within the moment the artist had captured….
So, the end result was that I got my new art work by Sam Javanrouh… and it’s going to be on my wall pretty soon… For those of you who are living in chilly Toronto and didn’t make it to the opening night, you surely won’t want to miss your chance… There’s a lot to see and a lot more to appreciate…The exhibition is on at the gallery until December 21st.
S
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
And once again I fell in love with the city… the general vibe on the streets is incredible and not comparable to any cities that I’ve visited or lived in… hmmm, maybe London? But NYC is NYC and its uniqueness is what attracts everyone…
Unexpectedly, the drive from Philly to NY was calm and went much faster than I’d thought… It took us a few short minutes to freshen up at the hotel and hit the streets… When in New Yawk, act as New Yawkers do… which essentially translates to fast and furious! This time around, my trip was more about dining out in the lovely restaurants, trying a few famous bars and markets,and of course strolling down the streets of SoHo… Algonquin, Becco, Uncle Nick’s were the places every local would suggest… the history of Algonquin and how the New Yorker magazine started its life from there was a great one… New York is New York and indescribable, really… It’s already pinned to my heart…
I’m back in Toronto… Chilly but friendly as always…
S