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Conversation #20
– There are a few things that will always remind me of you…
– And they are?!
– Hmmm… the last puff on the tobacco, heart shapes, San Francisco, hmmm… seriously, I will always remember you whenever I see or hear about this stuff…
– Heh… what else?!
– Oh, Tommy and Gina!!!
– 🙂
Michael Clayton… Again!
Well, well, well… here I am again…
Unlike the (supposed) majority of the ladies in the world, I’m not a big George Clooney fan… I know some are utterly in love with him… They actually get jealous seeing him with his latest girl on the cover of tabloid magazines!!! Years ago, I used to like his character in “ER”, back when I was a TV fanatic, but to me he was only another actor…
All that aside, I think he did a fab job in “Michael Clayton”… As a matter of fact, the whole cast offered great acting which made you smile at the end of the film… The first half hour of the film got me totally lost, but after a while, you start to place the puzzle pieces in their right place…
To me, a film which makes you think and talk about it afterwards is considered a good movie… To me, “Michael Clayton” is a good film and indeed deserves some awards… My favorite character in the film was Arthur, played beautifully by Tom Wilkinson (may I add ‘Brits Rule’?!)… It’s a shame he has quite a strong competitor at the Oscars this year… Javier Bardem is the main one, though I can’t deny that he also acted amazingly in “No Country for Old Men”…
You can tell that I’m now officially catching up on recent movies! Yay…
Michael Clayton
I just got home… bloody freezing… not cool!
Just finished watching the above… my dizziness however wouldn’t help to write about it now… but there is always a tomorrow… so I ask you to stay tuned!
G’nite…
S
Snow Falls…
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
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“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
Return… Faster!
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
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“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.”
Happy Two Thousand and Eight
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,
What A Shame!
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