languages, foreign travel, skiing, art, photography, museums, exhibitions, movies, books, wine,
the occasional cigarillo, exotic food, live music, new singers, new bands
Methods of Dance
au clair de la lune...
My dreams are full of magic.
I am a sorceress,
black gown, raven black hair
flowing in the pale moonlight
as I tame panthers, lions, and sharks
with just one wave of my magic wand...
My black, pointed hat is full of white rabbits
waiting to be turned into shimmering snowflakes
that descend upon the sleeping world
to swallow the noise of engines
that intrude on the earth dwellers' dreams...
I wake with a start.
A fairy tale is in my head:
Humpty Dumpty is whole again,
the Frog has turned into the Prince,
the Prince has found Cinderella,
Snow White is safe with the Seven Dwarfs...
The Porpoise is rolled up in my sleeve.
All is well.
I can go back to sleep...
azh, Apr 2008
different types of rock, classical, some country & western, folklore, shoegaze...
The Year of Living Dangerously, The Graduate, My Left Foot, My Beautiful Launderette, The Boxer, The Constant Gardener, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Babel... most films by Pedro Almodovar, Claude Chabrol, Lasse Hallström... There's too many to mention, but generally I prefer a low-budget film to the typical blockbuster...
Last 3 movies:
...Does the cosmos contain keys for opening up my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking. I'll be off now... Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952-1997)
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon - Trailer
(The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Schmetterling und Taucherglocke)
Once - Trailer
Désaccord Parfait - Trailer
Bob Dylan - I Want You
Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, About a Boy by Nick Hornby, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, most books by Margaret Atwood, Margaret Drabble, A.S. Byatt, Nadine Gordimer, Paul Auster, Siri Hustved. There's quite a few more...
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..."Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "--so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if only you walk long enough." Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?" "In that direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a a Hatter: and in that direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad." "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat, "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."...
(Lewis Carroll: "Pig and Pepper", Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)