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Irene

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

About Me

..................."I was born in a filthy dusty small town nearside a river, there, where the west begins. People said that I was the most beautiful girl. The most beautiful girl, in the whole world. My father was a salesman. He was there for me till all my memories were starting to grow. He left us one day to find his California dream. To send us money. Provide us food. Prosperity. Never saw him again. My mother re-married cause she believes in what is called a couple. And what a couple can do. She used to say that you can tell a man by his hair and a woman by her manners. She never left town. Had a fear of bridges. Never dared to cross the bridge. But she thinks she had a happy life and I’m OK with that. LIFE IS CRUEL. So has been my ex husband. He fell in love with me just before the prom... Now he lives two states away, east, working on the insurance business. Thinking back I believe that LOVE IS ONE HIT WONDER. An ace you draw the right time just when you need an ace for the flush.Now I SPEND MY DAYS DRINKING, SMOKING, WANDERING. LOOKING FOR SERENITY. I’m cheating my life with these one dime loosers standing in front of this bench. Waiting for a cup of black coffee and their late night scrambled eggs. Sometimes with a shot of whiskey. Most of the times just eggs.What kills me is I ’m getting 40 and I have to fight for every dollar I’ll ever take. Fight with all my strength left. Every night I return home, if you can call a trailer home, I like to stand in front of the mirror and comb my blonde hair. I’m combing it for hours. Till its straight and shiny. And all the times I remember them saying: HONEY YOU'RE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL. The Most Beautiful Girl in the whole world." (Sunset Blvd/ The Most Beautiful Girl)PS: "LOVE IS patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." (1st Corinthians 13:4-8)
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark was the night...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g
Drive Slow (Remix Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpfTsCMTscg

My Interests

The SYMPATHY of THINGS... CRAWFORD MAGAZINE... AESTHETIC intellectuality... MEANINGFUL Art... LAETITIA ...The pursuit of TRUTH...... Reading between the lines....To look at things from unlikely angles...................................................... ............................."For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." ((1st Corinthians)

Big Joe Williams - Highway 49
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aez2SKFokts



Nick Cave - And no more shall we part
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kEkFE1lxlE

I'd like to meet:

Believers... Rope dancers... People who RISK EVERYTHING FOR A DREAM THAT NOBODY SEES BUT THEY.... People Who turn knots into bows... ORIGINAL minds... Tender & Warm Souls....................................................... ......"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. (...)Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. " (1st Corinthians)

Music:

Delta & Chicago Blues, depression-era gospels (Big Joe Williams, Blind Willie Johnson....)....Nujazz, Deep and Soulful House, Jazzy Hip Hop, soul @ Neo Soul, down-tempo, ...February (DELAY EXHIBITION)...Daizy May, Girl One Day (Tell me about America/SUNSET Blvd)... TONY BENNETT... Diana Krall... Norah Jones...Rainy Night in Georgia (Ray Charles).... 18 (MOBY)... Faxin Berlin (DeadMau5)... Soda Inc... Kevin Yost...Blue Valentine, CLOSING TIME (Tom Waits)... PROTECTION, BLUE LINES, -Live with me (Massive Attack)... GLORY BOX, ROADS (PORTISHEAD)... Inner City Blues (Make me wanna holler) Marvin Gaye...The Bluest Eyes In Texas (NINA PERSSON)... Chet Baker... Rainy Night In Georgia... Tupelo, THE GOOD SON, Ship Song, Train Song, MURDER BALLADS (Nick Cave)...Bridge Over troubled water (ELVIS)... Symphony No. 8 in B minor -THE UNFINISHED, (Schubert)... Many years ago:Bob Marley, Tim Buckley, Peter Hammil, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Rolling Stones, Talking Heads, Marianne Faithful, The Sounds, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Bad Seeds...

Sunset Boulevard - Mrs Daisy May
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWnsysqQnb8



Elvis Presley - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1972)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eagcXtT2ZG4



Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-idDbIfGvw



Moby - Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFUKuaReWw

Movies:

MILLION DOLLAR BABY... A Beautiful Mind...STAY... SIN CITY... The Virgin Suicides (SOFIA COPPOLA)...Wings of Desire... SEVEN...The Departed... LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE... The pursuit of happiness...........The Silence of the Lambs... Boys don't cry... Who's affraid of virginia wolf... THE GLASS MENAGERIE...Three Colors: BLUE, The Double Life of Veronique -Krzysztof Kieślowski... Great Gatsby... Be Cool... Pulp Fiction... Reservoir Dogs... Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2...

Go to the moon you selfish dreamer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPVanqtDWgM



Three Best Lines from The Departed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTaVxTmB5k4

Television:

X-Files...CSI: Miami... Crime and Forensics (Discovery Channel).... Conflict (History Channel)

X Files Countdown - The Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gidN3zIGMU

Books:

THE BOOK OF DISQUIET (Fernando Pessoa)... A LOVER'S DISCOURSE (Roland Barthes)...The Inquisitor's Manual (Antonio Lobo Antunes)..... O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis (Jose Saramago)...Don't Go So Fast Into That Dark Night (ANTONIO LOBO ANTUNES)... Le città invisibili (Italo Calvino)...The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)... The Beautiful and Damned (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)... Moderato Cantabile (Marguerite Dyras)...De Profundis (Oscar Wilde)... La luna e i falò (Cesare Pavese)...Life Is Elsewhere (Milan Kundera)...CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)...Small World (David Lodge)...

Heroes:

Frankie..... Maggie Fitzgerald......George..... Bernardo Soares....John Nash... Álvaro de Campos... Fox Mulder... Andrei Tarkovski... The King... Beethoven...Leonardo da Vinci...

Million Dollar Baby Clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDog6-4Y4eM

Sin City-Yellow Bastard vs Hartigan + Jessica Alba:Part 3of3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTf2zRmPxKM

Dwayne! Little Miss Sunshine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hkN92hIVUU

My Blog

Brook Benton - Rainy Night In Georgia (live 1982)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr5djzzeA3M ...
Posted by Irene on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:15:00 PST

TOM WAITS vs OTTO PREMINGER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxMErQ4wFI ...
Posted by Irene on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:42:00 PST