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I'd like to meet:
Anyone who lives life with passion, compassion and curiosity without limitations. Anyone who can "smile, without (needing) a reason why" (from: La Vita è bella - Noa's lyrics and rendition to Nicola Piovani's score).
Music:
My taste in music is eclectic, there's no telling what music I prefer "now". Music is about frequencies, about a flying carpet to travel on these frequency waves, the frequency of the universe. I see each musical piece, each song, each musician as a travel companion and a travel guide: they're sharing these places in the universe, allow us to go beyond the physical confinement of our body and open doors to my spirit. There are some constants aside from my Mediaeval to Baroque inclination, but mainly my soul tells me that the music has the frequency that sustains or brings a new dimension, opening doors that I hadn't seen before. That is why I love to discover all these amazing artists on MySpace, but also on Sellaband. Why?
For investing ($10 per part) in the CD of brilliant new artists and receive the CD in return, visit Sellaband, a great way to empower artists who are getting a much larger share on the CD sales than they'd get from a label!
Before I even heard of Sellaband, I pre-bought a few CDs from "I am Verity". A wonderful singer from South Africa, who had the dream to make a CD, have it funded by asking 2500 people to pre-buy it and give part of the money raised to charity. Verity is now in the studio and I am hoping to see the CD before Christmas. Verity has a wonderful sense of rhythm, passion and has a great voice.
Movies:
I adore movies with a message, of producers, directors and actors with a vision, who understand the power of the screen (any screen) and was delighted to find the Spiritual Cinema Circle (www.spiritualcinemacircle.com).
Although I'd rather avoid becoming a member of a club, I did so in this case from just before this circle started and I haven't been disappointed since. Each month you'll receive a dvd with a feature movie and a selection of short movies.
There's amazing vision and talent around and yet another reason to not solely rely on the Hollywood movie industry for finding movies with a message, movies that move your spirit, that touch something inside you into action, reaching for deeper emotions. In general my taste in film is eclectic.
It would probably be better to attach a file with my movie collection.
It would say more than a long list of known and sadly lesser known movies. 2006 Cinema favourites with a memory spilling over in 2007, were
Black Book, a splendid Dutch movie by Paul Verhoeven on how the resistance in the second world war really was about all these dedicated people who found unknown courage inside themselves in order to survive and help others surviving.
Pans Labyrint another war, now in Spain, were a tiny girl finds comfort in a world under the earth, where all is well and peace reigns. Is it an imaginary world she uses to escape reality or is it real, you'll have to tap deep into your own intuition to find the answer, of which I'm sure there's the right one for each of us.
A Crude Awakening: the oil crisis, a brilliant wake-up call movie on peak oil and on how the world is running out of oil fast. It is frightening to see how almost everything that we own is based on petrochemicals and how hardly anything is done to change our dependency on oil. A movie that deserves the same if not better coverage than an inconvenient truth.
Television:
Not hooked on Television per sé, but enjoy documentaries and made for tv movies, and am delighted to watch 5 or 7 episodes in a row (on long, cold nights ;-)) with the dvd's of series such as "House, MD", "Huff", "The 4400", "Numb3rs", "Gilmore Girls", "Veronica Mars", "Boston Legal", "Criminal Minds", "Medium" and the wicked albeit historically correct "Rome". "Dead like me", "Commander in Chief", "Waterfalls" and "Tru Calling", were sadly cancelled by the tv-controllers who couldn't wait for a series to increase the amount of viewers over during the first season: no, it must be immediate. This is sympthomatic of our fast food culture, which leaves us with anaesthesized neurons, with an attention deficit in almost everything that takes patience, from reading books, watching movies that take longer than 2 hours, to walking instead of taking the car. Fast food deprives our organs of essential nutrients and it results in a cultural disease that disables us from acting on what we feel inside, what our inner values tell us. This disease is called "Fear", the driver of many of the world's worst decisions is at the base of this behaviour. Keep on feeding us with artificial food and the result is an epidemy of stupidity, which makes us suspectable to being brainwashed by clever organisations who abuse the media we so passively consume.
Books:
I really need to update the books section with the 60 or so that I've read since the following was written. I seem to suddenly be unable to multi-task more than 3 things at the same time ;-), hence my book highlights are suffering.
On reading: Same eclectisism as music: there's no logic to what I read. I will have a hard time buying/reading a book when I don't like the typeface, or the lay-out or the cover or the size. And I won't read certain authors because they're elitist show-offs. Last books: "The Righteous Men" by Sam Bourne, in which the tradition of the Lamad Vav, the 36 choosen individuals uphold the world. Each generation must have these 36 hidden righteous men, or the world will collapse. And now, someone is locating and killing the Lamad vav, one at a time. "Dead as a Doornail" by Charlaine Harris, the 5th installment in the "Southern Vampire" series. Creative and intelligent, imaginative and very real. "Broken" by Kelley Armstrong, about a pack of Werewolves and a formidable group of friends, which includes a clairvoyant, a necromancer, a vampire, a sorcerer and a witch. Armstrong writes fluently and keeps the story flowing to the end. "Dead and Unappreciated" by MaryJanice Davidson, describing the life of Betsy, who on her 30th birthday got killed and woke up a Vampire. The Queen of the Vampires to be more precise, fulfilling the prophecy described in a 1000 year old book, written on human skin with ink. Imaginative and funny. "The Traveller" by John Twelve Hawks. The author is only known to the agent. It was hyped as the new The Da Vinci Code. It's different though, it's The Matrix combined with 1984 and possibly a pinch of fantasy. Well written, interesting, not such intense emotions. "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards. A completely absorbing read of an unsuspected twin birth. The first-born, a boy, is completely healthy, but then the twin sister, born a few minutes later, has Down syndrom. The father is also the doctor who delivers the baby, whose sister died heart failure, which is also one of the risks that Down syndrom children carry with them, gives the girl to the nurse, writes an address of an institution on a paper and tells her to bring her there. The mother is told that the girl died at birth. The nurse disappears with the child, to raise her by herself. It's a story of how souls have a memory beyond this life, how distance becomes insignificant when the power of love interferes.
Heroes:
Definition of Hero (source: Wikipedia):
From the Greek "cognate", in mythology and folklore, a hero (male) or heroine (female) is an eminent character archetype that quintessentially embodies key traits valued by its originating culture. The hero commonly possesses superhuman capabilities or idealized character traits which enable him or her to perform extraordinary, beneficial deeds (i.e., a "heroic deed") for which he or she is famous.... (end of Wikipedia definition).To me, heroes are those who suffer from corrupt governments and multi-nationals, from discrimination, from unequal distribution of resources and wealth, of water and food. Such as the people, the children in Darfur: please sign the petition!
