You shine beneath a gloopy surface
It hides the parallel world you store
Oil and water don’t mix well,
And I can’t see in between
Thursday 13 October 2011
Fernando Pessoa
I am tired, that is clear,
Because, at a certain stage, people have to be tired.
Of what I am tired, I don't know:
It would not serve me at all to know
Since the tiredness stays just the same.
The wound hurts as it hurts
And not in function of the cause that produced it.
Yes, I am tired,
And ever so slightly smiling
At the tiredness being only this -
In the body a wish for sleep,
In the soul a desire for not thinking
And, to crown all, a luminous transparency
Of the retrospective understanding…
And the one luxury of not now having hopes?
I am intelligent: that's all.
I have seen much and understood much of what I
have seen.
And there is a certain pleasure even in tiredness
this brings us,
That in the end the head does still serve for
something.
Because, at a certain stage, people have to be tired.
Of what I am tired, I don't know:
It would not serve me at all to know
Since the tiredness stays just the same.
The wound hurts as it hurts
And not in function of the cause that produced it.
Yes, I am tired,
And ever so slightly smiling
At the tiredness being only this -
In the body a wish for sleep,
In the soul a desire for not thinking
And, to crown all, a luminous transparency
Of the retrospective understanding…
And the one luxury of not now having hopes?
I am intelligent: that's all.
I have seen much and understood much of what I
have seen.
And there is a certain pleasure even in tiredness
this brings us,
That in the end the head does still serve for
something.
Wednesday 12 October 2011
360 Fernando Mireilles
http://uk.filmtrailer.com/trailer/8348/55th+BFI+LFF+Opening+Night+Gala+360+clip+video.html
This is a film about intertwining love stories spread across the world.
This is a film about intertwining love stories spread across the world.
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Academie Francaise online
It has taken the Academie Francaise 75 years to create a new dictionary but in the meantime, they have also finally gone interactive. Its 40 members, also known as "the immortals" ( soooo french) have decided it's high time they taught cyberspace proper french....
Here is the Indy's take on it:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/language-watchdog-goes-interactive-to-teach-french-to-the-french-2369176.html
Here is the website...
http://www.academie-francaise.fr/
Here is the Indy's take on it:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/language-watchdog-goes-interactive-to-teach-french-to-the-french-2369176.html
Here is the website...
http://www.academie-francaise.fr/
ONEDOTZERO
http://www.onedotzero.com/onedotzero-adventures-in-motion-festival-2011/event/
A festival celebrating the very latest in the moving image and interactive arts.
23rd November- BFI.
A festival celebrating the very latest in the moving image and interactive arts.
23rd November- BFI.
Monday 10 October 2011
Still Corners
"it's about confusion," explains hughes. "it's about being confused. am i going crazy? does this person like me? what's happening? that's the vibe of the whole record really."
Cuckoo
Cuckoo
The test
You learnt the hard way
looked covered and learnt
you peered at words
splitting the hairs that cram your head
You learnt that life
takes more than sitting
to work your way up to your top
and hardly question why
The test is trust and
you do that so well
with all your form and all your depth
you're moving through and testing time
and never looking back.
looked covered and learnt
you peered at words
splitting the hairs that cram your head
You learnt that life
takes more than sitting
to work your way up to your top
and hardly question why
The test is trust and
you do that so well
with all your form and all your depth
you're moving through and testing time
and never looking back.
Sunday 9 October 2011
Tomboy
http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/interviews/celine-sciamma-16540
Celine Sciamma's Tomboy looks like it may have taken years to hone but the director admits she only had three weeks to find the cast.
Rosamund Pike cuts the ribbon for the annual Bird's Eye View festival..
“If we really want to change the game, we have to set aside our notions that ambition and competitiveness are unseemly, and allay our indignation when confronted with it. We can convert sexism into competition. We compete healthily, show our feminine sides while being gloriously, attractively, sexily ambitious – can you see the way forward? I think I can…”
Friday 7 October 2011
A poem by Tomas Transtromer, Nobel prized Swedish poet...
THE COUPLE
They turn the light off, and its white globe glows
an instant and then dissolves, like a tablet
in a glass of darkness. Then a rising.
The hotel walls shoot up into heaven's darkness.
Their movements have grown softer, and they sleep,
but their most secret thoughts begin to meet
like two colors that meet and run together
on the wet paper in a schoolboy's painting.
It is dark and silent. The city however has come nearer
tonight. With its windows turned off. Houses have come.
They stand packed and waiting very near,
a mob of people with blank faces.
They turn the light off, and its white globe glows
an instant and then dissolves, like a tablet
in a glass of darkness. Then a rising.
The hotel walls shoot up into heaven's darkness.
Their movements have grown softer, and they sleep,
but their most secret thoughts begin to meet
like two colors that meet and run together
on the wet paper in a schoolboy's painting.
It is dark and silent. The city however has come nearer
tonight. With its windows turned off. Houses have come.
They stand packed and waiting very near,
a mob of people with blank faces.
Thursday 6 October 2011
The Sex Pistols take on a cafe in Luxembourg
Rock Seen, the new book by Bob Gruen, shows rock stars on downtime.
Wednesday 5 October 2011
Feist
The Circle married the line
This is gorgeous. In Feist's words, 'It's as much what it is as what it's not.'
This is gorgeous. In Feist's words, 'It's as much what it is as what it's not.'
Tuesday 4 October 2011
Composition No.1 By Marc Saporta
http://www.visual-editions.com/our-books/book/composition-no1
A book in a box (published in the 60s, it was the first of it's kind) is being republished. Every page is loose and stands alone. You can read it in any order. No need to put your kindle on shuffle. The author does it for you.
A book in a box (published in the 60s, it was the first of it's kind) is being republished. Every page is loose and stands alone. You can read it in any order. No need to put your kindle on shuffle. The author does it for you.
Rekjavik Film festival
As part of a tradition, Rekjavik hosts an annual film festival, in which famous icelanders invite people over to their houses to screen films from their DVD collections, followed by a screening in an obscure location surrounded by volcanoes and lava... then back to Rekjavik where the closest you get to a red carpet is a Berghaus jacket.
Monday 3 October 2011
The Rockandys
Monday 10th
Basement: “The Blue Throat Swallows The Light” Party Ft. The RocKandys (FR-D) Live, Vile Imbeciles (UK-Brighton) Live, The Light Shines (UK-London) live.
French Psych rock band The Rockandys have just finished their debut album this summer, recorded in Berlin upon an invitation by Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre). This collaboration also follows that of Tibo & Rike helping Anton Newcombe to make some tunes for his new album especially the song sung in French “Iluminomi.” The Rockandys have supported The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels and The Warlocks over the past year and tonight they hit london’s east end for a special event alongside two fantastic supporting acts. Do not miss this.
8pm – 12am / £5 Entry Email: therockandys@gmail.com for guestlist requests.
Basement: “The Blue Throat Swallows The Light” Party Ft. The RocKandys (FR-D) Live, Vile Imbeciles (UK-Brighton) Live, The Light Shines (UK-London) live.
French Psych rock band The Rockandys have just finished their debut album this summer, recorded in Berlin upon an invitation by Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre). This collaboration also follows that of Tibo & Rike helping Anton Newcombe to make some tunes for his new album especially the song sung in French “Iluminomi.” The Rockandys have supported The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels and The Warlocks over the past year and tonight they hit london’s east end for a special event alongside two fantastic supporting acts. Do not miss this.
8pm – 12am / £5 Entry Email: therockandys@gmail.com for guestlist requests.
Silent you
silent, silent, silent days,
stick the heart in it's home- made maze
silent, silent, silent hours
trick the heart and wilt all flowers
silent, silent, silent time
without which there would be no grime
silent, silent, silent air
circles the depths of my own despair.
silent, silent, silent rush
to help the muck and the mush
silent, silent, silent voices
remind me of the only choices.
stick the heart in it's home- made maze
silent, silent, silent hours
trick the heart and wilt all flowers
silent, silent, silent time
without which there would be no grime
silent, silent, silent air
circles the depths of my own despair.
silent, silent, silent rush
to help the muck and the mush
silent, silent, silent voices
remind me of the only choices.
Sunday 2 October 2011
Jonas Trueba, Je t'adore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGFL7zSW6fg
An interview with Jonas Trueba, director of Todas las Canciones Hablan de mi ...
An interview with Jonas Trueba, director of Todas las Canciones Hablan de mi ...
Saturday 1 October 2011
two
under and over you
you're the the catch 22
to make my heart go blue
you forgot the meaning of two
you're the the catch 22
to make my heart go blue
you forgot the meaning of two
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