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Happy independent head-in-the-clouds and feet-on-earth person, this requiring a lot of sense of balance:) Soft hearted, tough headed, a rebel office worker, fluent in many foreign languages, including body language, an avid reader, a wild dancer, a walker, a dreamer...

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What English speakers call now world music (tango, flamenco, bossanova, fado, gypsy...), new wave and underground 80's, loads of indie rock, U2, Led Zep, Leo Cohen, Tom Waits, anything genuine
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Mostly non-Hollywood: Fellini Satyricon, Andrei Rubliov, The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman), more recently: The Sea Inside, Talk to her, Head-on (Gegen die Wand), Don't move (Non ti muovere), The Edukators (Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei), Me and You and Everyone We Know, 2046, Paradise Now, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
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Sports, me? Only hiking, swimming, dancing (tango beginner, salsa, samba...belly dancing;)
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Wine is the best (of all colours)
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Gothic and Art Nouveau, Impressionists, Expressionists, etc. Visual and performing arts, literature of all times and countries...culinary art too;)
Travels (East to West)
Istanbul (Turkey), Budapest (Hungary), Wroclaw (Poland), Prague (Czech Republic), Berlin, Potsdam, Stuttgart and Muenchen (Germany), Paris and Reims (France), most of Italy, from Venice to Naples, Lisbon, Coimbra and center of Portugal, most of the Caribbean, New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Tampa, Cape Code and New Orleans (USA), little of Canada. Sierra Mixteca (Oaxaca), some of Yucatan and DF in Mexico. Montevideo and seaside in Uruguay and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Salvador de Bahia, Brasil. Longing for India and more of Latin America.
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JUNE 25, 2008 - TWO MEDEA, TWO MASTERPIECES
There's the one by Pasolini with Maria Callas and....surprise surprise! Lars von Trier made one based on the Carl T. Dreyer's script, which holds beautiful expressionist images. I watched them both over the week-end - the storyline is slightly different, Pasolini goes through the whole legend of the Golden Fleece and the Argonauts who go all the way to Colchis (situated in nowadays Georgia or Gruzia) to still it. Lars von Trier/Dreyer tell only the end of the story, like the classical play by Euripides.

The focus in Pasolini's version falls onto the difference between two worlds: myth and reason, Medea and Jason, the world of magic and the real world. Maria Callas is beautiful and sensitive, instead of being a sorceress, her Medea is a stranger who's not understood and/or accepted in the culture where she landed. Between her and Jason there's mutual attraction, but he's a man of this world who wants to be accepted and recognized, so he choses to marry somebody more appropriate to his ambition. Medea is not a criminal, only a woman who choses to revive her old rites, re-affirm her vision of the world when she feels trapped and betrayed. The only actor attracting my attention is Laurent Terzieff as the Centaur who plays adoptive father to Jason. The settings and the costumes are overwhelming, recreating a long gone forgotten world in the cine verite style that characterizes the other films of Pasolini. He filmed vast empty lands, troglodyte and mud cities in North Africa with amateurs and I guess a little in Italy (the Corinthian part) it looks ancient but not fantasylike, the impact is amazing, you feel that story is real.

Lars von Trier plays with light and shadow, also with little dialogue, in a Middle Age looking Scandinavia, filled with trembling lights and somber settings. Characters communicate many times through screens: curtains or branches, like they can't really see each other the way they are. His Medea is a feminist who does not accept her destiny of being seduced then abandoned by a man. I understood her murder of the children like a liberation from all bounds with that foreign country. At the end, as she sails away, she symbolically takes off her cap and frees her long hair. The marshlands, the water and forests are the perfect wild setting for wild passions, but people speak in subdued tone, which, together with the empty spaces and fog/dim lights creates the sensation of oppression. The best Lars von Trier film I've seen so far, no doubt due also to the expressionist syle he has chosen, as a tribute to Carl Dreyer.
0 Comments 28 days ago
JUNE 19, 2008 - BLOG TO BLOG, SOMEONE ELSE DEFINED MY LOVELIFE
I found today on another blog, belonging to a young and quite successfull young Italian author Pulsatilla http://www.pulsatilla.splinder.com/, a few phrases that suit me:

http://www.pulsatilla.splinder.com/

"martedì, 10 giugno 2008

A questo punto te lo dico, qual è la cosa molto semplice da fare per tenermi sempre con te e non farmi andare più via: avere fiducia in me, in te e in noi. Quando ti dirò che non ce la faccio, tu mi dovrai dire che ce la posso fare eccome. Quando ti dirò che forse sarebbe meglio separare le strade, tu mi dovrai dire che non troverò nessun amore bello come il nostro. Quando avrò voglia di scopare qualcun altro, tu dovrai dirmi che nessuno mi sa scopare bene come te. Sono una persona semplice, per farmi restare devi soltanto dire «resta».
Nessuno ha mai osato chiederlo, e forse, in fondo, non sarebbe mai valsa la pena restare. "

"At this point I'm telling you, what's the very simple thing to do for having me always next to you and not makimg me leave: trust me, you and us. When I'm telling you that I can't make it anymore, you should be telling me that I can, here I am. When I'm telling you that maybe it would be better to split ways, you should be telling me that I won't find any other love to match ours. When I'm feeling the desire to have sex with someone else, you should be telling me that no one can give me better sex than you do. I'm a simple person, to make me stay you just have to say "stay". No one ever dared to ask for it, and maybe, really, to stay wasn't even worth it."

Well, I knew this for a long time, it was never hard to find men that I liked who admire me and want to have a good time and experience some intense emotions, but, oh!, who had the guts to tell me "Stay!"? The ones who did didn't quite know who and how I am made, they thought they wanted me when they wanted whom they think I was. The ones who knew me and could have made me stay didn't ask for it, I want it all and I I want it now all the time, too much energy to bear with.

Another thing Pulsatilla says : "I love Pulsatilla but I'd rather be with Rosa". I'm lovely and uncomfortable, like a pair of stilettos that you can't possibly wear every day. Like truffles, foie gras or caviar, an overdose is yucky, once or twice a year in small quantities is ideal.

And still, this crazy boyfriend of mine is unrealistic enough to be willing to share his life with me. I guess you have to be Cuban, artist, be called Adrian and have a lot of patience and perseverance to be able of such a performance. He won't let go, for once I'm getting what I was expecting, the simplest way: STAY. And he won't limit himself to it, he would follow me. I guess he deserves me then, I don't have a choice. A new story is about to begin for me: a real life of two, through good and hard times.

PS There's another Italian blog that I like much more: http://scrittosuibanchi.blogspot.com/ and I bumped into it because somebody who couldn't tell me "Stay" gave me the author's book: "Di dove sei?". The book is simple and great, filled with stories about our daily lives, revolving around jobs, kids, condos or rented apartments, the hairdresser, the beautician, the fashion obsession, etc. Marilena has a very keen eye on people and their ways of living life.
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JUNE 18, 2008 - BACK TO CANADA AND A HEALTHY ROUTINE
I noticed that lately I pretty much went with the flow, followed other people's impulses and suggestions, sticking most of the times to the A plans - like going to Rome with my mom because I was invited; agreeing with my boyfriend to move together; accepting a job because they wanted me very much. And it went well. I have quite a balanced life right now and I feel like I actually need some rest, after all the travelling, I need to let things settle inside and outside.

I need to get back to my thesis studies and writing, get back to the gym and some outdoor activities, like hiking, or indoor, like tango dancing. The big change would be to live in a couple, I'm thrilled by it, it was about time.

For now love, school and some social life are enough, after I finish my thesis I'll be ready for more challenges.
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Spring is wandering around
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Just wanted to wish good luck with everything.
Dancing through life requires strength..it seems you have it.xx
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Mikil O L:eary
what did I do with your advice? i took it.
what advice did I take? i put on a brighter skin.
what do i need to say? thanks for the good advice. keep enjoying yourself, and always take vitamins.
108 weeks ago
Mikil O L:eary
let us go then you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky,
like a patient etherized upon a table.
110 weeks ago
Max Aversa
I'm so sad and disappoint. Just before your birthday......

I hope the pain will leave soon your heart Anto.
I miss you and I wish to hold you in this moment (just to relief your scream)

Love you.

Max
151 weeks ago
Sajani Swamy
Interesting thoughts! Most people are (myself included) just so scared of taking a risk, no matter how small it is, of colliding with another human being in a meaningful fashion.

Hope your move goes well and you get settled in nicely!

Miss ya,

Saj
152 weeks ago
 
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