Unveiled memories

Once I had an analogic camera

I tried to capture every single important moment.

But I did something wrong and

The film was suddenly...unveiled.

I realized that I had put so much effort

On trying to remember pictures

That I had no real memories.

So Far this Week #3

Winner of the week: BLACK SWAN

Series for Exam Periods

Sorry about my abscence these days but I'm in the middle of my exax period and writing thousands of boring essays so that's why I can't devote as much time as I'd like to my blog. I can't even follow my film journal, which is awful (yes, I don't give a shit about my marks as soon as I pass). But I'm unable to devote all my time to revision so what I do these days is watching series (just 20 or 40 minutes per day don't make me feel guily). Last year I watched "True Blood" and now I'm following the path of not-so-serious-series and started to follow "No Ordinary Family". This is a remake of Disney's "The Incredibles": the Powell family has a planecrash in Brazil and suddenly get amazing new powers. The mother, played by Julie Benz (Dexter's Rita) is superfast, her bald-and-fat husband is superstrong and her daughter and son can read minds and have a superbrain respectively. They even have a black friend who helps them! (He's kinda hot, btw) Though this one is not Frozone and has no powers at all. So if you wanna have some fun and thought-free entertainment I absolutely recommend it.

If you die today (Poem)

If you die today
Tomorrow I will be hollow
Because you and me are one
Now and forever.
That is why I feel incomplete here:
My other half is miles away.




Every now and then I think about what I lived last year in Nottingham and feel blue I just have to think "What did I miss there?" And the first thing that comes to my mind is him. I wrote this poem one of those sad days, while staring at this picture taken from a fashion magazine which everybody thought was us (saving the distance). Then, happiness comes back because nobody knows how happy I am, how happy I've been for the last 7 years. This is me being tired of writing essays: I turn into sickly sweet.

So Far this Week #2

Winner of the week: ANNIE HALL

"Skin" by Philip Larkin

Sorry about my absence but I'm quite busy these days, making some essays for my masters and (I should also be) revising. But I can't stop thinking about you and my blog so I leave here a short poem by Philip Larkin I'm sure you'll like as much as I did. Enjoy it (and comment on it, please). Photo by me.

Skin   

Obedient daily dress,
You cannot always keep
That unfakable young surface.
You must learn your lines -
Anger, amusement, sleep;
Those few forbidding signs

Of the continuous coarse
Sand-laden wind, time;
You must thicken, work loose
Into an old bag
Carrying a soiled name.
Parch then; be roughened; sag;

And pardon me, that
I Could find, when you were new,
No brash festivity
To wear you at, such as
Clothes are entitled to
Till the fashion changes.

Beautiful and Unexpected Presents

Yesterday I received some presents form my boyfriend's family and I loved them so much I felt the need to share them with you, as I know you'll like them too.
This is a small purse from Disaster Designs. What I found fun was what is written on the side: "love what belongs to you". So do it.

And this is what I loved the most, a set of notebooks. From left to right, there's one for each thing: big ideas, beautiful thoughts and small notes. I told them I just need the first one...hehe. They're from a beautiful French brand, La Marelle, take a look at their webpage.

And, finally, and as I didn't show you what my boyfriend's present was, I introduce you to Lord Crumwell's Oddfellows, the writers. From left to right: Willy Shakespeare, Jimmy Joyce, Vir Woolf, Edgar Al Poe and Mark Twain.

 

Thank you!!!!!!

So far this week

Maybe you remember my post about my film journal. So this is what I saw in 5 days. Not a bad rate...

2010: Books I read

Yeah, yeah, I'm not really original, cause both Andrea and Mary Lou already made a post about this, but at risk of humiliating myself, I'm going to share with you those books I remember I read last year. I guess there aren't as many as I'd like to because I was abroad mainly having other kind of fun, bad excuse, I know. To be honest, some of them (two or three, no more) were not finished but that's one of my worst defects. There's a lot of poetry, you'll see, and I'm sure you'll distinguish the summer readings from real literature...hehe. The (R) is for re-reading. The (*) are those I really enjoyed. To this list, I should add some african-american, film and religion books I had to read for my essays but I don't really remember now.

-"Selected Poems" by Langston Hughes (R)

-"The Complete Poems" by Stephen Crane (R)

-"Atonement" by Ian McEwan

-"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

-"The Tempest" by William Shakespeare

-"The Bible: The New Testament" by....several authors? (*)

-"The Carrie Diaries" by Candace Bushnell

-"World Without End" by Ken Follet (*)

-"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling (*)

-"Ensayo sobre la ceguera" by José Saramago (*)

-"1984" by George Orwell (*)

-"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

-"Film History" by Paul Granger et Al. (*)

-"Imagist Poetry"

-"Antología bilingüe" by William Carlos Williams

-"Caroling Dusk" by Countee Cullen (ed.)

-"Love Letters of Great Men"

And I have a loooooooooot to read this year. Right now I'm with Margaret Atwood and Philip Larkin, but these are some I already have and want to read as soon as I finish the 800 pages of The Blind Assassin.

Favorite Poems I just bought it and it's such an amazing discovery! It's a big book full of great poems and poets, designed for boys and girls, but before I read them to my children and create little monsters their classmates will hate, I want to enjoy it. It has great authors like John Keats, William Carlos Williams, Shakespeare, William Blake, Emily Dickinson and my beloved Langston Hughes. It even has the lyrics of the USA national anthem! This is just a couple of lines I extracted:

A word fitly spoken
Is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Wanna know where is it from? THE BIBLE. Lol.

Film Journal for 2011

Happy New Year to everybody!

2011 just began so I decided it was time to do something not really drastic but, at least, entertaining. The idea came out when I bought two moleskine notebooks almost at the same time so I was wandering what to do with one of them. Then I thought: "why don't you write a film journal?" And that's what I'm gonna do. My new year's resolution is to watch at least one film per day. I assume some days that will be impossible, but it can be balanced by watching 2 or 3 the same day. The result by 31st December 2011 is to have 365 or more films in my journal. There it will be the basic information (year, director, stars) and my personal mark. If you want to do it yourself, click below the image and I'm sure you'll like it.

 

Molesine Film Journal

 I'd like to add a button on my blog to link with my list, but that'll require my friend Andrea's best help. ;)

Today, 2nd day of this year, I added my first movie to the journal: Gulliver's Travels, the TV movie, and my mark is 7.

Hope you like the whole idea and let me know your new year's resolutions (if it's something obscene...even better, of course!).