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!!!!!!