June 2010
Bye,bye, dear England…
Germany 4 x 1 England
“All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go..So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye, I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly.”
Congrats, Germany!
“To those who despair of everything, reason cannot provide a faith, but only...”
“I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the...”
R.I.P José Saramago
I haven’t read any of Saramago’s books, and yet I know how important he is in the world of literature. He won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, which says it all. I also know by some who have read his books that they are rather strange, subversive and unique, like the author himself.
I watched Blindness not so long ago, and the film had a deep impact on me. If you haven’t...
Eminem Backs Gay Marriage →
(via morethansky)
Eminem has grown up! Good for him!
“Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly...”
Love Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda
To my beloved who does not care:
I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives...
Nodame Cantabile
Manga picture by Tomoko Ninomiya
I’m a sucker for manga, Dorama, and Anime. Japan rocks!
One I truly adore is Nodame Cantabile, a wacky love story between Megumi “Nodame” Noda and Shinichi Chiaki, two students of classical music. I say wacky because, well, it is. Chiaki is a perfectionist - but brilliant - bastard who is afraid of airplanes and the sea, which prevents him...
“I hope I didn’t brain my damage…” Homer Simpson”
Pride and Prejudice: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
After Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Seth Grahame-Smith, a classic for weirdos like myself, Steve Hockensmith has released Dawn of the Dreadfuls. While the first quirk-Jane-Austen-turned-to-zombie horror story was set exactly at the same time as the original story, Dawn of the Dreadfuls is a prequel. I haven’t read it yet, but I’m guessing it will be as witty and macabre as the...
Sonnet 30 (Shakespeare)
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night, And weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish’d...
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”...”
