Showing posts with label la vida es un carneval. Show all posts
Showing posts with label la vida es un carneval. Show all posts
20/04/2010
19/03/2010
JULIA # 39 - Hipp hipp hooray, it's Friday!
« Le but de la fête est de nous faire oublier que nous sommes solitaires, misérables et promis à la mort»
(Michel Houellebecq, Rester vivant).
Bon weekend!
(Michel Houellebecq, Rester vivant).
Bon weekend!
17/03/2010
JULIA # 38 - I have many sistas, but only one sister
Remember that time when we were speaking on the phone, me in Paris, you in Brussels
I was trying an outfit and preparing for a day in the sun
and you said
"Isn't it funny that the only one who cares about you gaining weight is your boyfriends ex-girlfriend?"
I didn't fully understand, so you explained:
"Your boyfriend doesn't see the difference, your friends couldn't care less and grandma will only be happy that you can afford to eat.
It's only your boyfriend's ex who notices and tries to convince herself that she has won, cause you have gained a kg or two."
My sister gives me almost too many reasons to love her.
16/03/2010
04/03/2010
JULIA # 30 - Surfing the day away
To recommend ones favourite web pages feels very 90's, but so does chatroulette and chatroulette is amazing.
My three favourite web sites for the moment:
Ideas worth spreading
because i like to learn new things, so I can try to impress boys when I'm drunk and fail to seduce them and eat too much the next day and feel bad, but comfort myself saying 'at least I'm smart'.
Prisondate
because eveyone loves a bad boy, and as I'm spending most of my time at my internship or smoking under the kitchen fan, I don't have time for a real relationship
Cuteness overload
because I have a sensitve side too and need to see a dancing elephant baby every once in a while to endure the day.
My three favourite web sites for the moment:
Ideas worth spreading
because i like to learn new things, so I can try to impress boys when I'm drunk and fail to seduce them and eat too much the next day and feel bad, but comfort myself saying 'at least I'm smart'.
Prisondate
because eveyone loves a bad boy, and as I'm spending most of my time at my internship or smoking under the kitchen fan, I don't have time for a real relationship
Cuteness overload
because I have a sensitve side too and need to see a dancing elephant baby every once in a while to endure the day.
21/01/2010
Aleksandra # 7 - Mr Nobody
So I heard that we are the stuff that dreams are made of, or was it stardust? What difference does it make when we do not know what to wear to all tomorrow's parties.
Mr Nobody subcribes to the memories of three very different lives, resulting from marrying three different women. He claims that all choices were good, a comforting though that we all are replaceable, do you believe it? Zugzwang calling, then (or was it before?) come the questions - what did I do to deserve this?
What I liked about this film is that it raises far too many grand questions and themes to fit in a single plot, from what emerges an incoherent story and Van Dormael does not bring together all loose ends, in the end we receive a single explanation to only one of many questions. But that is the beauty of life - it is complex and maybe unseizable. Straight answers and clear reasoning are mandatory only for bachelor theses.
The Romans claimed both that all ways lead to Rome and that if you do not where to go, all roads lead there. In Marocco, there is only one road to any destination, you do not need a map.
Addenum: Cinematek plays Jaco Van Dormael's two previous films on 23 February.
Mr Nobody subcribes to the memories of three very different lives, resulting from marrying three different women. He claims that all choices were good, a comforting though that we all are replaceable, do you believe it? Zugzwang calling, then (or was it before?) come the questions - what did I do to deserve this?
What I liked about this film is that it raises far too many grand questions and themes to fit in a single plot, from what emerges an incoherent story and Van Dormael does not bring together all loose ends, in the end we receive a single explanation to only one of many questions. But that is the beauty of life - it is complex and maybe unseizable. Straight answers and clear reasoning are mandatory only for bachelor theses.
The Romans claimed both that all ways lead to Rome and that if you do not where to go, all roads lead there. In Marocco, there is only one road to any destination, you do not need a map.
Addenum: Cinematek plays Jaco Van Dormael's two previous films on 23 February.
01/01/2010
Aleksandra # 5 - Happier New Years
2009 started on a Thursday and ended on a Thursday. In between, Israel invaded Gaza. Russia turned off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44, and first black, US President, while Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was appointed Iceland's Prime Minister and the first openly lesbian head of state in the world. Elections to the European Parliament were won by right-wing parties. The Lisbon Treaty entered into force. Climate change was discussed in Copenhagen.
Two German kids aged six and five packed their bags with swimming gear and tried eloping to Africa - they were in love and longed for a life in the sun. French soap opera writers gained the right to strike. Marc Jacobs stopped serving cocaine on silver platters during his shows (it's the financial crisis). Silvio Berlusconi consorted with underage blondes and naked prime ministers, insulted Finnish national heritage and was accused of links to the mafia, before being elected rock star of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.
As the year drew to a close, and I still failed to make sense of the past 365 days, a friend made me drink for a new year, worse than the next, but better than the past. Dear friends, relatives and lovers, raise your glasses and drink for a year where life, work and love is one and where the passion in our hearts melts all obstacles. Let's enter this year with high hopes and ambitious missions and fanatic zeal to make them happen. Let's love with crazy and suicidal hearts that never grow cold.
At the end of this year, I will have saved a life, traveled to Tanger (because it rimes with danger) and live in the same city as my sister.
Two German kids aged six and five packed their bags with swimming gear and tried eloping to Africa - they were in love and longed for a life in the sun. French soap opera writers gained the right to strike. Marc Jacobs stopped serving cocaine on silver platters during his shows (it's the financial crisis). Silvio Berlusconi consorted with underage blondes and naked prime ministers, insulted Finnish national heritage and was accused of links to the mafia, before being elected rock star of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.
As the year drew to a close, and I still failed to make sense of the past 365 days, a friend made me drink for a new year, worse than the next, but better than the past. Dear friends, relatives and lovers, raise your glasses and drink for a year where life, work and love is one and where the passion in our hearts melts all obstacles. Let's enter this year with high hopes and ambitious missions and fanatic zeal to make them happen. Let's love with crazy and suicidal hearts that never grow cold.
At the end of this year, I will have saved a life, traveled to Tanger (because it rimes with danger) and live in the same city as my sister.
23/12/2009
JULIA # 13 - Jul i Polen
Sorgen ligger i luften. Köksmaskinen har gått sönder. Blir det ingen vallmofrökaka nu? Mormor och hennes lika runda syster tittar tysta genom fönstret.
Tre rökfria dagar. Jag har sovit 14 timmar idag och försöker smygsurfa pa grannens tradlosa Internet. Det heter Hades, men jag ar inte rädd och vill visst anslutas. Fungerar i två sekunder ungefar.
Midjemått den 21 december: 66 cm
Jag tittar på ett program som heter Nasze kluby - Våra klubbar. Den vanligaste drinken som bestålls på den gdanska baren BarBados är apelsinjos vodka. Klientelet är i 40 års åldern och tycker om att svänga sina kroppar och huvuden till latin-amerikanska rytmer men också 70 och 80 -tal. Personalen vill inte vara med på bild men alla gäster ar nöjda. Musiken ar bra tycker de, maten ar bra, klientelet ar bra, vodkan med apelsinjos ar bra.
Chefen far frågan om det finns gaster som blir for fulla (på en polsk klubb vid namn Barbados med kunder i 40 ars åldern. Vad tror du?) Chefen svarar diplomatiskt - jo. det hander att vi har kunder som gungar. men i otakt med musiken. Det tar vara professionella vakter hand om, de brukar diskret säga till och lösa situationen.
GLADJE! Köksmaskinen fungerar igen!
Mormor berättar att mammor i Ukraina brukade ge sina bebisar vallmofron att suga på när de själva skulle till jobbet. Då sov barnen gott, och ingen blev narkoman.
Pa mataffären jobbar det nästan bara ukrainskor nu, de ar mycket trevligare an polskorna och har sot accent när de pratar polska.
Midjemått 22 december: 67 cm
Arbeit macht frei-skylten ar återfunnen. Tre småkriminella pojkar ar misstänkta for brottet, det spekuleras om att det var ett beställningsjobb från Sverige. Jag finner ett slags lugn i hela historien. En bekräftelse på att den politiska laddningen finns kvar, på att symbolen lever. Och skylten kommer att restaureras utan att några spår syns, stolden blir ett nytt kapitel i dess historia.
Hittade en lapp med alla rätter som ska göras till jul
Potrawy
Kutia
Pierogi
Barszcz
Sledzie
Kompot
Uszka z grybami
Losos
Kisiel
Salatka
Ryba po grecku
Zupa grzybowa
Sledzie w smietanie z jablkiem (overstruket)
Makowiec
Sernik
Jablecznik
Ryba w galarecie (Marta)
Midjematt 23 december: 69 cm
Nyår borde komma före jul.
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