Saturday, May 13, 2006
Bill Maher for president!
I think after our president and the United States president, this guy is the funniest man alive but unlike those he is as blunt as can be. I just love his attitude!
I think after our president and the United States president, this guy is the funniest man alive but unlike those he is as blunt as can be. I just love his attitude!
Friday, May 12, 2006
Rainy weekends in a row!
Oh God! Do you really think it’s funny to seduce people with beautiful sunny days when they’re working and then spoil their weekends with three days of consecutive rain?! Well I too, thought that it was funny for the first time, but this weekend would be the forth times and it’s not funny anymore! Believe me, it’s not!
I’m beginning to understand religious people! It’s much more amusing to blame God than a randomly moving low pressure system!
I’m beginning to understand religious people! It’s much more amusing to blame God than a randomly moving low pressure system!
Thursday, May 11, 2006
For those who really like this brilliant smart hilarious comedian “Bill Maher” and like myself, don’t have access to HBO, you can download his weekly program “real time” as a pod cast! I recently found out that he’s pod casting and I’m so excited…
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Whenever I feel tired, sad or bored, I check out this website. It gives me tons of energy every time I visit it. The cuteness is unresisitable!
Thanks Maryami for introducing me to this fabulous website!
Thanks Maryami for introducing me to this fabulous website!
Spasm Story
During the past decade, actually more than a decade!, that I’ve been dating,
just one time and only one time I had the luxury of being with someone who actually knew how to give a massage (to say the least!) and although one may not consider this ability as a decisive advantage, last night that I had this killer spasm in my shoulder, I really missed her with all my heart!
Today, I went with the second choice (first choice was not available in this area!) and I bought this super cool “Aquassager”.
If I wanted to describe the feeling, I’d rate it somewhere between sex and a delicate handmade chocolate truffle, still much below her heavenly technique but slightly higher than magnificent “L’auberge Espagnole” that I saw last night for the 10th times, and it just doesn’t lose it’s charm.
just one time and only one time I had the luxury of being with someone who actually knew how to give a massage (to say the least!) and although one may not consider this ability as a decisive advantage, last night that I had this killer spasm in my shoulder, I really missed her with all my heart!
Today, I went with the second choice (first choice was not available in this area!) and I bought this super cool “Aquassager”.
If I wanted to describe the feeling, I’d rate it somewhere between sex and a delicate handmade chocolate truffle, still much below her heavenly technique but slightly higher than magnificent “L’auberge Espagnole” that I saw last night for the 10th times, and it just doesn’t lose it’s charm.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Quote of the week, from myself!
Love always comes when it’s least expected and leaves when it’s most needed.
Madredeus
I’m sure anybody who’s a fan of “Wim Wenders” remembers, even if vaguely, the scene in “Lisbon Story” in which a lovely lady approaches the puzzled “Phillip Winter “ ,who was desperately looking for the source of some kind of mystical music he was hearing through the walls of his room, and tells him in a very charming way “I’m Teresa and we’re Madredeus!”.
What I’m not so sure about is that so many people got so intrigued by this magical voice and exquisite music that searched the whole world to get the records.
By using Fado (an almost melancholic, melodic and extremely beautiful style of vocal music in Portugal) and some other Portuguese styles and giving them a rather more international frame, Madredeus has managed to create a delicious fusion which is genuinely unique and stunningly beautiful.
Somehow sad yet delightful melodies, tasteful selections of instruments and above all, the magical voice of Teresa Salgueiro has made this band and it’s music, one of the most unique in the world to say the least.
I mean, just take a look at their pictures and the design of the website and read the rest. Abundant amount of taste is truly in the air.
Although I strongly prefer the early albums like Existir, O Paraiso and O Espirito da paz to the latest ones, but that is only a matter of taste. However If you want to go by my taste, try these songs first:
O Pomar Das Laranjeiras (From Existir)
A Andorinha Da Primavera (From O Paraiso)
Nao Muito Distante (From O Paraiso)
Um Raio de Luz Ardente (From Movimento)
O Pastor (From Existir)
Monday, May 08, 2006
Contest!
That was the headline:
Iranian officials confirmed that the president of Iran, Mr. Ahmadinejad, has written a letter to the president of the United States about some new solutions for the nuclear issue and the full contents of the letter will be disclosed as soon as the reception of this letter is announced by the White house officials.
I want to hold a contest here in my blog. What do you think the content of this letter would be?
Here are some suggestions.
1. Asking some serious incentives in order to keep the enrichment in the experimental level and transfer the real procedure to Russia. End of the story
2. Warning him about the consequences of a possible assault to Iran and explaining to him how the combination of “Imaan” and “Emdaad e Gheibi” could destroy the US army, like one that happened in “Tabas”
3. Explaining why Islam is the best religion in the world while Christianity, also not so bad but it’s no Islam! Furthermore inviting him to become a Muslim.
4. Lecturing him about the history of the US (like some predecessor did) and informing him about the Americans historical coolness.
5. A letter that begins with “Ajjall-al allah ta’aalaa va farajah o sharif”, continues with “Down to USA” and some “Down to Israel” for two full pages, back and front, and ends with “Nasr o men allah va fath on gharib”!
6. Asking him to send back the umbrella, he left behind in UN.
7. sending him a letter bomb.
But seriously, if you picked the first one, either you’ve been in comma for the past 10 months or you need to see a Doctor as soon as possible.
Iranian officials confirmed that the president of Iran, Mr. Ahmadinejad, has written a letter to the president of the United States about some new solutions for the nuclear issue and the full contents of the letter will be disclosed as soon as the reception of this letter is announced by the White house officials.
I want to hold a contest here in my blog. What do you think the content of this letter would be?
Here are some suggestions.
1. Asking some serious incentives in order to keep the enrichment in the experimental level and transfer the real procedure to Russia. End of the story
2. Warning him about the consequences of a possible assault to Iran and explaining to him how the combination of “Imaan” and “Emdaad e Gheibi” could destroy the US army, like one that happened in “Tabas”
3. Explaining why Islam is the best religion in the world while Christianity, also not so bad but it’s no Islam! Furthermore inviting him to become a Muslim.
4. Lecturing him about the history of the US (like some predecessor did) and informing him about the Americans historical coolness.
5. A letter that begins with “Ajjall-al allah ta’aalaa va farajah o sharif”, continues with “Down to USA” and some “Down to Israel” for two full pages, back and front, and ends with “Nasr o men allah va fath on gharib”!
6. Asking him to send back the umbrella, he left behind in UN.
7. sending him a letter bomb.
But seriously, if you picked the first one, either you’ve been in comma for the past 10 months or you need to see a Doctor as soon as possible.
Ça Ira
Last night, I finally got my hand on the long-anticipated “Ça Ira”, Roger Waters first opera, an opera in English about the French revolution in three acts that had been occupied his mind for almost a decade.
Although I was excepting some kind of jubilation, almost the same ecstasy that I felt after listening to “Pros and Cons of hitch-hiking” or “Amused to Death” for the first time, what I felt was more a sense of disillusionment rather than anything close to a joyous one. Almost the same feeling that had when I was leaving the theatre, where I saw Woody Allen’s latest movie, “Match Point”, except then, I was accompanied by a lovely lady who lessened the pain dramatically!
While I still firmly believe that English is not a suitable language for the Opera, and this one strengthened my stand too, I’m not suggesting at all that “Ça Ira” is not a good piece of work. The same way that I absolutely do not think “Match Point” is a bad movie. Surly there are beautiful moments in this opera, “Marie Antoinette, the last night on earth” and “To the windward Isles” to name a few, and certainly “Match Point” has its brilliant scenes and of course traces of their styles can be found in both works (Ça Ira” is more Waters though than “Match Point” is Allen-ish!), but for God’s sake, there are hundreds, if not thousands, who are able to write a rather good opera or a well-constructed movie, but there are only two people on this planet who can make “Annie Hall” or “The Final Cut” and these two are better stop fooling around with this experimenting thing since unfortunately there are not in their twenties!
And if anytime we need a cheesy but relatively OK opera in English, we always have Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber to do so!
I recall somebody wrote in Leonard Bernstein’s remembrance that “There are so many people in the world who can conduct a Bruckner’s symphony as good as you did, but Music I heard with you (also one of his compositions) will not be repeated ever again!
P.S. I have to admit that I’ve only listened to 2 CD’s extract version and not the original 6 CD version but Since the extract versions usually comprise all the good arias, I doubt that the full version would change my mind, but if it did, I’d let you know and also, the CD cover is really cool!
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Shop Girl
Even from the trailer, one could guess that it’s not a typical romantic movie. However I never found the motivation to go to the theatre to watch it. Tonight I saw it on DVD and to be honest, it was even better than what I thought. Although story seemed to be cliché, and it was, but the storyline wasn’t at all, plus the directing was really smart, thoughtful and kind of sincerely beautiful.
The movie was full of original scenes, unique dialogues and somewhat weird but understandable situations, but what I enjoyed the most was the portrayal of some stupid but subtle mistakes that we all do and we never realized why we have done them yet somehow, and as we’re blaming ourselves, we are almost sure that we will repeat them in the future.
The Narration of the film though, was really annoying and I don’t know why every movie which is made based on a book should have narration! but altogether, and considering super cute Claire Danes’s brilliant and moving performance, it was a pleasant experience.
The movie was full of original scenes, unique dialogues and somewhat weird but understandable situations, but what I enjoyed the most was the portrayal of some stupid but subtle mistakes that we all do and we never realized why we have done them yet somehow, and as we’re blaming ourselves, we are almost sure that we will repeat them in the future.
The Narration of the film though, was really annoying and I don’t know why every movie which is made based on a book should have narration! but altogether, and considering super cute Claire Danes’s brilliant and moving performance, it was a pleasant experience.
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