Yesterday I saw a wonderful movie, "E ridendo l'uccise" ("And, laughing, he killed him"): it was made in 2005, but is still unknown, as far as I know. It's a poignant portrait of men's cruelty and arrogance when they have some power over people oppressed by ignorance and misery. ( poignant movie... ) If you love History and cinema, you should not miss this movie!
Oh well. I was looking for something about eating disorders and stuff like that on google, because my boyfriend needs some information for his degree thesis...and I found something really DISTURBING. Now, I knew there was some site promoting eating disorders, I had read something about it. But I had never looked for these sites. But today I googled "eating disorders-anorexia" and see what I found...
Just to clarify, I've never been anorexic. Actually, I never had any eating disorder. Some year ago I was very thin, too thin actually, but I wasn't anorexic. I just ate less than usual because of...some stupid love issue -_^ Now I'm feeling very well and loved, so...I sometimes eat like a pig ;0) Nor I've ever known someone who is anorexic. But I think it's a terrible disease and I know there are many causes for it. It must be a terrible pain and it must be very difficult to face it and to accept a therapy for it. I greatly respect people with eating disorders because I guess they have to face terrible problems and they often don't have anyone who can help them. But that there's someone who PROMOTE anorexia/eating disorders, extreme starvings etc... trying to PERSUADE people to BECOME ANOREXIC...this is just SICK. But look at this:
I think the author of this video really needs a grammy award...for the choice of images and music. One of my favorite songs by Within Temptation, Truth beneath the rose plus the three seasons of "The Tudors" put together: what can I say? Whoever he is, she/he is GREAT :D
Flist and anyone reads this journal (why btw? *smirks*) I need your help with some movie I'm looking for but they seem vanished...If you know a place where I can find them, please tell me! If you have any dvd, vhs, information...*help me*
I'm currently in Pistoia for a university symposium. Little city, and not so nice as I would have expected. There's some church to visit but nothing more. The conference is very boring actually. But I knew some cool people here. I'm watching season 3 of The Tudors in streaming and/or through torrents. Hey, great season! Much more history, politics, drama...I really loved the last episode, 7, with Anne of Clèves. Usually she's depicted as a numb woman, ugly and stupid. Here we have a Anne not ugly (I would say pretty), very sweet, and you feel so sorry for her with Henry's attempts to consumate the marriage. Next episode will be the last one and we'll be introduce to Katherine Howard, the fifth wife, who got beheaded beacause she cheated on Henry. I was reading the forum on IMDB about this series, actually because I was looking for a link to episode 8...Oh men but why this forum is so....stupid? there are, it seems, three type of people there:
1. The usual pop-corn teenager who watchs EVERYTHING on tv and then he asks...but why aren't there any black people in this show? D: 2- The people who watch it and enjoy it, but they don't even think it's about people who lived ages ago and so they don't understand anything. And they ask: but...but...why did he have to kill so many people? couldn't his men disobey his orders? who is the vilain on the show? God, they were totally DIFFERENT from us. How can you judge? 3- The one who is very educated and loves history, so he makes LOOOOOOOONG posts explaining history stuff to people who couldn't care less. Or at least they understand nothing. And then they are ALWAYS the same threads with the same questions. And I don't understand why so many people in that board seem to hate Charles Brandon duke of Suffolk character. Poor man. He was the only one who really cared for the king as a man and he was always loyal to him. What should he do? Obey the king was obey God at that time. He had many people killed after the "Pilgrmage of Grace", yes, but then why those people seem so sympathetic with Cromwell? Cromwell had them killed but he let Suffolk do the dirty job for him and for the king. Maybe its' because Cromwell was so religious. He prayed God with a lot of blood on his hands. A very good boy :P Great show anyway. Now I should sleep, but I'm going to watch "The shield of Falworth" :) a hollywood "medieval" movie with Tony Curtis. Yes, Tony Curtis in medieval pants D:
09:21 am: (Italian entry) Sulla vicenda di Eluana Englaro... Un mio amico ci ha inviato per la redazione un suo pezzo su Eluana. E' talmente bello che non posso rinunciare a tenerlo anche qui, sul blog. Lui è un uomo ormai non più giovane, una persona straordinaria, ex prete, operatore di pace, scrittore, poeta e insegnante in pensione di filosofia: se mettete il suo nome su google lo trovate subito. Le sue parole sono tutto ciò che c'è da dire su questa tragica vicenda. Credo che non si possa aggiungere altro, indipendentemente da ciò in cui ognuno crede (o non crede).
Yes...I'm going to SPAM my lj with useless pics of me climbing boulder blocks ;0) Now that I can boulder again in a decent way why not to spam everywhere with my videos? *grins* ( Read more... )</div>
Hm...does it refer to Alexandros and Hephaestion? This is a poem by one of the greatest poets ever, Paul Verlaine (who many know for his love story with Arthur Rimbaud more than for his wonderful, sweet and terribles poems). I had already read this time ago and I think it's a cryptic but moving and amazing (like only Verlaine could be) remembrance of the tragic end of a love, in Ecbatana...the term "Ecbatana" is the clue for the entire poem: only when you read it you understand who Verlane is talking about. Like a great poet does, Verlaine never spoke explicity, he guided his reader into his words.
Crimen Amoris
Dans un palais, soie et or, dans Ecbatane, De beaux démons, des satans adolescents, Au son d'une musique mahométane Font litière au Sept Péchés de leurs cinq sens.
C'est la fête aux Sept Péchés : ô qu'elle est belle! Tous les Désirs rayonnaient en feux brutaux; Les Appétits, pages prompts que l'on harcèle, Promenaient des vins roses dans des cristaux.
Or le plus beau d'entre tous ces mauvais anges Avait seize ans sous sa couronne de fleurs. Les bras croisés sur les colliers et les franges, Il rêve, œil plein de flammes et de pleurs.
Here's a video we made last autumn... It's some bouldering (yes, my knee is better now)...that's me climbing a boulder block in Piedmont, my region: it's a quite difficult block, we were in the first days of october but I'm only wearing a simple shirt...it was very tiring and...sweating ;) hm...I think I look very... manly here :P Sorry for the bad quality of the video, I had to tape it because the file of my friend's camera is not compatible with my portable (you can hear his radio in the background).
Me on a boulder block....(and do not laugh please :P)
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Current Music: lord of te rngs - fellowship of the ring
And what better, to begin with, than two pictures of Alexandros and Hephaestion? Well...I've been in Venice last monday (actually these last days I've been in Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples...I've worked in some archive), and I found the time to visit for the first time (it was my first time in Venice) the archeological museum of the city (Museo archeologico nazionale di Venezia). And wow, I found a picture of Hephaestion looking totallly new to me :D Actually the portrait was under a restoration work, so I could only see (and photograph) the picture they had put to replace the sculpture :( But it was wonderful anyway...it's always amazing when I can see a portrait of Hephaestion! So... It's a basanite sculpture, a copy from a lost (*sighs*) bronze dating around the last two decades of IVcentury bC): the sculpture is probably datable around 130 aC. It's from an egyptian atelier and it's very probably related to a renewal of the cult for Hephaestion in Egypt under the roman emperor Adrianus, after the death of his lover Antinous. The sculpture is quite damaged, without neck, without basament and with big cracks on the lips, on the noise and on the left ear.
And this one is a stange portrait of Alexandros a friend of mine has found in the Wurttembergisches Landesmuseum in Stuchkardt (not sure if this is the right spelling...). Datable around the end of IV century bC, marble, from Alexandria :)
Sorry for my long silence, btw, but anyway I see that also my friend list has been very quiet...Some new people asked to friend me these last weeks: I have already added you, but I'd like to know why you want to be my lj friends! drop me a line :) I will be more active from this day on...not sure if it sounds more like a threat to you D:
Ps: my mood icon is due to the italian politics. I don't feel like talking about it. We seem the orchestra while the Titanic was sinking. We're approaching the disaster in an optimistic italian way :P
09:41 pm:
Thought it was time to update this neglected lj of mine ;) Well...I'm in holiday now...actually I should write my phd thesis, but in summer time my love for the study is vanished :P I wrote another historical article, and now I have 4 articles and two reviews published :D
This is a quite old song by the italian group "Lunapop": I don't like this group (they do very stupid songs in my opinion), but I like this song because the video is very original and because it remembers me one of my old boyfriends, Andrea. He's been my boyfriend just before my actual soulmate, and we always listened this song in the summer we spent together. Today I was thinking of him because he was a VERY VERY GORGEOUS boy and I would be curious to see if he still looks so good...it's been seven years now, since the last time I saw him *__* I'm not in love with him...what? and how could I? I've never been in love with him, but he was a beautiful boy ;0) Anyway, this song makes me wonder how and where he is...and btw. the singer looks like my brother!!!!!
Lunapop, "Qualcosa di grande (cos'è successo?)" [Something great. (What happened to you?)]
Per la cronaca, a meè venuto fuori che il partito più vicino alle mie idee è l'Italia dei Valori di Di Pietro (che a dire la verità mi sta un po' sulle palle) e quello più lontano l'Udc di Casini (e qui concordo)
09:40 pm: SFOGO POLITICO
Ok, ora basta. Stavolta ho deciso che l'update del Lj sarà di stretto contenuto POLITICO, quindi siete avvertiti/e...se c'è qualcuno che legge e che non ha voglia di sorbirsi un pistolotto politico ESPLICITO è meglio che non legga ;) Naturalmente credo che interessi (SE interessa) solo ai miei friends italiani... ( e vai con la politica... )
This is a TV movie with Kevin Kline playing Hamlet. I found it yesterday on youtube :) I didn't know it. Seems very good (at least, set and acting are good in the scenes I saw).
Does anyone know it? I searched it on Amazon.com and it says it's only available from USA. DAMN. But there's a vhs too, and this is available also for poor italian guys. If someone knows something about it PLEASE tell me! If you know how to get the DVD or how to download this movie in someway, tell me, ok? Thanks :)
Ps for my italian friends:
Ho una paura MOSTRUOSA che torni Berlusconi con Fini, Bossi, Mastella, Cuffaro and comp. VI PREGO FATE QUALCOSA :P
I should sing a requiem for Italy. But since I'm in a too depressed (and pissed off) mood to elaborate something, I want to express my solidarity to the following people, for their intelligence, soundness and their open-minded attitude in these depressing politics-days. So, the following journalists/writers:
Notes: the philosopher and writer Kallistenes refused to perform the proskynesis before Alexandros when Hephaestion asks him to do as the King orders. My take on the episode. Beta for my ital english: moon71
Notes: just another of my mournful stories-poems...Barsines thinks of Alexandros and of the last time she saw him. About the marriages in Susa, I followed Arrian's account, who says that Barsines' daughter married Nearkos; with the majority of historians, I supposed that Barsines was much older than Alexandros. Translation of the quote by the french writer Céline: All that matters happens in the shadows. We know nothing of the true history of men. Beta for my ital-english: moon71
A thought for you
by Parisad
Tout ce qui compte se passe dans l’ombre :
on ne sait rien de la véritable histoire de l’homme.
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