Strange Infatuation

The streets of London, of course ^_^

Today I went to my second lesson of "yoga dance". Wow, it's wonderful. I think this is the nearer thing to the dance lessons I'm getting without injuring my aching back.

This evening I also finished my third video of London. I thought the music was a little usual... but it had the perfect time, the perfect words... so, here it is:
the video, part three, all by night, walking the streets (beware if you suffer from seasickness ;))

Finally I went to see The Golden Compass....

From: duoinchains

Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
Click random article again; that is your album name.
Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album


Band: Hansi
Album: 547

Tracks:
1. Marpost
2. Sinop Airport
3. Sirhan Sirhan
4. Harmodio Arias Madrid
5. Walter Butler Wilkinson
6. Isotopes of silver
7. Wilbury Twist (ehe... this is plagiarism!)
8. MRLA
9. Agia Varvara
10. The incident at Petrich
11. Poetry Today
12. The Conquest of New Spain
13. Estrée-Blanche
14. Nissim Ezekiel
15. Human values

This is becoming quite a tradition: mtarashidango  's Christmas quiz XD

It seems I keep on getting Asami as a Christmas gift *BIG GRIN*.
And I've got a doubt about *why* I go on with him.....

Again... who am I to complain? :-D

Now, this one is really funny!!! :-) thanks to maiaarts

Your results:
You are Catwoman

Catwoman 58% Dr. Doom 53% Poison Ivy 52% Venom 51% Dark Phoenix 50% Apocalypse 48% Green Goblin 44% Magneto 42% Mystique 40% Two-Face 40% Mr. Freeze 37% Lex Luthor 37% Juggernaut 36% The Joker 32% Kingpin 32% Riddler 30%

With a troubled past and an upbringing on the streets you have learned how to fend for yourself through crime.

Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test

From docbrite - I don't think I'm allowed to post this on prime_liquor LJ community, but I can't resist books and memes....

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.



It seems I'm mostly a great Jane Austen fan...

F*ck... I messed with the entry and I don't know how I erased it. Shit. So, here was my second slideshow about Greece: And then, I was trying to re-insert the counter.... Let's see if it works....

This one I like...

How much do you have to feel depressed so you find yourself, on saturday evening, smoking and silently crying before your window, staring at the mountain so far away, and thinking there isn't a thing that could enjoy you at the moment?

How much, when you can't find a person you can talk with?
Well, I have some friends that really would hear my bad mood and would pat me on my shoulder. They are so nice to me, I know I could speak with some of them, but, hell, it's saturday evening, I can't harass them with my sinking. I have to find something other to cheer me up. A little. 
I need just a little little.

I can't hear music, too, because right now all kind of music makes me even more sad.
It's a strange thing, I'd be curious to know if someone feel the same: when I'm sad, just as I am, all kind of music seems sorrowful to me. The same music, If I am cheerful, I can hear it and enjoy it: also the sadder song on this earth.
So, silence now. I don't need something adding my grief.


So, I tried to fix my Livejournal page. Now it's working slightly better, at least you can see all the posts, but it seems it's impossible to add a view-counter to this layout. It doesn't include a space to insert an html code. It worked with the first layout, the orange-blue one, but my mood is too much gloomy and I want only black and grey right now. It was nice to see where were my few readers from.
I had someone from Argentina that almost daily watched my page, and I haven't a clue who he/she is. I'm missing it.
And I can't change the title of my friends page. I don't know why. I wrote the title in the right space but it wouldn't do.

Today I bought a new digital camera. So now in my house you can count five cameras (among reflex and digital).
The new one is very little, quite compact, and I think it could be the one I can always bring with me in my handbag. That was the point of buying it.
So why can't I enjoy it?
I know why, but I can't speak about it.

A book. I think a good novel should cheer me up a little. It always worked for me. I just ended reading "Bet me" by Jennifer Crusie, and it did it. The book was so nice it could divert my attention from my sadness. But now I have to choice a new novel and I am not even able to think about what book I feel like reading.

So, I went to livejournal and settled about harassing the world wide web and using it as a real diary. Hoping no one that knows me in real life will read it, but someone who knows me on the web could read it. Or not. I really don't care at the moment, but so I got to write, and I'm just feeling a little better.
Just a little little.

My life is really a mess.
Maybe this night I'll be hunting for memes, and quizzes, and silly things I can put on my page.

So, I'm back from my holidays in Greece.

Short story for my vacation:

Beautiful Athens, with all its contradictions.
If you feel like seeing something a little irreverent, you can check my slideshow on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8OyzxfOQnw

Paros island: really overcrowed.
I know, now, I mustn't go anymore searching for a good beach in august. No.More.
I really suffered the crowd on the beaches, mostly because people there didn't have the minimal sense of good manners.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. People placing themselves under YOUR beach umbrella, the one you paid for, while you were just 40 inches away. People laying their beach towel almost under your deck chair. People playing "beach-tennis" (I don't know how to call this damn beach game with balls and little wood rackets) just on top of your feet.

Really depressing. But Naoussa, the little town, was very nice and animated, mostly at night.
Coming soon its own slideshow :)

Besides, I managed eventually having my tattoo photographed (eheh.... it's only one year ago I got it done... LOL).
Here it is:

Now I'm back. I didn't find nothing nice waiting me at home, my back is still aching, next monday I start over working, I feel a sense of void in my heart and in my mind. I'm feeling quite negative indeed.

In order to soothe myself, I grabbed a meme from  snapesgirl_62and I'm really happy with my results LOL: 

I don't know why, my back always settles about hurting when it's some holiday eve, or if it is some leaving-for-vacation eve, or if I am really happy because of something.....

Now, I'm going to leave for my vacations in Greece tomorrow, I said TOMORROW, and yesterday I was wholly stuck in my bed because of my hurting back. I could not even get up by myself *big big sob*
I actually sobbed for the sadness and the worry.

Beyond the fact that I risk to spoil others four people's vacations, it's also that it wipe away all the joy, the good emotions, whatever desire or wish or love I could have.


Thanks God I've got a friend orthopaedist that told me to get a cortisone shot, anf thanks God it seems to work, because today I was up and could even start to make my suitcase.

So, crossing my fingers, tomorrow I will leave for Greece, but the travel is quite long (the plane doesn't take off from my town, so I have a night out before we can take the fly) and I'm still worried....

By the way, I started reading The Harlequin by LK Hamilton. I'm up to chapter 17 and unhappily I'm finding it really BORING! 
Saving only the chapters with the phone call with Edward, that is right now my new favorite character.

Bah! I hope it will improve after, and it will worth the effort to bring its weight with me on the plane.

(I think I'm quite out of practice writing in english... sorry with all my anglophone friends!)

Snatched from duoinchains

Mine isn't so rich... and some of the pictures I really can't figure out where they are from ^_^ but it's very nice :)

So, last saturday I went to the concert of Placebo in Brescia, Piazza Duomo. YAY!!

It was the third in a year... now I'm thinking of it, it's been almost exactly one year from the first one in Collegno!!

The concert was really short, and they didn't sing some of my favourite songs.... like Post Blue and Space Monkey... *sigh*
But that aside, I was so excited, so enthralled, so out of my mind, the experience was however beautiful for me.

I relished the feeling all the week after :)

I took some photos, but none of them is worth to watch and to post... I'm really sorry, but I think my hands shivered more than the usual...
I had the same problem (hand shivering from emotion) with the little videos I could shoot, but they're however better than the photos, so who's interested can anyway watch them on youtube:

That's "Meds": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yByPbqMg2cs
It's only a little part, but it has a beautiful acoustic start..... it's so intense!! I'm so sorry I didn't keep on a little more with the shooting, but it was the first try, and I was perched on a barrier and I was falling ^_^

Here "Sleeping with ghosts" AKA Soulmates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0ybXKT1jY
(I wanted to KILL the guy with the camera before me GRRRRRR)

and here "Running up that hill", maybe the best of the three:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck3CF77k1c8


To the end, what about a nice meme?
from

snapesgirl_62

 

My LiveJournal Friends

Try out this Meme

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So, it's official: I'm not able to take photos of people.

I can't. I try but I'm so not able.... Sorry.

My dear friends C. and F. asked me to take some photos of their wedding, and I did it, really, but I can't say I'm very pleased with the results.

My shots are always.... something a little casual. Clearly I can't concentrate at the same time about the lights, the facial expressions, and also about not cutting feet, noses..... and things alike.
Besides, when I'm wearing a silk dress and four inches heels shoes, I'm not at all feeling like a photographer.

But after the wedding..... when I came back to the farm holidays.... I put on my jeans, went walking through the olive grove and..... OMG, I felt really inspired.
It was almost the sunset, the light was wonderful, the trees were wonderful with their twisted trunks and their green-silver leaves, and so I went with the kind of photos I most love.
They go against the Rules of good photography.
I wave, twist and move my camera, I search the abstract and something like an impressionist painting.
Don't know for sure if the outcome is really worthy, but I'm quite content with it.

Hell, I'm really content with it, and I want to share. Feel free to comment ^_^

Looking at nightygal  LJ: 

First, a new quiz, directly from the bloodties_tv LJ







Which of Henry VIII's wives are you?


this quiz was made by Lori Fury

Then, little updating of my Youtube page with six Tori Amos' thursday concert videos. Check here if you like her music:  http://www.youtube.com/Ghibliblackcat

The concert was wonderful. Her voice, her music, her passion when she plays her piano...... I really loved it.

The shots aren't very good: I was in a nice position, but the autofocus went blurring with the lights' change, so it can made you a little sick.... But the audio quality is very good :D

And then, I just love having some personal memory of the event. When I review it I can feel again a little bit of the emotions I felt in the theatre.

I took some photos, too. 

Yep!!

Tonight very very nice girls night out with an old, very dear friend of mine.

We went chatting and drinking to the cooler neighborhood of our city, the "Quadrilatero": the city's older area,  full of little nice trendy places.

We basically compared notes about our past.... and we had a whole lot of notes..... *giggle*  We have known each other for almost twenty five years, but I don't think we get to this level of confidence before.... (yes, I'm a very secretive person.....)

Then we got to drink a glass of Southern Comfort, and it wasn't bad at all.
I must say, I nearly can't drink, 'cause the alcohol makes me sleep almost instantly, (and then my social life turns really poor) but it was a couple of year I was wondering what the Southern Comfort was about because of Anne Rice.

Did you read the Witching Hour, with the Mayfair witches saga? So, you know what I'm speaking about: Michael is always drinking Southern Comfort in some cool place of New Orleans.... I was with this curiosity since I read the book ;-)
So, if you think I HATE whiskey, instead that thing was really tasty. *giggle*

And then, at home, I found a very funny surprise.... oh, so nice, I laughed out loud for the whole time I was reading it.....

I love the e-mail, I love my friends, I love my music......... *giggle again and again*
I'm really positive tonight..... let's only hope this will last ^_^

Lemming moment!!!

Seen at snapesgirl_62 

I'm just a little worried by the result O_O
I'm not SO bad.....

You are The Devil

Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession

The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.

Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Maybe I should try with a little different answers.....
(Typical of me.... always indecisive....)
But I really can't say if that's better *LOL*

You are The Moon

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.

The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.

The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Yep. 
The Internet is a really nice web and I never cease of wondering about how many liaisons is possible to create and resume.

This week the yearly "Fair of books" is going to take place in Turin, so, like every year, I started scanning through the schedule about the day I'll spent into it, rummaging and wandering through books and comics and conferences.

So, I found out the presentation of a new novel, "Quattro passi con la morte" [it would be: "Four steps with the Death"]: that's a noir/horror story, the first book of a new writer, so it instinctively intrigued me, and what did I see?

The author's name.

I knew her name, and she was from my own town. 
Her name was of a little girl I used to play with when I was about eight / nine years old. I remember she was a little younger than me - I think at that age the difference is far more noticeable... Likely right now we could think ourselves almost the same age.

To make short a long story: I found her e-mail and I wrote to her and...... She answered me and she's actually my old playmate!!!!

This thing really cheered me up. I really hope I will be able to last within the Fair until nine p.m., so I'll go to the presentation of her book and I will be able to say her hello *cheer*

(and obviously I will read her book ^_^)