sometimes my life is like Bob Dylan's 115th Dream.

look how they shine for you.

2012-02-11T04:24:00.000-08:00

Remember to appreciate the starry sky next week, since on wednesday it will be Galileo Galilei's 448th birthday!

apartment in New York, London and Paris, where will we rest, we're all living on top of it.

2012-02-06T09:06:00.000-08:00

Cat Power | US | Folk/Indie/Alternative | since 1992

For a better half of her career, Chan Marshall, better known by her stage name Cat Power, was battling alcoholism and mental health problems. She had a hard time on stage and was known for her odd behavior, rambles and cutting her performances short without explanation. But after getting sober in 2006 Cat Power's stage precence has become more professional. She's still a little awkward, doesn't like to talk between songs and at times, seems to be very uncomfortable on stage. But that doesn't matter, Cat Power isn't the kind of artist to perform for the audience, but for the music. Her voice goes straight through your heart and soul and leaves a mark. Her shows have an unstoppable flow and talking would just interrupt that. She performs in almost complete darkness and when there's a silent moment between songs, she laughs, akwardly. Sometimes she dances in silly manners and says quiet Thank Yous for the audience. There's something humble and enderiang in her stage precence, something relatable. Most of the nights setlist contains either covers or unheard material and even the few of her own songs have shaped into something new. She has the similar style that Bob Dylan has, making her songs almost unrecognisable (she'd love this comparison, like me, she's also a huge Dylan fan) when she performs them. For some that might be hard to accept, but it really just makes her more interesting, if you want to hear her album versions, then you might as well stay home and listen to the albums. Cat Power gives a haunting performance, the kind of that will haunt you for the rest of your life.

Setlist:
Bully (new song)
Dreams (cover of All I Have To Do Is Dream by Evelyn Brothers)
Lost Someone (James Brown cover, from Jukebox)
Don’t Explain (Billy Holiday cover, from Jukebox)
Nico/Song To Bobby (from Jukebox)
Woman Left Lonely (Ella Brown/Janis Joplin cover, from Jukebox)
Silver Stallion (Lee Clayton cover, from Jukebox)
Lord, Help The Poor & Needy (Jessie Mae Hemphill cover, from Jukebox)
Brave Liar (new song)
The Greatest (from The Greatest)
Blue Jam
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I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
Good Woman (from You Are Free)
Horizon (new song)
Monster (new song)
Woman (new song)
Making Believe (Jimmie Work cover)
Angelitos Negros (Roberta Flack cover, from Jukebox Limited Editiod)
Ruin (new song)
I Don’t Blame You (from You Are Free)
She’s Got You/Let Me Go (Patsy Cline cover/new song)

i'll be your Emmylou and i'll be your June.

2012-02-03T12:26:00.000-08:00

A - Away We Go | a couple trying to figure out where to settle down and start a family. | drama/comedy
B - Blue Valentine | a movie about the beginning and an end of a relationship. | drama
C - Control | the story of Ian Curtis' tragic life. | biography
D - Daydream Nation | girl gets entangled in a love triangle with her high-school teacher and a classmate. | drama
E - Exit Through The Gift Shop | the story of Baksy that turned out to about someone else. | documentary
F - Fantastic Mr. Fox | one fox terrorising the most powerful farmers, and vice versa. | animation

G - Garden State | a man returns to his home town after being away for nine years, to bury his mother. |drama/comedy
H - Happythankyoumoreplease | Young New Yorkers figuring out love and growing up. |drama/comedy
I - Indise I'm Dancing | a crippled young man refuses to let his condition defy how to live his life. | drama
J - Juno | teenage girl gets pregnant and decides to give her baby for adoption. | drama/comedy
K - Kick-Ass | a teenage boy with no special talents decides to become a Superhero. | action
L - Lars and the Real Girl | Lars orders a doll from the internet and falls in love with it. |drama/comedy

M - The Messenger | after being injured in Iraq Will is assigned to Casualty Notification Team to finnish his enslistment. | drama
N - Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist | in New York's summer night Nick and Norah are trying to find their way to a mysterious gig. | comedy
O - Once Upon a Time in the West | a young woman tries to find out who murdered her family and her husband. | western
P - Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory | three innocent men convicted for murders were released after spending 18 years in prison. | documentary
Q - The Queen | a look into the lives of British Monarchy after Princess Diana's death.
R - RENT | one year in the life of New York bohemians stuggling with love, life, poverty, aids and drugs. | musical

S - Star Trek | the beginning of the classic tale of the crew of USS Enterprise. | science fiction
T - Two Lovers | a young man torn between a woman his family wishes he'd marry and an adventurous woman who moves next door. | drama
U - Up | 78 year old widow decides to fulfill his life long dream to see the wilds of South America.
V - V for Vendetta | Freedom fighter known as V starst a revolution in future Great Britain. | action
W - Winter's Bone | teenage girl tries to track down her drug-dealing father in order to save the home of her family. | drama
X - X-Men: First Class | how Charles Xavier turned into Professor X and became archenemies with his former best friend. | science fiction
Y - Young Frankenstein | Dr. Frankenstein's grandson inherits his castle and begins to repeat his experiments.
Z - Zodiac | a fictionalized story of one of the most famous serial killers of all time, the Zodiac Killer.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

2012-01-22T11:28:00.000-08:00

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
★★★★★

First, let me tell you a two parted background story of how it was possible for John Green to write this novel. And how, in my opinnion, it was possible for him to do it so well.
About ten years ago, John worked as a student chaplain at a children's hospital where he had to face young people with cancer and other serious diseases. This made him to want to write a story that would honestly embody what these kids are really alike. We are often told that kids with cancer are these fountains of wisdom, wise beyond their years when in fact, sick kids are a lot like other people.
The second part of the story that made John Green able to write his book came in 2008 when he met Esther Earl, a girl who was a reader of John's books and who died of cancer. John has said that it was knowing her that made him possile to write this story. (Tho you must realize that Hazel is not Eshter. TFiOS is pure fiction.)

The Fault in Our Stars tells a story of a sixteen year old girl, Hazel Grace Lancaste who suffers from stage IV thyroid cancer, that has made her attached to an oxygen tank for the past three years. Her condition is terminal and all of her treatments are just for prolonging her life. At a support group Hazel meets Augustus Waters, a beautiful boy who is about to change her life, as well as she is about to change his.

John Green has written an honest, moving and incredibly funny book that shows kids with cancer exactly how John wanted it to, a very much like all the other people. The Fault in Our Stars is witty and devastating and no other book has ever made me laugh nor cry as much. I find it hard to write this review, since i wanna respect Johns wishes to keep everyone spoiler free, which i do find important for the book to have the Magic i expericend when first reading it. It is an important book that i recommend everyone to read, it might just make you see life for what it is. It's like when in Doctor Who the Doctor says:

Every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things, and make them unimportant.

Hazel and Augustus really added to each others piles of good things, and i guess, that's all we can hope for, to have people to make our lives worthwhile.

so we set the world on fire.

2012-01-22T10:38:00.000-08:00

2011 Recap part 02.

In July i went on a roadtrip with my best friends to see The Ark on few music festivals. it was hot and i was super sick, on the second gig it was pouring and i thought i might just die. it was all worth it, it was in fact, quite awesome. despite the fact that we also fought a lot. i guess saying goodbye to your favorite band was hard on everyone.

Important things that happened
• On July 22nd 76 people are killed in terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in government center in Oslo and a shooting at political youth camp in the island of Utøya.
• On July 23rd British singer Amy Winehouse dies of alcohol poisoning just at age 27.

In August i was mostly excited about Doctor Who starting again after summer hiatus. i saw Super 8 in the theaters and loved it. i was happy when the weather cooled down. i spent time with The Kids and was so ready to say my goodbyes to the summer.