cassavetes

I am totally discovering Cassavetes. By 1956, Cassavetes had begun teaching method acting in workshops in New York City. An improvisation exercise in one workshop inspired the idea for his writing and directorial debut, Shadows (1959; first version 1957). Shadows is claimed to be impro movie. The role of improvisation in Cassavetes' films is frequently misunderstood. His films were — with the exception of the original version of Shadows — heavily scripted. Confusion arises in part because Cassavetes allowed actors to bring their own interpretations of characters to their performances. Performances were scripted, but delivery was not. Otherwise he would be just way to cool. Saw "Shadows" no time ago and I still feel the vibe of it, left a very nice impression and I think its partly because the actors have had a point while writing the thing to modify the text, but ofcourse due to some very good camera, music and lightning work. Like in one part of the movie, one of the main caracters is on the bed and helds a trumpet which he never plays but you can hear it on the background playing as soundtrack while he is pressing the buttons of the instrument and blowing. Or there is a scene after two caracters having sex and she lost her virginity - she raises up, upset about something and when the guy comes behind her, the light is straight into his face what is kind of weird and at the same time totally mindblowing. Not to even talk about the fact that you can feel hat he had teached acting before, as one of the main caracters - the guy Benny,was a genial actor. Well, youve got to see it yourself.

sis photoshooting me

me photoshooting sis

check this shiet

todays playlist goes:

favourite of the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk5DLSklSlw

a) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmLJVKzlinY&feature=related

b) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lqOZc3bu6Y&feature=related

c) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7dbcmGm_vI&feature=related

d)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4lnk_0SifE

e)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_7yEpu3Z2M

f) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRNQ7AJghFc

n like night

its about the weird feelings what you sometimes get when an idea strikes your head and you wake up in the middle of the night and write it down on a napkin you blew your nose the day before and feel sorry that you fucking cant read it out in the morning... the library is a magical place, sometimes I think that it could be another world, just for its weird people and books that it consists of. like today, i walked in to the classical literature section and for no good reason went straight to the book I needed, never knowing that it was there. today i think i wrote the best song thay i have ever written, but its just because of the material - the mindblowing helen song .D her bday is coming. waitwaitwaitng. meeting adairmaandculpa was the most positive thing that could happen in this drunken city of spirit of whatsoever.uve was over, chocogoodtimes. so much of the real life, here I keep existing in my own little world of smells and feelings that have taste and songs and poems and stories and dreams and movies and thoughts and paintings and photos and all this that will never come true, but then again, if I already thought on them, why couldnt they exist just because of that?

a smell day

the cranberries - wake up and smell the coffee would be the song. sometimes it makes me crazy that i tend to smell people. inthe mall there was a lady who smelled like cabbages, i think she cooked them two days ago and some got stuck in her pocket... and then in the train once there was this older, handsome man, who smelled like fresh coffe and something like sleepy mornings and ofcourse tasty kisses. the girl who passed me today in the library smelled like fresh flowers altough it is gray outside and two days ago a beautiful women afront of me in the shop smelled like she just came out of the shower, a guy close to me in the party at thursday smelled like too much alcohol and being dumped, a week ago someone close to me smelled like smiles and a friend smelled like love just like air smells pure after the rain today in the morning the weather smelled tired.

does feelings have taste?

I think yes. I mean - why not? so many things are remem bered by smells or the parfume. we remember how people smell and sometimes we hate or love it, many times it depends just because we hate or love the person... smell is like a piece of memory cake. smells have something to to with feelings and feelings have something to do with taste. some kisses are sweet and some are bitter. like some smiles, some looks, some moves or words. maybe we remember better, as with taste we have a more complete memory of a moment. I remember in "My blueberry nights" there was a kissing scene, when while the couple was kissing, a close-up of tasty blueberry pie and cream running over it, just genial! sometimes kisses taste like that or why there is a reason then that they call bad mood bitter? we just never have the time to think about it or recall the moments or even to preserve them at the time, they have their own life and we forget how the feeling tasted like. I am so sorry for forgetting them.

The song of the day would be by Elbow "One day like this".

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joy division

I saw a great documental about Joy Division yesterday, total blast. Some parts were so good, tecnically and the way it was edited and the layout itself was very cool - I really liked it. There was some things I especially loved - for example after the other members of the band talked about how Ian died, someone of them just said: now this is the part were the story should end, after him and everything...but we wont stop here and the movie ended with facts about existing members and their band New Order and even if the last dull shots of Manchester were bad ones, I still liked the movie because all the material they had, and its not much, was put together in a very nice way with a very cool style that totally fitted to the whole theme. Besides that the members and others who were interviewed talked about many interesting things about punk and social life during these days, it would of been a interesting movie to a non-fan too, which I think is a very important point when making a documentary about something. Arty side 100% cool almost most of the time in the movie and very interesting, it was a boner. Not to mention the band or music or the charismatic Ian as the movie has a very powerful sentimental meaning - Joy Division’s story is also the tale of Ian Curtis’ self-destruction. Many thought he was on drungs while on stage because of his funny way of dancing and crazy singing, but no! He was literally in a trance, which as the pressure of stardom climbed eventually developed to very strong form of epilepsy. Blaming himself for holding back the band’s meteoric rise, he killed himself in May 1980 24 hours before going to the tour in USA. The director of the documentary -Grant Gee reckons the story of Joy Division is the story of Manchester, which is also one of the reasons why shots of the new Manchester are in the end to sum up the movie. The city invented the industrial revolution, but by the 1970s it had become a bleak concrete modernist blockhouse. As one band member says, “I was 9 years old before I saw a tree.” Thatcher was the political first lady and punk was in the air as the rebellion of music going underground. Joy Division’s melancholic sound channelled the very essence of the city.The selection and editing of archival footage is brilliant, starting with Joy Division’s punk origins and their rise through Manchester’s underground music scene. The director visits the locations of long-gone nightclubs and captions the shot of the current building “Things which aren’t there.” He uses all the material he has and in a great manner. The blurry picture of them on the bridge is one of the most famous pictures of them all times made by Kevin Cummins, who also talkes about the fotosession in the movie. A movie-must to see for everybody from Joy Division fans to people interested in cinematofraphy.