Let's play

Master and Servant - Nouvelle Vague (Depeche Mode cover)

Nice cover indeed.

".. It's a lot like life
This play between the sheets
With you on top and me underneath
Forget all about equality
Let's play Master and Servant.. "

 

Mr. Brown at the bookstore

Can you see him? :)

His facebook page

protect me from what I want

[image courtesy of serialstranger.tumblr.com]

The sentence I say to myself most in this period is "Protect Me From What I Want", as I realised how potentially dangerous my desires can be.

But the heart can't be tamed (and I'm not talking just about love).

San Martino

[eng]

I know today is 11.11.11, but it's also San Martino's day, a tradition here in Italy. 

Here you can read about the legend of San Martino (Saint Martin).

So, according to tradition, I prepared the San Martino's cake (I made 7 of them, really), a short pastry base in the shape of a soldier on horseback decorated with candies and stuff.

[ita]

So che oggi è l' 11.11.11, ma è anche il giorno di San Martino!

E come vuole la tradizione, ho preparato il dolce di San Martino (anzi, veramente ne ho fatti 7.. ho un po' esagerato con le dosi)  :-)

10 songs of the last 10 years

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[eng] The Ipod is 10! Happy Birthday Ipod!

I found this nice idea here. 

If you could have just 10 songs of the last 10 years in your Ipod, what would they be?

Here are mine (in no particular order):

[ita] L'ipod compie 10 anni! Buon Compleanno Ipod!

Ho trovato questa idea carina qui.

Se poteste avere solo 10 canzoni degli ultimi 10 anni nel vostro Ipod, quali sarebbero?

Ecco le mie (in ordine sparso):

1. Misread - Kings of Convenience

2. This is the life - Amy MacDonald

3. House - Patrick Wolf

4. Here with me - Dido

5. Heaven can wait - Charlotte Gainsbourg

6. Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs

7. Don't panic - Coldplay

8. Hey there Delilah - Plain White T's

9. A pain that I'm used to - Depeche Mode

10. Set fire to the rain - Adele

  

Happy Spooky Halloween !

[eng]

I've been working all day (until 9pm) dressed up as a black cat (or should I say as Poe's Black Cat since I work in a bookshop?). 

And once I went back home, Mosè had fun with my furry tail :-)

Happy Spooky Halloween!

[ita]

Ho lavorato tutto il giorno (fino alle 21) vestita da gatto nero (o dovrei dire come il Gatto Nero di Poe, dal momento che lavoro in una libreria?).

E una volta tornata a casa, Mosè si è divertito con la mia coda :-)

Spaventoso Halloween a tutti!

The Company of Wolves / In Compagnia dei Lupi

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THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984)

Neil Jordan

[eng]

While she's asleep, the 13th years-old Rosaleen dreams about a village and its well, about her odious sister's death, about the fairy tales that Granny tells her, but above all she dreams about wolves: the real ones and the ones who conceal themselves among humans, hiding their sharp teeth. 

The film is inspired by Angela Carter's book "The Bloody Chamber" (1979) and it clearly refers to Little Red Riding Hood tale (I have a kind of obsession for it).

In my opinion the director Neil Jordan was superb in recreating the dreamy, dark and fairy-tale atmosphere and the powerful symbolism of Angela Carter's tales which makes this one of my favourite film ever.

 

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Little girls, this seems to say:

never stop upon your way;

never trust a stranger friend

no one knows how it will end.

As you're pretty, so be wise

wolves may lurk in every guise.

Now, as then, 'tis simple truth:

sweetest tongue hides sharpest tooth

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IN COMPAGNIA DEI LUPI (1984)

Neil Jordan

[ita]

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Rosaleen, tredicenne inglese, dorme e sogna. 

Sogna un villaggio attorno al pozzo, sogna la morte dell'insopportabile sorella, sogna le fiabe della nonna, ma soprattutto sogna i lupi.

Sogna i lupi veri e quelli con il pelo dentro che usano parole dolci per nascondere i loro denti.

Il film è tratto dai racconti di Angela Carter contenuti nel libro "La Camera di Sangue" ed è chiaramente ispirato alla storia di Cappuccetto Rosso (per la quale ho una specie di ossessione).

Il fatto che il regista Neil Jordan sia riuscito pienamente a rendere sullo schermo l'atmosfera onirica, cupa e fantastica del libro, senza contare il forte simbolismo in cui affondano i racconti della Carter, ne fa uno dei miei film preferiti di sempre. 

[The Company of Wolves - Trailer]