Normally I hate dancing - I'm just bad at it -, but after watching My Summer of Love once again I would love to dance to that song.
Friday, 14 March 2008
The mass
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Favorites full of spineless laughs
What are my favorite Radiohead songs? I like almost every work done by this band to a huge extent...
1. Everything In Its Right Place
- The beginning with the flowing pieces of a robot-like, electronic voice, the oppressive mood, the confusing and mad lyrics ("Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon" anyone?), this feeling of enlightenment that I get everytime that I listen to this song. Listen and experience it yourself.
2. Videotape
- Emotional impact. Hope. Sadness. Lying on your desk with headphones, listening to this song in infinite loop.
3. No Surprises
- *This* satisfying melody concurring with *those* lyrics. " I'll take the quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide"
4. Idioteque
- An anti-war-dance-song.
5. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
- Just look at the somewhat esoterical video! Flowing out of time, facing everything and breaking down.
6. Paranoid Android
- The one that got me into Radiohead. A classic, a "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxis"-Marvin-like classic.
7. Where I End and You Begin
- The sky is falling in. And the amazing shiver I get while listening to it too.
8. Exit Music
- Suicidal. Suicidal and depressing. Depressing and erupting.
9. There There
- Walking through a dark, mysterious, surreal forest.
Sunday, 27 January 2008
El espíritu de la colmena
Recently I discovered an interview with Mohiro Kitoh, in which he cites his favorite movie - a pretty obscure Spanish movie from the 1970s called "El espíritu de la colmena" (The Spirit of the Beehive). Of course I had to see it immediately and I truly didn't regret watching it for one second.
The pace of this film is very quiet - it could be compared to the first half of "Paris, Texas" and especially to "Stalker". With the latter it shares a mysteriously complex and disturbing atmosphere that doesn't answer all the mysteries that are introduced. (For example: What's the relationship between the mother and the father, why do they never talk to each other? To whom does the mother write? Who is the fugitive who jumps off the train?)
And it also reminded me of Mohiro Kitoh, especially because of the cruelty the two child protagonists display and because of some turns in the plot (the fugitive commits suicide right after he is helped by Ana). This cruelty of Isabel is just extremely gruesome and the most fascinating part of the movie. In my opinion the most disturbing scenes are the one in which Isabel tries to kill the cat without any reason and the one in which Isabel plays dead in front of Ana. In those scenes I somehow saw the character of Brenda of the TV series "Six Feet Under" in front of me, who is a hyper-intelligent but pretty cruel and manipulating personality, even as a child.
Another reason this movie is so fascinating are the pictures and the landscapes that are shown. At first I couldn't decide for one screenshot for this post, because there are so many scenes and takes that cry for being put in this blog. It's a pity Víctor Erice has just done three feature movies (and one short that is part of the short film collection "Ten Minutes Older").
The pace of this film is very quiet - it could be compared to the first half of "Paris, Texas" and especially to "Stalker". With the latter it shares a mysteriously complex and disturbing atmosphere that doesn't answer all the mysteries that are introduced. (For example: What's the relationship between the mother and the father, why do they never talk to each other? To whom does the mother write? Who is the fugitive who jumps off the train?)
And it also reminded me of Mohiro Kitoh, especially because of the cruelty the two child protagonists display and because of some turns in the plot (the fugitive commits suicide right after he is helped by Ana). This cruelty of Isabel is just extremely gruesome and the most fascinating part of the movie. In my opinion the most disturbing scenes are the one in which Isabel tries to kill the cat without any reason and the one in which Isabel plays dead in front of Ana. In those scenes I somehow saw the character of Brenda of the TV series "Six Feet Under" in front of me, who is a hyper-intelligent but pretty cruel and manipulating personality, even as a child.
Another reason this movie is so fascinating are the pictures and the landscapes that are shown. At first I couldn't decide for one screenshot for this post, because there are so many scenes and takes that cry for being put in this blog. It's a pity Víctor Erice has just done three feature movies (and one short that is part of the short film collection "Ten Minutes Older").
"People can't see him.
He only comes out at night."
"Is he a ghost?"
"No, he's a spirit."
I wonder, I wonder...
...how long I will keep this blog. I have always loved interesting blogs and everytime there's a new post in one of my favorite blogs I just get this indescribable feeling of joy. But a blog for myself? Am I really capable of writing interesting rant? I don't think so, it's just that recently I had this urge to write about movies and comics and music like one would do in a blog. Cough. Well, we will see.
I am going to write my blog posts in English, because I want to improve my skills in that language (ugh, it's really urgent - I guess I make lots and lots of mistakes and my language is just infantile?).
And haha... the title for my blog is French. I had some titles in mind, but in the end I chose this one, because it sounded like the most beautiful one. :)
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