question #1

Why do I stay awake until 2.30AM to read a student's thesis and I don't stay awake to write my dissertation?! now, answer to that!
I know this is not a very orthodox way to write on a blog after months (year?) I haven't written anything.. writing a question about something boring, that is.
But that's what I'm thinking right now.

Plagiarism

my thoughts exactly, here.

I know.....

... I need to update this blog!

La la la la la la la la la

I've no particular personal identification or resonances with it, just a really cool song!
Just take it as an invite to relax and enjoy :)



Amanda Palmer - "I Want You, But I Don't Need You"

I like you, and I'd like you to like me to like you
But I don't need you
Don't need you to need me to like you
Because if you didn't like me
I would still like you, you see
La la la
La la la

I lick you, etc....

feed your nerdiness

After having realised my life at the moment lacks of storytelling [see below* if this sentence seems cryptic and you want to understand what I mean] - which goes hand in hand with a need for something new - in the last two days I've proceeded at filling this gap by downloading/ listening/ reading/ watching new stuff or old things I love and I had forgotten about.

This is what happened:
- I re-started reading J.G. Ballard "Myths of the Near Future" which has been lying unopened next to my bed for months
- I kept listening to the audiobook of "Virtual Light"
- I'm getting loads of Godard's film (particularly looking forward to: Passion and Alphaville)
- I'm getting loads of Hitchcock's film (since I was talking about this some days ago with friends and I realised the only films of his I remember are Vertigo and Rear Window 'cos I teach about them!)
- I'm listening to all the CDs I used to play when DJing (which includes cheesy songs, 70s&80s hits, my fav britpop songs, grrlbands, etc..)
- I'm making up my mind about a list of books I want to read (possibly not sci-fi because that's all I've been reading in ages)

- I'm trying to find some cult-horror-60s-films or at least the film posters because they are amazing and hilarious. This is not much because I really want to see these movies but because I've been inspired by my wonderful "Cult Attack" film calendar which has best posters ever. This is the May image which is now hanging on my wall:
Sure end results: full computer, planning long evenings alone, not working 24/7, being happy, fulfil my storytelling urge.

Possible end results: regain my desire to write (e.g.: my dissertation), become more clever, become an hermit geek, fall in love with my daily life again.

I figured the red-threads of all this are: I need to feed my brain with non-boring-work-related-activities, deep down it's all connected with my research thus I love my research, I'd forgotten how much of a nerd I am.

If you have further suggestions of films/ books/ music, please go ahead!

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*in few words and very roughly sketched that's it: I have a very high opinion of “storytelling”, I think it’s one of the best things in life; and I mean it in a broad sense as the capability of telling or enjoying stories, written, told, on video, in music, etc.. With stories I mean anything that brings you in a place, in a time, and makes you live an experience other than your own or at least other than the one you’re living right here and now in the present. I could say “narration” instead of “storytelling” but I have a twofold relation with the word “narration” as it can be interpreted as a one-way, coherent, with-a-beginning-and-end, ‘master’ narrative. Instead “storytelling” has also an oral dimension and it echoes medieval or renaissance storytellers and it has that “it can be true or it can be fiction but we don’t care” kind of hint.
So, my life now lacks all this, because I don’t “produce” stories and because I get to read/see/hear few of them (apart from some tv series which are totally not exciting and not enough anyway).