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).

30 april 09

i went to amsterdam for konninginedag. i thought i had to go at least once in 4 years! this year there were the right people, the right weather and i could afford taking few hours off work. so i did.
was really nice: less crowded than i thought, people less drunk that i thought, etc..
result of the day: had fun, some okay pics, my skin feels tense because of the sun, i'm exhausted, i saw soo much orange i'm gonna be fine and no orange for the next 6 months, apart from my sofa that i orange itself and i can't help it.
i also know something horrible happened in appeldorn (and i'm honestly deeply sorry for these people, fucking murderous weirdos!). lucky i wasn't there despite what my mum thought, which caused around 10 phonecalls between holland and italy and more than 4 people getting really worried about me and even my mum trying (obviously unsuccessfully) to understand dutch [all in 1 hour].

i'm safe at home.
my head fluffy and full at the same time.
drinking whiskey and soon going to bed.

I need something to wear

Tomorrow I'm doing this, that is introducing and somehow participating to the debate with prof. Trinh T. Minh-ha, one of the film-maker I work on in my PhD and one of the very few (if not only) scholars that I have some star-like admiration for. No need to say I'm gonna be nervous!
Also, I need to wear something decent (i.e.: not too casual, confortable, looking smart and maybe even apt to spring weather!), and it's not that easy since it appears that I only have 1 pair of not-too-warm-trousers!!
Also, lately I've been hanging out with real femme girls and I admire the style, the passion and the skill of having good clothes for whatever occasions.. now, I don't wanna go there, don't worry, but I'd like to have a wardrobe that includes something "comparable" that I feel good in! Instead, since it's ages since I went shopping, not only tomorrow I have to be nervous about saying clever stuff and giving a good introduction to Trinh and making a good impression for my brain, I also have to spend energy to look good and think about what to wear!
My closet is uninspiring right now!

so, I'm going to sleep.

April caught me by surprise

so, I've realised it has been f o r e v e r since I wrote something here. The official excuse is that I'm busy, the actual reason is that I forgot.. or maybe I'm a lazy writer. Then, when I have to write for some other reasons (e.g. important academic event) I finally have my writing egocentric flow kicking again and here I am.
Too many things happened since November to summarise them now, let's just say I've travelled, taught, worked, met people, read, got the love of my friends, (hopefully) gave some love back, explored new stuff, got to terms with feeling older, learnt what it means to have a long-distance relationship, got used to "having" students, missed my friends, watched stupid stuff on TV, played in a new band, etc..

Also, I figured one of the reason why I don't blog is 'cos I feel like I have to write something clever, and although I like to think of myself as a clever girl, I'm never quite sure as to what to blog about.. but I'm good at short sentences that give you an idea of that's going on in my life. SO then, after some friends telling me (maybe out of exhaustion) that I may be using facebook as if it's twitter, I gave up and opened a twitter account. Which actually happened exactly at the same time as when a friend of mine posted a stupid twitter-fear video..
So, althought I'm pretending I'm not falling into new-trend-technological-exibitionist-devices, I totally am.. but I have the excuse that I want to use my anthropological outlook to explore new social-communicational media.
To cut a long story short, as someone said: "Twitter is basically facebook sans photos". So here you go.

More will follow.
Really.