Friday, February 25, 2011

Sorority Induction What To Wear

Perle

Portuguese course, the first lesson.

(I) Waiting room. I'm chatting amiably with my friend P. Both come from work. I dress pants of the suit of the police (my brother, Ed), hooded shirt, shave a month, hair disheveled and some dread that indicates directions confused. P. -Shaven and impeccable dress-shirt and jacket. M. laughs: "Who would ever say that you two worked in the same place?"

(II) Classroom lessons. Professor: "Portuguese is very similar to English, so all of you since you're here you will not have big problems." I look around. "Technically," I say, "no one is here." A Canary Island, two Italians, one Greek and one Australian. It is very joke.

(III) [Only for those who lived in Andalusia] Professor: "Please note that the s in Portuguese is very important." He stops, thinks about it. "Okay so you are not Andalusians."

Monday, February 21, 2011

Sixty Year Old Big Boobs

True Grit

I was not in the mood for a trial right about a work, film or not, in fact I was still in a state limbic undefined, further accentuated by the return of happiness induced Solecito in Seville and a glass too many, all seasoned with aphasia (that I missed your voice, not that I did not have a kazza saying:)) and got some medicine to quickly, without bothering too much of side effects and Bugiardini.
The premise sounds like excusat petita not, but it is necessary (and also too long). The fact is that I went to see True Grit as people thronged to see Cisne Negro.
The film is the Coen Brothers, but never banal rather unpredictable, as capable of masterpieces such as "Brother Where Are Thou?" And "No Country for Old Men" and crap like colossal unwatchable "A Serious Man. [But utmost respect for the Jefferson Airplane song that opens the film]
is a western, tells the story of a girl of 14 who wants to give justice to his father at any cost and ventures into Indian territory in the footsteps of a gang of criminals, accompanied by a trigger-happy Marshall and elbow so high as to risk a red card and a Texas Ranger. All three main actors seemed to me extraordinary.
The story is simple, not particularly exciting, rejects the excesses gunslingers (leading to inconsistencies with the principles of physics) and also any reflection on the West. I liked the drastic change of register, with hyper-violent scenes that appeared suddenly in the usual irony of Coen and emphasis (enough due) on landscapes. the final ride with the face of the horse that is transformed by "Hats off". Photography has honors.
not their best movie but definitely me reconciled to the cinema after the disappointment of the last of Clint. [I'm curious to know what you think Piotr:)]

Monday, February 14, 2011

Cover Letter Parent I-130

On this side, beyond Trallallero trallallà

Yesterday when I announced Hereafter as feature film Sunday, E. -Stuck on the couch by a cast that covers the entire leg-indulged a series of exclamations that you can not write.
Eastwood is certainly much loved by critics and collects applause of petit bourgeois liberal spin doctors. The film, I read on Wikipedia, also received an Academy Award nomination, despite the view of the criticism is "mixed."
The best assessment is summarized in the following scene. The film has just finished six of us we are moving towards the exit sad, all very shocked and lack the desire to make a statement. I am aware that I played the right to choose the title of the film for the next 200 weekend. The real task of the Epiphany on the lips of M. declaring "Sgrunt.
"Sgrunt", indeed. If the "Inception" at least has the merit of the idea of \u200b\u200bgenius, which then defeats in a discussion of logical paradoxes from primary subsidiary, Hereafter is a banality and disarming enough. There are all the ingredients: the scientist German who lives on top of the mountain and says "there is evidence of the afterlife," the journalist who jeopardizes his career with the book in which he denounced "the conspiracy of silence about the afterlife." And do not believe it but the afterlife is depicted as a play of light and shadow, the sense of sight and weightlessnes and 360 degrees. The boundary between the classical and erudite quote verbatim repeat for the millionth time the same platitudes, where are you?
The film structure is that of seemingly disconnected stories that intersect in the final. Amores perros, 21 grams and the other seventy films made before and better, so the great director's contribution can not be that. The plot would require at least the flood of emotions, but in fact the film runs lean and minimal and creates a real inconsistency. Matt Damon is very good, but if we cling to the fact that Messi has played well ...
The only positive aspect is that eventually the poor E., plaster, we did not make a wrong:)

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Invitation Wording For Three Old Birthdays

New review for the book "MANLIO FARINACCI. The priest of the Mysteries"



E 'was described as "ridiculous little book" (exact words of Vladimir Paiella in an article in Ternimania.it site, which concludes hope that the book be withdrawn from the market, the series' live the freedom of press and information "[1]) and" free book [...] of any interest whatsoever , but that offends Terni and its citizens "(to quote the answer given in the journal Paiella Ternimagazine.it by Giancarlo Padula [2]). Not to mention some of the comments of several readers who commented on these two sites, giving the authors of charlatans, saying that the book is something shameful and hurling accusations against the publisher of iperperuginismo that, according to someone wants to attack Terni all costs. Reactions "hot" that were found during the first presentation of the book in the city of Farinacci occurred in December 2010, as one can easily see two short videos on You Tube [3].

Why all this? What he says about it inconvenient and difficult to digest the new book Armed and Andrea Thomas Dore?

Assuming that yes, the ways in which the co-author and editor Andrea Armed refers to the late Prof. Manlio Farinacci and the city of Terni are certainly not flattering - but deliberately ironic and critical to the bitter end - and accepted the that theories of Farinacci alleged Celtic origins of Terni are put in a lot of discussion, starting from historical studies (because it really seems very unlikely to take seriously his theories and "evidence" that would provide the Superintendent with reading rather than personal), it is necessary say something else in these articles - full of anger for pride (???) Perugia Terni injured by a doc - can not tell.

What is not said?


[The full review can be read in the website of The Law of Maat signed by Sarah Bernini .]

Top, Manlio Farinacci posing seventeenth-century portrait of the painter Mario Chiocchia Terni.