LANA DEL REY, Summer Sadness Kiss me hard before you go Summertime sadness, I just wanted you to know that, baby, you’re the best. I got my red dress on tonight, dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight. Done my hair up real big beauty queen style, high heels off, I’m feeling alive. Oh, my God, I feel it …
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LANA DEL REY, Blue Jeans Blue jeans, white shirt, walked into the room you know, you made my eyes burn. It was like, James Dean, for sure. You’re so fresh to death and sick as ca-cancer. You were sorta punk rock, I grew up on hip hop, but you fit me better than my favourite sweater, and I know that …
Read More »LISTENING TO THE SOUND OF SERENITY – Zaanse Schans, Netherlands: the time machine, the blades of silence
In 2007, a new mill was built, inside which you can see and hear the story of the mills. To enjoy this experience, you can go to Zaanse Schans, Holland. Zaanse Schans – in the area of Zaandam, North Holland – has an amazing set of windmills that, all together, take the visitor back in time. They have also been …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY – Rob Van der Loo: Six Arms
ROB VAN DER LOO: SIX ARMS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH1H5uAaMGo
Read More »A QUARTER TO THREE: THE IDEAL – Poetry, by Gerrit Kouwenaar
A QUARTER TO THREE: THE IDEAL A quarter to three: we need to be even thinner, even that which caresses the nose somewhere stinks, into words. Knocking for bread is clear, chew death is clear, the fog returns, and withdraws the breath is clear. The slow water, roaring through the crack in the asphalt road, is deadly nonsense, it’s world …
Read More »THE HIDDEN FORCE – Novel, by Louis Couperus
THE HIDDEN FORCE The Hidden Force is also much more than a book about the chasm between white Westerners and warm-blooded Orientals. This problem plays an important role-Van Oudyck’s beautiful wife gives in to adultery but later becomes covered with red betel juice which unknown assailants spit at her in a classic bathroom scene, as if she has transgressed into …
Read More »EATING INTO THE REALM OF KITSCH – Moeders Restaurant, Amsterdam: you can order a tasting menu
When your geographical horizon extends – for business or pleasure – you have the wonderful opportunity to hear you inside, as well as the Vitruvian Man reminds us. A perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside the …
Read More »FRANZ MARC (1880/1916), GERMAN PAINTER – Extremely short career, discovering a strong affinity for the work of van Gogh
BRIGHT PRIMARY COLOR – Franz Marc and the use of bold, bright colors
FRANZ MARC 1/4 – Not only was his work highly appreciated during his time, and extremely short career, but to this day, he is considered to be one of the most influential painters to come out of Germany, for the unique style. His father was a professional landscape painter, and in 1900 Marc began to study at the Academy of …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY – Lukas Graham: 7 Years
LUKAS GRAHAM: 7 Years Once I was seven years old my momma told me. Go make yourself some friends or you’ll be lonely. Once I was seven years old. It was a big big world, but we thought we were bigger. Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker. By eleven smoking herb and drinking burning liquor. Never …
Read More »OUTLANDER – Romance, by Diana Gabaldon
OUTLANDER The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an “outlander”, in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border …
Read More »WELCOME TO THE MILL OF INFERSA – Sicily, Trapani Laguna: a refreshing swim, or relax over a crust of salt? You choose
If you’re planning a trip to Sicily, add this information to your program. Yes, certainly worth a visit the mill of Infersa, what – together with two other mills – is part of a themed walk in the salt marshes “Ettore e Infersa”. Coming, discover the visitor center and shop the rooms, you can give yourself a gastronomic tasting, but …
Read More »IN MY LIFE AS A FOX – Poetry, by Leta Semadeni
IN MY LIFE AS A FOX In my life as a fox I was everything and everything, I was even light to bite, I was the sun of my immaculate face. I did not know my name, and it was just constantly there, where the leg touches the ground. In my life as a fox, I was hungry and the …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY – Stressed Out, Twenty One Pilots
STRESSED OUT: Twenty One Pilots I wish I found some better sounds no one’s ever heard, I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words, I wish I found some chords in an order that is new, I wish I didn’t have to rhyme every time I sang, I was told when I get older all my …
Read More »PRIDE AND PREJUDICE – Romance, by Jane Austen
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Jane Austen was able to investigate and tell the most varied nuances of the human soul to the point that her novel is engaging and well today in 203 years away. Her books can be viewed most simply as eerily good romance novels, more broadly as sharp critiques of nineteenth-century vanity, cruelty and folly, and–broadest of all–as …
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