Ye I wonder sometimes the same thing. It depends on my mood. I have affection for old time movies those that were made before the second world war but after the first world war so its those movies that are from 1920-1939 something. But then after that WW2 came light television -60, -70 the flowerpower era.
There has always been entertainment for the people. It started with the romans gladiator games or before that with the ancient greeks and before that before the people knew how to write down history it all happened in public entertainment. I have my favourite films one is The Scarlet Pimpernel(1934) with Leslie Howard as the sir Percy Blakeney. It tells a lovestory with the background of the French revolution and it is also the man behind the mask and dangerous escapades.
Come to think of it it tells of the end of a Kingdom that turned from monarchy to republic. Its nothing romantic with politics really but I watch it for the strong actors. The Scarlet Pimpernel is a very good film that stands the test of time.
This story has been made over and over. I like the TV-serie made with R E G and the film from 1982 because Chauvelain is then played by mr Gandalf! whats his name? sir Ian McKellen! as a baddie.
Now awaiting the musical of The Scarlet Pimpernel that has been said to be filmatized with Douglas Sills in the lead, he played it on Broadway, though I doubt it be good translated into film those direct on stage jokes he then made.
This is not working for me. I heard from my colleague to-day about how much rubbish that is thrown into the Östersjön. That small unique part of lake that is between Sweden and Finland, baltikum, Denmark, Germany and Poland, that lake has had waste sunken on purpose into it since the year 1800 something. And still to this day the ferries, boats that goes on daily basis on their route between the countries next to this big in lake throws stuff overboard I heard from this diving man. And its so awful. I feel bad for the fish. I feel bad for mother nature. I feel sorry for the next generation that will have such toxic water that it is life treathening danger to bathe, take a swim and forget about drinking the water in the Future to come. It is too late now. What can we do other than wait for doomsday on this half of the millennium?
- Party?
- I wish I could stop thinking about that toxic waste, that forgotten torpedo on the floor of the ocean, the sunken ship with dangerous cargo, all those boats that are left to rot also in the deep.
- Can´t we start the process of making amends?
- It will only take 15000 men some hundred thousand years to clean up that mess on the bottom.
- Oh. Thats alot of jobs then...
- Here under the bridge, do you know what to find there?
- No
- Bicycles. People throw their old bicycles over the bridge in the nighttime just to get rid of it and then report it stolen to the police and get the money.
- No really? nedskräpningen av östersjön må tas på allvar. På hemsidan Hållbara hav finns mera info.
I saw this film the other day for the first time. The song Tomorrow caught my heart. to look forward to the tomorrow that hopefully will be better. I like that. More optimism needed in this world today. The Annie film is an oldie now. How would today or tomorrows lyrics be like? Is all the good songs already written?
Cheers!
This weekend I have been quite spending, it cost me some money to buy waterbased oil paint for my next painting project. I have another portrait order to get done which Im happy that I have some more than 3 months on, it might even get better than the last one when I now have more time for sketching.
I was in town, that is Stockholm anyway because of the Woman Independence day? No just 8 March Saturday I was in on a small demostration for the hospital nurse - midwifes of Stockholm that has too much to do really and they are too few so the demo was to enlight the midwifes situation on this years Womens day. After my shopping I went home to the kitchen and spent 3hours making pie, sallads and chocolate cake for supper. If I had planned thins I might even had a small gathering in the evening, but I am not that good at planning things yet. I thought to myself another time will be the soire and teaparty time. Another time.
Next week is to me very important things happening. I am to go to a job interview on Tuesday afternoon and that would mean an end to a full year of unemployment if I get the job... as a cleaning lady.
But before that the same day I have the writing test for the drivers license. So thats ok, from having nothing to do really to a crammed day becoz in the evening time Tusedays I have been going to the bokföringskursen in English accountant class? where kredit and debit is counted for. Americans apparently like a seven day count for the incomes, and the swedes is all for the balance to get right. Because it has to be even what goes in as comes out? However that makes successful companies one wonders. Anyhow to someday start my own company I thought I had to get a hand of this counting money thing, apparently its good for the taxes that is due to fill in now before 1 of May. Paperwork for every citizen of age with income of some kind. Come to think of it I hate paperwork but at the same time I'm into numbers. The magic of it. How a sum of numbers can turn into things. I still wonder about it. I miss the old days which was when I was just a child carefree, had my nextdoor neighbour to play with everyday and not worrying about how will I get money for the rent, food and the life I want to live. Do you really need money I wonder?
After rainfall comes sun. I have seen in the news how southern England has been flooded and I can only imagine how it would be to from one day to the other loose the roof over your head, all the possessions you own and have to leave this place that you call home. The heavy old furniture waterdamaged, grandmas piano that you´ve played on since you were little, less then a metre high.
I've learned in the news this week that it is by one metre high the chinese censor their movies. Are you above one meter you can watch all movies. So kids can go to adult films by just having the right height. There was some row in western media about how Quentin Tarrantino had to cut his film when it entered the chinese cinemas. But the western media failed to report how the director agreed to it because of the special height censorship (and protecting childrens innocent minds from the adult scenes), so the film did screen in China after that small adjustment made. Then vice versa some scenes from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon never went through the Europe/ American censors - so films get cut here and there just so.
In the newsreport from England one lady sits by a table with her friend next to her, they drink beer. She says well the house is by gone but at least I'm alright. As long as the family is alright everything is alright.
That is good spirit. That is the right way of thinking. Away with all the materialistic crap shit you bought and what you have left is the friends, food, drink and warmth by sharing knowingly same experiences. Have I jumped to conclusions? Well the basic I have learned is from the last year at school svenska gymnasiet, Vardagspsykologi was the subject I picked from Elevens val. The choice of subject that gave me highest grades. Everyday psychology. There is a ladder to climb basically to get to happiness or feel human although you have five basic needs to be human also 1.drink 2.eat 3.lovemakin/have sex 4.pee/poo 5.sleep - preferable in a warm bed under a roof keeping you safe from the rain/snow/weather.
I feel like I left out something but the basics are so animalistic. Then we have emerged from that to become shopoholics and alcoholics, workoholics and arseholes. Thats funny.
Arcitecht Mick Pearce. What I liked about his talk was that he told about how he tried to learn how to build a house with the nature involved in the building itself, environment thinking. This is good house building for the future.
It reminds me of Alvar Aalto, a Finnish arcitect that also used a closeness to nature within his building, but the difference here is that Mick Pearce do work together with the scientists knowledge of as the first example in the video the Termites housewarming technique, their lung as he says, he needed the scientists for him to learn the functionality and then he makes it into a building in humansize with his arcitect skilled design of course. The waterfall building in China is an interesting project mentioned in the same video piece. Its fascinating to learn about how the trees also get integrated into a parkingspot.
More collaboration of science and arcitect might make a better future for sustainable houses.
In the history of time in the ancient Greece there is a story about how women stopped a war going on. The drama/comedy was written by Aristofanes 411 B.C. It's called Lysistrate. The wifes had a sexstrejk(meaning the women stopped pleasuring their husbands). And in frustration the war-headed men stopped the war.
Now I'm not sure what the joke was.
I am looking at notes from yesteryear and as I am looking for something to do, like a buisness to make a living of I like the thought of a Big Sister program. It will be about sisterhood then. Because women can do better than be stay at home wifes. We are teachers, personal assitent, secretaries, cleaning ladies, Yoga, impretator, hair dressers. Women are mothers, sisters, daughters, diplomats, peace ambassadeurs, Composers, Journalists, Reporters, gardeners, artists, filmmakers, bakers, chefs, nurses, daycare, police, firefighters, doctors.
I mention all of these professions like each woman has to know how to do all these things to take care of her family, after her fulltime work she comes home and do the cooking and laundry, cleaning if she is this middle class woman living in Sweden. Doubletime, she´s working at home too unpaid business just to get the family happy. Is she happy with that? Do we not need to be good helping sisters in this large village or community on this Earth. Woman/Man and all in between. Were we not all once children?
The Mothers of Ukraine sons went out on the streets to stop the fighting yesterday. The president of their country is on a sick leave now.
We women take care of you men. Be nice to us. Honour your ladies.
Take care of eachother women. Be good sisters to one another.
