Bluebird

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?

by Charles Bukowski

Skinny Love by BON IVER

C’mon skinny love just last the year
Pour a little salt we were never here
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer

I tell my love to wreck it all
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Right in this moment this order’s tall

And I told you to be patient
And i told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
 

In the morning I’ll be with you
but it will be a different “kind”
I’ll be holding all the tickets
and you’ll be owning all the fines

C’mon skinny love what happened here
Suckle on the hope in lite brazziers
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Sullen load is full; so slow on the split

And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
Now all your love is wasted?
 

Then who the hell was I?
Now i’m breaking at the britches
and at the end of all your lines

Who will love you?
Who will fight?
Who will fall far behind?

who will love you?
who will fight?
who will fall far behind?

Another Earth

 THE STORY OF THE RUSSIAN COSMONAUT
 (film Another Earth, 2011.)

"You know that story of the Russian cosmonaut? So, the cosmonaut, He's the first man ever to go into space. Right? The Russians beat the Americans. So he goes up in this big spaceship, but the only habitable part of it's very small. So the cosmonaut's in there, and he's got this portal window, and he's looking out of it, and he sees the curvature of the Earth for the first time. I mean, the first man to ever look at the planet he's from. And he's lost in that moment. And all of a sudden this strange ticking... Begins coming out of the dashboard. Rips out the control panel, right? Takes out his tools. Trying to find the sound, trying to stop the sound. But he can't find it. He can't stop it. It keeps going. Few hours into this, begins to feel like torture. A few days go by with this sound, and he knows that this small sound... will break him. He'll lose his mind. What's he gonna do? He's up in space, alone, in a space closet. He's got 25 days left to go... with this sound. So the cosmonaut decides... the only way to save his sanity... is to fall in love with this sound. So he closes his eyes... and he goes into his imagination, and then he opens them. He doesn't hear ticking anymore. He hears music. And he spends the sailing through space in total bliss... and peace."

 Rhoda Williams (Another Earth)

Emily Dickinson Quotes

Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

My Favorite TV Shows

TV shows you should watch

• Seinfeld  is an American TV sitcom, created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, that ran for nine seasons, from 1989 to 1998. It's a show about nothing with great  and unique characters.

 

• Oz is an American TV crime-drama series, created by Tom Fontana. It ran for six seasons, from 1998 to 2003. A series chronicling the daily activities in a maximum-security prison and its criminal inhabitants.

• Six Feet Under is an American black-comedy drama TV series, created by Alan Ball. It ran for five seasons, from 2001 to 2005. A series that takes a darkly comical look at members of  the Fisher family that runs the independent funeral home in California.

 

 

• Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American improvised comedy TV series, created by Seinfeld co-creator Larry David. It aired for eight season, from 2000 to 2011. Larry David stars as a fictional version of himself in this hilarious comedy that presents an unflinching, self-deprecating depiction of his life.

• Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is an American military science fiction TV series, developed by Ronald D. Moore as a re-imagining of the 1978 original series created by Glen A. Larson. It ran for four season (2003-2009). When an old enemy, the Cylons (robots), resurfaces and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protects a small civilian fleet, the last remnants of mankind in a supposed search for the fabled lost 13th Colony of Kobol (Earth), their only hope for survival.

 

 

• American Horror Story is an American horror TV series, created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. It's an anthology series as each season presents a different story. The first season, subtitled Murder House ran during the year 2011. The second season, subtitled Asylum, aired from 2012-2013. The third season, subtitled Coven, ran from 2013-2014. The fourth season, subtitled Freak Show, will premier on October 8, 2014.

 

• True Blood is an American supernatural drama TV series, created by Alan Ball, based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris. It ran for seven season, from 2008-2014. The series follows the adventures of Sookie, a telephatic waitress.

 

• Rescue me is an American comedy-drama TV series, aired for seven season, from 2004 to 2011. The series follows the professional and private life of Tommy Gavin, a NYC Firefighter, post 9/11.

• Nip/Tuck is an American medical drama TV series, created by Ryan Murphy. The show aired for sic season, from 2003-2010. The series focuses on "McNamara/Troy" plastic surgery center and on the personal lifes of two doctors who own it.

 

• Only Fools and Horses is a British television sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan. It ran for seven season, from 1981-1991. The show focuses on two streetwise London brothers (Del Boy and Rodney) and their futile attempts to become millionaires through get rich quick schemes and by buying and selling a low-quality and illegal goods. They own an unregistered company called Trotters Independent Traders, trade primarily on the black market and generally neither pay taxes nor claim money from the state; as Del says, "The government don't give us nothing, so we don't give the government nothing"

 

• Bottom is a British sitcom TV series, created by Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall. It aired for three season between 1991 and 1995.  Tha main characters, Eddie and Richie are two crude, perverted lunatics with no jobs and only a filthy flat. They spend their time concocting desperate schemes to acquire sex, attacking each other violently, and getting into dodgy situations.

 

• Twin Peaks is an American TV serial mystery drama, created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. It ran for two season, from 1990-1991. It follows an investigation of the murder of  homecoming queen Laura Palmer, headed by FBI agent Dale Cooper.

 

• China Beach is an American TV drama series, created by William Broyles Jr. and John Sacret Young. It ran for four season, from 1988 to 1991. The show is based on the book Home Before Morning (1983) written by former U.S. Army Nurse Lynda Van Devanter.

 

The Grand Budapest Hotel Poems

The Grand Budapest Hotel is a comedy movie, written and directed by Wes Anderson and inspired by the writings of Stefan Zweig. The movie opened in the United States on March 7, 2014.

It recounts the adventures of M.Gustave, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

Throughout the movie, characters begin reciting poetry. These poems as Wes Anderson said "This is a little pastiche. I just made them up. They don’t exist beyond that. None of them get very far." in an interview conducated by A.J. Goldmann, are transitory and interrupted by plot.

The bits and pieces of the movie that caught my eye...below

"While questing once in noble wood of gray, medieval pine, I came upon a tomb, rain-slick'd, rubbed-cool, ethereal, its inscription long-vanished, yet still within its melancholy fissures..."

M. Gustave 

 "A moist, black ash dampens the filth of a dung-dark rat's nest and mingles with the thick scent of wood rot while the lark song of a guttersnipe..."

M. Gustave

  "Twas first light when I saw her face upon the heath, and hence did I return, day-by-day, entranced,

tho' vinegar did brine my heart, never..."

 Zero

 "If this do be me end, farewell! cried the wounded piper-boy, whilst the muskets cracked and the yeomen roared 'Hurrah!' And the ramparts fell. Methinks me breathes me last, me fears!' said he..."

 M. Gustave

  "Whence came these two radiant, celestial brothers, united, for an instant, as they crossed the stratosphere of our starry window? One from the East and one from the West."

 Agatha

This Wes Anderson "masterpiece" is fulfilled with colour and irony. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone.