unlikelyfuture

some are going anarchist in romania and we like that

2011-08-20T15:39:00.006+03:00

or maybe i shouldn't call it just that, but for me anarchism is anytime one can see through the vail of manipulative society and want to replace power with solidarity and community. REAL EYES SEE REAL LIES, and they seem to have some of that: made the intro cuz i wanted to spread the word about a documentary in the line of many anti-capitalist ones, but a bit more poetic, spiced with cool

oh, dad!

2010-10-28T22:38:00.003+03:00

“And When Have You Last Seen Your Father?” (Anand Tucker, 2007)…a difficult question to be asked as you approach the age of thirty,or forty because either you’ve left home long ago and life now reserves too little time to remember the old folks, or the memory of a young and present dad- a real dad!- is under a thick layer of dust. Have you ever seen him really? What do know about his life before

WATER

2010-10-28T22:25:00.004+03:00

“Water” (Deepa Mehta, 2005) “A woman who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal”(The Laws of Manu)Chuyia’s husband dies so her family sends her to a widows’ ashram where she is to spend the rest of her life. Only that Chuyia is a little girl of about 7. They shave off her long beautiful hair and leave her among bald women in rags, to share their austere life. They expect

bowing to the rain- throughout the world

2010-10-26T21:30:00.005+03:00

1.rainbow in Dresden/Germany, shot from aboard an Eurolines Bus/Aug 20102.rainbow over the San Juan River shot from a fast boat to Boca de Sabalos/ Nicaragua/ Oct 2010

exquisite corpse in a French train...and then the rain

2010-03-12T23:47:00.005+02:00

The salamander lost its tale. so went on an adventure to find a new one.And then we went to see the giraffesThey make the most beautiful silence ever heardBy the human herd.A heard noise quivers with shivers...leaving slivers in their ears tiny trappedMemories in their skinPeeling that orange I gave you will only Make your fingers yellow and your soul sourWhile eating that fig that she gave you

every mother's day needs a mother's night

2010-03-08T20:57:00.002+02:00

oldie, but still dope. didn't get my mom anything either...but the weather is so bad, nobody would come over tonight :(Mother LoverJohn | MySpace Video

9

2010-03-08T16:34:00.002+02:00

if you worship tim burton,you're bound to like this short of to Shane Acker's, which they produced in 2005.long feature followed in 2009, gotta get my claws on that one!

on poverty theoretically

2010-03-08T03:25:00.002+02:00

i chose microcredit as a topic for my research paper for uni.it's an intricate issue, many pros and cons, can't wait to see where it leads me...this is a documentary which wants to seem balanced...i am glad they're presenting the failures and loopholes in it tough:

city doggie-village doggie

2010-03-08T01:55:00.004+02:00

my brother and his fiance adopted her from an animal protection association in Bucharest called ROBI and ever since, all they talk about is Adela. Such organizations estimate about 30.000 stray dogs in Bucharest, with a birthrate of 100 puppies per day. Authorities don't want to make the numbers public, but at least there's an Administration for the Surveillance (?) of Dogs Without Owners which

what is home?

2010-03-08T00:19:00.003+02:00

got a friend or maybe the lost love of my life or maybe the biggest asshole i crossed paths with...dunno which one yet. what i do remember is that he keeps saying he does not know the meaning of 'home'. at some point, the meaning becomes clear to us...

2010-03-01T02:27:00.004+02:00

as she was stuffing that pathetic travel cushion in and barely closing the backpack he was getting more and more worked up with rage. why can't we just go? what the heck got into you? dead, blocked, her throat too knotted in, incapable of any reply.no, actually she remembers a heavy dark moist word like lead climbing inside her body, from the bile up. she couldn't stop it by clenching her teeth,

when bored, doodle about what hurts!

2010-02-04T02:52:00.002+02:00

it happens to me so often at university.maybe it's a female student syndrome to chat loudly from inside the toiled ...ah, nobody reads good manners codes anymore :( some of those crappy rules help those around you...shit, esp. us, nervous people.

loveless-pennyless

2010-01-31T19:06:00.003+02:00

wake up beside you- see you sleeping like with a death wish. sleep for ages, sleep to ignore and to forget, sleep to torture.then, baby, i love you like a handful of small change...nothing less

how to be a locavore

2010-01-30T20:44:00.003+02:00

this is how they do it in down-under.i found insight in this SEED film about the different types of making sure that the food on your table is as local as possible: farmers markets, food box systems, food coops, community farms, community gardens and school garden.plus i found that besides being a vegetarian (or vegan) it is also important to be a locavore=Someone who exclusively (or at least

nature poetry

2009-06-26T23:53:00.004+03:00

THE CALL OF THE WILDThe heavy old man in his bed at nightHears the Coyote singing in the back meadow.All the years he ranched and mined and logged.A Catholic.A native Californian. and the Coyotes howl in his Eightieth year.He will call the GovernmentTrapperWho uses iron leg-traps on Coyotes,Tomorrow.My sons will lose this Music they have just started To love.***The ex

old BLU project in berlin, but the music!

2009-06-04T12:21:00.007+03:00

by now probably everyone has seen this little film of BLU contributing to the walls of berlin.what i can't shake out of my head (and i think i shouldn't) is the amazing song on the background. it's the berliner dj-cum-painter siriusmo , a shy appearance in the local electronic music scene, originally a punk musician, when punk still had a word to spread out. there's no label behind him, but he

Birdie N-am N-am :(

2009-04-30T04:55:00.004+03:00

This blog needs a New Birth, not necessarily a french, charming one, but a revival !verdamnte scheisse, zis is Germany and it's swarming with reasons to write.Damn white screen nausea and clumsiness with words, and the lazyess...be gone, never to let matters die again!Birdy Nam Nam (which you can also find as 'Birdie') are playing in berlin, precisely when i'm taking wing to Weimar, that is on

the century of the self

2009-02-26T01:45:00.002+02:00

" what was beginning to emerge in the 1920s was a new idea of how to run mass democracy. at its heart was the consumming self, which not only made the economy work, but was happy and docile, and so created a stable society. "(extract from a gripping documentary that i strongly recommend-the century of the self)first episode here:

scenes from a toilet

2009-02-20T06:18:00.001+02:00

suuuuuuuuuuit-ed

BO-no-BO

2009-02-20T05:59:00.004+02:00

SAW HIS SHOW 2 WEEKS AGO. outcome: M hates electronic music after all (hm...c'est la vie), N picked up a guy (hehe!) i merely danced and let the music sink in.'twas a chilly good night, esp. since the monkey acts quite cool and friendly.

you know much too much, too much...

2008-12-05T03:20:00.003+02:00

i can't help myself.found a tragically good Berlin band: BONAPARTE.correct me if i'm wrong."attention deficit disorder muzik"they are delicious, and this video is shot in Mauerpark, a place for drumbeats, sun and friends.

Luke A'Laik

2008-11-14T05:19:00.006+02:00

mabe i'm just obsessed, but does not this picture of Paul Kalkbrenner look like...?it crossed my mind many times while watching Berlin Calling, featuring P.K. as techno DJ Ikarus. the film does not rock in its storyline, but this character keeps it together through charisma and a some pretty good acting. music is also inspiring for many unhealthy activities, jogging included :Dmust see if

Momentous Moment

2008-11-14T03:34:00.006+02:00

read into the future! here have a look at today's paper (Saturday, the 4th of July 2009) whipe that frown from your face, and put on that satyr mask i got you for Christmas. too sleepy?i'll read you some headlines from today's Times:IRAQ WAR ENDSCOURTS INDICT BUSH ON HIGH TREASON CHARGEUSA PATRIOT ACT REPEALEDNEW YORK BIKE PATH SYSTEM EXPANDED DRAMATICALLYCONGRESS RETURNS CIVICS TO HIGH SCHOOL

these days

2008-06-04T18:59:00.002+03:00

when i feel alone, i turn to GOD and we chat...Me: hellogodGod:Can you tell me any gossip? Me: new stuff?God:How recently? Be less specific :-).Me: well, people are crapGod:How about that. They take some getting used to.Me: tell me your gossip?God:John said he follow a saying to get a friend I must be a friend.Me: do you have many friends?God:Yes. I usually chill with Buddha, Allah and

let's see the world!

2008-05-31T13:31:00.002+03:00

I HEAR THERE'S THIS GREAT NEW THING CALLED A LIFE.I'D LIKE TO TRY. SEE HOW IT FITS FOR A WHILE. MAYBE EVEN ENJOY.WHAT A NOVEL IDEA!

shoot the bias!

2008-05-28T14:22:00.009+03:00

being so disappointed with the political campaign now in romania, i want to escape by looking in the american backyard. so i stumbled on this website focused on "exposing and combating liberal media bias." i have no idea how far this goes, but to me it's just nice satire, because it makes fun of everyone from michael moore to obama.NewsBustersfrom the edition mentioning Earthday : "TIME magazine

little dragon music

2008-05-26T18:56:00.003+03:00

she (yukimi nagano) is the voice collaborating with koop and hird, and others, but belongs to the little dragon. and this video is just...

economy, ecology, bikosophy

2008-05-19T22:07:00.004+03:00

i invite you to watch John Burke, president of one of the major bicycles producers in the world, about the need of his industry to pay much more attention on lobbying governments for a bike-friendly world.bikes can solve what he sees as the main global problems : obesity (in US and W Europe), Traffic congestion, urbanization, and environment deterioration ( cars' emissions= 60 % of air pollution)

no m'am!

2008-05-12T10:16:00.006+03:00

it's great to be able to play even if you're a grown up. it's even better if you make fun of the right people in a daring attempt to open up a few minds.thus,Press/29520 May 2002 WTO to announce schedule for disbanding After a protracted and detailed review of current trade policy and its effects on developing countries, the World Trade Organization has decided to effect a

new findings

2008-05-10T15:19:00.005+03:00

i found a website showing 50 ways to help the Planet. wonderful!HEREonly that most of them do not apply to my community's lifestyle. it seems that the risks brought about by environmental change are global, but the language is sometimes so space-specific that you can feel the gross disparities between the developed and the developing.for example, nobody I know owns a dishwasher, nor a dryer, and

just thought you should know

2008-05-05T01:38:00.003+03:00

this is a photo of the International Herald Tribune, 2nd of May 2008.also it is important to notice the assymetry of space provided for the two obituaries. yes, there are two!

what was that noise?

2008-04-29T14:50:00.006+03:00

would i be too horrible if i said i didn't like it?too uninspiringly violent, too nasty, smoky, fiendishly vibrating, non-entertaining, made me think of people punishing themselves. thanks god i found a couch and another battered soul in the person of c.the intro part of silent strike was worth the trouble, but not the rest of the techno-mumbo-jumbo amon tobin unfortunately sounded like. it ended

grizzly man

2008-04-29T13:25:00.003+03:00

the world's cold shoulder leads some to embrace wilderness as a obsessive ideal in need of protection. without using a religious or metaphysical justification for protecting elements of nature, men and women struggle to immerse themselves in the habitat in which ultimately they would feel protected. what is the mindset of such a person?watching werner herzog's docu-drama about the grizzly man

addicted to the dust

2008-04-27T15:56:00.008+03:00

courtesy of Alinutza (one of the most talented and inspiring people I know )this is Monkey Dust(blatently British), one of the best cartoons i've seen recently. it's so real in content, that it's heartbreaking, without being deplorable. just sick, as we like'em. human modern nature .....NAKEDi advise you to watch all the monkey dust you can get on youtube, and imagine the Ro version :corporation

the problem

2008-04-14T01:37:00.002+03:00

this city does not love her anymore. its dogs bark at her and sneer, its air makes her dizzy and weak, its people are too aloof for her to touch and love. must find a way to sneak out, because inside is not a viable option. waiting amounts to nothing. she must ...

cats in bowties

2008-03-27T11:21:00.005+02:00

many things i love put together: stop-motion animation, nina simone, cats, talk of the horrowful beibi, black-and-white...as you can guess it is beautiful aardman animation:

don't mess with garbage

2008-03-27T10:10:00.009+02:00

the building of the good old faculty of political science is where time stood still for me, being the location my mom inhabited when she first came to bucharest, and she felt the shakes of 1977 earthquake. now a proud institution of higher and mightier education since 1991, it also registers me among its yearly enlarging student-body. it is also a web of bizarre coincidences for me because i got

who's got THE CURE?

2008-03-27T09:48:00.006+02:00

have a confession. had to abandon my usual whereabouts for a short while due to some doggy business. stumbled upon these dubious characters with flashy neon lighting and emotional guitars. one of them was wearing his hair in a rigid nuclear-mushroom shape, had bright red lipstick and glossy black eyes complimented by lots of make-up. they were singing these tear-jerking songs about pictures and

clash of civilisations and valentine's day

2008-02-15T11:40:00.000+02:00

my ONLY sunshine?

2008-02-04T02:23:00.000+02:00

heh, i've been planning to pay my respects to greenpeace for this fine campaign, and now is the moment.they say incandescent light bulbs ( traditional ones) use only 10% of the energy to produce light and dissipate the rest into heat. thus 90% waste.replacing them with economical ones will make adjustments to the energy bill, as well as save mother Gaia some tiresome work. that is, if you love

how to make important history LOOK uninteresting

2008-02-02T01:49:00.001+02:00

we all know it's wrong to compare human sufferring, because it has an absolute character and implies a normative authority which is not be granted to people. but you can compare the manner in which you bring suffering in discussion or you portray it.i saw a film about genocide that i've been planning to see for a long time and it sucked immensely. i saw a film about genocide which i found by

where's the Spriiiiiiiiiiiing?

2008-01-23T12:12:00.002+02:00

You have no idea how much I miss her. I don't mean Angela Merkel, nor Germany, but my wee sky-blue bike, Mathilde. I hope she havin' a good old time in Berlin with V.Btw, inspiring video here:

hungry for love

2008-01-22T13:52:00.001+02:00

As I was crawling up the underground stairs I noticed a new ad which warmed my soul and fantasy. it said: "birthcontrol pills don't make you fat. Food does." all right! so that's what it was...i'll run to the nearest drugstore to get me a handful of them pills for romantic dinners.Seriously, although i can't see it around me (as everyone is fitter than my present self and that's frustrating)

car-toon in? no, bike-toon!

2007-12-29T14:28:00.000+02:00

this is nicole kenney. i found her while procrastinating at work, and later i realized i've seen her stuff in hardcomics #7. she draws and lives how and what i'd only love to ...these days, i find it quite easy to fall inove with comic artists, male or female merely through their artwork. cartoons could be much more honest and sweeter than people, depending on their creators.wait, does that imply

NO zoo

2007-12-27T18:44:00.000+02:00

again, i ask myself, why should there be a zoo in the first place? as long as we have scientists travelling half the world to bring us images of the animals in their original habitat, and efforts to protect the extinct...has anyone made a study to how many visitors are there a day? is the zoo such a profitable business, despite being morally bankrupt?

lost our way

2007-12-26T19:01:00.000+02:00

WE T H I N K TO MUCH AND WE F E E L TOO LITTLEthe speech made at the end of The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin) used by wax taylor. for another dream-film check out que sera . if you guess the film you can win 100 points and my everlasting love

the house of sleep

2007-12-26T13:56:00.001+02:00

spend some enchanting hours with "The House of Sleep", one of Jonathan Coe's acclaimed books......I basically had to...it had so much to interest me...sleep (a latest passion)...and confusions. and it was so emotionally recommended by V.but... but, it was overwhelming circular- even if twisted and broken in past and present, dream and reality...all comes together at the end, where "soul-mates

i am sick and depressed, but it's beside the point...

2007-12-23T15:39:00.000+02:00

yes, of course I cringe at the thought of bombings, murders, deaths by any means, and I can hardly say that famous stalin joke "a single death is a tragedy, death of a million is statistics" is hilarious.BUT there are certain pieces of information which blatantly point out the IRRATIONAL CRUELTY of people and they just sadden me to the bone. there u have it: a rare siberian tiger in a zoo in

fund-a-mental changes?

2007-12-14T23:52:00.000+02:00

a film which shuddered this morning. after a jolly eventful night.i managed to ravel in three films with the same philosophic spine during the same week; these augmented my new intuitions: tsotsi, lord of the flies and ciudad de deus.after having deplored the lack of rule of law, and its consequences on property, I ended up contemplating the concept of state of nature and its winners.all the

referen-doom

2007-11-23T08:33:00.000+02:00

why i don't want a uninominal two-round system and why i am sick to my stomach of Romanian politics:1.because i thought i was living in a REPRESENTATIVE democracy, and that implies i select a few people to mind state and local-level administration so that I wouldn't bother with it, and go about my daily affairs. i think it's obsolete and unbecoming to have two referenda a year. sadly enough, the

KOOP de foudre

2007-11-17T21:16:00.000+02:00

amazing song and video, a touch of postmodern perpetual self-victimization, but hey, who doesn't?just two splendid people behind this delicious music- Oscar Simonsson and Magnus Zingmark-your typical dyed black haired sweeds.too bad they've just been so close- to sofia on the 15th nov. but good news: in prague on the 13th Dec!!!also see *come to me* for the cheerful upside to this

hard not to be a little neo-marxist

2007-11-16T14:54:00.000+02:00

i've been contemplating recently how the only solution for developing countries should be opening their markets to foreign capital by which they also gain access to useful knowledge and technology. theoretically, it may fall into place; BUT for example, the European Partnership Agreements between less developed countries in Africa, The Carribean and The Pacific and the EU is impressive for how

feathery neardish

2007-10-13T21:18:00.000+03:00

if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks............... hehe, watcha think of the guy, ain't he a wuss? love it when he tries to lift his body and fails......seems like emotional fragility goes hand in hand with physical weakness.........but then again, i know people who can lift their bodies in a finger, but still cry oceans over girls.

the savage innocents

2007-10-13T17:58:00.000+03:00

one worthless woman has just finished watching this wonderful film, alongside her redundant mother and would like to share the manner in which they were mesmerized. *the savage innocents* tells the story of Inuit life in a tranquill and non-dramatizing style. someone feels lucky to be able to take a glimpse into an igloo filled with bear fur, old meat with worms-their finest food-and laughter.

nation of damnable?

2007-10-11T01:43:00.000+03:00

maybe at this time, after reading controversial news, i should be writing about high level corruption in Romania; but i'm too sick to my stomach and i wanna cling to the EU membership idea like my cat often does on my new sweater.nonono! this post will go to *art*.i adore james joyce , after having spent one incredible night with his *portrait*.......and i stumbled onto this guy ........james

everything in its right place

2007-10-09T01:09:00.001+03:00

my first piece of urban art. look to the upper right. i recieved this banner immitating a medieval emblem from a dear friend while visiting Brasov. it was hanged from the White Tower, but we felt it was too kitsch for that cool of a place, so we took it down. i didn't put it in my room like i first said, but found that i should transplant it to my city, in a familiar context. there it hangs now,

the feeling of fall

2007-10-09T01:03:00.000+03:00

i am sooooooo sure it's gonna rain soon.one has to prepare getting familiar with the drops

neighborhood jam session

2007-10-08T23:47:00.000+03:00

E-URANUS, the open air cinema in bucharest where i spent many a lonely summer evenings this year, indulging my movie addiction, had closed with a special event involving the local community.i happen to be there at a urban cyclist meeting one week before, when my bike drew the attention of a group of gypsie kids from the area; i spent about an hour talking to them, and afterwards they invited me

awkward dreams

2007-09-07T00:56:00.000+03:00

fitting to the latenite-postmodern-hubristic-inquisitive disposition:

hand of a stupid fortune

2007-08-20T23:40:00.002+03:00

this year's Romanian Cycling Tour has been marked by a tragic and absurd event, which in my view could have been avoided, with a normal degree of care and awareness. riding his last 50 m of the race, cyclist Razvan Juganaru ran over a 62 year-old man who decided to trake a few lethal steps into the circuit. i can only shrudder at the schock lived by both men......a moment which sent one in a deep

masses are asses

2007-08-18T18:53:00.000+03:00

while bringing my hands together for an admirative clap when learning about his greenpeace project, i stopped to find out more about artist Spencer Tunick. why did i find him whorthwhile?because he got a group of 600 get naked people on Aletsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps and thus documented an instance of global warming-the temperature there being 10 to 15 bellow 0 Celsius. it made me sad....it

activate your green self!

2007-08-15T23:52:00.001+03:00

this is one event i have always wanted to take part in. this year, in my newly found quality of independent self-made-almost-woman i shall materialize this wish. main reason: ecology and inform myself about how evolved are romanian ecologist NGOs. secondly: people+nature. third: music, hay jumping, some climbing , my tent and a nice guy to match it.......sounds like good fun.nevertheless, cyanide

ride with pride

2007-08-15T18:28:00.001+03:00

last night i dreamt i was riding a bike through a snow-covered forest and others around me were plunging their bikes on soft huge cusions. I CAN DO THAT .....me thinks.......but downhill riding is not quite so...in a short while, in Parang mountains the madness comes unleashed- Drop'n'Roll.i just love their intro text:*Drop'n'Roll was created for those who want to discover new places, new courses

muuuuuuuuuuuuuusik

2007-08-15T18:13:00.000+03:00

hate to say i told you so, but i did..................love can damage your health the way bikes, cats, sweets and mountains don't.i find this song inspiring so i'm sharin'dunno if anyone is carin'

why backwardness hurts

2007-08-14T19:34:00.000+03:00

Starting from a comparison of mr. Marius Oprea between the Western and the Balkanic spirit, I was drawn into a review of the film "Zorba the Greek" which gave course to a disqueting mood. To begin with, i give you my translation of his words: " This is the heritage of the area: little bloody and restless stories which barely disturb the eternal whistle of the peasant leading his cart through dust

childhood is an intricate web of repressions-SPIDER

2007-07-07T23:40:00.000+03:00

ok, so i love Cronenberg, his films apparently twisted but with an amazing grasp on human psichology. recently, i experienced in a minor key what he depicts in *Crash* because of my daily small accidents. smashing my pinkie finger against a parked car while riding my bike and checking out a cute guy on the sidewalk, falling from 2m and hitting my ass on a hard floor, the habitual peeling tomatoes

Hitler and Stalin on a tandem bicycle

2007-07-07T09:16:00.000+03:00

i think george orwell was a gentleman who basically*got it* in a higher degree than others and had a special type of intuition into the order of things. before delivering to the world *the animal farm * and his key-novel *1984*, he writes a book with a biographical touch to it, *coming up for air*.the story is impressive in the manner in which a casual life of a casual character is made

2007-06-28T00:19:00.000+03:00

vali is sitting right beside me and nagging me about starting my first blog: "this is the visit-card of the future, sis!" all rightie, thus we must provide one to be able to show our face in the world, no matter how upset or enthusiastic or depressed or so on it may be. sadly enough i realized that posting in my mother tongue could be restrictive and against the real (no matter how much we fear