Books and tunes...
Music...
Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend a concert by "Anthony and the Johnsons". I left with the feeling of having been through a very special moment. The dude's voice, the instruments (piano, violin, chellow, accordeon, guitar, light percussion, bass...) all in a very accoustic groove, the mood of his songs, the room (Coliseu Lisboa), all contributed for a feeling of being transported to another dimension...
Although his music might come through as sad and slightly depressive, if you dig a little deeper, you see it as very suitable to soothen your spirits, to relax and get you in a reflective mood. That is what happened to me, in an ideal time, just before returning to my new home in Madrid, where I will be staying most likely until Christmas... Check his music! Definitely worth it!
Books... "High Fidelity", by N. Hornby,
Second time reading it and having as much as or even more fun than the first time! I would consider as one of my Top 5 recepies from bouncing from a glass-half-empty to a glass-half-full perspective! And the movie definitely follows suite! Some teasers...
"Foreplay - the ideal couple os a Cosmo woman and a 14 year old kid..."
"I regarded just about any song in which somebody had lost somebody as spookily relevant!"
"He (dad) never had to worry about delivering goods, because he never knew there were goods to be delivered!!"
"She thinks she started out some new stage in her life. She hasn't. I am not going to let her!"
" There are men who call. There are men who don't call!"
This is a mere sip of a fun book on romance, love, the glitches in this matrix and finally, compatibility!
1 Comments:
agreed, I read that book 3 times in the last 6 years and it still made me laugh...
"What came first? The music or the misery? People worry abnout kids playing with guns or watching violent videos that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery, and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"
and the entire first page -hilarious!: " My desert island, all-time top five most memorable breakups, in chronological order are as follows: Alison, Penny, Jackie, Charlie , and Sarah. Those were the ones that really hurt.Can you see your name on that list, Laura? Maybe you'd sneak into the top ten. But there's just no room for you in the top five. Sorry! Those places are reserved for the kind of humiliation and heartbreak you're just not capable of delivering. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have gotten to me earlier!"
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