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Silkwormgirl's Interests
General
Art house cinema, an intelligent , philosophical conversation,being with my friends and not having to censor what I say or think, meeting creative people, observing people, telling jokes that probably only make ME laugh! Going to live, local gigs and seeing new bands. Finding inspiration from funny scenarios and incidents that happen around me.
Music
Drug Store, The Kooks, The Libertines,The Cardigans, CSS, So So Modern, Maximo Park, The Editors, Kaiser Chiefs,The Strokes,The Supremes, hip-hop (for dance floor purposes so I can pull out my funny old school stylez), seeing my friends play live,Beck, The Killers, Cheesey dance music (sometimes), Chinese instrumental erhu music,old school hip hop, alternative/indie, dirty rock n' roll...
Movies
Farewell My Concubine, The Road Home, Tsotsi, Deepha Mehta's Earth,Fire, Midnight Cowboy, Fourteen, The Three Extremes, The Shower, Beijing Bicycle, Lady Whirlwind, Welcome to the Doll House, Hong Kong Hollywood, Eat Drink Man-Woman, American Hard Core, Chung King Express, Napolean Dynamite, Office Space, The Price of Milk, In My Father's Den, London kills me, East is East, old school Chinese kungfu films, Joy Luck Club...
Television
Documentary Channel, Alt TV, Ugly Betty- Bring it on!
Books
My favourite is The North China Lover. It was given to me as a gift by my sister. It has such a cinematic feel, and the language and images are really sensual, yet the story could be construed as being socially unacceptable in these times. The feel of the book is contemporary, yet its a story about history.
Heroes
There are people who are close to me who I admire, and little things that I see in different people that I know- I look to them and feel like I want to learn from them so I can be a better person. I admire risk-takers, and creative people who can manage to have a balanced life, while working frantically and having a family etc.
About me: An introverted-extrovert, animated, creative, ambitious, quirky, complex and full of contradictions...
I hate being in boxes and I like to play with rice!
I want to be MYSELF!
I have 3-5 year plans to keep me going, and alot of things I need to achieve in my lifetime so if I don't make them happen, I would only feel I was living half a life...
I am currently making a documentary called 'The Foreign Skin' which looks into NZ-Chinese historical and contemporary perspectives. My goal is to create stories which delve below the surface and challenge an audience to see,hear and think about where their own values and politics lie.
Who I'd like to meet: People who enjoy talking about creative processes. Risk takers, quirky, random people who are who are passionate and ambitious and not afraid of expressing their own ideas and opinions, people from a wide arts base; musicians, artists, filmmakers, designers.
Peter Brooke, Robert LePage- (two theatre philophers who have broken conventions and have taken theatre, art and life into a whole new realm).
I want to wish you a very Merry Xmas and a fabulous New Year. I sent a similar message by regular email, so this is an extra copy to ensure I reach you. hehe.
Instead of the traditional e-card, I give you a link to a YouTube video that I shot on Dec 7th at Cours Mirabeau, in Aix-in-Provence, France, just before coming back to «very» snowy Montreal. It is a women choir singing a nice Xmas song, at night on the maket place. Here is the link (just copy and paste in a browser):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1b5pK7302Y
I hope you will like this little song and that it will give you joy.
Happy holiday season :)
Claude
p.s. I found myself a new erhu teacher in Montreal. will start again lessons in January. Meanwhile you can see my last «live» performances in a project management workshop, in Aix in my videos at www.myspace.com/erhusome. I guess I really need to start again lessons to kill my new bad habits :)
(The Mountain Loves The Sea, Watercolor, 1971, by Joni Mitchell) ------------------------------------------------- IF (by Joni Mitchell, inspired by Rudyard Kipling)
If you can keep your head While all about you People are losing theirs and blaming you If you can trust yourself When everybody doubts you And make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can wait And not get tired of waiting And when lied about Stand tall Don't deal in lies And when hated Don't give in to hating back Don't need to look so good Don't need to talk too wise.
If you can dream And not make dreams your master If you can think And not make intellect your game If you can meet With triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same
If you can force your heart And nerve and sinew To serve you After all of them are gone And so hold on When there is nothing in you Nothing but the will That's telling you to hold on! Hold on!
If you can bear to hear The truth you've spoken Twisted and misconstrued By some smug fool Or watch your life''s work Torn apart and broken down And still stoop to build again With worn out tools.
If you can draw a crowd And keep your virtue Or walk with Kings And keep the common touch If neither enemies nor loving friends Can hurt you If everybody counts with you But none too much.
If you can fill the journey Of a minute With sixty seconds worth of wonder and delight Then The Earth is yours And Everything that's in it But more than that I know You'll be alright You'll be alright.
Cause you've got the fight You've got the insight ---------------------------------------- What's up Sonia? Had the time to look at Oscar ? This is a masterpiece from Joni's new CD, the first with original songs since 1998. Enjoy ! :) Claude
"I prefer enjoying my bad sight, renouncing to paint if necessary, but at least see a bit what I like."
Claude Monet
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Monet Refuses the Operation (a poem by Lisel Mueller)
Doctor, you say that there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don't see, to learn that the line I called the horizon does not exist and sky and water, so long apart, are the same state of being. Fifty-four years before I could see Rouen cathedral is built of parallel shafts of sun, and now you want to restore my youthful errors: fixed notions of top and bottom, the illusion of three-dimensional space, wisteria separate from the bridge it covers. What can I say to convince you the Houses of Parliament dissolve night after night to become the fluid dream of the Thames? I will not return to a universe of objects that don't know each other, as if islands were not the lost children of one great continent. The world is flux, and light becomes what it touches, becomes water, lilies on water, above and below water, becomes lilac and mauve and yellow and white and cerulean lamps, small fists passing sunlight so quickly to one another that it would take long, streaming hair inside my brush to catch it. To paint the speed of light! Our weighted shapes, these verticals, burn to mix with air and changes our bones, skin, clothes to gases. Doctor, if only you could see how heaven pulls earth into its arms and how infinitely the heart expands to claim this world, blue vapor without end.
Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XXIX -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring,
What batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.
In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there.
And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.
(sung by Whitney Houston - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZkSZaTzed4 )
I believe the children are our are future Teach them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess inside Give them a sense of pride to make it easier Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be Everybody searching for a hero People need someone to look up to I never found anyone who fulfill my needs A lonely place to be So I learned to depend on me
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows If I fail, if I succeed At least I'll live as I believe No matter what they take from me They can't take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all Is happening to me I found the greatest love of all Inside of me The greatest love of all Is easy to achieve Learning to love yourself It is the greatest love of all
And if by chance, that special place That you've been dreaming of Leads you to a lonely place Find your strength in love
I thank you too so much For I SEE you even better You, magnificient lotus
The seed has stopped clinging It has escaped from the mud To raise to the surface Such a beautiful lotus flower
Do not let anybody push or pull you back under the surface
For this would for sure be A terrible crime A crime against your Self A terrible tragedy for our Humanity
So stay open to you and others look straight to the sun For you are such a beautiful lotus a reflection of this sun on our earth the warmth of its light in our hearts
She walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright meets in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less, had half impair'd the nameless grace which waves in every raven tress, or softly lightens o'er her face - where thoughts serenely sweet express how pure, how dear their dwelling - place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, so soft, so calm, yet eloquent, the smiles that win, the tints that glow, but tells in days of goodness spent, a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent.
dang, it seems like i live at Macys, i always have to go there for one thing or another. thank goodness i got this $500 card to Macys to pay for a lot of the stuff i have to buy there lol! you should probably get one yourself while you can, its really simple only takes a minute. CLICK HERE BEFORE THEY ARE ALL GONE
