Sonetto n. 116

Non sia mai ch'io metta impedimenti al matrimonio

di due anime fedeli; amore non è amore

se muta quando nell'altro scorge mutamenti,

o se tende a recedere quando l'altro si allontana.

Oh, no! Esso è termine fisso

che domina le tempeste e non vacilla mai;

esso è la stella di ogni sperduta barca,

il cui potere è ignoto, pur se ne misuriamo l'elevatezza.

Amore non soggiace al Tempo, anche se labbra

e rosee guance cadranno sotto la sua arcuata falce.

Amore non muta in brevi ore e settimane,

ma impavido resiste sino al giorno del Giudizio.

Se questo è errore, e sarà contro me provato,

allora io non ho mai scritto, e mai nessuno amato.

Gölem - ore 09,32 circa

Gölem - ore 8,29 circa

vulpes vulpes

GIORNO DELLA MEMORIA

"La Repubblica italiana riconosce il giorno 27 gennaio, data dell'abbattimento dei cancelli di Auschwitz, "Giorno della Memoria", al fine di ricordare la Shoah (sterminio del popolo ebraico), le leggi razziali, la persecuzione italiana dei cittadini ebrei, gli italiani che hanno subìto la deportazione, la prigionia, la morte, nonché coloro che, anche in campi e schieramenti diversi, si sono opposti al progetto di sterminio, ed a rischio della propria vita hanno salvato altre vite e protetto i perseguitati".

'The King's Speech,' 'True Grit' top Academy Award nominations

"The King's Speech" dominated the Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, earning 12 nods including best picture and best lead actor for Colin Firth as King George VI, who battles to eradicate his stammer before he unexpectedly takes the throne.

Joel and Ethan Coen's spirited remake of the western "True Grit" followed with 10 nominations for the 83rd annual Academy Awards, including best picture. "The Social Network" and "Inception" scored eight apiece.

Those four films are in the running for best picture with six other movies: "Black Swan," "The Fighter," "The Kids Are All Right," "127 Hours," "Toy Story 3" and "Winter's Bone." "Toy Story 3" is also nominated in four more categories, including best animated feature...

(latimes.com)

Half The Perfect World

Every night he'd come to me

I'd cook for him, I'd pour his tea

I was in my thirties then

Had made some money, lived with men

We'd lay us down to give and get

Beneath the white mosquito net

And since no counting had begun

We lived a thousand years in one

The candles burned

The moon went down

The polished hill

The milky town

Transparent, weightless, luminous

Uncovering the two of us

On that fundamental ground

Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound

And half the perfect world is found

The candles burned

The moon went down

The polished hill

The milky town

Transparent, weightless, luminous

Uncovering the two of us

On that fundamental ground

Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound

And half the perfect world is found

Marco Paolini - Ausmerzen

AUSMERZEN vite indegne di essere vissute

in diretta televisiva su La7 il 26 gennaio 2011 alle ore 21.10

Milano, Teatro La Cucina, Ex Ospedale Psichiatrico Paolo Pini - 25, 26 Gennaio 2011

The Pillars Of The Earth

Dal 12 gennaio 2011 in DVD e Blu-Ray arriva la mini-serie evento “I Pilastri della Terra”, tratta dal best seller di Ken Follett venduto in 14 milioni di copie e tradotto in 30 lingue, prodotta da Ridley e Tony Scott.
La spettacolare serie tv, che ha ricevuto 3 nomination ai prossimi Golden Globe e vede tra i protagonisti uno straordinario Donald Sutherland, uscirà in 3 diverse edizioni: 4 DVD, Blu Ray Disc e Limited Edition a tiratura limitata con libro, segnalibro, cartoline ed un intero disco extra con contenuti speciali inediti. Inoltre il 9 gennaio gli episodi della serie tv, dopo il grande successo di ascolti registrato a ottobre, torneranno su Sky con una maratona in onda su Sky Cinema Mania HD (canale 312) a partire dalle 13.40.

(blog.screenweek.it)

who watches the watchmen?

Gölem - 08,49 circa

marquee moon

I remember how the darkness doubled

I recall, lightning struck itself

I was listening, listening to the rain

I was hearing, hearing something else

Life in the hive puckered up my night

The kiss of death, the embrace of life

There I stand 'neath the Marquee Moon

Just waiting

I spoke to a man down at the tracks

And I asked him how he don't go mad

He said "Look here junior, don't you be so happy

And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad"

Life in the hive puckered up my night

The kiss of death, the embrace of life

There I stand 'neath the Marquee Moon

Hesitating

Well a Cadillac, it pulled out of the graveyard

Pulled up to me, all they said, "Get in"

Then the Cadillac, it puttered back into the graveyard

Me, I got out again

Life in the hive puckered up my night

The kiss of death, the embrace of life

There I stand 'neath the Marquee Moon

I ain't waiting

I remember how the darkness doubled

I recall, lightning struck itself

I was listening, listening to the rain

I was hearing, hearing something else

"Marquee Moon è un album della band americana Television, uscito nel 1977. È il loro disco più famoso, ed uno dei più importanti all'interno della musica New Wave. Si distingue il leader Tom Verlaine, grazie al suo particolare stile chitarristico.

Marquee Moon è uno degli album più acclamati nella storia del punk-rock. L'album è al 128º posto nella classifica dei migliori 500 album di tutti i tempi, stilata dalla rivista americana Rolling Stones[1]; è incluso nella lista dei 100 migliori dischi punk del magazine inglese Q (Maggio 2002, p.143); è al 2º posto nella lista dei migliori album di debutto (dopo The Velvet Underground & Nico) compilata dalla rivista inglese Uncut (Novembre 2001, p.134). La canzone "Marquee Moon", inoltre, è al 51º posto nella lista dei migliori 100 pezzi chitarristici della rivista Q".

(it.wikipedia.org)

Lay My Love

I am the crow of desperation

I need no fact or validation

I spin relentless variation

I scramble in the dust of a failing nation

I was concealed

Now I am stirring

And I have waited for this time.

I am the termite of temptation

I multiply and fly my population

I am the wheel I am the turning

And I will lay my love around you.

I am the sea of permutation

I live beyond interpretation

I scramble all the names and the combinations

[I] penetrate the walls of explanation

I am the will

I am the burning

And I will lay my love around you.

I am the will

I am the yearning

And I will lay my love around you.

Hiroshima Mon Amour - Ultravox!

Somehow we drifted off too far

Communicate like distant stars

Splintered voices down the 'phone

The sunlit dust, the smell of roses drifts, oh no

Someone waits behind the door

Hiroshima mon amour

Riding inter-city trains

Dressed in European grey

Riding out to echo beach

A million memories in the trees and sands, oh no

How can I ever let them go?

Hiroshima mon amour

Meet beneath the autumn lake

Where only echoes penetrate

Walk through polaroids of the past

Future's fused like shattered glass, the sun's so low

Turns our silhouettes to gold

Hiroshima mon amour

breath

With every waking breath I breathe

I see what life has dealt to me

With every sadness I deny

I feel a chance inside me die

Give me a taste of something new

To touch to hold to pull me through

Send me a guiding light that shines

Across this darkened life of mine

Breathe some soul in me

Breathe your gift of love to me

Breathe life to lay ¹fore me

Breathe to make me breathe

For every man who built a home

A paper promise for his own

He fights against an open flow

Of lies and failures, we all know

To those who have and who have not

How can you live with what you¹ve got?

Give me a touch of something sure

I could be happy evermore

Breathe some soul in me

Breathe your gift of love to me

Breathe life to lay ¹fore me

To see to make me breathe

Breathe your honesty

Breathe your innocence to me

Breathe your word and set me free

Breathe to make me breathe

This life prepares the strangest things

The dreams we dream of what life brings

The highest highs can turn around

To sow love¹s seeds on stony ground

Breathe

Breathe

Breathe some soul in me

Breathe your gift of love to me

Breathe life to lay ¹fore me

To see to make me breathe

Breathe your honesty

Breathe your innocence to me

Breathe your word and set me free

Breathe to make me breathe

(Breathe)

(Breathe)

With every waking breath I breathe

I see what life has dealt to me

With every sadness I deny

I feel a chance inside me die

Give me a taste of something new

To touch to hold to pull me through

Send me a guiding light that shines

Across this darkened life of mine

Breathe some soul in me

Breathe your gift of love to me

Breathe life to lay ¹fore me

Breathe to make me breathe

For every man who built a home

A paper promise for his own

He fights against an open flow

Of lies and failures, we all know

To those who have and who have not

How can you live with what you¹ve got?

Give me a touch of something sure

I could be happy evermore

Breathe some soul in me

Breathe your gift of love to me

Breathe life to lay ¹fore me

To see to make me breathe

Breathe your honesty

Breathe your innocence to me

Breathe your word and set me free

Breathe to make me breathe

This life prepares the strangest things

The dreams we dream of what life brings

The highest highs can turn around

To sow love¹s seeds on stony ground

Breathe

Breathe

Breathe some soul in me

Breathe your gift of love to me

Breathe life to lay ¹fore me

To see to make me breathe

Breathe your honesty

Breathe your innocence to me

Breathe your word and set me free

Breathe to make me breathe 

You Can't Always Get What You Want

I saw her today at a reception

A glass of wine in her hand

I knew she would meet her connection

At her feet was her footloose man

No, you can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

And if you try sometime you find

You get what you need

I saw her today at the reception

A glass of wine in her hand

I knew she was gonna meet her connection

At her feet was, footloose man

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometimes, well you might find

You get what you need

Oh yea-ay (hey-hey-hey, oooh)

And I went down to the demonstration

To get my fair share of abuse

Singin', 'We're gonna vent our frustration

If we don't, we're gonna blow a 50-amp fuse'

Sing it to me, now

(You can't always get what you want)

(You can't always get what you want)

(You can't always get what you want)

But if you try sometimes, well you just might find

You get what you need

Ooh baby, yeah, ooh

I went down to the Chelsea drugstore

To get your prescription filled

I was standin' in line with Mr. Jimmy

A-man, did he look pretty ill

We decided that we would have a soda

My favorite flavor, cherry red

I sung my song to Mr. Jimmy

Yeah, and he said one word to me, and that was 'dead'

I said to him

(You can't always get what you want) well no!

(You can't always get what you want) tell ya baby

(You can't always get what you want) no

But if you try sometimes, you just might find, mmm!

Mmm! you get what you need

Ooh yes! Woo!

Ooow-ooh!

You get what you need

Yeah!

Ooow, babe!

Ooh, yeah

I saw her today at the reception

In her glass was a bleeding man

She was practiced at the art of deception

Well, I could tell by her blood-stained hands

Say it!

(You can't always get what you want) yeah!

(You can't always get a-what you want) ooo-yeah, baby!

(You can't always get a-what you want)

But if you try sometime, you just might find

You just might find

You get what you need

Ooh, yeah!

Ooh, baby!

Woo!

Ah, you can't always get a-what you want

No, no baby

You can't always get a-what you want

Tellin' you right now

You can't always get what you want, mmm!

But if you try sometimes you just might find

You just might find, that ya

Get what you need

Oooh, yeah!

I'm tellin' the truth, babe

Ooow-ooh!

Ooow-ooh!

Ooow-ooh!...

The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (Live 1969)

I Am The Walrus

I am he as you are he as you are me

And we are all together

See how they run like pigs from a gun

See how they fly, I'm crying

Sitting on a cornflake

Waiting for the van to come

Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday

Man you've been a naughty boy

You let your face grow long

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g' joob

Mr. City policeman sitting

Pretty little policemen in a row

See how they fly like Lucy in the sky

See how they run, I'm crying

I'm crying, I'm crying, I'm crying

Yellow matter custard

Dripping from a dead dog's eye

Crabalocker fishwife

Pornographic priestess

Boy, you've been a naughty girl

You let your knickers down

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g' joob

Sitting in an English garden

Waiting for the sun

If the sun don't come you get a tan

From standing in the English rain

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g' joob

G-goo goo g' joob

Expert, texpert choking smokers

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

See how they smile like pigs in a sty

See how they snide, I'm crying

Climbing up the Eiffel tower

Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna

Man, you should have seen them kicking

Edgar Allan Poe

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g' joob

G-goo goo g' joob

Goo goo g' goo

G-goo goo g' joob goo

Juba juba juba

Juba juba juba

Juba juba, juba juba

Juba juba

blackbird

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Black bird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
all your life
you were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise,
You were only waiting for this moment to arise,
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Dead birds falling from sky still mystify experts

Scientists still don’t know what’s causing flocks of birds to drop from the sky in the South, even as several hundred more fell dead onto a Louisiana highway.

The puzzling phenomenon started on New Year’s Eve when thousands of blackbirds were found dead in central Arkansas. Townsfolk spent their holiday weekend removing the remains of between 4,000 and 5,000 dead red-winged blackbirds. Scientists have descended on the town, trying to find a cause for the mass die-off.

In the latest incident early this week, some 500 birds were discovered scattered on a rural road in Louisiana's Pointe Coupee Parish, 300 miles south of the Arkansas site. Officials there are stumped as to what caused the birds to plunge to their death.

Wildlife officials in both states were sending carcasses to researchers at the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., and the University of Georgia. No one is yet connecting the two mass deaths, but the Audubon Society is closely monitoring the situation.

“Mass bird die-offs can be caused by starvation, storms, disease, pesticides, collisions with manmade structures or human disturbance,” says Greg Butcher, Audubon’s director of bird conservation. “Scientists are still investigating what happened to the birds in Louisiana and Arkansas, but initial findings indicate that these are isolated incidents that were probably caused by disturbance and disorientation.”

The birds that died –- red-winged blackbirds, common grackles, brown-headed cowbirds and European starlings –- are abundant species that flock together in large nighttime roosts during the winter months. Roosts can contain from tens of thousands to 20 million individuals or more, according to Audubon.

The U.S. Geological Service's website lists about 90 mass deaths of birds and other wildlife from June through Dec. 12. Five list deaths of at least 1,000 birds and another 12 show at least 500 dead birds.

The largest was near Houston, Minn., where about 4,000 water birds died between Sept. 6 and Nov. 26 from infestations of various parasites.

Red-winged blackbirds are among North America's most abundant birds, with somewhere between 100 million and 200 million nationwide, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, N.Y.

-- Julie Cart

Cowboys & Aliens - Release Date: July 29, 2011

Plot Summary: Blockbuster filmmaker Jon Favreau directs Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in an event film for summer 2011 that crosses the classic Western with the alien-invasion movie in a blazingly original way: "Cowboys & Aliens." Joined by an arsenal of top moviemakers—Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci—he brings an all-new action thriller that will take audiences into the Old West, where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world.

1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). It's a town that lives in fear.

But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.

Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents—townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors—all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

Peter William Postlethwaite - 7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011

The British actor Pete Postlethwaite, has died in hospital in Shropshire at the age of 64, following a fight against cancer.

He was called the "best actor in the world" by Steven Spielberg and appeared in a string of box office hits including In The Name Of the Father, The Usual Suspects and Romeo And Juliet.

One of the roles Pete Postlethwaite was most famous for, was in the film Brassed Off about the struggles facing a northern colliery band.

(bbc.co.uk)

Steve McQueen - March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980