Amat victoria curam!

 

After a lot of Hollywood movies it is always nice to relax, dream away and to enjoy a classic Italian movie. It seems that only Italians can do this - beautiful settings, philosophical scripts, beautiful people and a great sound track. This is a film to remember and to cherish. Tomaso has to go to the far southern tip of Italy to help his family out with their pasta business. A trip with lot's of surprises and a warm ending...

How did it all start? Now we know because of this nice Sunday afternoon flick. But it is just a little bit to long I think, it could do with at least a half hour less of talking and extensive action scenes.. Nice role of Kevin Bacon.

Sure it is the same formula, but what a formula it is :-) It's an other 2 hours of senseless humor with the guys. As usual the most fun comes with the end credits...

Today is the long anticipated auction of Pierre & Gilles photographs/paintings @Christies Paris. For a mere €30.000 or so you can pick up an original artwork by the guys, so hurry!

Därför jag ska åka till Uppsala i 4 veckor (på att plugga svenska) jag tänkte att det var en mycket bra idé att läsa böcker från Gösta Knutsson. Hans Figurerna i böckerna är katter (huvudpersonen är Pelle Svanlös) men har levande förebilder bland verkliga personer i dåtidens Uppsala. Böckerna avsågs vara en protest mot det alltmer öppna stödet för nationalsocialismen i Sverige... Jag hoppas jag lär mig en liten som Uppsala också.

 

I wasn't planning to watch this movie, but happened to stumble upon it, and I must admit: It was more fun then I thought it would be. I liked Rikkert (Wesley van Gaalen) most. His relationship with his Opel Manta is classic :-)

Interesting story in the New Yorker: What is the relation between the reality, our senses and our brain?

Don't our senses need time to digest what they see, hear, feel? Next there is some transportation time needed to our brain and finally our brain has to put all that stuff together and make some (real) sense out of it. To make things more interesting - different senses have different legacy times and you also have to deal with the difference in the speed of light vs. sound e.g.

So how do we have a sync feeling about things that happen around us? Isn't it so that we have to wait for the last feed to come in? And so: are we actually living in a world that is already microseconds away....

Wow! Maybe even some people have a different legacy time and are living in a different time all together - that explains a lot considering some people ;-))