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FANMIX : THE HOST
(My Hand Searches for your Hand)

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01. Hana Pestle - Need
Can I feel anymore? Lie to me, I'm fading
My hand searches for your hand In a dark room
I can't find you, Help me
Are you looking for me?

02. Nouvelle Vague - I Melt with You
There’s nothing you and I won’t do
I’ll stop the world and melt with you

03. Metric - Help I'm Alive
I get wherever I’m going, I get whatever I need
while my blood’s still flowing and my heart still beats.

04. Elisa - Labyrinth
now everything is reflection as i make my way through this labyrinth
and my sense of direction is lost like the sound of my steps

05. Snow Patrol - All That I Have
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear 'cause you are all that I have

06. Jimmy Eat World - Kill
You kill me, you always know the perfect thing to say
I know what I should do but I just can't walk away

07. Paramore - We Are Broken
I've seen worlds that don't belong
My mouth is dry with words I cannot verbalize
Tell me why we live like this
Give us life again cause we just wanna be whole

08. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Oh say, say, say!
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you

09. Blue October - Hate Me
Hate me today. Hate me tomorrow.
Hate me for all the things i didn't do for you.

10. Bon Jovi - Love Me Back to Life
Take me, touch me, hold me like you mean it
Make me come alive
Hurt me, heal me, come and make me feel it
Rescue me tonight

11. The Bravery - Believe
So give me something to believe
Cause I am living just to breathe

12. Daughtry - Crashed (Acoustic)
And then I crashed into you, And I went up in flames.
Could've been the death of me,
But then you breathed your breath in me

13. Giorgia - Gocce di Memoria
Siamo gocce di un passato che non puo' piu' tornare
questo tempo ci ha tradito, inafferrabile
Raccontero' di te, inventero' per te
quello che non abbiamo

14. Bonnie Somerville - Winding Road
And it's a winding road, I've been walking for a long time
I still don't know Where it goes
I'm gonna find my way home

15. Bon Jovi - Undivided
Where we once were divided, now we stand united
We stand as one... undivided.

16. Gaia - One
one the man I missed
one is what I've lost
one  who pays the cost
one the day I die
one will to survive

17. U2 - With Or Without You (sang by Diana Vickers)
I can't live, with or without you

18. The Fray - Look After You
You've begun to feel like home
What's mine is yours to leave or take
What's mine is yours to make your own


 

So... Today I made it to the supermarket! Which doesn't seem like a big deal, but since there was no transport at all in London and all the streets were blocked with snow, I was pretty proud of myself! The supermarket was almost empty, it was very surreal. It was like walking in a ghost town, except for the random idiots coming out of nowhere at some point and throwing snowballs at you! Which I wouldn't have minded so much, but I was carrying two shopping bags, my bag and the umbrella and my hands were completely frozen! It was nice to notice the 'bonding' feeling that started emerging among the people who braved it outside and were struggling to walk straight, we were all looking at each other like survivals and exchanging smiles of awareness :D It was actually quite funny!

But anyway, that's pretty much all I did today {together with trying out the new iPhoto, which is amazing! You can tag people :D !} So today no meme, even if I'm working on the 'list of top female characters' one which I found a few days ago! and which I'll post pretty soon! But I'm just going to post some pictures, as I found some really good/funny ones online! Here we go:

A brilliant snowman, a man skiing to central :-/ and the outside of a cafe in Canary Wharf!


The Big Ben <3, the inside of the Globe and some people building an igloo in Finsbury Park :D

Well, I will just finish this post with a few more things quickly :) First of all, I have seen this new play at the Tricycle theatre in Kilburn last night, called Loot. It's a macabre comedy/satire, and it's actually very funny! I hadn't seen a play where I actually started laughing in a long time before yesterday :) It has an actor from Eastenders that I thought really wasn't that great, but it's compensated by a wonderful David Haig that just makes the whole play so much better and so funny by just making an entrance. If any of you lives in London and likes going to the theatre, it's still on and I really recommend it :) David Haig is famous for a few TV series, but I remember him from Four Weddings and a Funeral, he's a really good comedy actor! :)

Finally, I've made a few friends only banners last night, when I was bored, which you can find at sere_graphic, my Livejournal for graphics and icons. They have Gary Oldman, Cabaret, RENT and the Dark Knight as subjects (yes! No Twilight!) and you're welcome to grab them :)
I think that's it for today, I have a few things to review (movies/books I liked recently) but it will wait till tomorrow, so for now I will just finish with another meme - of course - which I got from cifan70

Buscapé: It was like a message from God: "Honesty doesn't pay, sucker."
(Cidade de Deus, 2002)

Saw Cidade de Deus (City of God) for the first time yesterday and it led me to a series of thoughts. The first one was very random and not the first thing I should think of really, but I realised how strange watching a film in Portoguese is to me. In the sense that, being italian, Portoguese sounds to me as a stange sort of italian dialect that I don't understand but where I can recognise a few words, with a very different accent! So yea, it was very weird, I don't think I've ever seen a Brasilian film before in the original language. But the second consideration was that it was such a brilliant plot, and so complicated/full of subplots that make sense at the end that I would never be able to direct anything like that, or make up/adapt such a story. I can see how it had such a great success, and I loved it. The perspectives and angles were so original and the plot itself was great, without any attempt to make things less crude or violent. The ending was just perfect. (another positive update in my movie list of 2009!)

Not much more to add today. I've had a really nice Sunday actually, with no deadlines or lines to learn, as Drama rehearsals don't include any of my scenes tomorrow! So I spent some time with friends and boyfriend last night and this afternoon, when we went for a walk in the London Mudchute Farm. Which is brilliant, as it's a farm in the middle of the city, just a few minutes away from the most business-like part of the city, Canary Wharf. You can see the skyscrapers in the background, but you're surrounded by animals and green. It's quite surreal really. It got me quite excited, as I found out they have an Equestrian Centre and got the details to contact them! I used to go horse riding back in Italy and have been desperate to start again, it is even a point in my 2009 resolutions list! :) Anyway here are a few of the pictures I took at the farm today:

Today is the end of 2008. And today
I'm grateful for everything I have.
I'm happy for my friends, and for my family.
I'm happy for my dreams and my achievements.
I'm grateful for my memories, and for my imagination.
I'm not stuck in the past, but looking at the future.
I'm smiling at my mistakes.
I'm alive and I'm young.
Today I'm spending New Year's Eve with my dad, and I wouldn't be anywhere else.

...So I watched the film last night, finally. And, I didn't like it. I was actually so happy that I had read the book earlier and waited a while before watching the film version, letting curiosity grow more and more. Because everything I imagined wasn't like I saw in the movie in the end. I couldn't feel all the passion, all the struggle, all the poetry that I felt so clearly in the book, and I got so angry in some points that everything I had imagined in my mind happened so quickly in the film and in such a different way. It took a while to get used to both Bella and Edward, as I had my own idea of how they would look like, which wasn't the same. I think Bella was well casted in the end, but I have some problems accepting Edward. He is supposed to be charming and captivating, not scary and fragile in some points and just weird and show-off in others. I didn't like this Edward Cullen at all. I think his looks were ok, but his actions weren't. Even the way he's supposed to move is different, and anyway, everything happens so quickly that half of the feeling/struggle is completely lost and the film just looks less and less deep than the book.

But - I still love the stills of it, and the quotes, and I liked a few scenes as well. So I will just write a few quotes before I'm off reading the third book...

 

 

 

 

I remember looking at all the posters out of the cinema and painted on the buses, thinking that Twilight must surely be a bit of a weird movie and that I really wouldn't be interested in it at all... And now, I'm completely into it, sharing this general obsession with everybody else!
I haven't even watched the film, but I managed to read the book in less than a day and I loved it! It was such a great story that, even if I had interruptions, I couldn't wait to go back to it into that exciting world, as it felt as if I almost knew all the characters already! And this hasn't happened in a while. I was reading the first book thinking of how I would get the next three in English here in Italy already. It's done. I'm completely lost.
I want an Edward Cullen and I know exactly what he would look like, what he would be wearing all the time and the way he would speak and move. I'm in love with Twilight...

I have just finished downloading the movie and will then go back to finish the second book (which is so much worse in Italian but oh well...)
And although I just came back from a couple of days in the mountains with so much snow and so many lovely pics, I will instead put something of Twilight of course. The rest will have to be said tomorrow....

I can't believe it!! These last 3 days have passed so quickly and I'm already flying back to Italy tomorrow! It's been ages since I've last been back and I'm just very happy! In the past two days I have

a) Had a fancy dress Christmas party (and dressed up as Santa)
b) Been to visit Cambridge with Chris (and we had some sun!!)
c) Had a lovely vegan lunch on a bus-restaurant in Brick Lane (and a look at the market!)

And the fourth day will be tomorrow, when I will complete this series of lovely things to do by going back to Italy! I just can't wait to walk out of the airport in Bologna and see my dad there waiting for me, and then go back home to see my dog all excited! And all the friends, the mountains, these very happy 10 days that are in front of me...! :) There is a bit of anxiety, as always before taking a plane, but it's great to think that in less than 24 hours I'll be home again!

So that's it for today. Might delete the previous entry, which was so negative and completely unnecessary, as I went to the audition and it was not that big deal. I didn't get in, but it was impossible as there were so many professional applying. But it was a great experience!
So I think I will go to bed now and leave a few pictures from the last few days!