unlit candles makes me sad
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Monday, 13 December 2010
Enya
Okay Mr Moon, by all means unleash the night.
We are ready, our eyes are closed,
We welcome the embrace.
Enter, little star
you are most expected
onto our sky
Into our world
into our lives
into our hearts
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Darth Vader Jellyfish
This is the Hydromedusa "Darth Vader" Jellyfish, or rather Bathykorus bouilloni.
It's a litte deep-sea jelly fish discovered around 2005 by Kevin Raskoff, and it wasn't just a new species, but a new genus! And for a nerd it kinda looks like Darth Vaders helmet, doesn't it?
Links:
Smithsonianmag.comNational Geographic
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Films I recommend
Mr Nobody
A fantastic fantasy, a beautiful piece of film making
Favourite quote: Promise me that when I die, you'll scatter my ashes on Mars.
Inception
Epic, this will rank among the greatest films of all time.
Do they come here to sleep? No, They come here to be woken up. Dream has become their reality! Who are you to say, otherwise? Hot Tub Timemachine
Surprisingly amusing, and amusing in surprising ways. Not the expected jokes, felt fresh. Favourite quote: You're married? No, not yet, she's nine.
Green Zone
Well made and any film with Matt Damon in it that I can watch without being irritated that Matt Damon is in it must be good. Favourite quote: What the fuck you talking about? Of course it fucking matters! The reasons we go to war always matter! It's all that matters! It fucking matters!
The Ghost Writer
Cosy, though not scary or very exciting. More than worth the time though. Favourite quote: He can't drown two ghost writers, for god sake. You're not kittens!
Taken
One long action sequence, and one awesome revenge-movie. Gore-fest with Liam Neeson, sounds strange? Yes but it works.
Favourite quote: If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Now, already a memory
Have you ever been gripped by nostalgia?
Have you ever felt that strong urge to travel back and revisit your old memories?
Youth is wasted on the young, as George Bernard Shaw said.
I sometimes feel too caught up in building new memories and a better future to appreciate the very now, because frankly that "now" is all there is. Everything else is just a chemical pattern in your brain that is a formed memory that changes over time, or a longing for a later "now" on the horizon.
Still, as you live the "now" every second of every hour of every day of every year of your life, it is already a memory. I quantify my "nows" into such small parts that they have already passed before I've been able to savour them.
I think that is why memories from my childhood and teenage years seem so attractive now, because they are like a movie I can sit down and watch with a drink and some popcorn. I can pause, rewind and edit them into a perfect stream of a blissful life.
That is why I think Youth Is Wasted on The Young. They live through my favourite memories without even knowing it, as I did. They create what I miss.
Today is the happiest time of my life, I'm sure of that. The memories I create now will be played, paused and edited by me 20 years from now. Will I still feel that I didn't appreciate them while making them?
Is looking back on the nearest part of your life with nostalgia a sign that life is constantly getting worse, because the best part of your life was just before now? Isn't that a peculiar paradox that you know your life is getting better while your nostalgia is convinced it's getting worse!
Time is nothing you shall try to understand, like flying in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. If you stop and think about it you will crash.
Have you ever felt that strong urge to travel back and revisit your old memories?
Youth is wasted on the young, as George Bernard Shaw said.
I sometimes feel too caught up in building new memories and a better future to appreciate the very now, because frankly that "now" is all there is. Everything else is just a chemical pattern in your brain that is a formed memory that changes over time, or a longing for a later "now" on the horizon.
Still, as you live the "now" every second of every hour of every day of every year of your life, it is already a memory. I quantify my "nows" into such small parts that they have already passed before I've been able to savour them.
I think that is why memories from my childhood and teenage years seem so attractive now, because they are like a movie I can sit down and watch with a drink and some popcorn. I can pause, rewind and edit them into a perfect stream of a blissful life.
That is why I think Youth Is Wasted on The Young. They live through my favourite memories without even knowing it, as I did. They create what I miss.
Today is the happiest time of my life, I'm sure of that. The memories I create now will be played, paused and edited by me 20 years from now. Will I still feel that I didn't appreciate them while making them?
Is looking back on the nearest part of your life with nostalgia a sign that life is constantly getting worse, because the best part of your life was just before now? Isn't that a peculiar paradox that you know your life is getting better while your nostalgia is convinced it's getting worse!
Time is nothing you shall try to understand, like flying in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. If you stop and think about it you will crash.
More quotes from mr Shaw that I think fits the subject:
- “We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing"
- “I want to be all used up when I die.”
- “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
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