What the Water Gave Me - Florence + The Machine
The Singer:
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| Florence Welch |
The woman that inspired the song:
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| Virginia Woolf |
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| What the Water Gave Me, Frida Kahlo, 1938, Oil on Canvas |
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| Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait |
Friday, April 20, 2012
Beautiful Women
The song:
What the Water Gave Me - Florence + The Machine
The Singer:
The woman that inspired the song:
The painting that inspired the title:
The Painter:
What the Water Gave Me - Florence + The Machine
The Singer:
The woman that inspired the song:
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Book List Set 1
This my personal book list: all the books I want to OWN and READ.
Here's my first set. I'm hoping to have a copy and read all of them Before This Year Ends.
1. A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin
The fifth book in Martin's epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. Need I say more?
2. The Complete Earthsea Novels by Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea ,The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, The Other Wind)
Taoist, Feminist, Environmental, Magical. I can't wait to read all five books.
3. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
Loneliness, Guilt, Self-hatred, "the vanity of Life", Youth, Old Age, transition from Japanese Meiji society to the modern era (which I'm so fascinated with), Love, Isolation. Kokoro literally translates to "heart" or "heart of the matter'.
4. Luka and the Fire of Life, Salman Rushdie
Lightheartedness, Magic, Love, Fables, Allegory, Myth, Fantasy, Freedom, Truth ... Salman Rushdie explains it better: "As well as the central theme of life and death, Luka explores in, I hope, suitably fabulous and antic fashion, things I have thought about all my life: the relationships between the world of imagination and the "real" world, between authoritarianism and liberty, between what is true and what is phony, and between ourselves and the gods that we create. Younger readers do not need to dwell on these matters. Older readers may, however, find them satisfying."
5. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Hope, Repression, Love triangle, Cloning, Science Fiction, Friendship.
6. White Teeth and On Beauty, Zadie Smith
White Teeth -- "race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light." - Amazon.com review
On Beauty -- "characters such as Claire Malcolm, an east coast poet/intellectual portrayed with a stunningly accurate feeling for the type. Or Carl, a sharp, touching study of a ghetto teenager making good, done with all the volatile political and sexual currents set in motion by such a progress. Or Howard Belsey himself ... whose limitless capacity for folly keeps deepening and strangely sweetening his character." The Guardian review
7. The Lake, Banana Yoshimoto
8. The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
9. The Tigér's Wife, Tea Obreht
10. The Trial, Franz Kafka
11. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
12. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
13. Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Sadaawi
14. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto and The Visible Man, Chuck Klosterman
15. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
Here's my first set. I'm hoping to have a copy and read all of them Before This Year Ends.
1. A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin
The fifth book in Martin's epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. Need I say more?
2. The Complete Earthsea Novels by Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea ,The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, The Other Wind)
Taoist, Feminist, Environmental, Magical. I can't wait to read all five books.
3. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
Loneliness, Guilt, Self-hatred, "the vanity of Life", Youth, Old Age, transition from Japanese Meiji society to the modern era (which I'm so fascinated with), Love, Isolation. Kokoro literally translates to "heart" or "heart of the matter'.
4. Luka and the Fire of Life, Salman Rushdie
Lightheartedness, Magic, Love, Fables, Allegory, Myth, Fantasy, Freedom, Truth ... Salman Rushdie explains it better: "As well as the central theme of life and death, Luka explores in, I hope, suitably fabulous and antic fashion, things I have thought about all my life: the relationships between the world of imagination and the "real" world, between authoritarianism and liberty, between what is true and what is phony, and between ourselves and the gods that we create. Younger readers do not need to dwell on these matters. Older readers may, however, find them satisfying."
5. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Hope, Repression, Love triangle, Cloning, Science Fiction, Friendship.
6. White Teeth and On Beauty, Zadie Smith
White Teeth -- "race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light." - Amazon.com review
On Beauty -- "characters such as Claire Malcolm, an east coast poet/intellectual portrayed with a stunningly accurate feeling for the type. Or Carl, a sharp, touching study of a ghetto teenager making good, done with all the volatile political and sexual currents set in motion by such a progress. Or Howard Belsey himself ... whose limitless capacity for folly keeps deepening and strangely sweetening his character." The Guardian review
7. The Lake, Banana Yoshimoto
8. The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
9. The Tigér's Wife, Tea Obreht
10. The Trial, Franz Kafka
11. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
12. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
13. Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Sadaawi
14. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto and The Visible Man, Chuck Klosterman
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
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