Sailing to Byzantium

AJ : i realy feel in peace with myself right now
sj : That is great
sj : I am happy for you
AJ : thank you
sj : You are welcome
sj : Always
AJ : I was coming from work... and I was thinking that in case I loose my job because of this financial crisis I wouldn't have anything to sustain myself here and I would have to go home... for a moment I felt some kind of fear even if this doesn't seem very possible to happend at the moment, but then I thought that if I go home I would go to a monastery to live there for maybe two months... and at that moment I felt like being there, and since then I feel as if I've been to the church today
sj: This is great
sj: Spiritually moving to another place
sj: I love this
sj : There is a poem depicting this
sj : for Yeats
AJ : I didn't have this feeling since I was there...
AJ : until today
sj : It is called 'Sailing to Byzantium"
sj : Read it
AJ : and the orthodox faith has it's roots in the Byzantium
sj: I know
AJ : this makes me even more happy
sj : this is why I am telling you
AJ : thank you very much
sj : You are most welcome my friend

And here's the poem:

Sailing to Byzantium

by William Butler Yeats

That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
- Those dying generations - at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unaging intellect.

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.

Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

talk talk talk

Alex J: da cu tine ce-i la ora asta?
Alex J: e inchis
Mloakattoloe: da tu ce ubicuu esti....esti si plecat, si la comp....wow :p
Alex J: ai vazut filmul doom?
Mloakattoloe: nope....cu cine ce ii?
Alex J: nu stiu
Alex J: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=470840
Mloakattoloe: wai, ce fain :D .....mi-ar fi placut sa te cunosc in liceu ;))
Alex J: mie nu mi-ar fi placut sa ma cunosc in liceu
Alex J: cred ca mi-as fi dat cateva palme
Mloakattoloe: de ce? u were fun
Alex J: was I
Alex J: m I not fun now?
Alex J: ha?
Mloakattoloe: esti fun, but in a different way..... :p
Alex J: yeah, I know, I'm an old redneck
Mloakattoloe: pe atunci erai mai nebunatic ;))
Alex J: paream in unele momente
Mloakattoloe: aveai isbucniri? ;))
Alex J: aveam, aveam
Alex J: eram o fire mai diareica din punct de vedere neuronal. Acum as spune ca am un creier constipat, dar important e ca tot cacat iese
Mloakattoloe: ce plastic te-ai exprimat ;))
Mloakattoloe: eu tre sa ma culc.....
Alex J: ca orice iubitor de pink floyd 8-} :))
Mloakattoloe: mai vb maine ;))
Alex J: cu plapuma
Mloakattoloe: ce-i cu plapuma? n-am asa ceva la cj
Alex J: vezi ca pun si asta pe blog ca n-am mai pus nimic de mult timp
Mloakattoloe: care parte?
Alex J: tot
Mloakattoloe: ok
Mloakattoloe: da sa fie cu tot cu emoticonuri :p

couch potato

I think that I'm becoming a couch potato. I waste all my free time in front of the laptop now that I got back to Odense. It's the best way to keep in touch with my friends... using yahoo messenger... maybe I'll just use Skype from now on. When I was in Romania I was blaming others for being couch potatoes. By that time you could hardly find me at home... but now I know how it's like.
I think that you have noticed those links on the right of this page... now you see two more. Someone said that if you get into my mind you cand hardly find a way out of it... so I thought it would be funny to make two links for geting out of it. The first one is EXIT and the second one is EMERGENCY EXIT. You may try them if you want to. You can find them on all my pages except for the page where I draw my life maps and the plans for the demolition of my unwanted feelings... strange... I nevere needed to write a plan for building any feelings inside of me, evendough sometimes I build them, but sometimes they just come to me. Maybe others build the most of our feelings and we build the most of others feelings.
My player just started to play the song 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. It sounds beautiful. Here's the song .

The last stupid thing I said is: "My mind's got a mind of it's own". Since then, nothing was so impressive.

I told you in my last blog that I would write about some movies... Well, I'm not realy in the mood for that but since you might be wondering here it goes:

One of the best movies I've seen so far is Behind The Sun (released in 2001) directed by Walter Salles. The movie is based on Ismail Kadare's novel "Broken April" (I didn't read the book). It's a drama that focuses on the consequences of revenge versus the sacrifice for love. Two families are fighting for land under the rules of what is known to be a blood feud. The story is seen through the eyes of Pacu, the younger boy of one of the families.
I've cut the first scene and uploaded it on youtube for you to see it. Here it is (stop the radio in the top right side of the page before pressing play)

I hope that this is enough to make you want to watch it.

Another funny messenger discussion now:

me: I don't remember which messenger photo was the one that you said it was interesting,but look, I have only interesting pictures
her: :P
her: listen
me: yes
her: would you wash my car? I mean taking it to the car wash
me: hard question
me: does it have a double meaning?
her: yes
me: ok then
her: is there one that you prefer?
me: wait a second. What are we talking here?
her: when are you going to wash it?
me: yesterday
me: 8-}
me: If ther was only the first question then I would understad something like: "get lost and leave me alone!" ...but... ?!
her: oops
her: sorry
her: sorry
her: sorry
her: I thought that I was talking to my brother
her: alex
her: only now I have seen
her: taht 'J'
her: God!
her: :">
her: I'm sorry
me: no problem
her: he's prepairing for the exames, and I know that sometimes he's having some breaks
me: aha, and you give him things to do on his breaks...
her: ooh.. I'm so sorry
me: I'm not mad at you
me: and this thing about sending him to take your car to the car wash is funny... it's like: "Hey boys, while you're resting, move those bricks away!" ***\\-..-//***
her: well, if I sent him to do the shoppings anyway..
her: :P
me: shoppings too?! wow, and does he rest only when he's sleeping?
her: he doesn't sleep much lately
her: I'm kidding
her: he's nice and we help each other
her: with many things
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***\\-.. -//*** "Hey boys, while you're resting, move those bricks away!" this is part of another story that a friend told me about one of his mates.

Till Dawn

Last night I had a long messenger chat with Raluca. I don't exacly remember what was the time when I turned on my laptop, but we've been talking and "sharing" youtube until about 3:00 AM (that was 4:00 AM for her because she's in Romania). Among other things she showed me, there was this band that I started to like. It's name is Royksopp. I don't know what it comes from, but their music is great, even as simple as it appears to be. When I was a kid, I've seen one of their videos on the French tv channel MCM, but I didn't pay much attention to it because I found it a little bit dull at that time. I was still listening to it anyway because of it's calm feeling. The title is Poor Leno. You'll find it here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-_jhdZoPW1Q&feature=related
The folowing ones are some that I realy enjoy listening to. It's a great feeling. It's like a spring's end morning... or an early summer morning. Take it as you like 8-} .
Before you press play, you might want to stop the radio in the right top of the page. It won't stop by itself.










It's clear that the guys who made the videos are very openminded and they carry great and heavy plastic bags full of imagination in their heads.

By the way :D, today I've been doing some shoppings and when I was on my way home I've seen an old man who had a hat on his head. On the hat there was a skull printed. Under the skull it was written: "Skull inside". I realy think that old people can be more childish than youngsters (maybe because youngsters like to be regarded as mature guys/girls).

Now, back to our night chat! I showed her a flash animation, it wasn't too much of a great work(who am I to judge that?!)but the message was realy emotional : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EZsKsdD8N8E (it's got no connection to the war vehicle you see in the begining which is just a logo) and then she showed me some more others, but not flash(i'll put links to them at the end of this post) and we've been talking like this until we said "good morning!" and I went to bed... don't know if she did the same.
here are the links that I was talking about:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wDTvQYM45Mw "Howl's Moving Castle" it seems to be a great fantastic story... good music
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=je1zUVDpx-M&NR=1 "Les Triplettes de Belleville" nice http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=39glDm6Of04 it seems to be an Oscar winner
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RAqoNb9RGIM not much I can say, just watch it
aaaand this:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4yQhXBeabUE kind of a subtile reality.