Glyptotek Museum

In Copenhagen. They also had a lot of stuff from Egypt, but I didn't put that here, even dough I was very much impressed of it.
Enjoy!

from home

Something that I like to do when I'm in Romania

In the mood for saying something

I've been feeling a little bit sad in the last few evenings. Of course, listening to Antimatter very much, Royksopp, Lene Marlin and... so on. I won't tell you where the sadness came from, but I'm going to talk about some things that I found. I very much like listening to music in which the acoustic guitar or/and piano are the main instruments. A few minutes ago I was writing to someone (buna Ana! :p) an e-mail about the new Antimatter album "Leaving Eden" and I checked out their page for a few seconds. I know that I haven't seen any of their albums in any store so I looked for the record lable. Found it: Prophecy Records. I went to their web page and... surprise! prophecyproductions.de
The page looks fine, but that wasn't the surprise. As you might have red already, this is what they say about themselves:
"It is Prophecy's basic imperative to release high-quality "eerie-emotional music" in an aesthetically satisfying manner. We are aiming to enchant our customers with beautiful products selected in accordance with good taste.
From the onset, it was Prophecy's philosophy to not limit ourselves to any one genre. Rather, you will find a varied spectrum on our label roster, ranging from dark metal and intense acoustic music to progressive and indie rock. We have never refrained from unconventional music of any stripe as long as it is touching and rousing."

Cool, isn't it? Now that was enough for me to start checking out the music from every band I find there. I didn't finish, but, for now here are the first two bands which impressed me: Klimt 1918 with their album "Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again" and Todesbonden. I didn't go on myspace to check the last name, but I looked for them on youtube. While listening to Todesbonden I scrolled down the videos on the right side of the page aaand this is the surprise that I was writing about earlier: Tarja Turuner! I found some songs sang by her... on a solo album! I just remember now the atmosphere from Rock am Ring this year and I can say that those guys from Nightwish didn't know what treasure they threw away! The song from the link that I gave you here is in Finnish, but even if I don't understand a thing of what she is singing, it makes me feel ... good... and I don't have words for that kind of good.

For The Good Times

If you find this funny, his name is Ron White. You might want to look for the shows. He's not alone in this... If you look for the Blue Collar Comedy Tour(on youtube maybe) you'll see the others also.
One more:

Enjoy!

After a review on algebra

while coming down the stairs I hear Ionuţ (a.k.a. yo' nuts) saying slowly: one is for one, two is for two...

synaptic revelations

Friday night: "Maybe she's strange because she's not drunk."
today:
this morning:
Me: "Richie, there's some smoke coming out of your mouth from time to time."
He takes the cigarette out of his mouth, blows a smoke and says to me:
"You're crazy."

After a few minutes we were in the elevator on our way back to the classroom. Simmi said he was feeling tired. I tell him:
"Well... you should just go there and pretend you're doing nothing."
Simmi:
"How could I pretend that I'm doing nothing?"
Rasmus:
"By doing everything."

Way later:
Cosmin: "And... what's your blackbox going to do?"
Me: "Aaa... we'll put some potatoes in it and in case It won't do what we expect it to do, it will cook the potatoes for us."
This afternoon at the slagter: "Time is outdated."
This is all I remember right now. If Someone out there can tell me more of what I said these days... please! 8-}

Pateric

" Spre sfârşitul mileniului II, preocupările de spiritualitate s-au reîntors. S-au dovedit falimentare încercările făcute de la Renaştere încoace, îndeosebi în veacurile XVIII-XIX, de a-L expulza pe Dumnezeu din istorie sau chiar a-L nega.
Necazul este că fără o bună călăuzire, viaţa spirituală o poate lua pe căi lăturalnice. Aberaţiile pot fi socotite normalităţi şi anumite stări patologice drept trăiri duhovniceşti înalte.
Iată de ce acum 12 ani ne-am gântit să tipărim , din literatura duhovnicească, o seamă de cărţi care le pot fi de mare folos doritorilor de autentica viaţă spirituală. Ele alcătuiesc colecţia "Isvoare Duhovniceşti"."

Izvoare ale spiritualităţii creştine - Andrei Arhiepiscop al Alba Iuliei

"Am iubit Patericul încă din tinereţe pentru că mi s-a părut cartea cea mai realistă din toată literatura monahală a Rărăsăritului. Dacă, asemenea Sfântului Apostol Pavel, ar fi să împrumut comparaţii din lumea sportului aş spune că Filocalia este tratatul alpinistului, a celui ce a depăşit exerciţile lunecuşurilor facile şi s-a angajat spre vârfuri înarmat cu espadrile, funii şi pitoane; riscul căderii e din ce în ce mai mare, dar şi măsurile de apărare sunt mai severe. În schimb Patericul poate fi manualul schiorului. Se ştie însă că una din primele griji ale instructorului este aceea de a-l învăţa pe elev cum să cadă fără să-şi rupă gâtul şi cum să se ridice fără să-şi frângă picioarele. Aceasta însă presupune eventualitatea căderii. Cititorul neavizat al patericului este uneori scandalizat de istorisirea unor astfel de prăbuşiri, dar nu-i va rămâne străină lecţia redresării. În aceasta constă realismul extraordinarei culegeri de fapte, gânduri şi poveţe monahale, ale cărei pagini sunt deseori vecine cu profunzimea şi sprinteneala proverbului."

Predoslovie - Arhimandrit Bartolomeu Anania

PATERIC - Ediţia a 4-a rev. Alba Iulia; Reîntregirea, 2004