gesualdo

what better way

to spend one's sunday morning revisiting old obsessions.
one of my most enduring fixations has been for the late renaissance composer of madrigals, carlo gesualdo. his music is like nothing ever heard of at the time, with the use of chromatic harmonies that weren't to be heard of again till centuries later. and then there is the brutal murder of his wife and lover, caught in flagrante delicto. i always thought it would make a heck of film. someone out there clearly agrees. bertolucci has signed up for it. fingers crossed. it could be a real cracker. or it could be an unmitigated disaster.

i spy through my little eye...

shot during the magic hour

...the 20 minutes between when the sun sets and the night falls...




"this girl didn't know where she was going or what she was going to do
she didn't have no money on her
maybe she'd meet up with a character
i was hoping things would work out for her
she was a good friend of mine"

occhi lucidi....

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
When You Are Old

WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face among a crowd of stars.

teen crud alert

this loooks like it may be quite the


cracker!!!

sept. 19, premiere, in the u.s.a baby...

Gossip Girl

catch the previews. HOT

tormentone estate 2007

well, loosely translated it's the summer hit. in italy....

time to 'fess up to my own guilty pleasure of the past few months.
yes there was elliot smith
yes there was emily haines
yes there was plenty of very depressing and deep and meaningful and tragic etc. etc.

there was also...err...this...



errrr

nothing to see...
moving right along...

lil pea and i

stomping through rome

epic walks
epic drinks