I should cross the Atlantic!

This morning a member of the American consulate of Milan came to University to talk to us about the education system in the US and how universities are there. I was thrilled and excited by his speech, looking at the presentation and all the different opportunities which are there just waiting for us to take them, and I was like "hey, I've got to do something about!" because it would be a dream to cross the Atlantic and live there, talk, listen to AmE anytime, anywhere... It would be a great opportunity to improve my vocabulary and speaking skills!

And now I'm just feeling discouraged because I know it would be hard...not just for the money (quite a big problem, though), but also for the tests and requirements and all that stuff. Sometimes I don't believe in my potentials and I just give up. Next year it'll be the year of my degree (my BA)...and I know there are lots of things I don't know yet! Studying here at home or at university is not enough, I should go abroad and learn and listen and be able to talk about anything in a fluent English. Not mentioning French, of course! I should improve it as well... I don't know. Any advice?? :)

Spring Awakening & Co.

Next thing to do:

watch "Spring Awakening".

I had never heard about it until I found out that two members of the TV show Glee (Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff) were the main characters of this musical which seems to be fantastic.

Another musical I would like to see is "Next to Normal", I guess it deals with family problems; just seen the Tony performance on Youtube and I think it might be very moving.

This leads me to think about the latest version of "Rent" in theatre, the one with Vanessa Hudgens and Nicole Scherzinger. I've seen a few videos on Youtube and I was horrified by the way Hudgens ruined the musical with her performance. Out of tune, out of key, completely wrong. What surprised me was the performance of Pussycat Dolls's leader who played Maureen. Great interpretation! Different, of course, from Idina Menzel, but still funny and unconventional!

Anyway, the old cast is the best.

Just look at this:

I miss you

(Photo by Bill Wadman)

I've been sitting here for a long time,

thinking about you

and wondering where you are now.

You, my best friend,

to whom I used to talk about everything.

Talking to each other on the phone was so fun,

and the afternoons with your piano and my voice,

do you remember those days?

I miss you,

and hope you're OK.

You know me

You were always there, by my side

I had not been kind sometimes,

made you sad many times

But I do care about you

just like I always have.

This is for you and for all you've given me across these years. I'll never forget a friend like you. Just let me know you're all right, OK? Love you.

Lovely, lovely, lovely!

Don't you think that he's lovely???
This clip is from "500 days of summer", a super-cute movie starring Joseph Gordon-Lewitt and Zooey Deschanel, a tale of love and life which is going to surprise you. I loved it! I watched it a few days ago and its freshness and power and its beautiful soundtrack made me smile scene by scene. Joseph is really nice and a good actor, I envy her!
This is my favourite scene, guess why! :) Kind of a musical scene: Tom has completely fallen in love with Sole (Deschanel) and he just walked out the door walking on sunshine and the world is suddenly bright: every person he meets shakes his hand and smiles at him, everything is so perfect, it's a brand new day since love has come into his life. :)
Simply wonderful! Enjoy it!

The Roaring 20s

I can't wait to see "Burlesque" with Christina Aguilera (who's got a beautiful voice, plus a fantastic haircut!!) and Cher, I'm curious about the plot and how Christina will act, I don't remember having seen her in any film yet, I think it's her first. Recently I've been more and more amazed by rétro style, by the 20s actually, I love those dresses, the music (Bessie Smith in particular) and the power of beauty and magnetism actresses of that time had. It all started when I saw "The Great Gatsby" with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, a sad, sad story, I loved their costumes and the atmosphere...

...then I saw "Chicago", the movie version of the famous Broadway musical, with a splendid Catherine Zeta-Jones and a surprisingly good Renée Zellweger (her number "Roxie Hart" is unforgettable); finally, the 20s scene set in New Work in True Blood, when Bill is singing at the piano and Lorena is chatting with the house's owners (I'll post it below).
I think I'd love to go back to the "Roaring 20s" to see how life was - even if with the Prohibition and all it must have been an uneasy and contradictory period both for the lower and the upper classes. I don't know, maybe this could be one of my next investigation.:)
I'm so ignorant about many things... I've never loved History, but now I'm realizing that knowing the past is vital. Not just because it's important to know how things were, but it could help if I wanted to write novels or drawing costumes or make a movie which is set in the past. So, again: I need to study! and find out all that is possible to know!

I drank True Blood and I got Lost

A curious thing happened to me a few months ago and keeps happening since. I love watching series. Now I watch episode after episode, enjoying every scene in the original version, and I can't get enough! Starting from Glee, to 10 things I hate about you, The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, and recently I re-discovered Lost. At the same time, though, I'm realizing that I spend less time reading books, novels, even newspapers... and this is bad - I'm really concerned about it. It's just that images, animated images and turns of the camera, lines, soundtrack and many other features of series (as well as films) attract me more than written words, which I never thought could happen to me. I've always been a hungry reader since I was a child, always went to the library, fascinated by the millions of stories waiting for me to be read...and now I'm just a series-addicted! I "have to go back" (quoting Jack from Lost eheh) and don't forget the magic of books.

Hungry of culture!

Summer's not coming to an end yet, but I feel like it is... I don't know, maybe after my holidays in France and then - I haven't told you - those to the seaside in Italy (where I met some friends of mine from other places), the time has come of opening books, checking things about University, the courses I will attend, maybe because I can't wait for classes to begin! Of course after a month or two I will say the opposite, but for now I feel like this. :) I wanna do a lot of things, even out of university...like learning Spanish on my own, subscribing to a movie magazine, reading new books, watching new films... I'm hungry of culture! Probably I should relax now that I can, but I'm so curious! Lately I've been "creating" a personal theory about my personality: I've got some recurring "diseases". The first is that I'm envious. Of others, of others' life...and it'd be better if I stopped being so. The second is that I'm anxious. A lot!!! I think that's my biggest problem. Not only am I anxious for the duties I have to fulfil, exams and all that stuff, but also for the time, which runs inexorably, and I'm afraid I won't have the time for all the things I'd love to do...a little crazy, ah? Keep reading this blog, though, please.:)

Paris, selon nous!

Changes

I think this will be the last post before my departure to Paris. Last night I went out with some friends of mine, especially one who had been my best friend during high school...but it is not high school anymore. Some friendships stay, others go, take other directions...and it hurts. But there's always something that makes me smile. The only fact that I'm alive, that I'm feeling these feelings, makes me feel I can work it out. I'm here, writing on this blog, and I know life could surprise me, again and again and again. I just have to let it go when it feels like this, and learn to move on, even if it hurts. I don't need people who don't give a damn about me and how I feel, they're not friends. Friendship needs to be equal: if it's not, it's not friendship anymore. Wednesday morning I'll be on the plane with my boyfriend, and that's all that matters. :)

Just for tonight, darling, let's get lost

Opening my arms to Summer

Hi everyone!

Sorry, I've had some issues involving University exams and challenges with myself, and I've neglected this blog for a while (for too long, I'm afraid).

But I'm going to tell you what happened during my absence here: I've actually auditioned that day! It was strange, I was frightened and nervous, then it was my turn and I sang. Unfortunately my voice could not overcome the sound of the piano, which was so loud, and they said I didn't pass. But I was not that sad, you know, it was my personal challenge and I was taking a chance, perfectly aware that it would be a fail, but I took the courage to do it and that's what matters!

In the meantime, I had to prepare two exams: the oral English one and the Medieval History one. I decided to postpone the first on September so I could focus on Medieval History.

Now I'm free to enjoy my summer!!! Next week I'll go to France, to Paris, actually! I'll visit "the city of Love" with my boyfriend, trying to see all that I can, I'll take a lot of phorographs, some of which I'll post here when I come back. I'm so happy and I just want to relax. I guess tonight I'm going to the cinema to see "Eclipse", the latest film of the Twilight saga: have you already seen it? How was it?

Is it too soon?

I've always been certain that a stage and some music could be my own world.

Just relax

Well, today I've done my English Literature exam: I got a 24, which is pretty good! (The professor asked me to talk about Milton, Defoe, Margaret Cavendish, The Merchant of Venice and Astrophil and Stella...enough!!!) I couldn't wait to go home and relax a little bit, I was so tired and nervous...that's why I slept from 6.oo p.m until dinner!:) Now I'm here to relax a little more, trying to decide whether to start Glee's Season 2 or continuing True Blood's Season 2! Tomorrow I'll think about the audition: I'll rehearse a lot, make some physical exercise, prepare an extract from Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. But now, now it's time to take my brain and let it sleep or stand-by while I'm watching my favourite series, which always give me some inspiration.
I want summer!!! Good night everyone!

The Power of Music!

Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change

I told you I was not gonna do anything about my audition because of many reasons.

Instead...I sent an email, "booked" it and

...here it comes my audition on Wednesday 23th at 11.30 a.m.!!!

I'm so excited and frightened that I think I'm not gonna do it, I don't know if my feeble heart would stand all this tension and I'm sure it'll be a miserable mess! But the important thing is: I faced my fears and I'm in now! Of course there's much to do, and pretty small time to do it, keeping in mind that this Thursday I've got the English Literatura exam, for which I'm nervous because I don't consider myself ready to do it, but I'm crossing my fingers!

Afterwards, AAAAHHH!!!!! I'll go completely crazy!!!

There's a monologue I should prepare, a song to sing, a photo good enough to be given to the "judges", my curriculum which is fearfully empty and I can't dance like people who danced all their lives! :( Oh, I forgot to tell you, the audition is not for the musical of Alice in Wonderland (in Italian), but rather for "Cats" and "Happy Days", which is sssssscary!!!!! Wish me luck!^^

My problem is

My problem is that I am afraid of taking risks. I know, I know I need to seize the moment, I'm writing and reading it everywhere, but it's hard to do it practically when you're "tired of listening to the sound of my tears"... Obviously I'm talking about the audition...I have to send an email to audition, and I'm not ready yet, I've taken some photos, but my parents don't seem to be that interested in what I long to do in my life... I know they don't feel it's a good way of living and it's hard to find a work in that field...the showbiz, especially here in Italy, is bounded by good relations with the chief or the producers and all that stuff. For me, who had never taken a dance lesson or a singing lesson, it would be hard even to try. Maybe it'll take time...maybe it's not my time now, and I've got to wait until the day I'll show myself and perfect, improve my shape as a performer... I don't know.

Teachers

In my whole scholastic career I've met fantastic people, people who have left a trace, a sign on me, in my heart and in my life. I don't know why, but I've always worshipped teachers who made me love their subject, in a way which is peculiar. It was true affection, respect and admiration.

I always thought I would have become one of them. A teacher. Their special mission, educating children, staying with them most of the time and learn by them, feel that something is happening, "a chain we'll never break" (as Cosette sings in Les Miz) is what fascinated me.

Teachers form you, they help you become what you will be when you're older, when you'll have to solve problems, when all you've studied will have be worth it. And the words they always used to say return to your mind and you miss them, you miss being a little girl with a whole, strange and fabulous world in front of you, falling in love with books and curious characters, fictional or historical, and imagining what would it be to live in their own shoes...

I think it's magic what runs between students and teachers. Unfortunately, every day I see how young people don't have respect of them, they don't give a damn about them, yes, I know school is often boring, but you could take the chance to learn something about life and what surrounds you.

I admit I might be influenced by my latest study of De Amicis' books, an Italian writer who thought education was important for future citizens of the new Italy after the Unification in 1861, but I'm sincere about this question. That's why -also thanks to my parents who always pushed me to learn, read, love, build my own culture- I am what I am today! My childhood has been characterised by school and the discovery of literature, history and many other interesting points of view and traces of humanity until now.

(Illustration by Norman Rockwell, Teacher's Birthday)

Did you miss me??

Sorry, I've been busy these days, I've had an Italian Literature exam, it went well, I got a 30 cum laude, I'm so happy about that! Anyway, now I'm preparing my English Literature exam, which is more difficult! I hope I'll manage to finish studying all the authors in time! Shakespeare, Donne, Milton...and many others!

Oh, talking about the audition... I think I won't do it, but not for discourage or anything like that, but because I want to focus on my studies at university, but in September I swear I'll attend a dancing course or a singing school! So I'll be prepared for the future! :)

Tosca Amore Disperato

"Tosca - Amore disperato", an Italian musical inspired by la Tosca, an Opera by Puccini, re-visited by Lucio Dalla. Here is the most moving song from the strange musical, her voice is so beautiful...

Amore disperato, amore mai amato...

Can't take my eyes off of you

The wonderful Heath Ledger in "1o things I hate about you" (1999) with Julia Stiles (Save the Last Dance, Mona Lisa Smile) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 days of Summer). Patrick Verona is trying to conquer Kat, singing in front of the school, jumping and smiling! Beautiful scene, Heath was marvellous in every film he acted in.

The wonder of a fairy tale

I have a dream, a song to sing, to help me cope with anything If you see the wonder of the fairy tale You can take the future even if you fail I believe in angels, something good in everything I see I believe in angels, when I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream, I have a dream I have a dream, a fantasy, to help me through reality And my destination makes it worth the while Pushing through the darkness still another mile I believe in angels, something good in everything I see I believe in angels, when I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream, I have a dream I'll cross the stream, I have a dream I have a dream, a song to sing, to help me cope with anything If you see the wonder of a fairy tale You can take the future even if you fail I believe in angels, something good in everything I see I believe in angels, when I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream, I have a dream I'll cross the stream, I have a dream

I love this song! I saw "Mamma mia!" (the movie) last year, one of these days of May, and it gave me a lot of emotions: hope, happiness, and a feeling which seemed to tell me: "Seize the day!" It makes me cry everytime I see it! And Amanda Seyfried has got a beautiful voice! *___*

Falling in love with life

May is coming to an end, suddenly.

Flowers bloom, but silently, secretly.

The sun shines, but we've got rain, this morning.

I feel time passing by, I feel the parfume of roses, I feel sunlight on my skin...

Many things changed from last year, I've known other people, I spend my days differently, but I still feel I have so much to learn yet! I wanna see other places, other worlds, fall in love with books, take my chance and don't give up like I did in my past!

I thank you for reading me, for feeling the way I do, for giving me advice which could help my life getting better. Just the act of writing on this blog helps me, because I don't feel alone and I love telling you my news and how things are, day by day. You're so patient!:)

(Image: "Lucciola", by Nicoletta Ceccoli)

Audition?!

Hey there! I've just come to know about an audition for a musical in Milan, Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie (Alice in Wonderland) and I feel excited because the thought of trying to do this audition is coming into my mind! There's a negative thing, though: if I gain a part in the musical (which I think is quite impossible) I should abandon university for a year and interrupt my studies, and I don't know if it's convenient... I don't know what to do, the audition is on 21th of June!:( What do you think I should do? Help me!!!

Newsssss

News from the other side of me, the artistic one.

I've just uploaded some of my sketches on "Art can save us" blog, would you like to see them? Here it is a taste! It's called "Madame". Tonight I'm gonna upload other paintings, most of them are cartoons, I hope you'll like them.

Go and see all of them: http://artcansaveus.blogspot.com/

Ps: I'm loquacious today, sorry for the several posts which I hope don't annoy you:( It's a little bit of enthusiasm!

True Blood openings

I dream that love would never die

"I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables sang by Idina Menzel and Lea Michele in an episode of Glee. How moving it was... and I personally love Idina's voice, even in Rent! They truly seem to be mother and daughter!!!

Love and Music

There's only us, there's only this, forget regret or life is yours to miss! (Rent)

Never knew I could feel like this, like I've never seen the sky before, I'd want to vanish inside your kiss, every day I love you more and more... seasons may change, winter to spring, but I'll love you till the end of time. (Moulin Rouge!)

Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime, say the word and I will follow you... Say you'll need me with you now and always, promise me that all you say is true...love me, that's all I ask of you. (Phantom of the Opera)

True Blood!

Last night I stayed awake till 3.30 a.m. (I perfectly know I am such a crazy person!!!!!!!^^) just to watch "True Blood", a series about vampires which kept me there in front of the laptop because it was (it is!) so fascinating and at the same time frightening!

I heard about it a few time ago, and then I read that title on Anne Rice's Facebook page, who was asking what her fans thought of that series about vampires (she's the writer of "Interview with the vampire", just to remind you) because she found it nice, so I recently decided to try and see it.

And last night I was amazed of what I saw! Of course it's not as romantic and sweet as "Vampire Diaries", that one is made especially for romantic teenagers like me and all that stuff, but also "True Blood" can be in competition with that!

I strongly recommend you to see it because it worths it! :) Even this series takes inspiration from a novel, or more precisely from Charlaine Harris' books...next thing to do: read them!!!

Have a great week!

I promised you I would have post some of my sketches, so here it is one of them, a little, cute cartoon-like self portrait when I had bangs:) I love drawing little faces with big, wide open, astonished eyes! Obviously I made it this way: draw the figure, scan it, modify it with Photoshop.

Hope you'll have a great week! :)

Open your heart

Open your heart to me, baby I hold the lock and you hold the key Open your heart to me, darlin' I'll give you love if you, you turn the key

Glee Flash Mob in Rome!

This is a video with people doing a flash mob to promote Glee on Fox Tv here in Italy! I wish I could have been there in the crowd singing and dancing! ^___^ Maybe I'll organize something like this with a couple of friends, but it needs a conspicuous number... mumble mumbe...

Little pleasures

Little pleasures like drinking a cup of tea or coffee in solitude, talking on the phone with friends (most of the time spending an hour in chitchat and laughters), feeling the warm light of the sun on my skin, talking with my rabbit, reading a good novel and be so trapped by the story that I'm not able to listen to anyone, watching Tv series in streaming until 2.00 a.m. laughing and crying alone, going to the cinema, spending a beautiful day with my love at the lake or in a restaurant eating so much to be sick (both of us are greedy!), putting my make-up on in front of the mirror, singing out loud and dancing through the house when nobody's there... this is what makes me feel happy and comfortable! :)

Our universal language

"Because art is important. And because you believe in what you do and you want to honour that, and it is a tradition that needs to be upheld."

(Nicole Kidman, accepting Oscar for The Hours, 2003)

"Because art, in any form, is and has been and will always be our universal language and we should do everything we can, everything we can, to protect its survival."

(Penelope Cruz accepting Oscar for Vicky Cristina Barcelona, 2009)

Last night I was losing my time (wait- I don't find it losing my time, rather enjoying my time and spreading my culture and knowledge about human life) on YouTube listening and watching several Oscar Acceptance speeches, trying to find out what kind of person actors and actresses which I often see acting in movies are.

My favourite speeches were obviously the one by Nicole Kidman, and the ones by Julia Roberts and Kate Winslet. I was comforted by knowing that people I consider quite "untouchable" such as Hollywood stars feel the same way I do about art. I know I've got no experience yet, but ideally I felt comforted. I always thought I would become a singer, or I'd be acting in a musical, but maybe it'd be interesting to become writer, or best, director. Make people dream as I do... Mmm I think I'm raising this post to abstraction! Better stop. :)

For supporting me!

I'd like to be stronger

Sometimes I feel so tired to hear they saying to me that I'm shy, I hate me when I feel insecure, for once in my life I'd like to be strong in my decisions, while I'm always regretting everything. I don't feel up to do what I want to do, because I see people who are better or far prettier than me, I don't think I could reach the top of my dreams. I wish I could have another face, another personality, another life. Maybe it's only a bad day, but uff... It makes me tired feeling like this. I know I've got to be more positive, I think I am most of the time, but sometimes...I see that for other people it's all easy, because they have beauty, talent and personality. I tend to step off, instead.

Mr Schue singing

How much I love Matthew Morrison's voice! ^^ Even in public performance he is divine!

The Point of No Return

The Phantom and Christine Daée singing together a burning song of love... How handsome is Gerard Butler in this part! :)

Gerard fever!

A name, a guarantee: I'm talking about Gerard Butler!

40 years old, blue eyes, great talent...

Isn't he hot??^^

I looooove his look, his voice, his acting... everthing!:)

- The Phantom of the Opera (beautiful, he's got a fantastic voice, I'll post a scene in which he's totally handsome, he will make you love him)

- Timeline (he plays André Marek, scholar of History, so cute and kind)

- P.S. I love you (sad, sad, moving movie, I loved him in it)

- Dracula's Legacy (strange adaptation of Dracula's character, set in the Twentieth century, parallelisms with Gospels and Christian faith)

- 300 (he plays Leonidas, King of Sparta, a strong character)

- The Ugly Truth (hilariously funny with Katherine Heigl, a good comedy to see when you're feeling down)

Wandering throught Milan as Robinson Crusoe

Today I: had the English written exam (which ended bad), bought a horrible copy of "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe for English Literature (Collins Classics, not Penguin Classics as I wanted, necessity won against style) and the only right thing was sunlight in my hair when I walked up and down Milan, wandering in the streets, losing my way -I was looking for a library but I forgot how to get to it, as usual-and I was surrounded by thousands of people of different culture and way of life, someone was happy, another was starving, Piazza Duomo is full of this, it's quite confusing. Oh, and I got a 26/30 in French, which is not that bad, given the fact that I'm beginner in that language. But something still seems negative, I don't know why. I think I'm gonna fall into the world of telefilms until I feel better. I'm telefilm-addicted!

Behind these hazel eyes

I've never talked about my sweet sweet rabbit, have I?

The one in this picture is not her, but it resembles very much: her name is Lola (like Bugs Bunny's whimsical girlfriend, Lola Bunny) and she's quite a year old.

My sister and I love her, she's so cute and adorable, with her hazel eyes (I sometimes call her: "occhi-di-pralina", you know, nut with chocolate) and her proud portment!

She's lovely, that's all! :*

Unfortunately most of the time I'm in Milan at university and I don't have time enough to sit beside her and caress her and play with her, but everytime I come back home I'm happy to see her foxy smile behind the whiskers!

Do you have any pets? Tell me about it:)

Before sunrise

Here is the new blog of mine

This other blog is an experiment, I hope I'll be writing on it with the same constancy I write on this. Life is a musical! will talk about my personal life and all my interests, I'll update it when I have to say something. Art can save us, instead, is dedicated exclusively to art and all its forms: paintings, illustrations, sculpture, sketches, comics, jewelry, graphic design and so on. I hope it'll be interesting for anyone. The title of the blog is Art can save us (if you remember, it is taken from one of my older, philosophic, odd posts!)

Here is the link: http://artcansaveus.blogspot.com/

Good reading! And if you have any advice to give me, please be free to do it! I'm not sure about it...I consider it as a "corner-blog", full of images and what I consider Beauty, my favourite artists of the past and those of the present.

I can accept what I am

"Don't you get it? Were all losers, everyone in this school. No, everyone in this town. Out of all the kids who graduate maybe half will go to college and two will leave the state to do it. I'm not afraid of being called a loser cause I can accept that that's what I am... But I am afraid of turning my back on something that made me happy for the first time in my sorry life." (Finn - Glee)

Typical of me

E' impossibile: ogni volta che vado su Anobii mi sento in colpa con me stessa! Dovrei leggere molti più libri, ma il tempo è poco e l'università richiede molto più tempo e impegno del previsto... Devo ricominciare a divorare romanzi come facevo da piccola.

Fin da quando ero bambina il mio posto preferito era la biblioteca, andavo molto spesso a guardicchiare le copertine, le ilustrazioni, poi dopo ho cominciato a leggere i libri d'avventura di quelle collane fatte apposta per ragazzi, poi ho avuto questa grande passione per i Librogames e sono passata finalmente ai romanzi veri e propri, agli scaffali della letteratura inglese e americana, a partire da Tolkien con la sua Terra di Mezzo, Hobbit e anelli, quindi Anne Rice, i cui vampiri sono stati la colonna sonora di una mia estate... Poi è iniziato il liceo e tutte quelle bruttissime materie come Matematica e Fisica e Chimica popolavano i miei incubi... meno male che c'erano Letteratura italiana ed inglese, Storia dell'Arte e Filosofia, le mie preferite! E ho scoperto diversi libri anche grazie al mio prof. di Letteratura italiana, che non mancava mai di consigliarci qualche romanzo o spillarci indovinelli su titoli, autori o trame... Con Twilight sono proprio caduta nel vortice della lettura irrefrenabile, il fregarmene del sonno che mi faceva chiudere gli occhi e dei richiami di mia mamma per andare a dormire una volta per tutte, perchè era come una dipendenza... Mi manca la mia infanzia. Era tutto più semplice, vivevo in un mondo tutto mio ed ero contenta di sognare e vivere con i personaggi dei libri... ancora adesso vivo in una mia dimensione, a metà tra la veglia e il sogno, seguo ancora con ancestrale fervore le mie passioni, a costo di essere noiosa o rompiscatole. Perchè mi fanno compagnia, sono parte di me. Lo so che dovrei imparare a vivere nel mondo concreto, ma è così bello rimanere sospesi in un sogno ad occhi aperti o lasciarsi cullare dalla musica, o fantasticare su come mi troverei bene nel mondo di Glee!

Un giorno scriverò della mia stranissima teoria di come una sensazione comune può unire gente di qualsiasi nazionalità, ed è anche per questa ragione che studio Lingue, perchè sento di voler appartenere al mondo, non solo all'Italia o peggio al piccolo paese in cui vivo! Ho bisogno di confrontarmi, e magari più in là nel tempo sarò anche derisa perchè non riuscirò mai ad integrarmi pienamente in una cultura diversa dalla mia, ma ci voglio provare! Ecco, sono partita dai libri e sono arrivata alla mia mania di universalità dello spirito umano e di appartenenza al mondo. Tipico di me.

Glee gone wild

Turn around, bright eyes

I loved this song till the first moment I heard it! Last night I saw one of the last episodes of Glee, and there it was! How much I adore the chemistry between Rachel and Finn, they're so cute...and their voices are fantastic! I think (after Mr Schues, obviously) Finn is my favourite character. What's yours? Answer the poll!

Rachel and Finn: I simply love them!

Not only Glee!

These days I'm filling my eyes and ears with telefilms of any kind, and I'm crazy for them! I know real life is here to be lived, but sometimes I can't take my eyes off a good episode of my favourite telefilms, which I see the most in streaming because unfortunately I live in Italy and all the news come late and late!

Just wanted to write that I'm addicted to: Glee, which you know I love with all my heart, "heart and soul"! Then we've got Vampire Diaries (last night I went to bed at 2.00 a.m. because I wanted more), and lately my sister discovered this new one (new for us), which is on Italian Mtv every Thursday evening: 10 things I hate about you, based on the film with Heath Ledger (love you) and Julia Stiles. It's amazing!!! ^___^

Do you remember when I wrote about Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton and I told you that me and my sister would be the White and the Red Queen? Well, this telefilm talks about two sisters perpetually in conflict with each other, because of their different temper, and their life at High school and love stories (in the cast there's Ethan Peck, grandson of Gregory Peck, you can imagine how much is he handsome considering his grandfather!!!)

Vampires

What do you think about vampires?

Do you like the ones of Twilight or Anne Rice's or Vampire Diaries? Are you reading any book about them, Bram Stoker, Le Fanu? How much do you know about them?

Personally I've got a little culture about them, but I think it's not enough to have the whole literary and cinematographic situation in mind. I've always heard about Dracula and all that stuff, but only in the last 6 years I read or seen a bit of vampires. Now is vampires time, as we all notice each day. Is it a good or bad thing? People prefer creatures istead of humans because they're more fascinating or because they hurt much less than real persons who can be mean and dangerous?

Books: my favourite writer is Anne Rice, I didnt' read all the Vampires Chronicles, but a few: "Interview with the vampire", "The vampire Lestat", "The Queen of the Damned", "The Body Thief" and I'm reading "Pandora" in the original version. Then, I read all the Twilight saga, it caught my heart, I needed a character like Edward in my life! So: "Twilight", "New Moon", "Eclipse", "Breaking Dawn" and I'm reading the web version of "Midnight Sun". Obviously I started reading "Dracula" by Bram Stoker, but I didn't finish it! I'm ashamed.

Films and Telefilms: "Bram Stoker's Dracula" with Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves; "Interview with the vampire"; "Dracula's Legacy" with Gerard Butler; "Queen of the Damned", "Underworld", "Van Helsing", "Twilight", "New Moon". I like very much "Vampire diaries", even though I never read the books. I love Stefan and Damon!

Maybe I'll write a post about Edward, Lestat and the vampires I loved and I'm still in love with. I wanna read "Let me in" by John Ajvide Lindqvist and other sagas, because I think sometimes I need a leap into imagination, like when I spent quite a whole summer reading Anne Rice's novels, they were so moving and seducing...