Christmas Menu - Item 5

Marx Brothers - A Night in Casablanca 1946

Reis Magos again...

Another 'just_checking' visit to Reis Magos...

More thinking ahead Aug08 ;)

Another possibility... Reis Magos...

Thinking ahead August 08

Now that 2007 is getting to an end, and while we still in the middle of XMas planning, it is good that we start thinking ahead of what we will be doing between 20th July 08 to 20th August 08...
Here is one suggestion: Praia Formosa, one of the places of that very long list for future holidays and experiments ;) Unfortunately there was a passer-by who interrupted the view of the beach ;)

I want to watch:

And being the youngest adult in the family, I believe I have the right to decide at least one of the movies we are watching. Therefore, my suggestions are:

Number one. The Godfather


http://imdb.com/title/tt0068646/

Number two. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


http://imdb.com/title/tt0073486/

Number three. Psycho


http://imdb.com/title/tt0054215/

Number four. Memento




http://imdb.com/title/tt0209144/

Number five. It's a Wonderful Life



(before you say anything, we had to have something christhmasie)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0038650/

And this is just for now... Please comment. Big kiss!!

XMas Request 2

Would it be possible to view

The Age of Innocence (1993) ???

Thanks very much ;)

All information here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226/

Christmas Menu - Item 4

Ten Canoes

An Aboriginal tale of magic and mystery, set in a time before white settlers came to Australia, this comic retelling of a traditional fable is the first major feature film to be made entirely with native Aboriginal dialogue. It's thoroughly entertaining, moving and informative too. Set a thousand years ago in central Arnhem Land in northern Australia, a group of Ganalbingu tribesmen embark on a hunt for magpie geese. To navigate the crocodile-infested swamp, elder Minygululu leads the tribe in building canoes made out of bark. When he discovers that Dayindi has a crush on his third wife, he tells him a story set in a mythical time after the great flood that explains how his people developed laws to govern their behaviour, the same laws used by the tribes today.


Every so often, a film comes along that fully merits the term “world cinema”, transporting viewers from wherever they’re watching to one of the four corners of the earth.

This is bold, resonant cinema, a return to first narrative principles that rebukes its younger characters’ impetuousness to insist ‘a good story must have proper telling’. Ten Canoes, one of 2007’s outstanding releases, is a proper telling indeed.

Christmas Request 1 - Not yet available

Van de schoonheid en de troost

1999/2000 - Weekly broadcasts of interviews over 26 weeks. 26 well-known individuals in the field of visual arts, science, literature, music and philosophy an interview. They were alphabetically arranged by last name:

* The visual artist Karel Appel (1921, Netherlands)
* The conductor, pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937, Russia)
* The soprano Catherine Bott (1952, England)
* The writer John Coetzee (1940, South Africa)
* The conductor Richard Dufallo (1933, US † 1999-shortly after the recording)
* The physicist Freeman Dyson (1923, England)
* The museumdirecteur Rudi Fuchs (1942, Netherlands)
* The ethologe-writer Jane Goodall (1934, England)
* The zoologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941, USA)
* The writer Germaine Greer (1939, Australia)
* The writer György Konrád (1933, Hungary)
* The poet and psychiatrist Rutger Kopland (1943, Netherlands)
* The experimental physicist Leon Lederman (1922, USA)
* The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus (1944, USA)
* The neurofysioloog Gary Lynch (1943, USA)
* The violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin (1916, US † 1999)
* The philosopher Martha Nussbaum (1947, USA)
* The philosopher Richard Rorty (USA, 1931),
* The historian Simon Schama (1945, England)
* The philosopher Roger Scruton (1944, England),
* The writer Wole Soyinka (1934, Nigeria)
* The writer-philosopher George Steiner (1929, birth. In France)
* The writer Tatjana Tolstaja (1951, Russia)
* The writer Dubravka Ugrešić (1949, Croatia)
* The physicist Steven Weinberg (1933, USA)
* The nature and mathematician Edward Witten (1951, USA), *

Chistmas Menu - Item 3

Casablanca - 1942

In accordance with a potential 1940's theme ......Classic wartime romance of love and sacrifice set in the limbo land of Vichy-occupied Morocco. In a new, restored digital copy. “Here’s lookin’ at you kid.”

Christmas Menu - Item 2

"The Queen" (2006)
The Queen Movie Synopsis: A revealing and often humorous portrait of the British royal family in crisis immediately following the death of Princess Diana.

Christmas TV / Film viewing: Menu - Item 1

26 Bathrooms is a witty, light little film that must be seen be those who appreciate Greenaway's darker, more allegorical works. Simultaneously satiric and celebratory, the lighter side of his humanism washes through this quirky quasi-documentary of our most fundamental bodily needs and the spaces we create to fulfil them. 1985

by Peter Greenaway

http://petergreenaway.co.uk/26bathrooms.htm

Ines-retratos

Fotos da Carunchosa 8

Fotos da Carunchosa 7

Fotos da Carunchosa 6

Fotos da Carunchosa 5

Fotos da Carunchosa 4

Fotos da Carunchosa 3

Fotos da Carunchosa 2

Fotos da Carunchosa 1

Once in a Blue Moon

Once in a Blue Moon ... is a common way of saying not very often, but what exactly is a Blue Moon? According to the popular definition, it is the second Full Moon to occur in a single calendar month.
The average interval between Full Moons is about 29.5 days, whilst the length of an average month is roughly 30.5 days. This makes it very unlikely that any given month will contain two Full Moons, though it does sometimes happen.
On average, there will be 41 months that have two Full Moons in every century, so you could say that once in a Blue Moon actually means once every two-and-a-half years.



There is a blue moon in June 2007 in GMT - did you see the first one?

2 May at 10:09 GMT
1 June at 01:04 GMT
30 June at 13:49 GMT
30 July at 00:48 GMT

These dates and times have been calculated rigorously using the same methods as those employed by the United States Naval Observatory and by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office. They are given in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) which is the standard time zone used by astronomers worldwide.

A personal view

And this is an image of the red moon as seen from the front window of Antill Road - London

A Red Moon over London

London – 3.03.07 - The moon darkened, reddened, and turned shades of grey and orange Saturday night during the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years, thrilling stargazers and astronomers around the world. The Earth's shadow took over six hours to crawl across the moon's surface, eating it into a crescent shape before engulfing it completely in a spectacle at least partly visible on every continent.

modern art

One of the photos in Bob Dawson's exhibition - looks more like a modern painting...

statistics

Just been counting posts (nothing better to do!) entered in our original blog from August 2005 to November 2006 (gave up on comments) with the following results:

Overall winner > Teia with 57 posts
Second place > Rui with 46 posts
Third place > Me with 30 posts
Fourth place > Sue with 18 posts
Fifth place > Zowie with 12 posts
Sixth place > Gigi with 7 posts
Seventh place > Ines with 6 posts

So come on everybody - let's keep it going with enthusiasm, unorthodoxy and interest otherwise it will just fade away and die ;o(((
Who will be the winner with the majority of postings in the new blog? Shall we all strive for at least one posting and a couple of comments a week? what do you say?

And also just in case...

... you are curious about the meal after the voting ;)

Just in case ...

any of you had any doubts ;)

Snow falling on a car in slow motion

Just 48 hours after the clear blue skies of my last entry!

And more Madeiran clouds ;)

I hope you appreciate how I risk my life to take these photos for you: one hand on the wheel and the other on the camera ;)

Another Madeiran sunset

One more for our collection ;)

How about these reflections?

Taken this morning along the canal...

Just like her Mother ;)

Reflections, Reflexions, ... well, just to show you the big rain puddle on the balcony...