Ah la la... I'm like a teenage girl when it happens: here is an excerpt from Angels in America. It's not the best scene, especially if you don't know the story. So, here we go, I'm going to tell you: Prior has aids and has been abandoned by his boyfriend. The fever turns him crazy (or maybe he's got real visions, which is not impossible in that series, it's up to you) and he imagines his boyfriend comes back and invites him to dance. They spend a little time together, before Prior's ancestors, then Prior gets back to reality and collapses.
- 30 August 2007 at 12:53
- Diary
Now that I have re-discovered the pleasures of intimacy, I need to keep it that way! Emilie is coming back on Monday and I need to find a room by then! So, I'm posting 35000 ads on Gumtree, a very useful website when you live in London.
Do you think my ads are good?
Choosing the pictures took me so much time!
I'm currently living at Emilie's, temporarily. She's off to the south of France right now, so I have the room for myself only. I can spend time alone again and it feels ABSOLUTELY GREAT.
Spending a few tens of minutes at the window, with one hand hanging in the emptiness, thinking about things that are more or less important but that do so much good. Is it because it helps me tidying my mind, escaping in sweet dreams or knowing better what I want for my future, I don't know, but it feels good.
I spent last night watching Angels in America, the breakthrough series of HBO and... wow!
It is located in New York City, a few years after the revealing of the epidemic of HIV, and focus on the lives of a few people. The story is beautiful, situations are strong and the casting is splendid (Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Al Pacino and a guy I didn't know but who's great in it, Justin Kirk).
Okay, I don't wanna say more, when I loved something too much, I say so much about it that I end up killing any envy from my friends to watch it!
- 26 August 2007 at 16:17
- Diary
Yesterday, I spent the entire day doing nothing. And then I thought I should be working on my dissertation and then David called me to tell me he had to work on his final project too but he wanted to go out. So we went to Ghetto!
I like the Ghetto because it's different from other clubs, usually over-sophisticated, overdosed and over-"candyheads". Well, of course, we had Madonna (4 times, gosh!) and Britney (it was "I'm a slave for you", it's okay) but, I mean, it's Saturday!
We assaulted the bar very quickly and we had like, 3 or 4 vodka redbull + 2 or 3 Bailey's shots in a very short amount of time, we were completely hammered! But we had so much fun! David introduced me to his mate Jon, who then introduced me to a lot of people. I also think I have had an impressive number of hits on me! First, I kissed some random guy I wasn't even interested in, just like that, for sport, but very quickly, we realised it wasn't going to happen. So he went to the toilets (was it dismissal or invitation?) and I left to smoke a ciggy, thanks to the smoking ban. When I came back in, he was on a corner and left the club just after. It was good because I could keep on dancing and having fun and speaking bullshit with everyone and some guys checked me out, I reckon. Or maybe I was just too drunk and too loud and they watched me because I was annoying them. Maybe!
When David had entered the club, he had seen a guy and remembered this guy was at the same high school as him or something. He talked to him and realised he actually was a older friend (like, when they were 5), back in their native Newcastle! By the way, the guy's name was also David.
When Jon and thingy started kissing, we left and David and the other David and I had chips and a doner on Traflagar Square and then we went home. I know the other David spent the night at first David's... I don't know any more than that for now.
Checkland Kindleysides' website has been elected site of the day by the famous "Favourite Web Awards" website. At Sennep, it's euphoria, especially because we worked a lot on this site. But I've just done the back end.
Lancelot, French blogger, continued MIP's "chain", which is about making 5 wishes for the Mouvement Démocrate (a.k.a. Modem). I am not a militant but I voted for Bayrou, so let's go.
- First, I wish for the MoDem to define a ideology that is clear, capable of shaking things in French politics and ending this kind of "double unique thought" that left and right represent. The project must also be innovating because no party better than this one can do something new, given its age (a few months old) and the fact that it doesn't have to suffer from left or right dogmatisms. Finally, the movement's values must gather people and not forget anyone, either it's a middle-class chick, a bloke from the suburbs or a farmer. It will also have to gather people from the left and the right (I know, it's a long wish, but it's important!)
- The MoDem must look towards the future, for the environment, research, new technologies, third world, social transformations (I'm thinking of gay marriage) but also globalisation, and its position as a party in Europe.
- The MoDem must be capable of raising a new generation of politicians, not for the sake of having young people, just because the path is going to be long.
- I urge the MoDem to never ever accept Ségolène Royal among them or to unite with her! I am okay for l'ouverture, to open the gates to the left or to the right but, for pity's sake, not her! (Sorry, I had to bitch a bit!)
- Finally, a good score at the municipal elections and to the following polls. The current voting system, with the illusion of the PSLE (party of centrists who left Bayrou for Sarkozy) tear the real center apart, let's hope the Socialist Party keeps on falling and that the centre becomes a credible and viable alternative.
I haven't written anything for 2 days, you must have missed me SO much!!! Sorry, I wrote quite a few posts in a few hours and then, nothing. But don't worry, there are many ways to stay connected with me! I'm writing a little list for you:
- First, my Facebook account. I'm always on it.
- Very useful, my del.icio.us feed. I add all the websites and articles on the web that I appreciate, even when I don't necessarily read them until the end!
- I have already said that I opened a blog for my dissertation, but you could still find interesting stuff, if you enjoy thinking about accessibility issues on the web.
- At last, very important, my picture gallery on Google Picasa.
- Oh, I forgot, my Twitter page! Twitter is a website on which you post every little thought that you have, like, permanently. I think you can't do more than 140 characters per message, so it's really different from a blog. The only thing is nobody consults this page. It's normal, it's just so boring! But I would like friends to follow my lists and I would follow their lists, and blah blah blah...
If you add all the syndication feeds matching these links to, for instance, your Netvibes page, you can create a "Juju page" that will look just like that:
Isn't it wonderful, a page talking only about me???
Bloggers are such narcissists.
- 22 August 2007 at 00:51
- Diary
The landlord is selling the flat where Ada and I have been living for 3 months and half. Ada was moving her stuff out today to take a room by Brick Lane, I'm moving out tomorrow (well, tonight actually!) to Emilie's, Dong has already brought his stuff to his new room not far from here, Jason to a friend's on Fashion Street (very close to Brick Lane as well), An doesn't know what he's gonna do and Gabriela and Hector leave Friday evening to go near Shadwell.
Thus, we had a small gathering, which didn't happen often but we realized lately that we appreciated each other anyway and, you know, bad moments get people closer to each other!
- 22 August 2007 at 00:32
- Diary
I've been wondering who I look like...
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