before sunrise: a sort of review :p

dear God,

give me an Ethan Hawke.

someone i will meet on a subway
whose mind i will get to know first
before all the pleasures on earth

someone who still believes in ghosts and fairy tales
whose stories are fresh, innocent, young and new
whose thoughts thrust the deepest

someone i'd love to see when i close my eyes
whose face, lovely as the sunrise
and painful as the sunset

someone whose smile brings new life to the morning
whose voice, cold as the moonless night
his mere sigh completes this journey

we'd be talking forever
about life, dreams, love, and passion
stardust would fall on our hands, and we are married

give us a palmist, a pianist, and playwrights
and people who will drive us crazy,
we'd be lying down the grass, kissing underneath the endless sky

bring us on top of the city
where we can see the lights fading
the world waning, 'til it's just the two of us

and we will meet a poet by the riverside
who will sing away the troubles of our lonely past
and write our story over milk shake and cigarettes

bring us to the cemetery
where we can bury our fears of death
and remind us that tomorrow, our hearts will die in grief

for that man, whom i will meet on a subway
will be the sweetest enemy of my fate
with whom saying goodbye will be the hardest

but let our paths cross again after some years
and give us not a single minute to blame
ourselves, for breaking our promise

grant us, o Lord, the night we had together
i will hold him tight and kiss him
'til we finally consume, all, before sunrise...


Julie

When Nietzsche Wept

"Death only loses its terror when almost consummated."
-Professor Friedrich Nietzsche



i have always had the eagerness to learn about this philosopher, who, having a name as strong as his authority in language, is definitely among the most influential thinkers of his time.

the story was not actually focused on his life, but one would get a glimpse of how powerful his mind was. Freud was also featured in the movie. i just didn't expect that it would be as comic as it was presented. anyway, i still loved their lines.. most of which are quotable, especially on how painful it is for men to accept the fact that they are vulnerable to depression, when it comes to women. oh well, feminism! :)

Man of the Year

Tom Dobbs: [quoting Benjamin Franklin] "Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reason."

(Watch "Man of the Year" Movie)

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Tom Dobbs: People say Intelligent Design, we must teach Intelligent Design. Look at the human body, is that intelligent? You have a waste processing plant next to a recreation area.

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Hemmings: Will you be disappointed to be going back to television after this ride? Eddie Langston: Oh, no. I have a glorious love-hate relationship with TV.
Hemmings: How so?
Eddie Langston:TV scares me. It makes everything seem credible.
Hemmings: Why is that so bad?
Eddie Langston: If everything seems credible then nothing seems credible. You know, TV puts everybody in those boxes, side-by-side. On one side, there's this certifiable lunatic who says the Holocaust never happened. And next to him is this noted, honored historian who knows all about the Holocaust. And now, there they sit, side-by-side, they look like equals! Everything they say seems to be credible. And so, as it goes on, nothing seems credible anymore! We just stopped listening!

tristan and isolde

The Good-Morrow

John Donne (1572-1631)

I wonder by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then
But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly
Or snorted we in the seven sleeper's den
'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be
If ever any beauty I did see
Which I desir'd, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee

And now good morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear
For love, all love of other sights controls
And makes one little room, an everywhere
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

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Isolde: If things were different, if we lived in a place without duty, would you be with me?
Tristan: That place does not exist.
Isolde: [sobs] I'll pretend it's you.

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Isolde: Why?
Tristan: There are other things to live for: duty, honor.
Isolde: But they are not life Tristan. They are the shells of life, and empty ones if in the end all they hold are days and days without love. Love is made by God. Ignore it and you suffer as you cannot imagine.
Tristan: Then I will no longer live without it.

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Tristan: Isolde, we can't.
Isolde: It's like asking me to stop breathing.

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Tristan: I don't know if life is greater than death, but love was greater than either.

Perth on Dead Poets Society

found this on Dead Poets Society's page on watch-moves.net:

Perth: "Back when you are young, you never really stopped to think what in the world you were doing with your life. You simply lived for the day, hoped your grades would be enough to pass, and that's it. Long term thinking involved maybe flirting with someone you fancy, nothing more.

What this film showed me was that we have the responsibility and the joy of being alive in this planet. That we only have precious little time to make a difference. That we have a moral obligation to "seize the day, and make our lives extraordinary". That the world, basically is ours. That the only limitations are within ourselves, and that we owe it to us to fight, to rebel against conformity, to change what we hate and keep what we love. That living in this world is a beautiful responsibility, and that only cowards dare not to change it for the better."