Happy New Year pt3 Blast from the past

Liv Tyler at the Paris Xmas premiere of the Two Towers, yes I was f@cking there!

Two towers

Διαβάζοντας μερικά post από forum του μακρινού παρελθόντος έπεσα πάνω σε ένα για την κριτική του Δανίκα (ΕΛΕΟΣ) για το Two Towers... αχαχαχαχαχαχαχαχααααααα!!

oi kaloi :

frodo = o lilipouteios lanselot

aragorn=lanselot
theoden=king arthur
gandalf = merlin kai mwyshs (kai pretenderis )
ents = ta stoixeia ths fyshs
gollum = kalikatzaroi (mu haahahahahahah )
hobbit = mikra a8wa paidakia ( h alliws ..ta paizakia ...hahahaD"> )
sadowfax = fterwto alogo (mmm....fterwto ?? )
rohan = agglia

oi kakoi :

sauron = alax (HAAAAAAAAAA )
saruman = mwame8 , bin lanten (auto einai pou leme otan den paei o mwame8 sto bouno [tou xamou..] paei to bouno [tou xamou..] ston mwame
daxtylidi= e3kaliber
nazgul = o xaros (den borw allloooooooo........ )
orks = arabes
grima = prodoths iagos
isengard = mesh anatolh

Hope...

Its strange that my last post was on November 7. 7.....November 7 but 7 in every month anyway....

Not even 20 days but I feel my life has changed.

This life the last 3 years has been a struggle.....with a moderate beginning, a hard very hard middle and a heartbreaking almost ending.

However.....and here comes the cliche.....you gotta try and you gotta believe .... even though there is no harder and more painful thing than the memory of happy moments in times of pain and despair.

Happiness.....happiness is not a feeling it is a human condition and it does come from people.

You cannot be happy alone .... and it does pain me to admit this because I have always been a loner, one who even took pride in the fact that I'm ok being alone.

Well I'm still ok being alone but I don't want to be anymore.

And that is a pretty big change ..... for me.

Last week I watched ROTK again. After almost one and a half year (of course the extended version):P

And it was just like I remembered...only better...more intense....maybe bacause I'm one and a half year older...wiser? maybe.....but definitely able to experience emotion even more...

I feel as if every day that passes enriches the picture of my soul I guess that is the same for everyone.

In April I was sure I was beginning something that was bound to bring me a great deal of pain. Still I had hope......and while it progressed I experienced this feeling in all its intensity with a strength I did not know I possessed.....I had moments of extreme happiness and weeks of.....well the opposite.

Still I knew....in my heart I knew that what I believed was true....that I had to fight and stick with my belief to be able to go through this .....

I lost this belief a couple of months ago and it nearly killed me.....well not literally......besides anything that does not kill you only makes you stronger.....but I have to add here...not only stronger or wiser....it steals something of your hope, of your joy and of your hope.

And everyday for me was maybe not gray but without a lot of color.

And then.....

I did something considered by everyone, even me, stupid.......like a phone call...

And that made all the difference.

Moulin Rouge is restored again to its rightful place of being one of my favorite movies.

Can you really say true love always wins?

I can't answer that......I want to say yes .......

But true love, I can tell you that, it does try like hell to conquer all. It will not stop in the face of pain, in the face of hardship, will not count any obstacle because ...... true love diminishes the boundaries of your loneliness and your fear in front of the long but predetermined path of life.

Love will make you hope.

And hope conquers everything, even death.

So here's for hope.......3 decades in this world and I'm full of hope.......:-)

So thanx........

Tolkien's Birthday

Today, January 3d, is Tolkien's birthday. So on this occasion, since a real toast is not possible I would like to propose a toast to a man,




»How, given little over half a century of work, did one man become the creative equivalent of a people?«

The Guardian

a magician in myth and lore, who defined the map of my imagination ever since I was 7 years old.

So ...To Professor Tolkien, Hail!


This picture was the cover of the very first Tolkien book I ever read, The Fellowship of the Ring. And I was hooked from the very first lines, Bilbo's birthday party.

Happy times.......

A, those Sunday nights......always with a sense of melancholy, never quite a holiday;) Have you ever noticed that even though Sunday is not a working day you're never in such a good mood as on a Saturday? Well its always like that for me.

Anyway, I was thinking about love...yeah a strange topic to be thinking about right? Well what I was thinking about was the ideal love, the one we read about in Romeo and Juliet, the one we see in paintings and listen to in countless songs and works of art.

For who can listen to Puccini's Nessun Dorma and not feel the composer genius in every single note? Who can hear Violeta sing 'Amami Alfredo' in La Traviata and not have chills going through his spine? I was fortunate enough to see a modern version of the opera Romeo and Juliet in the Opera House in Vienna, Juliet was in tight leather pants and a corset and Romeo was every woman's fantasy, however what was amazing, what swept me off my feet was not the apparent sexuality but still the power of the music.

And as Barbra Streizant so eloquently put it in a movie I love 'The mirror has two faces', why do we still want, desire and ultimately fall in love when it is beyond any doubt that it is painful, possibly tragic, and most of the time will make our heart break in half?

Because it feel so fu*ng great! :)

Because every time you are in love the world becomes so much more colorful, everyday is like Xmas eve and because even the pain of missing the other person is so bitter-sweet that its like a drug, you keep asking for more. And because, lets face it, our lives are characterized by our loneliness. Human beings are lonely creatures, they try to go through life sharing some things along the way, but we come screaming into this world and leave it, screaming again because we don't want to let go.

I remember distintively the final scene in a movie , 'Meet Joe Black', where Death, played by Brad Pitt, has to say goodbye to life, a life he chose to experience in order to see what is that wonderful thing that all these people who die do not want to let go. So Joe Black (Death) is looking at the fireworks, for the birthday party of the man he has come to take with him (Anthony Hopkins), whose daughter he fell in love with.

"
: It's hard to let go isn't it?
:: Yes it is, Bill.
: Well that's life, what can I tell you. "

We never want to let go, thats the truth. But we are so lonely while we are here that love, the feeling of being in love, is so intoxicating because we feel that even if it is fo a little while, our loneliness is no more, we share our thoughts and feelings with another human being that we feel is so close to our souls, like the half we always expected to find.

Of course love is experienced according to one's spiritual and mental growth. The more evolved the individual the more intense the love experience will be. And of course add to that the bonus of sex and what you have is the good ol'recipe for harmless intoxication by endorfines.

I sound cynic right?

Well I' m not:) Besides chemistry and psychology, besides any scientific or other explanation we try to find, love is one of life's mysteries. We may try to understand it , or reason about it but its impossilbe.

Its grandure lies in the mystery of its nature, and as long as it lasts it does feel wonderfully , uniquely, tremendeously fuck*ng great!

Lucky are the ones who experience it, and when face with it one must not linger or fear. One must go for it cause even the pain is better than the alternative. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived.


As Ted Arroway to Ellie (I always thought of Ellie as my alter ego) says in Contact :

"You’re an interesting species, an interesting mix.
You’re capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.
You fell so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not.
See, in all our searching, the only thing we found that
makes the emptiness bearable is each other "


Ever since I saw and read Contact it was these words that always summarised
in the most precice way my desire to Know :

Palmer Joss:
By doing this, you're willing to give your life, you're willing to die for it. Why?

Ellie Arroway:
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something, some
reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we? If this is a
chance to find out even just a little part of that answer... I don't
know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?

There is a scene in The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers.

Arwen, daughter of Elrond sees her future through the eyes and words of her father, should her choice be not to follow her elven-part in the Undying Lands, but to stay in Middle Earth with Aragorn, love of her long life.


Elrond:He is not coming back. Why do you linger here when there is no hope?
Arwen: There is still hope.

---

Elrond: If Aragorn survives this war, you will still be parted. If Sauron is defeated and Aragorn made king and all that you hope for comes true you will still have to taste the bitterness of mortality. Whether by the sword or the slow decay of time, Aragorn will die. And there will be no comfort for you, no comfort to ease the pain of his passing. He will come to death an image of the splendor of the kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. But you, my daughter, you will linger on in darkness and in doubt as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Here you will dwell bound to your grief under the fading trees until all the world is changed and the long years of your life are utterly spent.


Now this is a scene that has left its imprint on my soul forever. I remember sitting in the Le Grand Rex theater in Paris (I was fortunate enough to be among those invited in the Movie Premiere and the reception but thats a story for another time). And since New Line was wise enough to provide us with handkerchiefs (weeping was anticipated) I managed to get through the 3-hour film without completely ruining my makeup.

However during that scene, hearing Elrond and seeing Arwen in all her sorrow and grief....I thought yes, this is truly Tolkien, pure and simple.

So thank you Peter Jackson and the rest of the cast and crew of the Lord of the Rings for a trully lifechanging creation......

In conclusion come the words of Aragorn :

Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! For all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!