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♦ ‘Gadjo Dilo’ ↓ [1998] In this comedy-drama, Stephane (Romain Duris), a young man from France («Payo loco» = ‘The Crazy Stranger’), travels to Romania on a mission; his father has recently passed away, and since the old man’s favorite singer was an unrecorded gypsy vocalist from Romania, he has […] 
. . . a Tunisian writer, artist, storyteller and filmmaker… born in 1948 ◊ El Haimoune↓»The Wanderers of the Desert» A traveling writer and teller of fables, Nacer Khemir here applies his age-old skills to a narrative feature film, the first in his highly-regarded «Desert Trilogy» that includes […] 
Born in Hamburg to Turkish parents, Fatih Akin has taken Istanbul to his heart like a native. The title of this film refers to the fact that the city, placed at the point where Asia and Europe meet, has always been as open to the East as it is to the West. It […] 
Winner of the Silver Bear at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, The Road to Guantanamo, directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, uses interviews, news footage, and reenactments to tell the story of the Tipton Three, young British men of Pakistani descent who were detained for over two years without charges at […] 
‾ A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows. ◊ This is England […] 
¤ London – The Modern Babylon Directed by Julien Temple | UK 2012 | Colour, black and white | 128min | British director Julien Temple (Absolute Beginners, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle) has released a new documentary called London – The Modern Babylon, exploring the history of his hometown […] 
Zatōichi← (座頭市?) is a 2003 Japanese samurai drama and action film, directed, written, co-edited, and starring Takeshi Kitano in the eleventh film he has directed. He also plays the protagonist role of the blind swordsman in this revival of the classic Zatōichi series of samurai film and television dramas. The film ends with a dance number led by noted Japanese tap dance troupe The Stripes, and Zatōichi walking […] 
This is the home of a fun method for both learning and perfecting your English. ⇓ It primarily focuses on spoken English. ¤ Taylor Swift: ‘We’re Never Ever Getting Back Together’⇒ ∇ MORPHINE ⇓ ◊→ ‘Thursday‘⇐[Cure for Pain] [… Each blank needs a personal pronoun] ____ used […] 
•→http://www.history.com/shows/vikings← The TV series, written and created by Michael Hirst for the television channel History, is set at the beginning of the Viking Age, marked by the Lindisfarne raid in 793. The first season portrays Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) as a young Viking warrior who longs to discover civilizations […] 
◊ Under The Black Flag: Exploits Of The Most Notorious Pirates [Don C. Seitz] Riveting account traces careers of buccaneers of many nationalities across 2 centuries and around the globe —from the West Indies to the South Seas. A few true stories of such notorious brigands as . . . Thomas […] 
Julian Barnes contributes a previously unseen extract from his novel England, England. Sir Jack Pitman creates a theme park on the Isle of Wight (=’England England’) that duplicates the tourist spots of England. Within easy walking distance are replicas of Big Ben (half size), Princess Di’s grave, Harrods, Stonehenge, and the white […] 
«The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting» [Arthur Schopenhauer]
Since 2008, Be-a-Better-Writer.com has aimed to cultivate interest in Canadian and International fiction from new and emerging writers. They publish a broad range of adjudicated fiction, […] 
This site – The Drabblecast: → http://www.drabblecast.org/ offers . . . Strange Stories, By Strange Authors, for Strange Listeners The Drabblecast is an award-winning, illustrated, listener-supported audio fiction magazine, released as a free to download, weekly podcast. It features short stories at the far side of weird, including science fiction, horror, […] 
→http://poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/listen-to-poetry ¤ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [1564-1616] The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music. diciembre 9th, 2014 | Tags: texts | Category: Poetry | 8 comments 
¤ Liz Lochhead ⇓
⇒Makar Liz Lochhead was born in 1947 in Motherwell, from where the family moved to the nearby village of Newarthill. It was a “very normal, very Scottish, very proddy, posh working-class / lower middle-class life”. Everyone in family read a lot and used the public library as “there […] 
¤ Robert Burns ⇐ [1759-1796] ⇒ The Peoples Poet ⇐[BBC doc] «When death’s dark stream I ferry o’er, A time that surely shall come; In Heaven itself, I’ll ask no more, Than just a Highland welcome.» ◊→ «A RED, RED ROSE» ⇓ O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung […] 
Back in 2004, in Sabi, we had the privilege to host a performance by great story-teller, Tim Bowley [1945-2017] This is one of the reviews by a colleague from EOI Boadilla, Ramón Silles: «Tim Bowley’s stories are gripping and easy to follow and they are greatly helpful to students in developing […] 
Mullah Nasreddin (also spelled Nasruddin) has gathered stories from far and wide during his extensive travels. His peregrinations have taken him from Beijing to Boston, from Delhi to Delaware. He can’t remember where he was born: it was so long ago, and he’s been to so many places, that wherever he is he […] 
1914 – 1997 «Death smells… I mean death has a special smell; over and above the smell of cyanide, cordite, blood, carrion or burned flesh. It is a gray smell: stops the heart and cuts off the breath. The smell of empty bodies, the smell of field hospitals and gangrene…» [The Private Asshole] «I […] 
1920 – 1994 American prolific poet, short story writer and novelist; author of ‘Notes of a Dirty Old Man’, ‘Love Is a Dog from Hell’, and the autobiographical novels, ‘Women’, ‘Hollywood’, and ‘Post Office’. Generally speaking, you’re free till you’re about four years old. And then… five around, since you […] |
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