What's eating Gilbert Grape?

Just watched this beautiful movie again... Definitely one of my all time favorites.

We shall overcome

Downloaded the new Bruce Springsteen cd today and my first impression is that I like it a lot. It sounds different from anything he has done before, but it also sounds like he had a lot of fun making it. It's a tribute to Pete Seeger and though I don't know any of his songs, the versions of Bruce Springsteen sound great! Another cd I will have to buy...

Other cd's on my soon-to-buy-list are:
Train - For Me, It's You (why, why, why don't they release it in the Netherlands???)
Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
Dishwalla - Opaline
Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
James Blunt - Back To Bedlam


Well, maybe I should find me a decent job first... ;-)

Jack's Mannequin

Finally decided not to go out biking. Instead me and my dad took a long walk. It was really nice to be in the countryside, though it was rather cold.

On the way home I listened to my favorite record of all time, Drops of Jupiter by Train, and this great cd by Jack's Mannequin. Bought it some time ago, because I'm a big fan of Something Corporate and this is a side-project of their singer, but at first I was not really impressed. But lately I just can't stop listening to it! Jack's Mannequin is more poppy than Something Corporate and their music sounds really sunny though it has some darker undertones. Here you can hear some songs if you are interested...

Feeling really tired now, so I guess I will get me some sleep soon!

A lovely day

Woke up this morning with Bill Withers singing Lovely Day. Now it is raining, but right then the sun came shining through my curtains and I was happy too find that I didn't have a hangover from drinking just a little too much wine at my uncle and aunt's wedding anniversary. I listened some more to the whole Bill Withers cd that I bought yesterday and read some great fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen.

Right now, everyone is out celebrating Queens Day, but I guess I will just lounge around at my parents place today. Maybe go out biking if the weather gets better.

When I wake up in the morning, love
And the sunlight hurts my eyes
And something without warning, love
Bears heavy on my mind
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day ...

lovely day, lovely day, lovely day ...

When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day.....

When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at you
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A lovely day......

Lyrics of the day

Who can take a sunrise,
Sprinkle it with dew?
Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two…

The candyman,
the candyman can,
The candyman can
'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good…

Who can take a rainbow,
Wrap it in a sigh?
Soak it in the sun and make the stra'bry lemon pie

The candyman?
The candyman can…
The candyman can
'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good…

The Candyman makes
everything he bakes
Satisfying and delicious.
Talk about your childhood wishes.
You can even eat the dishes!
Who can take tomorrow,
Dip it in a dream?
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream,

The candyman?
The Candyman can, the candyman can…
The candyman can 'cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good…
And the world tastes good
'cause the candyman thinks it should…

Love the Sammy Davis Jr. version of this song!

Being there

And another beautiful day! The sunshine outside really made me want to listen to Wilco again! Bought it a long time ago, but it still among my favorites.

Went to the local bookstore this afternoon and ordered copies of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan! Looking forward to reading them!

Right now I'm reading The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper though. Another American classic.

Wow, what a great song, this I Got You (At The End Of The Century)!!! *gets up and dances around his room...*

Should listen to this cd more often. ;-)

Literary quote of the day

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book, 'thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alicethink it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thoughtit over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch totake out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

Inspiration

Wow, spring has finally arrived today! Just came back from a nice biking trip through town. The weather was just to lovely to spent my whole day behind my computer.

But now I have to write again. Lately, working on my first novel didn't go too well, but watching Finding Neverland has in some way been very inspirational. It helped me to see where my story should be going and what it is essentially about. I think I had somehow lost track of that a little bit. Anyways, I hope Tinker Bell will sprinkle some of her magical powder over me to help me make it as beautiful as I want it to be...

Okay, gotta go again, but will be back soon. Wish me luck!

Finding Neverland

Tonight I watched one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. The ending really made me cry.
And then I listened to this beautiful song by Emiliana Torrini that in some way brilliantly captured the atmosphere of the movie...

Serenade

New world forming
Picturesque in its stance
Midnight calling
Moonlight shadows start to dance
For the dark finds ways of being
Engraved in the light
And the heart bears indentations
Of yesterdays hurting child

The now we will run with smiles
The morrow will heal the night so
Morning comes
Midnight make fast with the sun
I can hear my name be reborn
On the cloud within the sky beneath the dawn

Oh I Serenade the dawn
Serenade the dawn
Serenade the dawn
For the dark finds ways of being
Engraved in the light
And the heart bears indentations
Of yesterdays hurting child

The now we will run with smiles
The morrow will heal the night so
Morning comes
Midnight make fast with the sun
I can hear my name be reborn
On the cloud within the sky beneath the dawn

Oh I Serenade the dawn
Serenade the dawn
Serenade the dawn
Da da da da dum dum
Da dum dum
Da da da da dum dum
Da dum dum...

Having a good time!

Hello, it's me again! Having a good time! Let me tell you about this extremely funny movie I saw yesterday in my favorite cinema! It was called Romance And Cigarettes and it is, of course, about love (and cigarettes), the former always beging a good subject for a movie. It is directed by John Turturro and features some great actors like James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken and Kate Winslet.
It doesn't have much of a story, but I can only say I liked it very much, especially the singing. That was so funny! Christopher Walken all of a sudden singing Tom Jones' Delilah while telling Susan Sarandon about the love of his life, and the whole cast bursting out in Lonely is a man without love. This movie is totally insane, but in one the best ways possible. ;-)

Tonight I'm finally going to watch Finding Neverland. I bought the dvd yesterday and am looking really forward to see it!


Right now I'm listening to Fountains of Wayne, but the cd I have been listening over and over again this week is Let Love In by The Goo Goo Dolls. What a great record!!! I have totally fallen in love with it! At this moment my favorite songs are Let Love In, Better Days and Become.

My favorite records of this year so far:

Train - For Me, It's You
Ron Sexsmith - Time Being
Goo Goo Dolls - Let Love In

Poem of the day

Robert Frost - Meeting and Passing

AS I went down the hill along the wall
There was a gate I had leaned at for the view
And had just turned from when I first saw you
As you came up the hill. We met. But all
We did that day was mingle great and small 5
Footprints in summer dust as if we drew
The figure of our being less than two
But more than one as yet. Your parasol

Pointed the decimal off with one deep thrust.
And all the time we talked you seemed to see 10
Something down there to smile at in the dust.
(Oh, it was without prejudice to me!)
Afterward I went past what you had passed
Before we met and you what I had passed.

So beautiful...

Roderick Hudson

Hello, it's me again! It's been quite some time since I posted anything here, but I don't think anyone has missed me, right?

Don't have much to tell, just that I'm reading another wonderful Henry James novel again. This time his first: Roderick Hudson. Before that I read some wonderful novels like Thomas Bergers Little Big Man, and the Annie Proulx story Brokeback Mountain.

And today I have been listening to a lot of great records of my most favorite artists, among them Train, Matchbox Twenty, Jason Mraz, Travis, Jude and Fastball. Music can be so amazingly wonderful...

www.last.fm/user/marco78train

Well, so far for this update. See ya!