Oh the presents, the presents!!!!!

Here is another present I cannot wait to open!!!! Downton Abbey (already) traditional Christmas special!!!!

Happy Christmas everybody!

Oh the weather outside is frightful

Oh the weather outside is frightful but the fire here is really so delightful. It's Christmas and it's cold. People are getting together, around food, around trees, around gifts.

In this lovely spirit of giving I want to share my merry Christmas gift with all of those avid Girls fans out there!

Two trailers of Girls third season!!!! OhOhOh!!!

Enjoy and have a beautiful Christmas!!!

Fight Club and the cure for boredom.

One of my reference films of all time is Fight Club.

The cast was surely on of the most well picked casts ever. Helena Bonham Carter, Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Meat Loaf, Jared Letto, Zack Grenier made the delights of all the revolution craving viewers allowed out of the loony bin and on a movie theater. The story was an hallucinating voyage through Chuck Palahniuk's mind across airplane panic and paramilitary end of the financial world shenanigans. All with the benefit of being able to see or read all the craziness via film or book. You remember "Slide!", don't you?

I certainly do remember Marla's 1 dollar outfits that looked like a million bucks. And all the rules. I remember those too, like never talk about fight club, blábláblá. But most of all I recall it being a brilliant pill against boredom and conformity. And people wanted more. Like chapters more of it, as candy. As if it could be possible.

So I guess it is possible now to have some more because Chuck Palahniuk is working on a sequel graphic novel to Fight Club.

Will there be a similarly incredible and interesting cast as the first one? I hope so. And with me stand like minded thousands of eager fans. - No pressure.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

1996

English

Novel

W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.(2005)

ISBN 9780393327362 (found here)

Lana Del Rey - What's next?

Ultraviolence is coming soon while Tropico gets your mind wondering...

Icon: Lana Del Rey

Her beautiful voice.Our burning desire.

Icon: Sky Ferreira

Night Time, My Time makes me think about a 21st century soundtrack for Twin Peaks with a PJ Harvey twist.
Icons are born this way.
Enjoy. Night Time, My Time, faster and faster.

Pretty in Pink - Miu Miu bags.

I am soooo in love with these bags.

Santa, can I have one? Please????

August: Osage County

August: Osage County premieres December 25th 2013 in the US. The film is an adaptation of the homonymous *play by Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Tracy Letts who's also responsible for the film's screenplay.

The play continues to be a success in stage theaters across the world since 2007. The 2013 film relies on director John Wells and performances by a brilliant cast of stars, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Juliette Lewis counted among others. Moviegoers will certainly be entertained on Christmas day. No premiere date for Portugal yet released.

*August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

2008

English

Play

Theatre Communications Group (1st ed)

9781559363303 (found here)

Icon: What would Scarlett O'Hara do...

Everywhere you look, women are wearing prints. 

Oh, fiddle-dee-dee.... Not all prints are meant to be worn. Some prints were made to be worn by windows as drapes or curtains or even spread around the house in the form of cushions. Not put on people. Example:

The only woman on Earth who managed to get away with wearing the curtains was Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. And even those curtains were not ugly prints. 

So, if you don't have that attitude or those looks, hang your prints in the back of your closet, or better still, recycle them into cleaning cloths.

Last Weekend: CCB (Lisbon)

This past weekend I went to the CCB in Lisbon to catch up on the temporary exhibitions. Had time to see two: Entre Memória e Arquivo* (Between Memory and Archive) and Sou Fujimoto: Futurospective (I am Fujimoto: Futurospective). it was a mild experience.

Unexpectedly however, also at the CCB but this time at the coffee shop, I had an unexpected and unpleasant surprise.

I was unfortunately met by a barista from hell at Este Oeste Pizza Sushi Café. One of those boys that talk, walk and try to act like girls, you know the type. Talking out of the corner of his mouth, with spite that I could never have caused or inspired in those short five minutes since approaching the counter, he finally stopped ignoring me and asked me what I wanted from across the bar. I didn't want to shout my order at him, so he had to come closer to hear me. As soon as I said that I wanted a small bread with cheese and just a little butter, he turned his back at me and left me hanging without taking the rest of my order, my words suspended in the air. I was dazed by his rudeness. Minutes later, another barista came to ask if we had already been served, and took the rest of our order.

When it was time to pay, I opened the bread just to make sure I was getting what I was paying for, only to see that there was no cheese inside the bread, only a coffee spoon equivalent of butter in the middle, but nothing else. I called the other barista and showed her the bread; embarrassed, she fixed the bread for me, apologizing for her co-worker.

The point to this is simple: people you hire must be ambassadors of your brand at all times. If you own a coffee shop or a restaurant, you cannot hire servers that don't represent the good food and service your brand is about. Nobody wants to eat food made by people that hate their jobs, and hate serving others, no matter what kind of place they found work at. Respect for your clients is something your brand and employees must own at all times, because ultimately, clients are the ones paying their salaries. If they can't respect them for any other reason, they should respect them for that. Instead of feeling that he is too good for his job, he should try reading Kazuo Ishiguro's **The Remains of the Day, and learn something about dignity in service, or just simply quit that job.

I will never eat there again; I expected a more sophisticated food and service experience.

* Photograph by Francesca Woodman.

**The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

    1989

    English

    Novel

    Faber and Faber

    ISBN 9780571225385

Howl, for it's the weekend!

James Franco portrays Allen Ginsberg in the 2010's film by directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
I loved it. So much so that I got the *book and read it aloud.

* Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
1956
English
Poetry
1st edition - City Lights Books
ISBN 9780872860179 (found here)

Tar: book and film.

A propos Dazed's December cover that you can have a look here, I simply must share the trailer for James Franco and Mila Kunis' Tar based on CK William's 1983 *book  Tar: Poems. 

Directed by a nine name list of directors, premiers December 1st in the US, no available premiere date for Portugal yet.

*Tar: Poems by CK Williams
1983
English
Poetry
Random House (NY)
ISBN 9780394532547 (found here)

The bee's knees... :)

Have a great Friday!! Weekend is just around the corner. :)

Amélie au Théâtre... :)

If you're ever in Lisbon, find your way to Amélie au Théâtre . I want to live there.
Have a look here: http://www.ameliaantunes.eu/ - it's adorable!

Fading Gigolo

It's a John Turturro film, starring himself, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone and Sofía Vergara. It's a must see. Can't wait. ;)

Sons of Anarchy

I have to confess my addiction to this TV show. And my disappointment too, I am sorry to say. For the past two seasons, we have been watching what appears to be the same storyline on repeat. Can someone just please give Gemma an absolute violent death?

Alexandra Moura

Alexandra Moura.
Winter 2014.
Editor's cut.

Lena Dunham of "Girls" on Letterman.

Howard Stern compared Lena to Woody Allen and admitted to be addicted to her show, Girls. I think she is one great reason for her generation to be proud. Whatever critics may say, she is, above all other qualities, real. And always jumps in first on self-criticism. Here's a look at the talented, brave and so intelligent young actor, writer and director Lena Dunham.

Nashville

I started following Connie Britton after Friday Night Lights came on FX in Portugal. Then American Horror Story came on the air and I followed that as well. Ms. Britton is currently starring on ABC's Nashville alongside Hayden Panettiere and a very talented and musical cast.

Downton Abbey's Lady Edith.

We have to wait until Christmas for the next episode of Downton Abbey. Until then, let's look at it under a different light.

Lena Dunham hurry up !

I miss Girls.
Pun not intended ;)

Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman for Prada

I guess they're not bored to death in Italia.

Long time no... see?

It has been some time since the last time I dropped a line here. Or a photograph. Or anything for that matter. I guess life just happened and things were left to say later, and do now.
And time goes by so fast...
But now, that I am back in the world of the living, I'll try to share as much as I can. Just because I miss blogging...
So... See u soon :)