Margaret Price is dead

Is dead at her home in Wales, Margaret Price, the great English soprano renowned for her interpretations of Mozart, Verdi and Wagner. The Price, who suffered of heart attack, was 69 years. The singer began  her career in 1962 as a mezzo-soprano, singing the role of Cherubino in 'The Marriage of Figaro' by Mozart at the Welsh National Opera. It was the conductor and pianist James Lockhart to convince the singer to perfectionate her studies in order  to bring out the beautiful upper register, thus making of her one of the most lyric sopranos' popular at the turn of the 70s and 80s. Her debut as a soprano was with Otto Klemperer, when he wanted Margaret Price to play as Fiordiligi for 'Cosi' fan tutte 'Mozart recorded for EMI by the great German director . The Price was recognized worldwide as one of the greatest interpreters of Mozart and Verdi. But her  most famous interpretation  of Isolde in 'Tristan und Isolde' Wagner, was directed by Carlos Kleiber and  recorded under the German label Deutsche Grammophon. 

Just poor Art?

I wouldn't say so! In my opinion Terry Border is a great artist though, or may be just for this, he uses ordinary stuff for his works!

Go and see them  by yourself through the link below
http://owni.fr/2011/01/09/bent-objects-ou-les-desopilantes-natures-mortes-de-terry-border/

The fattest man in the world

" All began when I fell in love with a woman; I wont tell you her name, but it hearts me so muche, even today, to speak of thi story; when she left for another man I started eating and eating, on and on, just to forget, 'you know what I ean?"

Who tells this story to the DM on line is Paul Mason, the fattest man in the world.
But now he wants to wake up to a new life and he has lost 20 stones after a surgery implantantion af a gastric digestive tube.
"I'm still 50 stones of wheight but I hope to go on" has revealed thestill  fattest man in the world.

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After St James' Epistle

1.You call it peace-keeping. We only know our land is not here!

We have been pushed up here by our misery, our poorness!

We are not looking for glory, we don’t believe in patriotism, we don’t cry looking at the three colours! 

2.Today our parents are crying.

But what causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? 

Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

3.You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask. 

 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 

4. Unfaithful people! Don’t you know that loving the world is hating your God?Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 

5: Or do you suppose it is in vain that the scripture says, "He yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us"? 

6: But he gives more grace; therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 

7: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 

8: Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind. 

9: Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection. 

10: Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you

Just a virtual Vietnam

Somebody as defined the Assange's story a sort of "New Vietnam" for U.S.A. meaning that the still strongest country in the world has been in some way defeated by the events which showed the public opinion the frailty of the north american eletronic security system. They say, in other words, that U.S.A., would  being facing,
from all the other countries,  a disapproving behaviour  whose they we'll be soon ashamed of.
I don't agree with such opinionists.
First of all, in the Withe House there is Mr Obama now; while in those days a certain Mr Nixon was occupying that high seat;
 Secondly we must notice that in the Assange's story U.S.A. are the victims not the aggressors, as they looked at the eyes of the international public opinion in the sixties;
Thirdly (and I stop here, though there would be much more to say on the differences between the two cases) nowdays there is not any socialist appeal against U.S.A.. I want to say that at hte times of the Vietnam's affairs the world was confident that there might be another way of ruling the world and the criticist looked to the leftwing countries (like URSS, China and Cuba) to search a new hope and a new way of ruling the international affairs. But today noone still believes there is a better way than the american and european democracies.
Unless we want to speak about a virtual democracy: the web's democracy, where all people seem to have the same power, or at least the power is not the power that Stalin wanted information of about the Vatican, asking his advicers: "How many divisions has got the Pope?"
Of course U.S.A. must be clever: in my opinion they need to make their information web stronger and capable to resist to any hacker's intrusion or spy's system and leave Julian Assange to his destiny.
Prosecuting the australian boss of Wikyleaks USA risk to look, in front of the international public opinion, the arrogant giant stalking the poor freedom's seller. And people, between David and Golia alaways choose the first. And furthermore, in that case, U.S.A. really cooul risk a new, virtual Vietnam.

In a middle-class drama

In a middle-class drama

I would like to slice on pieces my tie

And throw them on your inapprehensible person

I would like to eat

Using my hands at your table

Laughing in a natural way

I wish  I could not  hear 

Clanging my chains

When I move on slowly

You also know it

But you don’t want to  listen to them

‘cause they are your own chains too!

So we spend our lives

playing a drama

somebody else has written

just for ourselves.

Cagliari, 1975

In the name of freedom

 - Why do they keep  us in this prison, mum?
- I don't know my son! I'm so tired as it can be!
- Humans are so strange sometimes!
- Yes they are! Even in the name of freedom!

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