Saturday, November 25, 2006
I like reading.
I’m reading 3 different books at the same time now.
One of them, “The curious incident …” I must confess I have read it in catalan last summer, so it’s more easy to me to understand it.
The second one it is a beautiful book, “El cor damunt la sorra” of Jordi Llompart. It looks like “The little prince” of Saint Exupery, but the protagonist is Jana, the writer’s daughter 7 years old who died in Namibia in April 2005.
Jordi Llompart wrote this book in order to talk with Jana, to explore her feelings and her youngest world. This book is for children but I think everybody should read it.
The third one it’s a best seller, “La Catedral del Mar”. I don’t finish reading it yet, and I have to read some pages every night. I’m envolved in the story. It talks about Barcelona, my city, in the XIV and about the life of Arnau, a catalan boy, teenager and man who must work hard to be alive. I can’t imagine the end.
I’m reading 3 different books at the same time now.
One of them, “The curious incident …” I must confess I have read it in catalan last summer, so it’s more easy to me to understand it.
The second one it is a beautiful book, “El cor damunt la sorra” of Jordi Llompart. It looks like “The little prince” of Saint Exupery, but the protagonist is Jana, the writer’s daughter 7 years old who died in Namibia in April 2005.
Jordi Llompart wrote this book in order to talk with Jana, to explore her feelings and her youngest world. This book is for children but I think everybody should read it.
The third one it’s a best seller, “La Catedral del Mar”. I don’t finish reading it yet, and I have to read some pages every night. I’m envolved in the story. It talks about Barcelona, my city, in the XIV and about the life of Arnau, a catalan boy, teenager and man who must work hard to be alive. I can’t imagine the end.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
“You’re so vain, you probably think this song is above you …”
Carly Simon
I studied French at the school, but I learned English singing English songs.
One time, one friend of mine let me a record of “Peter, Paul and Mary”. I sang some of their songs in Catalan with my guitar. There were the English lyrics inside the record, so I listened to them many times until I learned them in English.
My sister and I won the 2nd prize at the school singing the song of Peter, Paul and Mary: If I had a hammer. We sang the song although in Catalan and English. I wonder if we won because we sang well or because we sang in English.
In 1980’s there were only 2 TV channels and my family usually watched Eurovision Song Contest every year. I remember Abba’s group and their “Waterloo”. It had got a catchy tune, but I think the best song is “Chiquitita”.
In 1980’s my sister and I loved to play to sing. We switched the record player on and sang. Now, people go to a Karaoke’s bar to sing. We didn’t need that. I have always sung. Today I still remember the lyrics of these songs I sang with my sister: Clair, Close to you, Without you, You’re so vain, Yesterday, At seventeen, Sealled with a kiss… and I still keep all these records like a treasure.
For the new Millennium my sister gave me a CD with all these nostalgic songs.
“I can’t live if living is without you …”
Nilsson
Carly Simon
I studied French at the school, but I learned English singing English songs.
One time, one friend of mine let me a record of “Peter, Paul and Mary”. I sang some of their songs in Catalan with my guitar. There were the English lyrics inside the record, so I listened to them many times until I learned them in English.
My sister and I won the 2nd prize at the school singing the song of Peter, Paul and Mary: If I had a hammer. We sang the song although in Catalan and English. I wonder if we won because we sang well or because we sang in English.
In 1980’s there were only 2 TV channels and my family usually watched Eurovision Song Contest every year. I remember Abba’s group and their “Waterloo”. It had got a catchy tune, but I think the best song is “Chiquitita”.
In 1980’s my sister and I loved to play to sing. We switched the record player on and sang. Now, people go to a Karaoke’s bar to sing. We didn’t need that. I have always sung. Today I still remember the lyrics of these songs I sang with my sister: Clair, Close to you, Without you, You’re so vain, Yesterday, At seventeen, Sealled with a kiss… and I still keep all these records like a treasure.
For the new Millennium my sister gave me a CD with all these nostalgic songs.
“I can’t live if living is without you …”
Nilsson
Thursday, November 09, 2006
“All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.”Henry Moore I enjoyed visiting Henry Moore exhibition. When I saw his sculptures in class I thought that I wouldn’t like the visit because abstract art isn’t easy for me to understand.(I congratulate Anna, the guide. She spoke very clear and I could understand her very well.) During the visit, I thought that some of Henry Moore’s works remembered me another artist: Antoni Gaudí. For example:Moore’s helmet remembered me Gaudi’s chimneys in la Pedrera.The same happened to me when I saw the human bones and vertebrae. I remembered the windows in Batllo’s house. Also when I saw “the bird basket” I thought about Gaudí using threads and little sacks to calculate the structures of the dome of the “Sagrada Família” It could seem rare, but I try to explain why both of them have some in common although one was an architect and the other was a sculptor.· They worked with natural elements like stones, wood, marble, bronze, … and they used found objects in their works like shells, glass, bones, …· They used round shapes instead straight lines.· They made “monumental” works: big sculptures and uncommon buildings· They have been inspirited in ancient art: African and Mexican art in Henry Moore and Chinese and medieval in Gaudí.· People didn’t understand their work. I think Henry Moore and Gaudí changed the concept of art. If Henry Moore had visited Barcelona instead the north of the country (1934), he would admired Gaudí’s buildings.
