The Hearts Wants What The Hearts Wants

Never lie to your own heart. The hearts wants what the hearts wants.

This post is dedicated to the newly wed.

Happy wedding for Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton. Today both of you have shown the world that love can not be separated by status. Lets hear it for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge!

Cheers.

The Man Who Can't Be Moved

The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script

Going Back to the corner where I first saw you
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag I'm not gonna move
Got some words on cardboard, got your picture in my hand
Saying, "If you see this girl can you tell her where I am?"

Some try to hand me money, they don't understand
I'm not broke I'm just a broken hearted man
I know it makes no sense but what else can I do
How can I move on when I'm still in love with you

'cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be
Thinkin maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet
And you'll see me waiting for you on the corner of the street
So I'm not moving, I'm not moving

Policeman says, "Son you can't stay here"
I said, "There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a year"
Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snows
If she changes her mind this is the first place she will go

'cause If one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be
Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet
And you'll see me waiting for you on our corner of the street
So I'm not moving, I'm not moving,
I'm not moving, I'm not moving

People talk about the guy that's waiting on a girl
There are no holes in his shoes but a big hole in his world

Maybe I'll get famous as the man who can't be moved
Maybe you wont mean to but you'll see me on the news
And you'll come running to the corner
'cause you'll know it's just for you
I'm the man who can't be moved

Going back to the corner where I first saw you
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag, I'm not gonna move

Minimalist movie posters

sometime all you need is just a 'simple' creativity. check out these amazing and brilliant work by Pedro Vidotto.












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Sweet Adeline

Today I'm really stressed up with my exam preparation, but hey! that's life. Found this video on youtube, dedicated to my dear friend. I hope you like it. :-)

00:59

Its almost one o'clock in the morning, yet I still cant close my eyes. I'm laying on my bed and let my mind wonders. These past 3 months is like a dream for me. Living in a foreign country, speaking different language, meeting strangers, learning new things, and exploring new landscapes, its heaven.

Good night glasgow, good night wide window, good night orange wall clock, good night dogs, good night you, good night all.

sleep tight, dont let the bed bug bite.

cheerio.

Source Code movie review

Nowadays it looks like Hollywood got a new trend in creating sci-fi movie plot. Thanks to the genius work of Christopher Nolan in The Dark Knight and Inception, a combination of brain-scrambling scripts, pulse-triggering action and eye-pleasing visuals apparently is what everybody’s fond these days. But Duncan Jones got his own sci-fi way of entertaining the audience. In his latest work, Source Code, Duncan successfully deliberated his mind about parallel universe to his audience.

Similar to his previous work, Moon, Source Code also offers the complexities of quantum physics as the main theme, the only thing that differs them is the heaven and earth setting location. Literary. Staring Jake Gyllenhall as the main character, the movie started with a big confusion using a great score, unsettling tone and disorienting editing. Captain Colter Stevens (Gyllenhall) is a US helicopter pilot in Afghanistan who mysteriously separated from his unit and the next thing he knows he woke up in a commuter train heading to downtown Chicago, and eight minutes later, the train blew-up. After this triumphant perplexing scene leaves a big question mark on the audiences’ face, Jones started to put up the puzzle together by showing the original plot.

Gyllenhall seems to have hit his stride lately by picking up good role that suits him for the last couples of movies he starred in. In this movie he managed to bring up the stubborn, insubordinate and occasionally downright dumb of Stevens’ character. Supporting Gyllenhalls’ role is Jeffrey Wright, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga. There’s no doubt about these casts, one can see a convincing evil physicist act from Wright and a quite notable performance by Farmiga just like what she did in Up In The Air. And last but not least, is how Monaghan managed to bring her character to live with her natural vivacity to complement Gyllenhalls’ character.

Imagination, parallel universe, alternative realities, time travelling. Maybe only those with a degree in quantum physics might understand the science behind the movies’ plot concept. Repeating eight minutes time length between Gyllenhalls’ moment of conscious and the time the bomb explodes is pretty dull and predictable plot, but Jones’ idea in mixing all of the intrigues and resolving the puzzle piece by piece is another story. Adding the well-oiled work of Ben Ripleys’ script is another great work by the cinematographer, Don Burgess. Burgess idea in making every scene looks simple and descriptive is a plus point in this movie.

If Nolans’ Inception comes with a pulse-racing soundtrack to add the tensions, the former Nolans’ teammate from The Dark Knight, Chris Bacon comes with something a little bit different here. Jones idea in playing with his audiences’ mind is enough stimulate the tensions and their emotions, therefore the scores he works for this movie is much more calmer. The only score that appears quite notable in this movie is when Gyllenhalls’ character managed to create an alternate universe.

Roughly, one can describe this movie as a combination of Tony Scotts’ Déjà Vu and Christopher Nolans’ Inception, but with Jones’ image version of parallel universe. At the end, science fiction meet action and thriller with a happy ending romance is probably something pretty common, but this movie is something you don’t want to miss. Personally I categorize this movie as one of the must-watch movies of the year.

Gerry Cambridge Interview

Wearing a blue shirt and red corduroy trousers, Gerry smiles and greets me for the first time. The moment I saw Gerry entering the room I was quite shocked. He is totally different from what I would have imagined. The Gerry Cambridge that I had in mind was some high-brow artist with all the attitude, but after a few minutes of chat one can tell that behind his quirky look he is a very humble, smart, and passionate about his work, he is the kind of person you would love to have a long interesting chat with.

Gerry kick-off the session by explaining his role in Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) as a fellow writer.

“I’m a member of The Royal Literary Fund, we are a charity organisation based in London, which one of our aims is to help students to improve their writing skills. We are located in most of the higher education institute in all over UK.”

Although the organisation got writers from all over UK as their contributor, Gerry didn’t claim himself as the representative of the Scottish writers.

“Usually a person who lives in Scotland for a while and move to London will find themselves quite different from the others, they will feel a wee bit Scottish, but I wouldn’t say so, because the writing culture is somewhat different there, therefore I’m not claiming myself as a Scottish representative.”

When we discuss about his works, he admits that most of his art works are influenced by natural world especially birds.

“It’s quite funny how the natural world can draw my interest. The story starts back when I was 13 years old, that’s the first time I stepped my foot in UK (Gerry was born in Morecambe, Lancashire, part of the Irish Diaspora). I was having trouble with some of my friends due to the religious matters, and my getaway was the nature,” says Gerry reminiscing the old memories with a big smile in his face.

Up until now, Gerry already released ten books that represent varies of his works including poets and photography. Even though Gerry is not a Scottish native, most of his literature works, especially poetry, had a strong Scottish flavour in it. He tends to mixed English and Scottish culture in his writing. And regarding to his natural world fascination, birds become his symbol of this interest in his works.

“I grew up in the fifties, back then usually all the boys collected bird eggs. It’s sort of a penis-envy activity back then, but I found it quite interesting, and it last up until now. Its amazing if you know how the continuity life of a bird goes.”

This statement also explains the reason behind his enthusiasm in biological science, and why he is posted in the science department at GCU. “Science is our investigation to matter, but poetry (art) is an investigation to ourselves,” says Gerry quoting the famous American poet Robert Frost.

“It is not forbidden for someone to learn something new. For me pure science is something interesting. At first it’s quite dry, but somehow I managed to get along.”

Gerry spent his childhood moving around from one place to another due to his father’s work. He lives in a caravan from the day he moved to UK until 1997.

“It’s hard living in a caravan with your family. When people are caged in small spaces they will react like an animal.”
In 1972 he decided to move out and live in his own caravan, “When I moved out, I feel so free. I can go to bed whenever I want with out worrying someone frying on my kitchen.”

One problem solves and another one come, living independently means he has to figure out how to cover the living cost. Remembering that back then he had great interest in photography, he decided to pursue his long time dream to work as a freelance natural history photographer by selling his pictures to magazines. But things didn’t go smooth for Gerry, until one of his colleagues told him that it would be better if he sell pictures along with the supporting article. This is the point where Gerry started to expand his wings of talent into writing.

“I’ve managed to build a good connection with The Reader’s Digest magazine. They would ask me to do three or four articles per year. I really enjoy it and the next thing you know you’ve been doing this for the next seven to eight years.”
In 1997 Gerry was appointed as a Brownsbank Fellow. “It was quite an unforgettable experience. I got to stay at Hugh MacDiarmid’s former house, Brwonsbank Cottage. Back there it was quite odd for me working as a responsible writer, but somehow I found it quite enjoyable, it’s interesting and discomforting at the same time.”

Because of his interest in American poetry, and back then he is also working with his fellow Dana Gioia, an American poet-critic, in the early 1995 Gerry decide to make something about the poetry life in both countries. That’s when the idea of The Dark Horse magazine pops up. He wanted to create a magazine that’s unique, different and unpredictable, hence describe the Dark Horse meaning.

“I want this magazine to be a medium for the social side of poetry lovers community. I didn’t look at it as an antagonistic work, but more to a complementary work.”

Nowadays the magazine itself is a well-known magazine among the poets. “I’m open to anyone who wants to contribute. What I’m looking from a contributor is authenticity, genuineness, sufficient craft and skills,” says Gerry who apparently also doing all of the layout, design and print design by himself.

Other than writing and photography it turns out that Gerry also had an interest in music, and his weapon of choice goes to harmonica. He learn how to play it 20 years ago using his girlfriend’s harmonica. And as if he got no limitation in exploring his talent, he mastered the instrument in no time.

“I found it very interesting how this little diatonic instrument can make me so frustrated when I tried to play it with other instruments. But through this limited function one can explore new possibilities in music range, it helped me when I’m playing Scottish and Irish tunes.”

Collaborating with Neil Thomson and Findlay Napier, Gerry produced a few poetry-plated tracks back in the year 2000. Its interesting how one can hear the blues colour on his music, again my perception is usually a poet goes along with classical music.

The last part of the interview Gerry shared his view about today’s poetry writing in Scotland. He thinks that the poetry writing culture is changing into a much more relax form.

“It’s a lot more open, more relaxing when it comes to Scottish identity. I think its because of the influence from one of the great Scottish poet in 20th century, Hugh MacDiarmid, he plays a big role in these changes.”
And when it comes to his next plan, he mentioned that he is going to continue his work on The Dark Horse magazine, doing some freelance jobs and probably launch another book of poem in September. At the end it’s just like what the old time saying ‘sky is the limit’, that’s how far Gerry would go, and apparently he also got his birds to go with him.

www.gerrycambridge.com

www.rlf.org.uk

www.brownsbank.org.uk

Dying - Five For Fighting

Dying (John Ondrasik)

I'm Dying, Dying to wake up without you, without you in my head again
I'm Dying, Dying to forget about you, that you ever lived
There's a shade come over this heart that's coping with laying down to rest
I'm Dying to live without you again

I'm Dying, Dying to find a distraction, get you away from me
I'm Dying, Dying to reach a conclusion, so that the world can see
It's the same old story of love and glory that broke before it bent
I'm Dying to live without you again

The first time you left I said goodbye
Now there's not a prayer that can survive

Dying, Dying to die just to come back so we can meet again
Dying, Dying to say what I always should have said
It's a strange emotion this but there's still hope in this
As long as there's a breath...
I'm Dying and I can't live without you again

It's a strange emotion this but there's still hope in this
As long as there's a breath...

I'm Dying and I can't live without you
I'm Dying and I can't live without you again


this is for you. whether you realize it or not, whether you aware of it or not, i cant and i dont want to lie to myself anymore.