Among so many references, do you want to mention some?
There are several interpretations of You make me feel like it’s Halloween, mainly originated by the final phrase: but you are the caretaker.
In an interview Matt Bellamy jokingly stated that there were too many songs about Christmas and it was time for someone to celebrate some other holiday, like Halloween for example.
What do you think about?
Over these twenty years undoubtedly Muse with their hits accustomed us to different kind of emotions.
I have always been impressed first and foremost by the powerful charge that Matthew Bellamy & Co. manage to exude, but also by their trademark flair combined with a completely unique genre that initially made it complicated to include them into a defined musical genre.
What is your favorite among their songs?
I know, it’s not easy to choose, I can’t rank them, although I have a special connection with some in particular.
In light of this we can perhaps reconsider You make me feel like it’s Halloween more for the message than the horror quotes, would you agree?
On October 26 Muse will be at Alcatraz in Milan great way to feel in the Hallooween mood.
How about you? When do you feel like it’s Halloween?
Eva sleeps is what her mother replies to the postman in charge of delivering a package while we still don’t know anything about her.
Eva sleeps is a title that made me imagine something else.
Eva sleeps at the end of the book, but when I got to that point, I was moved because sleep represented a restitution.
And I was moved because there are bonds that can have the duration of a fragment but the indissoluble strength of something that nothing and no one can break.
This reading, once again from the series “Monica’s books” that I will never stop thanking, was a slow surprise, just like when something happens in life that you no longer expected.
And it is perhaps the things that did not happen that I appreciated, those that basically correspond to the truth exactly because of their absence.
Curiously I took another train trip this time from the far north of South Tyrol to the red and white lighthouse of Villa San Giovanni .
Looking from the window, images of the landscape and history alternate.
The history of Italy from 1919 to 1992.
The history of Italy seen from a very precise point of observation, high up, from the vertical earth.
But above all the history of that area that the most distracted, like me so far, call South Tyrol.
Francesca Melandri in her book published by Bompiani traces the events of the autonomous province of Bolzano, reconstructing a history that I had never considered in such detail.
Good and evil, souls and ideals, strategy and bad luck, intolerance and compassion are mixed within states, peoples, families, faces.
You should never forget to try to put yourself in the other’s shoes.
Ask yourself questions. All time.
Speaking of questions, there is one in particular that is constantly asked to Eva “Do you feel more Italian or more German?”
Her answer arrives right on the train, it is multifaceted and it could not be otherwise, considering all aspects.
Do you ever think about how much of you is the expression of your roots?
itsIn recent days I have crossed various thoughts, starting from Gabriella‘s post on the Water of San Giovanni but also on the rite of fire to become comari, not in the sense that I had so far given to this word.
Therefore, water and fire. Water and fire that according to Cicero “are not of more universal use than friendship.” Water and fire, two of the four elements of life.
The water and the fire that the druids define Litha that is thelight of the shore because the fire, or rather the sun, which has reached the zenith and has reached its maximum point, plunges into the waters, on the beach, at the meeting point between land and sea.
Of the summer solstice, which Alidada explained masterfully in her Uno spicchio di cielo, I fell in love many years ago reading Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd who, starting from the ice age, sees the birth of Stonehenge which in my imagination goes far beyond the status of “ringing rocks” for example, and is covered in mystery with that aftertaste of legend that I love.
But returning to Litha, I would like to resume a little the concept of Samhain: moment in which the veil between the two worlds is thinner, but moving the contrast between “above and below” just like a celebration of the opposite, which of course I love. It is no coincidence that Litha is also defined as a day out of time.
In this reversal, it is as if the elements of fire and water overturn their roles in a magical union. A suggestive image representing this magic is realized in the floating candles.
Fire, water. Bonfire and dew. Waves and fires.
This is how Shakespeare in his A Midsummer Night’s Dream describes the reply of a fairy: Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire. I do wander everywhere Swifter than the moon’s sphere. And I serve the fairy queen To dew her orbs upon the green.
Fire, water. Sun and moon.
And then I remembered the advice QueenFaee Studio gave me in the comments here where sun and moon draw inspiration from the Visconti Sforza tarot cards, just to point out the curious coincidences, and my connection with the land …
This short film by Garrone for Dior enchants like the magical floating of the stars under the marvelous vault of the Tuscan castle of Sammezzano which, exactly as if inverted upside down, leads them to float in the water of the fountain.
Maria Grazia Chiuri wanted to give a reinterpretation of the tarot cards by transporting them into a fairy-tale but also an artistic dimension, in which the precious embroideries and the refined textures of the fabrics give life to works of art: living paintings, which not only allow themselves to be observed, but drag on a journey in search of answers.
The first dress, among other things, struck me: leaves on lace, a sort of mixture of fashion and nature that not by chance I immediately found magical, and that made me think in particular of the tree in the photo under the title, with its dress of ivy, because Nature dresses wonderfully.
At this point you will tell me “but what does all this have to do with it”
In reality, by crossing traditions, legends and fairytale atmospheres, I would like to interpret this summer as a series of cards that can offer a reading key that allows the re-appropriation of the magic of feeling aligned with the sun, ready to welcome the light.
And you? What do you see or predict in your cards? Water, fire, or what else?
PS: in the comments the Keep Calm version of Le Fou … or an upside-down creature who wants to be a comare, who is not silent like a cicada, who accumulates like an ant and who knows how to be heavy as a stone, but also loooong more “suspended” than Stonehenge
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