We could stop global warming ...

Wired features a great article about how we could hack the atmosphere, engineer the climate changes ... as long as we're in it longterm! So impossible for the far-from-sigle-minded human nature.

Because we're young

Sometimes I think about how the possibilites one could envisage don't really grow into opportunities. And they say we're young and that there's time. I wonder.

Been listenin' to Suede's So young

Science of sleep and my friends

It's damn hot. Got some writing to work at and can't get passed the title (which has already been set, now how great is that?!)Instead I escape to random thoughts and memories, amongst which there's this flashback, from Gondry's "Science of sleep", a lovely surrealist film I managed to see in a rather empty baloon-cinema at TIFF in Sibiu. Stephan (the main character) said at some point "I worked hard allday ... in my dreams". (Of course, it sounds so much better en francais!)Stephan has this great ability of getting, or better still, staying in touch with his deepest dreams. Stephanie, the girl next door, makes things with her hands. Beautiful things. She reminds me of Oana and Cristina, two of my friends who make beautiful things with their hands.
Here's some footage from the film, just to rememorize and get in the mood...of having dreams.

and there was Tori Amos (2)

a very good video and a great example of how she communicated with the audience in Bucharest. Loved it.

And there was Tori Amos

Tori Amos, simply amazing at the Friday concert, more than a simple, feeble video could say.

she breaks indeed, the siren

Clyde

one of the five Tori American Doll Posse Tour stage personna

Waiting to get toridazzled

Tori Amos is going to perform tomorrow (actually, today as it's way past midnight now and I can't seem to get myself in bed)in Bucharest. I,ve been so busy that it's only now that I got the butterflies and started to anticipate. By looking at the gigs so far, I get shivers up my spine and I'm fervently searching for more videos on you tube, playing my tori playlist and keep on guessing on the songs we're going to hear so soon. I'm a little bit numb ... I'm basically sleep-searching&posting.

Earlier this evening I came back from work and rushed to my playlist and saw a most liquid sky with the liquid dimonds as soundtrack. Who know just how many moments I'll have at the concert. I just realised how much I've waited for this performer to come, I somehow still don't believe I'm gonna see and listen to Tori Amos live in a few hours. Any experience, I will share. Hope I can get a little footage too :)Stay around.
Me's going to sleep with butterflies.... Nighty-night!
May'be I'll dream on what she will be. See below how cruel Santa can get.

Storm

Bucharest is being devastated by a not-ever-seen-before-here storm. It's been lasting for over 40 minutes. Furious wind turned into dust (of which there's plenty)and waste tornado making it hard to see one's feet while walking. I have never seen such a swirl of dust and garbage and such violent sweeping. It's dark like hell and even huge, new buildings don't seem safe. Open windows to houses of people that work or stay out until late at night are dangerous and keep bumping violently into walls. It's a creepy sound of harsh wind blowing through every little breach. Sirens are blowing everywhere. Thunders come repeteadly and loud. Trees have fallen over cars, even trains, all of these derailed, streets are full with water that still falls violently. Bucharest has the most terrible sewage system so now it looks like a most unfortunate Venice. A bombed, end-of-world underwater city. And I was just about to write about the extreme heat we experienced today. And about the horrible smell that dwells upon this city. Coming back from a short but very meaningful trip to Paris and London, I could not overlook the way this dirty European capital stinks. Pavements are staineed and sticky from God-knows what. Liquid garbage, plants and fruits fallen and forgotten on the sidewalks entered in decay, people - poor and uncivilized...all is being ruthlessly boiled by the steamy heat giving off the most unbearable scent. That of a rotten city ...with ugly dirty people forgetting to wash, and forgotten waste gladly taking their best revenge - rotting, fermenting at the unbearable 40something degrees, expanding through gas, poisoning the air, making people notice.

All this city seems to dangerously indulge in dumb oblivion, walking robotically through the maddening heat, giving off their worst scents. This is terribly unbearable, especially after seeing and being surrounded by all those beautiful people, coquette orcool , having red wine at lunch and goodloughs and times after work, drinking loudly in their office suits (well, actually there's a longer story here...)but most of all, talking to each other, connecting, socializing, enjoying life and respecting themselves. The clean streets, the crowded but yet not smelly underground, the well groomed buildings, the so well mentained beauty.

Tonight, news say a man died from a fallen tree&fallen wall. The storm has made victims, apart from that train that derailed and the so many cars that were destroied.

The water is still falling violently on the ground, so persistently, so loud, so furious, as if to sweep away all the dirt of this city. And if it works, there could also be less people. after the rain.