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Chasing Dorothy Gale

March 27th, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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Now I´m starting a new section in my blog named Dark Muses and here I will write about the women who has influenced me most and why not? the ones who obsessed me. It starts with Dorothy Gale, from Kansas.

Picture by Lara Jade

Picture taken from Vogue.

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Homo homini lupus

March 21st, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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Homo homini lupus (man is a wolf to [his fellow] man). Thomas Hobbes

If the war is one of the natural instics of the man; it´s ironic to realize that how often the art is used as weapon to fight this behabiour back. It doesn´t matter how much we´ve grown up, how smart we thing we are: the wars are still happening because we´re animals, beasts like Hobbes said. I´ve included here three examples of anti-war songs (in almost one century). It´s sad to see that only the location and the weapons have changed because the rest is the same old story.

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1954 “Le déserteur” by Boris Vian about Indochine´s war.

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1989 “One” by Metallica about the First World War when a soldiel loses all his senses and limbs. This video has several scenes from the movie “Johny got his gun”.

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2007 “Heaven´s Hung in Black” by W.A.S.P. sabout Irak´s war. The title of the song is Civil War´s and Abraham Lincoln´s mentioned.

I´ve chosen two heavy metal bands´songs becuase I find very funnt that these kind of bands were named dangerous for the youth because of their violence when they are openly pacifist. 

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Have a happy St. Patrick´s day

March 17th, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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The Plucker by Brom

March 13th, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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The Plucker is a fairy tale about toys´ loyalty and it´s a step forward regarding to Toy Story; The Plucker goes where Toy Story doesn´t dare. Brom tells the story of Jack, a Jack-in-the-box toy, just a forgotten toy, who doesn´t hesitate in going to rescue his owner Thomas when Thomas’ soul is kept by Nigerian doll. This doll has trapped an evil spirit inside, The Plucker (because he plucks the eyes of his victims).

This is the first illustrated novel by Brom and I enjoyed it a lot. It´s visually stunning and the story is engaging: a really page-turner. It´s darker, wicker and more disturbing than Tory Story. I highly recommend it. I´m looking forward to reading his other works: Devil´s Rose y The Child Thief.

Although I was told that it could be a movie soon, I didn´t hear anything else about it; however, I know that it was adapted for a stage play.

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Martine Johanna

March 7th, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

Red by Martine Johanna.

Tell me all your secrets, let me see what is behind your keyhole…

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