In the blog, with Madonna

She is in Brazil, performing some shows in Rio and São Paulo.
Here, one of your songs

Vogue

What at you looking at?

Strike a pose
Strike a pose
Vogue, vogue, vogue
Vogue, vogue, vogue

Look around everywhere you turn is heartache
It's everywhere that you go [look around]
You try everything you can to escape
The pain of life that you know [life that you know]

When all else fails and you long to be
Something better than you are today
I know a place where you can get away
It's called a dance floor, and here's what it's for, so

CHORUS:
Come on, vogue
Let your body move to the music
[move to the music]
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, vogue
Let your body go with the flow [go with the flow]
You know you can do it

All you need is your own imagination
So use it that's what it's for [that's what it's for]
Go inside, for your finest inspiration
Your dreams will open the door [open up the door]

It makes no difference if you're black or white
If you're a boy or a girl
If the music's pumping it will give you new life
You're a superstar, yes, that's what you are,
you know it

Come on, vogue
Let your body groove to the music
[groove to the music]
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, vogue
Let your body go with the flow [go with the flow]
You know you can do it

Beauty's where you find it
Not just where you bump and grind it
Soul is in the musical
That's where I feel so beautiful
Magical, life's a ball
So get up on the dance floor

CHORUS

Vogue, [Vogue]
Beauty's where you find it
[move to the music]
Vogue, [Vogue]
Beauty's where you find it [go with the flow]

Greta Garbo, and Monroe
Deitrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine

Grace Kelly; Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rodgers, dance on air

They had style, they had grace
Rita Hayworth gave good face
Lauren, Katherine, Lana too
Bette Davis, we love you

Ladies with an attitude
Fellows that were in the mood
Don't just stand there, let's get to it
Strike a pose, there's nothing to it

Vogue, vogue

Oooh, you've got to
Let your body move to the music
Oooh, you've got to just
Let your body go with the flow
Oooh, you've got to
Vogue

Some notes about crash

Fatima Dannemann

A multi-car accident is the start of Crash the first film directed by the screen-writer Paul Haggis. But Crash is not a film about traffic accidents or cars. Its story is based on prejudice and the ways it can spoil not only human relationships but an entire life.

Haggis got the idea after he had his car stolen in Los Angeles in 1991. The way he was involved with authorities, police and the material loss made him reflect about life in big cities. In his opinion, the influence of TV, cinema and other mass media, health system, police and justice makes people develop prejudice.

For this reason, people who have never met before act as mortal enemies only because their ethnicities, religion or appearance. After the accident in the begin of the film, we were taken to the day before and the main caracters and their stories are introduced.

First, two black man steal a luxury car from a white wealth couple. The only reason is because the thieves were mistreated in a restaurant. Then, a mexican who fixes something in a persian shop. This shop were robbed and broken everyday by a group of anti-arab people. There are also the affairs between a black policeman, his latin girlfriends, his junk mother and his brother; The prosecutor and his snobbish wife, the TV director with his asiatic wife.

There is much more. Winner of the Oscar, Crash joins a big and famous cast: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Brendar Fraser and others. For all these reasons, it is one of the best movies of the last years.

skycrapers

By Fatima Dannemann


It makes me amazed
to figure out that in each american city
there are allways skycrapers

some notes about Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 15 september 1890 and died in 1976.
She wrote more than 80 books.
She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays.

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Her works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.

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She was educated at home, but when she was 16 she was sent to Paris to study piano and singing. Although she played the piano very well, her stage fright and shyness prevented her from pursuing a carreer in music.

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She married twice. First, with Archibald Christie who asked the divorce in 1926 to marry another woman. She disappeared for a time after the divorce and nobody never knew what happened. She married again in 1927. Her second husband was the archaeologist Max Mallowan, whom she met during a trip to Syria and Iraq.

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Two of her books was filmed with a millionaire cast:
Murder in the Orient Express - 1974 - with Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, John Gielgud
Death on Nile - 1978 - with Betty Davis, Mia Farrow, Jacqueline Bisset, Olivia Hussey, Maggie Smith.

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She sold over than 2 million books.

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Hercule Poirot
Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters: he appeared in 33 novels and 51 short stories.His first published appearance was in The Mysterious Affair at Styles (published 1920) and his last was in Curtain (published 1975, the year before Christie died). On publication of this novel, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times; August 6, 1975 "Hercule Poirot is Dead; Famed Belgian Detective"

Miss Marple

Miss Jane Marple is an elderly woman who lives in the little English village of St. Mary Mead. She looks like an ordinary old lady, dressed neatly in tweed and is frequently seen knitting or pulling weeds in her garden. Miss Marple sometimes comes across as confused or "fluffy", but when it comes to solving mysteries, she has a sharp logical mind, and an almost unmatched understanding of human nature with all its weaknesses, strengths, quirks and foibles. In the detective story tradition, she often embarrasses the local "professional" police by solving mysteries that have them stumped. Jane Marple, usually known as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels. Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who acts as an amateur detective, and lives in the village of St. Mary Mead. She has been portrayed numerous times on screen, and is one of the most famous of Christie's creations. Her first published appearance was in issue 350 of The Royal Magazine for December 1927 with the first printing of the short story The Tuesday Night Club which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems (1932). Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

Norah Jones, is a singer that I like very much. The first time I heard her singing was in the soap opera "Beijo do Vampiro". In the internacional sound track, productors included the hit Come away with me. Since then, I have researched songs and informations about this artist whose father is the famous hindi musician Ravi Shankar. She is also composer and pianist. She was born in Brooklin in 1979 but grew up in Texas with her mother.

Now, the lyrics of come away with me. I hope you enjoy it.

Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song

Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they can't tempt us
With their lies

And I wanna walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows
knee-high
So won't you try to come

Come away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountain top
Come away with me
And I'll never stop loving you

And I wanna wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me

Gift

Fatima Dannemann

See the life
in small grains.
Feel the life pulsing
in small flowers.
Put your life
in small actions
and being only human.
And that is more than enough.

a fairy in my window

It is serious. One day, I lighted some candles in my roon. They burnt my curtain and the sun filter in my window. Nothing more serious happen, but after a couple of days I noticed that the smoke make a figure in the window. It seems a fairy with small wings and a long hat. I wonder if I capture an elemental. I don't hope so. I really believe in fairies and I am happy because I am changing everything in my room. Maybe, the little fairy will set free.

The sun rises in the Africa

You see the sun rising behind the Medina towers and wall and you can imagine that you are in Middle East. It's because the effect of a sunrise in Tunisia is something magical. When you see the Medina of Sfax covered of the morning mist, you forget you are in Africa and start believing in magic. Somewhere you might meet a genius...But it's only because the muslim culture, one of the numerous influences in this country.

The Bardo

Being in Tunis, last february, I visited The Bardo Museum. I became amazed with all I had seen.
In Bardo, there is a large collection of roman mosaic. Some of them representing aspects of The Odissey. Others honor country divinities and was found in roman villas.
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Tunis is a large, modern, cosmopolite city in North Africa. French colonizators influence can be noticed in the wide avenues, cafes, and in food, specially omelets and salads.
Carthage, the old kingdon which emperor Hannibal dared to defy romans, is now a rich suburb of Tunis, with big house evaluated in US$ 1 million.

Once upon a time in the desert

I am not sure if I have alread post this photo here. Despite this doubt, I am now showing to you this picture I took in Tunisia. As anybody knows, Tunisia is a country in North Africa and most of its territory is in the Sahara.
The photo shows the Chott El-Jherid, a salt lake in the middle of the country. A great deal of it is now dry. But they continue to sell its salt to France and other europeans countries.

This place in the picture is in the half way from Douz to Tozeur. The highway cross the desert and we see some tuaregues with their camels.

When the passion ends in blood

 

 

As was Eloa Cristinna Pimentel, shooting dead by her boyfriend Lindemberg Fernandes Alves, in Santo Andre, São Paulo, after 100 hours of kidnapping and false imprisonment, other women, young or adult, are being beaten, tortured, and even offended dead from north to south of Brazil. The main victims of crimes of passion are women. Less than 10 percent of the crimes, according to statistics of justice, have men as victims. Most happens with the end of the relationship, but none of the crimes has to do with passionate love. According to lawyers and psychologists, who kills his former lover is mainly driven by selfishness, jealousy and hatred sick.

 

Maria de Fatima Dannemann

 

The samba "Ronda" of the composer from São Paulo, Paulo Vanzolini, describes the situation: driven by a morbid jealousy, a woman goes out looking for her husband (or lover) by all the bars in the city swears death. In art, kill "with passion" have yielded movies, books, plays and at least one of the soap opera broadcasted currently has just a crime of passion as "motto": A Favorita (Globo network, 21 hours), in which Flora husband of Donatella, Marcelo, for jealousy, envy, spite and a range of feelings even more sordid. In real life, turns and moves a crime of passion plays all editions of all the media so much less poetic.

            The latest crime to stir the country ended in tragedy at the end of last week and involved Lindemberg Fernandes Alves and his ex-girlfriend Eloá Cristina Pimentel.  The commotion surrounding the kidnapping, false imprisonment, torture and all that the girl suffered was so great that other issues such as runoff municipal elections, world economic crisis and even the destiny of Flora and Donatella in the soap opera A Favorita remained in the background . Programs such as Mais Você, by Ana Maria Braga, became a stage of debates about the direction of sick passion that leads someone to kill his former lover. This matter, however, has become theme of a book, written by the prosecutor Luiza Nagib Eluf of Sao Paulo, which analyzed 14 crimes famous in "Paixão no banco dos réus" 

Profile   

           The behavior of Lindemberg matches the profile that lawyers, police and psychologists give the passionate murderer who is someone normally calm, never killed anyone, but took a violent conduct for refusing to end the relationship or fall into oblivion by the former loved. But many of the crimes happen behind the scenes of the media. Most cases occur in the suburbs, among people of low income and all the coverage of the press comes down to a footnote on page police. Or not notoriety, this type of crime scares feminist and NGO and is related to domestic violence against women.

 

      The number of crimes has grown throughout the country and Bahia, according to police statistics have been 59 murders of women only in the first half of this year. One of the biggest impact was in Rubem Berta Street, Pituba, when the student's UFBa, Miguel Almeida, 22 years old, killed his former girlfriend, Margaret Andrade, 34 years after a fight. If such crimes and the cause of Beef uprising, protests, there have been a time when men had the right to kill almost lovers "infidels". This can be seen in the movie "The Other" in which, driven by frame palace, Henry VIII sends decapitate Ana Boleyn with the excuse of treason and incest. All right, it did not come to be crime of passion, but in Brazil, until the nineteenth century the husband was entitled to wash his honor with blood in cases of treachery (real or supposed).

           A crime was famous, moreover, in the nineteenth century Bahia. That was when the teacher Joâo Estanislau da Silva Lisboa killed his student and "beloved" Julia Feital with a silver bullet of a house in the street do Rosario, the city center. The girl did not want anything to him, which was much more old (almost always there is a significant difference of age) and of it she lost her life. This right to kill over, but the men still exists in the legal self-defense of honor (now slightly raised). Luiza Eluf,  the prosecutor, said in an interview to a magazine at the time of the launch of the book that even when victim, a woman is always viewed with scorn and inferiority.

          This behavior was seen in the trial of the playboy  Raul (Doca) Street in 1979 when he was tried for the murder of the "panther of Mines," Angela Diniz. In the dock, he claimed to "have killed for love", ended up being acquitted. Two years later, under a huge wave of protest and the effect of the movement "who loves does not kill," Dock Street again been tried and this time he was convicted. The singer was Lindomar Castilho protagonist of another crime of passion in 1981 when he killed his ex-wife Eliana de Grammont. Was described as aggressive and jealous but he spoke on Tuesday saying the crime is disconnected from reality.

          More rare according to statistics, but the times is the woman who kills. One of the most famous cases is that of former actress Michelle Duval who killed the ex-husband Paulo Sergio Alcantara in 1983. Michelle's story is sad moments: at 15 years was raped, turned prostitute. Later, turned actress, married Daniel Filho, made the novel The Well Amado. Disappeared from TV involved, with Paulo Sergio, 16 years younger, that after six years of marriage decided tripudiar saying she was "finished", calling it with adjectives like "old and ugly." One day, Michelle decided wash his honor with blood. He was convicted, served sentence. Today, with more than 70 years, lives in Rio de Janeiro, became plastic artist and lives of the sale of their work.

           There are instances where the crime of passion ends in suicide. Ana Paula Arósio, a major star cast of the Globe went bad times 12 years ago. She was only 21 years in 1996, when they saw the suicide of ex-boyfriend, the businessman Luis Carlos Tjurs, 29. The ex-husband of singer Sula Miranda also committed suicide in 1990. Maite Proença just as a witness of the murder of the mother by her father. But one of the recent cases was the noisiest of editorial director of the State of Sao Paulo, Marco Antonio Pimenta Neves who killed his girlfriend Sandra Gomide. He was 63 years. She was much younger. Reason: not accept the rejection.

            The excuse of Dock Street to "kill for love" no longer convincing lawyers, psychologists or even the police. Psychologists say that there is a difference between the violent emotions caused by unbridled passion and love. In the case of passionate crime, the behavior of the killer is linked to selfishness, egolatria and egocentrism. It's the old thinking that "if it is not mine, is not from anyone." In the case of Beef, at least it is the heart of someone: a patient underwent the transplant and won a new heart the day of his birthday, at the beginning of this week.

 

 

Amazing things

With creative and effort, people can create wonders like these small dogs made with flowers.
I got this picture by e-mail and these flower animals were created in japan where people use to have a lot of patience to do unusual things like that.

Something like Orient

You see the sun rising behind the Medina towers and wall and you can imagine that you are in Middle East. It's because the effect of a sunrise in Tunisia is something magical. When you see the Medina of Sfax in the moment that the sun rises, you believe that god is really your father.

Irish Poetry: Paul Durcan

And That Being so

Paul Durcan

My so is the High Meadow we played in
My cousin and I, when we were young
The high meadow where we danced
Round a fairy ring

My soul is the figure of my first love
Skipping quickly across the sands
Her hair dyed yellow - was that wise? -
Round her laughing eyes

But the High Meadow's been built upon
And that being so and my first love gone
My soul must step in the streets
Round the fire of song

All we can carry in a handbag

I have alread done a list of all the things I use to carry in my handbag. It depends on the situation. If I am out, travelling around, I use to carry many diferent things like pills against headache, needle, line, a rosary, a japamala, lipstick, money, documents...

I used to keep the latest results of the blood laboratorial tests in the bag. I wondered that we never knew what could happen and it had better carry the exams than have to do it again.

Well, a handbag could manytimes reveal a lot about ourselves... And, I think it is the most personal and intimate thing a woman can own.

by Fatima Dannemann

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