quarta-feira, 17 de dezembro de 2008

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

domingo, 7 de dezembro de 2008

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.