quotes – ROCK'N'FIOCC

La citazione del giorno

rockandfiocc — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 13:21:43 +0000

“You’re considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion, but I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.”
—Sofia Coppola

La citazione del giorno

rockandfiocc — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:08:29 +0000

I don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

“

— Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice

La noia

rockandfiocc — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 23:54:45 +0000

Ho tenuto questa frase appesa in camera per tantissimi anni:

“- Voialtri – diceva mio padre – vi annoiate perché non avete vita interiore”.

Natalia Ginzburg, Lessico famigliare

Ho sempre pensato che fosse così vera, forse perché non mi annoio mai? Sono anni che non mi capita di pensare “e ora che faccio?”. Ho sempre qualcosa da fare, da scrivere, da leggere, da guardare, da dire. Non esistono Domeniche tristi nella mia vita, perché riempio sempre le mie giornate con cose che mi interessano. Penso che sia dovuto al fatto che ho passato tantissimo tempo da sola, a casa, nella mia cameretta , quando mia madre mi impediva di uscire a vivere la mia adolescenza (ehm ehm rancore). Passateli 18 anni recluse in casa, poi mi dite se non vi inventate qualcosa per fare passare il tempo, ha ha.

L’altro giorno poi Erica ha postato una canzone dei Pet Shop Boys che dice qualcosa di simile:

She said: “We were never feeling bored
‘Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: “Make amends”
And we were never holding back or worried that
Time would come to an end”

Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring

Si parla tanto di fare annoiare i bambini, perché sono troppo stimolati, troppo impegnati, troppo seguiti e anche se non ho figli, quindi non posso parlare di educazione, credo sia stato importantissimo per me avere il tempo di annoiarmi, di non fare niente, durante la mia infanzia e adolescenza, quando ho scoperto le mie passioni (libri, moda, cinema) e ho avuto tutto il tempo del mondo per svilupparle. Non avrò mai più così tante ore libere in un giorno, non leggerò mai più così tanti libri e non guarderò mai più così tanti film!
A meno che non finisca in prigione.

Date a girl who reads

admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:38:53 +0000

Date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

by Rosemarie Urquico

#tb: D.P by Anna Piaggi

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 23:48:00 +0000

“Spiky o grafico, rievocativo o trasposto, il nuovo rapper-à-l’ordre per l’autunno-inverno 2011-2012 si diverte con un diverso “Système de la mode” linguistico e libero dove i “jeux-de-mots” sono all’ordine del giorno. In un vocabolario di moda evolutivo si potrebbero persino inserire citazioni inedite come “Roland Barthesology”! E’ un “re-styling” ironico-artistico con alcuni nuovi trends, spesso di ispirazione inglese,come “smart &crafts”, o “streamlined urbanism”,ma anche con più riposanti e rassicuranti accezioni, da una “quiet seduction” al ritorno stilizzato dello “charme bourgeois”, con i suoi modi “educati” che riportano una nuova frivolezza e un’evoluzione classica. Molti modi di giocare con la moda in attesa di una stagione più impegnativa e formale”

Dalla rubrica D.P by Anna Piaggi, Vogue Italia Agosto 2011

La citazione del giorno: Li Edelkoort

rockandfiocc — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 23:47:58 +0000

“How can a product that needs to be sown, grown, harvested, combed, spun, knitted, cut and stitched, finished, printed, labelled, packaged and transported cost a couple of Euros? On the hunt for cheaper deals, volume companies, but also some luxury brands, have trusted the making of their wages to underpaid workers living in dire conditions. What’s more, these prices imply the clothes are to be thrown away, discarded like a condom before being loved and savoured, teaching young consumers that fashion has no value. We should make legislation to have minimum prices.”

Li Edelkoort (una delle massime esponenti mondiali del Trend Forecasting) spiega il suo manifesto, “Ten reasons why the fashion system is obsolete”

Trovate altri estratti qui

La citazione della Domenica

rockandfiocc — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 23:06:36 +0000

“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn’t understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”

— Marguerite Duras, The Lover

La citazione della Domenica

rockandfiocc — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:04:42 +0000

“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.”
— Anaïs Nin

Late August – mood

rockandfiocc — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:46:18 +0000

“I begin to wonder if I am anything outside of my own imaginative world, which I inhabit so richly, with a rich self! I get knotted up with sensitiveness. I imagine myself unlovable. Reality begins to slip away from me. I am in my Journal, and in my Journal only, nowhere else. Nothing shows on the outside. Perhaps I do not exist except as a fantastic character in this story.”
— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

“I’ve seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.”
— Albert Camus, from A Happy Death

“I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart… I do nothing all day, boredom settles in, I look at the sky so I get to feel even smaller than I already feel and my mind keeps poisoning itself uselessly.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“As different as we all are, there’s one thing most young women have in common: We’re all brought up to feel like there’s something wrong with us. We’re too fat. We’re dumb. We’re too smart. We’re not ladylike enough – ‘stop cursing, chewing with your mouth open, speaking your mind’. We’re too slutty. We’re not slutty enough. Fuck that.
You’re not too fat. You’re not too loud. You’re not too smart. You’re not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.”
— Jessica Valenti; Full Frontal Feminism

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

La citazione del giorno

rockandfiocc — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 10:46:24 +0000

“I begin to wonder if I am anything outside of my own imaginative world, which I inhabit so richly, with a rich self! I get knotted up with sensitiveness. I imagine myself unlovable. Reality begins to slip away from me. I am in my Journal, and in my Journal only, nowhere else. Nothing shows on the outside. Perhaps I do not exist except as a fantastic character in this story.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

La citazione della Domenica

rockandfiocc — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 22:52:05 +0000

“I believe that any two people who disagree should really go as far as they can, and I think we do: screaming, yelling, petty acts of hostility and cruelty — but it’s all meaningless. It’s meaningless if that essential love is there. Like a rubber band that you stretch out, no matter how far you pull it — and even if it stings snapping back — it returns, the love reappears.”

-John Cassavetes

La citazione della Domenica

rockandfiocc — Sun, 29 May 2016 10:53:17 +0000

“The fashion system has been busy keeping up with blogging/social networking. It is not always for the best, but it did give fashion a global audience. The unfortunate outcome might be the obsession and collusion between the celebrity culture and high fashion. It is just a big global mess of random endorsement. Nothing looks worse than a dress or a suit on a red carpet. It is an ongoing tragedy of cheap fashion on cheap celebrities, followed by ubercheap comments. I only like designers’ clothes on models. Good models have an inner understanding of the clothes and design.”

Hedi Slimane