Late night Jazz with John Coltrane

Late night Jazz with John Coltrane. #TheKing ♡

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZHUVjQydI

#BlueMonday (Nina Simone Feeling Good)

Nina Simone - Feeling Good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Y11hwjMNs

#MorningMood (James Brown - This Is a Man's World)

James Brown - This Is a Man's World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd1-HM234DE

#MorningMood (Enigma - Shadows in Silence)

Enigma - Shadows in Silence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FXYd79xvwo

Photo Gallery: Shadows in Silence

Photo of the Day: © Leonetto Voliani. Tuscany. Italy. 1950.

When I'm with you/ I want to be the kind of hero/ I wanted to be/ when I was seven years old. (Leonard Cohen - The Reason I Write)

© Leonetto Voliani. Tuscany. Italy. 1950.

#MorningMood Miles (Miles Davis - Blue In Green)

Miles Davis - Blue In Green

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPL7BExSQU

Photo of the Day: Sir Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Rear Window (1954)

Sir Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Rear Window (1954)

Reading and watching TV tonight.

Photo of the Day: A British policewoman at Liverpool Street Station. London. 1952.

A British policewoman at Liverpool Street Station. London. 1952. © Harry Todd

#MorningMood (Massive Attack - The Spoils)

Massive Attack - The Spoils

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r31DFrFs5A

Photo of the Day: Paris. 1944. © Lee Miller

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Paris. 1944. © Lee Miller

#TheNightOfTheHunter

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

#TheNightOfTheHunter | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7B7A_dawI8

To the North Pole, please!

Richmond Park, London

Comori ale sufletului...

Comori ale sufletului...

József Rippl-Rónai (Woman with a Birdcage, 1892)

Take another little piece of my heart.

Take another little piece of my heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCnDQkfi5oA

Photo of the Day: A soldier carrying a Christmas tree. Chelesea, London. December 1915.

A soldier carrying a Christmas tree. Chelesea, London. December 1915.

#MorningMood (Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat)

Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqZc7ZQURMs

Photo of the Day: California. 1955. © Elliott Erwitt

Come and kiss me and let’s forget. California. 1955. © Elliott Erwitt

#MorningMood (Nat King Cole - L-O-V-E)

Nat King Cole - L-O-V-E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JErVP6xLZwg

"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." ― Jorge Luis Borges

#MorningMood (Angelo Badalamenti - Falling)

Angelo Badalamenti - Falling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suL5sFH7PjM

#Nostalgii (Sting - Englishman In New York)

Sting - Englishman In New York

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk

Photo of the Day: Paul Newman. Venice. 1963.

Paul Newman. Venice. 1963. ♡

#MorningMood (Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.1)

Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFVGwGQcB0

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

John Coltrane. Sau despre cum un artist a făcut din superlativul absolut o însușire:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clC6cgoh1sU&t=3s

Photo of the Day: London Fog. 1947. © Anthony Linck

London Fog. 1947. © Anthony Linck/LIFE Magazine

The world is quiet here.

Herăstrău Park

Teatime and Books. My rainy afternoon treat.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading...

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again...

— C.S. Lewis

Now that's what I call an offer she can't refuse.

Photo of the Day: Wild beauties. Peter Thomann. 1963.

Wild beauties. ♡ Peter Thomann. 1963.

Photo Gallery: Făpturi Împărătești | Facebook

Eyes Wide Shut: "No dream is ever just a dream..."

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) | Directed by Stanley Kubrick

El Greco - Sfântul Apostol Andrei (1600)

Sfântul Apostol Andrei, al cărui nume am fost binecuvântată să îl port, înfățișat într-o pictură aparținând lui El Greco (1600).

Our secret Garden...

Our secret Garden...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiLosOQP400

#MorningMood (INXS - By My Side)

INXS - By My Side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CXUcihuVJc

Abandoned by his mother, a 10-day-old foal finds new fuzzy friend.

Abandoned by his mother, a 10-day-old foal finds new fuzzy friend.

Photo Gallery: Făpturi Împărătești | Facebook

My Kind of Saturday Night

#MorningMood (The Animals - House of the Rising Sun)

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A-4VGfx5lU

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The idea is to die young as late as possible. #NeverGrowUp

#InVinoVeritas

Photo of the Day: London Fog. 1947. © Anthony Linck

London Fog. 1947. © Anthony Linck

Holiday village near Arkhangelsk, Russia.

Holiday village near Arkhangelsk, Russia.

Illustration by Rofusz Kinga

But I love your feet/ only because they walked/ upon the earth and upon/ the wind and upon the waters/ until they found me. — Pablo Neruda

 Illustration by Rofusz Kinga

Photo of the Day: New York City. 1955. © Elliott Erwitt

New York City. 1955. © Elliott Erwitt

Nopţi întregi de nesomn se scurg ca o clipă...

© Carson Ellis

Nopţi întregi de nesomn se scurg ca o clipă, scăldate într-o bucurie şi o fericire de nesecat, iar când zorile trandafirii îşi trimit primele raze, revărsându-se în odaia sumbră şi învăluind-o cu draperii fantastice de lumină îndoielnică, cum se întâmplă la noi la Petersburg, visătorul nostru vlăguit, stors de puteri, se aruncă în pat şi adoarme în voia spiritului său bolnav, zguduit de extaz, cu un fel de durere copleşitor de dulce în inimă.

― Dostoievski, Nopţi albe (1848)

Profesioniștii: Sofronie Drincec

Un interviu de exceptie cu episcopul Sofronie Drincec, un reprezentant de marcă a lumii ecleziastice româneşti: http://www.eugeniavoda.ro/ro/emisiuni/teologie/sofronie-drincec

Dialogul cu PS Sofronie Drincec face parte dintr-un DVD consacrat emisiunii "Profesioniştii", lansat în anul 2009. DVD-ul mai cuprinde interviurile realizate de Eugenia Vodă cu ieromonah Iustin Marchiş, preot Constantin Coman, IPS Bartolomeu Anania şi PS Virgil Bercea.

Photo of the Day: Paris. 1952. © Willy Ronis

Happiness and youthful, hopeful eyes. Paris. 1952. © Willy Ronis

"Daţi-mi un trup, voi munţilor, pământule larg, fii trunchiul meu, fii pieptul acestei năprasnice inimi..."

"Daţi-mi un trup, voi munţilor, pământule larg, fii trunchiul meu, fii pieptul acestei năprasnice inimi..."

Photo Gallery: Făpturi Împărătești | Facebook

Movie of the Day: Love in the Afternoon (1957)

Gary Cooper (Frank Flannagan) & Audrey Hepburn (Ariane Chavasse / Thin Girl)

2h 10min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 30 June 1957 (USA)

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond (screenplay), Claude Anet (novel)

Stars: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier

Memorable Quotes

Ariane Chavasse: I'm against violence. In my opinion, there's too much shooting in the world, and not enough love.

Frank Flannagan: How's that, again?

Ariane Chavasse: I mean, if people loved each other more, they'd shoot each other less!

Claude Chavasse: This is a great honor. Come right in, Mr. Flannagan.

Frank Flannagan: You know me?

Claude Chavasse: Do I know you? Does an art student know Picasso?

Ariane Chavasse: Papa, you are a cynic!

Claude Chavasse: I guess I am.

Ariane Chavasse: You enjoy your work!

Claude Chavasse: I guess I do.

Ariane Chavasse: You'd enjoyed it even if you weren't paid for it!

Claude Chavasse: I wouldn't go that far.

Ariane Chavasse: You know who I am, Mr. Flannagan, I'm the girl in the afternoon.

Frank Flannagan: [on knowing about his numerous conquests] Aren't you a little too young for that?

Ariane Chavasse: I was about to ask you a similar question. Aren't you a little too old for that?

Frank Flannagan: That hurts! First you save a man's life, then you stab him. Is that kind?

Ariane Chavasse: I always tell you what I'm doing, but you never tell me what you're doing.

Claude Chavasse: Because I love you and want to protect you from the sordid stuff I must deal with.

Ariane Chavasse: I bet when Mama was alive you told her what you were doing.

Claude Chavasse: Your Mama was a married woman. Ariane Chavasse: I'm so glad!

Ariane Chavasse: They're very odd people, you know. When they're young, they have their teeth straightened, their tonsils taken out and gallons of vitamins pumped into them. Something happens to their insides! They become immunized, mechanized, air-conditioned and hydromatic. I'm not even sure whether he has a heart.

Michel: What is he? A creature from outer space?

Ariane Chavasse: No. He's an American.

Frank Flannagan: Everything about you is perfect.

Ariane Chavasse: I'm too thin! And my ears stick out, and my teeth are crooked and my neck's much too long.

Frank Flannagan: Maybe so, but I love the way it all hangs together.

Frank Flannagan: He who loves and runs away, lives to love another day.

Monsieur X: Please, monsieur, is the news good or bad?

Claude Chavasse: That depends. Is this your wife?

[Hands over a photograph]

Monsieur X: It looks like her.

Claude Chavasse: Then I regret to inform you that it looks bad.

Monsieur X: Then there IS another man!

Claude Chavasse: There is. And I regret to say that he looks good.

Frank Flannagan: Goodbye, thin girl.

Ariane Chavasse: Goodbye, Mr. Flannagan.

Frank Flannagan: You promised.
Ariane Chavasse: You don't have to worry about me, Mr. Flannagan. There've been so many men before. There'll be so many after this. It's gonna be another one of those crazy years. While you're in Cannes, I'll be in Brussels with the banker. He wants to give me a Mercedes Benz, a blue one, it's my favorite color. And while you're in Athens, I'll be with the duke again in Scotland. But, I don't know whether I'll go yet, because another man's asked me to spend the summer with him in Deauville. He owns race horses. He's very rich. He's number twenty. I mean number twenty one, you're number twenty. So, you see Mr. Flannagan, I'll be perfectly all right. I'll... I'll be all right... I'll be all right!

[last lines]

Claude Chavasse: [voiceover] On Monday, August 24th of this year, the case of Frank Flannagan and Ariane Chavasse came up before the superior judge in Cannes. They are now married, serving a life sentence in New York, state of New York, USA.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” 

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”

“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him… The land of tears is so mysterious.”

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

“It's the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”

“You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Photo of the Day: John Coltrane & Miles Davis. New York. 1959.

Two of my all-time favorite artists. ♡
John Coltrane & Miles Davis. New York. 1959. © Don Hunstein