Wednesday, May 31, 2006

coffee no. 77

Concert from a philharmonic transmitted on TV. In front of the huge band was standing absolutely beautiful woman. She was wearing a smart blue dress and her long blond hair cascaded on the shoulders. At first glance I thought that she was a singer and I wanted to change the channel. But suddenly she started playing the trumpet... Her delicate cheeks pouted, face became red and eyes popped. The whole situation was ludicrous and really creepy. Some things in this world simply don't go together. But on the other hand our world would be so plain without such conjunctions.

Friday, May 26, 2006

coffee no. 76

Last summer the man I was with and I, came across the exposition of the wonderful photos taken by Italian photographer Eolo Perfido. We spent much time gazing at the portraits of really beautiful women and one of them caught our attention more than the others. The woman in this photo was so lovely that my boyfriend could not stop looking at her, took a photo of that photo, the following day framed it and hung on his wall. Absolute fascination. He joked that he must go on a trip in order to find her. We tried to imagine how would it be searching her across the Europe for many days, maybe weeks, finally find her and what next? Invite for a coffee, wine, confess her love??? what next?!
We talk about it very often, wondering what would happen? if anything would happen...
I know that the whole idea is crazy and as kitschy as it could be, but I like it.
I really like it.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

coffee no.75

A friend of mine told me a very nice story today. When she was a little girl, her parents gave her an enormous present for her birthday. It was bigger than herself, so my friend was extremely curious what had been hidden inside. Having unwrapped it, she found another box, and inside it there was another, and another. Dozens of increasingly smaller boxes. She was getting more and more nervous, and the whole process became more infuriating than funny. Finally she reached the last, tiny box and it tourned out that there was a golden ring. She was completely dissapointed -- what value could have a golden ring for seven year old girl?
She was expecting something big, extraordinary and fabulous, but she got something ugly, useless and completely stupid instead...

Sunday, May 14, 2006

coffee no. 74

At my secondary school there was a girl absolutely similar to Wednesday from THE ADDAMS FAMILY movie. Pale and skinny, with long black hair and always dressed in black. I was dying to meet her and make friends with. Unfortunately she suddenly disappeared. I don't know what was the reason of her absence.
Sometimes I wonder how does she look presently. Is she still a lost, lonely, strange looking girl or maybe an atractive, sociable, cheerful woman?...

Friday, May 12, 2006

coffee no. 73

I admire people who have very unique and peculiar abilities. And, after all, absolutely useless in everyday life.
Today I saw on the TV the young man who can count the letters of what he just hears. Somebody was reading (in the normal rate) the jokes or excerpts from books and the man out of hand could say how many letters there was in the whole sentence. It was amazing.

The most interesting is the fact that such talented people almost always look utterly normal -- nothing in their appearance or behaviour suggests that they are very special in some sense. Their appearance often says "hey, I'm an ordinary, boring person", but suddenly they turn out to be the most interesting people we have met in our life. So be attentive!