coffee no. 136

I do not know how it is but some people look completely idiotically when they smile. As long as they keep serious expression, they are handsome, beautiful, *normal*. But only when the smile appear on their face, they become really different, kind of versatile, or even piteous. Very often it seems as if they just came out with the uncontrolled, sudden grin like for example with a swear-word... The smile appears and the image collapses...
Maybe the more serious someone tries to be, the more foolishly they look while smiling...

Years ago somebody told me: Do not put your trust in people who look strange when they smile...

coffee no. 135

Czesław Miłosz

WHEN THE MOON


When the moon rises and women in flowery dresses are strolling,
I am struck by their eyes, eyelashes, and the whole arrangement of the world.
It seems to me that from such a strong mutual attraction
The ultimate truth should issue at last.

Johanna Trio

From Tim Burton's SWEENEY TODD

Foutaises Jean-Pierre Jeunet (eng sub)

coffee no. 134

A couple of bizarre dog's names: Name, Why, Play, Champagne, Brandy, Byron, Balzac, Dante, Lennon, Coffee.
Some days ago I heard a man calling his two big black dogs: Bonnie and Clyde.

coffee no. 133

Another story from the shopping centre. I see a teenage (around 14 years old) girl dressed in nice and funny but very exaggerated way. She is wearing black jeans, grey T-shirt with a big colorful picture and tons of yellow accessories: huge plastic earrings, headband, hair clips, beads, bracelets, belt, rings, bag... Yellow horror vacui.
Some minutes later I spot a woman in her early fourties, being turquoise horror vacui... I immediately think that it is not a mere coincidence -- she MUST be a mother of that girl.
Finally I meet them both, walking side by side, colorful like two parrots and strangely sad. Their image is smiling from the distance but their faces look like the random pieces of some odd, spooky collage.