Mood and whatever else strikes my fancy...

[Orchidea73]

Machines are taking over as we become slaves to technology. Terminator is now a documentary instead of science fiction

Yep. I was seriously thinking to go back to letters. lol

 

[NemoNautilus]

Yep. I was seriously thinking to go back to letters. lol

I’m considering a typewriter again

 

[Orchidea73]

I’m considering a typewriter again

I remember my dad writing his book on a typewriter and me checking it after. Making a bit the editorial role. Ah, nostalgia.

 

[gga]

Yep. I was seriously thinking to go back to letters. lol

Sitting down and expressing yourself with pen, or crayon in my case, to paper can be quite enjoyable. Much better than firing off a text or a quickly worded email.

There's also a good feeling that comes from receiving a letter, knowing someone put in the effort to sit and write it.

As for technology, as someone who works in IT, I'll agree that there are most definitely pros and cons to how rapidly it has grown and become an integral part of our lives. It can both help, and hurt, immensely depending on what it is used for.

 

[NemoNautilus]

I’m getting back into calligraphy, which I was taught as a young teenager. I was able to get a simple fountain pen set from Michael’s Crafts. The arthritis makes it harder to hold the pen, but I powered through it to create a handmade Hogwarts acceptance letter for my nephew when he turned 11.

I need to do that more, but I find I have less to say

 

[Orchidea73]

Sitting down and expressing yourself with pen, or crayon in my case, to paper can be quite enjoyable. Much better than firing off a text or a quickly worded email.

There's also a good feeling that comes from receiving a letter, knowing someone put in the effort to sit and write it.

As for technology, as someone who works in IT, I'll agree that there a most definitely pros and cons to how rapidly it has grown and become an integral part of our lives. It can both help, and hurt, immensely depending on what it is used for.

I loved letters. I still have the letters that my dad send me in HS. I cherish them.

As for technology. You are right. It depends how and what is is used for. It was also meant to connect people but what I see is the complete opposite. Governments and social media becoming authoritarian because they have even more power than before, and are in the position to crush you with a click. People were supposed to "connect" with each other and shorten the distance but who have become more disconnected and shallow than ever. The communication between people were meant to be "easier". I guess it did became easier to shout, insult, call names, gaslight, virtue signal, perform "activism" from the couch.

Huxley was right, “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” And we took so many things for granted.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CompleteUnripeArabianwildcat-size_restricted.gif

 

[Orchidea73]

I’m getting back into calligraphy, which I was taught as a young teenager. I was able to get a simple fountain pen set from Michael’s Crafts. The arthritis makes it harder to hold the pen, but I powered through it to create a handmade Hogwarts acceptance letter for my nephew when he turned 11.

I need to do that more, but I find I have less to say

I remember in 2001, I was walking in Rome and by chance I found a small shop where they made these fountain pens but medieval style. Feather quill pen but not only. I bought a box with all the tools as a gift for dad. Not the he needed them in his work but they were so beautifully crafted that I couldn't resist. There were 3 sizes of pens with a small ink bottles and papers to write that looked like parchment.

 

[gga]

I guess it did became easier to shout, insult, call names, gaslight, virtue signal, perform "activism" from the couch.

Outside of my socializing here, I don't do social media at all for the reasons you noted. I just cannot deal with all the noise. Too bad because there were a number of message boards I was fairly active on years ago.

 

[Orchidea73]

Outside of my socializing here, I don't do social media at all for the reasons you noted. I just cannot deal with all the noise. Too bad because there were a number of message boards I was fairly active on years ago.

I use them very little. But I'm thinking of cancelling. At least twitter which is really a shit fest.
I don't like FB either but I do have relatives and friends there. Although, I'm thinking those who want to talk with me have my phone number. Geezers, people don't even talk on the phone anymore. It's all about texting.

I'm actually also seriously thinking to buy a house outside Milan. I love my apartment and the neighborhood where I am. I love the fact that I have all these small shops around, the coffee, the butcher, the pastry shop, my hair dresser, my beauty salon etc. I have two subway station close and I mostly walk in the city and use public transport. But I feel like I need my "hobbit hole" now, and I need some big walls around me. lol

 

[gga]

I use them very little. But I'm thinking of cancelling. At least twitter which is really a shit fest.
I don't like FB either but I do have relatives and friends there. Although, I'm thinking those who want to talk with me have my phone number. Geezers, people don't even talk on the phone anymore. It's all about texting.

I'm actually also seriously thinking to buy a house outside Milan. I love my apartment and the neighborhood where I am. I love the fact that I have all these small shops around, the coffee, the butcher, the pastry shop, my hair dresser, my beauty salon etc. I have two subway station close and I mostly walk in the city and use public transport. But I feel like I need my "hobbit hole" now, and I need some big walls around me. lol

Housing costs have gotten so bad in the States that it is just so hard for people to get out of apartments. Not sure how it is in the Milan area.

As someone lucky enough to have been able to buy years ago, and am now mortgage free, I must say it's so nice to be able to come home to your own place, even if the houses in my area are fairly close together. At least there aren't folks on the other side of my walls, ceiling, and floors.

The ability to be in a neighborhood and to be able to walk to shops, restaurants, etc. might be to leave. I love waking down to the village about a mile from me for coffee or a drink.

I'm not big at talking on the phone or texting, but get me face to face and I may just talk your ear off.

 

[Orchidea73]

Housing costs have gotten so bad in the States that it is just so hard for people to get out of apartments. Not sure how it is in the Milan area.

As someone lucky enough to have been able to buy years ago, and am now mortgage free, I must say it's so nice to be able to come home to your own place, even if the houses in my area are fairly close together. At least there aren't folks on the other side of my walls, ceiling, and floors.

The ability to be in a neighborhood and to be able to walk to shops, restaurants, etc. might be to leave. I love waking down to the village about a mile from me for coffee or a drink.

I'm not big at talking on the phone or texting, but get me face to face and I may just talk your ear off.

I saw some really nice one for 150.000-180.000 Euros. Mine can be sold for double that price. We'll see because I saw one which I adore. It has a fresco on the wall and arched colonnades on the veranda and windows. That would be my dream house but although the walls are in very good conditions and the roof was recently done, the inside is to be re-made completely.
We'll see though. Next year is going to be the right time to look for it. I do have a house in the mountains.

I'm not big at talking on the phone either. My mom is eternally displeased with me for that because I call once a week and don't stay for hours like my sister. lol But when you are not close you have to keep in touch with your people, somehow. In that case, I prefer the voice rather than texting.

 

[gga]

I saw some really nice one for 150.000-180.000 Euros. Mine can be sold for double that price. We'll see because I saw one which I adore. It has a fresco on the wall and arched colonnades on the veranda and windows. That would be my dream house but although the walls are in very good conditions and the roof was recently done, the inside is to be re-made completely.
We'll see though. Next year is going to be the right time to look for it. I do have a house in the mountains.

I'm not big at talking on the phone either. My mom is eternally displeased with me for that because I call once a week and don't stay for hours like my sister. lol But when you are not close you have to keep in touch with your people, somehow. In that case, I prefer the voice rather than texting.

Best of luck in finding what you're looking for when you start your search.

 

[Orchidea73]

Best of luck in finding what you're looking for when you start your search.

Thank you.

 

[Orchidea73]

One of the most beautiful pieces.

 

[Orchidea73]

Rough translation:

The Date
I was wrong so many times
and I already know
that today almost certainly
I am wrong

But one more time
what difference would make
in my life...
accepting this strange date
was madness

I am sad among the people
who pass me by
but the nostalgia to see you again
is more powerful than crying

This sun lights up on my face
a sign of hope
I am waiting, when suddenly
I will see you appear from afar

 

[Orchidea73]

Lipstick and Chocolate​

You need passion
a lot of patience
raspberry syrup
and a little recklessness

You need flour
of your own bag (you need to do it yourself*)
with Latin sensuality
and a little detachment

That's how it's done
Lipstick and chocolate
because not eating them would be a sin

That's how it's done
it needs to simmer
mixing it with feeling

Black stockings
white milk
and you can see already
it slowly starts building up

It's almost done
a bit of powdered sugar
the mouth is satisfied
and heaven in the room

That's how it's done
to start the game
and you slowly chew at it

That's how it's done
the table is set
for the heart and for the palate

It will be overwhelmingly beautiful
letting yourself live to the fullest
so sweet and unseemly
with the nice sins this always happens

You need luck
for it to work
shivers up your spine
and good ingredients

It's almost done
a bit of powdered sugar
the mouth is satisfied
and heaven in the room

That's how it's done
to start the game
and you slowly chew at it

That's how it's done
the table is set
for the heart and for the palate

It will be beautiful and overwhelming
Letting yourself live to the fullest
So sweet and unseemly

With the nice sins this always happens
With the nice sins this always happens

 

[Michael682]

Lipstick and Chocolate​

You need passion
a lot of patience
raspberry syrup
and a little recklessness

You need flour
of your own bag (you need to do it yourself*)
with Latin sensuality
and a little detachment

That's how it's done
Lipstick and chocolate
because not eating them would be a sin

That's how it's done
it needs to simmer
mixing it with feeling

Black stockings
white milk
and you can see already
it slowly starts building up

It's almost done
a bit of powdered sugar
the mouth is satisfied
and heaven in the room

That's how it's done
to start the game
and you slowly chew at it

That's how it's done
the table is set
for the heart and for the palate

It will be overwhelmingly beautiful
letting yourself live to the fullest
so sweet and unseemly
with the nice sins this always happens

You need luck
for it to work
shivers up your spine
and good ingredients

It's almost done
a bit of powdered sugar
the mouth is satisfied
and heaven in the room

That's how it's done
to start the game
and you slowly chew at it

That's how it's done
the table is set
for the heart and for the palate

It will be beautiful and overwhelming
Letting yourself live to the fullest
So sweet and unseemly

With the nice sins this always happens
With the nice sins this always happens

Oh I like that. I don’t understand it (thanks for the translate) but the way it sounds is nice.

 

[Orchidea73]

Oh I like that. I don’t understand it (thanks for the translate) but the way it sounds is nice.

Yep. It's sensual, playful and fun.

 

[Michael682]

Yep. It's sensual, playful and fun.

Yeah. Actually just found a playlist of her work and added it to my list.

https://music.amazon.com/playlists/B09T71GQX3?ref=dm_sh_oRea2A6JA7BO4t8rK8xd9IYx5

 

[Orchidea73]

Yeah. Actually just found a playlist of her work and added it to my list.

https://music.amazon.com/playlists/B09T71GQX3?ref=dm_sh_oRea2A6JA7BO4t8rK8xd9IYx5

Good choice. She is among the goddess of the Italian music.

 

[Michael682]

Good choice. She is among the goddess of the Italian music.

It’s interesting listening to it if I close my eyes I see a girl dancing at a club from a lifetime ago. I don’t know why. She wasn’t Italian. The club wasn’t Italian. It was more along the lines of VNV Nation or Shriekback (

)

 

[Orchidea73]

It’s interesting listening to it if I close my eyes I see a girl dancing at a club from a lifetime ago. I don’t know why. She wasn’t Italian. The club wasn’t Italian. It was more along the lines of VNV Nation or Shriekback (

)

Ha! Could be the sexy part. :d

 

[Michael682]

Ha! Could be the sexy part. :d

She sure as hell was that.

 

[Michael682]

How’s your day going?

 

[Orchidea73]

This was such hit when it came out in 1978. Trasgressive for the period because it is about a threesome. It's still popular today and Patty was a legend.

She said in an interview in the mid 80s, that she immediately fell in love with the song because it reminded her of a trasgressive night spent at the Piper Club (the most famous club in Rome) in the early 60s, with Nat and Nick of the beat group BlackJack.

Wonderful Thought​

And you
and we
and her
between us
I wish
I do not know
that she
Oh no...
the hands...
hers...

Wonderful thought
it starts off crawling
it might be a need for love
it's better left unsaid...

And you
and us
and her
between us
I wish...
I wish...
and now she knows that I wish...
her hands

Sooner or later
it could have happened, you know
one can slip, so to speak
it is a matter of heart

Wonderful thought
it starts off crawling
it could be a need for love
it's better left unsaid...

And you
and us
and her...
between us
I wish...
I wish...
and now she knows that I wish
her hands...
and then the two of us again

I wish
out of love, out of fun
it's up to me...

And you again
and us again
and she, between us again...
the hands, this time it is you
and she...
slowly more, and more...

Closer for matters of the heart
if we can say so...

And she again
and we again
and she again, between us
between us, between us...

Wonderful thought
it starts off crawling
it might be a need for love
it's better left unsaid...