Monday, May 28, 2007

My Heart

Is there some place where I should put you,
as far as the voice that you can raise.
Is there any jail that can contain,
all yours muscles, all yourself?

Your importance to me is as the water
Clean, crystal, beautiful as well.
But sometimes as a tsunami
You can cause me a lot of pain.

I just hope that what you chose
Be the best option for me
Because if I die without see the picture on of my dream
You will come to the grave with me.

My Feeling

What does happen with my feeling?
What does happen with myself?
Why is my world
Turning crazy to nowhere?

Between the sunrise and the sunset
With a smile that is a fake
Between the sunset and the sunrise
My eyes can not longer get some rest

Without any where to go
Without any place to state
What the hell should I do
If I had lost all myself

What is happening with my body?
What is happening with my brain?
What should I do now?
That my life is going to change?

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children


A really good movie, witch continues the story of the video game with the same name. On this movie, Cloud (the protagonist) should fight Vs his own fears as on the past. However, at the end he learned to work as a team, and at this moment he feels free.
Who had played the video game before will find this a really good movie, because as mention before, the story of this movie is a continuation of the story of the video game. All the characters are there, the same setting, and same plot as the video game. The interesting part is that the plot between characters is also the same for example the feeling between Cloud and Tifa, or the guilty feeling that cloud has about not be able to safe Aerith.
Who had not play the video game or is not familiar with it can find some interesting details about the imagines of the movie, and about how it is getting the plot. Also, the movie explains a lot of the factors that happen on the video game in order that the raw audience (the audience that doesn’t know about the video game) can understand more about this movie.
Some points that should mention about the plot: the raw audience will be able to understand the main plot, but on the movie they don’t explain about the materias, summons, or even the cases of Aerith, who during all the film is called Okaasan (mother). However, if on the movie they start to explain everything the movie will be very long. In order to explain some important point to the raw audience the movie contains long dialogues that at some point can be bore for people who already play the game, but also, during these dialogues the people who already play the game can understand better or even remember the plot of the game.
This is a really good movie that contains the story of one of the best video games ever, and also, that contains part of the Japanese culture.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
Blowing like a leaf in green shadow,
Down the ravine behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another
Into the distances of the afternoon.
To my right,
In a field of sunlight between two pines,
The droppings of last year’s horses
Blaze up into golden stones.
I lean back, as the evening darkens and come on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.


The first line can be interpreted as a double-edged axe (a bronze butterfly) in the air. The main character is probably a farmer working with an axe. The word “asleep” in the second line caught my attention. When people sleep, their heads rest on pillows. Then in this case the pillow can be the black trunk.
The next line could be referring to the axe. The axe is falling as a “leaf in green shadow.”
The fourth line “Down the ravine behind the empty house” can mean that the house was really far from the city and from the other people. Usually, cities are not constructed next to ravines. Only lonely people prefer to live next to a ravine.
“The cowbells follow one another into the distances of the afternoon.” This line represents the place where the events in the poem take place, which is in a rural place, or on a city farm.
According to my assumptions, the farmer’s head is over the trunk waiting for the axe to fall. Also, he is looking to his right, which could mean that he is staring at his future.
If the poem takes place on a farm, the waste of cows and horses is used to make fertilizers for the plants. The droppings of the animals are packed and stored for a while until they obtain an appropriate temperature. Perhaps those packaged were what the farmer saw when his head was resting over the trunk. The phrase “Blaze up into golden stones” can reinforce this supposition since dung is very precious for farmers.
When the farmer was beheaded, his body leaned back and everything became empty darkness. When the farmer’s head fell to the ground, he was looking at the sky. In that instant, he saw the chicken hawk, and he understood that he had wasted his life.