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Dear reader, the various shades of posts we want to show you will certainly enlighten your day and amaze your mind. We want to introduce fresh ideas and trends to your lifestyle in order to avoid that massive river stream called the mainstream. We want to free your spirit from society’s perception of perfection and change perspectives. We will write about diverse content from art to fashion, from books to movies and much more, exploring a rich universe of unknown artists and undervalued masterpieces. What we’re trying to do is to broaden diversity in ourselves. Be unique, be different, just like Steve once said: "Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."

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there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you. there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay down, do you want to mess me up? you want to screw up the works? you want to blow my book sales in Europe? there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

Marvelous readers, 

As I said previously Charles, has a realistic and a bit drastic view on love. In this poem the author is in love, however, he doesn’t know how to deal with this feeling, so he decides to hide it and let it fall in oblivion. 

The “bluebird” is a metaphor, a representation of his love for someone, and the way that the author deals with this bird, with this feeling, is the classic way of someone who is afraid of exposing himself to the humiliation and despair that love can be. The author believes that the only way to keep his mind and his heart safe is to imprison this bird. But a curious thing about love, is that when it is real and meaningful it won’t go away no matter for how long it is ignored as we can see in “I haven't quite let him die”.

Once the author discovers that this love won’t die he realizes that he needs to “sedate” this feeling so he uses the most common way of trying to deceive the heart, alcohol and cigarettes. We may even say that he tries to find love and comfort in the bottom of a bottle.  Although he tries he cannot hide this bird for much longer, and it is at this point that a moment of weakness emerges, the night, that period of time where the mind and heart are able to free themselves, when the noise stops, the stress and the responsibilities of the normal day life are extinguished and we are left with ourselves exposed to a pure moment of meditation. At that point the author feels more secure and at ease to show a part of him that he loves and fears at the same time. However, as most things, nights don’t last forever, and when the day comes, it’s time to proceed his life so he puts the bird back and moves on, like nothing has happened. The only problem is that the little bird is still alive and eager to come out as we can see in “but he's singing a little”.  

The ability that the author has of showing and concealing his feelings may shock you but we should never forget that sometimes we need to listen to our minds and not our hearts, there are moments to feel and moments to live, and we cannot put one at risk because of the other. 

Take care, 

Marta

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Dear readers, Today I am going to speak about something much talked about lately which is The Met Ball. It is the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit, a black-tie extravaganza held the first Monday in May to raise money for the Costume Institute, the only one of the Met’s curatorial departments that has to fund itself. The party marks the opening of the annual hit show’s Costume Institute, and is known for its celebrities and fashion hosts. This year, the exhibition is " Manus x Machina : Fashion in an Age of Technology ", and the hosts are Anna Wintour, president of the gala; Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief; Taylor Swift; and actor Idris Elba. The honorary chairs are the Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld; Miuccia Prada; and Nicolas Ghesquière, Louis Vuitton’s artistic director.

Moving on to what really matters, I am going to give my opinion about my favourite dresses/clothes that celebrities wore in the red carpet. From my point of view the Kardashian-Wests razed!

The straight-up silver is the best colour. Their styling is on point. Kim wore an awesome bodice, a slicked back hair and a very beautiful ear cuffs her dress is from Balmain and the jewellery is from Lorraine Schwartz. Kayne wore a silver jacket and ripped jeans all from Fear of God. They combines perfectly with their looks.

Kylie Jenner was one of the most beautiful in the red carpet in my opinion. She wore a silver dress from Balmain, Lorraine Schwartz jewellery and Aquazzura shoes. Her dress was a great choice as it highlights her curves.

Rita Ora wore a super original dress, silver with feathers made by Vera Wang. Her earrings are from Lorraine Schwartz.

Kate Hudson wore a dress out of the ordinary. She looked angelical in her strapless wedding dress fluid. Her dress was made in an Atelier Versace and the jewellery from Lorraine Schwartz.

For today is all. I hope you enjoyed it.

Have a good day and waiting for the next post, 

Margarida

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Hello marvellous readers,

Today I bring you a song called Another love from one of my favourite artists, Tom Odell. This was the song that made him popular, and it was the first song I heard from him. In fact, this was the song that made my love for his music blossom. Nowadays, I know all of his songs, word by word, and I already saw him live on a concert last summer. I’ll leave you with the lyrics and with my perception of them.

Another Love I wanna take you somewhere so you know I care But it’s so cold and I don’t know where I brought you daffodils in a pretty string But they won’t flower like they did last spring

And I wanna kiss you, make you feel alright I’m just so tired to share my nights I wanna cry and I wanna love But all my tears have been used up

On another love, another love All my tears have been used up On another love, another love All my tears have been used up On another love, another love All my tears have been used up

And if somebody hurts you, I wanna fight But my hands been broken, one too many times So I’ll use my voice, I’ll be so fucking rude Words they always win, but I know I’ll lose

And I’d sing a song, that’d be just ours But I sang ‘em all to another heart And I wanna cry I wanna learn to love But all my tears have been used up

On another love, another love All my tears have been used up On another love, another love All my tears have been used up On another love, another love All my tears have been used up

I wanna sing a song, that’d be just ours But I sang 'em all to another heart And I wanna cry, I wanna fall in love But all my tears have been used up

On another love, another love All my tears have been used up On another love, another love All my tears have been used up On another love, another love All my tears have been used up

This song is about a very common topic, which is love. However, this is not the normal love song, I would say that is more of an apology. The author starts by saying that he wants to show someone that he cares “So you know I care”, but this wish is quickly demised with a difficulty on finding the correct way to do it.  

He proceeds with a metaphor where he associates his love with daffodils, saying “But they won’t flower like they did last spring” meaning that his love for this person will not blossom as his love for someone in the past.  This feeling of disappointment evolves and it becomes the expression of love and frustration, where the author reveals that he wants to do all the thing he is expected to do “And I wanna kiss you, make you feel alright” however he can’t due to a lack of emotion “I wanna cry and I wanna love/But all my tears have been used up/On another love, another love”.

Lastly the author expresses his wish to create something special to him and the person he loves, as a way of showing that person how much he cares and how special that person is. Once again that wish is quickly demised by the author since he explains that “But I sang 'em all to another heart” he wouldn’t be faithful or true because he wouldn’t be singing it with his heart, the feeling wouldn’t be true. 

In my opinion, the author his trying to apologize for his lack of feelings, showing that he’s apathetic self was created due to a broken heart, a wound from the past, that left him unprepared to love again. 

To conclude we can say that the “cold” mentioned in the beginning of the song is not a reference to temperature but a metaphor for his inner self, he is “cold” inside, proving once again that he is not ready to love.

This song is for all the people, that somehow find it difficult to connect with someone after getting their heartbroken. Bear with me, with time the ice melts and the cold disappears. 

Take care, 

Marta  

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Hello once again readers,

The movie I’ll be talking about is “Spirited away” (千と千尋の神隠し/Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi), a movie some of you may know from childhood. It is an animated feature film released in 2001 by the writer and director, Hayao Miyazaki, that won one oscar and other 51 awards and 24 nominations. It is the most successful movie in Japan’s history, overtaking Titanic. The Ghibli Studio worked close to Miyazaki in order to keep the writer’s expectations of how the movie should be made. Video animation was used but only to a certain extent, being the characters hand-drawn. Miyazaki had loads of inspiration from his personal life, from childhood to adulthood so that almost every element of the movie, from characters and buildings to small details in the surroundings, had a correspondence to something in his life, for exemple, the bathhouse (onsen) is based on the one that Miyazaki had close to his house when he was young and always found it mysterious.

The plot is set around this girl named Chihiro that moves to a new house and in the way there, her father takes the wrong turn, getting them lost. They get to a sinister place and decide to explore inside a tunnel that surprisingly leads to an amusement park that looks abandoned but strangely has restaurants with fresh cooked food. While her parents decide to eat, Chihiro walks around and finds a mysterious bathhouse. She meets a boy called Haku that tells her to go away from that place before sunset, she runs and finds her parents turned into pigs. As things get weirder she discovers that the amusement park is actually a place for gods and spirits to revitalize themselves (a story that Miyazaki made up about the bathhouse of his younger years). She has to work at the bathhouse in order to rescue her parents and solve the problems she finds there.

Meanwhile, she is forced to grow up and overcome her childish fears, transforming her in a charming woman from the immature child she was. This fact makes this movie comparable to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, since both have to go through a magical world in order to mature themselves. Miyazaki shaped up Chihiro’s personality based on a friend’s 10-year-old daughter from the detail of only hearing her name being called the second time to the way she behaves and walks around, giving the motion picture a more realistic look.

I'll leave you with the trailer...

Thank you and see you another day...

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Dear readers, 

Today I am going to talk you through the new Puma’s Collection. This collection is very special because it was carefully picked by Rihanna. As we can see in the puma official website:  “Rihanna's unstoppable spirit, creative energy and prowess both on and off the stage make her the perfect representation of the PUMA brand” The colours that were used were black, white and grey with various styles from a classic look to a sporty or more relax look fused to create a perfect combination.

The first look that I bring you is the perfect example of what I said before. The boots and the highness socks give to us the notion of something perfect to wear if we want to be comfortable or have a more relaxed look. However, the dress is a more sensual and is in a way more formal piece of clothing.

In the second look we can see the use of highness boots were and still are a tendency of 2016

Lastly, on the third look wore by Taylor Hill, a Victoria Secret model, we can see the combination between a black down body and a white upper body with the use of a simple white shirt.

My personal favourite look is the look wore by Taylor Hill. This was the more sensual and i like the clothes. 

Take care, 

Margarida Realista

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Hello readers! 

This time I’m bringing a piece from a young artist, Ana Margarida Costa who calls herself as Rato do Convento (from portuguese convent’s mouse). Her themes usually involves wolves, ponies and other fantasies of her but they’re not just that, they carry a deep connection between her inner self and her insatiable need to carry out her message, something only artists know about. The piece I’m bringing today is the following:

Superficially, you may see a bleeding goat’s skull over what seems to be dirt. I found some possible meanings for the goat. On the one hand, following christian beliefs, in the middle ages, the goat was believed to whisper lewd sentences in the ears of saints and it was also associated with satan. Satan was, usually, seen as a figure with goat like horns and a face similar to it. Besides that, the inverted pentagram is also a figure that resembles the goat’s head. On the other hand, the goat was a symbol of sacrifice and cleanness of soul, often mentioned in the bible. This dualism gives us a hint of occultism and doubtfulness.

The horns and blood dripping off the skull are both pink and bright, making a contrasts with the greys of the skull. This color reached its peak in use during the Rococo period, from 1720 to 1777.  It was a color of seduction but also a color of innocence, childhood and tenderness. And again, it has the doubtfulness of its dualism.

Getting into the under layer of meaning, being the blood and skull the inner fluid and bone of our bodies, its doubtfulness is directly connected to her inner self, indecision after indecision, mixed feelings and confusion. The satanic references have a notion of an overtaken soul by powerful and painful thoughts. In addition to that, the skull is a skinless element of the body, which could be linked with the sensation of feeling naked and exposed.

Having these aspects in consideration, by intertwining these layers we may get to the conclusion that she feels the need to find herself inside a world surrounded by things that are strange to her, by this I mean, trying to figure out the world she lives in, having no clue what to follow and what to do.

The mind of an artist is a big mess and it is often misunderstood by society, art is the only way to communicate not only with others but with ourselves. Art is the introspective process of self expression and this piece brings out much more than it looks. It might have a morbid imagery but it tells a lot beyond pure sight.

Stay hungry, stay foolish…

Marco Afonso

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Dear marvellous readers, 

Welcome back, I hope you enjoyed the previous post, and I wonder if any of you submitted a letter. I hope so. 

Today I am going to speak about something a little different, I am not going to talk about poetry or about books. Today, I decided to talk about another form of literature that we know very well, which is lyrics of songs. Music, a word that we are all familiar with, and that triggers various emotions within each one of us. Different people have different perceptions of music, different favourite music genres, and different meanings to each lyrics. And that, my marvellous readers,  is the beauty of music, it allows you to explore your own world, within your own tastes, with an almost infinite variation of possibilities.

In my life music, plays a very important part, since I spend most of my time listening to music. I hear it when I wake up, whilst I am getting ready for school, in the way to school, in recess, while I study, while I’m in the gym, and sometimes I even hear it in order to fell asleep.. I’m a music addict, I can’t imagine my life without it. My favourite musical genre is indie-folk, and rock ( I must confess I also love  Disney songs, no matter what is their genre). I love the music played in the 80s and in the 90s, and if I could I would give all my money just to see a live concert of Queen. 

Despite loving the old songs and the old bands, I also love modern artists, and that takes us to one of my current favourite artists, Daughter. Daughter is an indie rock band from England that became famous after opening the show for  Ben Howard. And they have numerous beautiful songs, however my favourite must be Youth. In this song the writer, considers that people who are emotionally in pain, meaning the heartbroken people,  to be lucky since they are still able to feel emotion, despite being something sad (“ And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones/'Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone”). The writer also sees himself as being an empty vessel ( “Our mind are troubled by the emptiness”),  expressing his wish to be able to feel ( “We're setting fire to our insides for fun”)

Lyrics: Shadows settle on the place that you left Our minds are troubled by the emptiness Destroy the middle it's a waste of time From the perfect start to the finish line

And if you're still breathing, you're the lucky ones 'Cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs Setting fire to our insides for fun Collecting names of the lovers that went wrong The lovers that went wrong

We are the reckless We are the wild youth Chasing visions of our futures One day we'll reveal the truth That one will die before he gets there

And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones 'Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone We're setting fire to our insides for fun Collecting pictures from the flood that wrecked our home It was a flood that wrecked this

And you caused it And you caused it And you caused it

Well, I've lost it all, I'm just a silhouette A lifeless face that you'll soon forget My eyes are damp from the words you left Ringing in my head when you broke my chest Ringing in my head when you broke my chest

And if you're in love, then you are the lucky one 'Cause most of us are bitter over someone. Setting fire to our insides for fun To distract our hearts from ever missing them. But I'm forever missing him

And you caused it And you caused it And you caused it    

You know that in the end of every post I like to give you something to spark your curiosity, so this time I am going to give you a list of really good artists not only of indie-folk but of all the genres, that I personally like:

-Of Monster and Men -Keaton Henson -Tom Rosenthal -Halsey -Troye Sivan -The Lumineers   -Gabrielle Aplin -Supertramp -Hozier -Alessia Cara -Vaya con Dios -The smiths -David Bowie  

Marta.

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Marvelous readers,

As I mentioned in my last post if I could choose a favourite type of food it would be without a doubt Chinese food. That´s the main reason why I chose to speak to you about Chinese cuisine. And now it is the part where you wonder, if I l like to eat dogs ... not quite. Many of you as soon as you hear Chinese food think about cooked dogs or even strangest recipes, I can admit to you that at first, they might seem strange because we are not used to eating this type of food, but after you get used to eat it frequently it has an extraordinary taste. Starting by the use of hashi (typical chopsticks used by the Chinese to replace the cutlery) to the taste, meaning and appearance of food, I can say that Chinese cuisine is quite interesting. This type of cuisine is characterized by its sweetened flavours, pasta and even the meat cooked in soy sauce in order to acquire the reddish colour. The use of hashi comes from the fact that Chinese feel that the food becomes tastier with the use of these devices. For the Chinese, the flavours are very important since they believe that we are surrounded by five energy fields. Bitter is fire, the sour is wood, spicy is metal, sweet is earth and finally salt is water. The most popular dishes are:

Qing Tang Yu Wan - Fish soup dumplings. The soup is clear,  and the fish dumplings  are white and smooth. The soup is made with bacon, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and peas;

Yang Zhou Chao Fan - Fried rice in the manner of Yang Zhou. It is fried rice with bacon, egg, shrimp and seasonal vegetables;

Song Shu Gui Yu - Fish in the form of a squirrel. The fish is fried, served in gold colour sauce. The skin of the fish is crispy and the meat is thin. It has sweet and sour taste. The shape of the fish looks like a squirrel, hence the name of the dish.

I hope you enjoyed, and that by reading my take on Chinese food, you got curious and less suspicious about this wonderful cuisine. I dare you all, to go and try one of the several dishes I mentioned above. My personal favourite is Song Shu Gui Yu, but I want you to discover your own. Don’t be afraid to try new things, you might be surprised.

Take care, 

Margarida  

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How is it like to not know anything, else what exists inside a Room?

Hello again dear readers! This time I’m bringing you an oscar winning movie that released at the end of last year. It is called Room and it is shocking the world with its story that is as fiction as it is very real! It is written by the author that wrote the book it is based, Emma Donoghue. The book is also called Room.

The story is about the 24-year-old Joy who has been enclosed inside a small shed for nearly 7 years. She was abducted by a man whose name is addressed as Old Nick. In addiction to that, she was regularly raped while inside the shed by this man. But the main character is not this girl but the boy whose name is Jack and he is the child that was born inside this shed and bought up by his mother inside that same shed. Yet, Joy had to raise her child the best that she could, making this boy believe that everything that exists is inside Room and Room was the entire world. They had a small kitchen with a very small counter space, a wardrobe where Jack slept while his mother was being raped, a bed, a table and chairs, a bathtub, a toilet and a TV. Jack believed that the TV was just fiction and that beyond the walls of the shed there were no other sides, just space. He also believed that there isn't enough room for TV stuff to exist. The viewers go through a psychological wash as they experience and understand what it is to be born in a fake reality that seems to be so good for Jack since he doesn’t know any other. However, his mom goes through depression and often shows a listless mood. But above all, she tries her best to be optimistic with Jack around, she wanted Jack to be happy after all. It’s magnificent the way this mother brings up her kid, she exercises with him, plays with him, makes up a character in each object that there is and Jack greets them ‘Good Morning!’ everyday. All of this because she knew one day she would break free and her son had to be prepared for that. 

And they did just that. His mother made him pretend that he was dead so that Old Nick would bring him out to bury the body. She told him instructions to escape Old Nick’s truck and find help. I won’t get into further detail since it should be something you should watch by yourself. But later, after both have gone out, Jack feels the shock to be on the outside and has a slight desire to go back to Room. Here is the trailer and it looks promising from the very start.

I advise that action loving people are not going to like it but those who are curious about the emotional fight that these people go through, it is first class. After watching the film, you transform the way you perceive things and get to understand how common sense and reality as we know it are built on things that we see and sense and that since there is no other known reality, as far as the watcher is concerned, going to such “alienated” place brings us fear. 

Jack overcomes his fear and adapts to his new world, in other words, he got out of his comfort zone and grew up. In conclusion, it is visible that the story around the raping and the mother is just an alibi to bring up the main message which is getting out of your confort zone and grow up.

I'll leave you with that...

Have a wonderful day!

Marco Afonso

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Dear marvelous readers,

Today, I bring you something different, something fresh, and something challenging.

One of my favourite youtubers, Will Darbyshire, decided to write a book, due to the importance that these objects have in our lives. However, this is not an ordinary book, this book, called a Modern Love, is written by the readers.

By now you must be thinking that I’ve lost my mind because what I said didn’t make sense, but allow me to explain. The book consists in letters, that his viewers and anyone who wants to participate, submit. This letters maybe anonymous or not, the most important thing is that they follow a particular question that changes throughout time.

If you want to know more about this project, you can check out his video where he explains everything there is to explain about the book. I deeply advise you to check him out, because is channel has amazing content with wonderful videos to see if you are feeling stressed.  

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIaRg3QdkLk

The current question is: “What would you say to a crush?

Write a letter to them to express it. “  

Here is the link to the video with the question:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPw1WFvzuVc

 Now I’m going to share with you the letter, that I submitted. I hope you enjoy it, and  that by my submission you feel interested and excited to participate, and submit yourself.

Letter to a crush

Hi, Hello, how are you? I don’t really know what to say, because I feel like I know you but at the same time I’m not even able to answer a simple question about you. What´s your favourite colour, what’s your favourite drink, which football team do you fancy, what’s your biggest, strangest, craziest dream? I don’t know, I know nothing about you, and the strangest thing is that I don’t know if you know anything about me. I mean we see each other in school, we walk the same hallways, we play the same sports, we go to the same movies, and our eyes meet across rooms full of people, but then again I know nothing.

I don’t know if you feel the same, or even if you think the same, all I know is that when our eyes meet things go blur, sounds turn to static, people disappear and a Daughter song starts playing. All of this makes me feel like I’m in my happy place. Then again we grow apart, the intensive eye contact seems to never be enough to start a conversation. Words pill up in my mouth and almost suffocate me, I have so many things to say, so many stories to share, so many questions to ask, but then again, nothing comes out. I form this eloquent sentences with jokes and deep meanings, that go to waste due to the fact that my mind becomes a mess, a river of words, and I paralyse and look at you like I have someone holding me back, covering my mouth. That happens a lot you know, I see you walking and I take notice of all the little things about you, the way you smile, the way you make everyone instantly happy, the way act around everyone, and the way that you act around me, and the way you smile when you see me looking at you like if you were taking notice of all the same things about me. With all that said, you may be thinking that I am being crazy because we hardly speak, but you must know that just by looking at you and by earing and “participating” in groups conversations I became somehow “in love “with you. And I get more and more addicted, I look more and more, I search for all the details that may reveal some important information about you. You became my favourite addiction, the person I think when I listen to music, when it’s 2.00 am in the morning and I can’t sleep.

We spoke so little, but at the same time so much. Every day you make me feel something I haven’t feel for a long time. You make me feel happy and beautiful, and excited, and somehow you make me want to wake up the next day, because I will be with you, even if we speak so little, or even don’t speak at all. And you make me feel that so effortless. That’s one of the main reasons I decided to write you this letter, because I want to prove you that I’m indeed good with words, and that I’m indeed able to speak and to share what can be call “feelings”. You make me feel so alive, when I thought that I was already dying inside, and for that I am so thankful. Thanks for being my crush, I’m very happy with that, but I want you to be more than that, I want you to be my friend, my lover, my rock. I want you to be mine, and I yours. But above all, I want you to give me chance to make you feel all that you make me feel.

Take care,

Marta.  

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Dear readers, as it was said previously, my name is Marta Reis, and I am a “book worm”, I am a music lover.

I truly believe that a book can be, and most times is, a life changing event, and that a song can mean more than it seems.

Throughout time I will  share with you some of my favourite books, and songs, allowing you to know me a little better.

With no further do, let’s begin my first post, with a poem, written by Charles Bukowski.

 Alone with everybody

the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

nobody ever finds the one.

the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill

nothing else fills.

Henry Charles Bukowski is a novelist, poet and short story writer. His poems are inspired by ordinary lives of poor Americans. Bukowski poems were considered controversial, due to the references he made about alcohol, women and relationships. In spite of the controversy he wrote thousands of poems, short stories and six novels, publishing over sixty books. One of my favourite poems written by him is Alone With Everybody, and this is poem that in my opinion conveys the notion of the true reality of love, and the search of the “one”.   From the author’s perspective we are surrounded by people may they be family, friends, co-workers or even strangers, however, we are also alone since we don’t have a real connection with most of them . The author uses a really dramatic notion of love, explaining that no matter how hard we try we are never going to find “the one”, that supposedly magical person that we will have a bond with, being that bond bigger than the desire of the flesh. In my opinion this poem is a way of exposing, criticising and changing the classical meaning of love, by showing that sometimes the harder we look for something the harder it is to find it. For me “the one” doesn’t have to be a men that I love deeply, the one is a person that we love from the bottom of our hearts, someone special to us, with who we have a emotional bond and that make us feel safe and complete. That person, can be our partner, but it can also be a friend, a distant relative, your mother.     In conclusion, I consider that we just need to focus less in the desires of the flesh that make us commute from person to person, body to body, bed to bed, and focus more in the soul, the minds of someone.

Take care,

Marta

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Dear readers, as you know my name is Margarida Realista, and I am a seventeen girl with a passion for fashion and food. My favourite shop is Zara, and it’s in there that I buy most of my clothes, since it is the shop which I identify myself the most. In terms of food I enjoy every single type of food, but if I had to choose my favourite type of food, I would definitely choose Chinese food. Today I will present my first fashion post, where I will show you a possible outfit for any occasion.

Throughout times, black and white has always stood out as the two eternal colours that looked good with everything.  As we all know, fashion is cyclic, this means that what we wear today is a reflection of what we wore previously and what we will wear in the future. So with no further do, I will start by describing the outfit. Firstly, I chose a black bat wing shirt with a black high waist ripped skinny jeans. This gives you a simple basic look, that looks well with everything. Since it is Winter and here in Portugal the weather is cold, I opted for a synthetic cream fur coat. This coat gives the outfit a classier look. 

To soften this look and make it a little bit more casual I added in what for me completes all the outfit. I chose the famous black and white Adidas superstar trainers. If you remember these trainers, they were very popular among kids, ten years ago, and they made a comeback to these days. This is a classic example of what I said previously, “fashion is cyclic”. 

Finally, to make the look even more complete I accessorized, using my silver watch and the mac lipstick called “instigator”. 

I hope you enjoyed my proposal of an outfit. I see you in the next post!

Take care, Margarida

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My marvelous readers, today is the day of my first post and I’d like to talk a bit more about me before the post itself. My name is Marco Afonso, I’m 17 and I’m passionate about art and movies more specifically. These are the subjects I’ll be writing about in the blog.

My first post will be about movies and I have this one movie that caught my eye 2 months ago called “La Famille Bélier”. The movie brings freshness to the category as it reimagines a “standard” nuclear family and shows to the world how different some can be. It is a comedy drama, so there is space for laughing and crying (even for more). The family has 4 members: the mom, Gigi Bélier, the dad, Rodolphe Bélier, the younger brother, Quentin Bélier, and the older sister and protagonist, Paula Bélier. The interesting thing is how the girl, Paula, able to talk and hear, lives with a completely deaf family, struggling to pursue her dreams.

The family lives in the countryside and has a farm for a living. Paula joins the school choir by accident and finds her talent in singing. She gets invited to go to Paris by her choir teacher to pursue her studies in singing but will her parents approve? The deeper you go in the story, the better it is to see that it conveys a message to parents and children wanting to life to live by themselves. It shows a simple solution to the problem: listening or seeing what others have to say and be tolerant to other's dreams even when they're so different from what we're used to. It tells parents that whenever a child has a dream, they must help them with everything they can and tells children they should speak with their family and friends about their dreams, more than that, they should state their reasons and their will to "fly".  Here is a clip from the movie with Paula singing a song with that exact message:

(Last Flight (Je Vole) - performed by Louane Emera, originally from Michel Sardou; english lyrics: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/je-vole-i-fly.html)

Get caught in this beautiful movie, definitely worth watching, with friends and the whole family. See you next time!

Take care,

Marco Afonso