You are 'juggling'. Jugglers, tumblers, and other
street performers were a very popular sort of
entertainment once, before movies and talkies
and online quizzes supplanted them.

You like to put on a show for people, and they like
to watch. You are friendly and well-liked,
particularly for your sense of humor, although
you sometimes play with people's heads. You
are frequently the center of attention, and you
like it that way. However, you have to realize
that the world does not revolve around you.
Furthermore, you have to learn that your
light-hearted antics are not appropriate to all
situations. Your problem is that juggling has
been obsolete for a long time.


What obsolete skill are you?
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we belong

come visit our (alara and me) contribution to the contemporary culture and arts. we'll be developing and adding stuff but as you can see from the initial steps we're serious and ambitious.
you'll enjoy the WE BELONG blog.

3-iron

it's been a while since i saw a film to think about. spring, summer, fall, winter...and spring was incredible, samaritan girl was so-so. but 3-iron is again very good. Kim Ki-duk might be the best korean director of today.
my interpretations have different levels;
on the auteur level, and i have to discuss with Mithat Bey to see whether he thinks him to be an auteur, in these three films i saw of his, i see the recurrent themes of innocence, conscience and guilt. not to speak of the fact that he is writing and directing and the same cinematic style with smooth and almost minimal camera movement.

on the social level, the film, with the golf club (easily taken as the symbol of upper classes) as the only weapon, seems to criticize the empty lives (and houses) of the korean bourgeoisie. moreover there is an overt criticism of marriage institution.

on the psychoanalytic level, and this is the interpretation i would give if anyone bothered to ask, the protagonist seems to have the need to cast off his ego. our egoes are constructed in relation to an other, and how that other (or others) view us. his desire is to become invisible from the beginning, he wants to escape the gazes of others. when at the end, in prison he overcomes his physical boundaries (and here is a clear reference to eastern philosophy as explored in spring, summer...) he can do it only by annihilating or taking direct control of his ego. the obsession with the golf club, which eventually results in injuring a bypasser, is the consequence of the need of self-definition by the young boy. after punishing the husband and having a contact with the other (both the woman and the husband) he gains an access to his own self-definition. either through love or anger. i won't go into the specifics of the scenes and the place of language/or the absence of language and its effect on the formation of ego (of course a Lacanian analysis) here, but the pyschoanalytic reading makes the most of the film and repudiates all the useless arguments about how this film is a journey to the dreams.

alcohol

Your Pisces Drinking Style

If you're a Pisces, you've probably already heard that you share a sign -- and an addictive personality -- with Liz Taylor, Liza Minelli and Kurt Cobain. Not only do Pisces like to lose themselves in the dreamy, out-there feeling that only hooch can give, but you build up a mighty tolerance fast. You're an expensive date! On the other hand, you're a fabulously enchanting partner, whether in conversation or in crime. With the right person, you can start out sharing a pitcher of margaritas and wind up in bed together for days. The phrase "addictive personality" can be read two ways, you know.

Your Signature Cocktails

Pisces rules fresh mint, and you do love a mojito or three -- though a julep will do just as well. You also like punches, like sangria or the oh-so-aptly named fish house punch. (Pretty much anything will satisfy a Pisces in a pinch, though -- "drinking like a fish" is an idiom pulled out of the zodiac, not the deep blue sea.) You're a total chocoholic, and you love creme de cacao (and spiked cocoa).

Your Celebrity Drinking Buddies

Drew Barrymore, Chelsea Clinton, Queen Latifah, Bruce Willis, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ted Kennedy, Jon Bon Jovi, Fabio

What's Your Alcohoroscope?

chicago

American Cities That Best Fit You:

60% Chicago

55% Boston

55% New York City

55% Philadelphia

50% San Diego

Which American Cities Best Fit You?

cinephile

it seems i don't have anything to say anymore in these carefree summer days. so i want to post the pictures of the films that keep playing in my head from the moment i first saw them. there are many more of course; herzog, fassbinder, wong kar-wai, truffaut, gus van sant (let's say most of the time),mike nichols, woody allen, and of course bergman..but these scenes will do for now.
i guess my favorite three directors are: antonioni, bergman and fassbinder. whatever they do is fascinating for me.
the films i desparately want to see:
rushmore, au hasard balthazar, kill bill (1&2), la regle du jeu, the conformist, fanny and alexander.
all this cinema talk comes from the fact that i will be teaching cinema and violence next fall to americans and i have some concerns. i want to show some intelligent stuff and not oliverstone-like violence. but considering how foreign cinema is treated by the american audience, i guess they will either hate me or thank me.
two plans:
1- i will give out a survey in the beginning of the class, for my own purposes, asking questions evaluating how much they know of european cinema, and through what criteria they judge films (actor-based or director-based like me)
2- like my dear prof. mithat bey i will make an oscars session for fun on the last day. best actor, actress, film, etc..(and not director because they will all be great)

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two posts down

ali called just now asking me who that guy in the photo on my blog was. without even saying hello first. i told him it was christian bale. funny thing.
then two days ago eren told me he was really surprised when he saw my post of new batman's photo, because he thought it was a photo of one of his friends, who many say, and with certain justification, resembles the actor.
christian bale causing confusions. how incredible. and in a way exciting in my own pathetic life. ; )

D.I.S.C.O.

get ready for these groovy lyrics:

D.I.S.C.O. (X 4)
she is disco (X 4)
she is D delirious
she is I incredible
she is S superficial
she is C complicated
she is Ooooooo

she is D desirable
she is I irresistable
she is S super sexy
she is C such a cutie
she is Ooooooo

D.I.S.C.O. (X 4)
she is disco (X 4)

she is D disastrous
she is I impossible
she is S super special
she is C crazy crazy
she is Oooooo

she is D delightful
she is I incredible
she is S sensational
she is C sweet as candy
she is Oooooo

D.I.S.C.O.
she is disco

the most complicated lyrical work ever.
and if you haven't already figured out it's all about me.

this is where i live: the most beautiful city on earth as everyone knows 

summer lovin

wow.

riot grrl

in tonight's show you'll be hearing:
blondie- one way or another
le tigre- i'm so excited
cyndi lauper- girls just wanna have fun
sleater-kinney- i wanna be your joey ramone
the slits- shoplifting
delta 5- mind your own business
donnas- dancing with myself
le tigre- decaptacon
lush- ladykillers
mo-dettes- white mice
liliput- die matrosen
m.i.a.- bucky done gun
francoise hardy- comment te dire adieu
annnnndd...........ajda pekkan- sanane kime ne

stay tuned.

oh blogger where art thou?

alara scared me. she kept saying there was something wrong with my blog's template. for a week we tried to fix the template with alara. the strange thing was i couldn't see anything wrong with the blog. it turns out that my dear friend alara was using an INFERIOR version of internet explorer and not mozilla like i do.

had a great weekend, but screwed up my sleeping routine + my voice. ian brown was adored, wines and beers were drunk. we're all waiting for franz ferdinand now.

finished reading freud, will finish irigaray probably tomorrow. cannot focus on my redaing of tristam shandy, maybe i should switch to don quixote.

i will also try translating a sociology book "Modern Social Imaginaries" by Charles Taylor for the metis publishers. my first attempt.

BUT on the negative side i lack a certain feeling. friends know what i mean, so it's ok to be obscure.

tonight with sibel

tonight was great. sibel and I ate some delicious food in zencefil with some special wine. then we went to nevizade, she drank coffee and I a beer. we talked about life, love, insecurities, psychology, freud, analysis,future. i sometimes think i am so lucky to have found such great friends to have such great conversations with.
sibel is one of the greatest minds i have ever met. she could be anything she wants but she chose the best thing to be. her questions and conflicts just prove i'm right.
i love you sibel.