Owner: Marmelade is on a life quest URL:http://marmeladesquest.blogspot.com Join Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:30:22 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: So she decided to just leave everything behind and start anew in a totally different country where she has to start her life from zero. Here it is, step by step, her journey towards the great unknown. Site statistics:Click here
Politics is so much fun! 2008-02-29 07:39:41 Now, I think politics is bullshit and I tend to ignore it as much as possible, as last time I took it seriously I almost gave myself a heart attack.Under these circumstances, you might be tempted to believe that a girl like me does not give a rodent's behind about the current US of A political battle, as I only saw America in pictures and once for real during a two unbelievably short weeks holiday where I got to travel from New York to California, via Las Vegas. Nor will I have any reason to ever do so, unless, of course, Viggo Mortensen decides to marry me and bestow upon me his loving arms and his citizenship, for that matter.Well people, apart from this latter unlikely possibility, you're WRONG! Perhaps you underestimate the huge entertainment value of American politics. Easy now, I'm n
My new obsession: Nathan Barley 2008-02-28 14:52:51 I found my new obsession!!! It's called NathanBarley
and it's a british tv series featuring the coolest guy on Earth. Julian Barratt, dah! Noel Fielding is showing his lovely lumps here and there, the sexiest man alive. It's not at all like The Mighty Boosh, actually it's quite the opposite. Basic line: every country has the hipster idiots they deserve. But I recognized some stereotypes. The question is: do you?Hilariously funny!
Johnny vs Borat 2008-02-27 16:01:26 According to you, the readers of this site, Johnny
Depp should've won the Oscars for best actor. Now, I can't be too angry with DD Lewis, as he is a massive talent, for which I fell in love deeply and irrevocably in the heartbreaking drama The Age of Innocence, where he dug big time Michelle Pfeiffer, but he wouldn't had his ways with her because he was faithful to his kleptomaniac wife, Wynona Rider. Man, I was so rooting for DDL and Michelle! Anyway, I haven't seen There will be blood, but I'm sure DDL's worth every single penny and much more.Back to Johnny. He is truly outstanding in the funny macabre musical Sweeny Todd, but no one expects less of him. The entire movie is hilarious and intelligent, uplifting and scary. I'm sure you know by now it's about a barber who whacks his clients Read more:Borat
Eclectic philippics as if I'm talking to a psychiatrist, which I never had (as a patient, I mean. yet.) 2008-02-26 14:36:58 So I did sleep last night. I woke up at 1 pm, which is unheard of for me. The house was a mess, Toni had a supper last night with his friends and he left everything dirty and disgusting. Sabrina went berserk and we both had a bitch talk with him. Actually, it was more like me supporting her, because I was in such a great mood that not even the full sink of greasy plates, the dirty table and the general smell of cigarettes left overs could bring me down. Then we went to have a coffee down under, there's a new coffee place that opened while we were away, at the ground floor of our building, next to the giant Bob Dylan billboard. I talked to her about me wanting to get a tattoo, and she has a tattoo artist friend that will make me a cool one and will charge me next to nothing. I'm so loo Read more:patient
I just want to sleep 2008-02-25 16:29:36 Shitious day. The whole day rain didn't really uplifted my mood. Neither did my sister's acute mental problems. I need to distance myself from all these. Bottom line: a wasted day. But tomorrow I'm going to the gym and start to write again. I really missed my routine. I don't think I mentioned it, but I ended the second part and now I'm about to begin the third. I was in a bit of a crisis, as I made some ch-ch-changes in the story line, which I thoroughly planned a year ago. But the time spent back home helped me find the best way to continue the plot, and I am so excited to start writing again. Sabrina gave me a pair of red sandals from Buenos Aires. I'm deeply moved by this girl, she is so considerate, nice and caring, she's such a beautiful surprise to me. I mean, we just know each
I don't know 2008-02-24 10:53:12 I'm in the airport, looking to board. I'm not sure how I feel about leaving this place again. Someone asked me if it seems like going home or leaving home and I honestly don't know how to answer that. I'll probably know better when I arrive in Barcelona.Last night I've done the unforgiven. I got together with an ex bf of mine. I mean, nothing serious, just fooling around, but it was totally unnecessary. I have quite a ridiculous history of backsliding with this guy, shit ... I thought we got over it. Look, it's not like I'm wondering now "what if" or anything, but the warm and familiar taste of someone you know for a long time is my weak point at this moment of my life. And there is something intriguing about him. No matter how many cigarettes he smokes and how many drinks he mixes, there
Homie girl 2008-02-22 04:12:38 Well, I'm almost a week home and I feel I've never really left it. The homie girl personality took over the world wide roamer, who's sqeezed now inside the dark dungeoun of my subconscience with her mouth covered with duct tape. It feels good though...I did the right thing coming here and recharge my batteries. If I ever felt alienated, now I have the antidote. I realized how much I missed my friends and how right everything seems when I'm with them. They helped me regain the sane perspective on my life that I might have lost somehow in the whole process of reinventing myself in a totally diffrent environmet. So there you have it, Gabs, aarite?Then of course, enter parents, brother, granma, cousins, uncles, aunts and all, who were all over me, studying and staring thoroughly, to identify a
Best v-day ever! 2008-02-15 01:42:53 Yesterday's V-day evening was the best and most romantic I've ever spent in my life. I never thought I could find true love at just one corridor away.First, I prepared dinner. Various types of seeds actually, but hey, whatever does it for him.Then, while listening to me complaining about how difficult my work is, he helped me a little bit and shared with me his vast experience in literature writing. Thanks to him, now I'm on an juicy creative spree that will surely propel my future novel on the best sellers list in no time.Then, we exchanged gifts. He was so happy with everything I gave him, his warm eyes were covered in gratitude.Actually, too happy. He truly loved them!Thanks for the wonderful time, Kuki!I finally found someone who can understand me, respects my needs, cares about my pro
No title 2008-02-14 14:49:51 Oh, Indy! I've been waiting for you to return all my life. This is the best v-day gift ever! I missed your corny jokes, your outrageous courage and manly dignity, your quirky sense of fashion and of course, that good-old uplifting music. Harrison darling, you still so do it for me! In fact, as a tribute to your long awaited comeback, my new pick-up line will be "Hey han, are you solo?"Love,M
Home away from home sick 2008-02-14 10:31:09 I'm almost done packing my luggage for tomorrow. I got gifts for everybody, although, maybe I'm paranoid, but I suspect most of them are not even half excited for my arrival. Going home after a long time away is quite tricky. Weather I like it or not, I'll be confronted with the inexorable truth of the possibility that my friend are not exactly "my" friends. It's like, I don't know if it ever happened to you, but sometimes when I'm depressed, I imagine that I die and I can see who shows up and who misses my funeral.Man, this really gets me depressed. After three months and a half I got so attached to this place. I feel like home here. It pains me to leave it now, ever for a little while. I'm gonna miss everybody here, my quiet afternoons in front of the computer, my playing with Kuki, my p
Back to civilization! 2008-02-12 09:54:40 I'm hooked with our new internet/ digital tv / telephone deal. For the last three months I didn't watch TV at all. Because, you see, the tv in spanish is quite shitious, all movies are dubbed, if you're lucky enough to have any movie, cos most of the time there are stupid shows with celebrities dancing and stuff like that.I never thought I would miss television, but zapping the channels gave me a worm fuzzy feeling in my stomach. And then came CNN. I tell you, the weather forecast jingle almost made me cry ... oh, the sweet memories. By the time I reached VH1 I almost had an orgasm. Almost. Geri Halliwell was on. So not my type, although I envy her abs.Talking about abs. My new culinary resolution appears to work just fine. I tried on some jeans I couldn't wear last months because of obv
Good vibrations 2008-02-11 13:41:39 Everything's been quite quiet lately. Sun is shining, birds are singing, flowers blooming and the pink elephants are flying. Today, the new internet contract finally arrived, so we have the fastest speed ever. It's so fast, it makes me dizzy!I took Kuki in my room for a few days, just for him to chance the scenery a little bit. He seems to love it here, he's very playful and making quirky noises. Also, he eats better. Friday I'm leaving for ten days, so I'm a little bit worried about Kuki. Sabrina wont be home until the end of the month, so the guys will have to feed him. I might have mentioned once or twice they're not exactly the most reliable people. Actually, no later than today, Toni told me he's rather let Kuki free in the city, knowing he'll die in two days, than keep him here incar
It's war! 2008-02-07 17:16:49 Following my sort of break down yesterday, over my incapacity to overcome overweight, I took a long hard unmerciful look at the content of my meals and in-between-meals and I realized the inconvenient truth: I eat the wrong things. Because I've never counted calories before, I wasn't aware that some aliments, who seem so candid, are actually an explosion of calories and fats. (Check it out for yourself on calorie count site.)Therefore, until further notice, I will forbid any of these foods to get close to my stomach:- cheese- fries- eggs- butter- bread- sugar- salt- cookies- biscuits- chocolate- coke- mayo- peanutsThe list is open.Basically, I won't eat anything that doesn't contain a large quantity of fibers. Such as: fruits, vegetables, cereals with skimmed milk.If this doesn't work, I'l
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With Oxford Murders, Elijah Wood defrodolized himself
Across the universe: revolution with strobbery pie and a sentimental heart that beats
He's doing it again
No title 2008-02-06 05:57:34 Have you ever had the impression that no matter how much you strive, the results never show up? I don't know, maybe i'm in a pessimistic state. But the fact remains that I work so hard, I'm putting myself out there, I give the most I can.I believe it all comes from the gym class. I go there almost everyday, I do all those impossible exercises, I sweat like a pig and ... nothing. I look just as fat. Wasn't it suppose to work? It's been a month and a half now, where are my results? At least by now i could see some improvement! And I eat less and less everyday, which I know it's totally unhealthy, but I need to do something, this is making me ill. All my life I used to be so fit, and now I can't control my weight even with the heavy artillery.Then it is the book. I write and I write and I wri
He's doing it again 2008-02-05 12:50:52 Dear Viggo,Are you a time traveler? I'm sure you life is fun, going back in forth to check out other ages of humanity. If anyone in this world could do it, that would be you.So, I see you've been in France, you've probably had lunch with Balzac, one of your favorite writers. I mean, ours. What an appropriate outfit! Next time, when you have lunch with Socrates, tell him I said hello, will you sugar?yours,M
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The good, the bad and the beginning of the month report 2008-02-02 05:58:09 You guys, it's been three months since I arrived here in Barcelona, and I want to make a bit of an evaluation of my time here. I will do it monthly from now on, just to be able to follow my evolution, or lack of.1. Rooms: two. One month in the house in Raval, with the annoying yet talented hair-stylist roommate. Two months and counting in a seventh floor apartment in Eixample, with three roommates. We didn't really hit it on from the beginning, but they're starting to grow on me. Toni, the Italian photographer/ actor/ musician, Sabrina, the loveliest Argentinian girl with 87 tattoos and a chinchilla, and Greg, the French whatever he does.2. Roommates: as I said before, they're starting to grow on me. Sabrina is going to Argentina tomorrow, so I am the chosen one to take care of Kuki, the N Read more:report
Across the universe: revolution with strobbery pie and a sentimental heart that beats 2008-01-31 14:45:05 I've just seen Across
the Universe, the love & war musical on the Beatles music. Let me tell you right from the beginning that it's one of those films that after they end, you just want to go back and see it all over again. It is a beautiful, heartbreaking yet hopeful story told in a powerful cinematic image and iconic songs, that everybody can relate to. Don't get put off by the word "musical" you cynical people out there, I promise you that you will surprise yourself singing along (until the person near you gives you "the look"), tap your feet under the seat, laugh out loud, get all emotional and forget about the rest of the world for about two hours."Across the universe" has the power to give you a new faith in mankind, it makes you wanna take the entire globe and hug it in your lov Read more:revolution
Hero of the day: mr. George Clooney, messenger of peace 2008-01-30 08:38:29 Look at him, it's his first mission in his new role as UN messenger of peace, with special emphasis on peacekeeping! He is in India, talking with big international organization about maintaining peace, Darfur situation and important stuff like that. Apparently, he is very modest too, because he stated "I do not want to talk, I want to listen first", being a novice and all.My heart is full of joy and love for humanity! We are all one big family, brothers and sisters, living in harmony, respecting and supporting each other, sharing our knowledge, wealth and passions with no boundaries. Thank you George
, for making it so right!Now Bono, you have to come up with something better!
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With Oxford Murders, Elijah Wood defrodolized himself 2008-01-29 15:06:30 Thanks to my fascination with LOTR (along with so many others), I will probably watch all its major characters' real life career development in whatever films they deem to grace with their presence. Except for El Viggo, who I met a long time before, when he was a poor painter and clandestine lover of one Gwyneth Paltrow, the wife of a very rich and vindictive fellow by the name of Michael Douglas. You know, that Hitchcock remake, Perfect Murder. He won my heart forever.Hence, The OxfordMurders
, a movie done by a Spanish director, señor Alex de la Iglesia, with none other than the artist formerly known as Frodo, aka Elijah
Wood. Let me tell you something right from the beginning: my worst fears were scattered. Phew!Elijah is a talented actor, who made me believe in his character, a young
Oh Bono! 2008-01-29 11:03:50 Mr. Bono Vox, rock star slash politician, wouldn't be himself had he not hold a speech few days ago at the World Economic Forum 2008.You're right mate, poetry will save the world!
Back and forth the block, please be true! 2008-01-29 05:20:06 Yep, apparently the rumors are true. The New Kids on the Block are about to make their come back. And why not, they're probably asking themselves, Take That did it, Spice Girls did it, hell even Backstreet Boys did it. NKOTB is the quintessential boys band, they were first, and now they want to be the last.As for me, I have nothing against it. Just one condition: they keep the hairdos! There's no way I'll take them back without those 'dos. Ok, I may have been too young to be around the first time, but this year, I better see the dudes on the street giving up their shitious emo hair and do the New Kids. That'll be fun!The one with the bandanna is Marky Mark, isn't he? Oh man, I just can't wait! Too good...
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Roommates, hookers, cereal killers and a book that doesn't write by itself 2008-01-28 09:17:57 The rest of the world being so busy as it is to go on with its things, thought I should stop taking note for a while and focus on my life, if I may call it that. Ok, where should I start? I'm just gonna enumerate stuff, in no particular order.1. Toilet: fixed, broken, fixed again, probably breaking soon.2. Roommates: a short recap for those who couldn't be bothered to read the early stuff. Toni, the Italian photographer / actor / waiter. I don't know what to think about him still, yet he's the one I'm bonding with the most. I reckon he is profoundly unhappy, but I respect him for struggling so hard to achieve something. Whatever that might be. Last weekend we went together to the Juliette concert, me as a reporter and him as a photog. We spent about two hours talking. I told him I hated th
LIVE: Juliette and the Licks 2008-01-27 05:06:20 Last night I saw Juliette and the Licks live on the stage of Espacio Movistar, here in Barcelona. Let me put it this way, I have never listen their music before and I will probably won't again, but that's besides the point, cos I didn't go there for the music in the first place.Miss Juliette Lewis acted in most of my favorite movies, she's a girl that I'll always admire and respect for everything she does. Sure, she's crazy, but that's why I love her. She left Hollywood behind, with its Brad Pitts and Johnny Depps, and went to pursue a second career that was far more meaningful to her. I mean, you gotta give it to this girl, when she wants something, she's ready to make every sacrifice to get it. And I bet it wasn't an easy transition from the Princess of Movielandia to opening acts for ha
Sometimes, I can be so much fun 2008-03-12 15:13:13 Great days those last two! Yesterday I had some friends back home visiting Barcelona and I spent one of the best days of the year so far. They are ex work colleagues, believe it or not, but they're fun, smart and outrageously delicious people. First we did a little bit of shopping and then we went eating in a fancy schmancy restaurant downtown in the Gothic quarters. We had to queue to get in, and my friends were so amazed by it. They never believed people would queue to go to a restaurant. Well, here you go! Then we had paella and sangria, and man, the party had begun. The cheered and good disposition I had overcame my habitual reservation and I was the most verbose, extrovert girl in the world. I told funny stories, I made silly faces and everybody was laughing along. My guess is it's th Read more:Sometimes
Ay Ay Ay!!! 2008-03-12 03:35:27 In case you're wondering what El Clooney's been doing lately, well, he's teaching ladies in Spain (and some gentlemen too) how to use fluffy cuffs. C'mon Georgy boy, like we didn't figure this one out for ourselves!This is a perfect example of media whoring!
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