Ladies and Gentlemen, here they are - The Biopics!
Mafalda
My life - Passion
“Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolfe?”
Since young I have fed a strange interest for drama and mystery, especially for the bizarre world of crime literature. At the age of 4 I’d already dress up as and play characters which existed only in the plots I developed my mind. Aged 12 going 20, I started reading crime novels and by the age of 14 I had read about 75 40’s-to-70’s crime novels. By this time would I bravely adventure and write my first crime play, which unfortunately never reached a stage, having I later adapted it to a tale and earned a 1st place at the school’s creative writing contest. My writing took a different path and I now am on a crossroads, knowing I want to write tales but not feeling they are enough. My love of authors such as Rex Stout, Patricia Highsmith, Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie and later on Dick Haskins, as well as directors like Alfred Hitchcock, assisted me in my search for the deeps of human nature, while growing up. Some might say it’s morbid to brood over killing ideas or crime scenarios but the first step is never the crime planning but the idea itself – emotion. Hurt, jealousy… greed. So call me morbid, I’ll continue to believe it’s just as sane as studying Sociology. In a way, these artists were experimenting themselves… The limits of human behavior. The real and even scarier Twilight Zone.
Joana C.
My Life - Family
To talk about my life I chose to introduce myself more personally and to talk about the present:
So, for me this is now a time of change I feel, or I hope that my life is now finally beginning and my biggest challenge is to put the past behind me, and start working on being happy. Only recently did I realize that I really have everything to be happy and that the problem is deep inside me, not in the rest of the world I have just been unable to deal with that. It was hard to find out that I was no longer recognizing myself I was and I still am, in some ways, someone that I don’t want to be. Thus, my greatest challenges are to be more positive and optimistic; to focus, to concentrate myself on objectives, on goals to achieve; to become an active person, not to be afraid of experimenting, of failing and specially, to accept things and people as they are. Now, about my life, I can’t identify or put myself into a community like a neighbourhood, association or project, but I certainly recognize my family and a small group of good friends as a community, a really strong one. My family, to be honest, is almost everything that I need to be happy, I am very proud and lucky, I believe, to have such a great big family we are almost like the mafia, pretty much like gypsies, in a good way. But, as I said, my family is almost everything that I need to be happy, so I have other passions too, which are music, cinema and photography.
I could say so much more about my life, like everybody else, I guess, but this is all for now…
Miguel
My Life - Music
I can honestly say that without music, I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. Music is, by far, the most artistic, creative way of the human being to express himself. There are no holds barred for what you can do with music. And that’s why there are so many different types of music. Including cheesy, weak, easy, industrial kind of music. I can’t spend more than half a day without listening to music (and when I say music, it’s not MTV music, it’s real music) otherwise, I might freak out. I think music is the purest of all drugs; it can get you high, away from reality or even helping you face it, it can make you fly, it can bring you down, it can make whatever you want of it. It can also be a friend, because it’s always there for you, when you need it.Unfortunately, nowadays, everyone looks at music as a quick and easy way to get rich and famous, which it’s quite easy, actually. You can sell your soul and play and do whatever your major record company wants you to. Just ask 4Taste, Fergie, Evanescence and all of those so called “musicians”. That goes against what I stand for, and I wish I could do something to prevent this “disease” from spreading around; it just corrupts the purity of music as an art.I do believe that what a person listens to can reveal part of its personality. And I do believe that music can change everything, just look at Band Aid, which were a group of famous musicians who made a super show in order to raise funds to charity.In the end, music it’s just like life. You can be a hard working artist or sell your soul and take the easy way by not caring about integrity and you just want quick money and fame.
Sandra
Mafalda
My life - Passion
“Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolfe?”
Since young I have fed a strange interest for drama and mystery, especially for the bizarre world of crime literature. At the age of 4 I’d already dress up as and play characters which existed only in the plots I developed my mind. Aged 12 going 20, I started reading crime novels and by the age of 14 I had read about 75 40’s-to-70’s crime novels. By this time would I bravely adventure and write my first crime play, which unfortunately never reached a stage, having I later adapted it to a tale and earned a 1st place at the school’s creative writing contest. My writing took a different path and I now am on a crossroads, knowing I want to write tales but not feeling they are enough. My love of authors such as Rex Stout, Patricia Highsmith, Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie and later on Dick Haskins, as well as directors like Alfred Hitchcock, assisted me in my search for the deeps of human nature, while growing up. Some might say it’s morbid to brood over killing ideas or crime scenarios but the first step is never the crime planning but the idea itself – emotion. Hurt, jealousy… greed. So call me morbid, I’ll continue to believe it’s just as sane as studying Sociology. In a way, these artists were experimenting themselves… The limits of human behavior. The real and even scarier Twilight Zone.
Joana C.
My Life - Family
To talk about my life I chose to introduce myself more personally and to talk about the present:
So, for me this is now a time of change I feel, or I hope that my life is now finally beginning and my biggest challenge is to put the past behind me, and start working on being happy. Only recently did I realize that I really have everything to be happy and that the problem is deep inside me, not in the rest of the world I have just been unable to deal with that. It was hard to find out that I was no longer recognizing myself I was and I still am, in some ways, someone that I don’t want to be. Thus, my greatest challenges are to be more positive and optimistic; to focus, to concentrate myself on objectives, on goals to achieve; to become an active person, not to be afraid of experimenting, of failing and specially, to accept things and people as they are. Now, about my life, I can’t identify or put myself into a community like a neighbourhood, association or project, but I certainly recognize my family and a small group of good friends as a community, a really strong one. My family, to be honest, is almost everything that I need to be happy, I am very proud and lucky, I believe, to have such a great big family we are almost like the mafia, pretty much like gypsies, in a good way. But, as I said, my family is almost everything that I need to be happy, so I have other passions too, which are music, cinema and photography.
I could say so much more about my life, like everybody else, I guess, but this is all for now…
Miguel
My Life - Music
I can honestly say that without music, I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. Music is, by far, the most artistic, creative way of the human being to express himself. There are no holds barred for what you can do with music. And that’s why there are so many different types of music. Including cheesy, weak, easy, industrial kind of music. I can’t spend more than half a day without listening to music (and when I say music, it’s not MTV music, it’s real music) otherwise, I might freak out. I think music is the purest of all drugs; it can get you high, away from reality or even helping you face it, it can make you fly, it can bring you down, it can make whatever you want of it. It can also be a friend, because it’s always there for you, when you need it.Unfortunately, nowadays, everyone looks at music as a quick and easy way to get rich and famous, which it’s quite easy, actually. You can sell your soul and play and do whatever your major record company wants you to. Just ask 4Taste, Fergie, Evanescence and all of those so called “musicians”. That goes against what I stand for, and I wish I could do something to prevent this “disease” from spreading around; it just corrupts the purity of music as an art.I do believe that what a person listens to can reveal part of its personality. And I do believe that music can change everything, just look at Band Aid, which were a group of famous musicians who made a super show in order to raise funds to charity.In the end, music it’s just like life. You can be a hard working artist or sell your soul and take the easy way by not caring about integrity and you just want quick money and fame.
Sandra
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Hello there to you all at London calling. Looking good!
Use this blog to post your creatiev wruting. Be a sounding board for each other by carefully reading each other and commenting.
Also post your exhibition reviews when they have done through a cycle of editing.
By the way, who has what role in your group?
One comment. I really can't read postings with the black background - does it have to be black? Or is this just me?
Keep it rolling in.
Allyson
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