Good Morning my Noise Mates! What's up everyone? I'm home taking inside the hanged laundry and a song popped up in my head! Do you know Carmina Burana, the Opera Piece? As an airport worker I bump in celebrities very often, but this time (it was the Kindness Day in 2018) I've met an entire Opera Choir singing at Gate E24! The Director sat at the piano (yes we have many pianos all over the Gates and everyone is free to play them! Cool uh?) and started playing... I saw all the…
Sometimes I wake up early and my first thought is to step outside my terrace and enjoy the sunrise! And when that sunrise is spectacular it's worth take a spectacular shot. My Lisanthiums are a great point of view and the colours are too cool 😎 Enjoy this Wednesday Noisers mates!
It's 11.27 pm here in Rome and I'm not feeling so good. Lately things aren't so great even tho I try to pretend they are gorgeous. Sometimes I feel I need a happy thought, one you can attach to like a stubborn hope, but I don't have it. So I just pretend... I put a smile on my face but inside I just have Darkest Dreaming - David Sylvian https://youtu.be/UFALroBF84w Good night...
Inverting colours using Snapseed app Have you ever tried? Just moving the curves up and down and see what's the subject looks like! The colours always become so weird and strange so it happens that a tree seems made of cristal or ice! Happy Thursday Noise Mates Weather is fine and I feel better than yesterday night...
Affection is the most precious gift, the most powerful one: it manages to heal tears that no one sees, no one hears, no one knows. It puts back the rubble and settles the cracks, I don't need gifts, I just need that unexpected gesture, that small thought that is spontaneously dedicated to me, it makes me feel good. Thank you to those who dedicated a moment to me... you performed a small miracle, you make me come back home. [©Yelena b.] #asongforyou Trinity River - Havasi…
How old are you today? How old are you today? I'm not talking about the registry ones, I'm talking about the soul ones, the ones where you breathed harder and your heart went crazy. The ones where all the excitement and all the terror of being in love but never really being loved by anyone entered. How many years were hidden in the worst memories or the best ones? Looking at you now would you know how to love again or would you rather remain invisible to everyone, so quietly…
Illusion is ugly devil Illusion is an ugly evil, one of those subtle and bastard, infamous ones. Before recovering from a burning disappointment, you go through a lonely and particularly terrible hell, you let yourself be eaten helplessly, without being able to prevent your ruin. You collapse into a million pieces while standing, so that no one sees your suffering, no one considers you weak. And you are, extremely fragile like a very thin crystal, poised in an unstable and…
It was back in 1981 when I first listened to this band, they were so crazy and weird and their music always made me dance a lot! Ska is that genre of rithm that makes your feet move and you just can't help it! This tune makes me feel good and brings back a smile when life is not so kind to me... Hope you'll like it! ~I'm just a-walking in the sunshine, Leave your troubles all behind you, I think I'll drink a little red wine, I'll take you where they'll never find you.~…
Time to say goodnight my noise mates! Tomorrow I will catch up with everyone, I'm so tired this evening that I keep falling asleep and waking up with the phone in my hand! But as promised, I'm posting 2 version of Lupin III (Money Punch) Theme Song! The Ska Version by Tokyo Paradise Orchestra https://youtu.be/Tw0gtpBlWrE And the superbe Jazz version! https://youtu.be/9G2IIkEvC8c I'm sure you're gonna like both! See you tomorrow!!!!
Sunsets are always a surprise... Not even one is like another even tho it happens every single day. Yesterday the sky was completely covered by very dark clouds, a storm was approaching but not at West! I was there on my terrace just enjoying this awesome view! Happy Saturday Noise Mates!
Is there a song that makes you go back to a certain memory every time you listen to it? I mean a song so deeply linked to a precise period or a specific person that always always recall of it at the very first notes? Mine is this Holding back the years - Simply Red https://youtu.be/yG07WSu7Q9w It takes me back to 2009 when I started to rethink about all my life... and have started a little revolution to become the person I am now. The crazy me. Here is my new t-shirt I…
Good night Noise Mates It's 10 past midnight here in Rome, my son and I went to Ostia for dinner and then had a long walk by the sea... The air was so fresh! Unfortunately there was so little light to shot a good pic! Anyway this is my good night fot today ☺️ A classic of Arabian Music Enta Omri - Hossam Ramzi https://youtu.be/ceGmCUBkOQQ Sweet Dreams to all!
Ready to go to work but with no willing to do it! Yes I know it's a counter sense but it's my feeling lately... I just need to keep going for the next 2 months, untill the previous restaurant I worked at before covid will be reopened! Will I make it? I really hope so! In the meanwhile I just try to cheer me up with some music And here it is, a tune that stuck in your head and makes you dance...! Can't stop that feeling! - Justin Timberlake https://youtu.be/ru0K8uYEZWw Happy…
September always takes a lot of fluffly big clouds! They seems high mountains of cotton candy! Soon the wind will push them away... I'm home from work not tired as usually luckily, it was a calm morning! How is your Sunday so far?
No longer You no longer have time to cry All the old tears that you have put away in the shelves of your silence You no longer have the same eyes to look at yourself with pity while you see yourself making mistakes You no longer have that little mercy, that you kept on rainy days but the sun was ou You no longer have the time to scold good-naturedly the little girl you wer The one who took refuge in a world of her own, when the world of adults was too scary for her You don't…
As a teenager, in my dark time (I think we all had a dark time in youth) I used to listen to many genres. I remember in 1986 I attended an English Course in a Private International School in Rome with my 2 cousins, Andrea and Fabrizio. Fabrizio was older than me and was a musician, so when my uncles guested me in their house for a month while I was studying, he introduced me to Led Zeppelin, King Crimson and Traffic. I remember my difficulties in learning because of a…
It's still so hot for my cats! Here is a bored Billo, in his very strategic position in front of the window, trying to catch the breeze coming from outside. I already fed them before going to work today for a late duty. How amazing that animals feel the approaching time of feeding! They know that I give them food at a certain time every day so they start meowing asking for it! #thethreemisCATeers #Billo
It has been a long long day, I am truly tired and just stepped by to say hello! Hope you all had a great day! We are in the middle of the week already! Soon il will be Friday again. I want to wish you good night with a soundtrack, a very particular instrumental piece. Hope you'll like it! Line to strain - Jinguji Saburo https://youtu.be/w-okjVyjDi4 Sweet dreams
Many years ago I discovered this amazing artist, he is a guitar player and composer from Norway. I don't remember why I came across one of his songs but I had and immediately fell in love with his sound! Gianni, a friend of mine, uses to say that a good guitarist does not have to use so many notes to make a great assolo and I agree: The heart you put playing makes the assolo unforgettable! Listening to this makes me feel free and super happy! Unfortunately there is no…
Tell me, did lying give you satisfaction? And tell me, did lying give you satisfaction? Has it fed your heart? You don't have a heart, you have an immense wasteland watered with anger and lies, a place so dry where the wind of pride blows and grows the only plant you eat, conceit. You need caresses, but one who offers Nothingness like you, when he gets them, he doesn't recognize them. You are like an old pc, obsolete, but beautiful in its antique, vintage, collectible look.…
There is a lot to say about 9/11 You can choose to talk about political, religious, strategic reasons for what happened. Or you can just stay silent with the same terrible feeling of pure terror for all the people who were dying helplessly. 9/11/2001 still means pain in my heart while I was watching those 2 high immense Towers coming down as a burned stick of incense... I don't want to know the reasons why it has happened, I just want to remember those who bravely enter…
You may know or may not know him. In my imagination (a little kid of 9 years old) he was my hero. I first watched a KISS video in 1979 on a local tv, my brother was a big fan of them so he bought the album Dynasty, a vinyl I still have in my collection. I was timid and insicure, but their music made me feel free, good and it has accompanied me since then. When I'm down it is the only thing that cheer me up and recharge the battery full. Ace is no more a KISS member, but he…
Living with a cat Living with a cat means having a king as a tenant. Have you ever stopped to observe them? They are incredible beings, they are perfect. Mother Nature designed them to be incredible. I have had the good fortune to share my life with many felines, I have always been very fond of them and I realized that I had a special relationship with all of them. Each cat is different, they have their own character, while maintaining some common traits, such as the mania…
My heart married you A raindrop around my finger A cloud as a witness On a grey day, after a journey to reach you And with a life to forget you [2020©Yelena b.] Il mio cuore ti ha sposato Una goccia di pioggia intorno al dito Una nuvola come testimone In un giorno grigio, dopo un viaggio per raggiungerti e con una vita per dimenticarti [2020©Yelena b.] I do - Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians https://youtu.be/KT2AN5hIcW4
Good evening Noise Mates Lately I'm so busy, my duties at work are very long and fatiguing but when I come home I always have some time to get pics! There is a very small flower blooming can you spot it? This Sunday is soon going to end... I'm just enjoying another sunset now. Have a great evening guys!
We are human and moved from instincts and impulses. Many of us are fragile and sensitive, many are insensitive, hard at heart, mean. The only thing that fears me is the lack of love and those who use love just to hurt. It's better to be fooled than fool, cos Karma is a 'biitch' and the bill to pay for cheating is always too high. The Asphalt World - Suede https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnc4RZLDDU&feature=share
Meadow You are strong, Ale No, I'm not. I go on and on saying that tomorrow will be better, if it's not it's okay. I'm actually a 5 year old girl who hasn't grown up and enjoys the things she hasn't experienced. So I get very excited and I don't give time to fear to kill this little childish spirit of mine...it has made me happier and lighter. I don't fly super high, I'm not capable yet! I'd like you to understand, my friend, that we are all a meadow of flowers, apparently…
A glass of wine, great music playing, the smell of roasted potatoes from the oven. Outside it's dark and kinda silent, few car moving, no other sound than these familiar notes flying in the air. I've spent this day going back and forth, September means beginning of the school and get the inevitable end of Summer... I feel puzzled and sometimes worried, things are never as I wish but I have to resist and be positive. Do you know Paul Hardcastle? I love him, his music takes me…
I (un)fortunately live in the city, green areas are so few! But there is the sea, it may be polluted due to the port and to the river Tiber, but it's my element. I think I could not live anywhere else than here... Maybe I was a mermaid in another life😜 I have long walks on the sand during Winter and Spring when the air is full of salt and the sky is clear. Nothing can go wrong when you are at peace with your inner soul.
Some songs have a name not just a title. You just have sawn it in their notes, hidden it between the lyrics, your soul whispers it in silence every time you listen to them So the music goes and the box with all your memories opens up and you just see them dancing like feathers in the air, mixed up with old words, voices, feelings. Everything melts in an indistinguishable unique sound... Smooch - Afterlife https://youtu.be/8fov0r9L7oc @Pedja enjoy ;) #asongforyou by @Yelenab
I came across this song some years ago. I am not so fond of Italian music even tho I am Italian but this group is so amazing! The lyrics of their songs are poems so true and so beautiful. This one is a little story of a love, consumed but still alive, the story of 2 lovers who just have decided to walk together in this path called life. "I like about us Precious moments in which we observe ourselves The possibility of choosing Will never make us as free nor as complicit as…
This spider hated me a lot! I tried to shot him the nearer possible but the web started to shake every time I got across, at the beginning I thought it was me touching it with my phone but then I realized it was him! That amazed me so much that, it was his way to send me away...! So I just said 'ok buddy I won't disturb you anymore if you stand still just for a shot...'
These days the days walk by quickly. I don't know why. Maybe it's me who has become distracted by life. Sometimes it happens that you deliberately put a part of your consciousness to sleep just to not feel pain, but then you get used to it and continue. So you anesthetize yourself, as a defense. First your knees full of bruises, then your heart, and then, when you just can't take it anymore, you get to drug your soul. You are tired. Your pile of bones is heavy and dragging…
I must let you go because the world is waiting for you, my son. Now my job will be to make you think. I always have, but now you are at the door, one step further is your adolescence. It came quickly, as we were seeding the path together, we didn't realize it right away...now that it's here, I'm out of breath. You don't belong to me, you know. You belong to your life that is now calling to you. I just have to step aside and tell you that the path will be hard and uphill, but…
80s were the best decade musically speaking. There are so many great artists and bands born during that period that made history. One band I really like is Tears for Fears, some of their hits are still a classic of pop! Do you remember this band? This is their very first song 'And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you 'cause I find it hard to take When people run in circles it's a…
Good morning Noise Mates! How is the weather there? Here in Rome it has finally rained! After a long dry period (since March I think) we finally had some true refreshment from the hot temperatures of past Summer! Today I'm not watering plants and finally those nasty mealybugs will die! I just need to find a good place where I can keep my lovely red peppers protected from bad weather of this upcoming Winter! By the way they are still growing and growing and getting more spicy…
Arghhh! Macchia has captured a dragonfly and brought the poor thing on my bed while I was sleeping! Luckily I haven't hurt her, I managed to catch her before my hunter feline could harm her wings!!! I had checked if she had all her legs too and then took her out of my terrace, far from my cats! She flew away, free again! Now I'm fully awake and it's 1.44 am and guess what! Macchia is sleeping peacefully as nothing has happened -_-
It's a lovely Saturday! It's pretty hot and the sky is amazingly full of big white clouds! On this day of the week my city is so busy, there is a big market and many comes to buy stuff here. I'm waiting for my son, then we will go home to prepare lunch. I'm planning to cook a risotto with fish, so yummy! What's your plans for today guys?
I take what comes and feel blessed of what I have Whenever I get a nickname like 'princess', I cringe, I become wary. I have (almost) stopped refusing hugs although not completely, sometimes the urge to oppose hands is still strong, I can't avoid it, they are all still 'enemies' in my eyes. I have transformed over the years, I have lost confidence, I no longer dream I live in the day, watching the days quickly alternate, become weeks, months, years. In the meantime I take…
The moon is high tonight, it is not yet full but you can easily see Jupiter right there, just near in conjunction. The streets are silent, even tho it's Saturday and many people are out to have fun Yes, it's a great night and a song comes to my mind every time I see a night sky so bright and shiny This is my #asongforyou by @Yelenab Killing moon - Echo & The Bunnymen https://youtu.be/LWz0JC7afNQ Good night my Noise Friends!
Thanks for your comment @SliceOfArt about Duran Duran! I want to post a very special song from a very particular album, an experimental one by just 3 of DD's members. The album made its appearance in 1985 and can count on many great contribution, like Sting and Gilmour, just to name 2 of them. The sounds are so cool that many music critics were pleasantly surprised by it. The title of that album is So red the Rose and today I want to share with you one instrumental song,…
It has been a long day... I'm pretty tired, tomorrow it's Monday and I have to get my son to school and then come home and clean, do the laundry etc These pics are for #nofilterchallenge by my friend @lizbabel22 the sky this afternoon and the song for my tag #asongforyou by @Yelenab is also dedicated to her Onde anda voce - Vinicius de Moraes / Toquinho https://youtu.be/Gb5sbORA62w
Lazy mornings starts like this for my furbabies, while I'm up and fully operating they just stay in bed like kings and queens🤣 Especially Milù, so calm and cuddling... Good morning Noisers It's Monday and a new week starts! In Rome it's 8.42 and it's time to get my son to high school. I'll drive to Ostia, get fuel, go to the groceries and then back home for daily cleaning! Happy day everyone! #thethreemosCATeers by @Yelenab #Macchia #Milù
#asongforyou by @Yelenab Today is dedicated to my sweetest Silvia @Sissim72 We crossed paths on a social now 7 years ago, it seems like yesterday though! We've been through a lot, right Silvia? We have! Sometimes it takes a lot of patience and sometimes it takes a lot of shit, but it's always better to be a child inside than an idiot adult :') Lovviù #asongforyou by @Yelenab Oggi è dedicato alla mia dolcissima Silvia. Ci diamo incrociate su un social ormai 7 anni fa, mi pare…
It's pretty late and I'm still up. Came home from work an hour ago and my son and me sat at the kitchen table and ate something together, for our midnight snack. I'll be off tomorrow and I finally can sleep more than usual, no school too so I'm very happy. And a song popped up in my Spotify list while I was driving home... I found myself smiling and singing. Maybe it's not the best song, but you know? I need a happy thought and they are always there to give me that happy…
I like to throw leftovers on my terrace to feed the birds, they have got used to this so they are always ready to come over as they see me doing it. Well there is always someone else interesting in it... But too lazy to act like a predator lol Milù watches them eating just lying on the floor... These cats always make my day😜 #asongforyou by @Yelenab Samba de uma nota sol - Dean Martin / Caterina Valente https://youtu.be/AuEv942wOZs
Slambook Challenge My lovely friend @KrisCastro tagged me on a funny article about a challenge launched by @fantagira and here I am trying to figure it out! It's 9 pm here in Rome and I'm struggling with Billo desperately asking for food poor dear... I could not find their fav paté and they hate every kind of other humid food! So he is meowing right now and looking at me like 'Hooman you are fired' But let's not waste time in feline distractions! This challenge is pretty…
Another day has gone my noise mates! My day off was super busy, I need a clone! She can go to work and do all the annoying things while I have a nap lol Just kidding It's the last day of full moon and the sky is so bright, the streets seem so quite... I'll try to reach you tomorrow I really need a good sleep! I just leave here today's sunset at sea! Good night everyone! #nofilterchallenge by @lizbabel22 #asongforyou by @Yelenab Barcarolle - Hoffenbach…
Sepia effect. It is one of my fav edit, I shooted this months ago and then I have edited it with snapseed app. Love this filter in particular, pics become a sort of old and lost in time subject, like a fading memory locked in one of the millions rooms of our brain. Don't you think? #monochromeexperiments by @Yelenab
I'm very happy today! My son had a very difficult exam as a volunteer firefighter and he got the maximum 30/30! I'm so proud of him so I took him out for dinner to celebrate! First we went to see San Michele Tower an ancient tower built in 1500 by Vatican, took some pics and then had a walk in the port of Ostia at sunset. We had sushi in our fav restaurant later on just chatting and laughing. It's time to say good night my fellow noise mates, sweet dreams everyone!…
I celebrate (poem) I celebrate dusty anniversaries I have a calendar on my heart Made of handwritten emotions I should erase their meaning by scraping them a bit But it's hard to reason with my soul I'd like to explain to her that you can't go back to where you were happy! I would like to explain her that the love she feels Will never be returned And yet she loves And goes over the contours revives the colors smiles remembers lives I caress her and I dedicate my nostalgia to…
Hello Everyone! Due to a strike of Alitalia workers all the viability around the airport is blocked! I don't know how to go to work today...! In case you don't know Alitalia is the most important Airline in Italy and has a bad economic situation, let's say it is very near to bankruptcy. The workers leaded by Unions are shouting against the company cuts on personnel and other decisions that put at risk the job of thousands of people! This morning they stopped flights now they…
What a memory! Facebook remember me of this amazing moment It was September 25th 2010 and a little mantis enter my room from the opened window, my son and I were watching tv and saw this incredible creature hanging on the ceiling fan little string! Luckily I had no cats at that time so we had not to worry about them🤭 My son gently took him on his fingers, so I could take a fast pic! I was so excited I had never seen such a beauty before! I even didn't think there were mantis…
Hello everyone Member n. 8 at your service! Just few minutes ago I have found a very special picture stored in my archive! I was at the shuttle stop waiting for the shuttle to take me to the terminal 3 departures for my duty at work The sky was just amazing it was very early in the morning and everything seemed wrapped in a veil! Good morning noisers!!!
#asongforyou by @Yelenab I wanted to write a good caption for this song but actually her voice tells it all... I have always love her unique style, she is one if the smoothest female voices of the 80s. I'm sure you know her and her great songs Smooth Operator - Sade https://youtu.be/lgAmno8icDM My day has been hectic and stressing... I'm sipping a glass of white wine, it's still so hot here in Rome... Good night Noisers!
My day off was not so off lol I had to do some important things, first take my son to school and then went to the car dealer to get an appointment for a regular check to my new car. Due to covid stop I could not do it last year. I hope I won't spend too much money on it -_- Then visited my parents to discuss about some family matters and the whole morning flew away... ... I'm already tired...! I have spotted these roses in a garden and had to stop to get a pic, they were so…
Strange evening...even the crows above the abandoned power plant are fighting making a big racket. The sky is full of grey clouds... in the west there are the last flashes of pink of a beautiful sunset. The notes of Loreena McKennitt make the whole atmosphere even more evocative. It's humid this silence tonight, I support it along with everyone else. Cats wander around me.... I am alone tonight. In a little while I will light a candle and incense and enjoy the darkness. Have…
Wandering on the edges of your breath (Poem) And I'll seem to love those lips and that grimace more, while exiled I wander on the edges of your every breath When the echo of the words whispered late at night, will return to the dark and porous corners of memories I will seem to drown in the waves of lack, while violating what I deny to everyone, I find you again And the power that I release in these lonely moments, expands northward, running on the surface of the water to…
#asongforyou by @Yelenab Oggi voglio fare un post polemico e anche antipatico, lo voglio dedicare a quelle persone che in un modo o nell'altro con il loro comportamento feriscono o creano disagio agli altri. Quando ci sentiamo in diritto di pretendere, sollecitare, imporre o semplicemente credere di poter campare diritti su chiunque per partito preso, non funziona così. E no. Se fate un gesto carino ma lo fate solo perché vi aspettate un tornaconto, non è un gesto carino. Se…
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