Day 484 ‘This Is What You Should Know About Me’

There is nothing better than friends being understanding.  TV broke again but never mind, I can fill out the Inspiration Diary 2013 I got from a friend for Christmas. Under the section: ‘This is what you should know about me’ there are all sorts of questions about my favourite colour, actor, book, movie and all sorts. Before I went to England my favourite colour was green, which very slowly turned into pink, but now when I am back again it is copper. Well, deep down it was always copper, but it is not really a colour one would freely admit. But I suppose those times has gone when the freedom of freely admitting something was silence. I love many films and for many-many years my favourite was Indochine with Catherine Deneuve. And it is still the one. The Big Blue with Jean-Marc Barr also made a huge impression on me as well as Orlando with Tilda Swinton and Braking the Waves with Emily Watson, the master piece directed by Lars von Trier. But as the movie world changes The Bourne Trilogy became somehow an epic illusion after the lost innocence since the BBC production of Pride & Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. I used to watch many movies before I went to England, but life changed there and there was neither time nor money for cinema. Favourite actor is no doubt Leonardo DiCaprio since Gilbert Grape. Before it was Gregory Peck in Moby Dick. I saw it when I was very little and was mesmerised by Peck’s dark beard and fanatic revenge on the whale. Strangely enough, I don’t like beard and I don’t agree with revenge at all, but children have strange ideas about idolizing fictional characters. I’ve never really been a little girl dreaming of princes and princesses, so that might be the root of it all. As a child I wanted to become a singing ballerina, but I was so distressed when I found out such occupation did not exist, that I decided to become a good which, who jumps in and out between tales and real life. Of course that was not possible either, so I decided to become an alcoholic for mum’s absolute horror and for the question why I just said, because I can lay on the sofa all day then or a mad woman I said thinking that I don’t have to work then. I have no idea where I got that from either. And eventually I became a mixture of something like a fashion designer-writer-private missionary and for many years a workaholic. That is mad enough. And my favourite book after all is the Bible. Before it was Wuthering Heights and Charlotte, which was my first inspiration in creative writing. That opened my eyes to the beauty of artistically combined sentences in the complex w(e)ave of storytelling.