Dinner For One

Yesss!!! It's THAT "Dinner For One"!
Now you can only have two reactions:

1. Marco is out of his mind
2. Yesssss: Dinner For One!!!

Let's see if you remember it better with this excerpt:
"Same procedure as last year, Madam? - Same procedure as every year, James."

"Dinner for One" ... Starring Freddie Frinton (Butler James) and May Warden (Miss Sophie), is a fantastic, 15 minute British TV sketch from 1963 that has become a New Year's cult classic in Germany and Austria. If you see it in a video store, rent it. It is very very funny.

About.com
http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa010101a.htm

TheFreeDictionary
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Dinner+for+One

script
http://www.get.at/members/eva/dinnere.htm

Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0121210

The Snow Walker

The Snow Walker
Once a year I stumble almost casually upon an unforgettable movie. 2004 was kinda tricky, it made me wait till December to give me one. The movie I'm talking about is "The Snow Walker", it's the kind of movie that simply jumps into my TOP10 movie chart. What really surprised me in it, it's the absolute plausibility of the whole story, the way the two different cultures meet and often can't understand each other. At the beginning there's the character of this inuit who simply can't adapt to the occidental life style, it's funny to notice that the same fate will occur to the protagonist. My mention surely goes to Annabella Piugattuk, just 19 years old at the time of the movie and authentic revelation, I'm confident we'll see more movies with her as protagonist in the years to come.

http://www.snowwalkerthemovie.com/

Ocean

"The Bounty", "Rapa Nui", "Lord Of The Flies".
Three movies, three bittersweet endings loaded with unanswered questions about mankind, society, civilization.
Is it the sea? Is it instead the island, small islands surrounded by an infinite ocean, an ocean so big to make you give up on escaping. Pitcairn, Easter Island (or Rapa Nui), and the small inhabited island of "Lord Of The Flies". Do we need space? Do we need to move from time to time to stay sane, or at least to feel comfortable at the idea we can always do it if we want? Very bad fate cursed the offspring of the Bounty crew in Pitcairn (you might want to check this news out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3693574.stm ). Was it an environmental and sociological collapse the historical theory expressed in "Rapa Nui"? And what can I say about the kids of "Lord Of The Flies"? Well, I guess you just see the snatch between their built up and improvised society and the rest of the world when you listen to the final sentence of the movie, where a bewildered disbelieved marine officer asked the protagonist: "What're you guys doing!?". My reading of that is in this question: Are we instinctively savage and just worked a couple of millions of years to leave all that behind or is it just that we're easily corruptible? I'm not giving any answer here. But I'm just suggesting you all read this post on "Il Portolano" a blog that really seems to be promising: http://portolano.blogspot.com/2004/12/il-marinaio.html

Taste

Fear is salty.
Remorse is bitter.
Will is sweet.
I always preferred my victories to be sweet. Maybe that's why simply doing it never really worked on me. Although since will runs on enthusiasm and enthusiasm on perfection, I always spend a lot of time figuring out the HOW in all I do.
It's 4.15am, and this epiphany is inexplicably coming to a sober Marco.