v.v.zhuk

so what?
it is February the eleventh, two thousand eleven.

days run on each other as a sweet blur of weightlessness.
one could see his own life going by this way with a smile on his deathbed.

(to be continued)

e.e.cummings

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
- the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

I am a dreamer, and there is two (+) of us...

What is trust?

How is it measured?

Does it change knowing that it has a high chance of being broken? (just based on the facts of human relations and history)

Are we really that simple and at the same time loving animals that we do it over and over again?

Like a salmon that swims upstream only to die at the end?

I love fairy tales written in the country of Beetlejuice.

Cue in John Lennon!

Blue "Real" Valentine

The Official Zhuk Rating: 9.1/10 bananas

camera work!

acting!

reality!

music!

Higher Level of "Like"?!?

Marley Who? Bob!

I wanna love you and treat you right;
I wanna love you every day and every night:
We'll be together with a roof right over our heads;
We'll share the shelter of my single bed;
We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah provide the bread.
Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that I'm feelin'?
Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that I'm feelin'?
I wanna know - wanna know - wanna know now!
I got to know - got to know - got to know now!

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able,
So I throw my cards on your table!
I wanna love you - I wanna love and treat - love and treat you right;
I wanna love you every day and every night:
We'll be together, yeah! - with a roof right over our heads;
We'll share the shelter, yeah, oh now! - of my single bed;
We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah provide the bread.

Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that I'm feelin'?
Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that I'm feelin'?
Wo-o-o-oah! Oh yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now!
Yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now!

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able,
So I throw my cards on your table!
See: I wanna love ya, I wanna love and treat ya -
Love and treat ya right.
I wanna love you every day and every night:
We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads!
We'll share the shelter of my single bed;
We'll share the same room, yeah! Jah provide the bread.
We'll share the shelter of my single bed -

Happy January 17th, 2011!

i am yours now

i don't ever want to leave

i've been found out...

The xx

VCR, DVD, BlueRay, Window, Blank Space, Sunset, Sunrise, etc...

You, you still have all the answers

and you, you still have them too

and we, we live half in the day time

and we, we live half at night

Watch things on VCRs, with me and talk about big love

I think we're superstars, you say you think we are the best thing

But you, you just know, you just do

When i find myself by the sea, in another's company by the sea

When I go out the pier, gonna die and have no fear

Because you, you just know, you just do

Watch things on VCRs, with me and talk about big love

I think we're superstars, you say you think we are the best thing

But you, you just know, you just do

Every Day Is a Present!

Games, changes and fears

When will they go from here

When will they stop

I belive that fate has brought us here

And we should be together babe

But we're not

I play it off, but I'm dreaming of you

And I'll try to keep my cool, but I'm feenin'

I try to say goodbye and I choke

Try to walk away and I stumble

Though I try to hide it, it's clear

My world crumbles when you are not here

Goodbye and I choke

I try to walk away and I stumble

Though I try to hide it, it's clear

My world crumbles when you are not here

I may appear to be free

But I'm just a prisoner of your love

And I may seem all right and smile when you leave

But my smiles are just a front

Just a front, hey

I play it off, but I'm dreaming of you

And I'll try to keep my cool, but I'm feenin'

I try to say goodbye and I choke

Try to walk away and I stumble

Though I try to hide it, it's clear

My world crumbles when you are not here

Goodbye and I choke

I try to walk away and I stumble

Though I try to hide it, it's clear

My world crumbles when you are not here

Here is my confession

May I be your possession

Boy, I need your touch

Your love, kisses and such

With all my might I try

But this I can't deny

Deny

I play it off, but I'm dreaming of you

(but I'm dreaming of you babe)

And I'll keep my cool, but I'm feenin'

I try to say goodbye and I choke (yeah)

Try to walk away and I stumble

Though I try to hide, it's clear

My world crumbles when you are not near

(when you are not near aahh)

Goodbye and I choke (yeah, yeah, yeah)

I try to walk away and I stumble (hey, hey, hey)

Though I try to hide it, it's clear (say it Lord)

My world crumbles when you are not here

Goodbye and I choke (I'm choking)

I try to walk away and I stumbe

Though I try to hide it, it's clear

My world crumbles when you are not near

(when you are not near, yeah, yeah yeah)

Yeah, yeah..

The One And Only I.M.

Start wearing purple wearing purple
Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits they will all vanish
I promise, it's just a matter of time...

So yeah, ha

Start wearing purple wearing purple (he)
Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits they will all vanish
I promise, it's just a matter of time...

I know you since you where at twenty, and I was twenty,
but thought that some years from now
a purple little little lady would be perfect
for dirty old and useless clown...

So yeah, ha

Start wearing purple wearing purple
Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits they will all vanish
I promise, it's just a matter of time...

So yeah, I know it all from Diogenes to the Foucault
from Lozgechkin to Passepartout
I ja kljanus obossav dva paltza - chto ty!
shto muzyka poshla ot "zvukov moo"


Start wearing purple wearing purple (da da da da da)
Start wearing purple for me now

Start wearing purple for me now!

All your sanity and wits they will all vanish
I promise, it's just a matter of time...

So Vio-Vio-Violetta! Etta! Va-va-va-vaja dama ti moja!
Eh podayte nam karetu, vot etu, i mi poedem k ebenjam!

So yeah, ah start wearing purple wearing purple
Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish
I promise, it's just a matter of time!...

In 2 Deep

When your alarm clock wakes you up at 5 o clock in the morn and realize that there was a snowstorm over night and that you have to go to work in half an hour, but first you got to shovel your driveway, and it's cold and wet, and then go to work to shovel the walkway there,

You're in 2 deep

You go on fb and tell people about how you cooked for NHL players at work and describe how "buff" they were and "big eyes" they had,

You're in 2 deep

If you drafted Chauncey Billups with the 3rd overall pick in the first round of your fantasy draft before John Wall and Rudy Gay,

You're in 2 deep

If you go x-country skiing for the first time and you go up big a$$ hills and wonder why the easy course is so difficult, and then when you get to the top you find out that you're actually on the black diamond,

You're in 2 deep

Johan Blaze If you spent 10 years in post-secondary and you are still working for less than 20 bux an hour...lol naaaaaaaah I won't go there just yet!

For Musika Lovers

This is the most amazing blog:

http://hypem.com/#!/zeitgeist/2010/

In 2009 i found out about this and have learned to love so much more bands and different styles of music. They post 50 best albums of the year and you can actually listen to all of them from there!

Down Time

this will never end

cause i want more

more, give me more, give me more

this will never end

cause i want more

more, give me more, give me more

if i had a heart i could love you

if i had a voice i would sing

after the night when i wake up

i'll see what tomorrow brings

if i had a voice i would sing

dangling feet from window frame

will i ever ever reach the floor?

more, give me more, give me more

crushed and filled with all i found underneath and inside

just to come around

more, give me more, give me more

if i had a voice i would sing

"SMD"

Night Time, Day Time!

if you did not laugh or at least smile at some of these...

"WORST"

Some girl in the twinkling of an eye
Dem ah ready fi come pull down mi Karl Kani
Oh, come on now tell me how can I
Love ah, one dat really don't deserve me?

Natural fi keep and natural preserve me
Me is ah boy, could get a whole heep ah girl, ya heard me
Many are called but only few deemed worthy
Body have ta physically strong and sturdy

Spiritually balanced fi clean and purge me
Mentally advanced fi always urge me
Read couple books and challenge the clergy
Read a couple psalms up inna the morning early

Could you be so kind then show me a sign
I've been searching and it's so hard to find
Decent values with a decent wine
Decent jubee running it down the line

Maybe it's my mind, maybe I'm blind
Maybe it's the way that I've been spending my time
I'm still searching for a fine peace of mind
Decent jubee running it down the line

A little child has grown and he's got love on his mind
But what he'll never know a virtuous woman is hard to find
And dat's when she said she feels the pain
And she'll never fall in love again

So if you is a gal with whole heep of value
What a valuable nice and decent gal you
When I get you I'll be glad I got you
Then stand firmly inna your life like statue

Seen some old tings seen some young tings
Seen some little silly go and come tings
Seen some one night just for fun tings
What a indecent piece ah, some ting

Be so kind den show me a sign
I've been searching and it's so hard to find
Decent values with a decent wine
Decent jubee running it down the line

Maybe it's my mind, maybe I'm blind
Maybe it's the way that I've been spending my time
I'm still searching for a fine peace of mind
Decent jubee running it down the line

Some say that love is blind
But he keep saying, not this time
So all he need is love to keep his heart in line
But dat's when she said, "Lord I feel the pain"
And she'll never fall in love again

You have some gal ah, come 'pon man premises
And ah, fling up the ting that's between di knees
And ah, full up man head with false promises
Oh, dutty bungle please, couldn't want to run that
So fast wid ease been there dun that my main
Squeeze is natural, simply natural

Could you be so kind then show me a sign
I've been searching and it's so hard to find
Decent values with a decent wine
Decent jubee running it down the line

Maybe it's my mind, maybe I'm blind
Maybe it's the way that I've been spending my time
I'm still searching for a fine peace of mind
Decent jubee running it down the line

A little child has grown and he's got love on his mind
But what he'll never know a virtuous woman is hard to find
'Cause that's when she said she's feeling pain
It seems they have fallen in love again
That's when she said, "Lord I feel the pain"
And now they're standing in love again

So tell me ah, when price tag gone pon annany
Gal ah, love man for Benz and Ferrari
Little one eyed brethren weh name Omari
Couldn't get no loving since him start sell stary

Some girl in the twinkling of an eye
Dem ah ready fi come pull down mi Karl Kani
Oh, come on now tell me how can I
Love ah, one dat really don't deserve me?

Passenger of Life

新年快乐

An Nou Fericit

שנה טובה

नया साल मुबारक हो

明けましておめでとうございます

Gott Nytt År

Ευτυχισμένο το Νέο Έτος

새해 복 많이

Glückliches neues Jahr

Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku

С Новым годом

Musika

discovering new songs every day!
this one might be a bit too slow or cheese for some.
i felt it when i heard it first.

yy

keke

Zen

Family Time @ Christmas

yes, my Family consists of rabbits

Monday = Big Bear Time

Winter brings on many changes in animals lives, whether it be migration by animals such as the whales, seals, turtles, eels, crabs, fish, butterflies etc.

However, for some animals hibernation is the preferred method of escaping the cold of winter.

For example, the small ground squirrel illustrates some of the remarkable changes that take place. It’s body temperature drops to within a few degrees of the cold outside its den. The heart will beat only once or twice a minute. When it is active, the squirrel may breathe a few hundred times each minute, but in hibernation it takes a slow breath only once every five minutes. Despite these changes, its blood remains saturated with oxygen, and little used muscles remain in tone ready for action when they awaken. Bears however, are not true hibernators. The body temperature of bears stays normal. They burn an estimated 4,000 food calories a day. While in hibernation they can awake and move about quite often. Yet they can exist for three months or more without food or water.

During their hibernation, the bears neither defecate or urinate. This would normally mean that nitrogenous wastes during that time would cause poisoning to the urinal system. However this it does not do. The bear solves its nitrogenous waste problem by a form of recycling." The hibernating bears body diverts nitrogen from pathways that synthesise urea into pathways that generate amino acids and new proteins. And it does this by glycerol (produced when fats are metabolized) and recycled nitrogen as the building blocks" according to the New Scientist Magazine of February 1985.

The female grizzly bear will have her cubs during the winter hibernation. During hibernation she does not eat or drink anything at all, yet still she is able to nurse and care for her cubs. The mating period usually occurs in may to early July each year, and the cubs are born generally around January or February, right during the cold winter months. But the gestation period is not very long for the female. She has very tiny offspring usually weighing only a pound or two at birth, so it is easier for her to nurse and feed them even though she does not eat or drink anything during those months.

Compared with winter hibernation of animals such as woodchucks, squirrels, snakes, frogs, and so forth, the winter sleep of many bears is only a series of naps. This is because the slumber of bears in the winter may be disturbed, as their body temperature stays high and their breathing remains at the normal rate. Some will even awake on their own accord in the winter and prowl around for a few hours or days at a time.

Scientists in Yellowstone Park discovered that grizzly bears were likely to choose dens where they would not likely be disturbed. Some of the dens were right on canyon walls where it would be very difficult for access by anyone or anything. All of the dens that were on slopes faced north, so that warm spells would not warm up the den and awake the sleeping bear. The dens were cozily lined with a fine insulation of pine and fir boughs.

It has also recently been discovered that grizzly bears would not enter their dens for hibernation until the onset of a blizzard, the type of blizzard that would quickly cover their tracks as they entered into their dens. This would serve as a fine protection for them during their hibernation, as no one would know that there was a sleeping bear deep inside of that den.

It would not be very practical for bears to refuse to play their roles in preparation for their hibernation necessary for their survival of the harshness of winter. In fact for them to ignore this would literally mean death for them. However, bears are not of such intelligence to appreciate the signs of approaching winter, but they act on an inbuilt instinct that moves them in such a way for their self-preservation.

Where man can read the signs of the weather, and can note on a calendar to see when winter is approaching, the bear does not have the same kind of intelligence.

However, for them to hibernate means their survival. These cold changes in the winter months can be taken for granted by man. Yet, for animals it is a time of great changes.

Saturday>Friday

10:00 - Young Lions @ Britannia CC for Film Festival 4 Peace

12:14 - Art Sale @ Mindan's House

16:20 - Babko Residence to check on the Grinders!

19:00 - TCC Gym

22:00 - Banana Peelers

22:40 - NBA JAM

03:24 - sleep?

RIPs aka Despicable Accents + Stories

Well time to put to rest "Dexter" as a TV Show, it was great for 2 seasons, too bad for me i watched it all the way through this 5th season, and while watching the finale i was swearing to myself that this is it! The show became too cheesy, too unrealistic, and simply pointless.

Kind of the way i did with the "Rubicon" earlier this year. After maybe the fifth episode it was giving me the blue balls. I hanged around till the seventh, but i was spitting in the air and trying to catch it, thats how boring the show was. Have to say the acting was big part of the boredom, never mind the worse plot/story ever for trying to be a mystery/conspiracy show.

Also a big RIP goes out to one of the movies that i was excited for only based on the suspenseful trailers that were released way ahead of the movies release date. What saved this movie was the music for obvious reasons that Hans Zimmer worked on it. Steve Carrel is the lead voice, or should i say some horrible Russian type of an accent. Maybe i am offended by it or maybe i just don't get it...

Official Zhukowski Rating: 6.2/10 bananas

Am i becoming a harsh critic? Have i always been this way? IS this just 'bad run' of few bad TV shows/films in a row? Hopefully!

You Are Out There

ruithael

1 month ago 48

Who would have thought that Sacha Baron Cohen could be beat in his own game, but this is beyond fucking epic. Joaquin totally fucking put his balls on the line for his art and has proven that he has more balls than anyone in show business.

Official Zhukowski Rating: 7.9/10 bananas + bonus 0.5 banana for actor being bananas and pulling this off, no matter from what side you look at it.

User Reviews

I'm Still Here - But Not All There

14 September 2010 | by renee-844-417622 (renee@reneebrack.com) (Australia) – See all my reviews

I'M STILL HERE will have people wondering - is Joaquin Phoenix all there? The twice Oscar-nominated actor (Gladiator and Walk The Line) is directed by his brother-in-law, the Oscar-nominated Casey Affleck (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford) in a documentary about a year in his life (Australian release - September 16).

It covers the period from when he blurted out he was leaving acting for hip hop, includes the infamous interview with David Letterman and serves as a reminder of the flipside of fame.

Did we need reminding?

Well, yeah - the current human addiction to fame is out of control. Ask a lot of people what they want in life and they'll say 'to be famous' - not to do anything amazing which results in a modicum of fame - it's fame in itself and for itself.

And such empty fame is a very destructive force. The Wright Brothers found fame by getting people to fly. That's good. Linsday Lohan found fame by crash landing her life. That's bad. She ignored the gift of her acting talent by getting distracted with the shiny wrapping paper of attention. (It's a very different thing to recognition.)

The beer-gutted, bearded, babbling boy that is Joaquin Phoenix is a revelation in the doco. The audience I was with laughed out loud all the way through it. And sure, it's funny - in a tragic way - like when a cat falls into a bathtub.

The thing is - I really understood a lot of what Phoenix was saying.

What bugs him bugs most people - to be misunderstood. He feels trapped by being defined as an actor the same way a dentist would if he or she yearned to be free to become a professional golfer but was told not to. I understood how maddening it was for Phoenix to be twice-nominated for Oscars which resulted in him gathering heaps of people around him that want him to pursue acting because 'he'd be crazy not to'. Agents, managers and friends felt he was at the pinnacle of success when really, he was at the precipice of a kind of prison.

I don't reckon he seriously wanted to be a hip hop artist - but he did want the freedom to do whatever he wanted to do professionally - whatever that may be. Unfortunately, stream of consciousness got the better of him and he shot his mouth off before he thought about what he was going to say.

He's become a peculiar kind of reality show Macbeth. A Howard Hughes of Hollywood - minus the mega cash.

The doco highlights the myth about acting and stardom. An actor is not 'brilliant' or a 'genius'. Pretending to be someone else convincingly is simply being a terrific phoney, an adept fraud and a well-crafted con artist - in a legal environment. It doesn't cure cancer or change the lives of people needing help from, say, Amnesty International. Acting is just a process of not being yourself.

What Joaquin Phoenix proves is this: there is freedom in being crazy and you don't have to be crazy to know that.

He looks less Boho and more hobo. The hair on the back of his head is coming alive like Medusa, holding its own performance and provides a metaphor for what's going on inside his head.

So how good is he at hip hop? He's 2 maybe 3 out of 5. Rhyming 'Wuckeen' with 'spleen' won't win awards or become a tattooed slogan on a fan's arm.

And there's something so very broken about the badly taped up arm of his Buddy Holly-styled permanent sunglasses.

It's a shame when people who are good at one thing yearn to be good at another when they don't have the skills and tools to pull it off. It also makes me a bit mad that they are so ungrateful for the one gift they do have. Then again - is a gift really seen as a gift if you don't want it?

Poor assistant Anton is abused in such a way, it's easy to see that Phoenix uses him to bash himself up. And Anton is a willing subservient whipping boy. He uses him like a tea towel to wipe his dirty feelings.

It's almost as if Joaquin has heard people say that awful thing - that the wrong brother died outside the Viper Room all those years ago. Maybe it makes him mad and hurt, hence the title. 'River isn't, but I'M STILL HERE.

So - is I'M STILL HERE a hoax? Phoenix's stab at immortality through immorality on a public stage? Starlets use weight gain and loss, so the guys stick a question mark over their sanity? Is this the greatest role Joaquin has ever played?

Could be. After all - there are a few parallels between this doco and DIG! - the doco about The Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. And both star a 'character' called Anton.

If it's not a hoax, Joaquin is a guy on the edge. Is he a suicide candidate? Possibly. Does he need help? Definitely.

But if it is a hoax, then we're the ones who need help. And we should have the guts to admit it.

We've been conned.

But we've been conned over and over again by the high level spin doctoring that typifies 21st century marketing and promotion. And while we're all sniggering at his decrepit body and vagrant appearance, he's really holding up a mirror to everyone sitting in the cinema.

We're the ones who are ugly and crazy. And while we're at it, we can add cruel and unkind to that description too.

I feel sorry for him and sad for us.

Rare Times in Charlestown

On very rare occasions to i trash a movie after seeing it.

I try to never see movies that i feel will be below the "6/10" scale.

But this particular movie did exactly that. It was hyped by a lot of people. And i was looking forward to watching this 'gem'. Yet after seeing it i want my hundred and twenty minutes of life back!

The action itself was good, i guess. The plot and story as cheesy and unbelievable as ________ . Have to admit they did pull of a great cast, but so did the people that made The Expendables.

Maybe it is simply not my cup of a tea movie.

Maybe its too hollywoodish for my taste.

Maybe Ben Affleck did it just to bury his sins with some girl he knows in real life.

Maybe i am being too honest and harsh.

Not Sure. Yes. Yes. Maybe. No.

Official Zhukowski Rating: 5.9/10 bananas

Do NOT read anything below (as usual) if you are planning on still seeing this movie

100 things I learned from watching 'The Town' 1. A smart cop will look the other way when he sees a van load of nuns with machine guns. 2.I'm not the only one in Boston with a gun. 3.Bringing the electric chair back to Charlestown may not be such a bad idea. 4. Whenever you can't link one scene with another, an aerial view of Boston is a good idea. 5. If you run to Florida after robbing Fenway Park, the FBI will stop looking for you. 6. A girl will get upset if, after a couple dates, she finds out you robbed her bank a few days ago 7. You can't easily hide a tangerine under a large pile of money 8. Municipal officials don't ask questions when given large sums of cash to renovate a skating rink 9. Chicks will put up with anything and still love a guy even after robbing her bank and kidnapping her. 11. Never work in a bank in Boston after 300 banks are robbed each year. 12. When driving an ambulance, it's always a good idea to wear a seat belt. 13. Even though you are the subject of a man-hunt and the neighborhood is crawling with police, it is possible to leave a note on the head FBI's car without being noticed. 21. Wow, Boston really does have no black people 22. Everyone in Boston still has a 1950's Boston accent. 23. You can live 20+ years of your life, in a small secluded town, where everyone knows everyone, and never find out that your mother didn't "run away". 24. Machine gun fights are common in Boston. 25. When an angry Ben Affleck tries to whisper in your ear, don't lean forward. 26. Diet coke tastes really good when you are in a police shootout. 27. Jon Hamm`s got a great head of hair and the same haircut he had in Mad Men 35 years ago 29. Physically, Ben Affleck is like fine wine... 31. Always wear sunglasses when you're about to steal a bunch of money from Fenway. 32. The best way to get a tramp to leave your room is to put her kid in the hallway. 33. Boston's tough guy crime bosses arrange roses to look tough and get someone to accept a job 59. In case FBI is trying to set a trap for a man in an apartment, at least 3,4 FBI agents must stand near the window so that the man can see them clearly from the front building!