Nausicaä of the Virtual Valley

Gone with the Wind

2007-11-24T16:03:00.000+01:00

This is the title of a 1936 American novel by Margaret Mitchell set in the Old South during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 1939. It the only novel by Margaret Mitchell's published during her lifetime.
Mitchell's work relates the story of a rebellious Georgia Southern belle named Scarlett O'Hara and her experiences with friends, family, lovers, and enemies before, during, and after the Civil War. Using Scarlett's life, Mitchell examined the effect of the War on the old order of the South, and the aftermath of the war on what was left of the southern planter class.
If you haven’t read the novel and you’re willing to, don’t read further (spoiler alert!).

- PLOT OVERVIEW -

It's the spring of 1861. Scarlett O’Hara, a pretty Southern belle, lives on Tara, a large plantation in Georgia. She concerns herself only with her numerous suitors and her desire to marry Ashley Wilkes. One day she hears that Ashley is engaged to Melanie Hamilton, his frail, plain cousin from Atlanta. At a barbecue at the Wilkes plantation the next day, Scarlett confesses her feelings to Ashley. He tells her that he does love her but that he is marrying Melanie because she is similar to him, whereas he and Scarlett are very different. Scarlett slaps Ashley and he leaves the room. Suddenly Scarlett realizes that she is not alone. Rhett Butler, a scandalous but dashing adventurer, has been watching the whole scene, and he compliments Scarlett on being unladylike.
The Civil War begins. Charles Hamilton, Melanie’s timid, dull brother, proposes to Scarlett. She spitefully agrees to marry him, hoping to hurt Ashley. Over the course of two months, Scarlett and Charles marry, Charles joins the army and dies of the measles, and Scarlett learns that she is pregnant. After Scarlett gives birth to a son, Wade, she becomes bored and unhappy. She makes a long trip to Atlanta to stay with Melanie and Melanie’s aunt, Pittypat. The busy city agrees with Scarlett’s temperament, and she begins to see a great deal of Rhett. Rhett infuriates Scarlett with his bluntness and mockery, but he also encourages her to flout the severely restrictive social requirements for mourning Southern widows. As the war progresses, food and clothing run scarce in Atlanta. Scarlett and Melanie fear for Ashley’s safety. After the bloody battle of Gettysburg, Ashley is captured and sent to prison, and the Yankee army begins bearing down on Atlanta. Scarlett desperately wants to return home to Tara, but she has promised Ashley she will stay with the pregnant Melanie, who could give birth at any time.
On the night the Yankees capture Atlanta and set it afire, Melanie gives birth to her son, Beau. Rhett helps Scarlett and Melanie escape the Yankees, escorting them through the burning streets of the city, but he abandons them outside Atlanta so he can join the Confederate Army. Scarlett drives the cart all night and day through a dangerous forest full of deserters and soldiers, at last reaching Tara. She arrives to find that her mother, Ellen, is dead; her father, Gerald, has lost his mind; and the Yankee army has looted the plantation, leaving no food or cotton. Scavenging for subsistence, a furious Scarlett vows never to go hungry again, and takes charge of rebuilding Tara.
At last the war ends, word comes that Ashley is free and on his way home, and a stream of returning soldiers begins pouring through Tara. One such soldier, a one-legged homeless Confederate named Will Benteen, stays on and helps Scarlett with the plantation. One day, Will brings terrible news: Jonas Wilkerson, a former employee at Tara and current government official, has raised the taxes on Tara, hoping to drive the O’Haras out so that he might buy the plantation. Distraught, Scarlett hurries to Atlanta to seduce Rhett Butler so that he will give her the three hundred dollars she needs for taxes. Rhett has emerged from the war a fabulously wealthy man, dripping with earnings from his blockade-running operation and from food speculation. However, Rhett is in a Yankee jail and cannot help Scarlett. Scarlett sees her sister’s beau, Frank Kennedy, who now owns a general store, and forges a plan. Determined to save Tara, she betrays her sister and marries Frank, pays the taxes on Tara, and devotes herself to making Frank’s business more profitable.
After Rhett blackmails his way out of prison, he lends Scarlett enough money to buy a sawmill. To the displeasure of Atlanta society, Scarlett becomes a shrewd businesswoman.
Gerald dies, and Scarlett returns to Tara for the funeral. There, she persuades Ashley and Melanie to move to Atlanta and accept a share in her lumber business. Shortly thereafter, Scarlett gives birth to Frank’s child, Ella Lorena.
A free black man and his white male companion attack Scarlett on her way home from the sawmill one day. That night, the Ku Klux Klan avenges the attack on Scarlett, and Frank ends up dead.
Rhett proposes to Scarlett and she quickly accepts. After a long, luxurious honeymoon in New Orleans, Scarlett and Rhett return to Atlanta, where Scarlett builds a garish mansion and socializes with wealthy Yankees. Scarlett becomes pregnant again and has another child, Bonnie Blue Butler. Rhett dotes on the girl and begins a successful campaign to win back the good graces of the prominent Atlanta citizens in order to keep Bonnie from being an outcast like Scarlett.
Scarlett and Rhett’s marriage begins happily, but Rhett becomes increasingly bitter and indifferent toward her, because even though Scarlett’s feelings for Ashley have diminished into a friendship, Ashley’s jealous sister, India, finds them in an embrace and spreads the rumor that they are having an affair. To Scarlett’s surprise, Melanie takes Scarlett’s side and refuses to believe the rumors.
After Bonnie is killed in a horse-riding accident, Rhett nearly loses his mind, and his marriage with Scarlett worsens. Not long after the funeral, Melanie has a miscarriage and falls very ill. Distraught, Scarlett hurries to see her. Melanie makes Scarlett promise to look after Ashley and Beau. Scarlett realizes that she loves and depends on Melanie and that Ashley has been only a fantasy for her. She concludes that she truly loves Rhett . After Melanie dies, Scarlett hurries to tell Rhett of her revelation. Rhett, however, says that he has lost his love for Scarlett, and he leaves her. Grief-stricken and alone, Scarlett makes up her mind to go back to Tara to recover her strength in the comforting arms of her childhood nurse and slave, Mammy, and to think of a way to win Rhett back.
She still believes that she has the charm to get any man she sets designs upon. The book ends with Scarlett's proclamation: "After all, tomorrow is another day!".

- SEQUELS -

Alexandra Ripley wrote the novel Scarlett, in 1991, as the authorized sequel to Mitchell's novel.
A second sequel has been released this month. The story covers the same time period as Gone with the Wind and is told from Rhett Butler's perspective. Written by Donald McCaig, this novel is titled Rhett Butler's People.

Tim Burton's New Projects

2007-11-24T13:10:00.000+01:00

Director Tim Burton has signed with the Walt Disney Company to helm two 3-D movies: a big-screen version of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel Alice in Wonderland and a remake of his 1984 short film Frankenweenie.

I want to remind you that Burton was awarded a Disney animation scholarship at the California Institute of the Arts after he finished high school. Burton also directed several short films for Disney, including the stop-motion Vincent and Frankenweenie for the studio. He last worked with Disney on 1994's Ed Wood.

Burton’s rendition of “Alice” will combine live-action with state-of-the-art performance capture and be released in Disney digital 3-D.

The project will be produced by former Disney and Revolution Studios chairman Joe Roth with Jennifer and Suzanne Todd and Richard Zanuck. Burton and Zanuck have a long history of working together as producer and filmmaker: Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the upcoming Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Burton’s most recent project is, as I just said, Sweeney Todd, an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical of the same name by Stephen Sondheim. The film stars longtime collaborators Johnny Depp as the murderous barber, Helena Bonham Carter as his accomplice Mrs. Lovett, and Alan Rickman.

Depp and Bonham Carter did their own singing in the movie, scheduled for a December 21 release.
(Thanks to The Hollywood Reporter)

Jaktens Tid

2007-10-16T14:05:00.000+02:00

"The Time of the Hunt" is what this title means. Time of hunting, of killing, of blood....This is all what the members of Finntroll want to bring to our minds with this album. Is not a new one, but definitely the album itself is considered by many fans as their best, featuring a mix of folk and Viking metal aspects, such as traditional joik singing. I don't really know why, but it's quite addictive.

They combine elements of extreme metal with Finnish polka, called humppa. Finntroll's lyrics are in Swedish, one of Finland's two national languages, because "Swedish just sounds damn trollish", according to the band's first vocalist, Katla (whose native language is Swedish). Finntroll means "Troll from Finland" or "a spotty troll" since the word for spot (acne) and a finnish person are the same in Swedish.

Finntroll was founded in 1997, by Teemu "Somnium" Raimoranta, guitarist of Impaled Nazarene, and Jan "Katla" Jämsen. Their first demo, Rivfader, was recorded about a year later, in 1998. After the demo recording, the other members of the band, Samu Ruotsalainen (from Barathrum, Shape of Despair and Rapture), Samuli Ponsimaa, Henri Sorvali (from Moonsorrow) and Sami Uusitalo joined the band.

The next step for Finntroll was this album,Jaktens Tid, which was released in 2001. This album managed to climb to rank 20 of the Finnish album charts, exceeding expectation of band and publisher alike. The following wave of popularity attracted the attention of Century Media, which began promoting Finntroll for the rest of the world. The following summer, the band had their first time playing on open air festivals in Finland and other countries.

The year after the release of the album Jaktens Tid proved to be a misfortune for Finntroll: some tours had to be cancelled, and in the aftermath of his problems, vocalist Jämsen had to retire from the band due to a viral-based tumor in his vocal cords which could not be removed surgically; he retired after the release of the album Visor om Slutet (English: Songs about the End).

Shortly before the release of Visor om Slutet, Raimoranta died by falling off a bridge in Helsinki after having consumed too much alcohol, according to the official story.

Finntroll didn't dissolve after losing one of their founding members, but decided to go on, touring for two weeks in Europe, supported by the group Katatonia. The guitarist Mikael Karlbom was hired as a replacement for Raimoranta.

In 2004, the band released an EP, Trollhammaren (English: The Troll Hammer), and an album called Nattfödd (English: Nightborn). Trollhammaren is one of the most asked songs by fans in concerts, hence one of the most populars.

On January 29th, 2006, Tapio Wilska, vocalist of the band since 2003, was fired from the band.

A new album, titled Ur Jordens Djup (English: From the Depths of the Earth), was released March, 2007. This fifth album put more emphasis on epic keyboard riffs with very loud but melodic guitar. The album is the first to feature vocalist Mathias Lillmåns. This and other factors appear to contribute to a darker, more trollish black metal feel.
You're welcome to talk about your favourite Finntroll album's, or some other kids of music if you prefer!

I'm still alive!

2007-10-16T00:52:00.000+02:00

It's strange to be back...it's been quite a long time without writing here and I've felt like if my "little child" was abandoned. Summer has passed without many incidents and I hope I'll be able to keep this blog alive for long :) just to give some clues, next post will be about WHY is this blog titled the way it is? so stay tuned ;)

Back to reality

2007-07-04T15:17:00.000+02:00

Even if not 100%, I'm already back from Tuska. It's been one of the best holidays in my life, and maybe also the shortest :P After 5 days of travelling to and back from Finland and around Helsinki in those 3 days, when we had time to see lots of people, costumes, and great music. Ouch, I'm still trying to land back in reality. We didn't have the chance to see all the concerts we wanted to (really sad to have missed most of Mercenary , Naildown , or Fintroll's concerts, but also extremely happy for having enjoyed the ones I could see. This year's artist list has been superb and they all were awesome with the public. I feel like I have to mention and thank (even if they're not likely to red this)the Dragonforce members for being so kind with us and for taking pictures with all of us... and also to Hansi Kürsch, Blind Guardian singer, for being always so nice!!! See you in Tuska 2008!!(Pictures to come). Keep tuned!!!

Countdown has started!!!

2007-06-15T12:02:00.000+02:00

Pain...That's the translation for the Finnish word "Tuska" in English...and its also the name for one of the best metal festivals in the Nordic countries.
The Tuska Open Air Metal Festival in of Helsinki, Finland, has been celebrated since 1998 and it has grown larger and better organized every year. In 2006, the festival was almost sold out.....For this year, the amount of artist and the level are also interesting, his year's edition will be extremely interesting, featuring bands like Blind Guardian, Children of Bodom, D'espairsRay, DragonForce, Emperor, Finntroll, Katatonia, Mercenary, Moonsorrow, or W.A.S.P.
The concerts schedule has already been announced and it promises us 3 days of great music and non stopping concerts....Keep tuned!

Suiciding Bunnies

2007-06-08T12:56:00.000+02:00

A friend of mine just sent me an email with drawings of bunnies trying to commit suicide.
Personally, I thought it was hilarious, even if some workmates called me crazy :P Each cartoon shows one or more white rabbits in their creative attempts to end their lives using a variety of items. Revolving doors, a toaster, a cricket ball, a boomerang, a hand-grenade, the shining sun, a magnifying glass, lots of smoking cigarettes and bowling balls are all featured as suicidal tools. Those cartoons are taken from a book, The Book of Bunny Suicides: Little Fluffy Rabbits Who Just Don't Want To Live Any More (2003) is a collection of mostly one-image black comedy cartoons drawn by author Andy Riley.

There are many cultural references, like for example a drawing in which some bunnies commit suicide using Darth Vader's sword. Here you can see some of them, but there are more waiting for you!Keep tuned!^^

Opening!!

2007-06-06T15:13:00.000+02:00

The spanish translation of this blog has just been born...I'm proud to announce that from now on I'll try to keep both of you (english and spanish readers) happy and interested in the stuff I have to tell you. So keep tuned and remember to leave your mark (as a comment) in the Virtual Valley.

Meet the cute little dead girl

2007-06-04T14:52:00.000+02:00

Who said comics are only for children? A couple years ago, looking at ebay for some new Tshirts I found a really cool one based on the drawings made by Roman Dirge. It made me curious and I started looking for information about that guy (R. Dirge) and his work. That's the way I met Lenore. The comic tells of the adventures of this girl, Lenore, and her variety of friends. As Roman tells us in the first issues, Lenore died from pneumonia the first time, and was embalmed and buried, but she came back for some reason...

The primary focus of the comic is dark humor, with many of the stories having amusing twist endings. Dirge reinvents children's songs, games, and nursery rhymes to something more macabre. While Lenore's actions often result in the death or injury to those around her, and in various forms of chaos, she is not a malicious character, and often thinks she is doing good.
It's surprising how such a talented comic maker hasn't been translated to other languages yet (at least, I don't think it's possible to find the Lenore Comics in Spanish), but anyway his work is well known in many countries.

So far there are 3 compilations from Dirge's Work: Noogies, Wedgies and Cooties. So if you're looking for a new friend, Lenore is your girl!Keep tuned ;)

Can't get you out of my head...

2007-06-02T13:06:00.000+02:00

Grrrrr....I know, its not a good way of starting a post, but I started being pissed off at the idea of being singing the same sonn for the last 24 hours. It usually doen's stay that long, but this time it really seems sticked to my brains. The song is Mika's "Grace Kelly".
Pretty popular isn't it?Well, I first heard it on radio last thursday, while waiting for the dentist to let me in the room and finish my agony the soonest possible....it kinda got sticked in my head but I forgot it when I entered the "torture chamber" (apologies for you dentists, but I'm scared of you!)...afterwards, when I arrived home, I listened to it online and decided to get the song. Thet's it, now I'm doomed to sing it from now to eternity!!

the song is actually really nice, I like it, but I don't like the fact that, being totally addicted as I am, i don't listen to anything else!! Please recommend me some other song to sing!!All suggestions are welcome! And keep tuned ;)

Ender's Game

2007-05-31T10:02:00.000+02:00

Let’s talk about books. Everybody has a favorite book, or at least, one that would read once and once again. I’ve always loved to read, and one of my favorite books since I first read it is “Ender’s game”, by Orson Scott Card. Do you know it? It’s set in a future where mankind has barely survived two invasions by the "buggers", an insectoid alien race, the world's most talented children, including the extraordinary Ender Wiggin, are taken into "Battle School" at a very young age to supply commanders for the expected Third Invasion. If you want to know more about it, read the text in italics, if not, skip it!!!

**SPOILER**

Andrew Wiggin (Ender) is a brilliant six-year-old boy, born as a third child into a United States that only permits families of two children each, thus his very existence required permission from the government. Ender is the youngest in a family of 5, both his older brother and sister (Peter and Valentine) are very intelligent, but Peter is evidently cruel and sadistic, while Valentine's temperament is nurturing and sweet. He has been closely watched for years through a monitor on the back of his neck. As a Third, and as an exceptionally smart student, he invites scorn from the children surrounding him. At the end of the first school day after the removal of his monitor, the bullies of the school begin teasing and mildly attacking him for it. In response and to defend himself, Ender beats the ringleader, Stilson, until he could no longer get up, to end not just that fight, but all future fights with the bully and his gang.
The next morning, members of the International Fleet, or IF, arrive at Ender's home to offer him a place at the Battle School, a space station where children are trained for military command. Colonel Hyrum Graff, the leader of the Battle School, believes that Ender is the last hope for the survival of mankind against the alien Buggers. He reluctantly accepts.
Life at the Battle School isn’t easy for Ender. His caretaker, Colonel Graff, isolates him from the others, which forces him to face his problems alone and to become stronger from it, rather than relying on others for his strength. It also makes him work hard to make friends and stay ahead of his enemies.
Due to his extremely high aptitude for tactics and leadership and to the teachers' deadline to ready him for the coming war, Ender is advanced through his training much faster than the other students, and becoming the best of all of them.
Ender is promoted to command of his own army, years earlier than usual, setting him up for resentment from his peers and pushing his abilities to the limit (intentionally). Despite having only 3 weeks to train instead of the standard 3 months before their first battle, his army completely annihilates their first opponent with almost no casualties. After that, he never loses a battle, despite engagements that are (deliberately) weighted against them.
After some time, he is allowed to go home on a short leave. Not wanting to see his family, he is kept isolated from everyone at a small lake in the woods. The IF, worried that he is no longer motivated to continue his studies, employs his sister Valentine to motivate him.
After these three months, Ender returns and is promoted to Command School, almost six years early, to learn to combat the Buggers in space instead of being restricted to the more abstract training games. He is taught by Mazer Rackham, the genius behind the previous human success against the buggers. He will be augmented by a cadre of his best friends (and the best commanders) from Battle School; Ender assigns them to individual flights or squadrons of ships while he remains in overall charge.
Ender and his "dream team" begin to fight ever-more-challenging battles, in which his team must frequently fight with outmoded hardware, and the enemy frequently outnumbers them and quickly learns to adapt to Ender's tactics—even the ones that won yesterday's battle. Fatigued in mind and body, his team slowly succumbing to exhaustion, Ender begins to lose hope.
In Ender's final exam before graduating from Command School, he and his team find themselves in possession of a small fleet, approaching a planet that is literally swarming with Bugger ships, outnumbering his own force a thousand to one. Ender duplicates his final battle at Battle School and destroys the planet around which the Bugger fleet is orbiting (taking the surrounding fleet with it), demonstrating that he is far too ruthless to be trusted with command of an actual battle fleet.
When the simulation ends, Rackham and Graff tell Ender that he has not been playing a game, and had never played against Rackham, but instead has been commanding real ships across interstellar distances; this task was made possible via the ansible, a form of instantaneous communication making use of Philotic Energy. He has just commanded the fleet attacking the Buggers' home planet, and destroyed the entire race once and for all.
When Ender learns that he has been playing a game with real peoples' lives, he lapses into four days of exhausted depression, completely void of reality, dozing in and out. Feeling the full weight of the deaths he has caused, made heavier by his apparent love and respect of the Buggers, developed over his interaction with them, he refuses to respond to anyone for a time, until conflict breaks out at the command center. Immediately after the end of the Bugger War, war breaks out on Earth in a dispute about who gains control of Ender. The impact is clear: Ender cannot return to Earth because he would simply be used as a tool of the dominant government on Earth, eventually led by Ender's older brother, Peter Wiggin. Fearing for Ender, his sister blackmails Peter into leaving Ender in peace, allowing him to be sent out on one of the first colonization ships as the governor of the new colony on a former bugger planet.

**END OF THE SPOILER**

Orson Scott Card wrote it in 1985. The novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead were both awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, making Card the only author (as of 2007) winner of both of science fiction's top prizes in consecutive years. Card continued the series with Xenocide, Children of the Mind, but they’re nothing comparable to Ender’s Game. Many generations have enjoyed the novel, and if you haven’t read it yet, try to find some free time to do it, because its really worth it! keep tuned!

Yo-ho, a pirate's life for me!

2007-05-29T18:31:00.000+02:00

Maybe you've recognized the title of today's post (part of the lyrics of the song the pirates sing), and if not, you only need to take a look at the first image here to realize what I'm going to talk about. Yes, that's right, The movie "Pirates of the Caribbean". I watched "At the World's End" last saturday and I have to say that it was great!I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't watched it yet (what are you waiting for?), so I'll just tell you some parts of the plot (nothing you don't know so far).
First of all, for those who don't know, "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" is the third in the Pirates of the Caribbean films following The Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man's Chest.
In previous movies, they tell us how Lord Cutler Beckett executes anyone associated with piracy and commands Davy Jones to destroy all pirate ships. To confront Beckett’s assault, the nine pirate lords making up the Brethren Court have been summoned to convene on Shipwreck Island. However, the missing Jack Sparrow, pirate lord of the Caribbean, never appointed his successor, and therefore must be present. Captain Barbossa leads Will, Elizabeth, Tia Dalma and the Black Pearl crew to rescue Jack.
Jack, stranded in the Locker for some time, begins hallucinating. The Pearl is soon dragged to an ocean shore by crab-like creatures, and Jack is reunited with his old shipmates, although he is initially reluctant to rejoin a crew that have attempted to kill or mutinied against him.
The Black Pearl remains trapped in the Locker until Sparrow deciphers the chart, realizing the ship must be capsized to return to the living world... But will they be able to do it??
The special FX are a plus in the movie, as they are, as always, superb. The pirates are also awesome (especially Jack Sparrow and Barbossa). It was a nice surprise to find Chow Yun-Fat in the cast, who was brilliant as always!
So, just to finish, if you like pirate movies, and you liked the previous ones, you really need to watch "Pirates of the Caribbean: At the World's End" as soon as possible!! and Keep tuned!!

Happy Birthday Mr. Lee!!!

2007-05-27T22:38:00.000+02:00

85 years ago a great movie star was born, I'm talking of the superb Christopher Lee of course!
This British actor was born in 1922 in London. After attending Wellington College from age 14 to 17, Lee worked as an office clerk in a couple of London shipping companies until 1941 when he enlisted in the RAF during World War II. Following his release from military service, Lee joined the Rank Organisation in 1947, training as an actor in their "Charm School" and playing a number of bit parts in such films as Corridor of Mirrors (1948).

Lee had numerous parts in film and television throughout the 1950s but didn't achieve stardom until his association with Hammer Film Productions, which started with The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958), The Mummy (1959), and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), all co-starring Peter Cushing. Lee continued his role as "Dracula" in a number of Hammer sequels throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s. During this time, he also made numerous appearances as Fu Manchu. With his own production company, Charlemagne Productions, Ltd., Lee made Nothing But the Night (1972) and To the Devil a Daughter (1976). By the mid-1970s, Lee was tiring of his horror image and tried to widen his appeal by participating in several mainstream films, such as The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), and the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).

The success of these films prompted him in the late 1970s to move to Hollywood, where he remained a busy actor but made mostly unremarkable film and television appearances, and eventually moved back to England. Lee's career was revitalized in the early 2000s by his appearances in two blockbuster film franchises: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (as Saruman the White) and Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) (as Count Dooku). In 2001, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his contributions to the film and television industries.

Well, let's thank the IMDB for this biography *blushes*. Mr Lee has always been one of my favourite actors, I was a fan since I first saw one of his Dracula movies (black and white yeah!). It's amazing to see how such a brilliant actor has made so many different movies that I really like (Lord of the Rings or any Fu-Manchu movie), and he's even become better in acting with age!but thats only a personal oppinion I guess.

Something that Mr.Lee and I have in common (that i know of!) is the birthday...so here I am, a year older, and trying to see if i got any wrinkle last night.
I'd like to thank all the people that has wished me a happy birthday, for doing so, and I would also like to repeat, as I did in the headline: Happy Birthday Mr. Christopher Lee!!

keep tuned!

Me, myself and Nausicaä

2007-05-25T19:39:00.000+02:00

This is the first post in this blog "Nausicaä of the Virtual Valley", and this is Nausicaä talking to you!!!First of all, let me welcome you to the Virtual Valley, a small place in this huge virtual world, in which ill share some of my thoughts with you. So please, come in, take a seat, and make yourself at home.
I hope you're comfortable enough as for to leave your comments and share it with the rest of us, inhabitants of the Virtual Valley, so this experience becomes the most interesting possible for both of us.
I guess I should start by telling you about myself. As you've probably noticed, English is not my mother tongue, so be patient and help me correct my mistakes ^^.
I was born (almost) 25 years ago, and since I was a kid I've always dreamt of exotic places, full of new cultures, new beaches, mountains and lakes...First books helped me develop those thoughts, but now it's Internet the one that gives me the chance to really explore those new and unknown cultures, not only by visiting the websites but also meeting lots of amazing people that I'd have never known if it wasn't for this great invention. It's been a while since I graduated from University (Mass media and communication). When I got my first job, I had to write a lot, mainly news and that kind of stuff, but I never did it for the pleasure of writting, although I had often thought about it. I decided it was about time to start doing it, and here I am!a Newbie in this Blog thing, but still full of excitement.
Some of you have already asked me what I am going to write about, and honestly, I have no clue! This is only my first post here, but it wont be the last! So keep tuned, and don't be shy, because the show is only starting!