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“Perfect Days” and the greatness of grand scales
“Perfect Days” and the greatness of grand scales
March 4, 2024
What materials make up a life? What role do maturity, experiences, memories, and stimuli play in building a world in which one will spend the...
Leila’s brothers and a victimized generation
Leila’s brothers and a victimized generation
February 12, 2024
Saeed Roustayi's film, for better or worse, is a reflection of its time. More specifically, not only of its time but of an entire generation...
Jules et Jim: the psychological realism in the tragic narrative of Truffaut
Jules et Jim: the psychological realism in the tragic narrative of Truffaut
February 11, 2024
In the early 1960s, François Truffaut had already declared war on the traditionalism of French cinema, with the declaration that officially opened the doors of...
A historical and materialist Triangle of Sadness
A historical and materialist Triangle of Sadness
April 11, 2023
The Palme d’Or of 2022 was the magnifying glass that History needs, in order for someone to focus on a very small scale, on micro-societies,...
Aphrodite’s Child – 6 6 6: When Greeks Made Great Music.
Aphrodite’s Child – 6 6 6: When Greeks Made Great Music.
June 19, 2020
Greece produces more culture than it can consume. Perhaps that’s why it often prefers to consume more accessible products, those made by small people for...
The narration of Theo Angelopoulos’ “Borders”
The narration of Theo Angelopoulos’ “Borders”
April 22, 2020
I decided to share a conversation in a few pages, the kind of conversation I would have leaving a cinema, conversations that are missing, along...
Never too old for what it never dies
Never too old for what it never dies
January 17, 2020
Jethro Tull is one of the groups that shaped the unique and gone musical style of progressive rock. Prog had a uniqueness of variety in...
Designing the 20th Century: Art Deco and Bauhaus
Designing the 20th Century: Art Deco and Bauhaus
April 21, 2019
Industrial development, the liberation that followed the catastrophic First World War, and the transition from the politically aged societies that produced it to the political...
Luciano Pavarotti: Vox Angelica
Luciano Pavarotti: Vox Angelica
October 12, 2018
On September 6, 2007, the most angelic voice humanity has ever known fell silent forever. Luciano Pavarotti, struck by an incurable illness, left the earthly...
Time for Space
Time for Space
March 21, 2018
I was given a ship in the middle of the ocean I didn’t know where we’re coming from I often ask my companions I’m listening...

¡AD10S!
¡AD10S!
November 26, 2020
Today, when Your life among us has come to an end, I feel the need to write about my own life. How many people, I...
A legendary rugby match – 30 years later
A legendary rugby match – 30 years later
May 27, 2020
It has been 30 years since a day that belongs to the anthology of rugby, particularly remembered in France, but is also among the fundamental...
The vindication of history
The vindication of history
April 24, 2019
There are significant events that happen from time to time and provoke exaggeration in their commentary, called unparalleled, incomparable, and other similar adjectives. However, beyond...

Posts tagged as “Liverpool”

Liverpool was made for me, and I was made for Liverpool

Liverpool was made for me, and I was made for Liverpool

By Aegletes Coelispex on June 7, 2019

It’s time to tell a story—a retrospective that has been circling in my head constantly these last few days. Essentially, it is my answer to…

The time has come: prepare for InSight landing!
The time has come: prepare for InSight landing!
November 22, 2018
After a long journey of about 7 months, which began at the Vanderberg Air Force base, California, on May 5, InSight is expected to finally...
A voyage to Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos”
A voyage to Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos”
April 18, 2018
In 1980, the most iconic writer in scientific communication and a brilliant scientist, Carl Sagan, while being a professor at Cornell University, decided to have...
April 12, 1961: A day to follow
April 12, 1961: A day to follow
April 12, 2018
In my opinion, there are two important days in the history of humankind. I don’t know the date for the first earlier one, but I’m...

When capitalists try to “reclaim history” …it gets really funny!
When capitalists try to “reclaim history” …it gets really funny!
May 19, 2019
There are many reasons to claim that American History, or better said, the History of the USA, is one of the most interesting subjects to...
The day when a hero was murdered and the most brilliant star shone
The day when a hero was murdered and the most brilliant star shone
October 9, 2018
It was October 9, 1967, when the Elysian Fields of revolution welcomed one of the most brilliant symbols, on the top among all those who...
100 years ever since the first bridges were built to let the future pass along
100 years ever since the first bridges were built to let the future pass along
November 7, 2017
There were two great steps of the mankind, so far, in the history we know for our species and our ancestors. The first, which marked...

Social Media: mirror or distorted lens of society?
Social Media: mirror or distorted lens of society?
September 10, 2020
The calendar reads 2020. A major pandemic has touched the entire planet, changing the living and working conditions of billions of people. The "dream" of...
The not-funny and totally outrageous video of the Nobel prize winner, Gérard Mourou
The not-funny and totally outrageous video of the Nobel prize winner, Gérard Mourou
October 6, 2018
Earlier this week, the Swedish Academy, announced the physics Nobel Prize laureates for 2018. Among others, French physicist Gérard Mourou, of the École Polytechnique and...

Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast
September 6, 2020
In 1964, Ernest Hemingway published a collection of his writings about his life in Paris during the 1920s. At that time, the future famous author...
“The Grapes of Wrath” are still being written
“The Grapes of Wrath” are still being written
March 9, 2020
Usually, when I decide to write a book review on this blog, the project involves a book that I want to share with a wider...
Cosmos 2: Attempting the impossible
Cosmos 2: Attempting the impossible
March 9, 2020
40 years after the writing of one of the most beautiful books of all time, the legendary Cosmos by Carl Sagan, the endeavor to write...
Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan
April 3, 2019
Carl Sagan was a brilliant scientist, contributor to great endeavors of humanity in our voyage to what we call the outer space, the exotic worlds...
The Penguin History of the World, by J.M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad
The Penguin History of the World, by J.M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad
October 9, 2018
I’m a passionate of history and more precisely of global history, the ensemble of the evolution of humanity on our planet, from its first steps...