Perfectionnement culturel

lundi 4 février 2008

Publié par red.impala // à lundi, février 04, 2008 //

Perfectionnement culturel

When they discovered how many films I hadn't seen Gigi & Moni decided to handle my lack of culture.

First of all we started with "The sound of music" (1965). It's an old musical from Robert Wise. The story is about a woman that leaves an austrian convent to become a governess to a Naval officer widower with 7 children just before WWII.

Then we watched "Memoirs of a Geisha". I had read the book and I found that the film didn't illustrate very well the personalities of the different women of the house.

Third movie we saw was "Miss Congeniality" (directed by Donald Petrie with Sandra Bullock). Ok, it's real girls film (so don't watch it with your boyfriend, brother... if you want to avoid sarcasm) but very funny! A good caricature of these too pretty women... My favorite scene is the first "You think... I'm gorgeous..." dialogue.

You don't need to wait for the telegram...

Ce matin-là, le monde commençait pour nous à s’émouvoir. L’opérateur de T. S. F. nous remit enfin un télégramme : deux pylônes, plantés dans le sable, nous reliaient une fois par semaine à ce monde: Courrier France-Amérique parti de Toulouse 5 h 45 stop. Passé Alicante 11 h 10. (...) En dix minutes, la nouvelle nous parvenait par Barcelone, par Casablanca, par Agadir, puis se propageait vers Dakar. Sur cinq mille kilomètres de ligne, les aéroports étaient alertés. (...) Un moteur grondait quelque part. De Toulouse jusqu’au Sénégal on cherchait à l’entendre.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Courrier Sud.

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Inspiration (2): Impalas

An impala is a medium-sized African antelope. The name impala comes from the Zulu language meaning "gazelle".

Impala range between 73 and 92 cm (29 and 36 in) tall. Average mass for a male impala is 46 to 76 kg (100 to 170 lb), while females weigh about 35 to 50 kg (77 to 110 lb). They are normally reddish-brown in color (hence the Afrikaans name of "Rooibok"), have lighter flanks and white underbellies with a characteristic "M" marking on the rear. Impalas are an ecotone species living in light woodland with little undergrowth and grassland of low to medium height. They have an irregular distribution due to dependence on free water, soils with good drainage with firm footing and moderate or less slope. While they are usually close to water in the dry season, they can go weeks without drinking when they have access to green vegetation.

Impalas are adaptable foragers. They usually switch between grazing and browsing depending on the season. During wet seasons when grasses are green and growing they graze. During dry seasons it browses foliage, shoots, forbs and seeds. It can also adapt to different habitats by being a grazer in one habitat a browser in another. Leopards, cheetahs, lions and wild dogs prey on impala.

see also: http://impala-nomade.blogspot.com/2007/08/trs-prcisement.html

Impala Nomade

lundi 4 février 2008