Lucky me, living in such an astonishing region of Slovácko! /Southern Moravia in the Czech Republic/ After two years of ’surviving’ in various parts of the world including Provence, Andalucía and Brno, it feels so good to be back home again, in the very house that I was raised in. During the past two years I was trying to avoid spending much time here, everything at home seemed too dull and boring. How was I mistaken! The stability of our house (both, technical and emotional) offers the sought-after peace of mind.

My stay at home brings me back to the GUH state of mind I have been missing for such a long time. I read newspapers, I watch movies, I collect plums, I am able to listen to music again! To “my old favourite” Alanis, Tori and Radiohead… what a surprise, what a relief! I thought I would never be able to feel that concerned. Anew I think about the world trying to differentiate between right and wrong, truth and lies. I guess the older I get the less sure I am about any opinion. Mais cela n’importe pas, it is not a sign of becoming any simpler, at least I hope so.

Anyway, there is Summer school of films /festival/ going on in the town of Uherské Hradiště. It lasts for ten days. Its visitors get a chance to watch well-known commercial films by famous directors as well as plenty of alternative minimalistic films or some rare ones that have made the history. I’m very glad that I could have taken part in the festival on Saturday, I have to admit that at first the lazy me hadn’t been very enthousiastic about attending the film screenings. However my friends from Brno had been supposed to come so I decided to spend the day with them at the festival and thank them I did. I have seen two Švankmajer’s screenings, one of them being the film Lunacy which was quite yeah, exactly, lunatic. Meat everywhere, pork above all. Quite intense adventure. His short movies were no less powerful. The one that speeded up my breath was Švankmajer’s adaptation of E. A. Poe’s short story The Pit and the Pendulum. I have read the story, scary it was. However the movie gave you the feeling of being in the prisoner’s skin as it is shot from his view. Actually I guess the story is written in the ich-form too. Besides these, I have also seen two  Czech films from the Czech new wave [Svatba s podmínkou/Wedding with a Condition and Zářijové noci/September Nights], swell. In my schedule I included one Palestina-themed film too, Tale of Three Jewels. Yeah baby, people die over there. And yeah sugar, the innocent ones too, no exception for children, my dear. “Why’s it so hard to love one another?” I ask together with Madonna. I was 20 on my last birthday, I am supposed to figure out the reasons. Stil I fail.

I should study more, I should make this world a better place for living, loving and laughing. See you later I feel like preparing for my Economics State Exam, the plump green book open on page 196, natural monopoly is the topic…