8 1/2

YOU! Come down…Yes, definitely down! Suspend all treatment for two days. These senseless episodes lack a total sense of poetic imagination. You look a little pale, do you want a sandwich? Make it darker and then come in…no…more like a whore. We’ve talked so little amongst ourselves and I have so many questions to ask you. I’d have liked it differently. You always need a little dignity, it’s what we’re used to. I need to talk to you in private. This orgy of brutal realism…this mad mad world…I can’t. I’m so anxious to understand the woman I’m playing. Come along! Let us welcome in the spring time together. Can you create something meaningful and true on demand? Great! Private thoughts are sacred, I understand, I just dont know how to say it…

ASA NISI MASA

You can’t fool me. You’re NOT asleep. I can tell if you’re faking. Don’t sleep. This is the night that the picture moves its eyes!

ASA NISI MASA

Why are you looking at me like that? Your compliments sound like insults…why must you torture me? I’m just as fierce in life as I am in love…that’s why I’m alone. That German girl you wanted is in Paris with the circus. Keep it a secret but watch out. You’re not the man you used to be.

A lack on inspiration? Uninspired? What am I looking for? You’ve grown up surrounded by classical art and beauty. You’re right to laugh. Make it darker. Change the color. Do it softer…I’ve come here to never leave again. You leave me alone all the time. You mix sex and spiritual love too easy and in the process you’ve corrupted my soul. Listen…Doesn’t it sound like sobbing?

RUN RUN RUN TO SARAGHAINA

Shame on you. It’s a mortal sin. I can’t believe it. What a shame…what a pain. It’s just another episode of your childhood memories. You want to show the confusion that man has within himself…just be sure that what interests you interests everyone. What is it? Attention please! Why should we be happy? We were not put on this earth to be happy. It is not our task…”There is no salvation outside our church”.

BLUE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

What a DARLING you are. Does being alone agree with you? You’d have to be crazy to listen to the director. In MY picture EVERYTHING happens. I’m putting it all in. I really had nothing to say but I wanted to say it just the same. The spirit always says the same thing. I says that you are FREE. Why did you want me to come here tonight? She’s definitely an ARIES. A perfect match for a weak passive man with no clear ideas of his own. One who talks exactly as if he were telling the truth. Instead just be honest and dance with me. I thought this would be amusing to you, an amusing situation…telling the truth without hurting anyone…It’s nice living all together like this. At first I didn’t understand.

YOU LIE LIKE YOU BREATHE.

Could you choose one thing and remain faithful to it? I want to posses everything, devour everything. You could be my salvation but I won’t know it because I don’t know how to love. I’ve never filmed a love story. What an incurable romantic. WHY are you RUNNING! Why add mess to the clutter? It’s better to destroy than to create what’s unessential. Why piece together these memories of people I never knew how to love? Accept me as I am if you can…and the memories will go on, and on, and on…everybody hold hands! Now that verything is right, goodnight!

Juliet of the Spirits

Candles? I liked the blonde better. I’m sick of this dress! THROW IT OUT. Just light the candles and hang that charm against spirits here. Do you have any paprika? Have you found your conquering angel?? You’re so mysterious not even my cards can read you. Come feel Juliet’s vibes, she looks like a DOLL tonight. Don’t you see? It has to be this way, and lying is so much more heroic. Spirit, do you with to be known? You don’t mean a thing to anyone…hold it…don’t break the chain…it’s a shame when adults play such games. Beautiful day isn’t it? I’d like to FLY into the arms of my beauty!

FOR EVERYBODY. LOVE IS FOR EVERYBODY.

Set the table right away, while it’s still bright…while we still have daylight. Beaches and bonnets…it’s an Italian sonnet (in technicolor). I could close my eyes and see balls in beautiful colors…I was afraid. Still, it was beautiful. It went on for years and then nothing. I just had to close my eyes and…Nothing’s better for tooth aches than making, NEVERMIND. What a vision! You may not be acquainted but I’d like to be. Our dear Juliet sees magic EVERYWHERE, it’s in the air. Please help me because it concerns you, or isn’t it true? I didn’t day a thing. What’s the matter you ask? Just look at you.

FROM NOW ON TALK TO ME THIS WAY.

Never mind. Ladies and gentlemen goodnight. What did you say, Darling? Ciao little star. You misunderstood…no one should be too proud. My heart aches because it is all to beautiful…I’m useless but this clairvoyant can change your life. Miss it and you’ll regret it! Things WILL become things again. To be happy you must behave as if in combat. Love is a religion, Juliet and you are the priestess of the cult.

IT IS AS IF EVERYTHING HAS BEEN LOST SINCE LAST NIGHT.

Answer honestly, am I beautiful? If I’m in a bad mood I look in the mirror. SwiNG SwING become beautiful like ME. We shouldn’t appeal to our inner forces without proper preparation. It could be dangerous but something new and beautiful will come tonight. Me? One of the devils’ own? Flowers are grateful when loved…only calculated spontaneity will defeat the monster. Goodnight little monster! When I was a child I imagined God hiding behind a door, always closed. I don’t care about the clemency you offer me but for the salvation of my soul.

EVERYTHING PASSES.

Fetishism? Eat, Dance, Pray, Fight. I love fighting. The more you wonder the more you loose your way. The only way to truly love is to know each other. Perception and reality are two different things so see this with some detachment…an hour spent with me might kill you. I find games utterly boring like always asking for water when you want something pure. The truth will always set you free, you hear me? It’s a mistake to be too involved in all your problems. All is peaceful, all is quiet, but you’re not…why? In truth, your only fear is to be happy again. Here everything is silent and gray.

I CAN’T COME DOWN I CAN’T LAND. IT’S YOUR FAULT. IT’S UP TO YOU…I’M JUST ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR INVENTIONS. YOU DON’T NEED ME BUT IF YOU WANT TO USE ME I CAN STAY.