„A song that no one sings”

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Do you know what the word „vermillion” means? It is a word I a first heard about nine years ago, in a song „Vermillion Pt.2.0”, by Slipknot, but I was never interested in finding out what it means. Until this morning, when I asked The Big Red Head Fox ( Ana) to tell me the definition.

Vermillion is an alternative writing for the word vermilion.

vermilion= a brilliant red pigment made from cinnabar (mercury sulphide)(Oxford Dictionary)

origin. It comes from the Old French word „vermellion”, which was derived from „vermeil”from the Latin word „vermilculus”,the diminutive form of the word „vermis” (worm).The name originated from this word  because the color is similar to the natural dye made by an insect, Kermes vermilio. read more

Un cântec pe care nimeni nu îl cântă

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Știi ce înseamnă cuvântul „vermillion”? Este un cuvânt pe care l-am auzit prima dată acum aproximativ nouă ani, într-o piesă „Vermillion Pt.2.0” de la Slipknot, dar nu am fost niciodată interesată să aflu ce înseamnă. Până în această dimineață, când am rugat-o pe The Big Red Head Fox (Ana) să-mi spună definiția.

Vermillion este o scriere alternativă pentru cuvântul vermilion.

vermilion = un pigment roșu strălucitor obținut din cinabru (sulfură de mercur) (Dicționar Oxford) read more

Dar îmi place când mă învârt în strânsoarea sa

Massive Attack - Heligoland

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Voi începe ideea de „Stuck on Replay” cu o melodie de la Massive Attack, „Paradise Circus”, pe care o puteți asculta mai jos.

Ai fost vreodată atât de obsedat de o melodie, încât nu o poți scoate din minte? În cazul meu, „Paradise Circus” a fost doar o ceașcă de ceai timp de aproximativ 5 ani, când am ascultat-o ​​prima dată la Radio Guerrilla, La Unica Radio con Cojones. Așa că voi fi foarte entuziasmată cu cuvintele mele de laudă. Și, promit, este singura dată când voi face asta. read more

„But I like it when I’am spinning in it’s Grip”

Massive Attack - Heligoland

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I’ll start the „Stuck on Replay” idea with a song by Massive Attack, „Paradise Circus”, that you can hear below.
Have you ever been so obsessed over a song that you can’t literally get it out of your mind? In my case, „Paradise Circus” has been just the cup of tea for around 5 years, when I first listened to it on Radio Guerrilla, La Unica Radio con Cojones. So, I will be very high with my words of praise. And, I promise, it is the only time I will do so.
Do you know how hard it is to peak the right ringtone for your phone? You have a dozen songs you like, and you simply cannot decide which one you like the most. So, you end up choosing all of them and setting them separately for different people. Well, not in my case. This song has been the ringtone for my phone since the moment I heard it, and never changed once. I remember feeling so proud of my choice every time the phone rang, especially when I was in crowded places, where other people were able to hear it too. Some of them would even smile at me.
The song gave me courage to talk to a guy I liked back in college. It was a brief conversation and we didn’t speak again, but, in any case, someone really, really cool took notice of me.

It is, also, the last song that I heard before loosing my hearing, last year in December and it is the first song that I started to sound like music, when my hearing began to heal.
Ana changed her ringtone to this song, as well, to help me recognize it and understand it better. Every time her phone rings, Pufi The Yorkie gets really excited and jumps all over the place. He believes that my dad is at the end of the line, which he is in most cases.
I get excited because Hope Sandoval’s voice sounds sweeter and sweeter right from the words „It’s unfortunate…”. read more

My Soft Spot for Crocheting – The End of the Saga

My Soft Spot for Crocheting and Yarn Bombing

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This post’s title says that this is the end of the saga, but I really hope that this is not really the end. Today’s post will include things that I omitted or forgot about in the previous posts and a few personal thoughts based on my experience so far.

If you are someone who used to know me back in my teens, you will ironically ask yourselves: „What? Catalina didn’t become some badass  leader, manager, lawyer, journalist, advertising agent, or something like that?” No. I didn’t become anything like that, even if I was that nerdy in school. read more

Despre slăbiciunea mea pentru arta croșetatului, partea a 5-a din 5 (sfătosul sfârșit și plin de tips & tricks)

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Titlul acestei postări spune că acesta este sfârșitul sagăi, dar sper din tot sufletul că acesta nu este chiar sfârșitul. Postarea de astăzi va include lucruri pe care le-am omis sau le-am uitat în postările anterioare și câteva gânduri personale bazate pe experiența mea de până acum.

Dacă ești o persoană care mă cunoștea în adolescență, te vei întreba ironic: „Ce? Cătălina nu a devenit un lider, manager, avocat, jurnalist, agent de publicitate sau ceva de genul acesta?” Nu. Nu am devenit așa ceva, chiar dacă eram ATÂT de tocilară la școală. read more

My Soft Spot for Crocheting – The Sequel

You Tube Views and Subscribers October 2014

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This week I’ve been on listening to music spree. That is why I’ve been dragging the subject about crocheting for so long. But today, this post will be more to the point.

Last time I said I was invited to go to Ireland for the summer, in 2012. While staying there, I couldn’t find a job, because, well, I was basically just a tourist and couldn’t get all the legal documentation (address, bank account, bills, and the like). So, I had to find something else to do.  Seeing that my You Tube channel was growing a bit, I thought of doing different kinds of videos. I am gonna complain about something right now, and I hope I won’t upset anyone, because I have the highest respect for the famous You Tube crocheters (like Crochet Geek, Mike Sellick, BobWillson123). A lot of the crocheting that I know now I’ve learned from them. However, a lot of their tutorials missed a step, or an explanation, or something else that made things harder for me to understand at times. That is when the idea of making crochet tutorials came to my mind… Long and very explanatory tutorials, which would show viewers step by step, stitch by stitch instructions to help them. The kind of tutorials I wanted other people before me to have made when I first started crocheting. read more

Despre slăbiciunea mea pentru arta croșetatului, partea a 4-a din 5 (evoluția canalului Youtube)

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Săptămâna aceasta am fost înnebunită după muzică. De aceea am tot amânat subiectul croșetatului. Dar astăzi, această postare va fi mai la obiect.

Data trecută am spus că am fost invitată să merg în Irlanda pentru vară, în 2012. În timp ce stăteam acolo, nu am putut găsi un loc de muncă pentru că, ei bine, eram practic doar un turist și nu am putut obține toate documentele legale (adresă, cont bancar, facturi și altele asemenea). Așa că a trebuit să găsesc altceva de făcut. Văzând că canalul meu de YouTube creștea puțin, m-am gândit să fac diverse tipuri de videoclipuri. read more