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Ever been overwhelmed by a deep gut feeling of beauty or sadness ? Here you can read parables, stories, poems, quotes and aesthetic experiences .... I have also compiled a list of my favorite movies and pieces of music. Also check out my Food of Love page and my La Dolce Biblioteca page. Also, one of the greatest passions of kremesti.com, Eccé Photo. Check out my Super Single Malts page on the best Single Malt Whiskies
We The Cretans - by Markos The Destroyer
What Happiness Is - from Zorba The Greek
Vir Vivens Laetisimus - Poem by Remulus of Arabia
Remulus of Arabia - Poem by Remulus Elias Cremestis - Inspired by The Pain
Alone - from "The March Toward the Front" - from The Axion Esti by Odysseus Elytis
On War and Poetry - by Odysseus Elytis (Nobel Prize Laureate)
The Life of The Warrior - by Markos The Destroyer Ph.D Theoretical Physics
You Are Alone - A Message of Courage - by Alexander The Russian Mob
Forlorn Hope - Parable by Remulus Elias Cremestis - Inspired by Ekaterina Abguzova
Walt Whitman poems - American Poet
Rumi - A Poet from Afghanistan
Kabir - A Poet from India
Mahmoud Darwish - Palestinian Poet
Beautiful Songs/Pieces: (comments by Rami E. Cremesti)
Mahler's First Symphony, 2nd Movement
Songs by MANOWAR - "Heart of Steel", "Mountains", "Master of The Wind", "Today Is A Good Day to Die", "Spirit Horse of The Cherokee", "Defender", and "Bridge of Death" are songs of Nobility, Honor, and Courage that I listen to in the heaviest moments in my miserable life...
"Brother" by Steve Vai - A most beautiful song about "the blood that's thicker than water"... About Brotherly and Fathery Love...
Isma'a Ya Rida (Listen... Rida) - by Ziad Rahbani. Ziad Rahbani is a genius... He is a sarcastic, Lebanese social refromer and critic, an artist, a musician, and an actor. His songs use plain, simple Lebanese lyrics, but touch upon deep social issues, both Lebanese and outside the border. His style is amazing... At the facade, a combination of sarcasm, caricature, and mockery, which I think, are a mask Ziad puts on. I believe that he is a very deep thinker and a very sensitive artist and human being. His music is one of a kind... He weds middle-eastern music with Western Jazz to create an eclectic music that makes Ziad Rahbani stand in a class of his own. Ziad is part of my national Pride. He makes me proud of being Lebanese. What's ironic is that i never listened to Ziad while growing up in Lebanon. I started to appreacite him when I moved to the USA. Ya Nour 'Inayyah, Aishee Wa7da Balak, Ataba, and many more are most beautiful songs.... Great tunes and beautiful, simple lyrics... Touching upon deep human feelings.
Dead Can Dance: The Host of Seraphim. Beautiful, mystical music from Ireland. Dead Can Dance combines elements of European folk music -- particularly music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- with ambient pop and worldbeat flourishes. Their songs are of lost beauty, regret and sorrow, inspiration and nobility, and of the everlasting human goal of attaining a meaningful existence.
U2 - Mothers of The Disappeared. I dedicate this song to all the mothers in Lebanon and Syria who lost sons or loved ones in the Lebanese Civil War. A most beautiful song, about the deepest of pains... Click here for the Guitar Chords and beautiful lyrics.
"Desert Rose" by Sting and Cha'ab Mamey - Recently, Sting gained my eternal respect and admiration with his new release "Desert Rose"... The intro and Arabic undertones are Moroccan - in case you were wondering.
Marcel Khalifeh - "Oummi" (my mother). For all of you arabs, a very beautiful song. Marcel makes me proud of being Lebanese. I recently discovered a most beautiful song of Marcel Khalifeh. It is called Diaries of A Palestinian Wound (Yawmiyyaat Jorh Falasteeni). A most beautiful, hair-raising eclectic mix of Arabic musical instruments (Ou'd, violin and a sad, crying flute), heavy-metal power chords and drums, and a pain-ridden voice of the lady singer... The words express the pain of the Palestinian People. "My country is not a suitcase..." goes the song... "and I am not a traveller... I am the one in Love... And my land is my Lover"...
Nina Simone: "Wild Is The Wind" (a blues song like no other, with classical undertones), "Willow Weep For Me", "I Don't Want Him" and many others are some of the best old school blues and jazz songs of all time.
Bryan Adams: "To Really Love A Woman". Guys, when you start feeling the things this song talks about toward someone, you know you are beginning to mature... Also, another indication of maturity is when you start to find pregnant women beautiful...
Ozzy Osbourne: "I Just Want You" (Epical, philosophical and romantic song with the haunting vocals of Ozzy and the guitar of amazing Zakk Wykde - from the Ozzmosis album).
Sadé: "Pearls", "Like A Tattoo", "Jezebel", "No Ordinary Love", and many other titles are songs with a depth of meaning and emotion that's hard to find. A unique voice, a unique singer, a unique woman. Sadé is too much...
Emma Shaplin: Spente Le Stelle (Modern Italian Opera)
Khaled: Aicha (Rai: French/Arabic). Beautiful song about the Queen of Sheba, of Arabia. If you want an incentive to start learning French, this song is a good place to start. Beautiful lyrics. Great music. A song about a modern Arab woman.
LeonCavallo: Pagliacci (Italian Opera - The saddest opera ever...). Act 15 is too much...
Smetana: The Moldau (Classical). Hair raising, deeply emotional, romantic music. If I were Chzeck, I'd be proud of my heritage...
Soundtrack: The Talented Mr. Ripley (Jazz) - Jazz is the embodiment of Black tragi-comedy says professor Cornel West.
Nikolaii Rimsky Korsakov: Shehrazad (Classical). The sound of the East at its most sublime, from the musical genius of a Russian composer.
Demis Roussos: Wounded Russian Soldier. He begs his comrades to advance and leave him behind... To fight for Mother Russia... He is intoxicated by visions of victory as a wolf pack closes down slowly on him...
Sabri Brothers: (Pakistani Music with a Sufi mystical experience).
Gypsy Kings: "Mira La Itana Mora" (Andalusian Flamenco), "Trista Pena" are beautiful.
Soundtrack: "Underground" (Yugoslavian Music)
Inva Mulla Tchako: "The Diva Dance" from the Soundtrack of The Fifth Element (Modern Opera)
Everlast: What It's Like and Put Your Lights On (Rock/Blues)
Metallica: S & M (Symphony and Metal). An Eclectic, original blend of Metallica Metal and Classical Symphony. "No Leaf Clover" is too much for me...
My Friend of Misery - Metallica (a tribute to my brother, Markos The Destroyer - BS, MS, PhD, Theoretical Physics.
Aenema, 46&2, Schism by TOOL - Beautiful, Rageful revolutionary music
Cezaria Evora (Portugese singer, a voice sent from Heaven). I learned about her from my friend, Luigi's dad who played her "Best of" CD every night before he went to bed.
Bob Marley - Pirates, No Woman No Cry, Don't Worry About A Thing. He is a LEGEND.
Bulgarian classics such as Da Te Zhaduvam Az, Vurviat Li Dvama, Neka Ima Svetlina by Vasko Krupkata ... worlds class ballads that have not made it into the world charts due to the Communist Iron curtain. Then there are the Cherno Feredje songs which are soooo funny....
Levon Minassian - Duduk - They Have Taken The One I Love - insane music, hair raising....
Shmaa Izrael - The Jewish Call to Prayer as sung by Yitzchok Meir Malek
REEF - Place Your Hands
Zhuravli based on a poem by Russiam Muslim poet Gamzatov, best performed by Hvorostovsky
Favorite Movies/Series: (No Particular Order)
1. Kolya (Foreign - Chzeckoslovakian)
2. Braveheart - Mel Gibson
3. One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest - with Jack Nicholson
4. La Vita e Bella - With Roberto Benini
5. Shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins
6. Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks
7. Underground (Foreign: Yugoslavian - Movie ends with Chilling soundtrack)
8. Good Will Hunting - Mat Daemon
9. Rain Maker - Mat Daemon
10. Analyze This - Robert DeNiro (V.V. Funny)
11. Flawless - With Robert DeNiro (V. Funny and a powerful drama about Life)
12. Legends of The Fall - w/ Brad Pit
13. Meet Joe Black - w/ Brad Pit
14. Deuce Bigalo - American Jigalo (V.V. Funny)
15. Belle Epoque (Spanish - V. Sweet Comedy)
16. La Dolce Vita - Directed by Franco Zeferelli
17. LEON (known in the US as The Professional) - Drama
18. The Fountainhead (Classical Black and White movie with Gary Cooper). Based on Ayn Rand's book, The Fountainhead.
19. "Dancer In The Dark" Starring Björk - Winter 2000. You must not make it through life withouth seeing this movie. Directed by Swedish Director Von Trier. Unbearable emotions......... Monomaniacal saint-hood... Chilling soundtrack. Winner of Cannes Film Festival "Best Picture" and "Best Female Actress". "GOD-send" called it some movie critics.
20 - Dirty Pretty Things - movie about the trials illigal immigrants in the UK have to go through.
21. Together - Chinese movie about a father and his violinist son. Made me "ball" in tears.
22. Max - movie about the artistic struggles of Adolf Hitler before he rose to political power. ("we both have been to the trenches Hitler, but what does it FEEL like to be in the trenches, THAT is Art Hitler !" favorite quote). Saw the movie with my ex-girlfriend in Dec. 2002.
23. Cold Mountain - with Renee Zelweger and Nicole Kidman. (the woman says when all the men cheer about the prospect of going to war "if I could annihilate all metal in this world I would"). The scene when the Indian jumps into the "pit" to save his brothers-in-arms, is hair-raising...
24. The Saddest Music In The World
25. Bukowski: Born Into This
26. Control Room
27. Fahranheit 9/11
28. The Corporation
29. Beads and Trinkets (LinkTV Documentary)
30. 300 - one of the greatest movies of all time with Gerard Butler... about Spartan King Leonidas and his courageous 300 soldiers who stood up to the Persian army of Xerxes
31. In Your Shoes - one of the greatest movies of Cameron Diaz... about two sisters and their grandmother. Cameron Diaz has some attitude and character issues that anger her sister. Their father kept them away from their grandmother. Their mom committed suicide while their were young...
32. The Straight Story - a touching film by David Lynch about an old man who goes to see his ill brother driving his lawn mower across several states...
33. The Infidel - a beautiful movie about a Muslim man who discovers that he was adopted and that he was actually born Jewish!!! by British-Iranian comedian Omid Djalili.
34. Rabbit Proof Fence - touching film based on a true story about three half-caste Australian Aboriginee girls that are taken away from their mom, installed in a state run home, run away and trek 1400 miles across the rabbit-proof fence in the desert to be with their mom in Jigalong.
35. Forrest Gump - one of the greatest movies of all time, a story about a not so smart kid Forrest that lives life to the full... manages to love a girl Jenny, goes to Vietnam and saves some of his comrades and he helps his friend Dan out from the deep, dark abyss of depression....
36. Baba' Aziz - an excellent movie about a gathering of Sufis in the desert as well as a prince who contemplated his soul....
37. The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch - very cool movie about a Jewish boy who falls in love and marries a Goyim girl against the wishes of his mother who tries unsuccessfully to get him to marry a Jewish girl.
38. The Queen's Gambit - excellent series on Netflix about an orphan girl who develops into an exquisite world chess master. The ending is very positive and uplifting.
39. The Sopranos - Legendary mafia series centered around Tony Soprano of the NJ Mafia played by James Gandolfini, his best role ever on the big screen.
40. Breaking Bad - The series that put chemists on the cool map... about an ex chemistry teacher turned methamphetamine cook to pay for his cancer treatment...
41. El Marginal - surprisingly good Argentian Netflix show about a prison in Santiago and the inmates' stories.
42. No good film list is complete withouth mention of Russian Cinema: I was lucky in 2022 to discover the YouTube channel Mosfilm and I got to watch some amazing Russian and Ukranian films like:
The Girls - very uplifting Rom Com
The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky
Viy based on the eponymous novel by Gogol
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano based on the Anton Chekhov piece