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Angelina Jolie Covers Parade Magazine

Angelina Jolie Covers Parade Magazine

Angelina Jolie is featured in and on the cover of the July issue of Parade magazine and because she has a movie to promote she gave a one-on-one sit-down interview with them. In the interview she was asked the usual questions about Brad Pitt, her kids and her past. Here is what she says…

On love: “I feel sad for someone who has never known love. Love elevates. You know, Brad would joke about me having this conversation about love. Love? It’s such a funny word. Brad can find certain phrases of poetry for it. I’m terrible at it. But I know it means wanting the best for the people you love, putting their interests above your own, always. Love does that. Love is what you live for.”

On her rebellious past: “I used to cut myself or jump out of airplanes, trying to find something new to push up against because sometimes everything else felt too easy. I was searching for something deeper, something more. I tried everything. I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren’t there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.”

On the media and paparazzi: “We do everything we can to keep our kids away from it. We travel to places where the kids aren’t aware of that kind of thing. We try to give them a full life where they don’t have to come face to face with that world. With the paparazzi present, we’re careful when we leave the house. Other than that…” She laughs at the absurdity of it all. “We don’t stand in the checkout line at the grocery store looking at the magazines. Our friends don’t tell us about it. And our kids don’t know. I feel if we keep looking out for them, they’ll be fine.”

On loving staying at home: “There’s never a period when Brad and I are pulled apart. We are not separated for more than three days, ever. We stay really connected. We actually don’t go out much. It’s funny. We’re very homebound. We’re very much Mommy and Daddy in our pajamas.”

On her mother who died in 2007: “Mother never put herself first, ever. At the end, she said her greatest success was being a mother. I remember Mother singing in church. How pretty she was! I lit candles with her. She said she had missed nothing in life except getting to know her grandchildren. When she passed away, I brought my son to church to light a candle for her.” Jolie’s eyes fill with tears. “Forgive me,” she says. “I loved her so much.”

Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever actually read an interview in which Angelina Jolie actually discusses the movie she is promoting.

source: Angelina Jolie Dishes on Rebellious Past, Dealing With the Paparazzi and Love for Brad Pitt [Parade]

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The Penis Festival – Yes, There is One of Those

Hundreds of thousands come together for the world’s largest penis festival. For bizarre celebrations Japan’s ‘Steel Phallus’ festival is hard to beat. Revelers from around the world descended on Kawasaki, Japan to take part in the annual Kanamara Matsuri festival – a Shinto fertility festival held in spring.

The event brings in people from around the globe including hundreds of Westerners trying to conceive. Transvestites, homosexuals and curious couples also show up for the parade through the streets.

The penis forms the central theme of the event and is seen in trinkets for sale including illustrations, candy, carved vegetables and decorations. The Shinto shrine at the centre of the event was once popular among prostitutes who wished to pray for protection against sexually transmitted diseases.

The celebrations are now used to raise money for HIV research.

source: [dlisted]

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