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Una sola frase può cambiare il mondo
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I should write more often. Not much is going on, anyway. This is a very strange year. If in the past two years i didn't know the direction i was going after them, right now I don't know what is exactly happening in a very short time, like in a couple of months, or in the spring. I guess that this is a stage you have to pass through, if you have chosen the legal path. Probably the solution is just to think at what happens every day, and not to ask yourself too many questions. I'm pretty good in this. I surprisingly don't have much time to think and not much to write, this beginning of winter is a time of study for me. I'm doing another school, which takes place on friday afternoon and saturday morning. Having to wake up early on saturday morning is terrible, but there are good sides in this too, like having breakfast in a bar that i really like (i keep this for saturday morning as a special treat to forget the pain of waking up), no traffic around in Rome, that makes driving even pleasant, taking a long nap after lunch, and thinking that it's deserved. In some way, i found a balance also in this. I think that when your "professional life" doesn't give you back very much, like in moments like these, the importance of the little things giving you small joys in everyday life, becomes even bigger. To find a new cd that you really like, your team winning a game that you were not expecting, the amazing game that Il Capitano played yesterday in Milan, which is actually not a little joy, but a big one. Everybody has his own ones, and i personally believe that this is a big part of the meaning of life, if there's one. 
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 complacent |
Current Music: |
Arctic Monkeys - A certain romance | |
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 As you can see, Radiohead took special care of visual effects and lights. The stage was all surrounded by irregular-shape, high-definition screens, and considering that the venue was an irish-middle of nowhere park, the sensation was like being in a fairy tale. Or better, it was like being in many fairy tales, one fairy tale for each song. They chose a different color for each song, giving the impression of a different visual and acoustic experience for every of them. It was amazing. They started the concert with Airbag, track number 1 of Ok Computer, one of the many Radiohead songs that i started to appreciate only after many times that I listened them, and ended it with the big classic Creep, which was quite surprising and exciting, because they almost never play it, even if people are always hoping to hear it.  If technically Radiohead seemed to me more like a dream than like a concert, Pearl Jam was the perfect concert experience to have. Really good venue as well, Piazza Duomo in Pistoia, lots of people said that the one i get to see was definitely the best one of the italian part of the tour, five gigs, this time. I think that this one was like the fiftieth date of the tour, at least, and I wonder if every time they seem to be so happy of playing for just that audience, if every time they reach such an intense interaction with the audience, and if every time it seems that just that concert is a very special experience for them before than people standing for them. I don't think so, clearly. This is testified by the special lenght of the concert, 2,45 hours, and the number of songs that they played, 32. Even if I like to go to concerts, I wish i was always this happy to have spent my money this way.
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 contemplative |
Current Music: |
Pearl Jam - Sometimes | |
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Quant'è bella la coppa... Sembra un enorme cioccolatino ricoperto di stagnola dorata, ed il capitano sembra un bambino che sta andando lì per scartarlo. La fame di qualcosa di così dolce, però, la può sapere solo lui. E' quella che ti viene solo col sacrificio e col dolore, quando veramente hai dovuto soffrire e forzare fino ai limiti del bruciore per esserci. Solo che il dolore ha dovuto rimanerti dentro, perchè se fosse trapelato dal tuo volto avrebbero potuto leggerlo come insicurezza, e si sa che a questi livelli l'insicurezza potrebbe lasciarti fuori, qualunque sia il tuo nome. Qualcuno potrebbe dire che la vera sofferenza è altra, ma credo che la sofferenza possa sbucare nella vita anche quando apparentemente le cose non potrebbero andare meglio. Vorrei accostare a questa foto ancora quella dell'infortunio di marzo, come molta gente ha fatto in questi giorni. Essere stato in campo in ogni partita è comunque una conquista, essere stato determinante per arrivare fino alla fine ti dà diritto ad avere questa fame speciale nell'andartela a prendere.
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Current Mood: |
satisfied |
Current Music: |
Garden State soundtrack | |
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It's almost one week that i can't walk, and it will be like this for at least two more weeks. I can move only with crutches, and it's a pain in the ass. I twisted my ankle badly, fortunately I have nothing broken, but i basically have to stay at home without moving for some time.
I'm passing through similar sensations of weakness that i remember from 1998, when I had a more serious injury at my other ankle. That was a world cup year as well, and I wonder if sometimes becomes true that theory that the history is a ring, and it constantly repeats. World cup looks like a perfect time to have an ankle broken, with all the soccer overdose on television, but I'm coming from the first two days without soccer of the turnament, and that was very frustrating.
We start to appreciate some things that look normal only when we don't have them. Walking looks great, when you can't do it, and maybe this time will be good to understand the value of autonomy. When you feel weak you start to appreciate easier things, like walking or having friends over, and sometimes you have the feeling that in the rest of your life you work for moments like these. You meet and take care of friends, for being taken care in situations of weakness; you work for having something to eat in your kitchen even without working. And in a way it looks like you just stopped for a while, for estimating the rest of your life: if you have given to life enough when you had the chance, life will give you back enough in moments like these.
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 apathetic |
Current Music: |
Death Cab For Cutie - I will follow you into the dark | |
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Rarity makes things special. When they happen they are always so fast, and that's why, in a way, rarity makes things so difficoult to catch. We just live 1/48th of our lives in world cup time, and that's why i think that, if you have a real soccer passion, you should dedicate this time as much as you can to your favorite game. Just because is something special and something that you really like, like a big icecream during a long diet time. So, if i'll have a soccer stomacache at the end of everything, there's a long time to heal. That's why a game between an asian team that would play at most in our second division and an african team from a country that you can't even point on a map, would be worth watching. It's because is the world cup, and it's special. 
Current Mood: |
calm |
Current Music: |
Graham Coxon - Love travels at illegal speed | |
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Così Rolling Stone di questo mese presentava il concerto del 13 maggio al Vox di Nonantola(Modena), quasi si trattasse di una specie di co-headline. In realtà gli Audiorama hanno fatto solo da supporto per i Marlene, ma comunque l'evento era da non perdere assolutamente, degno di essere la prima trasferta di una estate che per quanto mi riguarda si rivelerà particolarmente intensa in questo senso. E' strano quando il nostro personale mondo si confonde per un attimo con il mondo che normalmente guardiamo dietro uno schermo o sopra un palcoscenico lontano; è come se la gente che fa parte di quell'altro mondo cominciasse per un attimo a muoversi anche nel nostro, come se fino a quel momento sia rimasta bloccata dalla natura iconografica che le attribuiamo. Questo strano momento è stato quando mio cugino Massi, cantante degli Audiorama, ha annunciato i Marlene a seguire. Comprendendo che quasi tutta la gente che li stava guardando era lì per i Marlene, prima dell'ultimo pezzo ha solo detto: "Adesso facciamo l'ultima, poi finalmente ci sono loro". Molta umiltà, quasi anche lui sul palco si fosse messo nella condizione di chi era lì solo per i Marlene. Ed effettivamente l'umiltà era l'atteggiamento giusto, quanto meno per scongiurare il rischio di "pomodori". Le sonorità dei due gruppi sono così diverse tra loro, "brit-pop", spesso molto più pop che brit gli Audiorama, un rock spesso spigoloso e difficile per i Marlene, si temeva che molta gente avrebbe potuto essere infastidita dal contrasto. Invece tutti hanno seguito con rispetto anche gli Audiorama, qualcuno anche coinvolto fino a ballarci su. Il posto era in via di riempimento, probabilmente quando hanno cominciato a suonare i Marlene c'erano più di mille persone. Non male per i Marlene, e ovviamente neanche per gli Audiorama. Gli Audiorama si presentavano senza chitarrista, mancante per non meglio specificati (o specificabili) motivi, e la formazione era la stessa dei vecchi Suburbia, che come sonorità secondo me erano molto più vicini ai Marlene. Hanno suonato anche Folk Space, una delle mie preferite dei Suburbia, e penso la più apprezzata della serata, e la più vicina alle sonorità Marlene, tanto che sembra che nelle prove anche Cristiano Godano, cantante dei Marlene, si sia voluto fermare ad ascoltare.
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So... I've been waiting for years for these two tours that are going to happen this summer: Radiohead and Pearl Jam. I was thinking at these two bands when i talked about two concerts out of my city between my 2006 resolutions. I missed the announcement of the radiohead european summer tour, which doesn't include Italy, so far, that's why it wasn't advertized at all here. When i found out, only tickets for the Dublin date, august 24, were still available. Okay... Let's go to Dublin... And in some way we got the tickets. So we book our Ryanair flight for august 23, coming back on august 26. Great plan... well done, this is gonna be great... Now i found out that Pearl Jam are playing in Dublin on august 23, the day we land, the first date of the tour, the first gig in Europe after six years. We just need tickets to Pearl Jam, and I'll get to see Radiohead and Pearl Jam in 24 hours, two of my very favourite bands in 24 hours. I can't imagine anything better for someone liking the music in my way.
Current Mood: |
 hyper |
Current Music: |
Morcheeba - The Sea | |
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5) Lost Property Office
When The Stars Go Crazy
Sometimes, love can be like a drug, but a good one. In a way, is like music, for people having the right predisposition and sensitivity. When you are in the right enviroment, nature makes everything more powerful and intense, as if you were passing through a real state of "panism". You just close your eyes, and everything around you becomes new. In this song there are all these things together: a deep and beautiful music, pieces of sweet nature all around, love. Therefore, this song must be like doing magic mushrooms with your girlfirend. There's everything you need for an experience like that. There's the right enviroment, a little wet with a shy but penetrating sun, a girl close to you, trying to understanding with you what's going on all around, and music, expecially the slow and gentle keyboards and the soft acoustic guitar, that is supposed to be the vehicle to carry you in the right dimension, and make the stars going crazy for you and who is close to you.
"...winter's breath asks me why
the sun is shy and soft clouds kiss my heart..."
Current Mood: |
contemplative |
Current Music: |
Lost Property Office - When The Stars Go Crazy | |
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4) Marlene Kuntz
Nuotando nell'aria
Ancora una volta,
"Il tutto sta nel dosare sentimento e stile, il tutto sta nel mettere insieme la rabbia estemporanea del punk e la più rigorosa impostazione jazzistica, per cominciare la più gande rivolta di tutti i tempi"
Quache anno fa, nel 2001, ho fatto un cd di canzoni per me rappresentative di quel tempo, uno di quei cd che Nick Hornby dice che appena pronti ti sembra impossibile ce ne sarà mai un altro così, ma poi un altro c'è sempre. L'ho chiamato Sentimento e stile, perchè mi sembrava che in quel periodo queste due parole rappresentassero la sintesi delle mie giornate, che poi è quello che nella mia testa mi piacerebbe sempre riuscire a bilanciare, e allora mi sembrava proprio di aver trovato un equilibrio. Scegliendo le canzoni da metterci ho cercato di trascrivere quest'idea, di come le nostre azioni debbano contenere il giusto dosaggio di sentimento e di stile, per ottenere alla fine non solo una vita degna di essere vissuta, ma l'idea di aver vissuto qualcosa di speciale. Ho messo questa canzone al numero uno, e solo dopo mi sono accorto che questa canzone già da sola conteneva la sintesi di quello che volevo esprimere.
Per me, dentro a questa canzone è contenuto il perfetto dosaggio di sentimento e stile che ci vuole. Questa canzone è il pugno dentro al velluto. Ti fa fluttuare delicatamente nell'aria, quasi ti sembra veramente di poterci nuotare dentro fino a muoverti, poi si infiamma dietro ad ogni angolo e ti accelera fino quasi a farti perdere il controllo.
E' la canzone degli amori a distanza, e degli amori finiti che in realtà non sono finiti, e del senso d'impotenza che c'è quando siete nel letto e c'è solo aria vuota intorno. Tutt'intorno vi sembra di essere in un mare d'aria, ma dentro di voi l'aria non c'è più quasi per niente.
"Nel letto, aspetto ogni giorno un pezzo di te,
un grammo di gioia, del tuo sorriso,
e non mi basta nuotare nell'aria per immaginarti,
se tu sapessi, che pena..."
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ecstatic |
Current Music: |
Marlene Kuntz - Nuotando nell'aria | |
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3) Radiohead
Paranoid Android
I said, at the beginning of this list, that music can make your thoughts travelling and your emotions changing almost like you were losing the control of them. I said that sometimes music can work like a drug. For me, this song is the proof of this. Hidden between the guitars, the voices, and the many mysterious instruments of this song, there must be also some secret illegal ingredient. You know, that kind of stuff that everybody tries to figure out for copying it and stealing the success that someone else deserves, like it happened with Coca Cola. I hope that they will never isolate it, because they might make the album Ok Computer illegal in many countries, maybe not in Holland, since i think that in the whole Ok Computer album there are traces of this substance that is so concentrated in Paranoid Android.
The video of the song is a cartoon of a little kid walking around in a city, and just watching things happening around him. He keeps the eyes wide open, and I think that this is how they ment people to use this song: like a bridge for giving a new personal interpretation of things around.
There's a point in which the song turns in what it seems a normal guitar solo, without that kind of magic that crosses the rest of the song. I think that that's just a way to show once again the power of that substance that they invented and spread all around the Ok Computer album: at the end of the solo there's a part in which it looks that they lost the control of the bottle containing the ingredient, they spilled too much of it, and everybody should remember the effect, if they are ever passed through it.
"Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height... height..."
Current Mood: |
 creative |
Current Music: |
Radiohead - Paranoid Android | |
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2) Franz Ferdinand
The Dark of the Matinee
Sometimes, when I'm sure that i've done something very well, i have in my head the initial riff of this song. For me, the beginning of this song is the espression of the talent breaking a barrier. There must be that kind of sound all around when the things that you do knock down that wall and lead you on the street of success. I consider the song a metaphor of this process: breaking the celebrity wall, passing through the mess of the beginning, trying to keep your balance. Then there's the last part, that is much more quiet and relaxed, as if he's trying to understand exactly what happened. He's imagining this situation of being on television trying to figure out with the anchorman of this show what happened and how did it happen. But the amazing thing is that this song is in the first album of the band, and they were already imagining to be on BBC 2, telling Terry Wogan the recepy for the success, as if no other consequence was possible after such a great expression of talent like the Franz Ferdinand first album is. And i'm pretty sure that when he was writing that verse, he had in his head the initial riff of the same song, and he was thinking: "Come on, how can it be otherwise?"
Talent gives you confidence, and shows you the right way and the consequences. Lots of people here have seen the interview of a skinny little boy, around the age of ten, telling with confidence his first two dreams: playing the soccer world cup final, and winning it. He wasn't hoping it, he already knew it, and after all he has been even modest: he didn't mention that he was about to become the best soccer player ever, after realizing his dreams.
"My words and smile are so easy now
Yes, it's easy now, yes, it's easy now"
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complacent |
Current Music: |
Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee | |
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5 Canzoni
Everybody has his personal interpretation of some songs that he's strictly connected with, or with a special personal meaning. Songs are the origin of thoughts and feelings, and sometimes we see through them things that we wouldn't see without, as if they were a kind of amazing acoustic drug. They can make an emotion grow, or transport you at the opposite of it. They melt with everyday situations, and your personal story just wraps around them, changing their colour into a different shade, more or less far from before, depending on what news you have every time.
Here are five songs that are part of me, and what they mean to me in my everyday life.
"A couple of times a year I make myself a tape to play in the car, a tape full of all the new songs I've loved over the previous few months, and every time I finish one I can't believe that there'll be another. Yet there always is, and I can't wait for the next one; you need only a few hundred more things like that, and you've got a life worth living. "
— Nick Hornby, 31 Songs
1) Nada Surf
Inside of love
It's a very nice day out today in Rome and i'm in a good mood, and i don't know why i just want to start with this one. Sometimes i play this song when i'm brokenhearthed, but i think that is also a good thinking or relaxing song. There's a very regular drum under the melody, that almost doesn't change in the chorus too. When you are brokenhearted you just want something telling you the way that your heart is supposed to beat, and let it doing it for you. The easiest thing for me is just laying on the bed and asking this song the way to make my heart working well, that i just don't remember anymore. In the chorus he keeps wondering the way that the inside of love is done, as if he didn't remember anymore, or he never knew it. It's nice to hear someone in a condition similar to your one, because you have the feeling that you are so far from knowing it or remembering it.
"I wanna know what it’s like
On the inside of love
I’m standing at the gates
I see the beauty above"
Current Mood: |
 okay |
Current Music: |
Nada Surf - Inside of love | |
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Franz Ferdinand are going to play in Rome next july 17, exactly one year after U2, and in the same place, the Olimpico Stadium. But they will just be the opening act for the Depeche Mode concert. I don't really care to see Depeche Mode, but i really want to see the Franz Ferdinand, they are one of my personal bands of the moment. Tickets are in sell from today, and maybe they went already sold out. But I'm wondering if it's worth to spend 40 euros just to see the opening act of a band that you really like. Three days before they will play in Turin for free in a festival, and this makes things different again. I think we'll end up going to Turin, even if we'll probably spend more than 40 euros for a train or in gas, but we'll see a longer show. Plus, I promised to see at least two concerts out of Rome, in the whole 2006.
"So I'm on BBC2 now, telling Terry Wogan how I made it
And what I made is unclear now
But his deference is and his laughter is
My words and smile are so easy now
Yes, it's easy now, yes, it's easy now"
The Dark of The Matinee, Franz Ferdinand
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calm |
Current Music: |
lali puna - nin com pop | |
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I've been looking for the recepy for a perfect party, the perfect way to share out the money you want to invest in a party, and this time i think we went close to perfection. I was part of the organizing staff of the g.c., m.m., and v.d.l. birthday party, last friday night. i would say:
-the less you can spend for a nice place, having no restrictions, good speackers, enough space, about 50% of the total ammount, in Rome or around
-35% good drinks
-5% crappy drinks, in case of emergency
-10% food
-0% for barmans, if you have friends wanting to help you with it
-0% for a deejay, if the deejay is me or someone having a laptop and a good mixing program
i've been trying to deejay at this last party, and i wonder if all the deejays are happy with the music that they play, at the end of a night. i was very happy with the music, because even if i don't consider "mine" all the stuff that i played, i wouldn't have played them if i didn't consider them at least cute, or after a request.
I think that the party was totally successful, and maybe next month there will be another one, we'll see. 50% is quite a lot for a place to rent, but i think that that's just the way it is. Joe from New York had this idea of renting an appartment in like fourty or fifty people and just using it just for partying whenever you want. Probably you would never find a landlord or neighbours letting you doing this, and maybe is also illegal.
I must do at least one of our famous "pagelle", choosing between all the people of the party.
Vittorio, voto 9: Comincia la serata con troppa puntualità, e aspettative non eccessive, dichiarando di non essere riuscito a chiudere occhio tra la scuola forense e la festa dopo la entusiasmante lezione di diritto commerciale del venerdì pomeriggio. Cerca disperatamente un caffè ma senza successo, e allora tutti noi disperiamo, temendo di vederlo spalmato su un divanetto entro breve. Invece, mentre noi stiamo contrattando per far funzionare le attrezzature per la musica con un arrogante pseudodj coatto che non ci ritiene all'altezza di mettere le mani sulle attrezzature ("ma che parlamo a fà? a bbello fai il bravo che io ho mixato ar cybborg"), e che se fosse stato per lui la musica l'avremmo messa al massimo con le potentissime casse del computer, comincia ad avvenire la sua metamorfosi. Assalito da una rara forma di ipoalcolismo fulminante, sventra il tappo di sughero di una innocente bottiglia di rosso, che aveva solo la colpa di essersi mostrata recalcitrante alla prima apertura. Comincia ad aggirarsi con fare aggressivo per il locale, e con occhio rapace punta il cartone di Tavernello che c'è sulla consolle, che teoricamente avrebbe dovuto avere solo uno scopo simbolico. E verso le undici e un quarto la trasformazione sembra già completa: sempre non perdendo d'occhio il Tavernello si avvicina alla consolle e tutto quello che riesce a dire è: "oh, a Fabbrì, non hai capito, me sò fatto sei rum e pera". Ma la cosa che lascia perplessi è che questo è quello che ripete ogni volta che si avvicina di nuovo alla consolle, almeno altre cinque o sei volte, tanto che ogni volta viene il dubbio se si stia riferendo ai primi sei rum e pera, o se intenda ogni volta altri sei rum e pera. Il dubbio viene ogni volta chiarito dal modo sempre più barcollante in cui si allontana dalla consolle, dall'estensione sempre crescente dei suoi salti, dalla frequenza sempre più intensificata delle sue cadute, e dall'aumentare del suo entusiasmo proporzionalmente alla stupidità delle canzoni che vengono passate. E' di diritto tra i dominatori della serata.
MISTER HYDE
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Current Music: |
The Smashing Pumpkins - Today | |
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E' incredibile, il nuovo video di Cesare Cremonini e il nuovo degli Audiorama sono proprio uguali. Non è solo l'idea di girare a New York, ma anche tutto il contesto che sembra proprio identico. C'è lo stesso senso di smarrimento per le strade di New York, sembra quasi che facciano lo stesso percorso, tutti e due si fermano verso la fine a guardare da lontano la skyline di Manhattan. Ma le cose più spaventose sono due:
1)Entrambi i video stanno girando contemporaneamente proprio adesso nelle tv musicali
2)Ad un certo punto in tutti e due i video si vede lo stesso dettaglio: un filo teso tra due palazzi con alcune paia di scarpe appese legate per i lacci. Sono stato recentemente a New York e non mi è sembrata una cosa così tipica, almeno dove sono stato io. Forse lo è, altrimenti sarebbe davvero inquietante.
Devo ammettere che lo skyline illuminato di notte che si vede nel video di Cremonini, ha forse più fascino, ma tra le due canzoni neanche voglio dire quale preferisco...
Current Mood: |
 annoyed |
Current Music: |
Ben Harper - Walk Away (acoustic) | |
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Dieci vittorie consecutive, con il derby da giocare domenica prossima, per tentare il record assoluto si vittorie consecutive, ma di fronte a questa immagine non c'è niente da festeggiare. Mentre scrivo il nostro capitano sta venendo operato a Villa Stuart dal prof. Mariani, che nel 1998 ha operato anche me, anch'io alla caviglia sinistra, quella che nella foto si vede che appoggia male. Per ora non c'è ancora niente di certo, ma c'è chi dice che non potrà giocare per tre mesi, qualcuno ha detto che rischia di saltare il mondiale, che è una cosa che mi fa stare malissimo al solo pensiero.
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It's been a while...
Apparently it has been an intense time, lately. Lots of people around and things to do. Some people would complain about a situatuation like this, but when it happens, when life gives you choices, i always consider it a bless. V. is in town, and some cool people around him. Yesterday we've been playing pro evolution soccer in the afternoon, and he won more games than i did, but i'm getting closer in accomplishing resolution number six of my list. i think that i consider him the hardest to beat between my friends, and yesterday i won a game with italy against him with brazil, which is much better, of course. This is gonna be a very hard world cup for us, even playstation knows how weak our midfield is, expecially compared with the brazilian one, this is probably one of the best brasils ever. But apparently things are turning in better, amazing Perrotta and De Rossi for us, lately. If they play in the national team the same they are playing now for roma, and if they let them playing from the beginning, is going to be hard for everyone.
On thursday i've seen marlene kuntz playing at circolo degli artisti, with e. and s. I think that this must be like the seventh or eighth time that i see them, and apparently seeing marlene kuntz for me is one of those things that on one hand stops the time, and on the other hand makes the time much faster. I thnk at the first times that i saw them, when i was like seventeen or eighteen, and considering that i still like the same things just stops the time, and i think that maybe things will be like this for a lot of time, again. But you can't avoid thinking at how much time is gone, when you remember those situations like yesterday.
Anyways, this was a particular thing, it wasn't any album's tour, but just a tour in which they are supposed to play their deeper and more calm song. "S-low tour" is the name of the thing, and this should give the right idea. E. didn't appreciate very much, he said that more energy would have been welcome, but i did appreciate, and also s. did, i think. For me they give their best in this kind of music, that should melt better with their poetic style. It looks that some cool teacher is making children studying their lyrics at school, in the litterature class. Great.
Last night was nice and intense as well. with v., e., d. and many other people, we had dinner in a good place, "Consolato d'Abruzzo"; they give you, as a starter, big baskets full of salame, different kind of salame, and in some way it looks like a challenge, since you are not supposed to finish them, it would be too much. but i think that is kind of dangerous for them to challenge you this way at the beginning of the meal. you could easily have a dinner just with bread and that, not a very healty one, but you would be happy, in the end.
Then we went at a nice party at some flat where five american girls are staying. Actually i'm not sure if they were all american, but all anglophone, at least. The place is nice, wide, and is perfect for a party like that. It was supposed to be a Hawaiian party, but we didn't dress up, like most of the people there, we should have. We organized a party like this in Holland too, four years ago. More people came over then, since we were in a student house, and in a bigger space. And we also had sand and an inflatable swimming pool. i have a good memory of it. But this one was really cool too. Is that kind of informal party that i like so much, and that i don't know why only happen to me when international people are involved. i tryed to make my graduation party the closer i could to this style.
People were nice, and an american girl also thought that i was australian, after a couple of minutes that we were talking. i have problems in understanding the australian accent, and maybe she thought that i was australian because she didn't understand me, i don't know. I also met a girl that has been at the same ani di franco concert that i've seen in seattle, four years ago; it's amazing how life always comes back from everywhere. |
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Current Mood: |
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Current Music: |
The Frames - New Partner | |
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It was a very cute british commedy. I didn't want to take the risk to see it after 30, or about to be 30. The title is misleading, i thought that the movie was all about a group of guys trying to realize the things written on a list. It turned out to be all based on the soccer passion, and the ethernal conflict between soccer and women. Pretty welcome topic, always.
Anyway, there is a Things to do before you're 30 list, they all write one down in the beginning of the movie.
I wanted to write a list of thing that i've done that are supposed to be done before you're 30, but then i thought that is better not, i didn't want to say all the best things. Anyway, number one was living abroad for a while, do it until you're in time.
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Pissed with Berluska |
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Ho finito da poco di vedere la versione italiana di Garden State, "La mia vita a Garden State", che adesso è tra le prime visioni di BlockBuster, ed anche tra i Prima Fila di Sky. Il film l'avevo già visto in inglese a marzo scorso, in Canada, e mi sembrava strano: "Garden State" è il New Jersey, ed io venivo dall'unica settimana della mia vita vissuta in New Jersey. Riconoscevo le ambientazioni, e forse ero riuscito anche ad intuire il modo in cui ti possa segnare vivere una vita in un posto del genere. Il New Jersey, a detta anche di chi ci vive, è un posto in cui la transizione si respira ovunque. Si articola tutto intorno alle strade che gli passano attraverso, e che collegano New York con Philadelphia; solo che nessuna delle due città ne fa parte, ed è come se il New Jersey si dovesse sobbarcare tutte le scorie che rilasciano gli agglomerati suburbani delle due città. E' come se vedesse passare attraverso di sè l'energia, senza riuscire a catturarla. Nel film si respira un'atmosfera angosciosa e commovente, che questa situazione la rappresenta metaforicamente in modo perfetto.
Nel film lui vive a Los Angeles, e torna a casa per un periodo, nel New Jersey, rivedendo i personaggi del suo passato, andando a scontrarsi contro sensazioni che aveva lasciato in quei posti, e che rivengono a galla con quelle ambientazioni e quella gente. Per me era una strana sensazione guardare dall'esterno questa storia durante il viaggio in America, perchè anche non vivendo lì in un certo senso ero andato anch'io a trovare il mio passato, ed avevo fatto al contrario un percorso simile.
La colonna sonora del film è un misto stupendo di musica, ed è studiata in modo perfetto per fondersi con la situazione, per isolare il genere di emozioni che fanno parte di quella storia. Il pezzo più famoso è forse Don't Panic dei Coldplay, la 1 di Parachutes, che contiene quella angoscia commovente che attraversa anche il film.
Non so se questo sia un caso, o ci sia qualcosa di predestinato dentro, ma durante il viaggio di marzo scorso in America e Canada ho visto tre film, e le colonne sonore dei tre film sono anche tre cd che adoro:
1) Garden State
2) About a boy, la colonna sonora è interamente di Badly Drawn Boy, ed è semplicemente adorabile
3) I am Sam, la cui colonna sonora è un misto di cover dei Beatles bellissimo
C'è una scena del film in cui loro vanno a trovare il guardiano di un canyon sotterraneo scoperto durante i lavori di costruzione di un grande magazzino, bloccati per la scoperta del canyon. E' anche la scena della locandina, in cui loro sono lì sul posto e ad un certo punto decidono di mettersi ad urlare sopra ad uno dei macchinari per scavare. E' una scena senza parole in cui si vede solo loro che urlano e sotto la musica, "The only living boy in New York" di Simon & Garfunkel, un pezzo bellissimo, che tutti quelli che leggono questo post dovrebbero comprare o scaricare. Nel cinema è come se ci fossero tre dimensioni, e che parte dell'abilità di chi lo fa sia decidere il modo in cui devono essere gestite ed intrecciate tra di loro. C'è il testo, c'è l'audio e c'è il video. In questa scena ci sono solo audio e video, niente testo, ed il meglio possibile per comunicare quello che si vuole è rinunciare del tutto alle parole. Nella musica ci sono solo il testo e l'audio. Nella scrittura solo il testo. Forse deve essere più stimolante disporre di tre dimensioni per comunicare quello che si intende, però nel momento in cui si dispone di più dimensioni bisogna sempre fare i conti con tutte quante. Per esempio in una canzone il testo non può prescindere dalla musica, e questo risulta limitante. Allora penso che forse la cosa che ti lascia più libertà sia la scrittura, perchè hai solo le parole per esprimere quello che intendi, ma lo puoi fare senza barriere.
Credo che abbia ragione Ligabue, che ha fatto due film, scritto un libro e che campa di musica, che dice che ci sono cose che si possono dire solo con un film, cose che si possono dire solo con una canzone e cose che si possono dire solo con un libro. Riuscire a farlo in tutti e tre i modi nell'arco di una vita deve essere qualcosa di speciale. 
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pensive |
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Garden State soundtrack | |
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Mi sa che un piccolo post deve essere fatto per forza in questa giornata. Oggi il mio blog compie un anno di vita... e gli facco gli auguri. Non mi sono comportato sempre bene con lui, ma spero che lui sia come uno di quegli amici che sono pronti a ricominciare da zero anche se ci si è persi per un lungo periodo, un amico che dimentica e che non se la prende.
Buon compleanno! |
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