tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:40:49 +0000Being telepathic makes me antisocial.http://evaristo.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (evaristo)Blogger951125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-9164518007950207503Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:42:00 +00002008-08-25T20:38:30.849+02:00Mp3musicSardiniaEnonTrabantAs mentioned a couple of posts ago, i had a chance to see Enon live again recently at the HereIStay festival in Sardinia. A couple of days later, while in Cagliari with Tostoini, we climbed into the car to hear Enon once again, performing and being interviewed for a local radio show called On Repeat.The following week, back home in Duino, i tracked the show down online and found most episodes to http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/08/enon-acoustic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-2010533345734896412Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:48:00 +00002008-08-20T00:08:01.068+02:00Mp3BrasilmusichistoryI was shocked this morning to hear the news of Dorival Caymmi's death. He was 94 years old, so it shouldn't have been that much of a surprise, but it still feels like a strong presence is suddenly gone. Oh, he's still here of course, his songs are still all over the place and inspiring people every day. (Coincidentally, my winamp had been playing his songs on random much more often than usual http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/08/dorival-caymmi-1914-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-8034917069538501570Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:59:00 +00002008-08-19T22:47:24.848+02:00bizarre connections and interpretationsrandomAnthropologyThe webmaster hallucinatesincoherent ramblingsVodkaSeriously, we have to reinstate some stereotypes in the world. Like eskimos. Do eskimos really exist, do they build igloos, fish from holes in the ice and make friends with seals? Or mexicans. Most mexicans i've met are a bit of a disappointment. Don't get me wrong, they were mostly fascinating, intelligent and friendly people, with interests varying from poetry to anthropology to music to easel http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/08/one-of-those-posts-which-dont-really.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-5889601153453032723Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:35:00 +00002008-12-04T19:56:59.473+01:00slice of lifemusicSardiniatravelogueWe arrived while Il Moro E Il Quasi Biondo were finishing their set, and we put our tents up (and Roberta started to build her stand) while Vanvera was playing at the White Stage. Vanvera was good and enjoyable, but since there was a lot of running to and from the car with boxes and struggling with vegetation involved i can't remember a thing of it. What we did manage to see was Lupe Velez, who http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/08/here-i-stay-festival-2008-day-one.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-4512789116008458937Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:04:00 +00002008-08-14T18:30:57.838+02:00slice of lifeimagestwittertravelogueSince my feet are finally starting to recover from the long Livorno-Sardinia voyage, to the extent that there are now some parts of them that no longer hurt as long as i don't touch them too hard, i think i'm still in time for writing a post about my stay in Sardinia.I don't plan to write too much, though, because i wouldn't know where to start nor where to end. The plan is therefore to take the http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/08/sardinia-population-1655677-eyebrows.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-3708339041808553648Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:27:00 +00002008-08-11T16:12:29.398+02:00slice of lifeimagesMp3Pizzicato FiveThe webmaster hallucinates2008"Instead of resting, as i was on the good side of tipsy, i started taking pictures of the very, very rare Pizzicato Five DVD box set which i had recently acquired, and of the images it created on my monitor.This is probably the nerdiest photoset i have ever made and that i ever will, period.This series is intended to be viewed as a slideshow."Taken between 19:26 and 19:31 of Saturday, 29th of http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-hear-symphony-photoset-on-flickr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-6307369088712629013Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:26:00 +00002008-08-07T14:16:22.715+02:00web 2.0catsGatoIf I can't get them to live in peace, I may have to move my computer out there and blog from the back yard while I play Traffic Cop at the cat dish.-Mark Evanier, updating his readers about the inhabitants of his back yard.http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/08/kitty-quote-of-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-4880823376932863534Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:26:00 +00002008-08-04T19:33:37.560+02:00we're all going to die anywayAnthropologyYou wake up and it's August and it's 7 AM, an hour after you went to sleep.You get up, close all the windows and then turn the air conditioning on, setting it to maximum. You shave and shower. After the shower put your best clothes on: shirt, tie, long trousers, the whole works.You then go to your room and get back into bed, and sleep until the remaining hours of daylight are over.http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/08/plan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-5634683466250715203Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:37:00 +00002008-08-03T21:18:01.526+02:00news of the worldDavid ByrnemusicstufflinksI am in the process of closing tabs which have been open in my browser for some time. These are three of the most recent, and also interesting.-Dave McKean finally has something like a website. His name was one of the first things i ever looked for on the internet, now over a decade ago, and for quite the long while i had to make do with the very-excellent-anyway-but-still-not-official http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/08/closing-tabs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-5258325175819186399Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:33:00 +00002008-08-03T20:37:03.024+02:00rather unexpectedlykind of pointless actuallyfirst new post after a ridiculous amount of timeincoherent ramblings(I'm actually surprised i'm still logged into blogspot after over two weeks of not touching it, besides a single aborted attempt to post pictures of Danger Mouse's equipment for the Gnarls Barkley tour)Small post just to say that the Cristina Donà poster on my door just slumped over on itself and apparently died due to the bizarre phenomenon of my door expanding a bit during the hottest days of http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/08/very-personal-post-which-nobody-will.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-3487394664897445320Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:15:00 +00002009-01-07T12:45:11.071+01:00and there was much rejoicingself-referentialnot really blogging2008As of thirteen minutes ago as of writing, this blog is now five years old. To celebrate, i will proceed to pack my bags and go across the country to work at a big music festival. And then i will cross a sea wearing only clothes that will be very, very dirty by then and visit a nearby island i've never been to but that people have been asking me to visit for the past twelve years already. Who http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/07/things-are-all-right.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-2261910532256757683Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:43:00 +00002008-07-09T21:58:18.067+02:00slice of lifeposting nonsense despite being ridiculously busyself-referentialnot really bloggingItaliaWaveobvious signs of impending doomincoherent ramblingsconversation snippets2008The players: Myself, M. (i know a ridiculous amount of M's, so it doesn't really make any difference)The place: online.Her: on the other hand, did you make your blog's layout unreadable on purpose?Me: Funny story actually, 'cause you can see everything perfectly from my laptop. But then one day, months after changing template, many months after, i opened the page from my home computer and http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/07/snippet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-1690388851355682760Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:20:00 +00002008-07-01T00:32:16.400+02:00bizarre connections and interpretationswe're all going to die anywayrandommusicAnthropologyincoherent ramblingsThings inevitably going wrong while organizing cultural events (clashing roadie egos, backup bands messing up the headliner's personal toilet, constant inspections from three different kinds of police one of which partially fictitious, official permissions only being given fifteen minutes before the gates open, show merchandising only reaching the venue some days after the show, co-stars climbinghttp://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/07/murphys-law-evaristo-deviation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-7908307135012957797Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:13:00 +00002008-06-30T17:22:36.027+02:00imagesGatoUnbeknownst to most mortal humans, boxes are not really for keeping things inside.Boxes are actually vehicles that cats use for going nowhere in particular.http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/06/boxes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-888198340765294963Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:14:00 +00002008-08-07T14:25:07.241+02:00Weekend Downloadrather unexpectedlyMp3musicSince i've already had to email it around three times, i've decided to make this a weekend download. Exceptionally, it's actually being posted on a weekend. Huzzah!A bit of backstory. I first heard this song a couple of days ago in the latest edition of Polypunk, the sort-of-monthly podcast by Digiki which i listen to regularly and often repeatedly much to my hard disk's chagrin. This time aroundhttp://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/06/and-then-suddenly-weekend-download.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-1038683000580116938Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:21:00 +00002008-06-09T00:01:49.661+02:00slice of lifeimagesPelodianot really bloggingGato2008sorry for not posting bla bla blaOh blimey, it's june already and my posting is once again at an all-time low. I keep reading good blogs which makes me feel like posting interesting things, the problem is i keep forgetting i have a blog in the first place. That, and i'm busy doing work and stuff. And if i blog about nonsense i feel guilty about not blogging about the interesting things i'm doing and so on. Therefore, to break http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/06/june-2008-random-picture-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-1748527021701129312Sun, 25 May 2008 16:30:00 +00002008-05-25T18:48:33.476+02:00bizarre connections and interpretationsMp3musicGatolinksJust a few tidbits found across the interwebs on a particularly procrastinating (procrastinative?) day.Quote of the other Day:"My entire career has been a secret plan to get this job. I applied before but I got knocked back because the BBC wanted someone else. Also I was seven."-Steven Moffatt, writer, new executive producer for Doctor Who starting in 2010 and genius.Also notice how cool the http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/05/more-snippets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-3302378795943680414Sat, 24 May 2008 10:47:00 +00002008-05-24T12:55:46.810+02:00slice of lifebizarre connections and interpretationsmusicTracklistincoherent ramblingsconversation snippetsWhen people make absurd requests, give them absurd answers and see if they learn from that. (Spoiler: they usually don't)Also: an anecdote as it was told to me."So this one night we were walking through Basel in the middle of the night stoned off our heads, and we suddenly started saying 'Dude, we need to listen to Moondance. We really need to listen to Moondance!' So i found it on my mp3 player http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/05/first-thought-of-morning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-3872473418728839210Tue, 20 May 2008 01:33:00 +00002008-05-20T10:34:15.423+02:00BeautifulYouTubeVideoAnd then suddenlyCinemaIf not that i just love this song:http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/05/for-no-reason-whatsoever.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-1326373512425371720Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:20:00 +00002008-07-10T00:19:45.299+02:00My Awesome MixtapeTrovarobatoVideorather unexpectedlymusicMariposaI didn't think i'd be linking to video again so soon, but i just found out that tonight's concert of one of my favourite bands, My Awesome Mixtape, performed for one of my favourite radio programmes, Magazzeno Bis, will be filmed and shown live on MTV and on the Mogulus Player embedded below.EDIT: player would rather annoyingly start playing on its own. Here's a link to the channel instead. And http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-awesome-mixtape-livemagazzenobis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-4873591217900774199Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:12:00 +00002008-04-21T10:36:26.903+02:00YouTubeVideomusiccoversMariposaAs performed by Mariposa in September 2004 (and released last year), originally composed/performed by the mighty King Crimson back in 1994/95.The video, on the other hand, was created this year by se_mm_ai, a trio of artists who then saw it refused from a videoart exposition held by Siena University because, in the words of the organizers, "no image must damage other people's ethical freedom" http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/04/sex-sleep-eat-drink-dream.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-5575596795314914775Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:14:00 +00002008-04-16T00:39:39.140+02:00Gaimannot really bloggingfirst new post after a ridiculous amount of timebreaking the golden rule of "no more than five links per post"GatowebIn lieu of blogging, here's a list of things i've been linking to on various social networks or instant messengers over the day.-Elio e le Storie Tese on TRL, yesterday (no music, just talking. Sorry, non italian-speakers)-Of my recent articles on Tracklist, the London one is i think the one that turned out best.-Takeshi from YMCK interviewed. They're one of the best bands currently active http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/04/links-for-140408.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-4868085062202064397Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:01:00 +00002008-03-19T08:33:37.544+01:00posting nonsense despite being ridiculously busyPelodianot really bloggingbreaking the golden rule of "no more than five links per post"Tracklistincoherent ramblingsLondonI've felt like blogging for ages - and still have plenty to tell - but haven't had the time for, well, about two weeks now.Much has been going on, often with my involvement, sometimes even successfully.So this is just a much-delayed what-i've-been-doing update, hoping to be able to post more of the usual amusing ephemera sometime later (maybe in an hour, maybe next month).I've been working for a http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/03/sort-of-big-sort-of-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-949388384054276560Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:01:00 +00002008-03-16T13:11:11.057+01:00posting nonsense despite being ridiculously busyfirst new post after a ridiculous amount of timestuffincoherent ramblings1. If you think the answer to "what will students do now that we've removed any trace of entertainment from their everyday lives" is "study more", then i have the nagging sensation that you just might be utterly and absolutely wrong.2. I can't wait for the time to come when we will no longer have to depend on energy sources that can essentially be described as "things that EXPLODE".That's all forhttp://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/03/couple-of-very-personal-considerations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-3031010456528258500Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:01:00 +00002008-02-29T15:03:47.862+01:00posting nonsense despite being ridiculously busyHalf of the times i say i'm reading a book, i'm actually reading comics.Half of the times i say i'm reading comics, i'm actually reading webcomics.http://evaristo.blogspot.com/2008/02/just-like-when-you-fold-piece-in-paper.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (evaristo)0