tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55777002011-11-30T00:18:54.239+01:00Being telepathic makes me antisocial.evaristohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106608566414569720noreply@blogger.comBlogger9511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577700.post-91645180079502075032008-08-25T17:42:00.002+02:002008-08-25T20:38:30.849+02:00

As 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

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I 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

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Seriously, 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

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We 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

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Since 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

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"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

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If 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.

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You 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.

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I 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

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(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

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As 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

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The 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

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Things 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 climbing

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Unbeknownst to most mortal humans, boxes are not really for keeping things inside.Boxes are actually vehicles that cats use for going nowhere in particular.

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Since 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 around

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Oh 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

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Just 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

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When 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

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If not that i just love this song:

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I 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

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As 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"

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In 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

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I'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

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1. 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 for

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Half 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.

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When in doubt...Sometime in august 2007.I'll post a newer one, one of these days.

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Lunchtime, yesterday.My Father: I gave the cat a gigantic chicken wing, did he eat it?My Mother: Yep, gobbled it up. I'm surprised he left the bone.My Father: Well, that means your cooking must be improving.Bonus links:John Cleese Interviewed (Via NewsFromMe)Stunningly beautiful site where children's drawings are recreated as photographs (Via Neil Gaiman's Journal)

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David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and MegastarsI've kept a tab this in an open tab for over two months, marked for "immediate reading". I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. All i know it's David Byrne, writing about new models for musical distribution. Which is more than worth a read.Go along now and read it before i do.

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New Elio e le Storie Tese single/video:New album on the 20th of February, sold mostly in unconventional places (newsagents and internets. Ok, record shops too).Which is one of the reasons i haven't been able to keep up with my one-post-per-day project: work got in the way.I don't usually post too much about work here on the blog, mainly because it would feel like selling out in a "have a look at

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So, you may have noticed i haven't very good at the updating-every-day thing lately. I have a good reason for this: i was mostly at home with a sore throat, and being home with a sore throat isn't the best environment for coming up with groundbreaking new blog material. Well, unless you're Neil Gaiman of course, in which case the tissue paper is made of fairy wings and the throat medicine is made

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Ripped off from Randy of SomethingPositive*:Instructions:1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.3 - Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days" http://

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Had fun learning how to use last.fm tags today:For reference: (Sorry Wikipedia, never again will i go around saying you're useless. Not for the next eight-to-ten hours at least. Maybe.)I then retraced the history of giant crabs on the internet:-Telegraph Article, 28/2/2004-Neil Gaiman Extremely Alarmed Blogpost, 3/3/2004-Radio 4 BBC Science/Travel Report, 14/1/2008-Extremely Whimsical Momus Post,

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Here's a little game you can do at home too. Ever read those articles in music magazines where they make someone listen to a bunch of random tracks and they have to guess what they ae and comment on them? Ok, in magazines they're usually unoriginal enough to include stuff by the interviewees themselves, or stuff they produced or played on, and the guy has to act surprised. Not here, ladies and

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We're sort of staying in the same world as last week: after all there's not much of a distance between Vinicius Cantuaria and Arto Lindsay. Today's song is quite the rarity, a cover Arto recorded in 2006 of Chico Buarque's composition O Futebol, for a football-themed compilation called PlayUp.Arto Lindsay - O Futebol (285kps VBR 7Mb 3:21 Mp3)Credits here; lyrics here.This song was sent to me by

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But you can relax, i won't tell anyone.(via Coilhouse)

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As you probably won't notice, there are still some slight changes going on in this here blog's appearance. I made some minimal changes to the template color and also didn't change the color of certain bits of the sidebar. I'm pointing this out because i had actually *tried* to make things look better but had ended up with one single big ugly mess and had to fight through the teeth to get things

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It's the Captain's birthday, the 67th.You can start by rereading his story.Then you can listen to Black Snake Moan(Right-click to save).And then you can go out and do your own thing, and make up the rules as you go along, because that's what the Captain taught me to do. And if you don't have a plan you can always pretend to have had one all along, because that's a little something i learnt from

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My good friend (and occasional presence from the first year or two of this blog) Celeste sent me these pictures the other day, and kindly agreed when i asked her if i could publish her here. The main reason she agreed is that i asked while she was busy watching a My Name Is Earl episode and would therefore have agreed even if i had asked "can i take all your personal possessions and grind them

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Some links from the quintessential online archive, in case there's still someone i haven't forwarded these to personally. I usually visit ubu.com for the avantgarde audio and video archives, but occasionally come across unexpected gems like the following, which deserve greater diffusion.Kenny G meets John Zorn (No, really)The Gaylords sing american hits in italian (from the 2007 365 days project)

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Trieste, 3:15AM, 1st of January 2008. Cinematic!Someday i'll learn how to lower the volume on my videos so you can actually make out what's going on. I could also try to learn how to keep a camera straight while i'm drunk, but that would be hoping for a bit too much.

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I had quite a surprise -and a pleasant one- the other day whilst listening to Vinicius Cantuaria's new album, Cymbals, when i realized one track was most familiar. And no, i'm not talking about the new Jobim cover he records for each new album (this time around it's Vivo Sonhando). The song was Ominira, which i'd heard before on Lisa Ono's wonderful 2004 collection of lusafrican songs Naima ~meu

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Location: The bar. Time: this morning.Him: What? You don't know 30 Seconds To Mars?Me: Um, no.Him: They're good. The singer's the blonde guy from Fight Club, remember him?Me: ...Him: He was also in that movie about the death of John Lennon: he's the guy who killed him.Me: Well thank you very much for spoiling the ending.

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Location: Home, Sofa. The phone rings.Me: Hey.Him: Hey R., what are you doing tonight?Me: It's funny you should ask. I was indeed planning on drinking myself to partial insanity. I was going to do it alone and already have a head start but you're most welcome to join me if you are so inclined.Him: Um, well, actually we were going out with some friends and wanted to know if you want to come with

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Yesterday was a busy work day. So busy in fact that i did not one but two of these while not working. Two.2892%DRUNKARDThis post has been offered by: Lazy&Neverupdating Bloggers Theatre.

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You may notice some differences on this blog today. The not-exactly-new-just-very-temporary header, for starts. Thing is, the time has finally come for me to change this antiquated template and put something more up-to-date in its place. So for the next day or twenty this blog is going to look extremely wonky, since i haven't really made my mind up yet about what i want it to look like.In the

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For the past couple years, My Father has finally entered the monetary status in life where you no longer need to crash on someone's sofa when he travels, but can now resort to mid-low-budget hotel accomodation.My Father will be seventy in December.Hmmm.

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Laika passed away 50 years ago today.Link 1Link 2We miss her.

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Crowd inside Teatro Miela before Trabant concert/launch partyThe webmaster comes on stage for the encore playing surprise guest air guitar impossible parts. Special thanks to Elena for sending me the pictures and for being the only person this decade who's managed to make me look good in a photo. And to Trabant of course for the graceful surprise invitation.And this one is from

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Dear internet, my cat just farted.

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I realize i should post a little info about what i've been doing lately instead of hopping around the continent and blogging. But i have my priorities - there's much to be told but i'd rather talk about what other people have been up to first. All sorts of interesting stuff has been going on around here!TrabantFor starters, i'll be in Teatro Miela in Trieste tonight for the launch of Trabant's

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It's all true...Via Mark Evanier who adds some wise words of appreciation.

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Knowledge (and, if possible, a demographic) of how much people are paying for the new radiohead album is definitely more valuable than the album itself.Actually, i'm pretty certain that somewhere in the world there must be someone who's thinking of how to hack the website just to get that information.UPDATE: This website asks people how much they paid, but very cheekily doesn't give the results (

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Must have been around late 2004 or early 2005Me: We can't go in there. It's evil.A.: Robin, how can a shop be evil? People are evil.Me: Ok, ok, let's go to bloody starbucks.

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Sorry, had uploaded this two weeks ago but forgot to link it here. Original text so you don't have to go over to its respective youtube page (and so i can finish this and go off to a party in time):Recorded on thursday, August 9th 2007 at 22:48, at the trumpeter monument of Guča. Clearly visible are Sandro, Johannes, Dave, a glimpse of Derf, and Chuketti's hat.

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Hey there, i'm back and have to report at work in about 10 hours. Sleeping must therefore ensue. Plenty of content will come for those who have patience.

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Once again, i'm leaving. Once again, to a festival. Once again, to a festival like no other.And it also seems that in each of these festivals i have and will show a different face. In Rototom Sunsplash it was the face of the translator and bon viveur. At ItaliaWave it was that of the webeditor and music enthusiast (and, surprisingly, of the good team worker). In Guča, it will be that of the

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"I miss congrio. I remember when your father and I were still going out together, in Chile. One time he told me to eat congrio in a big restaurant, it was called El Rey Del Pescado. It was delicious. It was also expensive, i don't know how he could afford to take me there. We were students, and we were poor. Now we're teachers, and we're poor."-My Mother, twenty minutes ago.

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Sure, i could write an update. But God, i'm tired.

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Pelo fixing something for the neighbouring office, yesterday.Sala Parto, yesterday.Global Stage, yesterday.Chill-out zone, yesterday.Main stage, 5 minutes ago.(Michele, preparati.)

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Ok, i'm back home. For fifteen minutes. Then i leave for Florence where the whole Italia Wave adventure begins. Still packing. Yesterday this blog turned four years old. Welcome to its fifth year of existence. I've got something special to celebrate, which will be online as soon as i find the files which mysteriously disappeared during my absence.As for the sunsplash, i will try to keep this blog

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1. Tuesday evening, in front of Main Stage. Screaming over crowd noise.Me: Can you believe that one week ago today i was seeing fucking Dionne Warwick live?Him: What? You fucked Dionne Warwick??Me: No, i saw her perform, in concert, live.Him: Oh.2.Friday afternoon, at the music and clothing stalls.Peter Tosh(from a loudspeaker): Legalize it...Me: Legalize what? Please be more specific.Her: He

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Improvised traditional percussion and dance, Rototom Sunsplash, 10.07.07.Beware: poor sound. But at least the kora can be made out a little.

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Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra live in Rototom Sunsplash, 11.07.07The book. I'm reasonably proud of this, so i guess you'll be seeing more book-related posts in the near future.

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Cheers from sunsplash land. Very quick observations since i only have 10min of internet left.Tokyo ska paradise rocked, if that can be said about ska bands. They did ignore my requests of Rydeen, however. Dammit.We're camping with a hammock and a swimming pool. Classy.Today, book presentation. And meeting David Katz. Kind of nervous.I think i'll go jump into a river to relax a bit. See you later.

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Once again, i'm going to try to write an update while i pack my bags and prepare for Greater Things. There's quite a lot to say so i'll proceed with bulletpoints, which are instrumental in hiding the fact that none of the things we'll be talking about have any connection with each other whatsoever.So, what's going on? Simple, i'm leaving for four days of rest and relaxation at Rototom Sunsplash.

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(Actually, it's Atom)After at least two years of "yeah, i'll do it tomorrow", i finally added a link on the sidebar to this site's feed. So now you all know where to point your feedreaders and proceed to party like it's 2004. Yes, i'm also not very good at maths.

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Performing Como El Agua O Como El Viento at Centro Giovanile Piero Poclen, Monfalcone.My interview to the artist is coming soon. (i know, i know, they all are)

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Yesterday a gypsy stopped me in the street. She wanted to know what brand of shampoo i use.This brought me to think that i really should have a faq. If i had one i would have had a link to send her to.So, i'm actually going to write one. Start sending in your questions.

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My Father, in the car:"I was writing (...) about this thing that happened to me back when I wrote the book, History Of The Chilean Socialist Party. It was the Party's 49th anniversary so for the fiftieth there was a big celebration. Allende was in power, the party was strong, it was held in the Estadio Nacional. It wasn't full, but almost. People were going around selling my book, carrying whole

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A rite of passage of sorts. At the Large Tree on the night between 21 and 22 may, 2007. Many pictures were taken, a selection can be found here.Plenty more content this way cometh.Slideshow view also recommended.

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Here's that announcement i'd mentioned... All readers are invited, of course. We'll make up an excuse for celebration on the way up. Over forty people are already expected, so feel free to pop by.Tnx to Chuk@Tea for creating the flyer!

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Art by Herb Trimpe and Sal Buscema, colors by Christie Scheele, words by Roy Thomas.Original source: The Incredible Hulk N°135, 1971.

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Some blogs i've been avidly reading and feeling inspired by lately. Before adding them to the sidebar(or not), i thought it would be nice to point them out to readers in their own bona fide blogpost.I once declared i would never agree with whatever Momus says. Nowadays i find myself disagreeing with myself rather often, and perhaps consequentially Momus' Blog has been one of my favourite sources

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Time: late januaryPlace: Here.Her: Robin, can i ask you a question?Me: (sensing danger) Sure.Her: You always used to hang out with Fred, didn't you?Me: Yes, that's true.Her: (shyly) Well...why don't you hang out with him anymore?Me: I think that would have something to do with him studying and bartending in Oxford now.Her: Oh.Coincidentally at the exact same time, in Oxford:Time: MorningLocation:

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Living room, about a month ago.Me: What're you watching?Her: One of those Lord Of The Rings movies.Me: Cool, which one?Her: I don't know, but they just killed a poor dwarf.

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I was going to post my ultra-rare edition of Sgt. Pepper, but far be it from me to succumb to all this tacky celebration-ing. Instead, we have something fascinating in its own right, thanks to badness.As you very well should know if you're carbon-based, one of The Greatest Bands Of All Times recently reformed, reuniting all three original members and are currently touring. You may think this is a

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Place: Trieste, kebab stallTime: October/November 2006Players: Webmaster, stall ownerMe: Do you go home often?Him: To Siria? :-)Me: Yeah.Him: Sure! :-)Me: When was the last time?Him: I go there every year! :-)Me: Isn't it expensive?Him: Business has been good. I came to Italy five years ago, found a job, went back in the summer to get some documents. :-)The following year business was good, I

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i found these from Neil Gaiman.she wrote a book, this is the website:No one belongs here more than youi'd first gotten to know her through her movie. It is calledMe and You and Everyone We KnowGnapppo had told me it had good music (he was right).all the staff at WGD loved it when we saw it last year.we really really did.she has other websites too.this one is a project about people missing

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Location: somewhere between Duino and Turin (or vice versa).Time: sometime between 1am Tuesday morning and 6pm Wednesday evening.Him: Now I understand why you don't update your blog so often. Every time you try to do it some wierd bulgarian shows up and kidnaps you away in his car.Me: It's funny because it's true.Later, or earlier that night/morning/evening. Oh whatever, SUMMER.Me: I really

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(in that order)Small anecdote. Upon seeing my fresh purchase, L. remarked:"Eclectic, very eclectic. I like that, eclectic taste is a thing of true geniuses."I was about to thank her for the compliment when she started to snicker uncontrollably while muttering the word "genius". I guess this is one of the reasons i hardly ever talk to her.

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I just realized something. I was translating a press release for Vinicio Capossela's upcoming US tour, and had just produced this phrase:"(...)generating great interest and enthusiasm among audiences and record industry insiders"when it dawned on me. Two things dawned on me, actually.The first, and most immediate, is that a very, very very tiny part of Capossela's chances of success in the United

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Yes, Facebook is indeed a drug.Update: Warren Ellis agrees, albeit with much better words than I could ever have come up with.

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On the Websphere, Sometime in March/April 2007Her: Ok, so when i come and visit we can meet in Trieste and get some pizza...Me: Pizza? Come on, we're in Trieste! It would be a crime not to eat something typical!Her: Ok, what do you suggest?Me: I think we should go out for a Kebab.Her: Cool!

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Yes, I'm telling everyone i know. Slowly.

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Me: So, what do you think I should do?Him: I think the solution is that you should stop behaving like an asshole. Also, I think i should take you out to get smashed now.Me: But you don't drink anymore.Him: I don't. You're the one who's getting smashed, not me.Me: Who's paying for the drinks?Him: You are.Me: Oh. (Long Pause) Ok.

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Florence, December 2006Her: So are you planning anything for your birthday?Me: Nothing special, you know i never celebrate. Probably just going out with some friends, having some drinks. What are you doing for yours?Her: Oh, same as last year. I'm going bungee jumping.

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The Blues Busters live with Byron Lee & The Dragonairs at The Sombrero Club, 1962. (via)

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The players: My Father, The Webmaster.The time: two days ago, lunchtime.Him: We're running off to the lawyer, but i left something to eat in the fridge. Don't know what it is though.Me: You don't? Who made it?Him: Oh, I did.

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Him: I slept too much, i need to go to drink.Me: ...Him: No wait, it was the other way around.

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Serbian vampire hunters prevent Milosevic come-backVia Warren Ellis.

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Location: Tetris Carnival PartyTime: yesterday. ish.Her: What are you dressed up as*? You look just like Johnny Depp in Fear And Loathing!Me: Thanks! It's the first time anyone's compared me to Johnny Depp, pity you chose the film where he's bald and overweight...Her: Hey, at least i didn't say Ed Wood.*PS: I wasn't.

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The webmaster would like to beg apology for the protracted lack of updates by presenting You with one of the most beautiful things ever committed to film.Laurel & Hardy - Dance Scene from "Way Out West", 1937."At the Ball, That's All" performed by The Avalon Boys.

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I am blogging from a new laptop.(i love this strip)For some reason, this very website makes the new laptop's browser crash.

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Location: Undisclosed (My current employer might be reading).Players: Two members of a Distinguished Band from Trieste.Time: around 11AM of Saturday, 10 February.Her: Ok, my idea is we drive back to trieste at 300km/h so we can go see Inland Empire.Him: Come on, we can take our time and catch a showing around eight.Her: Yeah, but I want to see it twice.

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I'm sure you're all very well aware of the upcoming celebration but it's always a good thing to remind you. Imagine the shame of stepping out of your door on wednesday morning and realizing you forgot to wear your gorilla suit. C'mon, pull the good one out from your wardrobe. You know you want to.And just to give you something else to look at, here's my post from last year's NGSD where a rare

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Prologue:"Jack Ren (********@hotmail.com) has added you to MSN Messenger. Do you want to allow him to contact you and see you online?"Feeling rather surprisingly friendly, i accepted partially out of curiosity.The following conversation ensued:evaristo writes:Hi! With who do i have the pleasure...?Jack Ren writes:helloJack Ren writes:what do you mean? i am sorry, i can't understand!evaristo

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This blog is currently being upgraded. Things may look a bit wonky for a while. The webmaster doesn't exclude the possibility of throwing all this 2.0 rubbish away and just going back to the old version.1hr later UPDATE: i guess i'll be leaving this new font as the old one for some reason gets the sidebar and post titles all pixelly. Most things are now accounted for.What's left:1. removal of

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It's The Captain's Birthday! Don Van Vliet is 66 today and that already makes it one of the best days in the year. It is usually a matter of celebration on this website. This year, however, we don't really have anything ready. This is not a problem though, because we here at WGD are rather good at improvising.Therefore, this whole week will be dedicated to The Good Captain in one way or another.

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