If any of our dear and beloved readers should ever actually find a job, i just added something useful to my template, covering for your browsing needs. The Web Fire escape. Read how it works here. Warmly recommended by Mr. blogger himself.
Pity that neutral green color kind of ruins the template's subtle blue color shading.
Oh, who am i kidding. It's just a ready-made template, and not a very nice one too.
Not sure whether to listen to John Lee Hooker or to Blur. My incapacity of listening to 2 albums at the same time is extremely frustrating.
Really, i've tried.
In doubt, i'm listening to fela.
Take the '80s quiz.
I only scored 18%, and that's reassuring.
"We have come to this town where lives the cream of American art. And just imagine (that) I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan. A program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here.
But just now I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked 'Why not? What is it? Do you have rocket-launching pads there?' I do not know.
And just listen - just listen to what I was told - to what reason I was told. We, which means the American authorities, can not guarantee your security if you go there.
What is it? Is there an epidemic of cholera there or something? Or have gangsters taken over the place that can destroy me? Then what must I do? Commit suicide?
This is the situation I am in. Your guest. For me, this situation is inconceivable. I can not find words to explain this to my people."
Who said these historical words on the warm days of september 1959? Find out here!
Why do i step on so much scotch tape all the time? Ah, but i digress...
Haven't updated with anything personal recently, and i apologize for this. Most of the time, i've been preparing for my thesis (i now have a clean, tidy desk in my room. Believe it or not). The rest of the time, i've been making molotov bombs with Fred. Using powdered sugar and polish soup powder. There's something about polish cuisine that has always fascinated me. Yesterday i half-jokingly asked Fred if, by using the same principle, it would be possible to make somebody's soup explode. He gave no answer.
Nordic taster session last night, got rather tipsy, for free! Actually, at the end of the night i bought a glass of wine. So my entire tipsiness could ultimately be accounted for in only 1€. Cool.
The taster session was ok, good food, lots of sweets, would have wanted to taste the Sausage Soup, but it was too close to the Gluhwein, and i kept getting attracted into the latter's orbit. Also because Fred was serving it, under the mysterious sign saying "Benelux".
Not much else to talk about. Oh, college hasn't paid me since september. Which in a way is cool, because they can't piss me off for being around the residences after curfew.
And here's another link to that great Jim Hill Media Site.
Check out Kazu Kibuishi's website featuring Copper, one of the most perfect comics i've ever seen, printed or otherwise.
As a matter of fact, i've been saving every single panel on my hard disc, so i can carry on raving for them even after the guy actually wisens up and starts to want to be paid for his work. Those wacky artist-people.
Daniele Luttazzi will be presenting his new DVD this saturday (22/10) at 19:00 o'clock, at Melbookstore, Rome.
Those not living in rome should go to that site and read the comments to Daniele's appearance on TV last week(yes, he was censored after all), but most of all the beautiful interviews in the "inediti" section. I've been reading veeeeeery slowly over the past few days, also because they're just as dense as they are wonderful.
Interesting things going on at Knulp in Trieste... Unfortunately, their site is not very informative. So i'll just copy-paste their press release here. In italian, i've no time to translate. Bloody italians. Can't they just speak english like everyone else?
Knulp
via madonna del mare 7/a-Trieste
tel : 040-300021
www.knulp.it
e-mail : knulp@knulp.it
aperto dalle 10 alle 24/chiuso il mercoledì
VIVA BRASIL
un'iniziativa dell' associazione QUILOMBO
GIOVEDI' 20 NOVEMBRE (GIORNATA DELLA COSCIENZA NERA IN BRASILE)
ore 21.00: conferenza stampa, presentazione associazione QUILOMBO e rassegna
ore 22.00: proiezione film "Quilombo"
VENERDI' 21 NOVEMBRE
ore 19.00: il Brasile di "Dona Flor", cucina e musica, assaggini con specialità brasiliane
MARTEDI' 25 NOVEMBRE
ore 20.00: video comico "Os normais" (1a parte)
ore 21.30: musica "ao vivo" con BINHO CARVALHO
ore 22.45: proiezione spettacolo Berimbau e Gilberto Gil al festival Sunsplash 2002
GIOVEDI' 27 NOVEMBRE
ore 19.00: il Brasile in rete, in collaborazione con MUSIBRASIL
ore 19.30: la poesia di Vinicius de Moraes, letture e musica
ore 20.00: apertura piccola mostra artigianato e mostra fotografica in collaborazione con XINGU ARTE BRASIL
VENERDI' 28 NOVEMBRE
ore 19.00: relazioni del convegno "Un nuovo Brasile in cammino", in collaborazione con IBRIT di Milano
ore 19.30: solidarietà, proiezione video comunità di Minas Novas
DOMENICA 30 NOVEMBRE
ore 21.30: musica, teatro e danza "QUINCAS" (Fabbrica delle Buccie/Berimbau)
ore 22.30: film/concerto "Bahia de todos os sambas"
LUNEDI' 1 DICEMBRE
ore 21.00: musiche di capoeira con il gruppo CAPOEIRA ANGOLA CENTER di Mestre Joao Grande (prof. Marquinho)
ore 22.00: video di capoeira (Mestre Joao Grande)
MARTEDI' 2 DICEMBRE
ore 20.00: video comico "Os normais" (2a parte)
ore 21.30: musica "ao vivo" con ADRIANA VASQUEZ
ore 22.45: documentario "Nel cuore delle batterie di Rio"
PER TUTTE LE INIZIATIVE L'INGRESSO E' LIBERO.
That last bit was cool.
Anyway, i'm planning to be there this thursday for the opening and movie (1984 movie with unpublished music by Gilberto Gil), then on the 25th of course, to see Gilberto Gil's concert for a second time(i was there when they filmed, i'd even reviewed it somewhere on my lousy old site) and on the 27th for Vinicius' poems. And maybe also on the 30th to see that Bahia De Todos Os Sambas movie which i once bought the VHS of, but it never worked. Bother.
Feeling a bit down. Can't find my Bluebeaters CD anymore, will have to buy it back(it was a copy, anyway), i noticed it's been republished in a 2-pack with their live album, seems to be a worthy low-price buy.
I would check how much money i have in the bank, but i'm afraid the machine will steal my card. Or repossess me.
Eventually ate the two kinder-surprises i had hidden in a secret place of my room, they say chocolate cheers you up. Hope it works. The surprises weren't bad. A frog and a jigsaw puzzle.
I'm also seeing if browsing for stuff i can't buy on amazon will help cheer me up. The link to my wishlist i put here yesterday is more for my own use(i don't want-nor expect!-any reader of this blog to buy me stuff. I'm already surprised they read this, it's enough for me), so in mid-december when my mother asks me what i want for christmas i can just say "wait, i'll send you the link."
The link to the wish-list, of course. Not to the blog. Noooooooooooooo, not to the blog.
"The Russians taught us to drink vodka, but they never taught us when to stop"
-Kazakh Proverb.
Just added my Amazon Wish List to my far too egocentric links.
As if anyone cares.
Bah. Humbug.
At last, more info on Dave McKean's visit to Trieste: download pdf file here.
Other interesting things of the trieste science fiction festival: Tarkovskij's Solaris, Chris Marker's La Jetée, retrospectives of Doctor Who and The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Not bad. Oh, and Dario Argento's popping by, too.
Just added another link to your right (left if you're standing behind the monitor): Steu's blog which had apparently already been linking to me for some days without me noticing. Time to return the favor.
What is this, post-every-ten-minutes day?
