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Cagliari April 5, 1978
Composition:
Talk about your favorite hero.
Development:
My favorite hero is Zorro and when on television they sing the song, my little sister gets scared and runs away because I always make the Z of Zorro with my 60-centimeter technical drawing ruler. I can also sing very well the part where it goes: "No one has ever, ever seen him in the eyes, but everyone knows his sign, Zorro Zorro Zorro" etc. etc. However, this was until a few days ago because yesterday I saw a cartoon on television for the first time that made me change my mind immediately. Then my brother said to me: "But weren't you rooting for Zorro?" And I replied: "But have you seen him? That one crushes Zorro, and you were rooting for Juve before and now you write M Juve everywhere." My new hero since yesterday is called Atlas Ufo Robot Goldrake, and I like everything about him; he's piloted by Actarus and sometimes also Alcor, and I just hope my father lets us watch it tomorrow instead of the news. I also really like the final song and I've already learned the chorus: "Dai, ma iubo robò in de scai"...
Today:
Cagliari March 30, 2015
I really hope you enjoyed this piece excerpted from a composition of mine from back then, I swear I copied it almost word for word from what I wrote that morning in the Third A class of the State Middle School. Back then, I was quite a promising writer, something I certainly can't say now because I haven't written anything for years except for a few little bits here and there. Probably even the least attentive will find in this review (I'm getting there, just a moment of patience) various and possible errors, but, since I didn't always distribute punctuation in the right places even when I was better, you'll forgive me now that at almost 50 years old I admit to having clearly worsened...
"Shooting star" was the closing theme of that wonderful cartoon that was Goldrake, aired for the first time on April 4, 1978, the day of my birthday! A date and a destiny, back then I really thought I could pilot that big robot one day, imagining myself transforming by doing a somersault in flight and then arriving with a series of strange turns right there... inside Goldrake's nose. When the episode ended, the final theme would come on, mysterious and incomprehensible for me, inventing the English words I couldn't grasp back then. "My Ufo Robot in the Sky" were words full of magic accompanied by a pulsating and peculiar sound that for me sounded more or less like "dum dum dum dum dum dum"... and so on throughout the song. From "that sound," as I labeled it back then, over time I learned to distinguish it as "that rhythm," and even if only many years later, I finally understood that it was caused by the instrument of a truly great artist. Ares Tavolazzi on bass, ladies and gentlemen, and later I also learned about a good-natured fellow named Ellade Bandini on drums... and then I also found out that they had a world of fun playing those little things. So, let me understand... if back then the themes of these cartoons were played by people like these gentlemen, written by Luigi Albertelli, composed by Vince Tempera, and besides the competent yet modest Tadini, Fabio Concato also did the choirs, it means that in the meantime, those of my generation (...but not only!) must have lost something, right? Who said "Stop the world, I want to get off"? Well, then I want to get off too, I want my years back and my
"Ma iubo robò in de scai"
There, now I've told you and excuse my outburst.
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