Stanlio

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Bob Dylan: Infidels
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Bob Dylan: Infidels
9 sep 17
Produced by Mark Knopfler and Dylan himself, Infidels is seen as his return to secular music.

Having brought Knopfler on board, they quickly assembled a group of musicians for the album, including Mick Taylor, former guitarist of the Blues Breakers and the Rolling Stones, known for his fluid, melodic guitar improvisations infused with blues.

Then Knopfler suggested Alan Clark on keyboards and sound engineer Neil Dorfsman. Dylan invited Robbie Shakespeare and Sly Dunbar as the rhythm section.
Bob Dylan: Love And Theft
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Bob Dylan: "Love and Theft"
9 sep 17
The album continues Dylan's artistic rebirth that began in 1997 with the album "Time Out of Mind," and received even more enthusiastic reviews from almost the entire music criticism.

It is the first work produced by Bob Dylan himself using the pseudonym "Jack Frost," which he would also use for subsequent albums.
Bob Dylan: Modern Times
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Bob Dylan: Modern Times
9 sep 17
The album continues the trend towards blues, rockabilly, and old ballads that characterized the previous two albums, "Time Out of Mind" and "Love and Theft."

Along with its success, the album sparked a hornet's nest over the uncredited use of choruses and arrangements from old songs, and many verses drawn from the works of the poet Henry Timrod.
Bob Dylan: Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
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Bob Dylan: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
9 sep 17
Soundtrack of the film of the same name, Bob Dylan was involved in the movie, initially to write the opening score; he then wrote the entire soundtrack and also had a part as an actor.

At the time, Sam Peckinpah (the director) did not know Dylan, but when he heard him sing, he was profoundly impressed; one of the pieces from the film's soundtrack is "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," which would become a classic in rock music, covered by many artists over time.
  • IlConte
    9 sep 17
    My version of Knocking on the heart. It should last at least four times longer...
Bob Dylan: Time Out Of Mind
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind
9 sep 17
This album has a unique atmosphere also thanks to producer and collaborator Daniel Lanois on guitar, mandolin-guitar, Firebird, Martin 0018, Gretsch, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, with innovative microphone placement and mixing work.
Bob Dylan: Desire
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Bob Dylan: Desire
9 sep 17
The lyrics were written in collaboration with Jacques Levy (1935-2004), except for One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) and Sara, a song that Dylan dedicated to his wife, Sara Lownds, in a desperate attempt at reconciliation during a time when their marriage was in deep crisis.

Two songs on the album attracted much criticism: Joey, which tells the story of the gangster Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, turning him into a romantic figure, and Hurricane, about the boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was wrongfully accused of murder and was still in prison at that time. (cit.wiki)
Bob Dylan: Blues, ballate e canzoni
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Bob Dylan: Blues, ballate e canzoni
9 sep 17
This 1972 book, featuring an introduction by American literature expert Fernanda Pivano, is a portrait of a "prophet," of a poet, but it is above all the autobiography of a man who sings about the issues of his time and his personal solitude.

The collection is released during the heated days of youth protest and contains the most famous and significant lyrics of the greatest singer-songwriter of our times.
  • Stanlio
    9 sep 17
    "I would rather build harmonica holders than discuss Aztec anthropology, English literature, or the history of the United Nations...
    I wouldn't want to be Bach, Mozart, Tolstoy, Joe Hill, Gertrude Stein, or James Dean...
    they're all dead, the great books have been written, the great sayings have been spoken!

    I just want to show you a picture of what happens here sometimes, even if I myself don’t quite understand what’s going on...
    my poems are written in a rhythm of non-poetic distortion, divided by pierced ears, fake eyelashes, ripped apart by people who constantly torture each other...
    a song is something that can walk on its own, a poem is a naked man...
    someone says that I am a poet."
    Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan: Street Legal
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Bob Dylan: Street-Legal
9 sep 17
The album marked a significant musical shift for Dylan, who embraced more pop-rock arrangements, collaborated with a large group of backing vocalists, and decisively moved towards black music.

From the title itself, Street Legal is a statement of intent: "street illegal" referred in the fifties to gambling machines, but "street legal," in street language, meant a "cool guy," a "hip," or a "straight shooter."

Moreover, "Street legal" also refers to modified car engines that, after passing safety inspections, become legitimate and legal. (source: wiki)
Bohumil Hrabal: Una solitudine troppo rumorosa
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Bohumil Hrabal: Una solitudine troppo rumorosa
3 nov 17
Hant'a has been working for thirty-five years at a paper compactor. While doing his job, he occasionally collects discarded books ready to be destroyed and piles them up in his home. Hant'a thus becomes "educated against his will": he knows and learns the thoughts of Hegel, Nietzsche, Kant, and other important writers. Hant'a lives in a constant state of drunkenness, due to the numerous beers he drinks during work. The opening of a new, technologically advanced press causes Hant'a a sort of estrangement and discomfort that brings him close to suicide.
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho
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Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho
12 oct 17
"A novel that is both terrifying and comical. A one-way trip into madness." - Giuseppe Culicchia -

Patrick Bateman is young, handsome, and wealthy. He lives in New York, works on Wall Street, and spends wild nights with his crazy friends filled with sex, alcohol, and cocaine in the most exclusive clubs in Manhattan. According to Evelyn Richards, his young, beautiful, and rich girlfriend, Patrick is "the boy next door." In reality, his life is marked by frantic and delirious rhythms, by unspeakable obsessions. Moreover, when darkness falls over the city, Patrick transforms into a murderous monster, a cold, methodical, relentless torturer. To the point of embodying horror. (einaudi.it)
Bret Easton Ellis: Acqua dal sole
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Bret Easton Ellis: Acqua dal sole
12 oct 17
- Thirteen stories that immerse us in 1980s Los Angeles, snapshots of a world too polished to be real, yet too recognizable to be false.

- Spoiled rich kids of never-grown-up parents, rockstars obsessed on a worldwide tour, ephemeral and empty television stars, impossible loves lived out in the zoo, vampires driving Porsches, clumsy and apathetic criminals who are no less cruel for it, kids dead in a car crash or girls about to die of cancer—these spectral portraits reconstruct a humanity besieged by indifference, amidst endless drugs, sex, and abuse, a human comedy of horrors, filled with unforgettable dialogues and a ruthless description of social disintegration around which an entire generation emerges, sucked in by the collapse of all values. (from einaudi.it)
Bret Easton Ellis: Le regole dell'attrazione
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Bret Easton Ellis: Le Regole Dell'Attrazione
12 oct 17
"Ellis, it must be said without delusion, is incredibly talented." - Pier Vittorio Tondelli -
"This book, murky yet not morbid, makes one think about how much despair can hide behind the facade of young people privileged in economic status, physical attractiveness, and social prestige, but devoid of passions, dreams, in a world that is too cynical, too cold, too nonsensical." - Fernanda Pivano -
"What would my parents say if they knew that all I'm doing here is drinking and having sex? Would they disown me? And would they still send me money?"
The students attending the exclusive university of Camden, New Hampshire, besides observing those "rules of attraction" that govern various relationships between the sexes, mostly drink, get high, and spiral out of control. And with whatever they can get their hands on: warm flat beer, whiskey, amphetamines, coke, Ecstasy, meth… (einaudi.it)
Bruce Chatwin: Che ci faccio qui?
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Bruce Chatwin: Che ci faccio qui?
20 sep 17
In this book, Bruce Chatwin collected, in the last months before his death, those scattered pieces of his work that marked as many stages of a single adventure, of a whole life intense as "a journey to be made on foot." (from Adelphi)
Bruce Chatwin: Utz
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Bruce Chatwin: Utz
20 sep 17
Utz's solitary and obsessive life will turn into a game against that enemy, whose stakes are the collection itself, a silent army of beings that must be wrested from the brutal fingertips of every authority... (cit. Adelphi)
Bruce Chatwin: Le Vie dei Canti
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Bruce Chatwin: Le Vie dei Canti
20 sep 17
It tells of encounters and picaresque adventures in the depths of Australia. And it is a journey of ideas, a melody of ideas that all stems from a single question: why has man, since the dawn of time, felt an irresistible urge to move, to migrate? (from Adelphi)
Bruce Chatwin: Il viceré di Ouidah
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Bruce Chatwin: Il viceré di Ouidah
20 sep 17
More than a century after the death of a famous slave trader, Dom Francisco da Silva, his numerous descendants gather in Ouidah, Dahomey, "to honor his memory with a requiem mass and a meal." They are a diverse crowd of poor and rich, sharing a common regret: the era of the slave trade, "lost golden age when their family had been wealthy, famous, and white... (from Adelphi)"
Bruce Chatwin: In Patagonia
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Bruce Chatwin: In Patagonia
20 sep 17
After the last war, some English boys, including the author of this book, bent over maps, searched for the only right place to escape the next nuclear destruction. They chose Patagonia.
And it was precisely in Patagonia that Bruce Chatwin would venture, not to save himself from a catastrophe, but in pursuit of a prehistoric monster and a seafaring relative.
He found both – and once again he discovered the enchantment of traveling... (from Adelphi)
Bruce Chatwin: Sulla collina nera
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Bruce Chatwin: Sulla collina nera
20 sep 17
This novel is the story of the long life of two identical twins. Lewis and Benjamin Jones for eighty years eat the same food, wear the same clothes, sleep in the same bed, swing the axe with the same motion. They live on a farm called "La Visione," situated on the line that separates Wales from England, in a harsh and sparsely populated landscape. When examined closely, their existence is filled with events, often cruel and violent, but everything unfolds within a ten-mile radius of the farm. (cit. Adelphi)
Bruce Chatwin: Anatomia dell’irrequietezza
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Bruce Chatwin: Anatomia dell’irrequietezza
20 sep 17
They are short stories, tales and travel sketches (from beloved Patagonia to Tuscany, from Africa to Capri), portraits (Konrad Lorenz, Axel Munthe, Curzio Malaparte)... from page to page through writings that span twenty years of a brief, intense, wandering life... of a Chatwin who was an art expert and archaeologist, journalist, explorer, and storyteller. (quoted from Adelphi)
Bruce Chatwin: L’occhio assoluto
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Bruce Chatwin: L’occhio assoluto
20 sep 17
The images that appear in this book were captured in Patagonia and Mauritania, in Australia and Afghanistan, in Mali and Nepal, but often the original location and occasion remain indecipherable, as if the pure randomness of traveling served to bring forth, each time, in a fleeting moment, the complete uniqueness of a fragment of what is, without other attributes, and at the same time the silent astonishment of the eye that catches it. (cit. Adelphi)
Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux: Ritorno in Patagonia
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Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux: Ritorno in Patagonia
20 sep 17
Melville used the adjective "patagonia" to indicate something completely exotic, monstrous, and dangerously alluring. An attraction that also had a profound effect on the young Bruce Chatwin.

Both Chatwin and Theroux belong to that lineage of travelers who find that "a literary association or reference can excite as much as a rare plant or animal." (from Adelphi)
Bruce Hornsby and the Range: The Way It Is
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Bruce Hornsby & The Range: The Way It Is
9 sep 17
Of this excellent album, there is an equally excellent review by silvietto here on DeBasio written on February 5, 2016, in the late afternoon...
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