Grasshopper

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DeAge™ : 7973 days • Here since 11 august 2004

Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman

7 feb 05

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Communist. It is known that people like comrade Mauro see communists everywhere because that's what their master does, and they follow suit like a flock of ducks. However, I am not a communist, I have never been one, and I never will be. I belong to that kind of left that is defined as libertarian... but here the discussion becomes too complex for Mauro. For him, there are masses of communists everywhere, and in the morning he wakes up all grumpy after dreaming about them. What won't one do to please a master when they have one...

Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman

7 feb 05

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Anonymity. Thanks to the honorable Rodotà, one of the few who has cared about laws that affect people’s lives and not the personal interests of the boss, in here we are all anonymous or covered by nicknames. You are no exception: all that is known about you is that your name is Mauro and that you are a fascist, and that is not enough information to identify you, so stop flapping your gums about others exposing you under cover. They expose you and nothing more, and even in a graceful and elegant manner, like the "puffetta," or punctual and precise, like Joseph. I thank them but at the same time I repeat that they are wasting their breath: it's like talking to a lamppost.

Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman

7 feb 05

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Sorry for the delay, but I was away over the weekend and missed this debate, which I will read as soon as I have time. In the meantime, I'm going to collect the 2 cents (to each person, the right value) that I bet with myself that the anonymous fan of Buttiglione was indeed Mauro, the unwavering fascist (of shit). Who else could be so obtuse?
To those who took the trouble to defend logic and common sense against the verbal beatings of our little duce, I say that if the intent is to make him reason, it’s a pure waste of time (see Green Day - American Idiot). This guy is like Schifani or Bondi: you can cover him with meters of shit, but he keeps rambling like a broken record.

Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman

4 feb 05

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Let's see if behind the usual cowardly anonymity I can guess the author of this sober and enlightened intervention: Mauro, the inflexible fascist, resurfaced from the sewer of "American Idiot" after being humiliated dozens of times by Hal and others. If it's him, the explanations are thrown to the wind (or rather into the sewer) because it's clear he understands nothing. Let's assume it's not him: I simply pray that the anonymous one rereads it: I just want to say that religious overdose, whether it be of Allah or others, can seriously harm the brain, and Buttiglione with his recent remarks is an example of this, even though of course he has never endorsed any death sentence (but no one has said this, and even less have I).

Fu Manchu The Action Is Go!

3 feb 05

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Reading Puntinicaz is a pleasure: his writings are not reviews but essays of a new language that is (almost) always entertaining. However, maybe it's because I was rolling on the floor laughing at the Mobb Deep one, but this one left me a bit disappointed.

Peter Gabriel UP

28 jan 05

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If difficult means not taken for granted, not trivial, not obvious; if it means different from the summer (and non-summer) anthems that infest the radio, then yes, this is a wonderfully difficult album. A bit like a symphony by Brahms: never easy on the first listen, but after you've listened to it 20-30 times, it's pure pleasure, and if you listen to it another 1000 times, it will never bore you. So this album: especially "Signal to noise," "Darkness," "I grieve," "My head sounds like that," and "The drop" certainly don’t have catchy hooks for the charts, but they remain well etched in memory and in twenty years will not feel at all "outdated."

Peter Gabriel UP

27 jan 05

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Fuck the anonymous, of course, but I would like to satisfy my curiosity: what effect does the ending of "Signal to Noise" have on you? Personally, every time I hear it, I literally lose my mind: total exhilaration, chills, and perpetual motion. Yet, I don't even have a body that's particularly suited for letting loose.

Zucchero ZU & Co.

27 jan 05

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I find it a bit strange as well, to say the least, especially the character. However, while rummaging through his mountains of garbage, he might stumble upon something absolutely surprising, like "Dune mosse," "Hey man," or "Iruben me." Could it be that when alcohol clears his mind (or completely invades it), Zucchero has even a tiny, tiny glimpse of genius somewhere?

Peter Gabriel Passion: Music for the Last Temptation of Christ

27 jan 05

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Fosca, I might as well not risk boring the next one and do it on Eros Ramazzotti or Max Pezzali. It would inevitably turn out ugly because it would be full of swear words, but the real problem is that to do it with a minimum of honesty, I would have to listen to at least one of their albums (actually, just one would be enough). Since life is short and time flies, I prefer not to do it.

Peter Gabriel Passion: Music for the Last Temptation of Christ

26 jan 05

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PuntiniCaz, maybe it's the nickname that makes you think of angry music, or maybe it's your comments I've read so far, but I really wouldn't have thought you were passionate about Genesis, nor about progressive music in general. Well, well, it's a pleasant surprise.
Regarding this album, I'm not quite sure if you already have it or not, but it's the classic album that comes once in a lifetime, to be listened to in religious silence, preferably while inhaling a bit of incense (there's also a great substitute for incense, with a similar scent, but promoting its use isn't legal).