Alex84

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DeAge™ : 7212 days • Here since 10 september 2006

Sirenia The 13th Floor

17 feb 09

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Soprano Ailyn? Her vocal range has nothing to do with power. I might be a baritone too, but I don't have a lyrical voice.
If the first 2 albums by Sirenia were extremely repetitive, the next 2, including this one, show a sacrilegious union between pop and metal, spiced up with various kitsch elements. Why include choirs all over the place? Why use an orchestra when you can't conduct it, adding a few violin flourishes here and there and an oboe in the background?
Here, the classic semi-acoustic ballad is also missing, which, in my opinion, is the band's true strength. If Sirenia made an album with songs like "Sumerian Haze" or "Save Me from Myself," with their dreamy atmospheres, they would produce a masterpiece.

Silver Il Grande Lupo Alberto 1

14 feb 09

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I own just that edition, bought for me when I was only 7 years old. What nostalgia, I need to go dig it up.

Hercules And Love Affair Hercules And Love Affair

5 feb 09

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Really a beautiful album. At times, like in Hercules theme, it's definitely tooooo gay. But it remains irresistible.

David Bowie Tonight

31 jan 09

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Second piece? I didn't mind let's dance at all, on the contrary, it shows how David Bowie managed to update himself to the 80s with style and personality without losing himself like in tonight and never let you down.

Umberto Eco Il Nome Della Rosa

31 jan 09

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Semiologists...a category of scholars that no one would miss.

James Joyce Gente Di Dublino

31 jan 09

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Svevo seems so provincial compared to Joyce. After all, he wrote 3 photocopy novels, aside from some minor evolution, and he completely lacks Joyce's lightness, his enveloping stream of consciousness. Beautiful collection of stories, Dubliners, although I prefer Virginia Woolf, stylistically closer to Joyce.

Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata Death Note

21 jan 09

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Great comic, even though at times it tends to be too convoluted in describing the elaborate schemes devised by Light to deceive L and the police.

J.R.R. Tolkien Il Signore degli Anelli

14 jan 09

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Evil is eliminated too quickly... Ahahah, you missed the atmosphere of decay that permeates the ending and removes any possibility of a happy ending. Aside from that, I could contest every single point, not because I’m a die-hard Tolkien fan, but because you've declared a whole sequence of literary heresies. Perhaps you’re overlooking the fact that the book is an unparalleled philological work regarding references to both Anglo-Saxon and other medieval literature. So it’s perfectly legitimate to talk about ladies and knights. Open a history of twentieth-century English literature and then make some amendments to your review. Certain works that are part of the canon can no longer be criticized solely based on personal taste.

Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

14 jan 09

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Ah, the old times... Now Disney churns out well-made films, for sure, and even entertaining ones, but they are tremendously commercial. Disposable, I would say. It has lost its grace and elegance too (I think of Sleeping Beauty). Or maybe it's the children who have changed.