Valeriorivoli

BUT YOUR MOTHERF***ERS! Bruce Springsteen: "I've never worked. Success thanks to made-up stories." As Portelli explains: "Bruce Springsteen has never worked at a car wash or in a factory, but he has seen the eyes of friends and family who did. 'HE HAS NEVER WORKED A DAY IN HIS LIFE, HE TALKS ABOUT THINGS HE DOESN'T KNOW, HE SINGS HOWLING LIKE A DONKEY!"

well...

The three surviving old folks here I don't think need money, so why? The truth is they have always been this: professionals playing a part (even if it was that of underage sexual exploiters, drug addicts, and tax evaders) and selling what the audience demanded of them. Now I find it harder to even listen to their old records. But it's just me and my quirks... I AGREE. Today they really suck, the cover with the diamond is horrifying. In the '60s they were groundbreaking—and Brian Jones was their true mastermind; in the '70s they were entertaining, but then that’s enough. They wrote great songs, but this underlying Calvinist mentality unsettles me: the very same K. Marx, in Chapter XXIV of the first volume of Capital, argues that the "primitive accumulation of capital," meaning the starting point of the capitalist mode of production, dates back to the end of the 15th century in England.

But why not Riccardo Fogli? A tight stay? He's 100 percent Pooh. The first big hits of the group without him, I don’t know.

this happens when musicians and popular minstrels want to give themselves an intellectual aura that simply... isn’t there, partly because they think they’re the shit from their billionaire lofts and don’t dig into anything, partly because they’ll never have the stature for it. On that old fart head of Waters, I’d cast a pitying veil; as a musician-songwriter, he doesn’t exist without Gilmore; there’s a huge lysergic crisis among countless masses of post-hippy new agers who adore the PINK FLOYDS while decontextualizing them from the 70s adolescent radio of their brothers, or rather, their older uncles and grandparents. Johnny Rotten was right not to tolerate them, Syd Barrett was right to mock them as retards in Have you got it yet, he was right to fall asleep during the Roman sessions of the pinks for Zabriskie Point.

His delusions have completely broken my balls with "The Wall." I don't understand why everyone keeps calling it "a Pink Floyd album" when it's just the rambling of a half-crazed junkie. BRAVO!

The final story of Moretti is that of one of the many, too many, posh fossils of the '77 generation, trust fund kids who have never worked a day in their lives and remain tied to an Italian third way to communism that has always been nothing more than a lysergic path, refusing to face reality. Moretti not only never grew up, he was never born, enamored of a deeply studied Carlo Marx as if he were sticking Panini stickers, he remains the red counterpoint to Fellini and Sordi, hisenemy-friends from the Catholic-Democratic side.

Moretti should make a film about the events in Hungary in 1956 and try to imagine how it would have been if the PCI of that time had broken with the directives of the PCUS. As if Togliatti, then secretary of the PCI, had not been a Stalinist to the core. It's true then that history doesn't operate on "ifs" and Moretti's vision is just childish utopia. Well done!

master deconstructionist of cinema and prince of my solitary nights. yesss

just to make sure we don't bring the communists into our house, hopefully