Hank Monk

I've been away for a while and I see Vanoni as the review of the week :O
It's a really great review and the album isn't bad either (but I've been getting into sad Brazilian music for a while now).

Just think about what you've come up with!
This is nice... I got to know him because I believe Callier sang ""recently"" in something by Massive Attack and I was intrigued by his story (I think he was working as a laborer or something like that even when the MA invited him to collaborate).

This musical scene makes me rejoice like a kid every time. So much feelz <3

I really don’t understand the point :/
Honestly, it seems a bit too superficial to me.

You realize, right, that:
"The workers side with the boss for an extra 50 euros in cash, they don’t know what classism is, and if they can screw over their colleague, they will; the union is sold out and a collaborator of rampant capitalism, yet it becomes friendly as soon as an hour of overtime isn’t accounted for; after all, we’re all communists with other people’s asses."

In other words, the contempt of the gggente is an ideologeme vomited by neoliberal thought to create social fractures, and going along with it pairs well with "Monti saved the future of our children"?

Can we understand that this way of thinking is more harmful than all the Parties and the Trumps of the world?

"Summarizing the pride, the need for recognition has been progressively channeled peacefully in the economic, sporting, cultural, and social realms in the so-called developed world since the post-war period, with the rise of liberal democracies. Will this be the case in the future?

In my opinion, the problem is NOT that it has been 'channeled in another way, and oh dear, these ways might not be enough to placate souls in the future.' The problem is that there is a continuous push towards individual competition, making individuals increasingly isolated and alone, and society fragile (I would say that the most beautiful book exemplifying this aspect is still Infinite Jest), to the detriment of any sense of communion.

After that, it would be nice to stop saying that Nazi regimes emerge 'because the common people are ignorant and vote for the strong man.' Regimes of that type are established from the top down, not from the bottom up."

Although I find the first two quite charming but extremely naïf, and the ones that follow utterly boring (I'm talking about the experimental period), I have to say that this has always fascinated me.

Ahahah. First 2 paragraphs of 5 stars

Well, I don't know how successful implantable technology will be when put to the test. Honestly, I’m not a big fan of wearable technology and the violation of the body (which becomes an accessory to these new technologies, or vice versa).

At 30 years old and without all this nonsense, I already feel drained by this extreme individualism and the frantic pace of work in our era. What I would like for my future is to reclaim that sense of community that I experienced until I was 15 (which I, in some ways, hated back then, but I realize very well today that it was also what defined me and ultimately made me happier).

True, always the same dish but with some variations. Every now and then I dig up the last phase albums of Dylan and they always make for a nice listen if you’re looking for something “ordinary” and well done. Anyway, this one is from 2009 and in the meantime, he continued to churn out albums and perform concerts for another 11 years (I even saw him a couple of years ago): by constantly saying that this is “his testament” or "his last albums," we’re going to keep him alive for 200 years. And that's just fine.

The first beautiful one. I will hear this sooner or later.