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It's always a pleasure to read you, dear Psycho... and, usually, your choices are always excellent. Too bad you catch me, as I've already mentioned elsewhere, in an extremely synthetic period.

I fully agree with Odradek's comment. And, since someone mentioned it, I recommend Mika Vainio. It doesn't really relate at all in terms of mentality, but the result might get close. Give it a try and let me know, you know where to find it. Bye...

I would get pissed off too if I dropped a tenner's worth of smoke, especially if it’s the last one. I bet Faust'o and I would get along pretty well if we knew each other...

Ah ah! You're always amazing, your reviews make almost more noise than the records you review!!!!

I completely agree with you Isidax as with Happy. I hate the national-popular and post-mortem rhetoric. However, I still believe we need to make a distinction between the man and the artist. I also found Lucianone really annoying (like Valentino Rossi, Loris Capirossi, Silvio Berlusconi, Stefano Ricucci, and their awful company), but when I hear certain tunes sung by him, I genuinely get goosebumps. Plus, Iside, you certainly and unfortunately have more experience than I do (I read the last post on your blog last night and I almost cried).

What can I say? If you didn't like it, I'm sorry, I wasn't there either, and I'm certainly not an expert. However, I would say it's quite objective that it's not nonsense. Maybe we don't like it (I always say I’ll listen to the opera when I'm old; right now there are things that excite me more), but its artistic value is undeniable: in short, we’re not talking about bullshit here. Come on.

Alessio, I don't decide a damn thing. But Pavarotti wasn't singing pieces by Britney Spears or Eros Ramazzotti; he mainly dedicated himself to operas, and it seems a bit superficial, ignorant, and disrespectful to label the works of Puccini, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Verdi, Mozart, and others simply as "centuries-old crap."

Luciano Pavarotti = Great Tenor (and no one can argue that), Terrible Man (and there’s even less to discuss here). Did he evade taxes? Yes, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that he was a tremendous artist. Was he one of the greatest tenors of all time? Certainly, but that doesn’t change the fact that he was a piece of shit. The two things run on separate but parallel tracks. Unfortunately, Pavarotti was a lousy tax evader. Fortunately, he was an immense singing talent. Stop, I see no reason to discuss further. This is the undeniable reality. It’s objectivity. I don’t give a damn about TV goodism or how we’re perceived abroad. I will never mourn the passing of the man Luciano. But I do regret the loss of the great tenor Pavarotti, certainly a tremendous loss for opera. @Alessio: "singing crap written centuries ago." You sing the "crap written centuries ago." Congratulations on the intelligence of your comment.

Okay, I read the review. What can I say? It's definitely well written; but the other one, even without explicitly covering all the themes (as you do brilliantly), captured the movie's atmosphere better. That's why it was practically a perfect review for this masterpiece. Yours is excellent, but it would have been better if you had applied yourself to a different film. That's all. I'm sorry if I offended you. Bye...

I'll be there too, Psycho, for the art biennale... what do you say, shall we take some acid together and then travel recklessly through the pavilions?!