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Alternative? Those are the ones who go against the masses. The masses have rallied against the government for how it has handled the situation; I haven't come across a journalist or anyone else saying, "In the face of disaster, America reacted perfectly; everything went as it should." It seems to me that the masses are united in a negative judgment, and going where the masses go doesn’t strike me as very alternative. There’s an abuse of the word "Alternative" by young people these days that’s quite alarming; now in music magazines or whatever is deemed "youthful," the term "alternative" is thrown around, creating a mass of alternatives that, as a mass, cannot be alternative. I don’t consider myself alternative, nor do I want to be; I do what I like, I enjoy both "alternative" things and those that aren’t, and I don’t care if the masses think that way or not. What I think about an issue I reflect on; if many people reason the same way or if just three do, I’m not particularly bothered. On the other hand, do you not think like everyone else in this case, or are you positioning yourself against them, anonymously (when you know the site well, since you’ve virtually dissected me) without even a shred of a letter to identify yourself on this page? Or do you think like us but position yourself against it because it seems so alternative? It seems to me that the only alternative here is you.

Dear "But please..." no one talked about the racism of the US government towards black people, neither in the review nor in the comments.

Sorry Lord Henry, I misunderstood completely, I'm a bit in a hurry today. Regarding the etymology of the word, indeed, there are conflicting themes: you are absolutely right :)

No Lord Henry, everyone knows very well, buy books on the history of jazz, mine is the common version of all critics, it is not reckless at all. I heard it for the first time from Herbie Hancock in I don’t remember which DVD, then I read a lot and the story is just that, exactly the same. Otherwise, check who made the first 100 jazz compositions, there isn’t a white person to be found even if you pay them in gold, and not even a light-skinned black, just all dark-skinned black, like chocolate of that 98% dark black :)

Massimof, but now if there’s high water in Venice and if the island of Vulcano sinks, destroying half of the Italian Tyrrhenian coast... is it Berlusconi's fault? You can say anything about him; he has so much power that it could scare Michael Corleone, but come on, I don’t think he governs the Seas and Storms too.

Sapyr, what the hell are you talking about? The biggest figures in Cool are black; name me a couple of white ones because I can't think of any. Then about Rock N Roll: It's not about who carries it on and who practices it, it's only about who created it. And anyway, Rock N Roll is music centered 60% around the electric guitar... who is the greatest electric guitarist in the world? Seems to me he was black, with a big hairdo and full lips, but I can't remember the name.

Well Massimo, we talk easy here in the calm and tranquil Mediterranean Sea, even Sardinia has been reclaimed to build structures on it. We’re worse than them; we have a ton of cities that go straight onto the sea without any protections because they would make economic and tourist maritime traffic difficult. We’re not too worried though, because in our little Mediterranean puddle it’s unlikely that something like that will happen. Still, we have our risks; after the winter tsunami, I saw several specials titled "Could it happen to us?" listing quite a few little islands at risk in the Mediterranean that could sink at any moment, creating a nice big tsunami for us too, and a lot of people from Palermo to Genoa, passing through Naples and Livorno, would be laughing. Or should we talk about the high water in Venice? Eh :D

Sampyr, when it comes to music, you’ve made some big mistakes: Cool Jazz is not at all White Jazz, not even to talk about it, Miles was BLACK, Cool belongs to Miles, Cool is BLACK. Then the anonymous one who says that the encyclopedia tells of jazz being born from the meeting between whites and blacks... the encyclopedia tells bullshit, Jazz was born in the brothels of the South, "To Jazz" meant "to speed up": to speed up the environment with music and make it more cheerful to encourage customers to drink more and spend more, and also more or less everyone when they’re getting laid is influenced by the musical background, so a fast music of piano and trumpet sped up the encounters allowing the lady to be freed up sooner for the next customer. Then of course the genre as we know it today has had great white influences, there was Luigi Belassoni: a very white Italian-American like a mozzarella who was the first drummer to use the double bass drum revolutionizing many things. There was Jaco Pastorius who just happened to invent the Fretless and a few other whites here and there, but for every white there are 20 blacks as a counterbalance, Jazz is a caffe macchiato, it is born black and in the end you add a little splash of white, but the black percentage is a thousand times higher. Both in Jazz, in Blues, and in its offspring, Rock N Roll. In Soul, Rap, and various stuff, it’s not even necessary to say it, just need to point out that in Rap the greatest of all time is a White-Latino, but after all, it’s still one white against 198 blacks.

Massimof, for point 1: you forgot the small detail that I wrote "A Pelle": I don't like them, but that doesn't mean they are bad people, nor does it mean they are great people, it just means that "they don't attract me," I don't "feel like getting to know them," in fact, I then wrote "I have always been attracted to...", it wasn't just a catchy phrase, it was simply a "I like, I don't like," an introduction to the discussion that comes afterwards, nothing more. For point 2) I don't believe in a Good & Just higher entity, maybe there is a higher entity, but if there is, I don't think it is as we are presented with it: in fact, I wrote that I don't believe IN THIS god, which is equally a catchy phrase as you say, but it seems this review is already a bit long, maybe when I have time I'll write a book and send it to you. Oh, let's be clear: you're right to say that these are phrases that are a bit empty, but we must keep in mind that I'm someone who writes free thoughts on a website, I don't have either the mental and temporal resources or the right medium available (Debaser, not Corriere della Sera) nor the interested audience to write something truly important about such a big issue like this. Ultimately, it is indeed a free thought that addresses questions larger than the writer, but that's what it wanted to be, just a thought, I'm not Oriano Fallacio or Tony Capuozzo (the first two names that came to mind) :)