Mike76

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L'atletico Giovanni Floris RaiTré - Ballarò 05-05-2009

11 may 09

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@Geenoo: far from playing the lawyer for Berlusconi, but it's that "as the left wanted" that you put in parentheses that cannot label the knight's statement as racist. Regular immigrants will still be there, as will asylum seekers; Italy as a multicultural society exists and will continue to exist, but not, according to Silvio, as the left ideologized it with "everyone in." At least that's how I understood it.

Negrita XXX

10 may 09

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They lent it to me, and I found it so Ligabue-style that when they asked me how I thought of it, I replied that they could have titled it "Alive, Dead, or XXX."

Crisis Holocaust Hymns!

10 may 09

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I think like you, punk was a fundamental break from what came before and I appreciate the influence it had on all the post-77 bands. Nevertheless, when I listen to a record by the Crass or the Ramones, I get bored pretty quickly.

L'atletico Giovanni Floris RaiTré - Ballarò 05-05-2009

6 may 09

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I haven't watched Ballarò in a while; it wasn't as entertaining as Anno Zero.

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica

5 may 09

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I’ll try to respond to 134: for me, the best thing is to disregard all the chatter and listen to it as if it were any other record. I find it a bit too long but still enjoyable thanks to its grotesque-surreal vein; it sounds alien and surprising even after forty years, and to me, that’s a great merit. Plus, I enjoy spotting the ideas borrowed from later bands (I’ve found a guitar riff used later by Josef K, for example). Also, for me, who has never been able to stand classic blues-based rock like Led Zeppelin or Rolling Stones, it’s a great example of "wrong" use of blues in a rock context.

Ted Demme Blow

4 may 09

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It's well made, but it really isn't credible as a biographical work; I mean: the guy becomes the biggest drug dealer in America, he gets it from his friends, from his wife, from his mother, from everyone, and he, poor thing, has never hurt anyone?! Too much victimhood, too much shameless indulgence towards the protagonist, not to mention the overly sentimental ending. If this is cinema-verité, at this point, I'd prefer completely made-up stories.

Pere Ubu Terminal Tower

29 apr 09

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Listened again. I don't understand why I remembered this music as a still immature and "embryonic" New Wave; actually, it already has all the ingredients: paranoia, minimalism, grotesque taste, experimentation. Nothing that resembles contemporary proto-wave bands like Television, Patti Smith, or Blondie, who still had something "old-fashioned" in their music. That of these early Pere Ubu is already New Wave in every sense, and it's truly very NEW.

Soft Machine Volume One

28 apr 09

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A record that showcases some truly remarkable moments of improvisation, but on the other hand, there's an uncertain writing and a singing (the worst part) that's annoyingly cloying. Rating 2.5

Akira Kurosawa Dersu Uzala

27 apr 09

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I've noticed that many of you have it in for my poor Italian teacher, bless her! :-) After all, she at least had the merit of showing us the film, which is no small feat, and maybe she even chose to make us read the book. Anyway, I definitely need to watch Dersu again (and maybe even reread it).

Akira Kurosawa Dersu Uzala

27 apr 09

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Seen about twenty years ago in middle school ("Dersu Uzala, The Little Man of the Great Plains" was our narrative book), what memories! (few, to be honest). I remember that even the teacher labeled this film as "heavy," but I liked it anyway.