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DeAge™ : 8186 days • Here since 11 january 2004
Neu! Neu!
Neu! Neu!
11 jun 08
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fantastic record, discovered guilty late. On the Cannas rec, it holds true what I wrote to you some time ago. But at least we're talking about records with a capital R.
Tractor Tractor
Tractor Tractor
11 jun 08
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No, not the Open Mind (by the way, fantastic Magic Potion). The OM, formerly Sleep, stuff from these lean times.
Dinosaur Jr. Live @ Hiroshima Mon Amour - Torino, 02/06/08
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But no one had seen them in Urbino in 2005 (or 2006)??
Paolo Sorrentino Il Divo
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Well, among all the titles you reviewed, Napoli Spara would be a spring breeze in the winter of the soul...
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Gorilla
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I've been meaning to get it for ages, but still nada... and I left it on a shelf in Paris, now I have to bite my little fingers... yum yum...
Matteo Garrone Gomorra
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I liked this, Nero. I still have to see it, but I’d like to read the book first if I can. However, I am against the concept of nation, so that definitely won’t be the point that strikes my anti-patriotic chords (whether it’s Italy, Bulgaria, the Philippines, or whatever). Italy is the name given to a congregation of cultures layered over the centuries, each one a world of its own. And I don’t want to assign a positive or negative connotation to it. It’s just a simple observation of mine.
David Fincher Se7en
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let's say you exaggerate with the unrestrained praise. From a unique vision, because by the subsequent viewings on screen (after having seen it in the cinema) it definitely loses some impact. However, it was undoubtedly a precursor (and perhaps the only decent and semi-credible) to a series of crap about serial killers. The apex is reached in the utterly stupid SEGA, where we see levels of surrealism worthy of Jodorowsky. People spending years weaving evil webs against defenseless individuals for biblical-style vendettas, and only they remember it... ronf ronf yawn! We get it. And then, there’s one of the dumbest yet most brilliant plot twists of recent years in thrillers: Spacey voluntarily surrenders exactly when I thought the film was turning into the usual nonsense with forensic investigations and the masturbatory musings of the old cop and the young heartthrob super-flat-earth-next-generation-do wn-with-old-methods-psychopathic-mu rderers.
Paolo Sorrentino Il Divo
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Honestly, Nero, I don’t understand the reason for the criticism. If you were expecting a docudrama, you got the wrong film. It’s like expecting action and shootouts while watching Gone with the Wind. I mean, it was pretty clear from the trailers (and from Sorrentino’s filmmaking history) that it wasn’t going to be a movie of denunciation. That’s obvious from the docu-film. And it’s not necessarily true that veiling the facts with a surreal aura doesn’t send an equally strong message; in fact, the opposite is true. It makes me laugh to hear the technical judgment on the film, which I believe stems from personal hatred and is definitely subjective. To each their own, of course, but let’s leave Alvaro Vitali and the cinematic trash to those who know about it here…
John Cage 4'33"
John Cage 4'33"
10 jun 08
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"you seem moderately calm"
John Cage 4'33"
John Cage 4'33"
10 jun 08
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So, music (at least as far as I'm concerned) stimulates my auditory apparatus, and in general, the sphere of feelings/emotions, so it is inherently absolutely subjective. Sometimes, to get into certain music, there's a need for "practice," because taste is also a matter of habit. Therefore, with habituation to the avant-garde, I believe/hope one can get into it. However, for me, there is sometimes a limit, namely that of forcing oneself to like something. I don’t know enough about the field to assert this, and fundamentally I don’t think so. Bohr's theory has nothing to do with this, because it belongs to a field of knowledge that is, let’s say, "institutionalized," with precise rules, empirically verifiable. This is generally true because I am a humanist, and mathematics and formulas are my nemesis, so I don’t know this theory, and I assume it is not random but precise and verifiable. Can the same be said about music, aside from "technical" discussions, meaning scores and everything that revolves around music theory? No, I don’t think so. If I were a musician, perhaps I would speak in different terms, but being a simple listener, I adhere to what I "feel" (in the broadest sense of the term). In conclusion, I hope I have been clear, and I hope that the institutionalized and hierarchical aura of the avant-garde is always kept at low and self-ironic levels, which is something that many of its regular listeners lack, but not those who conceive and realize this music. And I’m not saying this to you since I don’t know you and I seem moderately calm, but to all the forums on the same topic where it feels like being in a circle of literati from the early 1800s. For the snobbery and the intrinsic desire to use music as a means of power to create hierarchies. Well, it’s obviously a discourse that can be applied to almost all music and to other fields that are much more institutionalized. End of the delirium, over and out.
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