psychopompe

DeRank : 13,33
DeAge™ : 8185 days • Here since 11 january 2004
Lady Gaga Born This Way
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Excuse me, I just want to know one thing: who the hell are the Little Monsters? I'd really like to tear this girl apart too, just because I’ve heard people say she’s hot (damn, we’re really messed up when it comes to women, like seriously at a conceptual-aesthetic level), but deontologically I can’t do it, because I swear I’ve never heard anything from this one. Did I miss something?
Future Islands In Evening Air
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So let's clarify one point: my statement was a cultural simplification (I meant, but didn’t specify, what was seeping through and informing the cultural and communicative "mainstream," so very little music; furthermore, I’m talking about collective imagination, let's call it pop culture) there was plenty of that in the 90s as well as the 80s. What I oppose is a return to the "vulgar" 80s, specifically I Like Chopin, to stick with music, the exhumation and beatification of Craxi, false popular optimism when shit is really overwhelming us by some measure (this is definitely the worst memory I have of the '80s, mediated by the fact that I experienced it, since I spent the decade between the ages of 5 and 15), the horrible fashion of that time, people wearing Timberlands, leggings, jackets with shoulder pads!!! (holy any deity), generally a massive return to "branding" for fashion (in the '90s I grew up with a total rejection of "brands" and I can't help but be glad about it; I’ve never spent so little money on clothes in my life). So far from claiming that shit was "only" in the '80s, on the contrary, I've reevaluated them musically (although the plastic sounds, new romantic, and generally a lot of "pop" UK stuff from the '80s still make me gag multiple times; a decidedly different discussion for contemporary USA). Soon enough, the revival will shift to the tacky '90s, i.e., Snap and Backstreet Boys and the related reevaluation.
Future Islands In Evening Air
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I can only say that you were veery lucky not to experience the '80s (unless you were already grown-up and able to dodge the cultural and musical crap that would have invaded you), and doubly lucky not to have gone through things like I Like Chopin... and since I was little, I might be nostalgic for my childhood... but not at all, a little spark of nostalgia can be stirred by the early '90s USA music, but nostalgia doesn't put food on the table (musically speaking).
Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs
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Everyone at Estragon on May 11 for the full live version of the album! Let's hope for the best, I'll be there.
The Jim Jones Revue The Jim Jones Revue
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great album, no doubt about it, especially for the ultra-raw mixing of it all. I saw Jim Jones (unintentionally) in 2000 with the Black Moses, which I should definitely check out again soon.
Eternal Tapestry Beyond The 4th Door
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I still need to see if it holds up over time or not; the previous one was a bit more wild, this one is definitely softer. Judgment postponed, but the proposal from Tapestry is interesting.
Randy California Kapt. Kopter and The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds
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arrived on Friday in a remastered edition from esoteric. It’s a shame to have waited two years, a very beautiful album, chapeau!
Kyuss Lives! Gig @ Live Club - Trezzo Sull'Adda 23.03.11
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I agree with the mystical aura, even though my first encounter was actually visual, because before the 95 concert (not the one you missed, but the one with Soundgarden in Reggio Emilia), I saw them on Segnali di Fumo, presented by miss Sfiga herself, Maugeri, and I was especially disappointed by how much the guitarist looked like a teenage Big Jim... I remember searching around '96 on Altavista to find the lyrics of the songs. A little tear :(
Kyuss Lives! Gig @ Live Club - Trezzo Sull'Adda 23.03.11
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You've made me a bit envious, but without Josh it's like carbonara without the pancetta... I'll read it later, esteemed one.
Mamoru Oshii Ghost In The Shell
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Your doubts are often mine as well. I was a big buyer of the early manga seriously translated in our country, from '89-90 to '96 I bought a lot of what was published. Then I got tired (meeting the first manga maniacs just when I started studying Japanese at university in Venice—what a bunch of abnormal losers contributed), and I realized that I had always been more attracted to anime than to manga. I somewhat regret it because I would like to recover some things I missed over the years (actually, maybe someone can recommend something), but by now I prefer American or anyway English-speaking works over Japanese ones (nothing surpasses a Moore when it comes to storytelling in comics). There’s too much to say about Ghost In The Shell; I remember the numbers needed to dub the Manga Video cassette, and then it came out in theaters too. It’s an anime that lives a bit off its own myth; looking closely, it’s full of little flaws, but it has a hypnotic pace and a mystically resigned atmosphere that deserves appreciation. The manga is a unique delirium, visually beautiful but very complicated (and in my opinion, ultimately not very successful). My goodness, thinking that I rewatched it who knows how many times for the analysis on my thesis. I’d like to watch the second one in Italian because in Japanese it was a total delirium.
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