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DeRank ™: 1,18

DeAge™ : 7437 days • Here since 30 january 2006

Gabriele Muccino Baciami Ancora

29 apr 10

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A decent sample of monsters, masterfully described. Then, the amusements of Sborenzo, who at 44 still goes by Jovanotti, are the cherry on top.

George Orwell 1984

29 apr 10

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Prophetic, especially regarding the pages on the mystification of reality and the continuous violations of privacy. However, Huxley was even more on point with his "Brave New World" (entertainment and easy sex to keep the population content). The Orwellian nightmare has partially come true, albeit in a context of illusory freedom.

Mel Brooks Mezzogiorno e Mezzo di Fuoco

29 apr 10

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I quote Giola. Beautiful to see with friends, with rivers of double malt beer and dried bananas (which have more or less the same effect as the usual fare of the cowherds).

Sergio Rizzo, Gian Antonio Stella La Casta

29 apr 10

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Maalox is needed. In this dialogue, alongside dishonesty, there also emerges a strong dose of cunning charlatanism, a rather widespread trait. I don't believe that Stella is an anti-politician tout court... it seems to me that he rather longs for certain politicians who considered themselves in service of the State and did not see the State as being at their service... he seems more of a moralizer.

Gino Paoli Storie

29 apr 10

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Gino Paoli, while often remaining in the background, after the great successes of the early '60s, has produced works that are not always fully successful, sometimes questionable, but always very interesting and personal. One of the founding fathers of Italian songwriting.

Massimo Gamba Vermicino. L'Italia nel pozzo.

29 apr 10

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I was 6 years old, the same age as Alfredino. Perhaps that’s why, as a family, we were all so disturbed. I remember the hours spent in front of the television, and then the updates, increasingly dramatic, on the radio, and then Pertini, Licheri, and the humanity of officer Nando Broglio, who tried to comfort Alfredino via radio. For years, a copy of the "Domenica del Corriere" that told the whole story circulated in the house. Remembering is very painful, especially when I think of the great dignity of some characters, a quality that is becoming increasingly rare today.

John Coltrane The John Coltrane Quartet Plays

26 apr 10

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As a novice, I echo Cornell, who captured the beauty of Debaser.

Blur Fool's Day

24 apr 10

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I'm intrigued... the packaging is lovely with the hole-punched cover, very vintage.

AA.VV. Café Sputnik - Electronic Exotica from Russia

23 apr 10

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Pleasantly crazy. I agree on the Russian models and the vodka... a bit less on the caviar (it has always reminded me of goat balls :-)

Nurse With Wound Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella

21 apr 10

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Definitely far from my usual interests, yet intriguing. The title caught my attention: could it have inspired Battiato and Sgalambro (L'ombrello e la macchina da cucire)?