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DeAge™ : 7422 days • Here since 11 february 2006

China Miéville The City & The City

6 jan 23

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I think it should be read in the original because it's said that Mieville writes very well and, you know, Fanucci is not the best with adaptations, but in this case, the translation is really something quite embarrassing and the text is full of typos and mistakes, enough to cool my enthusiasm for the novel. The latter, in some respects, is interesting (the sociological/science fiction issue of the two cities, the mystery of the breach) but the detective story didn’t convince me. I would like to read Perdido Street Station but this time I'll do it in English. Instead, in the "new weird" genre, Dead Astronauts by Vandermeer blew my mind, what a crazy book!

Sunn O))) Pyroclasts

28 dec 22

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Life Metal has a crazy sound and is very meditative; I liked it a lot. Devotional (where there are only Greg Anderson's sunn) is even more meditative and "lighter," and I liked it maybe even more. Pyroclasts, on the other hand, didn't resonate with me at all; the mother album was enough.

Thomas Owen La cantina dei rospi

5 dec 22

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This is very appealing, and the descriptions of the stories you've shared are mouthwatering. In general, the marabou fantastique collection from Alcatraz is very interesting (and also beautiful to look at). Many of the books you mentioned I've seen on "broken stories" (a beautiful channel), is it a coincidence?

Russian Circles Gnosis

5 dec 22

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Post-metal in 2022 runs a serious risk of sounding déjà vu, especially because, in my opinion, the peak was already reached by ISIS with Oceanic/Panopticon/Absence almost 20 years ago. However, this album turned out really well; it has all the right cues, it sounds beautifully harsh, almost math/doom at times, it doesn't drag on, and it never gets boring.

Low Hey What

28 nov 22

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Discone, gruppone. It gives me the same feeling that Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born did (and sorry if that's not enough). The effect of a pop album for the hearts of the future.

Luigi Musolino Uironda

25 nov 22

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Holy shit, the third floor and a half! It's an exciting, sincere, relentless, and pitch-black tale. Without taking anything away from IT, which, with its flaws, is an epochal novel without which this story wouldn’t even exist, I say: if King had managed to write it in fifty pages, then (perhaps) it would be at the HEIGHT of Musolino. Mine is an exaggeration and a jest, but...

Clutch Sunrise On Slaughter Beach

16 nov 22

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Can I be a pain in the ass? Something feels off here. Monogamy is, in some ways, a social necessity (against nature?) and a woman can’t just be a “regular whore,” but when it comes to music, ((art)), etc., no. They are not comparable nor mutually “metaphorizable.” That's why I haven't listened to Clutch in a while. Alright, let’s take them out of the “art” category and give up that mysterious spark; still, I can’t believe that the aforementioned have given “maximum warmth” to anyone, at best they can aspire to the status of comfort food or friendzone material.

Swans Swans Are Dead

15 nov 22

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In my opinion, the reunion is something great, we could really use more of that. That being said, the albums before Angels of Light had a desperate and inescapable magic that is no longer there today.

Luigi Musolino Un buio diverso

21 jun 22

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I read Pupille by Musolino, a horror/post-apocalyptic retelling of the Pied Piper. He writes really well, with great attention to form, perhaps even too much attention to form. I appreciated it.

Robert Aickman Sub Rosa

16 may 22

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If I remember correctly, he is Andrea Vaccaro's favorite author (founder and director of Hypnos), I will read it sooner or later! Of course, lately, a lot of weird things are being published/reprinted.