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Sorry Punny, but who cares what you think?:-) Reading? Conferences? Bob Dylan has already faced great difficulties in writing his autobiography: I remember an interview in Repubblica where he said he didn't remember anything from the sixties because he was taking too many acid trips back then… He also mentioned that he was reaching out to people who had known him to find out what he had or hadn’t done… And then let him record his songs, how does that hurt you?:-)

Hey saputello, Dulce is beautiful and not just on the cover of this album... Alright, let’s say she’s a character. :)

@lillaccioaledetto: what a paradox to talk about cabaret when you've put a frame from "The Seventh Seal" on your profile. :) @Mopaga: you made me laugh quite a bit!

Isis, you’re not going to start rambling about the summary too, are you? :) This time I even wrote that anyone who wants can stop halfway, come on... Mister Sfascia, since you’re not familiar with the album, hoping this won’t bother you, I would have included a few samples. Regards.

Hey Robert, I already put in a tenner, my ears, and my attention. The imagination had to come from Roberto Fripp (the real one). Otherwise, I'll do it all myself... Bye.

I’m going to go a bit against the grain: in my opinion, the best tracks on "Islands" are the title track "Islands," "Formentera Lady," and "Ladies of the Road" (which is definitely Beatles-esque!). The rest is a bit boring. Especially "Prelude...", which, while featuring a beautiful melody, has an orchestral arrangement that's a bit too simplistic and lacks any variation at all.

According to other sources, there were one hundred fifty thousand in Melpignano. :) Anyway, I don't know this Mayor Blasi, I don't know what kind of person he is, and I don't want to judge his work. However, in Mantua, for some time now, there has been a cultural festival every week (okay, I’m exaggerating...). It started with the literature festival, then the music festival, and there was the comic festival, etc... The only one missing is the cinema festival, and we'll be all set... And then concerts, exhibitions, cultural events in general... Well, until a few years ago, nothing happened in Mantua, so much so that it deserved the definition of a beautiful and sleepy city. But since this has started, Mantua has changed radically, and for the better, especially in the perception of people from outside. The credit for all this definitely goes to some enlightened entrepreneurs, a lot of people who work hard without receiving any compensation, and, why not, to the municipal and provincial administrations. If these people deserve recognition, why not acknowledge it?

I'm sorry to interrupt: Egebamyasi, I have news for you: the traits you ascribe to the Salentini are not typical of Salento. They are typical of certain people who live at every latitude. Your statements reek of prejudice. In my area, we used to say, "Better a corpse in the house than a Veronese at the door." And then they attributed the same characteristics to the Veronese that you attribute to the Salentini. And I’ll tell you, probably in Verona they said the same thing about the Vicentini and in Vicenza about the Veneti, etc... And you know what these are? Nonsense. Or better said, prejudices. But what have these Salentini ever done to you? And as for the commercialization of pizzica: it doesn't seem to me that the calanti are top of the charts... I WISH THEY WERE, with all the nonsense that circulates on the radio. And if someone invented the "Pizzica tour" to export to China, let those Chinese dance, what harm do they do to you? Look, I really like a Pakistani singer named Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Do I understand him completely? Maybe not, but the more I read about him, the more I understand. And anyway, I like him. Oh, maybe some snooty Pakistani critic might have criticized Nusrat (when he was alive) for allowing Peter Gabriel to commercialize the tradition. But why should I care? I will thank Nusrat and Peter as long as I live. And then another thing: somewhere else it was said that Salento is only remembered for its atrocities. Is it possible that even on this page, where we talk about traditional, popular, beautiful, and enjoyable music that originates from and is rooted in Salento, capable, moreover, from what I've read, of bringing more than a hundred thousand people to Melpignano a few nights ago, there has to be someone who turns up their nose? This is plain provincialism.

Always at your disposal.

The connection is: in the second-to-last paragraph, you listed musicians who have set works by William Burroughs to music; Tom Waits was not in the list, so I added him. Is it clearer now?