Lao Tze

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  JonatanCoe

  22 jan 23

  Lao, knock on wood, we really miss you a lot...

   

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  Dislocation

  26 may 22

  We miss Lao.

   

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  Stanlio

  26 may 22

  Salvo!
  Hello!
  But where have you disappeared to?
  But have you vanished?

   

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  Martello

  31 aug 20

  The quotes taken from the "minor" pieces of Maestro Battiato... these are matters of culture.

   

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  • Lao Tze

    1 sep 20

    Well... on the other hand... I have too much culture, and I want to show it off a bit.

  • Martello

    1 sep 20

    ÃH. So Debaser would be some kind of hard-disc?

  • Lao Tze

    1 sep 20

    also.

  • Lao Tze

    1 sep 20

    Anyway, seriously speaking, I really happened to remember things (removed) through my own and others' comments.

  • Martello

    1 sep 20

    This is interesting... a bit like when you write the shopping list for the next day and leave it hanging on the fridge... or like photographs that evoke memories of distant childhood.

  • Lao Tze

    1 sep 20

    something similar, and it has been very helpful to me.

  • Martello

    1 sep 20

    Oh, maybe this old site will be useful to me in the future as well...

  • Lao Tze

    2 sep 20

    I bet you. The more stuff you leave inside, the more useful it will be to you.
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  hellraiser

  19 may 19

  Did you see Lao that with the Mammoth we are second in the Eurocontest? Today, open a nice bottle to celebrate, make sure to do it!

   

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  • Lao Tze

    19 may 19

    A bombastic result at the televote that will be hard to match in future editions; it couldn’t have gone any better, considering the various shenanigans and vote exchanges between the Netherlands and Scandinavian countries. This time we even convinced San Marino and the Germans. So, well done Mammut.
    Spain has also improved from last year's fourth-to-last place: it's now fifth-to-last.
    Germany is third-to-last, and I believe I predicted that too.
    European Piece of Shit of the Year goes to Great Britain, but then again, if you want to leave Europe...

  • Lao Tze

    19 may 19

    Great Britain is finally deploying a pastry chef, among other things. It seems to me an important detail not to overlook.

  • sergio60

    19 may 19

    But who pays you! Wasting time on low-level events and terrible music, if it were up to me, I would send them all to dig potatoes in Latina, from the "singers" to the last of the delivery guys from the record labels... Just think a bit about who holds the cultural market in their hands... 🙄

  • Lao Tze

    19 may 19

    If you consider Eurovision a "musical event," you are off track.

  • sergio60

    19 may 19

    And what do you call him? Ignazio?

  • Lao Tze

    19 may 19

    So let me tell you.
    Already as a format, it has little to do with a festival like Sanremo, and you know that a good 80% of the discussions around Sanremo aren't about the songs.
    Eurovision is simply a (trash) show where everyone occupies their space in their own way, and the choreography is MUCH more important than the music.
    But it's not that music is dying (and it's not) because crap songs make it to Eurovision, rather one should take certain contexts for what they are without getting scandalized.
    I find many of the songs I hear disgusting; this year, a bit less than usual, but if I tell you that a lot of foreign music I know I discovered through the Eurofestival (not because I heard it at the Eurofestival, but because the Eurofestival helped me get there and the internet did the rest), I'm not talking nonsense.
    Everyone is free not to watch, and I wouldn’t blame them for it, but in the meantime, I watch and, from many points of view, I always find something there.

  • sergio60

    19 may 19

    At its core, you’re not wrong because it’s the same mechanism I use, perhaps in different contexts but it’s the same. Then it comes down to tastes, and here you can use rivers, oceans of words and still not get to the bottom of it. But as I've already said, I wholeheartedly agree with your analysis "philosophically"… BUT THE EUROPEAN FESTIVAL IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS, quote Fantozzi.

  • Lao Tze

    19 may 19

    Yes, you got it right... but I think that being a "cagata pazzesca" is part of its nature as an international kitsch show (in my opinion suited for the northern countries - the patron is Norwegian - and the eastern ones, while others like France and Spain struggle to get into this spirit). I always remember the pompous sets of the eurofestival, that clumsy gigantism and those immense stages reminiscent of the USSR that you wouldn't see today except on Moldovan television or nearby.
    Then they say it's the most watched show in the world; indeed, I've read comments from people watching it from South America...
    (all of this is crazy to me, but evidently…)

  • sergio60

    20 may 19

    May it be the most viewed in the world... It reminds me a lot of "Oste com è il vino?... Tutta malvasia!" For me, they play their own tune and sing their own song; they might have had a lot of users, but the most viewed... Come on... Then I wonder and ask you... But how do they decide who sees and who doesn't... Phone? Pigeons? Raise of hands? Roll call? Or just free-for-all chatting? 🙄😁

  • Lao Tze

    20 may 19

    they will have their numbers but, in short, if you go to check those on YouTube, you realize that there isn’t a video under a million and a half clicks in just over 36 hours. I mean, those are popstar numbers. Also, it doesn’t take much to do better than other festivals: Sanremo is broadcast worldwide but is only watched in a few countries, Viña del Mar is practically unseen outside of Central-South America. The Eurovision involves many more people.

  • sergio60

    20 may 19

    This says a lot about what record labels have done in the past, who, in the name of money, instead of proposing what a band or an artist would want, clip their wings in order to maximize profit with minimal risk... One million posts in 36 hours!!! That is, a million ignorant people who believe in Santa Claus offering them the usual mix of bullshit passed off as "modern" songs,...
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  mrbluesky

  11 feb 18

  Well! Are you also in the running for Vietnam? Wow, so many awards, I wonder if they'll give one to me before 2025.

   

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  • mrbluesky

    1 apr 18

    So, Happy Easter in Southeast Asia, what can you do, I have a soft heart.
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  Stanlio

  15 jan 18

  Um, if he/she saves himself/herself from the beautiful things, worse for him/her...

   

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  • Lao Tze

    15 jan 18

    it's a him...

  • Stanlio

    15 jan 18

    In these times, you never know, but if you say it, I might just believe you...
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  R13572432

  12 jan 18

  Do you know them?
  

   

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  • Lao Tze

    12 jan 18

    I never heard an album, but they are good.
    Gesu no Kiwami Otome is their name in our alphabet.

  • Dislocation

    12 jan 18

    And so?

  • Lao Tze

    13 jan 18

    so what?

  • Dislocation

    13 jan 18

    Sorry, Lao, my ignorance, but I took your phrase as: "Jesus, no! Kiwami Otome is the gold name in our alphabet..." And on impulse, I wrote, as if wanting to ask for clarification on your statement... Alzheimer's continues its relentless advance.

  • Lao Tze

    15 jan 18

    I myself should reread my work... in Japanese, unintentional double meanings can arise.
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  dsalva

  5 jan 18

  It's chilling!!!!.....fear!!!

   

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  • Lao Tze

    6 jan 18

    The clothing doesn't quite match the rifle, but it does instill a bit of fear.
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  Dislocation

  5 jan 18

  Noooo, where's the old photo? And the M16?

   

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  • Lao Tze

    6 jan 18

    With the new year, the first changes.

  • Dislocation

    6 jan 18

    Watch out... mind the recoil!