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1 mar

DeRank™: 9,00

QuickSilver Kitchen Scene - X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014) Movie Clip HD

Single take n°1 in my personal tag.
Triple red circle, together with Gianni & Rino.
 
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1 mar

DeRank™: 12,00

"Wannabe - Spice Girls" 💫 (1996) | Video Ufficiale | Rimasterizzato in 4K Ultra HD | {Pop, Musicale}

Actually, regarding long takes, excluding the classics like Hitchcock’s "Rope" or "Frenzy," not to mention Orson, I wanted to save this one for last.
But only to show the now macmaranzized @[withor] that he’s not the only one capable of extracting genius from the obvious.

If, against the doctors’ expectations, I happen to survive, I have two more killer ones!
I mean, long takes.

Meow, kids: here we are like the leaves in Ungaretti!
 
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28 feb

DeRank™: 12,00

Stairwell fight scene from Daredevil season 2

Here are some fights in almost one-shot sequence taken from the Netflix series "Daredevil". It deserves to be watched, if only for a stratospheric Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin. For me, it's the best of the Marvel universe alongside the X-Men saga.

Usually, sex & violence scenes bore me to death because they almost never serve the story, which is the most important thing for me: without that, it's just the fluff that they've been feeding us for years now. But here - like in two other cases (also in one-shot) that I'll share later - the scene has its reason; and those who have seen the series will understand why.

P.S. When they start shooting and having sex, I either skip it, take a moment to go to the bathroom, or make myself a sandwich. For example, I watched maybe fifteen minutes of the last episode of "Game of Thrones." Haw!
 
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26 feb

DeRank™: 9,00

Star Trek Lower Decks: Season 1 - The Review - Star Trek: Lower Decks
Alessandro "Docmanhattan" Apreda

A new animated Star Trek series, nearly half a century after Star Trek - The Animated Series, aimed at making Star Trek fans laugh by playfully poking fun at the catchphrases they love. A love letter especially to The Next Generation, honored in a thousand different ways. It feels like a Rick and Morty dipped in the Star Trek franchise, but it inevitably lacks that anarchic madness and absolute unpredictability.
In the franchise expansion project of Star Trek started in 2018 by CBS and Alex Kurtzman, alongside Star Trek: Discovery and Picard, an animated series was also included. The first animated series for the CBS All Access streaming platform and the second animated series in Star Trek history in nearly fifty years, since Star Trek - The Animated Series by Filmation. A project that would become the present Star Trek: Lower Decks, thanks to one of the writers and producers of Rick and Morty, Mike McMahan, and his boundless love for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Brad Boimler is voiced in the original by Jack Quaid (The Boys), while Beckett Mariner is voiced by Tawny Newsome (Space Force).
A total sci-fi geek, both TV and otherwise, McMahan had already created a new sci-fi animated series with Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland: Solar Opposites, available on Hulu since last May. Here, his idea was instead to focus on those who keep the little things moving - "like the person who loads the molecular matrix replicator that reproduces the bananas" on a ship. A ship that is, by the way, an absolutely secondary one in Starfleet. And since for McMahan Star Trek means above all Star Trek: The Next Generation, he decided to set this animated series in the year 2380, a year after Star Trek - Nemesis (the last film with the TNG cast), and to take its title from "Lower Decks," the fifteenth episode of the seventh season of TNG, known to us as "Giovani carriere."
Let's analyze the trailer of Rogue One - A Star Wars Story
Available in Italian in the Prime Video catalog, Star Trek: Lower Decks tells the stories of those who occupy the lower decks of the U.S.S. Cerritos, a California-class ship that handles... second contact. That is, to get the paperwork signed and set up the technology for communication after others have faced the first contact with a new form of alien life. This includes new ensigns, a Caitian doctor, a captain dealing with a daughter who doesn’t want to be there, and a whole series of other characters.

Of course, there are also a couple of guest stars of a certain level.
  
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26 feb

DeRank™: 31,96

King Crimson - FULL SHOW (King Crimson In Concert - Live In Munich, 1982)

So, I would like you to try to listen to what I’m saying without thinking that I want to offend anyone who disagrees with me. A thing you all do except for one, who, as is the nature of close-minded Martians devoted to the most foolish solipsism, thinks that it’s always about them when they don’t understand things. And since they don’t understand a damn thing, they are always furious and threaten to kill anyone who dares to contradict them: if they convince themselves that you’ve stolen their snack, they’ll burn down your house and slit the throats of your wife and kids, if you’re lucky. Haw! Haw! Haw!

But let’s forget about the usual natural disasters: they, like plagues, earthquakes, and whatever else, are inevitable, just like humanoid idiocy.

But let’s get back to MUSIC, come on, it’s better.

Do the kids here use electronics?
Of course they do.
All sounds are (almost) "synthetic," in a whirlwind of samplers, sequencers, frippertronics, and who knows what else.
But if you put them in an alpine lodge at four thousand meters without a generator and without proper musical instruments, they will surely find you a bucket, a saw (which can be played with a bow made from the string of hay bales), a log, a frying pan, a grater, and I could go on until dawn. And they’ll definitely give you a concert that might be even better than this one.

What am I trying to say with this?

Simply that if no one is playing, there’s nothing to sample.
 
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24 feb

DeRank™: 27,00

Il Pensionato (Live From Italy / Remastered 2007)

One day, you too, there, will grow old & retire, whether you like it or not.
You don’t think about it, I understand all of this, but they will put a catheter in you and when you need to take a shit you will need a nurse to clean your ass.
This doesn't mean you are useless, but simply that you are old, senile, unable to love yourself.
There is nothing to be ashamed of.
If, excluding the Noble @[Armand], you have the right dose of anarchic nihilism.
 
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24 feb

DeRank™: 6,00

link rotto
Do you understand what I'm talking about?
 
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24 feb

DeRank™: 42,00

Here Comes The Flood

I listen almost withorian, I know.
But if he can do it just to spite him, I can do it too!
Ah: better the version for piano and voice, all my life.
But Pietro - whom I will finally see in Germany this winter, maybe - wrote it this way.
Heavier with the strings, I think.
 
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24 feb

DeRank™: 33,00

Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil

You meet a saxophonist, someone you've never seen before even though he was born a kilometer away from you.
You hate Jazz: you just don't get it, it doesn’t sit right with you.

Then he teaches you two or three chords that change your nervous system.

Specifically, the ninths.

But it doesn’t matter, ugh!
Among the three albums he considered essential, this one was in fourth place.
The top three were "Live at Massey Hall," "Kind of Blue," and "My Favorite Things."
Uéin il Corto, here, is holding his ground!
 
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24 feb

DeRank™: 9,00

LA SCALA MISOLIDIA

Of the hours spent discussing this thing called "Harmony," you are not obliged to think, of course.
Even though many girls find these euphonious dissections quite exciting, especially a violinist... but let's not dwell on the fact that I was young.
Misolidia is truly a bastard, not to mention obviously female, because it doesn’t have the accident in the key that you send when you can’t play it.
You always forget that you need to put in a major seventh, not the right one. I mean B, not B flat!
Terrible!
 
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23 feb

DeRank™: 18,00

Ingrandisci questa immagine

Guitar?
Does it still exist?
It seems to me I heard about it, before the advent of blenders.
But I'm just a poor old alcoholic unable to take care of myself.

To awaken the dormant memories, I bought a Celtic harp yesterday: and for now, I've figured out the tuning.

But you have to play it, though.
I guess with the hands, those full of fingers that you modern folks use to play with potentiometers, I suppose, instead of for much nobler purposes. Like giving yourself a handjob, remember, you cockhead?

Beware of the hate from the know-it-alls: they will always think that your flaws are their own.
 
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23 feb

DeRank™: 6,00

Olly, JVLI - Balorda nostalgia (Official Video - Sanremo 2025)

Some of you have talked about Sanremo as if you really saw it.
I understand the Martian idiots who will take over the world: a bit less about those who can truly listen to this piece.

I just copied & pasted the link: and I believe that only a face resembling a monstrous catfish could survive this listen that I don't want to hear a note of.

But there is always a bertoncelli, a priest, a pious one, or a theorist to spout nonsense.

Maybe a menacing Neapolitan karateka who threatens your mom.
 
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22 feb

DeRank™: 16,28

The Lords Of The New Church - Like a Virgin

I hope this piece can touch the exquisite sensitivity of the average DeBaserian.
 
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20 feb

DeRank™: 12,00

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"The annual rant is here!!!

SF25

The first thing that stands out to me is the pull road system on the front suspension. Probably for better usage of heights, tire wear, and curb absorption. For fluid dynamics, this type of suspension kinematics should be much “stiffer” due to activated springs and internal links. The cockpit, due to the space taken up by the rods, is visibly further back, I think to redistribute the weights and facilitate airflow towards the venturi floor.
The rear end is very compact and tapered to flow into a very thin Coca-Cola. The side pods seem much more streamlined compared to last year, likely for better airflow distribution towards the rear and a cleaner exhaust.

These are my first impressions."

Oh: this is my friend Jacopo Novello, a stratospheric level Prog bassist whose name rhymes with "novello."
I tried to understand, but it’s not my thing: I’m stuck with Villeneuve, you know.
The old driver who passed away, I mean, not the brightly colored-haired son, nor the director of "Arrival" (great film).
 
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16 feb

DeRank™: 3,00

Ingrandisci questa immagine

Yes, you understood correctly: it’s February 2025. I mean this year! Of course, in San Vito they are AHEAD!

And you should read the program and the description of this... well... DJ or whatever the hell it is: Pulitzer-worthy!
 
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16 feb

DeRank™: 36,00

The Doors - People Are Strange (Official Audio)

A lifetime spent trying to explain myself knowing it’s a waste of time, that my persona holds no interest for anyone but themselves.
And down comes the bile, unconditional hate, a Pavlovian reaction thinking I’m not the dog.
And down goes taking oneself seriously. And down goes responding with lowbrow insults to jokes too refined to be read between the lines by someone who can’t even write their own.
Without empathy, without respect, without dignity, and above all, without self-irony.
As if the world revolved around him and he took it all personally.

Anything to say about my mother, you idiot?
 
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15 feb

DeRank™: 36,00

J.J Cale / Call Me The Breeze

JJ was from Friuli, everyone knows that.
You can see it in his face, in his gaze, in his words.
We are extremely sensitive people who, however, are a bit ashamed of being so: that's why we either talk a lot - like in my case - or we talk little.
But never aimlessly.

Here, the breezes would break your bones, and the oil would freeze in the cupboard.
Here, it was REALLY cold in winter and just as hot in summer.
Here we were born disillusioned, with a unique self-irony, a trusted travel companion.
Here, we don't take ourselves seriously, but we make it seem like we do.
Here, we don't teach: we listen and learn. Especially from the know-it-alls to do the opposite.

The great JJ Cale: a person I would have loved to share some silence with.
 
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5 feb

DeRank™: 30,00

Lucio Battisti - La compagnia (Official Audio)

I've played it a fantastillion times, I know.
But always thinking of the pretentious folly of Withor, which I fear is quite reflected in this piece. And indeed, it is. Ahr!
 
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4 feb

DeRank™: 9,00

CSS - Rat is Dead (Rage) (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Every now and then, things pop up from my Mac that I have absolutely no memory of.
It might have happened to you too... not of having a song stuck in your head (quote) but of not having one, and then finding it among the things you had compulsively downloaded from Napster or similar back in the days of your first - legendary - G3, in the last century.

I don't know when I cracked... ahem downloaded this, nor do I have any idea who these people are.
Now I'm going to check, because they don't seem too bad.
 
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4 feb

DeRank™: 17,94

Walter Chiari - Balbuziente col tic.flv

As a kid, I saw these things.
Not that I understood them, but they made me laugh.
That thing that isn't easy, but characters like this made it seem so.

Certainly, there are better ones now.
I would like a detailed list, please. Just to know...
 
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2 feb

DeRank™: 35,97

You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) (Official Music Video)

If you want to hear it in the studio - something you’ve probably done a thousand times - since the sound of the individual instruments is much better.

But that's not what I wanted to say: I wanted to say that I hate '80s music! Just synthesizers, guitars thrown in those empty-videos just for choreography. And then that damn Jazz popping up everywhere (EBTG, Sade, even Jackson - who came from Punk! - etc): all the fault of that black trumpeter... Miles something...

What a nightmare, those years!
 
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31 jan

DeRank™: 20,92

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Lisbeth is a superior being, and I believe she was part of, in the mind of her creator, a genetic experiment aimed at creating an eugenic race capable of countering a world that is now clearly in the hands of multinational individuals dedicated to a Non-M (Non-Manichean) vision, unwelcome both to the apocalyptic and the integrated.
Do not confuse - Apocalyptic & Integrated - with Non-A (Non-Aristotelian); the latter, on the other hand, renounce philosophy, especially Greek.

If Stieg hadn't had a much worse heart attack than mine, we would probably know for sure what all of us lovers of the extraordinary Swedish trilogy intuited even before he wrote it: Lisbeth is not exactly "human," but not because she lacks doubts or weaknesses (she's not Salvinia!) but rather because her fears make her furious. They really make her furious! And she is VERY intelligent, equipped with an eidetic memory that even Sheldon Cooper would envy!

Then, when with great satisfaction for us Macophiles, she takes up her MacBook Pro: it’s trouble for the Catívi!

That counts the hairs on his ass.

They’ve raped her, abused her, humiliated her, starting with her father?
She douses him in gasoline and sets him on fire.
Her Tutor rapes her?
Just know that she will suffer much worse from my beloved, wicked sister Elizabeth Salamandra!

In short, haven’t you read "Millennium"?
Go and vote!!!
 
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29 jan

DeRank™: 14,88

Silje Nergaard with Pat Metheny - Tell Me Where You're Going (Rio Version)

I met her through a very jazzy version of "This Is Not America" featured in an anthology series of records called "Ladies in Jazz," which I highly recommend to those who love women even if they don’t understand them; just as one doesn’t understand Jazz.

I wanted to share that piece - which perhaps someone has already heard, and in any case, it’s easily found on YouTube - but instead, I came across this that I didn't know about. The video quality is terrible and the sound is even worse, but oh well...

Ah, listen to her records: she’s amazing!
 
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