So, ladies and gentlemen, Dr. @[Carlos] and I have decided to organize a demeeting in Rome on September 26-27 on the occasion of the only date of the Magnetic Fields performing all 69 Love Songs. Who's coming? I hope for heartfelt participation like Neutral Milk Hotel in 2014. On Ticketone, you can find tickets for both nights (half an album here and half an album there), or just for one of the two nights.
 
02 - Pierangelo Bertoli - Rosso Colore ... " And they took our jobs
And they made our lives
Very hard
We united and then went down
Into the streets to fight
To repel the attack of the master
Arrived from afar
Police and riot squads
Charged at the women with batons
We repelled their attacks
With the people's strength
But convinced by corrupt delegates
We allowed ourselves to be trapped
By empty and false speeches
And by those who had been bought" @carlos menziona tu
 
 
Ho affittato un killer (1990)

"I Hired a Contract Killer"
by Aki Kaurismäki (1990)

starring Jean-Pierre Léaud
Margi Clarke
Kenneth Colley
Serge Reggiani
and Joe Strummer

#35mm
 
Milva - Alexander Platz (Original Version HD)
Greetings from the square, gray like the city and the weather.
 
Victor Jara - Pongo en Tus Manos Abiertas... (Álbum completo)

Every now and then, I go back and reread what I consider (and not just me) the best review on the site. About 8 years have passed, and I admit that now, as I am older, it strikes me even more than it did back then. I also fully understand Victor now, and listened to at the right moment, he turned out to be a support, what I always seek in music. I renew my thanks to you, lector.

“Damn, ‘Te Recuerdo Amanda’ is not beautiful because they killed him, it’s the opposite: they killed him because ‘Te Recuerdo Amanda’ is beautiful, too beautiful.”
 
Pills of OUR History (27)

"I have asked myself what we are really talking about. And I believe that the reason for our discourse is not only the attitude to be recommended to ourselves and to others regarding the Vietnam War, but rather: the use of violence. Today, many are forced by violence to remain silent. Just a few hours by jet from this place. As you know: by killing. And just a few minutes from here - well distributed between historic architectures and highways - another violence forces far too many others with the weapons of false and true needs, far too many others are forced, frightened or distracted, to talk about something else or to talk only apparently about what we are actually discussing. But we do not want to say the penultimate word, the comforting penultimate word that makes us feel honest enough. The penultimate word that is the worst enemy of the last one. [...] History and experience have taught me that today we must strive not to unite but to divide. To divide the world ever more violently, to promote the deep, the only true, the only fruitful division, which has become increasingly clear, painful, and necessary, within the unity created by the international market, within the unity determined by power and oppression. It means, first and foremost, destroying the false divisions of the past, it means identifying and interpreting the confused and corrupted unity that exists today. [...] Those who want to fight what is, the arrogance of what is, the natural sympathy that power has for power, and the opposition party for the ruling party, the natural respect that the minister feels for the foreign minister and the head of a secret service for the head of the enemy secret service, those who want to fight the tendency of that which is and want to fight it in the name of what is not yet will easily be accused: of prophecy, of abstraction, of moralism, of “petty-bourgeois adventurism.” Isn’t that how it's said? Go ahead, then, if you wish and it nourishes you. Tomorrow anything can happen. Governments and powers may tomorrow reach any compromise, today unimaginable. Resistance is not achieved solely by dying. But nothing can alter the fact that these years of absolutely enlightened massacres, of one part of ourselves against another part of ourselves, will remain. Nothing can remove the certainty that internationally acting against the order of profit and against the dissociation of men is possible and is not utopia. That the goals formulated a hundred years ago by revolutionary thought are today closer than ever due to the enormous charge of fury and madness that has accumulated in the houses, in the factories, and in the weapons of the powerful, and from those has entered us to distort – or to bring closer? – truth and life. I do not know if this is a final word. But whoever tells almost the whole truth is certainly the worst enemy of the truth. Whoever speaks only of today does not wish for tomorrow to come. Whoever utters the penultimate word is the worst enemy of the last one. I have wondered at the beginning what we were really discussing."
 
Costa-Gavras - Missing (Desaparecido) Coup d'état

"Missing"
by Costa-Gavras (1982)

starring Jack Lemmon
Sissy Spacek
and John Shea

#35mm
 
Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960) (Full Album)

Asterics' One Hundred Favourites [in no particular order] (89/100)
 
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