Oct 30 2005

.:dei capelli immobili

Tag: boozetuka @ 12:23 pm

Sed Modo Senectus Morbus Est

Carmen Vitae Immoderatae Hic Est

[Diana Est, Tenax]

Eravamo intorno alla mezzanotte, anzi era appena passata, e Andy arriva con un drink: é il tuo compleanno devi bere. E io che son sempre meno buono a dire di no, afferro il bicchiere di plastica, 16oz o 33cl di liquido giallo, pallido colore di urina limpida e lo assaggio: il sapore mi porta alla memoria quella medicina di quando ero piccolo, e avevo la bronchite oppure forse era l’influenza, il Bactrim, un fluido bianco e pastoso col quale davano anche il cucchiaino di plastica, boccetta e cucchiaino, entrambi piazzati alla voce Bactrim. Il quale sarebbe invece vodka + Red Bull, ma non ho iniziato a volare (neppure a vomitare, però).

Non so quindi se la sensazione é quella della regressione ad un passato felice di bronchite; forse coadiuvato dai due Cuba Libre di poco prima diventa invece un mix di leggerezza, mi vedo chiaramente a ballare col mio scettro in mano di fianco a Minnie e Crudelia DeMon (Cruelia Deville, il nome d’origine): ogni tanto il loro grido nell’aria attraversa l’orecchio esterno e in un secondo si schianta sul timpano e mi manda un messaggio di auguri.

Col cambio dell’ora, mi sveglio, e forse é già mattino e non lo so. Le ore undici sono alle porte, ma niente capelli immobili o disegni statici, per ora. La notte estetica e la finzione scenica, però, ci stavano eccome, ancora me le ricordo. Eravamo in una specie di colonia penale, direi localizzata a Pechino o dintorni: asiatici dovunque e io e la topa a chiederci come ne avessero portati così tanti in un posto solo. La migliore é Kate: bacia uno nuovo e sempre quello ogni sera; che abbia trovato il giusto grado di fedeltà? Due ore, ma non due giorni.

La fame ad un certo punto é l’unica sensazione che posso sentire chiaramente: per sfamarla mi siedo. La battona e l’amica mi chiedono se va tutto bene e io dico: certo, ho solo un po’ di male ai piedi, queste scarpe sono eleganti ma non molto confortevoli. Tanto un secondo dopo le luci si accendono, e sono appena le due. O l’una?

La fame ci trasporta un po’ tutti, incuranti dell’ora e del biglietto, dalle parti di casa mia a ingoiare un boccone. La mezza é passata da un pezzo, e dove sono la mia nuova immagine, e il sogno complice? Devo pure farmi il letto, la complicità è piuttosto negativa. Mi immagino su questo lettino invece - meglio un triclinio - mentre lo psicanalista scandisce la sentenza: inconscio fragile, necessità di un mondo latino. E io a ripetere: forse quello latino mi manca, lo so, ma ne ho un paio di altri che ho usato e ultimamente mi tornano alla mente, prima di prendere sonno.

 

No, no, no, no: alla fine é solo il canto della vita moderata. Eccessiva, ma solo un po’. Triste quanto basta. Allegra quanto basta. Musicale quanto basta. Letterata a sufficienza. Abitudinaria, ma non troppo. Fortemente vincolata, ma senza farne un dramma. Soleggiata, con qualche nube all’orizzonte.

Manca solo un po’ di Fede.

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Oct 26 2005

.:cast the spell!

Tag: italianlifetuka @ 10:38 pm

Italian television is a good mix of America and Mexico, like living in San Diego. We have the Simpsons and the melodic songs, we have reality shows and the soap operas, we have The Wheel of Fortune (presented by an italo-american old guy called Mike Bongiorno and the female dancers exposing what is usually hidden during the day.

We have also a lot of TV series we import directly from the States, like X-files, Sex and the city, Friends, etc… But looking on the interesting website RaiClick, which maintains a lot of recent and less recent shows of the italian public television, I discovered a big fetish that is probably typical italian.

Go to Fiction, go to Series, and you’ll discover that we number every single season of every single series to insult our intelligence by proving that - over the years - we basically watch all the same stuff. History repeating, so that we currently have:

  • Un medico in famiglia 3 (A doctor in the family): the adventures of a family which has a doctor as a component. Could have been also: A grandfather in the family or A parrot in the family but they both probably sound less attractive. Gradually, season by season, the doctor exits the scene but it’s not that big of a deal: new androids that took the same Medical school join the family which now grows by mitosis instead of sexual procreation. Everything continues to change but the old grandfather, Nonno Libero, which reflects the global aging of the sunny country
  • Don Matteo 4 (Father Matthew): the adventures of a priest who always gets in trouble but never gets killed. The only difference from Angela Lansbury as Jessica Beatrice Fletcher? Minimal: they both wear a skirt, they both have their other half in paradise, but the priest doesn’t write a book every episode. Who does pay for him, then?
  • La squadra 5 (The Squad): why have only one detective when you can have a full team? The good part of Italy is that everybody can do anything with the right degree of flexibility. While the detective on duty is making love with the assistant of his colleague, you can be the one! You can use the scooter of pizza-man, who broke the toilet and is now fixing it: with that vehicle you’ll be less conspicuous! The doorman can be your number two as soon as the dog takes charge of the door. Somebody has to take the place of the dog though, but I’m sure you’ll find somebody…
  • Incantesimo 7(Incantation): no witches, no spells, no magic. Just lots of trouble with love. Yeah, because even if everybody has intimate acquaintance with everybody, in Italy it’s still love. The rule to make a series that can still for many years? Simple: Betray and Forgive. Your husband did it with the neighbor’s wife, the post-woman, all the colleagues at work, with your best friend, her best friend and over and over again? What’s the matter? You can do it! The same I mean! Come on! It’s your turn now! Just remember, at the very end, to cry and cast the spell: “I’m sorry, it was a mistake”

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Oct 26 2005

.:world press photo contest

Tag: in memory, linestuka @ 4:56 pm

From the italian Corriere, I jump to the World Press: 50 years photo gallery. These pictures are really moving and tough, and as you can see they’re mostly about conflicts and wars in various periods and areas of the world. Does war really belong to the human nature?

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Oct 25 2005

.:1

Tag: italianlifetuka @ 7:54 pm

It was just one hundred years ago, and Italy was world-famous for its melodramma: tragic stories of love and passion, always ending with death, epic tales of heroes, and the genre of Opera becoming the most popular kind of music of the century. What happened in the last 50 years is then a real mistery.

As promptly reported by the italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, in the last period the troubles of famous italian singers are worse than troubles of italian politics. The singer Albano, which has only the name like Aristotle or Dante, has been dumped by his current wife Loredana Lecciso, an exuberant mix of skin and botulinum.

This is the second time for Albano, which previously divorced from his long-lasting love Romina Power, who appears with him in this exciting disc cover and was used to sing with him the struggling song Felicità (Happiness).

To avoid a brutal, intimate situation, Loredana decided to dump Albano when he was participating to the reality show called L’Isola dei Famosi (The island of the Famous), so that he received the good news in front of a few million of italians, stuck in the middle of the Ocean, wearing some kind of short boards, in a more comfortable fashion.

At the same time, Eros Ramazzotti, another singer that we proudly export in all the regions of South America, in exchange of soap operas (which might be fair), is still struggling if he wants to be together with his ex-wife, Michelle Hunziker. The problem is that she is very pretty, but she is not a man, which probably upsets Eros, well known for loving the male company.

Instead of singing that, he prefers to dedicate a song to his ex-wife, with the words: a temporary commitment: you like her, but inside you know she’s not the one. Great complicity, but not total which can help selling another million of CDs to passionate brazilians and argentinians, who might love a woman for real.

Similar problems afflict Simona Ventura, famous italian show girl, who smartly chose a gay husband from the beginning. There is only one person that apparently doesn’t know about his sexuality, and this is Stefano Bettarini himself, who proudly doesn’t answer to every question regarding his sexual preferences. But his ex-wife is boiling of desire to say something that, as she declared in the hot divorce days, nobody knows and everybody should know. Which at this point is probably something else.

Luckily, the myth of the italian stallion, started by the unforgettable Sylvester Stallone and his two inches pee-pee (proudly showed in all its glory through the movie, to the people who have a fine eye) is not dead. Our prime minister, which we proudly export anywhere, even if busy with many activities involving the health of the country, has some spare time for every other woman than his lonely wife, Veronica Lario. All the women of the president include Tarja Halonen, the sexy President of the Republic of Finland. Her feminine neck, together with the cute haircut, have now a spot in the dream life of every proud italian men.

And if you have troubles sleeping, before or after seeing the images of the italian prime minister’s affairs, what is better than the words which a frustrated italian woman decides to sing to her ex-husband after divorcing? Loredana helps us with that again performing a new century Opera with lovely words that I can barely translate, from her upcoming song Si vive una volta sola (Life is only once):


You say I’m a risky woman, a troublemaker mother.

An improvised showgirl, also out of tune,

Long tempting legs and kinda nasty.

Look in my eyes, look in my hearth,

Every woman has its pain inside

Unconfessed, taken apart from the world.

Look how time flies. Life is only once.

You say I’m a strange creature, the relationship explodes.

It doesn’t last.

A storm and the blue of the sea make you delirious.

I’m the nightmare of all your nights.

And if you still don’t get it, I want the sweet of life.

.:bubbles::terzina (piccolo eccesso di vanità)

Facciamo l’amore piano.

Dove io ti suono.

E ci ascoltiamo.

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Oct 23 2005

.:lines

Tag: linestuka @ 12:03 pm

The idea: snapshot. Not too new though.

Come sono morbidi i miei piedi, ora, mentre li accarezzo

I had some… sorry I forgot. Ok, thanks patrick, it’s a buttery nipple = 50% irish cream 50% butterscotch snaps. Strong but with a lovely second taste

Scusi, non parlavo di lei

This is a sunday, looks like a sunday, acts like a sunday. Finally something to do, though. Love having a mission.

Mi stupisce Google Images: trova ciò che voglio, o mi accontento troppo in fretta

…passare dal parlato al letto…


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