28 February 2010, 10:27 am
One of the privileges of age is to be able to sound convincing when singing old people’s songs. And I don’t mean old songs; I mean those lyrics that require time and experience to be sung right. A very good example is Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters: one thing is to hear a 25 year old sing it, a whole different story is to hear a 50 year old Muddy deliver it – and mean it. Another song of the same family is Born Loose by Rod Stewart (circa 1977, when Rod still brewed his nasty brand of Rolling Stones on steroids r’n'r). Maybe he meant it when he sung it (he didn’t know he’d be making Christmas albums in the future), but I can truly wear his lyrics with pride, especially when he says:
Born loose, I was born loose baby
Slow me down, you can’t slow me down
I was born loose, born loose
Wrong side of my mama
Wrong side of my dad
Wrong side of the tracks
I was born loose baby
Can’t change me now
Cause you’re too late now
Too late
To change me now
Never change me now
Born loose
Born loose
17 February 2010, 6:56 pm
I see stuff like this and I’m full of questions: how do you mean “overturning the urine bowl”? Is this an asian sport like Bukkake? Is it a superpower? And what on earth is Black Raspberry Wine? It sounds like porn for older guys with prostate problems and time on their hands, dreaming to once again (?) overturn the urine bowl with strenght of his pee.
16 February 2010, 3:38 pm
There’s a documentary you guys should watch. It was reviewed by the New York Times (“It feels as if you were watching a transmission from another planet”) and it should be in (very selected) theaters in the US right now (and then probably on Hulu, for those of you who live in the US or browse with an US IP). It’s called Videocracy, it’s by an italian-swedish director and it shows pretty well what Berlusconism is like. It’s not a “fair and balanced” movie but it’s true and very funny, and it answers a faq I get: “Why don’t you live in Italy anymore?”*
* Considering that mr Videocracy was elected with a landslide of votes for the third time.
16 February 2010, 12:12 am
Dialogue:
Dutch Border Guard, holding a cardboard tube about one foot long she just extracted from my bag, while searching it: “What is this?”
SM: “A cardboard tube. It contains Art.”
Dutch Border Guard, looking suspiciously at the sheets of print rolled inside the tube: “Do you always carry around Art like that?”
SM: “Yes officer, I do.”
Dutch Border Guard: “You may go.”
10 February 2010, 2:15 pm
Bye bye LA, you’ve been very good to me.
5 February 2010, 4:48 pm
The constant, spectacular failures in developing computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require very basic, almost non-existent human intelligence.
19 January 2010, 1:12 pm
Los Angeles, mural by Mac, lettering by Retna
(click to enlarge)
PS: Beh, che sorpresone. Grazie a Deemo, a cui non sfugge quasi mai quasi niente, adesso sappiamo che il modello del murale qui sopra è nientemeno che Flycat, MC italo-losangelino della primissima ora (e uno dei pro-motori del primo hip hop italiano). Insomma: vai a LA, fai una foto a un muro e sopra c’è uno che conosci (e saluti: hi dude, whazzup?): tres bizarre.
PPS: Dice sempre Deemo, a cui in fatto di immagini non sfugge mai proprio niente: “La roba di El Mac devasta”. Come dargli torto?
9 January 2010, 4:28 pm
Mr Tamale wants to crash your browser. But, right before it crashes, you’ll see and hear fantastic stuff. Tony Mendoza (aka Mr Tamale) and his accomplices’ latest occupation is to hack publishing platforms, such as Blogger, layering all kind of web content (images, movies, sound, animations, clever html, etc) in a vortex of whipped media that tests the limits of what a browser can handle (and how). The result is startling, very cool to see and hear, and intensely contemporary (plus sort of dangerous, and y’all know I like that). Sometimes it might crash your browser, but never mind: it’s gonna look fabulous when it dies, so much so you’ll want to kill it again and again.
http://triptych.tv
http://imagepirate.com
http://www.subculture.com
http://www.subculture.com/indiction
http://www.subculture.com/anime
http://idiotrobot.com
http://mayhem.net
http://mrtamale.com
7 January 2010, 10:20 am
It came out yesterday, both on paper and online: it’s the interview about me/us/Realcore by Luca Celada for the art mag Artillery. It’s a very intimate piece (we’ve known each other for over 30 years) but also very precise and ironic, in classic Celada style.
E’ uscita giusto ieri in versione cartacea e online l’intervista/articolo di Luca Celada su me/noi/Realcore per Artillery, magazine di arte. E’ un articolo molto affettuoso (conosco Luca da oltre trent’anni) ma anche assai preciso e, nello stile del buon Celada (che potete godervi quotidianamente qui), obliquamente ironico.
31 December 2009, 4:17 pm
LA, 29/12, Sunny side up
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