gianni747

As an artist I am inspired by the grandeur presence of this planet, it's splendor and impressiveness of appearance, style and genius. She carries her beauty without taunting nor teasing, in an elegant fashion, for she is a true lady. Her sensual landscape and seascape begs not for attention or affection, for she embraces all that comes her way, without regret or judgement.
I am an accomplished master, and have been introduced to a high level of genius, recognition and success. However if it were not for failure or an accident in the midst of exploration, invited not the genius stand.
I travel and I have a studio in Beverly Hills, California Originally from Minneapolis, MN. The world is my canvas, for I paint oil on canvas. I have designed fashion for major department stores, wrote, directed and produced a play, acted, sang, danced, just finished a book and produced over 50 music vidoes last year regarding my art.
In the midwest I am considered arrogant and shallow, however with the same personality, in Los Angeles I am considered deep and spirited.
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I have just finished writing a book: The name of the book is called "Forget About It, Safehaven" (taken from a New York City, eastern sea board expression that is often heard and said). It is a an autobiography/novel, based on a true story, my life being raised in an Italian crime family. The story takes place in Chicago, Ill and Minneapolis, MN where I was born.
The story starts with the importance of our family ties (our blood lineage), the closeness we all had for one another, my father (his Italian restaurants where we all worked), his brothers, my cousins and all the things we experienced together. We enjoyed each others company, and Italian food was an intricate part of our being together. There was a very poignant moment I remember when my cousin and I, we were fourteen at the time, took in a movie one Saturday afternoon at a theatre in downtown Minneapolis across the street from one of my fathers restaurants. The movie was "The Godfather" and we had to sneak in to see it, for it was rated R. For us that was half the fun, sneaking in. After the movie, we climbed on the roof of the restaurant and as wee looked across the street at the movie theaters lights my cousin asked me "doesn't that movie seem like our family, uncle so and so does this, and uncle so and so does that, do you think we are in the mafia?" I thought for a moment and replied "No, becuse no one has died". We laughed it off as we recited different lines in the movie. "Leave the gun, grab the cannoli" was our all time favorite line.
By 1985 five family members died from ties stemming from largest drug raid in American history, 500 million. The story's true parts in the book are taken from accounts written about in the media, and now public knowledge. There are other accounts that were completely fabricated, as I took artist license to changes the names and events, to protect the guilty, allegedly!
The World of Books
Is the Most Remarkable Creation of Man
Nothing Else That He Builds Ever Lasts
Monuments Fall
Nations Perish
Civilizations Grow Old and Die Out
And After an Era of Darkness
New Races Build Others
But in the World of Books are Volumes
That Have Seen This Happen Again and Again
And Yet Live On
Still Young
Still As Fresh As the Day They Were Written
Still Telling Men's Hearts
Of the Hearts of Men Centuries Dead
— Clarence Day
I was a major stockholder and CEO of a five star restaurant / theatre. The restaurant (Gianni Fragali Italia Cucina) was designed as a 1926 New York Speakeasy, set during the jazz age and prohibition period. The play, "Gianni Sent Me" unfolded while one had dinner, a seven coarse Italian dinner in which one elected entree was 'Gnocchi Con Polo Al Sugo Bianco'. The play featured jazz singers, dancers, movie stars, gangsters, bootleggers, shady politicians, flapper girls and fashion models who did runway modeling for a 1926 fashion show. Tickets were $50.00 per plate and we were completely sold out.
I directed, acted, sang and danced in addition to running the restaurant as General Manager and CEO. 'Corn Bread Harris' was our pianist (a jazz and blues man for the past 60 years. He is actually "Jimmy Jam's" father, producer of Janet Jackson amoung others) for the entire three years. I created the concept, assisted in writing the play (it underwent six re-writes), designed the interior, handled all the general contracting and met with the city council and all twelve city inspectors. It was the first stage of three in being the largest dinner theatre complex in the nation with over 800 seats.
I love traveling on an eclectic avenue, when creating. I did so by incorporating jazz and some opera together. Some would distance themselves from the thought, but to my senses, it is like combining antiques with contemporary pieces in interior design, a favorite of mine.
"It's time to say goodbye" performed by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman inspired me to include the song in the play. It was during a very poignant moment that the lead character (An Italian Gangster who owns the speakeasy) discovered that a 13 boy he knew (Sid the news kid) . . . was actually his son. In this draining and emotional scene, the gangster was speaking to his dead wife . . . the mother of his new found child. She gave birth to his son while he was in prison, she did not tell him: And than she had died before he had gotton out.
The gangster had been in denial of the loss of his wife until this special moment arrived, whereas it was now 'time to say goodbye'. But he was left with his new found son. As "a gangster" he questioned his own ethics in comparison "to those he would teach to a child". And this is where the audience laughed and cried at the same time.
It is the quality in moving the audience to laugh and cry at the same time that really brought my senses together to fully understand what a creative masterpiece is. I was so inspired by the movie 'Life Is Beautiful' whereas at the end you laugh and cry.
We were in the midst of planning future expansion to Las Vegas and New York City when the highly improbable became probable and unfortunately, reality.
Within ten days of 9/11, 2001 all the corporate business (Pillsbury, Honeywell, AT&T and the like had employee Christmas parties booked/approx $350,000.00) cancelled and I lost $800,000.00. Nobody wanted a party after 911.
Fun huh! True-fully, the experience was priceless and a once in a lifetime surreal dream.
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TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: gianni fragali
Birthday: 4/25/ . . . yea right!
Birthplace: Minneapolis
Current Location: Beverly Hills
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5 foot 9 inches
Right Handed or Left Handed: You don't want to know . . .
Your Heritage: Italian
The Shoes You Wore Today: Kenneth Cole
Your Weakness: A girl with a southern belle accent wearing high heels in bed.
Your Fears: A girl with a southern belle accent . . . .
Your Perfect Pizza: Canadian Bacon and Pineapple
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: A girl with a southern belle accent . . . .
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: I'm new at this . .
Thoughts First Waking Up: You don't want to know . . .
Your Best Physical Feature: You don't want to know . . .
Your Bedtime: huh!
Your Most Missed Memory: huh!
Pepsi or Coke: Cocaine!
MacDonalds or Burger King: The clown thing!
Single or Group Dates: I like group sex alone . . . thank you!
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: The plunge thing!
Chocolate or Vanilla: Twist
Cappuccino or Coffee: triple espresso!
Do you Smoke: . . . Smoooookin' . . . of coarse . . . glad you asked!
Do you Swear: . . . Fuck no!
Do you Sing: . . . when I am in Love
Do you Shower Daily: Every 28 days or so . . .
Have you Been in Love: . . . when I am singing.
Do you want to go to College: I'm a professor.
Do you want to get Married: Over and over and over.
Do you belive in yourself: Who else would I believe in?
Do you get Motion Sickness: No, my boat rocks!
Do you think you are Attractive: At 21, 41 or 81?
Are you a Health Freak: I'll vote health . . . . no, I vote freak.
Do you get along with your Parents: At 21, 41 or 81?
Do you like Thunderstorms: You don't want to know . . .
Do you play an Instrument: You don't want to know . . . I don't kiss and tell!
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: . . . Only at confession!
In the past month have you Smoked: . . . what?
In the past month have you been on Drugs: yes, but I didnt get high, my drug dealer has some explaining to do
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Rat!
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: I don't kiss and tell . . .
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: I don't kiss and tell . . .
In the past month have you been on Stage: I don't kiss and tell . . .
In the past month have you been Dumped: No . . . bitch!
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Never, I am a virgin.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Never, I am a virgin.
Ever been Drunk: Never, I am a virgin.
Ever been called a Tease: Never, I am a virgin.
Ever been Beaten up: Yeeeeeeees
Ever Shoplifted: Yeeeeeeees
How do you want to Die: Like Bonnie and Clyde!
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Like Bonnie and Clyde!
What country would you most like to Visit: U.S.A.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Blonde
Favourite Hair Color: Blue
Short or Long Hair: If it bounces off her ass . . . I vote freak!
Height: Legs?
Weight: Paper thin or Oreo size!
Best Clothing Style: If it bounces off her bare ass . . . I vote freak!
Number of Drugs I have taken: You like the drug question don't you?
Number of CDs I own: I still own eight tracks!
Number of Piercings: You don't want to know!
Number of Tattoos: At 21, 41 or 81?
Number of things in my Past I Regret: I plead the fifth!
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Thy shall not answer for yesterday,
for thoughts found the same,
failure befriend thou,
think not thy so lame.
For it is the highest goals,
achieved in part as yet,
expect not failure to be
thy friend as thou bet.
March on lonely soul,
failure as thou be,
invited not as a friend
to thy eventful party.
Look not in thy eyes,
for the sky to fall,
the drama of failure,
keenly seen by all.
Success not be
guilted for thy shall laugh,
for the genius is proud
of thy own craft.
If it is thou failure
that thee embraces so,
failure tis not thy friend,
and one that thy shall not know.
giannifragali
two thousand six
For it is the moist rose petal
that thy eyes
touched so soft
and thy ears
so saw
blind as not.
tis the smell so rich
as moisture weeps
thy senses hitch
colored so deep
as the petals spread
thy virgn thigh
though hath bled
wings flown high
neither a place
so warm
the sun as not
gentle touch stroked
no harm
precious flower
fought not
for pleasure replaced pain
as by design
thoughts so measured
all else benign.
never has nature
shown beauty as such
all else so measured
compared not thy touch
there comes a time
when the rose
as known
will become a dozen
as reproduction so clone
the petals of thy flower
wet with morning dew
thy lips touch thy petal
taste thou scent
and became love true.
giannifragali a/k/a brutus
two thousand six
september the twenty.
For it is the power of thy mind,
that advances thee so,
seek not mediocrity,
dance in moons glow.
For it is the power of thy mind,
engaged in enchanted allure,
for it is any souls potential,
known shall thou be sure.
For it is the power of thy mind,
each day so fascinated,
for grant not thy take,
to hold and be captivated.
For it is the power of thy mind,
incantation exquisiteness,
hath no bound,
enraptured impressiveness.
For it is the power of thy mind
elegant and seductive virtue,
match infinity's knowledge,
coax Venus's sweet talk juju.
giannifragali
beverlyhills
two thousand six
Misleadingly attractive,
finger pointed not,
to breath and spill
empty talk.
Promise hath not kept,
deceit by omission,
watch thou step,
hired by commission.
Conceal or disguise,
thou dissimulation,
designed to impress,
artistic affectation.
Think not thy saw,
thou mask of phoniness,
hypocritical display of virtue,
ripped off thou face of piousness.
Thou not seek redemption,
castigated eyes saw mendacity,
lethal dose injected,
of pure insincerity.
Thy not constabulary,
of thou speciousness,
as superficially plausible,
sanctimoniousness.
giannifragali
beverlyhills
two thousand six