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Innocent
I Am
A Sign
The slide show below is an attempt at showing you what kind of person I am by using a patchwork of images -- "Who do I think I am?"
Making music (when I'm not working, alas, which does not leave much time for), movies, books (mainly non fiction, essays, esp. on music, language & linguistics, popular science), wine, beer, single malt scotch whisky, cats, skating, biking, trekking, nature, mountains, woods, lakes, good friendsCURRENT MOON lunar phase
Frank Zappa, Ravi Shankar, Groucho Marx, Noam Chomsky, El Subcomandante Marcos, Basho, Issa, Ryokan, Prasanna (the guitar player), Fritz the Cat, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Pinocchio, Sam Gamgee, Marco Travaglio, Ellen Ten Damme... interesting people I can learn from, I can communicate with, I can cheer up and be friends with. In short: if you're a nice person, I probably would be very happy to meet you. (If you happen to like guitars, Indian music, B-movies, dark chocolate, good wine and cats, I definitely want to meet you).
Yeah yeah another useless widget... anyway it's fun to see where visitors are from
pfffff very chaotic field of interest. From metal (mainly alternative like Freak Kitchen, Bumblefoot, Buckethead, Meshuggah, Aghora, Planet X, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Behold...The Arctopus), to Indian music (Hindustani for the wonderful melodies, Carnatic for the crazy rhythmic patterns, Bollywood bcs it so much fun), to Arabic & Turkish music, almost any tune where there's an oud or a duduk playing, anything by Frank Zappa, to contemporary jazz (mainly guitar players like Bill Frisell, Mike Stern, but also piano players like Stefano Battaglia & Giovanni Allievi or the super classic guys Miles Davis & John Coltrane), to early Baroque music (Buxtehude or Tobias Hume)
especially B-movies, SF, horror, fantasy... oh well, provided it's bad taste I'll probably like it. Just about anything with a space ship and aliens wielding an X-ray gun will sedate my understanding of aesthetics. Evil Dead I and II by Sam Raimi. Russ Meyer's early movies (up to the early 70s, then it gets way too tacky). All movies by Nanni Moretti. Roberto Benigni's early stuff (which is not so cheesy and "volémosebbène"-style). Peter Jackson's movies, from the juicy Bad Taste to the gore-fest displayed in Braindead (this title should tell you something about me by the way...), until LOTR (yeah yeah, the book is much better and totally different, however I loved the extended version of this trilogy). Star Wars (the old one). Mel Brook's movies. The movies by Grouche, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo Marx. Woody Allen. Some movies by Federico Fellini. Documentaries if they are honest, sincere and have something to say. Spinal Tap, Best In Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind. American Splendor. Final Fantasy VI and VII. Akira. Ghost In The Shell. Well, anime stuff.
Hardly watch any TV at all, I've got a life to live, that takes almost all my time. But I liked The Office (BBC series), Extras (same guy as The Office), Family Guy and I don't miss an episode of the Ed The Shred series on YouTube.
Lord Of The Rings, Gun with Occasional Music, Big Fish, Too Loud A Solitude, almost all books by P.H. Dick, essays by John McPhee, anything by Ennio Flaiano, Altri libertini by Tondelli, Bint by F Bordewijk, De Uitvreter by Nescio, poems by F Villon, Issa, Basho, Ryokan. The Divine Comedy is still one of the finest examples of Italian poetry of all times. Essays about music and languages/linguistics.
Nigel Tufnel, my 2 cats. Come on, heroes are the product of an aristocratic society, we're a bunch of lil' bourgeois people (yeah, blame it on the French Revolution), heroes don't fit among us. I prefer nice people (and cats) to heroes anyway.