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Chi

YO, I KILLED YOUR GOD!

About Me

Photographer, journalist, writer, singer, dreamer, wise, not wise.

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My Interests

Music-addicted, photography, writing, singing, guitar, travel (possibly by motorbike)

I'd like to meet:

Tom Waits in my living room with a piano and his brown hat.

Music:

The Beatles, John Lennon, Tom Waits, Tom Waits, Tom Waits, Marc Ribot - best guitarist in the world, Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, Marc Ribot's y Los Cubanos Postizos and pretty much everything this guy plays and sings, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Bob Dylan, The Band, Philip Glass, Neil Young, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Nico, The Who, The Kinks, John Martyn, The Rutles :-) , Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Wilco, Loose Fur, Joanna Newsom, John Cale, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Midlake, Bright Eyes, Johnatan Richman, Ed's Reediming Qualities, Smog, Television, Jesus and The Mary Chains, BRMC, Regina Spektor, Steve Wynn, Chris Cacavas, Tom Petty, Traveling Wilburys, Sparklehorse, Patti Smith - my mother, Blonde Redhead, Spaceman3, Love, Tim Rogers, You Am I, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, The Specials, Sufjan Stevens, White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Nick Cave, Marah, Bruce Springsteen, The Flaming Lips, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, My Bloody Valentine, PJ Harvey, Daniel Johnston, Air, James Cruickshank, Janis Joplin, Joy Division, Nick Barker, Elvis Costello, Frank Sinatra (on a Sunday morning), Gomez, David Bowie, Eels, Kings of Leon, The Mars Volta, The Bakery Girls, Modest Mouse, Cat Power, The Doors, The Beach Boys, The Kills, Jeff Buckley, Gotan Project, Tim Buckley, Beck, TV on the Radio, Cat Power, The La's, Elvis, The Zombies, The Cure, The Stone Roses, Ben Harper, Devandra Banhart, The Lowlands, Elliott Smith, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Peter Seegel, Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone, the one and only John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler, Joshua Redman, Lee Morgan, Billi Holiday, Herbie Hankcok, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Mahler, Ravel, Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Bach: that guy fucking rocks!, Handel (the German londoner!), The Libertines, The Smiths, Pulp, Mando Diao, Figli di John, Paolo Conte, Franz Ferdinand, The Ravonettes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, Adam Green, Moldy Peaches, Interpol... and.. and.

Movies:

Down by Law, Mystery Train, Coffee and Cigarettes, La Grande Abbuffata, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Minds, The Science of Sleep, and any lenght of film of Michel Gondry, Rumble Fish, Masked and Anonymous, Quadrophenia, Tommy (despite the actor-skills of Roger Daltrey), Buffalo 66, This is Spinal Tap, Mighty Wind, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Crying Game, A Guide to Recognizing your Saints, Breakfast with Hunter Thompson, Where the Buffalo Roams, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Escalator to the Scaffold (amazing Miles Davis soundtrack), The Last Waltz, Fight Club, The Last Temptation of the Christ, Robin Hood (sean connery & audrey hepburn), Taxi driver, Woodstock, The Rutles (!!!), How I won the War, The Meaning of Life, Jules and Jim, Life of Brian, Manhattan, Love and Death, Annie Hall... all the good OLD stuff of Woody Allen! Shining, Lolita, Clockwork Orange, Doctor Strangelove... everything by Kubrick! In the mood for Love, 2046, Oldboy, Simpathy for Lady Vengence and all crazy Korean movies about murder and love; All the old Italian movies with Mastroianni, Vittorio de Sica and Co. And all that old movies with Cary Grant and Co...and cool documentaries about amazing individuals or evil corporations!

Television:

South Park-addicted.

Books:

"Die Steppen Wolf" Herman Hesse, "Ulysses" and "Dubliners" James Joyce, "Picture of Dorian Grey" Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis" Oscar Wilde, "Confessions of an opium eater" De Quincey, "White Nights", "Howl" Allen Ginsberg, "Haunted" Chuck Palahniuk, "On the Road" Kerouac, "Barfly" , "What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire" "Hollywood" Bukowski, "Fear and Loating Las Vegas" Hunter S Thompson, "West of Rome", "1933 Was a Bad Year" John Fante, "Novecento" Alessandro Baricco, "The Real Frank Zappa book" autobiography, "Norwegian wood" Murakami, Calvino's books and the one I have to write.

Heroes:

Whoever is able to make of his life exactly what he wants it to be.

My Blog

VAN THE MAN REVIEW ON ROLLING STONE WEBSITE

Hello, my review to the showcase of Van the Man is online. enjoy.. .and yes, I'm afraid this one's in Italian too! http://www.rollingstonemagazine.it/page.php?ID=2857
Posted by Chi on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:23:00 PST

THE BRIXTOWN MASSACRE BLOG ONLINE

Italianiiiiii!!!se avete voglia andate a fare un salto sul mio blog, lasciate un commento, un insulto, un parere o le luci accese... ciao! chiarawww.thebrixtownmassacre.wordpress.com...
Posted by Chi on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:10:00 PST

Sign the Petition to deny parole to Mark David Chapman

Sign the Petition to deny parole to Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon. I'll try to be as quick as possible as there are so many things that could be said in here.M.D. Chapman was deni...
Posted by Chi on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:33:00 PST

BRMC interview on-line

My interview to the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club for Rolling Stone Italy is finally on-line at: http://www.rollingstonemagazine.it/page.php?ID=1913it's a must for all fans of this great band ...oh, ye...
Posted by Chi on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:38:00 PST

Carlyle Interview on-line

hello there, my interview to Robert Carlyle came out on Rolling Stone Italy, October issue, but you can read it online in here too:http://www.rollingstonemagazine.it/page.php?ID=1832 ... what do you m...
Posted by Chi on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:49:00 PST

Poetry in anger rampage: "Canary Wharf 7,30AM"

You want me to be one of the antsyou pink shirted eager cuntsbut sweat and blood are mixed with artand mankind should sleep when out is darkI see you bought a new carto run fast when life is pastfor t...
Posted by Chi on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:51:00 PST

POETRY TIME

"The Shoe and the Heart"Once upon a timethere was a time to laugh out tearswhen all fears were dressed in wine and we were washing clothes in beersRun! He said and then she disappearedthrough deformin...
Posted by Chi on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:21:00 PST

Unemployment brings in happyness!

Finally I got rid of my "respectful" day time job! Now I am ready to jump into poverty with a big smile in my face and heart. Future looks a lot like a big "?" but hey when it doesn't? So I am piling...
Posted by Chi on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:50:00 PST

Friends deleted!

Hello everybody! Yesterday I must have deleted something like 300 friends... so I apologize for that... I did it because I found a bit senseless to have so many friends and not remembering who they ar...
Posted by Chi on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:39:00 PST

Pistacho: an underrated beauty

Never enough Pistacho. Somebody has to tell me why we can't find proper pistacho ice cream at the markets, at least in Europe we can't - in US they have it but it's not so easy to find. Life would be...
Posted by Chi on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:12:00 PST