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Dayel

Make me a picture of the sun

About Me

Writing one's own profile is such a tough job! Anyway, it is required so let's do it. I'm Italian, in my early thirties (I swear I am and I swear that's my picture) and I'm cute, intelligent, nice, sensitive, sweet and very modest. Ok ok... forget about the "modest" thing, but all the other things I wrote are true :-) I am currently a PhD student at the Graduate School of Euroamerican literatures of the University of Bergamo (I took a MA in Foreign languages and literatures after studying chemical engineering for four years). My research project is about coming of age, rites of passage and the construction of identity in gay narrative. As you can read somewhere else in my profile I'm gay and I have a boyfriend. I strongly believe in friendship and I have some special friends. Well, actually some extraordinary friends (I'd die for them if necessary)! What else?? Oh, you'll ask me if you're interested ;-)

My Interests

Interests? They're so many!!!! Well, I'll try to list some of them: travels, cinema, tennis, fencing (now only watching it, but when I was a little child I also practiced it), swimming, watching/listening to the sea in winter (unfortunately I live near the mountains so I can't do it often enough), cinema, theatre (going to the theatre and acting in a theatre - oh, yes, I'm a theatre actor), reading, listening to the music, watching TV (especially American TV series), writing in my blog (if you understand some Italian you can visit my other blog here ) and leaving comments in my friends' blogs. And of course, spending a lot of time with my beloved - when I have one - hugging and kissing each other in front of the fireplace - I kind of like being made a fuss of :-) - and... Oh, aren't these questions a little boring?

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet... people. I mean, I'm only interested in knowing guys and girls who are nice, open-minded, tolerant, intelligent, easy-going, peaceful; people I can talk with and who can teach me things that I don't know. I'm writing too much, aren't I?

Music:

Almost any kind of music, from opera to disco music. Among my favourite groups/singers I can list: U2, Madonna, Elisa , Rufus Wainwright, Carmen Consoli , Enya, Cranberries, Planet Funk , Subsonica , Tori Amos, Alanis Morrissette, Dido, Moby, Coldplay, James Blunt, Tracy Chapman, Postal Service, The Cardigans, Kings of Convenience, The Ark, Zucchero , Giorgia , etc.

Movies:

2001 A Space Odissey, Blade Runner, La finestra di fronte (Facing Windows/ The Window Opposite), Le fate ignoranti (His Secret Life), Il bagno turco (Steam - The Turkish Bath), The Piano, La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful), Orlando, American Beauty, 8 1/2, Matrix...

Television:

ER, Will&Grace, Queer As Folk (both UK and US), Ally McBeal, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, Six Feet Under, The O.C., Sex and the City, The "L" Word...

Books:

The Master and Margarita, The Lost Language of Cranes, The Line of Beauty, The Scarlet Letter, Written on the Body, Powerbook, Emily Dickinson's poems...

Heroes:

My parents, my supervisor (he travelled three hours to be present when I discussed my graduation thesis and then he went back to his parents' home: that night his father - who was very ill - died), all the people who suffered and died to defend human dignity...

My Blog

I miei sosia tra le celebrità

http://www.myheritage.com...
Posted by Dayel on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:22:00 PST

I miei sosia tra le celebrità

http://www.myheritage.com...
Posted by Dayel on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:22:00 PST

The secret of your heart

Do not keep to yourself the secret of your heart, my friend! Say it to me, only to me, in secret. You who smile so gently, softly whisper, my heart will hear it, not my ears. The night is deep, ...
Posted by Dayel on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 04:35:00 PST

The Hug

It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who'd showed us in the end To a bed I reached in one drunk stride. Already I lay snug, And drowsy with t...
Posted by Dayel on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:25:00 PST

(Glad I didn't have) Gay Sex in the 70's

This article was written some time ago in Planet Out by my best friend Jason. I think that the coming back of phenomena like "barebacking" is alarming. Perhaps people are lowering a little their guard...
Posted by Dayel on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:32:00 PST

World's shortest fairy tale

Choose the fairy tale you prefer: 1. Once upon a time, a girl asked a guy, "Will you marry me?" The guy said, "NO!", and the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, dancing, camping, dra...
Posted by Dayel on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:10:00 PST

Chronicle of an Estrangement

Some friends gave me the novel Cronaca di un disamore (Chronicle of an Estrangement) as a Christmas gift. I dont know why they chose that book. Perhaps because the author is Roberto Cotroneo, who tra...
Posted by Dayel on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:41:00 PST