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Marcello

At night sometimes it seems you could hear the whole damn city crying.

About Me

How about you?

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My Interests

Saying No. Do nothing.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Bruce Springsteen, The Divine Comedy, Amandine, The Mendoza Line, Rene Aubry, Nino Rota, Tortoise, Massive Attack, Mogwai, State River Widening, Mojave 3, The Gentleman Losers, Tom Waits, Lullaby For The Working Class, Arcade Fire, Mazzy Star, Gotan Project, The Innocence Mission, Antony and the Johnsons, Craig Armstrong, Damon & Naomi, Bright Eyes, Belle and Sebastian, Elvis Presley, Leonard Cohen, Patricia Kaas, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Ute Lemper, Kurt Weill, Phillip Glass, Maurice Ravel, Pink Martini, Bjork, The Magnetic Fields, Zbigniew Prisner

Movies:

Fellini, Antonioni, Truffault, Visconti, Scola, De Sica, Rosellini, Jean Vigo, Marx Brothers, Orson Welles, Walter Sales, John Cameron Mitchell, Tom Tickwer, Inaritu, Won Kar Wai, David Lynch, Almodovar, Wim Wenders, Stanley Kubrick, F.F. Coppola, Bertolucci, Kieslowski, Marcello Mastroianni

Television:

Nah....

Books:

Albert Camus, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Don Delillo, Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, J.D. Sallinger, Saul Bellow, Paul Bowles, Jack Kerouac, Korso, Reymond Carver, Joseph Brodsky, Reinaldo Arenas, Julio Kortasar, Ionesco, Mark Ravenhill, John Fowles, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Malcolm Lowry, Christopher Isherwood, Raymond Queneau, Georges Simenon, Michel Houellebecq, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karen Blixen, Italo Calvino, Andre Gide, Danilo Kis, Kurt Vonnegut, Honore de Balzac, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Stendhal, Nikolai Gogol, Voltaire, Henry James, Samuel Beckett, Ernest Hemmingway, R.M. Rilke, Bertolt Brecht, Harold Norse, Joseph Roth, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Henry David Thoreau, Julian Barnes, E.A. Poe, Bruce Chatwin, Joseph Heller, Eric Hobsbawm, Vladimir Nabokov, Curson McCullers, F.S. Fitzgerald, Cervantes, Herman Melville, Lawrence Stern, Richard Stark, William Gibson, Patricia Highsmith, Cavafy, George Seferis, Andre Breton, Maurice Blanchot, Evelyn Vaugh, Walt Whitman

Heroes:

They 're all dead.

My Blog

Auf Wiedersehen, Herr Kaganczuk.

For Vel The waiter was either an amnesiac or retarded. When he first came to my table, I ordered a cup of coffee; moments later he came back with the menu. I told him that I already ordered. "Yes," h...
Posted by Marcello on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:13:00 PST

Khorshid.

Words are the best weapons. I don't care where they come from, but I am always moved when someone, somewhere, is holding a pen in his/her hand; soon enough, a phrase starts sailing on the white surfac...
Posted by Marcello on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:52:00 PST

The Vagabonds Bordello.

So, the book is ready. Below, you can find (copied from the book) the back cover summary and the acknoweledgements' list :-) I am waiting for your reviews. Thank you -all of you.Back cover summary"Foc...
Posted by Marcello on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:45:00 PST

Announcing...(Update 01/28)..

Everything seems ready and the book is a matter of time! :-) Been waiting Vel's paintings and one from Mary. Then, the process will start. Please send me your names or nicknames (the ones you want to ...
Posted by Marcello on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:48:00 PST

Night Train (on a Gretchen’s painting).

The train was damaged midway. There was engine trouble, they said. Most of the passengers feared a terrorist assault, that somebody blinded by an idea or by a bandana, forever hidden even after dea...
Posted by Marcello on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:01:00 PST

Part Man, Part Product.

"Earl, Earl!" Lulu Clark barked at me; since she was my mother and far from being a real Earl myself, I had to walk to the route of her voice. Mothers have been the same since the time of Eve: "Come h...
Posted by Marcello on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:18:00 PST

Ascension (Based on a painting by Gretchen Adreon).

     Now she could feel satisfied, she was in the elevator among black people speaking out loud and cutting the words, Mexican kids hanging on to fajitas or mother's hands, Chinese who ...
Posted by Marcello on Sun, 27 May 2007 01:56:00 PST

I Thought My Father Was An Ambassador.

   I could never sleep at night. As a kid, my parents forced me to sleep early because that was the right thing to do and the doctors have supported this trend since the time of Hippocrates....
Posted by Marcello on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:50:00 PST

Don't leave me alone in Wonderland, Alice.

When I was young enough to not know anything, I used to copy newspapers. Every single day, I was stealing my father's paper and walking the short distance to my room. There, I parked myself in front o...
Posted by Marcello on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:46:00 PST