Welcome. My name is Carletto.
I split my profile in two parts (A) & (B). Please send a friend request to both pages, if you'd like to stay informed.
myspace.com/giancarletto
You can check out my website at:
giancarletto.com
I'm very busy managing the tribute sites I've created on MySpace, in addition to my many creative and activist goals. I'm interested in communicating and sharing my ideas with a broad & diverse group of individuals online, and around the world. I accept all new friend requests. If possible, send a brief message saying hello. Also, to my acquaintances, I receive dozens of messages each day. If I'm not able to respond right away, please be patient. Thank you. DUE TO SPAM REQUESTS, I HAD TO RESTRICT MY PROFILE. TO SEND ME A FRIEND REQUEST TYPE IN -- SAN GIOVANNI If you enjoy the tribute sites I've created for the MySpace community, appreciate my potential as an aspiring filmmaker, and would like to contribute towards my creative, artistic, and life's endeavors, you may do so (without expectation or obligation) securely and safely by offering a donation through PayPal at the link below. I'm saving anxiously for a videocamera, while managing my graduate school loans. Thank you.
I am:
a lover of the arts, a student of life, a social activist, a reader of books and newspapers, a world traveler (4 continents so far), a political aspirant, an unconventional human being hungry for truth, wisdom, loyalty, friendship, love, and inspiration.I am:
a cinefile and artist who loves to share his passions with the world... For this reason, I have created dozens of tribute sites on MySpace to the men and women who have most inspired me, individuals such as Fellini, Chaplin, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Degas, etc... Perhaps in doing so, I will contribute to this medium, inspire others, and raise the overall standard and expectations that we share.I am:
a 1st generation American of a culturally and traditionally old-fashioned, strong Italian descent, fluent in Italian, conversational in Spanish, with some understanding of French, and constantly seeking stimulation, whether it be intellectual, artistic, emotional, social, or physical.I am:
an outspoken and progressive liberal humanist, adamantly pro-choice, pro-women, pro-gay rights, pro-environment, pro-education, pro-equal opportunity, anti-discrimination of ANY kind towards any human being, supporter of international diplomacy and peace initiatives, science and technology, anti-war but not anti-security. I'm extremely concerned with the state of this country, the state of Italy's government, and the world over, especially in recent years, where I believe a lack of inspiration, leadership, and truth has led a majority of decision-making bodies down the wrong paths. I value human lives and do not believe they should be wasted.I've spent 18 of the past 23 years in academically challenging environments. I'm going to apply that knowledge and experience to the world in ways that will be significant, influential, motivating, and ultimately inspiring without conformity, greed, deceit, or deprivation.I'm fascinated with the art of cinema. One of my dreams is to direct pictures, so that I may share my experiences and insights, insecurities and fears, desires and hopes, eccentricities, dreams, and value system.I'm always interested in furthering my exposure to the process of creation and discovery... I want to break the rules that society, the media, and often times our government establishes to monitor and tame its public, in order to achieve a higher meaning and purpose for my life and those lives I touch.
While I love to socialize, converse, debate, and go out in the city, I rarely find individuals that are genuine and committed, classy, curious or challenging. I feel this is a reflection of our current society and the misinformation, lack thereof, or overstimulation which people consume each day (whether in school, at work/home, or through television). If I can play a role in changing that, I will have contributed in a positive way.
Subversion, anger, passion, and risk-taking are effective tools, if you know how to use them. I, myself, am an eternal student... and by the way, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
READY... SET... ACTION...
"One of the strongest motives that leads a person to art or science is a flight from everyday life...With this negative motive goes a positive one. Man seems to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image. This is what the painter does, and the poet, the speculative philosopher, the natural scientist, each in his own way. Into this image and its formation, he places the center of gravity of his emotional life, in order to attain the peace and serenity that he cannot find within the narrow confines of swirling personal experience."
--Einstein
"Better disparity and dislocation rather than reconciliation under duress of subject and object; better a lucid exile than sloppy, sentimental homecomings; better the logic of dissociation than an assembly of compliant dunces. A belligerent intelligence is always to be preferred over that conformity offers, no matter how unfriendly the circumstances and unfavorable the outcome. The point is that the past cannot be entirely recuperated from so much power arrayed against it on the other side: it can only be restated in the form of an object without a conclusion, or a final place, transformed by choice and conscious effort into something simultaneously different, ordinary and irreducibly other and the same, taking place together: an object that offers neither rest nor respite."
--Edward Said
I crave your mouth...
by Pablo Neruda
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
"Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government."
--Lenny Bruce
This is as good a definition as I can come up with about my life in its current state:
WHAT I'M CURRENTLY WATCHING:
1. Twin Peaks - Season 2, by David Lynch
2. Brute Force, by Jules Dassin
3. The Sorrow & The Pity, by Marcel Ophüls
4. Le mani sulla città , by Francesco Rosi
5. Il decamerone, by Pier Paolo Pasolini
6. Fort Apache, by John Ford
7. Winter Soldier
WHAT I'M CURRENTLY READING:
1. La Bella Figura, by Beppe Severgnini
2. I Fellini, by Charlotte Chandler
3. Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology, by Robert P. Abelson, et al...
4. Why I Write, by George Orwell
5. The Movie Business Book, by Jason E. Squire
6. Collapse, by Jared Diamond
I'm not one to fully ascribe to the rudiments of Astrology, but this is fun... Go to this website -- http://www.cainer.com/ -- click on the link "About Your Friend" on the left-hand side of the screen, and fill out the info to see what it says about you or one of your friends.
This was mine (not my words, but from the website):
CARLETTO, A VERY SPECIAL AQUARIAN
Carletto is the last of the great eccentrics. The funny thing is, he doesn't know it. He thinks his behavior is perfectly normal. He sees himself as a pillar of propriety and a paragon of protocol. Carletto has strong views about every topic under the sun. There's not a subject he doesn't know about or a moral point he can't pontificate on. Carletto is entitled to be a little arrogant. He knows an awful lot about an awful lot of things. He is well versed, well rehearsed, and deeply immersed in the kind of knowledge that we lesser mortals can only dream of attaining. Thankfully, he is there to shed the light and show the way. This, he does generously and patiently, as befits a person of superior intellect. Carletto is wise, intelligent and (thankfully) oblivious to irony.
Or, at least, that's how Carletto is, at his worst. He can't help it. He's an Aquarian and Aquarians are infamous for their occasional outbursts of pomposity. Happily there is another truly delightful side to him. Carletto is as honest as the day is long, as generous as the ocean is deep. This is partly where the eccentricity comes from, for a person with such strong opinions Carletto is surprisingly willing to please. He is keen to win friends and influence people. He loves to feel that he belongs. He always wants to be in on the action, part of the scene and one of the gang. Rather like Groucho Marx though, he is never sure that he would want to be part of any club that would have him as a member. He is always on the lookout for some new cause to support, or enterprise to sign up to. You might think that this would make him fickle but actually Carletto is exceedingly loyal. He may be forever expanding his horizons but he never forgets his friends and he never reneges on his commitments. This is why, despite the highly idiosyncratic nature of Carletto's personality, so many people think the world of him.
--For better or for worse, I'd like to think there is a shade of truth in that description!
Aquarians I greatly admire: Federico Fellini, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, David Lynch, President Abraham Lincoln, Admiral John Ford, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Ernst Lubitsch, François Truffaut, Jim Jarmusch, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Bob Marley, Paul Newman, and Edith Warton
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I've got others.
--Marx
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
--Bertrand Russell
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
--George Bernard Shaw
I make my films because I like to tell lies, to imagine fairy-tales, to tell about what I have seen and people I have met. I mostly like to tell about myself. So, that, in a way, I make my films relating episodes in my life, so frankly that I am even a gossip, and I may even, sometimes, cause uneasiness with my confessions, profuse and most likely unasked for.
--Federico Fellini
"In religion and in politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination."
--Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
--Mark Twain
Rick: If you don't get in that plane you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life... Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong. Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go. Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life. Ilsa: But what about us? Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night. Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you. Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.