Cohen for Moneybags

It’s a real nonsense. On Monday 28th of July, when everyone’s leaving for holidays, and who’s not going is also dreaming of the sea, in an anonymous week beginning, Rome is hosting the concert of one of the greater living songwriters. We are talking about Leonard Cohen, who’ll be next Monday at the Auditorium Parco [...]

Orange Skies Coitus

Verse 1:
Orange skies
Carnivals and cotton candy and you
And I love you too you know I do

Verse 2:
Nightingale
Prettier than anything in the world
And I love you too
You know I do

Bridge:
You make me happy
Laughing, glad, and full of glee
And you dont have to try, girl
For you it comes so naturally
Right here [...]

Police (S)Truck

Tonight’s the night that we got the truck
We’re goin’ downtown gonna beat up drunks
Your turn to drive I’ll bring the beer
It’s the late, late shift no one to fear
And ride, ride how we ride
We ride, lowride
Dead Kennedys, Police Truck
Fifteen sentences, thirty discharges and no one single day in jail. That’s [...]

The Battles of Caracalla

I would have liked to talk about the Battles concert I went to last Wednesday at the festa dell’unità at Caracalla, but it’s too darn hot today. All I can say is that, after having listened to their records and heard people I trust talking about them with enthusiasm, I was really curious to see [...]

(I Live for) Cars and Job Interviews

I like to make the scene
In my machine
I like to make the scene
I leave ‘em in another state
Whenever I accelerate
I live for Cars and girls, cars and girls
I live for Car, cars and girls
I live for Cars and girls, cars and girls
I live for Car, cars and girls
There’s nothing else in this crazy world
Except for [...]

Gymnopedie on the phone

You might find it strange, but even if I’m not a fervent “technologist” (i.e., a technology-mad), once in my life I really loved a telephone. It was my Nokia 6021, a simple device without any frill, which always worked perfectly and which died in the sea of Sabaudia just last Sunday. To [...]

Chilling a Kebab

Every time that I think about Iggy Pop and Robert Smith, it comes to mind that the first rule of a worldwide famous rockstar is a careful assessment of the substances to be addicted to. After all, it’s not such a simple choice: you can choose between the risk of a heart-attack, with cocaine and amphetamine, an [...]