There’s snow in the forecast for tomorrow…It’s all we can talk about. Apparently they don’t get snow here so much.
I watched “It might get loud” for about the 10th time this month. I find that I always end up with a stupid grin on my face somewhere near the 70th minutes of the movie.
In fact I would really like to watch the movie with someone else whose seen it about 50 times so we can just pause it every 13 seconds and ask stupid geek questions and over analyze the movie…Tomi? You want to spend 5 hours watching a 90 minute movie 😉
It doesn’t matter how boring it is, I just have to post something…
So Wednesday was a holiday (Random Holiday Generator – beepboopbeep…bllliiiiiiiiiiippp….Immaculate conception…awesome!!!)
Random holiday generator can only mean Tuesday is a big night…it started with raw sausage (yeah…it’s a local specialty I’m told) and ended with me crashing at a friends…in between there was cooked meat…a horribly halfhearted smash-stab attempt in the street, followed by some dude getting slapped in the street by some cuban girl, and then we visited a possible mafia hangout ;).
People seemed to be angry on Tuesday night…luckily I was only a witness…but it was pretty funny!
Here’s the raw pig…
someone smash-stabbed this pig...
Also went to a cafe show with Daniele and Leo. The guy was really really good. I’ve seen two cafe shows and both times the guitarist exhibited his (Italian) mastery of pedals. This guy had a suitcase full of pedals for a solo show. They are fond of effects that loop a riff so they can solo.
There’s still something a bit fake to it for me…but he was quite good and playing solo so I’ll forgive him. After the show I was kind of depressed because he was playing only covers and I had to wonder why he wasn’t playing his own stuff. It was sad that he couldn’t get a gig playing his own stuff…or maybe he chose not too…
Other than that there’s nothing…Berger is coming for a visit end of the month. I wonder how long until he starts asking where he can buy fireworks 😉
Also a great week for American politics…Bernie Sanders is my hero…If I ever have to live in the states again I hope it’s Vermont.
Putin calls for Assange to get the Nobel…classico!!! I assume it’s Hillary with the tough stance. If they want to make a martyr of Assange (by that I mean any attempt at prosecution) I don’t think it will bode well for America. By their hypocrisy they’ve already lost face. No more credibility on human rights, free press, dissident persecution, no more lecturing Iran, no more lecturing China, no more lecturing Russia etc…I assume Obama will overrule Hillary (I’m not sure what I’m basing that on) and pullback a bit…
I’d love to have some great music to post here, but unfortunately I only have a great song attached to a controversial video…you probably won’t like this unless you’re a MM fan…
I only just heard of this dude about 3 days ago, but I’ve been listening to him a lot for the past 3 days. I’m amazed…
These are pretty good quality so I’m throwing them up…enjoy!
Quality on this last one not as good…turn your volume down for a minute…
Today I was listening to a podcast interview with Willie Nelson (from 1996 I think)….anyways he had his guitar and was asked to sing a song that he really was proud of that wasn’t a hit…he played this and it made enough of an impression on me that I actually emailed myself to find out more about it…the version I heard with just him and the guitar was better than this…but WOW…what a gorgeous song with gorgeous lyrics…
Is that emmylou Harris sitting next to him?
So today is my first official one year anniversary of working in Italy…it now occurs to me that I’m now driving illegally…I blame america for this (for the lack of driving license reciprocation). I can drive here legally for one year (that makes no sense to me)…it was the same in Germany. 1 year legal then a criminal…as if after driving and observing drivers for a year I’m a worse driver than I was a year ago when I arrived…FALSE!
This now makes the second entry that I’ll have to run home and delete in case I ever need to plead ignorance 😉
After a long absence I’ve started listening to Cat Power again of late…Not sure I’ve ever posted here…but enjoy
and I had to post the first two just to get to this one (so you have some context – you’re welcome)…this is an amazing cover. It is immediate top 5 greatest covers on my list.
d of the month. I wonder how long until he starts asking where he can buy fireworks 😉