just listening to the latest by Tori Amos : Strange Little Girls, and well i’m quite, say perplexed, i’m not exactly a big Tori fan but was considering going at her show in Milan on dec. 17th but as first impression this cover album is making me falling asleep, i agree that the workplace is not indeed the best place to valuate music and second time around can change views, but that is. Instead on the same shopping drive i already bought ticket for Ani DiFranco in Milan , althought there’s no need to buy’em in advance according to previous experience, having it in my wallet and being the first at Ricordi, Milan to get it, make me feel better…
coming back to that previous post about Bridget Jones’s diary , the movie, well this ain’t a review , so i’d just say , yes the movie is nice, even if i was maybe expecting even more brilliant after all the talkabout surrounding the release, Bridget character is really well depicted with her, how’d i say, naivete’ maybe. what else, see well i’d have said shortly :i am bridget jones but that isn’t exact, indeed i’m not blonde 😉 of course i fit in the age time frame and marital status and this could open up a whole huge debate about being 30something and enough clueless ehm i mean with a wide range of opportunities that necessarily need evaluation and subsequent action
you know those moments when you’ve many things on your mind and just can’t focus and hopefully put in writing something just a little meaningful ? that’s me right now
don’t have oral sex in Zambia ! that reminds me of a passage in Bridget Jones’s diary i just saw yesterday about some sex practices illegal in some countries , more serious (?) comment on the movie later, now it’s breakfast time ,uhm looking at the watch i guess i didn’t adjust to coming back from standard time after daylight saving since i woke up at 7.30 on a sunday morning…
to continue on the topic of previous post, one of the things that can increase that mood is the lack of some well deserved vacation or the growing distance since the last relevant off period. and thinking a while , this year is almost elapsed with nothing really noteworthy on that line, and to find a good memory of at least 3 weeks away at some thousand miles from home i’ve to go to my trip in the midwest USA in 1999… ah to go horseback riding on the prairies or just drive on endless higways… too bad that with the recent facts, travelling is something say a little more problematic, and so in the meantime only our bytes do travel acroos the globe
there’s an almost direct correlation between lenght of my beard and the degree of “scazzo” It’s quite hard to find the english equivalent to this italian term , browsing trough imood.com i don’t really find a good term (maybe due to my poor english dictionary), but to give you, non italian readers, a clue, i’ll tell ya this is a complex and multidimensional mood vector that has to do with a certain degree of feeling zoned out, tired and just a little bit cranky, got it ? and coming back to the original opening line, i’ve 3 days of shaving in arrear… that explains why i’m quite confortable listening to radiohead right now, but i’m relatively over the hump of the last few days i reached i guess on sunday afternoon when i, or maybe better, my car, had a close smashing encounter with a not so small flying creature… maybe i’ll tell you another time
See that i’ve a feel for the complicate things… not only long gone are the days when i could claim to be able to play something on my guitar, now after listening over and over to Losing my religion” by R.E.M. and inspired by my analytical sense , i decided for a deeper understanding of the two guitar parts , one indeed is a mandolin. Not having a mandolin at hand (and not satisfied to play guitar at 12th fret) i attempted arranging the mandolin part on a charango
(that tiny guitar you see in the pic, brought me by my uncle when he was in Peru’) . So with no idea of the charango tecnique but armed only by the knowledge of the strange tuning of this 5×2 strings (E A eE C G) and by the long nails on my right hand i’m trying to discover a suitable tabbing, i know i’ll probably end up losing my interest on it (even before my religion)
i seldom click on banners but this time i did and stumbled into a site with some live recordings of Springsteen, with also videos in DivX format, that makes me hungry for bandwith since with my poor 56k modem i’ll end up being connected for days. and for the rest i’m just too tired to be connected for long so my big plan for the weekend is to sleep and rest, it ain’t exactly exciting but i need it, just like the batteries of my laptop at 12% charge, not to mention the fact that i need some diet after two amazing tasteful yet though dinners in a week here and there
reading flamingpxl blog i suddenly remember of that song, you know those nice intriguing songs you get on the radio and start wondering who’s singing, and as nice toys i’m also curious to see what’s behind, to”open it up” to get the riff and that kinda things, so i remember i looked for a tab and played a while… that was uhm something like 3 years ago… gasp
just got a handful of new live recordings, the amazing array is made of 6 cds with mainly acoustic performances of Radiohead, Coldplay, REM , Fiona Apple and Garbage. and it’s the first live i got of those artists, so the curiosity is great to hear’em, as soon as i’ve more details i’ll update my boots page
