Archive for November, 2008
November 30th, 2008 -
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I don’t know that much about The Raveonettes: I just downl.. bought their second album “Pretty in black” (2005) a couple of years ago, after seeing the video for “Love in a trashcan” and being trapped in its dark sixties tremeloes, its resemblance to a B-movie (a noir spy-story, maybe) soundtrack and, of course, after […]
Tags: blush, denmark, raveonettes, soundtrack for knitters
November 29th, 2008 -
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I was thinking over the wonderfully funny discussion over my latest post, the one about the video for Bugo’s “Nel giro giusto“.
It’s a fact that the rest of the world probably knows nothing about italian indie music (yes! it DOES exist!! and - guess what! - it doesn’t always suck!!).
But.. what about italian music vids?
Tags: love above all, prague, subsonica
November 29th, 2008 -
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As I wrote a few months ago here, on a midsummer night a car gently smashed into my Ford Fiesta left parked in the street. Noone noticed
Tags: bacharach, dionne warwick, happiness is a slice of cake
November 25th, 2008 -
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He is Bugo (pronounce it like Boogle, without the “L”), he’s Italian and he’s such a weird guy.
He doesn’t fake it.. he is
Tags: bugo, God bless weirdness, italian, lo fi
November 13th, 2008 -
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Today (what’s left of it) is a very special day. Yes, dear readers, today, November 12th, 2008 is the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of Pretending to be Japanese. We’ve come a long way. Here are some highlights:
Tags: blogiversary, Jocelyn kicks ass, Pretending to be Japanese, the other guys are cool too
November 7th, 2008 -
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I apologize.
I apologize for all the things italian politicians will say about Obama (as well as on MCCain, Sarah Palin, and.. on any other US politician) in the future.
And.. I apologize for all the things they said already.
Here and here.
Tags: berlusconi, lack of style, obama, suntan, wanda
November 6th, 2008 - Comments Off
I know that you, dear readers, love colorful vids as well as kick-ass tunes.
Thus I’m sure you’ll like Syl’s new creation. I already posted one of her stop-motion video here in this site, a few months ago: it was
Tags: brecht, dresden dolls, sylvia bertolotti
November 5th, 2008 -
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Naked picture of Barack Obama:
This is too awesome.
Tags: barack your world, obama for your momma, obamarama, starwars episode III
November 4th, 2008 -
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It’s about time, right?
Here in Italy it’s the 5th of November, 2 a.m.; in Seattle it’s the 4th of November 5 p.m., in New York it’s 8 p.m..
Yes, I’m thrilled. I’m.. on the tiptoe of expectation (such curios expression. I found it somewhere on the net some days ago. I can’t help using it). And
Tags: elections, presidents, trent for president
November 2nd, 2008 - Comments Off
Don’t know what happens there, in Usa / Canada, but here in Italy we all got sick of commercials of mobile network operators. They are not that bad, actually, at least not all of them: sometimes they even boast nice mini-plots, and feature decent movie or TV actors.
The point is
Tags: cell phone, commercials, Heck!!'s over the phone, village people