Archive for November, 2008

November 30th, 2008 - 7 Comments

The Raveonettes know how to make me.. er.. Blush

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 […]

November 29th, 2008 - 7 Comments

Another music vid by an italian director. “Incantevole” by Subsonica

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?

November 29th, 2008 - 2 Comments

A promise is a promise (car accident commemorative cake)

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

November 25th, 2008 - 8 Comments

Favourite italian radio-friendly single of the month

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

November 13th, 2008 - 6 Comments

Happy Blogiversary!

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:

November 7th, 2008 - 4 Comments

Apologies, apologies

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.

November 6th, 2008 - Comments Off

Amanda’s charming tattooed eyebrows.

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

November 5th, 2008 - 1 Comment

And Now, in Honour of America Getting its Shit Together…

Naked picture of Barack Obama:

This is too awesome.

November 4th, 2008 - 1 Comment

America: as seen on TV, in Italy. Elections 2008

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

November 2nd, 2008 - Comments Off

How to make me hate The Beatles

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