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Showing posts with label nostalgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nostalgia. Show all posts

Monday, April 28, 2008

Dedicated to women ;-)

I know many will despise, me, but I think this sond is funny, witty and, well... I just like it ;-)

Serenata Rap by Giovanotti

Se t'incontro per strada non riesco a parlarti mi
si bloccano le parole non riesco a guardarti
negli occhi mi sembra di impazzire se potessi
amplificare il battito del mio cuore sentiresti
un batterista di una band di metallo pesante ed
è per questo che sono qui davanti
perché mi viene molto più facile
cantarti una canzone magari che la sentano i muri
e le persone piuttosto che telefonarti e dirti
tutto faccia a faccia rischiando di fare una
figuraccia; sono timido ma l'amore mi dà
coraggio per dirti che da quando io ti ho visto
è sempre maggio e a maggio il mondo
è bello e invitante di colori ma ancora
sugli alberi ci sono solo fiori che prima o poi
si dice diverranno pure frutti e allora tu che
fai? golosamente aspetti, aspetti che quel
desiderio venga condiviso io sono qui davanti che
ti chiedo un sorriso, affacciati alla finestra
amore mio. Affacciati al balcone rispondimi al
citofono sono venuto qui col giradischi e col
microfono insieme al mio complesso per cantarti
il sentimento e se tu mi vorrai baciare
sarò contento e questa serenata è
la mia sfida col destino vorrei che per la vita
noi due fossimo vicino una serenata rap per dirti
che di te mi piace come mi guardi mi piace come
sei con me mi piace quel tuo naso che s'intona
con il mondo mi piace il tuo sedere così
rotondo da rendere satellite ogni essere vivente
mi piaci perché sei intelligente si vede
dalle tue mani come le muovi mi provochi pensieri
e sentimenti sempre nuovi nei tuoi fianchi sono
le alpi nei tuoi seni le dolomiti mi piace quel
tuo gusto nello scegliere i vestiti quel tuo
essere al di sopra delle mode del momento sei un
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fiore che è cresciuto sull'asfalto e sul
cemento

Affacciati alla finestra amore mio, affacciati
alla finestra amore mio affacciati alla finestra
amore mio affacciati alla finestra amore mio

Serenata rap serenata metropolitana mettiti con
me non sarò un figlio di puttana non ci
credere alle cose che ti dicono di me sono tutti
un po' invidiosi chissà perché io
non ti prometto storie di passioni da copione di
cinema, romanzi e che ne so di una canzone io ti
offro verità corpo anima e cervello amore
solamente amore solo solo quello

Affacciati alla finestra amore mio affacciati
alla finestra amore mio affacciati alla finestra
amore mio affacciati alla finestra amore mio

Amor che a nullo amato amar perdona porco cane
lo scriverò sui muri e sulle metropolitane
di questa città milioni di abitanti che
giorno dopo giorno ignorandosi vanno avanti e poi
chissà perché perché
chissà per come nessuno sa perché
perché chissà per come due sguardi
in un momento sovrappongono un destino palazzi,
asfalto e smog si trasformano in giardino persone
consacrate dallo scambio di un anello e un
monolocale che diventerà un castello,
affacciati alla finestra amore mio.

Nei tuoi fianchi sono le alpi nei tuoi seni le
dolomiti mi piace quel tuo gusto nello scegliere
i vestiti questo essere al di sopra delle mode
del momento sei un fiore che è cresciuto
sull'asfalto e sul cemento.

Affacciati alla finestra amore mio affacciati
alla finestra amore mio affacciati alla finestra
amore mio affacciati alla finestra amore mio

affacciati alla finestra amore mio affacciati
alla finestra amore mio per te da questa sera ci
sono io

Friday, April 25, 2008

This is the legal equivalent of an ex-girlfriend request to be 'still friends'...

Get a life, but don't go that far that you can' be reached, should I still need you... D'oh!

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Attack Number One!!! Real Live Action!!!

Of course somebody had to get it on the (You)Tube.



But if anybody can point me to a website where I can buy this series, I'll owe him for ever. Seriously. This was one of my favourite sport series...

Thursday, January 17, 2008

EurAsia V Americas

I break for one post the diary from Africa series.

When I was a child in primary school, my teacher asked us to jot down a story with us as characters. Most people would have written about a picnic, I went for a Science-Fiction-Thriller.

At the height of the Cold War, I imagined a near future where Europe and Russia were united together, and the enemy was a super-state born from the US's annexion of most of the Americas. In this story, me and my classmate had to skate all the way up to Moscow to disable a weapon or explain a situation to some powerful man sitting in the Cremlin, and wish away a war. Crazy stuff uh?

I was reminded of this this morning when I heard that Poland is now joining the EU's Schengen Area. This is causing lots of protests from Ukrainian, who were used to freely cross the Polish border to trade (food for tobacco and alcool), but now an't any longer. I guess they will be the next to enter the EU, then. yet, I was surprised by how quickly the EU has grown during my lifetime... Where will it stop? At the South, Turkey is pressing to enter, how much before the whole Mediterranean Sea is encircled by it?

At the same time, a US Homeland Security officer yells that Europe is a breeding ground for the terrorists' next generation... May be my childish story caught the attention of a much more influential storyteller... (that's megalomania, for you)

Monday, November 26, 2007

My new camera has arrived!!!


I say goodbye to my old and battery-incontinent Nikon CoolPix 2100, who served me well for four years and still is in perfect operating conditions, exception made for the fact that a plastic flap has broken and she can't keep her batteries inside any longer. I will be happy to use it again underwater, if I only could find the waterproff case which costed me almost as much as the camera itself.

from now on, however, my main camera will be a Panasonic DMC TZ-3 (blue), one of the best long-zoom compact cameras one can find on the market.



very small ibn size, with hi quality Leica lenses and a formidable 28-280mm equivalent, it goes flawlessly from wide to tele. haven't had the ocasion to try it yet, yesterday I left the batteries to charge.

Tonight I plan on trying it out in some inside shots, followed by outdoor shots in the following days. But she'll have her camp day in one month, when I'll hop on the plane to visit Rwanda!

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Yesterday

I happened to listen to this song some minutes ago...
For the first time, I listen to what it said. Sad. Yet that's how I felt two years ago. Now things are different, may be better, yet I still feel something piercing my heart when I think back... So, here's to the past:

Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe
In yesterday

Suddenly
I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday
Came suddenly

Why she
Had to go I don't know
She wouldn't say
I said
Something wrong now I long
For yesterday

Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe
In yesterday

Why she
Had to go I don't know
She wouldn't say
I said
Something wrong now I long
For yesterday

Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe
In yesterday

(hum to "I believe in yesterday")

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

New Bloggies

It's been a while since I've updated my blogroll.

I am inserting today one more link to a friend's blog: Emiliano is a guy from my birth-city, and he was my pusher for many years, when his bookshop was the only reliable source of comic book in the whole city. Of course you could get them elsewhere, but only there you had your pigeon-hole where he'd carefully slot the latest copy of DragonBall or Ranma 1/2. I still come around the bookshop every time I'm around there, although I rarely if ever get the time to read the stuff. Comics have bored me, sort of. The latest manga look boy-ish, Bonelli's are monotonous and badly told. Most likely, exposure to the broader stream of english literature opened my eyes on the real (lack of) quality of (some, most) comic books. Only the old glories I can keep reading, but it' most likely due to the emotions they re-awake in me than anything else.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Remember your youth

listen to L'isola del tesoro, interpreted by Lino Toffolo.

Italian theme song of the japanese animated series "The Treasure Island" - L'Isola del Tesoro.

Calda e' / fredda e' / differenza c'e'.

Remember Ranma 1/2? During my university year it was one of my favorite comic books. here's the italian version of the anime opening theme.



So, why is this post tagged as science? Well, cause I was listening to Nature Podcast from 07/06/07 and heard that some scientist elucidated the reason why menthol tastes 'cold'. Long story short, it (presumably binds and) activates a Na/Ca ion channel, present in our tongue but also in other sensory terminations (see menthol shower-gels), which is normally active only at temperatures below 28 degrees. Hence, the 'cold' sensation. Cool, ain't it?

Why Ranma as title holder? well, cause for this character those termination were pretty important, since a bucket of cold water would transform him into a her (just like the song says). Now imagine if he had known this. May be now we would be able to cure his/her curse?

PS: the title says: Is it warm? Is it cold? It makes a difference! (from the italian theme song)

PPS: Incidentally, I've also worked on ion channels, during my previous year (expressed in the heart, though, not in the tongue) and will present my in silico models at Lille, France, this first week of july. See you there may be ;-)

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Space Carrier Blue Noah Vs Space Battleship Yamato

One of the step stones of my childhood.




I just happened to listen to its theme song on my shiny new MP3 Player - courtesy of the company, for winning the internal safety contest - in fact I did not deserve it, since during the drill I did ignore the fire alarm thinking that it was just a test of bells and whistles...

Well never mind.

Anyway, I did like this series, although I felt as if it was a rip off of Space Battleship Yamato, certainly more iconic - Matsumoto's style is unmissable.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Aspirina!!!

only about one-hundred and thousand people in the world will appreciate this, but who cares.

Famous movies dubbed in my home dialect! They have been a years-long cult in my place.

Ulisse:

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Gundam, Gundam, Ho Ho!!!

a serious one...



and now a funny one!!!



no, two funny ones!!!