Lapsus Mentis

Home again

2006-08-18T19:12:00.000+02:00

Here I am!

No time to write... just to do this!

You Are 78% Indie

You're a very indie person, and admit it, you look down a little on people who strive to be normal.
You'll indulge in a little mainstream pop culture every now and then. But for you, anything not indie is a guilty pleasure!

How Indie Are You?

Where are you going this summer?

2006-07-13T08:26:00.000+02:00

Sardinia!

CAMPIONI DEL MONDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-07-10T14:07:00.000+02:00

che gollasso!!! ^^

2006-07-08T01:20:00.000+02:00

Worldcup 2006 - Italy vs Germany
The last 2 minutes of that great match, Grosso's and Del Piero's goals!

Que Golazoss!! Azo Azo azo!

video from a peruvian tv.

The Whitest Boy Alive

2006-06-27T23:38:00.000+02:00

CD arrived yesterday!
Direct from Oslo... (Smalltown Supersound)

The whitest boy alive started as an electronic dance music project in 2003. it has slowly developed into a band without any programmed elements.

Members 2006:

erlend øye – guitar and vocals
marcin oz – bass
sebastian maschat – drums
daniel nentwig – rhodes and crumar

Boys & Girls

2006-05-15T22:48:00.000+02:00

You Are 50% Boyish and 50% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch.
Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes.
You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them.
You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.

How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

Kvinne dømt for voldtekt av mann.

2006-05-14T22:27:00.000+02:00

BERGEN - A 23-year-old woman has been sentenced to nine months in a Norwegian prison for the rape of a 31-year-old man, the first such conviction in the Scandinavian country that prides itself for its egalitarianism. The 31-year-old man fell asleep on a sofa at a party in January last year and told the court in the western city of Bergen he woke to find the 23-year-old woman was having oral sex with him. Under Norwegian law, all sexual acts with someone who is *unconscious or for other reasons unable to oppose the act* are considered rape. The court sentenced the woman on Wednesday 27th to nine months in jail and ordered her to pay 40'000 Norwegian crowns (€5'175) in compensation. "This is a very harsh sentence" the woman's lawyer, Per Magne Kristiansen, told the Norwegian news agency NTB. The woman argued the man had been awake and consented. The prosecutor had sought a 10-month sentence and argued the court should not be more lenient with a woman than a man. It was Norway's first conviction of a woman for rape.

I believe many men would be glad to be awaked in that way...

more...

Stolen on the web...

2006-05-11T00:50:00.000+02:00

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist, and the song in your blog along with your seven songs.

The Whitest Boy Alive - "Burning"
The National Bank - "What is Left"
Blur - "Girls and Boys"
Sting - "Fragile"
Jamiroquai - "Corner Of The Earth"
Negrita - "Rotolando Verso Sud"
Madonna - "Hung up"

should be me?

2006-05-10T23:55:00.000+02:00

After ages...

2006-05-09T23:29:00.000+02:00

I'm not dead... just to let you know...

Buon Natale

2005-12-25T21:39:00.000+01:00

indie girl

2005-12-20T21:31:00.000+01:00

I am Indie Girl

Click on the picture below to read more:

Take the 'What Kind of Girl Are You?' quiz at CookingToHookup.com

yet another hot cappuccino

2005-12-17T10:35:00.000+01:00

yummy!!!

Ich sprache Deutsch...

2005-09-30T17:46:00.000+02:00

...nicht so gut, so let's keep on speaking English!
However I started to study German yesterday... so I will speak it (at least a bit) soon!

Ich bin Ilaria, wer bist du?

Dream.

2005-09-28T22:27:00.000+02:00

I had a weird dream last night. I dreamed that Jarvis Cocker was my dad!

Gosh!!!

So weird!

My first day of work.

2005-09-22T02:52:00.000+02:00

I had my first day of work today, and I felt a bit like...
...I had forgotten that feeling... kinda weird but rather fun!
Just the time to arrive at *my* new office and one of the two boss guys told me to come with him. We jumped on his car and we spent the whole afternoon climbing and squeezing in furnitures and any kind of other stocked stuff (lamps, skis, old boots, boards, family photos, pans, etc etc...) to measure the storage-rooms of that house!
Actually I feared I had to put proper clotes on, you know... working in a office, but I thought:-Well... for today, let me try with jeans and a small sweater-
Fortunately, I also chose to put my sneakers on!
Can you imagine me climbing furnitures in skirt and heels?
No proper clothes... I love my job!

Job

2005-09-19T14:15:00.000+02:00

Found today....
I'm starting the day after tomorrow!
I hope they like me... I need money.

On the road to Oslo (My InterRail Review) EPISODE 2

2005-09-15T19:32:00.000+02:00

When it was almost 10 past midnight… (our train should have left at 00:21) a delay of 1 hour was announced! - Fanculo! (dirty words have another taste in your mother language!) What’s happening today!!!- «Oh God, no! This means that we won’t be in Verona in time to catch the train to München! Oh fucking shit! We are going to lose any train we have planned to take! Oh shit!»
So Benedetta’s father bring us back to Milano Centrale to ask what (the fuck) was going on. When we arrived in the station we noticed that *our* train was there!
Another mistake of *my good fella* of the box office in La Spezia! Why he told me to go to Milano Lambrate from Milano Centrale when my train starts its route in Milano Centrale only God knows! No matter, I had the chance to find out how many *pretty-faces* are in the underground of Milan close to midnight!
...mmm...
...brrr!
However the train conductor told us that, even if the train was there, it couldn’t leave until another special train was arrived. Basically a train that was going from Novara to Milan had derailed in Rho station, so *our* train had to wait people from that station, because it was the last train of the night.
So very sad (but no longer angry) we set on the train and waited… wondering:
–what the fuck shall we do in Verona at 3 o’clock?-
The train left at 01:20 but during the trip the tickets-controller asked us if we had to take the train to München… A ray of light!!!
«YES! Is there a chance? Is it waiting us?»
No, no chance to catch it… obviously a Euro City could not wait 1 hour a fucking Local Train that stops in any remote little station of Padan Valley! But they were trying to let us reach to München any way.
Basically there was another train to München, coming from Naples, that supposed to not stop in Verona but it was going to stop just to wait us.
–Thanks God, I love you!-
And so it was! We took that train at 03:10. No seat reserved (actually they were empty in the other train!) so we had to find a place to stay hoping nobody came to claim for it.
We found two seats, mine was between a weird Australian fat old man who kept eating cips and drinking wines all the night, and a nice but as soft as an elephant (do you say this in English?) black girl who kept pushing her bum against me...

...basically I was sitting in a half seat!
It was kind of funny though, 'specially because of the Australian man! I woke up at 6-something and I saw the sun rising up from the Alps, and he was awake, too (I told you he kept eating and drinking all night long, didn't I?) so we started to chat (in Italian), that's why I know he's Australian. He told me he have been living in Italy for 15 years (but he speaks a terrible Italian)
He aked me if I came from Florence.
«Florence? Huh, no... but I don't live so far from.»
He replied:«Strange! Every girl named Ilaria that I've met came from Florence.»
-Hum?!? Oh my...-
However we arrived in München in time to take the train to Hamburg and all the others.
Everything worked fine util we arrived in Malmö... it was 22-something and we should have taken a train to Oslo, but we didn't have the reservation, so we could not take it and we had to stop in Göteborg.
The weird thing was that the train was the same! But we had to get off in Göteborg because only couchette carriages continued to Oslo

Let’s go! (My InterRail Review) EPISODE 1

2005-09-10T19:23:00.000+02:00

Mon 08/08/05
After I finished packing my stuff and making my sandwiches (two nights and one day changing trains! Gosh!) I picked my backpack up and my journey started!
I went to the railway station of La Spezia to get my ticket to Milan, doing the *special* ticket from Milan to the border. But you know how things work in Italy, don’t you? If not I'll tell you: Italy is the most unorganised Country in which I've been! Don't know, maybe I can say that because I live here. I've never lived abroad, just been there as a tourist, I believe that you have to live in a place to really notice how things work… >so maybe Italy isn't the most unorganised State in the world! Let's deceive ourselves...<

Anyway let's go on!
Having the interrail you can purchase a ticket to reach the Italian border with a discount of 50%. So I told the ticket collector that I'd got a two zones inter-rail ticket and I asked him to have a discount ticket from Milan to the border passing through Verona. I also told him which trains I was going to take, showing him the reservations. He looked at me...
...and then said:«I don't see any kind of inter-rail discount on my computer»
-Mmm?- «It should be 50% of the total price…» I said…
«You don’t pay for tickets in Zone B (Sweden, Norway, Finland) and Zone C (Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein) but you have to pay in Italy.» he replied.
Me:«I know, but for 22 days from the day my ticket becomes effective I have a 50% discount for trips in Italy, as well as for transit through Countries which are not part of the zones I’ve purchased. In my case, I need a ticket from Milan to the Austrian border.»
-It's not so difficult, honey!-
He said:«I’m sorry but I can’t see anything here.» -God!-
«Don’t you have a brochure or something? I think it’s written there.»
-Why do I always find stupid people on my way? It’s your job! Not mine! Why should I know doing your job better than you?-
He:«No, I’m sorry, but if there’s nothing on the computer means that you don’t have any discount. I can sell you a normal ticket from Milan to Brenner, which is the last Italian station before Austria.»
-Fuck you!- «Well, no matter, how much is it?»
«17.40 €»
So I got it and took my train to Milan, it was 18:40, more or less. But on the train I kept on thinking about the ticket… not for the price (17 € isn’t that much!) ...but because I’m a stubborn person and when I believe that I’m right means that I AM right, and I must figure it out.
So I picked my ticket up and I started to read any single little note. And I found it!

When the tickets-controller came I told him everything and he also told me that the ticket that man gave me was incorrect not only because of the price, but also because it was a normal national ticket but it should have been an international one (don't ask me what it means because I don't know, seeing as the fare is the same) so double mistake!
Anyway he told me to go to the customer service in Milan and ask to have a refound but I didn’t go.
I arrived in Milan at 22:15 (more or less) and I took the underground to Lambrate, then I met up my friend Benedetta. She was there with her father and we chatted a little (he is an architect).
When it was almost 10 past midnight…

Oops this is another day!

Reflektionen

2005-09-08T11:49:00.000+02:00

Marie E. Lüders-Haus.
Office building of the German Bundestag, Berlin.

Reflektionen originally uploaded by Gertrud K.

On a ferry to Rødby

2005-09-07T23:31:00.000+02:00

Denmark.

Somewhere in Deutschland

2005-09-06T12:56:00.000+02:00

Taken from the train, while I was going from München to Hamburg... it might be near Göttingen but I don't know for sure... can any German recognize this place?

what I've found today...

2005-09-05T12:47:00.000+02:00

...this cool site:

I'm back!

2005-09-01T16:50:00.000+02:00

Here I am!
Journey review follows soon...

I'm leaving Italy...

2005-08-03T12:04:00.000+02:00

...eh eh eh... it's just a travel!
Have you ever heard about InterRail?
I'm going to travel with another girl, named Benedetta who's 24 + a boy of the same age named Stefano.
I was looking for someone who would join my InterRail tour in Norway-Sweden-Denmark and Germany... so I posted in an Italian student's forum... 10 boys replied... and just one girl! Whoa!!! Oh my ...

As I saw her post, I suddenly emailed her! I met her in Milan but she was very unsure... (actually she wished to go to Brazil but I convinced her to join me in my Scandinavian tour)
So here we are!
I think we'll be in Oslo the 10th at 07:00
Ooops... just the day before the Øyafestivalen! What a coincidence!!!

This is my plan:
1) 09.08.05
Milano Lambrate [00:21] --Verona Porta Nuova [02:16]
Verona Porta Nuova [02:33] --München Hbf [08:26]
München Hbf [08:55] --Hamburg Hbf [14:54]
Hamburg Hbf [15:23] --København H [20:26]
København H [21:03] --Malmö Central [21:38]
Malmö Central [23:07] --Oslo S [07:00]
2) 10.08.05
Oslo
After convincing my friend Benedetta that Norwegian fjords are DEFINITLEY better than Brazil beaches! Eh eh! I've even persuaded her to come to Öya!
Actually I feel very cool and proud of myself!
So me, my friend (and our sleeping-bags) will sleep in front of the Middelalderparken entrance the night between the 10th and 11th... hoping to be in pole position for getting two of the last 100 tickets for sale! Oh fuck! I wanna go there!!!!
However, get the tickets or not, I think we are going to meet some friends of mine in Oslo...
Don't actually know about where to sleep the night after... but well, as Scarlett O'Hara said:«After all, tomorrow is another day!»

3) 11.08.05
Oslo
Øya Festival As I said I have no idea about where we will sleep after the gig!
4) 12.08.05
Oslo
Pick up Stefano coming a bit late to join us in our mad journey!
5) 13.08.05
Oslo
6) 14.08.05
Oslo S [22:47] --Stavanger [07:29]
7) 15.08.05
Stavanger
Going to Lysefjord + Preikestolen I WANT TO GO THERE!
8) 16.08.05
Stavanger --Bergen (by ferry)
9) 17.08.05
Bergen
Meet up a Norwegian friend of Stefano, who actually lives in Italy (her boyfriend is Italian) and of course, speaks italian!
10) 18.08.05Bergen
We will meet other friends.
11) 19.08.05Bergen - Myrdal - Flåm
Going back to Oslo through SognefjordBergen [10:28] --Myrdal [12:20]
Myrdal-Flåm (by train and/or feet)
Myrdal [01:04] --Oslo S [06:26]
12) 20.08.05
Oslo S [08:54] --Stockholm Central [15:00]
13) 21.08.05
Stockholm
14) 22.08.05
Stockholm
15) 23.08.05
Stockholm Central [06:20] --Københavns Lufthavn Kastrup st [11:19]
16) 24.08.05
København
17) 25.08.05
København
18) 26.08.05
Københavns Lufthavn Kastrup st [06:40] --Fredericia st [09:04]
Fredericia st [09:17] --Berlin Zoologischer Garten [15:22]
I really really would love to go to "Panorama Bar" because Phonique will be deejaying there! So I actually hope to get to Berlin the day before! Perhaps we may skip a day in Stockholm...
19) 27.08.05
Berlin
20) 28.08.05
Berlin
21) 29.08.05
Berlin
22) 30.08.05
Berlin Zoologischer Garten [10:39] --Basel SBB [17:47]
Basel SBB [18:04] --Arth-Goldau [19:47]
Arth-Goldau [19:50] --Milano Centrale [22:45]
23) 31.08.05
After that I think I will SLEEP a lot!

A taste of the Italian Summer...

2005-08-01T12:51:00.000+02:00

Click on the image...

U2

2005-07-23T18:37:00.000+02:00

I went to see U2 in Milan two days ago.
This is Milano Centrale railway station at 2 o'clock (more or less)

trying to get to the timetable...

...not so easy actually!
more pics follow...

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

2005-07-02T17:44:00.000+02:00

My Brain's Pattern

You're a simple thinker, and this is actually a very good thing.
You don't complicate matters when you don't have to.
You look for the simplest explanation or solution, and you go with that.
As a result, your mind is uncluttered and free of stress.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

Kings of Convenience Genoa gig.

2005-06-25T22:20:00.000+02:00

So I've just got back from a weekend in Genoa. I went to the last Kings of Convenience concert + aftershow party @ Mucca Bar (Genoa) ...dj set by... Erlend Øye.
The concert was excellent and aftershow party was great! I find it hard to describe because it was such a unique gig.
AWESOME NIGHT!!! At least for me...
Much better than the first one I went in November...
...well, I liked it, but... how can I say... I think it wasn't the *right day*.
I had been freaking out about this concert for about a month! Not because of the two Norwegian guys, actually, but because some net-friends of mine were going to come, too!
Amazing, isn't it?
I DO think it is!
Two Americans, two Germans and five Italians... here we are:

Actually not us all... we miss two German girls and two Italian boys.
Anyway the whole story is reported here if you have enough patience to read it all!
But let's talk about the concert:
Well, the gates opened at 7pm... we noticed that some people were already there... but in any case, I was in the front line. I got the best spot, right at the stage (that was huge) just a bit on the left, practically right in front of where Erlend sat and played.
The first who arrived was Erlend who walked through the venue followed by fans (of course) stayed outside a little talking and signing autographs to fans (but no one of us went there), then he moved backstage. Just wait awhile, then the boys arrived...
They played alot of my favourites:
'Until You Understand'
'Cayman Islands'
'I Don't Know What I Can Save You From'
'Sorry or Please'
'Winning a Battle, Losing the War'
'Gold in the Air of Summer'
'Singing Softly to Me/The Girl From Back Then'
'Toxic Girl'
Did not play
'Failure'
but they delighted us with
'The boat behind'
'Everyone's got a friend in Stockholm'
They also sang the first part of 'Homesick' without amplification! Simply gorgeous!!!
Eirik joked before singing 'The boat behind' because the stage had really a few boats behind! Then, at the end of the show, he suggested to bathe all together in the ocean, asking us if we had our swim suit on... a boy screamed:«Why not naked! Let's go naked»
Eirik without batting an eyelid said:«Ok, naked. To me it's ok.»
So the audience laughed and he replied:«I wasn't joking...»
Then Erlend said:«I have a better idea: let's go to the Mucca Bar... it's supposed I'll be dj-ing.»
And Eirik:«Ok, first Mucca Bar and then swimming in the ocean...»
So we moved to Mucca Bar and waited. Erlend, Eirik, Davide and Tobi arrived after a few minutes.
While Erlend was going to start his show. Two friends of mine and I went to talk to Eirik.
I asked him if he could be so kind to sign something for me. He said yes and I showed to him both my ticket and my copy of ^Riot On An Empty Street^ asking him:«Which is the best? Choose you.»
He replied:«I think the record.»and while he was writing he noticed that the jewel-case was empty (I mean there was no cd inside) so he said:«I think you have lost something.»«No, don't worry, I haven't! I know where it is!»
Then he spoke some words in italian -helped by Davide- he said:«È bello essere italiano in Norvegia, ma è meglio essere norvegese in Italia.» (which means "It's good being Italian in Norway, but it's better being Norwegian in Italy.")
He was very very nice! I also talked a bit to Davide I said that I was very glad to meet him, in English, and I add:«but I think we can talk in Italian!», so he replied:«Sì, l'italiano lo ricordo ancora!» (that means "Yes, I still remember the Italian!") and we chatted a little in Italian.
Then we said goodbye and went to dance! At the end of the djset I went to talk to Erlend, too.
I stopped him asking:«Hi Erlend... could you be so kind to...» and I showed him my copy of Riot and a pen... but he passed his arm around me, leaned his head on mine, saying:«No, no, no...»
So I said:«Oh why!»
Then he persisted:«No, I'm tired...» kissed my forehead and left me there like a stupid.
After, when I was calling to get a taxi, I saw him talking and signing autograph for some fans.
So I said to my friend:«Oh look! He's signing, now! &%"?!$£!»
He leaned on a red car so my friend and I went there again. He noticed we were there but pretended to not see us, so I said:«Hey?» and he turned his head down, wait a while, than looking at the street he said:«Tomorrow I have to play. I'm tired and I need to sleep...» and I replied:«I'm tired and I need to sleep, too...» waited any kind of reaction, but he didn't say a word. So I put my copy of Riot under his eyes saying:«...but... please...»
For first he looked at Eirik sign, for secondly at me and with an half smile, picked up the pen from my friend's hand and signed both the booklet and the ticket... while a very silly-grateful-me was saying:«Oh, I love you!!! Do you know that I love you?» (that stand for "thank you")
So I got Erl's autograph, too! He refused to sign the cd the first time I tried, but not the second. I always become cheeky when I drink... and in Genoa I was a bit drunk... (I drank a strong-drinks 'Long Island Ice Tea'... that's everything but tea... with not enough food in my stomach)
However I don't feel so sorry I was looking at him and he didn't look annoyed at all.

What's Your Ideal Relationship?

2005-06-19T17:54:00.000+02:00

Casual Dating

Maybe you're looking for love...
But mostly you're looking for fun.
You could get serious with the right person.
For now, though, you're enjoying playing the field.

What's Your Ideal relationship?

...that doesn't sound so nice actually...

Revolt surface

2005-06-10T13:06:00.000+02:00

Revolt surface, originally uploaded by rbpdesigner.

Evening walk...

2005-06-10T11:03:00.000+02:00

...in Bergen.

Flower...

2005-06-06T10:59:00.000+02:00

What's Your Ideal Career?

2005-05-20T21:58:00.000+02:00

Your Career Type: Artistic

You are expressive, original, and independent.
Your talents lie in your artistic abilities: creative writing, drama, crafts, music, or art.

You would make an excellent:

Actor - Art Teacher - Book Editor
Clothes Designer - Comedian - Composer
Dancer - DJ - Graphic Designer
Illustrator - Musician - Sculptor

The worst career options for your are conventional careers, like bank teller or secretary.

What's Your Ideal Career?

Well... I will be an architect soon...

Thinking about my future

2005-05-16T22:35:00.000+02:00

I'm in a period of deep thinking at the moment. Well, I'm always in a period of thinking actually... I guess thoughts are my biggest problem... really! I'm very unsure of what to do with my future life. I'm near to graduate and I'm a bit afraid of not get what I hope to. I mean in my future. When you are near to having something, and your dreams are going to be reality, is easy being scared and exited. My mind is running but I'm afraid my dreams might still remain just dreams. It's frustrating, isn't it?
Sometimes I guess I should read this book: "Come smettere di farsi le seghe mentali e godersi la vita." written by Giulio Cesare Giacobbe, who teaches a subject called "fondamenti delle discipline psicologiche orientali" that means "basis of oriental psychological disciplines" at the Literature and Philosophy Faculty in Genoa and this weird book should come from his experience of interplay with students and it's about the application of zen theories and oriental philosophy in generally to live a better life.
It isn't translated in English, but there are the German and Spanish versions:
"Wie Sie Ihre Hirnwichserei abstellen und stattdessen das Leben genießen."
"Cómo dejar de hacerse pajas mentales y disfrutar de la vida."
Anyway the title means: "How to stop having mental wanks and enjoy life" or something similar.

From the back of the book:
"Dicesi sega mentale il pensare a cose che non hanno attinenza con la realtà. A te sembrerà da questa definizione che allora le seghe mentali tu non te le fai mai. Questo tuo pensiero è un esempio tipico di sega mentale. Tutto sta nella definizione di realtà, naturalmente. La mia definizione di realtà è l'unica reale come può confermarti un qualsiasi contadino della bassa padana. La realtà è il nostro corpo e l'ambiente fisico che ci circonda. Le persone normali (ad esempio io e un idraulico di Busalla che ho conosciuto l'altra domenica quando sono andato per funghi) sanno benissimo che le cose stanno così. I nevrotici (isterici, nevrastenici, ansiosi, depressi, schizoidi, paranoidi ecc.), ossia tutti gli altri, sono irrecuperabilmente convinti che la realtà stia dentro la loro testa. C'è di che spararsi. E infatti molti lo fanno. Ma questo non basta a pareggiare le due categorie. I nevrotici, purtroppo, sono sempre la stragrande maggioranza"

[it's full of grammar and linguistic mistakes. So I try to translate it: have mercy of me]

"Mental wank is defined as thinking to things that have no connection with reality. From this definition it will seem that you have never had mental wanks. This your thought is a typical example of mental wank.
It all depends on the definition of reality, naturally. My definition of reality is the only real one as a whichever peasant of the Po lowland can confirm to you. The reality is our body and the physical environment that surrounds us. Normal persons (as for example me and an hydraulic from Busalla that I met last Sunday when I went mushrooming) know very well that the things are like that. Neurotics (hysteric, neurasthenic, anxious, depressed, schizoid, paranoid persons etc.) namely all the others, are irrecoverably convinced that the reality is inside their head. It's enough to shoot oneself. And in fact a lot them do that. But that's not enough to balance the two categories. Neurotics, unfortunately, are always the overwhelming majority"

I guess it's a weird-ironic-little-book that might be funny because it's written in young slang, what do you think?

For the Italians

What gender is your brain?

2005-05-02T19:45:00.000+02:00

My Brain is 53.33% Female, 46.67% Male

Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female
You are both sensitive and savyRational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed
But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve

What Gender Is Your Brain?

U2 April 2, 2005 Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim Anaheim, CA

2005-04-11T12:27:00.000+02:00

Bono has spoken of the passing today of Pope John Paul II.

Tracklist:
01. Intro
02. Love and Peace or Else
03. Vertigo (Stories For Boys)
04. Elevation
05. Electric Co.
06. An Cat Dubh
07. Into The Heart
08. City Of Blinding Lights
09. Beautiful Day
10. Miracle Drug
11. Sometimes You Cant Make It On Your Own
12. New Year's Day
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday
14. Bullet The Blue Sky
15. Hands That Built America
16. Bullet The Blue Sky
17. Human Rights Thingy
18. Zoo Station
19. The Fly
20. Mysterious Ways
21. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
22. Where The Streets Have No Name
23. One
24. All Because Of You
25. Yahweh
26. 40

After Beautiful Day Bono sings some verses of Beatles' songs Blackbird ...
"Blackbird singing in the dead of night... take these broken wings and learn to fly... all your life... you were only waiting for this moment to arise"
Than, while Edge started to play Miracle Drug, Bono started on speaking about the Pope:"I met the Holy Father and I was so taken by this showman, even if I didn't agree with everything he said," the singer, whose father was Roman Catholic, said to the crowd as the band began playing the intro to new song 'Miracle Drug'.
I said 'Holy father, do you want a pair of fly shades?' and he said 'yes' and he put them on and he made a face kind of like this. He reached out and gave me this sort of crooked cross. It was designed by Michelangelo. They're my rosaries and I wear them around my neck, and I take them off and put them in my pocket during a rock show, you understand."
Then, the band launched into the full version of 'Miracle Drug' which Bono dedicated to *anyone who is sick*.
Before the U2's next song ('Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own') Bono called out the name of the Pope "John Paul" to the crowd and described him as *an Italian who knew the right person to get into heaven*

*an Italian*?! ...uhm.... the pope was Polish...I guess it was a stupid slip of the tongue (I hope)... or perhaps Italian = Catholic, from Irish Christians standpoint... Anyway... nice of Bono to say those things though, regardless of your faith or beliefs, you have got to respect him because he was a sincere man who had touched so many people.... and I want a pic of the pope with bono fly sunglasses!

Drop

2005-04-10T13:20:00.000+02:00

Originally uploaded by Tatiana.

Thomas Dybdahl

2005-04-10T11:45:00.000+02:00

- Adelaide -

yesterday it seemed
life was just a dream
a bad dream you watch them all day long
feel you don't belong but you're wrong

life is good today had
a pretty boy look your way
don't worry Adelaide
life is good today
had a pretty boy look your way
don't worry Adelaide
Adelaide

you see the other girls
a strand of perfect pearls
and one day the sun will shine upon your face and you will find
someone beautiful

life is good today
had a pretty boy look your way
don't worry Adelaide
life is good today
had a pretty boy look your way
don't worry Adelaide
Adelaide

and one day the sun will shine upon your face and you will find
you're beautiful

life is good today
had a pretty boy look your way
don't worry Adelaide
life is good today had a pretty boy look your way
don't worry Adelaide

Adelaide
...

I love this song...

Mobiles

2005-04-10T03:59:00.000+02:00

I usually don't like to speak on the phone for more than a few minutes before I start to get bored! I've never been that kind of person who spends hours and hours talking on phone.
Now with a mobile everybody can find you, wherever you are, some might say it's amazing... I say it's annoying!
You can't not answer, your phone is switch-on, everybody supposes it is right near you, you MUST answer! How could I not answer? If I don't pick it up, later I must explain why I didn't answer the phone... where I was, why my mobile was't near me... mmmm!
F**k the mobiles! I really hate this technology! Me and mobiles are not compatible.
What?!? Do I seem a bit as... him?
...they may be also sweet, don't you think?

My Taste in Music

2005-04-09T15:56:00.000+02:00

Adult Alternative: Highest Influence
80's Alternative: High Influence
90's Alternative: High Influence
Classic Rock: High Influence
90's Pop: Medium Influence
Dance: Low Influence
Hair Bands: Low Influence
Progressive Rock: Low Influence
Punk: Low Influence
R&B: Low Influence

How's Your Taste in Music? Check it out!

Dirotta Su Cuba

2005-04-08T00:01:00.000+02:00

-In riva al mare -

Reti stese a asciugare
consumate dal sale
tutto è immobile
ma il silenzio parla di te

tra conchiglie di sabbia
un castello di rabbia
tu non sei con me e un altro giorno se ne va

ma il tempo per noi
non è passato mai
per sempre con me resterai

dimmi se c'è un posto dove stare insieme a te
in questo mondo
se c'è un angolo di cielo anche per noi
ma io so cos'è questa malinconia che non va via
e che sa di sale
sei tu
che sento in ogni cosa intorno a me
in riva al mare

soffia un vento leggero
sul profilo del faro
mi riporta qua proprio come un anno fa

sole brucia la pelle
tatuata di stelle
mi addormenterei stretta fra le braccia tue

ma io resto qui
io così piccola
con un sogno più grande di me

dimmi se c'è un posto dove stare insieme a te
in questo mondo se c'è
un angolo di cielo anche per noi
ma io so cos'è
questa malinconia che non va via e che sa di sale
sei tu che sento in ogni cosa intorno a me
in riva al mare...

Non ho mai capito perché i Dirotta Su Cuba non hanno avuto poi così tanto successo...

Nordlys...

2005-04-06T06:57:00.000+02:00

I really wish to see them...

...taken in Tromsø, Norway by Bjørn Jørgensen
Simply wonderful, no other words.

Some thoughts...

2005-04-04T02:56:00.000+02:00

In these days it's difficult to not think about the death of John Paul II. Everybody here talks about him. I'm Italian and I was raised Catholic, but I'm not practicing it anymore, as well as any other religion. I went to catechism classes and did almost all the sacraments. I don't feel Catholic, first of all because I do not believe in Roman Church.
I was born one year after the day in when Karol Wojtyla became Pope... so I've never seen other Pope than him. To be honest, I've never really cared about him, I mean, he wasn't a sort of "guide", and now I'm surprised because I really feel his death as a loss. I think he was a great man, before being a Pope, because he has always been genuine, and it's always a pity to lose sincere man, even though that's life thing.
He deeply believed in what he said, sought every day of his papacy to be "there for people", even in his last days his persevered in it. He was a man who, unlike many other Popes in the past, had a positive impact on the world. He was the first Pope who asked the world's forgiveness on the church's behalf at the millenium for the failings of the past. He was the first Pope who apologized to Hebrews for centuries of discrimination and for Vatican policies during the 2nd World War, calling them "elder brothers" of Christians, saying nobody could bother them because of the death of Christ, and the first who prayed in a synagogue and a mosque.
He tried to dialogue with non-Christian religions and sought to promote relations with other Christian Churches.
He brought the Church ahead... I think not all it's done but Church did a first big step to free itself from ages of wrong thoughts. (how many!)
«Fight terror with love» said Pope! We must trust in love, no matter which religion we follow or in which Country we live in, we are equal. We should have this point clear because the future is in that. That's not only religion, that's the unique way to develop the world, a rule of life.
Karol Wojtyla left us with a universal message: we must believe we are able to change the world working toward peace everyday.
He was symbol of peace, I don't know if the one who'll come will be as good as he has been, perhaps because I do not really trust in Church.
Agree or disagree with him, love him or not. He was a sincere man.

Grazie, I will miss you, Karol.

I was thinking...

2005-04-01T17:51:00.000+02:00

...why don't I start to write in english?
So everybody can read my mental lucubration (I see a bit of
egocentrism in it, don't you?) This may make sense, as it is also a way to learn it better... perhaps it needs the help of other (spoken english) people...
Is there anybody who's willing to help a poor Italian girl to better learn English?

...spiando le conversazioni altrui...

2005-04-01T08:22:00.000+02:00

...click...
here
...I'm speechless... era meglio non scoprire...

What am I here for?

2005-03-29T15:43:00.000+02:00

Heylà! Salve!!!
Non so oggi che mi sia passato per la testa, ho deciso di aprire un blog... proprio io che non capisco una emerita... h ...di html e amici e parenti!
Non so quanto lo aggiornero, e quanto tempo ci dedicherò, si vedrà... Non so nemmeno io perché ho deciso di aprirlo. È buffo a pensarci, non ho mai avuto un diario in tutta la mia vita! Forse ho aperto un blog perché costa sempre meno che andare dall'analista.
Ora attendo di avere una brillante ispirazione per il secondo post...