Il Nittalope

Outbound flight bought. Inbound flight bought too. So, Ireland will be real, after all, this May 2015. A little more than 2 weeks, in a foreign country, alone, driving around and camping somewhere. If I'll say that I am scared I'd be lying, but worried, yes. It's a long time that I've not been around alone in a foreign country, alone, driving around and camping somewhere. A long time, like... forever? Arrival in Dublin, departure from Cork. The first draft of the trip is here below... Still a lot of things are not chosen. Like... were to sleep? For how long hike in the parks? But the first step is done. I've got 2 tickets, one to go, one to come back... let's the adventure begin!

I just got back to Italy, for the first time I'll be working from "home", meaning, this time, my parent's home! I am quite excited about this opportunity. I want to see how it feel to sit next to my father while he translate and I work. I know, by the way, that luckily it will last only 1 week... because more... hey! It's still my parent's place, I can't stand stay in the same place for so long! But it's not this I was going to write about. I was on the bus, taking me from the airport to the train station, and I was looking outside, remembering other times I went back on the same bus and some melancholy struck. And when melancholy strikes, you never know where your mind will go! And mine started thinking about my childhood friends... those that were really friends, not for just a season, but for long years, the same friends that you still think about in rainy nights... and when you meet everything starts right after from it stops when you le...

Here I come, writing my second dangerous post. So, I tried to slip away from this subject and indeed, in the past months, I've talked about Ferguson only once, in a brief discussion with my father, that lead to nothing. But the truth is that the situation in Ferguson is not improving, the situation in the USA neither and that a lot of information has been thrown against the viewer and a lot of different opinions have arisen. I try to stay away from opinions, as somebody may have noticed, when I write or talk officially. I love opinions when I speak and discuss with somebody, as long as it's agreed that they are opinions (personal or common). Anyway, in the case of Ferguson what struck me is not the opinions, but the simplest facts. Here they are: a 18 years old man has been killed on the 9th of August the man was shot 6 times by a police officer the man was unarmed the shooting occurred at mid-day, on a open street the police officer was on patrol al...

I was working today, and chatting with a colleague about work, at one point (we did not know each other) I asked her where she was coming from and it turn out it's Ireland. So, lets remember about old times and... which was that song? I searched my music library for Clannad and... here it is! But the colleague point me out to another version from Corrs And I was lost... from there it has been a long afternoon of listening to the same song in so many different shades (this is the list ), and then Mo Ghile Mear... and then  Oro Se do Bheatha 'Bhaile and so down to Sinead and Tell me Ma But to this there is no end...So I'll leave you with a good mention:

I just thought that I have never posted a photo of my beloved motorbike... when I had one. And the sad truth is that I have almost no photos... so sad. But here it is, with a much younger me... and a dead Santa...

So, I watched the movie, enjoyed it (you should already know, by now, having read this ) and I read about it on I 400 Calci (in Italian, but simply wonderful site on movies). I want to (and will) go to watch it a second time (this time I'll chose a not Imax theatre, a really nice one: The Movie, in AMS), as a lot of things I've lost (thank you damn Texan accent!) and some I've probably already forgot. But having read about the movie and talked with friends about it, I fell that I want to line down the things that didn't worked so well, weren't so clear or simply... I didn't appreciated much. And also what, on the contrary, was working. All of that... by my own opinion, obviously! So, from now on is SPOILER ALERT!! 1. We are at some point in the future, not too much... but where the hell all of the mobile phones have gone? 1.1 and what about Google Maps (or any other such service)? Do you really need paper maps to look for NASA? Really? It's '95...

I just got back from watching Interstellar. No other way to put it. I LOVED it! Let me be clear: there are bullshits around the whole movie and it's far from a perfect one. But I went out of the theatre and could just think: I just saw the new "2001 - A space Odissey". Of course I can be wrong... or better... I am sure I am wrong. But I really enjoyed this movie. Again, with all the stupid problems it presents (why, tell me, oh! Why, they cannot build better ways to protect themselves from... dust?!?!? Or why they are still using petrol for cars? And Google Maps!?? Where Google Maps has gone, by God!!). So, go out there in the wild and watch it! Is a wonderful way to spend 3 hours of your life! Unless... unless you think that building a fucking Ark that fly through space (and, most importantly, leave the gravitational pit of Earth from the SURFACE) is less probable and believable then rupturing Space-Time continuum! Yes... It's so strange for ...