H. y amigo.
Trelew,Patagonia,2006
domingo, mayo 21, 2006
My first Super 8 camera
... and, in some ways, my best.
Exeter 1982.
Travelled to Buenos Aires
(filmed 'SUMO' in the legendary
'Café Einstein' and in Federación and Chajarí,
Entre Rios).
Travelled to Tunisia in 1984
(filmed my award-winning short, I.C.A. London,
and Luca and I cavorting in Roman ruins of Sbeitla).
The Following Persons are both called Frankie Focacci
This is a rare video appearance by Cincinatti
Mafia Boss, Frankie Focacci.
The F.B.I. inadvertently chanced upon this material,
(a 'tactics training' video in which the 'Capo dei Capi'
dished 'advice' out to his 'condottieri'or subordinates),
during a heist in the lodgings of Salvatore 'Sally' La Martora
in Dec. 1988.
Frank Foccaci #2
This one was a Philladelfia 'mummer'
and set the fashion for 'Spiderman'
(although the word 'glamour' hadn't as yet been introduced...)
sábado, mayo 20, 2006
"La Veritá... la veritá.." Bruno Ganz:'La Domenica Specialmente'
www.romapagana.com.ar
www.romapagana.blogspot.com
La mia seconda casa
Cara Margherita,
sei frá le poche persone
che mi mancano. Mannaggia a te! Ma è vero che non cucini piú?
"André! Ma quanno lo capirai... che l'America è quí!"
Fernet
Los Datos:
Venta Fernet Italia 2006 (en unidades): 73 botellas
Venta Fernet Argentina 2006 (en unidades): 42.000.000 botellas
(de las cuales el 70% en Prov. de Cordoba)
Camón!
Hamsters Sobreviven sin Maltrato
Ahi está.
La prueba que los 'Maltratan Hamsters'
cantaron
en el Tapiales Rock 2004.
"Che, estuve bueno, loco...
o sea... estuvo loco...
bue... que se yo..."
viernes, mayo 19, 2006
Idea Tapa "Viva Voce" 1995
mini-dibujo en agenda para
el disco vocal.
Infancia con umbral negro y grito,
Vejez con atardecer y recuerdos.
Elevator #1
There are
Three elevators
On my floor,
and how powerful they are!
(no I don't mean their
Brawn or Size... it's their mystic
Power).
Eager eyes await the Sudden Lighting of their red arrows.
Like some
Huge Slot-Machine.
But the game (wait) wares thin
when you're hungry...irate...
or just late.
And when the Doors, with tranquil majesty,
Draw wide,
The Elevator smiles:
"Look who's inside."
Three elevators
On my floor,
and how powerful they are!
(no I don't mean their
Brawn or Size... it's their mystic
Power).
Eager eyes await the Sudden Lighting of their red arrows.
Like some
Huge Slot-Machine.
But the game (wait) wares thin
when you're hungry...irate...
or just late.
And when the Doors, with tranquil majesty,
Draw wide,
The Elevator smiles:
"Look who's inside."
Quiero que mi hijo vaya a esta escuela..!
Estos dos
graduaron de la misma escuela
la Antelope Valley High School,
en Lancaster, Calif.
Q. Quienes son?
A. adivinaloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Material Esencial
Que Tal? Soy Material Musical Esencial.
Llevame en tu viaje Sideral,transformando una noche Normal
en un placer Animal.
Olvidate de H.A.L.
2001 no estuvo tan Mal.
Just Leave Us Freaks Alone!
un excelente lugar para buscar
bandas estimulantes es:
www.freakemporium.com
jueves, mayo 18, 2006
Friends of music
Gillespi (Marcelo Rodriguez)
Doris (ver:www.dorisrock.com.ar)
Sergio Dawi (ver:www.sergiodawi.com.ar)
Un Vagón (tango)
Las Pelotas (ver:www.laspelotaspage.com)
miércoles, mayo 17, 2006
martes, mayo 16, 2006
lunes, mayo 15, 2006
View-Master fans
Looks like Twiggy
(actually she's Goldie),
and that's a View-Master Reel on her Belly.
fragmentos de memoria
Brambletye!
o podria haber sido qualquier otro colegio privado
de Gran Bretaña en los '60 - '70.
La Necesaria alergia contada con típico humor negro Made in the U.K.
(...y que buenas tapas...)
www.imdb.com
This is where you'll find the film curriculum.
Este es el sitio adonde encontrarás mi curriculum de pelis.
Qui troverai il curriculum dei film nei quali ho lavorato.
Este es el sitio adonde encontrarás mi curriculum de pelis.
Qui troverai il curriculum dei film nei quali ho lavorato.
domingo, mayo 14, 2006
Only owned 2 cars...
Ma didn't want to drive any more. I was, therefore, the (very proud) owner of a little bottle-green jewel with white 'pull-back' roof and white leather interiors!
A short-lived affair as, only 6 months into the relationship, thieves cut their way through the roof - incidentally, in the EXACT spot where P.M. Aldo Moro was found dead in the back of a red Renault 4 in Via Caetani, Rome,Italy - and stole the poor baby, stripping it of all it's (pretty) parts. R.I.P.
Mi madre no quiso seguir manejando. Resultado? Pasé a ser el orgulloso proprietario de una pequeña joya verde-botella dotada de un techo retrasable colór marfíl y de interiores en puro cuero blanco! Fue una pasión fugaz ya que solo seis meses después unos 'chorros' se colaron a su interior, cortandose una entrada por su techito con una hoja de afeitar. Violaron a la pobre nena, llevandose cada detalle de su fatal 'design' y dejando nada más que una triste cascara. R.I.P.
Only owned 2 cars...
This was the first, in 1984. A present from my Argentinian friend Guillermo Conte, it was a luxurious nightmare. Upkeep impossible. On the way to Leonardo da Vinci airport the brakes failed me and I slammed into the rear of an Roman A.T.A.C. bus (leaving a huge hole in the rear of the bus, and just a minor dent in the DS's nose!)
Esta fue la primera, en el año 1984. Un regalo de mi compañero Argentino, Guillermo Conte, fue - en verdad- una pesadilla de lujo. Sus gastos de manutención me tenían al borde de la quiebra. Como una novia eróticamente apetitosa pero dotada de gustos carísimos.
jueves, mayo 11, 2006
sufisticata data
La vela no está ahi para iluminarse a si misma.Nawab Jan-Fishan Khan
Ellos dicen: "Este pueblo es delicioso".Pero más delicioso aún es el corazón del hombre que puede decir: "Yo no me deleito con pueblos deliciosos." Yahia Razi
miércoles, mayo 10, 2006
lunes, mayo 08, 2006
Mr Vonnegut will be Kurt...
Un articulo MUY valioso, con el humor acido de uno de los grandes escritores vivientes:
(from In These Times, Jan.2003)
Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@
By Joel Bleifuss 1.27.03
print email comment
Kurt Vonnegut vonnegut.com
In November, Kurt Vonnegut turned 80. He published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952 at the age of 29. Since then he has written 13 others, including Slaughterhouse Five, which stands as one of the pre-eminent anti-war novels of the 20th century.As war against Iraq looms, I asked Vonnegut, a reader and supporter of this magazine, to weigh in. Vonnegut is an American socialist in the tradition of Eugene Victor Debs, a fellow Hoosier whom he likes to quote: “As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I am of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”—Joel Bleifuss, (Q.) You have lived through World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Reagan wars, Desert Storm, the Balkan wars and now this coming war in Iraq. What has changed, and what has remained the same? (answer:) One thing which has not changed is that none of us, no matter what continent or island or ice cap, asked to be born in the first place, and that even somebody as old as I am, which is 80, only just got here. There were already all these games going on when I got here. … An apt motto for any polity anywhere, to put on its state seal or currency or whatever, might be this quotation from the late baseball manager Casey Stengel, who was addressing a team of losing professional athletes: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”My daughter Lily, for an example close to home, who has just turned 20, finds herself—as does George W. Bush, himself a kid—an heir to a shockingly recent history of human slavery, to an AIDS epidemic and to nuclear submarines slumbering on the floors of fjords in Iceland and elsewhere, crews prepared at a moment’s notice to turn industrial quantities of men, women and children into radioactive soot and bone meal by means of rockets and H-bomb warheads. And to the choice between liberalism or conservatism and on and on.What is radically new in 2003 is that my daughter, along with our president and Saddam Hussein and on and on, has inherited technologies whose byproducts, whether in war or peace, are rapidly destroying the whole planet as a breathable, drinkable system for supporting life of any kind. Human beings, past and present, have trashed the joint. (Q.) Based on what you’ve read and seen in the media, what is not being said in the mainstream press about President Bush’s policies and the impending war in Iraq? (answer:) That they are nonsense. (Q.) My feeling from talking to readers and friends is that many people are beginning to despair. Do you think that we’ve lost reason to hope? (answer:) I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians,” and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or “PPs.”To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable medical diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete’s foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey Cleckley. Read it! PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose!And what syndrome better describes so many executives at Enron and WorldCom and on and on, who have enriched themselves while ruining their employees and investors and country, and who still feel as pure as the driven snow, no matter what anybody may say to or about them? And so many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick.What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next. Simply can’t. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody’s telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass! (Q.) How have you gotten involved in the anti-war movement? And how would you compare the movement against a war in Iraq with the anti-war movement of the Vietnam era? (anwer:) When it became obvious what a dumb and cruel and spiritually and financially and militarily ruinous mistake our war in Vietnam was, every artist worth a damn in this country, every serious writer, painter, stand-up comedian, musician, actor and actress, you name it, came out against the thing. We formed what might be described as a laser beam of protest, with everybody aimed in the same direction, focused and intense. This weapon proved to have the power of a banana-cream pie three feet in diameter when dropped from a stepladder five-feet high.And so it is with anti-war protests in the present day. Then as now, TV did not like anti-war protesters, nor any other sort of protesters, unless they rioted. Now, as then, on account of TV, the right of citizens to peaceably assemble, and petition their government for a redress of grievances, “ain’t worth a pitcher of warm spit,” as the saying goes. (Q;) As a writer and artist, have you noticed any difference between how the cultural leaders of the past and the cultural leaders of today view their responsibility to society? (answer:) Responsibility to which society? To Nazi Germany? To the Stalinist Soviet Union? What about responsibility to humanity in general? (Q.) And leaders in what particular cultural activity? (answer:) I guess you mean the fine arts. I hope you mean the fine arts. ... Anybody practicing the fine art of composing music, no matter how cynical or greedy or scared, still can’t help serving all humanity. Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. Even military bands, although I am a pacifist, always cheer me up.But that is the power of ear candy. The creation of such a universal confection for the eye, by means of printed poetry or fiction or history or essays or memoirs and so on, isn’t possible. Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author. Any ink-on-paper author can only hope at best to seem responsible to small groups or like-minded people somewhere. He or she might as well have given an interview to the editor of a small-circulation publication.Maybe we can talk about the responsibilities to their societies of architects and sculptors and painters another time. And I will say this: TV drama, although not yet classified as fine art, has on occasion performed marvelous services for Americans who want us to be less paranoid, to be fairer and more merciful. M.A.S.H. and Law and Order, to name only two shows, have been stunning masterpieces in that regard. (Q.) That said, do you have any ideas for a really scary reality TV show? (answer:) “C students from Yale.” It would stand your hair on end. (Q.) What targets would you consider fair game for a satirist today? (answer:) Assholes.
Joel Bleifuss is the editor of In These Times, where he has worked as an investigative reporter, columnist and editor since 1986. Bleifuss has had more stories on Project Censored's annual list of the “10 Most Censored Stories” than any other journalist
(from In These Times, Jan.2003)
Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@
By Joel Bleifuss 1.27.03
print email comment
Kurt Vonnegut vonnegut.com
In November, Kurt Vonnegut turned 80. He published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952 at the age of 29. Since then he has written 13 others, including Slaughterhouse Five, which stands as one of the pre-eminent anti-war novels of the 20th century.As war against Iraq looms, I asked Vonnegut, a reader and supporter of this magazine, to weigh in. Vonnegut is an American socialist in the tradition of Eugene Victor Debs, a fellow Hoosier whom he likes to quote: “As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I am of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”—Joel Bleifuss, (Q.) You have lived through World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Reagan wars, Desert Storm, the Balkan wars and now this coming war in Iraq. What has changed, and what has remained the same? (answer:) One thing which has not changed is that none of us, no matter what continent or island or ice cap, asked to be born in the first place, and that even somebody as old as I am, which is 80, only just got here. There were already all these games going on when I got here. … An apt motto for any polity anywhere, to put on its state seal or currency or whatever, might be this quotation from the late baseball manager Casey Stengel, who was addressing a team of losing professional athletes: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”My daughter Lily, for an example close to home, who has just turned 20, finds herself—as does George W. Bush, himself a kid—an heir to a shockingly recent history of human slavery, to an AIDS epidemic and to nuclear submarines slumbering on the floors of fjords in Iceland and elsewhere, crews prepared at a moment’s notice to turn industrial quantities of men, women and children into radioactive soot and bone meal by means of rockets and H-bomb warheads. And to the choice between liberalism or conservatism and on and on.What is radically new in 2003 is that my daughter, along with our president and Saddam Hussein and on and on, has inherited technologies whose byproducts, whether in war or peace, are rapidly destroying the whole planet as a breathable, drinkable system for supporting life of any kind. Human beings, past and present, have trashed the joint. (Q.) Based on what you’ve read and seen in the media, what is not being said in the mainstream press about President Bush’s policies and the impending war in Iraq? (answer:) That they are nonsense. (Q.) My feeling from talking to readers and friends is that many people are beginning to despair. Do you think that we’ve lost reason to hope? (answer:) I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians,” and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or “PPs.”To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable medical diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete’s foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey Cleckley. Read it! PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose!And what syndrome better describes so many executives at Enron and WorldCom and on and on, who have enriched themselves while ruining their employees and investors and country, and who still feel as pure as the driven snow, no matter what anybody may say to or about them? And so many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick.What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next. Simply can’t. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody’s telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass! (Q.) How have you gotten involved in the anti-war movement? And how would you compare the movement against a war in Iraq with the anti-war movement of the Vietnam era? (anwer:) When it became obvious what a dumb and cruel and spiritually and financially and militarily ruinous mistake our war in Vietnam was, every artist worth a damn in this country, every serious writer, painter, stand-up comedian, musician, actor and actress, you name it, came out against the thing. We formed what might be described as a laser beam of protest, with everybody aimed in the same direction, focused and intense. This weapon proved to have the power of a banana-cream pie three feet in diameter when dropped from a stepladder five-feet high.And so it is with anti-war protests in the present day. Then as now, TV did not like anti-war protesters, nor any other sort of protesters, unless they rioted. Now, as then, on account of TV, the right of citizens to peaceably assemble, and petition their government for a redress of grievances, “ain’t worth a pitcher of warm spit,” as the saying goes. (Q;) As a writer and artist, have you noticed any difference between how the cultural leaders of the past and the cultural leaders of today view their responsibility to society? (answer:) Responsibility to which society? To Nazi Germany? To the Stalinist Soviet Union? What about responsibility to humanity in general? (Q.) And leaders in what particular cultural activity? (answer:) I guess you mean the fine arts. I hope you mean the fine arts. ... Anybody practicing the fine art of composing music, no matter how cynical or greedy or scared, still can’t help serving all humanity. Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. Even military bands, although I am a pacifist, always cheer me up.But that is the power of ear candy. The creation of such a universal confection for the eye, by means of printed poetry or fiction or history or essays or memoirs and so on, isn’t possible. Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author. Any ink-on-paper author can only hope at best to seem responsible to small groups or like-minded people somewhere. He or she might as well have given an interview to the editor of a small-circulation publication.Maybe we can talk about the responsibilities to their societies of architects and sculptors and painters another time. And I will say this: TV drama, although not yet classified as fine art, has on occasion performed marvelous services for Americans who want us to be less paranoid, to be fairer and more merciful. M.A.S.H. and Law and Order, to name only two shows, have been stunning masterpieces in that regard. (Q.) That said, do you have any ideas for a really scary reality TV show? (answer:) “C students from Yale.” It would stand your hair on end. (Q.) What targets would you consider fair game for a satirist today? (answer:) Assholes.
Joel Bleifuss is the editor of In These Times, where he has worked as an investigative reporter, columnist and editor since 1986. Bleifuss has had more stories on Project Censored's annual list of the “10 Most Censored Stories” than any other journalist
domingo, mayo 07, 2006
Solo podes bailar Las Cumbias Lunaticas, si?
Better than Edam;
Dulce de Leche can't compare;
Ladies, Gentlemen (and better fauna)
prepare to enjoy:
Dick el Demasiado (at times with his Exagerados).
Enquire thru www.periferico.org
Dulce de Leche can't compare;
Ladies, Gentlemen (and better fauna)
prepare to enjoy:
Dick el Demasiado (at times with his Exagerados).
Enquire thru www.periferico.org
Reliquias en 45 + Relics in 45 + Reliquie in 45
The drone of Howard Devoto
or
Sniffin' Glue with the Lemon Kittens...
Adolescent Punk Love with Shelley (Pete)
or
Another kind of pop with The Pop Group...
or just the attitude of the graphics...
Long Live '76,'77,'78 and, well, maybe '79 !
sábado, mayo 06, 2006
Choice Picks * De lo Mejor * Er Mejo
'Islands' :King Crimson
'Roxy Music':Roxy Music
'Real Life':Magazine
'Five Leaves Left':Nick Drake
'Pink Flag':Wire
'A Wizard, a True Star':Todd Rundgren
'English Settlement': XTC
'I'm the Urban Spaceman': Bonzo Dog Band
'Get Happy': Elvis Costello
'The White Album (The Beatles),'Sgt.Pepper's',Abbey Road','Revolver': The Beatles
'L'era del Cinghiale Bianco': Franco Battiato
'From the bottom of an old grandfather clock' : Bill Fay
'Multi-Kulti': Don Cherry
'Roxy Music':Roxy Music
'Real Life':Magazine
'Five Leaves Left':Nick Drake
'Pink Flag':Wire
'A Wizard, a True Star':Todd Rundgren
'English Settlement': XTC
'I'm the Urban Spaceman': Bonzo Dog Band
'Get Happy': Elvis Costello
'The White Album (The Beatles),'Sgt.Pepper's',Abbey Road','Revolver': The Beatles
'L'era del Cinghiale Bianco': Franco Battiato
- 'After Chabón':Sumo
'From the bottom of an old grandfather clock' : Bill Fay
'Multi-Kulti': Don Cherry
martes, mayo 02, 2006
New Gems
Listen to Bonnie Prince Billy
(somewhere 'twixt Joni Mitchell and John Martyn)
and soul-mates Anomoanon (Little Birdy).
(somewhere 'twixt Joni Mitchell and John Martyn)
and soul-mates Anomoanon (Little Birdy).
domingo, abril 30, 2006
El Rey Mono
No solo porcelanas en la dinastía Ming!
Para el deleite intelectual del niño en cada un de nosotros..
Hay que conseguir una copia de "Viaje al Oeste": Las Aventuras del Rey Mono!
Una Odiseya,Una Divina Comedia, Un Doctor Faustus, Una travesura de Bugs Bunny,
Chino.
Tsai-Chien
Para el deleite intelectual del niño en cada un de nosotros..
Hay que conseguir una copia de "Viaje al Oeste": Las Aventuras del Rey Mono!
Una Odiseya,Una Divina Comedia, Un Doctor Faustus, Una travesura de Bugs Bunny,
Chino.
Tsai-Chien
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