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this space is about my fragmentary vision of the world in its multiple aspects

11/11/2022

Que pena, que pena
We got to lose Gal Costa’s brilhante/radiante presence on this Earth…
In my bossa nova ethnomusicological studies (when I still wanted to play in a samba band) I had the pleasure to ‘encounter’ Caetano Veloso’s biography on Tropicalismo and this revolutionary movement that happened in this beloved land, during 60s-70s, ‘heart of the world’, Brazil, where Gal gave her wonderful voice to expand and overcome boundaries represented by a series of military, repressive governments, tied with those extremely-damaging colonial tropes.
This deliberate choice of freely talking about ‘loss and love’ in a poetic form, with also a subtle political twist in the mix was something not just appealing to my ears, but to an entire generation of Brazilian young people, that felt left behind….

Mas eu não vou chorar
Eu vou é cantar
Pois a vida continua
Pois a vida continua
E eu não ficar sozinho no meio da rua
No meio da rua
Esperando que alguém me dê a mão
Me dê a mão, a mão

30/10/2022

Being a spell-casting witchy whimsical witch all my life - 🧙‍♀️
Even in less spooky (real) times !

Hope every kid in town tonight will have that genuine fun
to knock door to door 🍬
and ask for a treat,
a candy, a sweet
in exchange
of a potential giggly tricks
and forget about
the bad side of things 👻

Circa 2008, so far ago, in my birth-house 🏚

16/10/2022

Drive like we do
{sorry to sound pretentious -}
You know there is no one else in this world
To take you as far
As your thought
Of getting it over
Over those streets
over those blown kisses
over those petrol-station misconceptions

Over over over again

Post those same pictures
You know I like
your grandiose features

There is no one else on my sight mirrors
Except your fari posteriori - insert improv translation here-

Drive like she does
She is never late
Cause she knows
How hitting the road
With her pagoda eyes
A furba fox in disguise
Demeanour or demise?
Must be nice
Owning the sensation
Of knowing what to do
Who to meet
When to deliver, complete, serve and

Aggiustare lo sterzo
Schiacciare il giusto pedale
Lasciando
Dietro
Ogni
Male

15th October 1931 - birth Of my Free Spirit Guide, ‘Gina’.

🎞Photo taken during 70s, unknown location, maybe Northern Italy

15/10/2022

‘Show me what
Lateness
(but Dedication) is…’

Spoiler alert:
I am going to be
this kind of
Cow-in-a-sweater-
annoying till tomorrow

Then I am going to transform myself in a millennial version of Peter Griffin, still thinking that I am going to make it
Somehow
Someday
In the Music Complex Industry

[‘fangirling is so 2013, but it is still a great escapism from my adult problems, so bare with me…. Cheers x]

10/10/2022

In some ways
We miss those golden liberating days….

There’s nobody else
In the back of my mind
In the front of my heart
Except my dearest friend overlooking Calcata’s hills in a quiet rainy August day…

This moment was like a breathe of fresh air that I needed so bad in the most chaotic year of my life (and apparently of the entire planet… yeah 2020)

Cannot thank enough you my 💫 for those moments of pure shared simple joy, observing nature or some fancy Milan restaurants…

Without you, there wouldn’t be so many great memories during high school, there wouldn’t be a vital part of me that still is fighting ‘to chase that dream’ that we always talk about…

I want to celebrate your birth not just here, but any day, you know, I am always thinking of you and hoping that everything is going adventurously great!

Cannot wait to see your amazing pictures taken in NYC this December and hear about all the wonderful things you have done (also with the incredible companion you got Eheh x ‘Fabio 4 life’)

Quasi mi commuovo - perchè sai che ci saró sempre e so che tu pure farai lo stesso per me

🫂🫶💫🪐🌼🌌🌄🎞

24/09/2022

‘Non c’è due senza tre’ -
Last but extremely not least:
now we enter finally my favourite ♎️🌹🕯season, where my role model would still hit another trip around the sun in all her grace, spontaneous flamboyant comical geniality and impeccable intelligence …

Cannot do whatever I do without thinking of her - will never tired to write and say that!

It is always a blessing sharing such close moments with somebody who did anything in their power to feed and nurture you and just teach you how to live the best part of yourself - never forget that- we are extremely lucky in this sense!

[no wonder I am like ‘obsessed’ with genius expressed in ‘Ctrl’ …she got it : our ancestors are there for us, all the time, and want us to be genuinely happy … ok I don’t want to cry, but I might, why not?!

Alone in airport, just got this thought.]

19/09/2022

Early gift for my bday (22/9)
: to be over
with this week already….

📵🔕💻🔇👎🪦💤🖲📴

Like now -
I am barely keeping
my eyes open
on this 20,000 words document

Resto o son Desto?
It’s all a lucid nightmare, I see……

[I haven’t slept for like 20 hours now]

02/09/2022

Feeling like in a clownery mood entering my (birth) month 🤡👩‍💻🎰🃏🐬

So there it is:
The proof I ‘aged’
[with way more dark circles \\ occhiaie than ever…]
- a Facebook time capsule from 10 years ago - not to thank Zucckaberg obv …

Small bo***es,
no worries,
no strange encounters,
no nightmares,
Just from-high-above
self portraits
& lots of no-reciprocated crushes

01/09/2022

‘Never heard of Dimes Square’// don’t think that it is that much of American -
A trend :

No, seriously, I feel bad for real New Yorkers, like my dear Patricia is so right -
Where has the Culture gone?

Don’t wanna say that boomers win this one, but they are not too wrong - overconsumption is not cute, maybe temporally trendy …

Take this series of photos as symbols of our de-Gen Z-experience…. Or leave it xx

30/08/2022

BeReal but like … anywhere!
Even here, where anything Ugly-distorted is like almost forbidden. [but facetune, hey, sponsored a gogo]
🤳💆📐🔔🗯🌐
Just a reminder - you choose what you want to show, it’s not the app that does that for ya
(Unless censorship and then we gonna just skip this Black Mirror episode and eventually log off and on again)

{didn’t want to jump-scare you, maybe just like reflect (!?!) cheers xx}

29/08/2022

“Last Stop to a Fortunate (Rainy) Destination”
🚏☔️🎷🎵🌑🗽🚍🏘📝
Have you ever experienced that moment when you satisfy that desire of doing something that it seems like
everything happens all at once?
Like 7 days turn into a minute…
That’s what I still feel like remembering June -
I almost like forget it did actually happen… to me!

It’s somehow when a kid goes to Disneyland for the first time, that kind of magic…🎢🪄🧞‍♀️

No matter what happens afterwards, that instant stays trapped in your memory box like a graceful dream -
Such as listening to that precious ‘s “Ride” ❤️💙🤍
while walking home at 2 am
in a lucky heavy rain - pure serene totality xx

27/07/2022

Swinging blues mood
Of the day: 🎷📝
Opposites attract
Incapacity to attack
Whatever comes last
It’s always a connecting blast

I don’t know, I miss New York
And I cannot get over
With that

Okay? Cool.

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