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I should update...but my life is so boring and I have nothing to say....

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Hey everyone..

Im back for a short kind of advertisement of a documentary I've watched today...it scared the shit out of me...."The end of suburbia" (click me!!) is about the oil peak and oil depletion which is currently taking place not only in the US but also in Europe and the rest of the world...it describes how dependend on oil and natural gas our lives have become and facing this depletion and its subsequent consequences, we will have to totally change our lifestyles.
We have to take a look back at history and go back to a locally based community structure and economy...globalization will be killed in the end by the lack of natural ressources.
However, the most important thing is to realize that the oil ressources will not las forever but that within our life time, we will have to change our lives dramatically!

If you care, try to get hold of the documentary....

and the sky was made of amethyst...

Ciao a tutti!

Long time, no update...but I have been away from Thursday to Saturday and the rest of the weekend I have been just as lazy as usually...and now Im back to the usual reading and doing nothing - thing...

But now some info on my weekend...Francesco and me drove to Rimini (a horrible drive since it was raining, see the pics) to visit a friend called Arianna. She works in a shop called Skinwear and is an incredible good tattooer. We had an appointment on Thursday but unfortunately, she felt sick and we had to postpone it to the day after. So on Friday, I spent 5 hours on a table with Arianna inking my right arm...the first 4 hours I was fine but the last hour I struggled a bit since it started to hurt pretty much. In the end, Im proud I sat it out and here you can see the beautiful result....

I really have to recommend her and her studio because her work is perfect, clean and clear and the studio is probably the most beautiful I have ever seen. There are so many people with bad tattoos, it's a shame!!! You really should think twice before getting one since it will be there forever!!
I wanna thank Arianna and her team for being so nice and cute and professional and great and and and!!!!
(...I hope my mum doesn't read my page because I want to surprise her *g* She was the model for the tattooo!!)
Here the link to Miss Arianna and her studio if you wanna see more:
http://www.missarianna.com/
http://www.skinweartattooshop.com/

After the tattooing session, I took a train to Bologna and met Francesco there because he had been to Verona while I was suffering in Rimini. In Bologna, we met our friends from Forty Winks and went to a club called Covo where Sandro, the band's singer, is working. We had some drinks but I was so tired from tattooing that we went to bed soon.
The next day, we went to a famous restaurant called Trattoria da Vito...it's famous but not good, they told me...famous because sometimes well-known people like Italian singers go there....the food was pretty cheap and I liked it a lot!!!
Then, we hit the road back to Rome and there we went to a show called Rock your weekend with To Kill, Dufresne and Your Hero. Im not into either of these bands but it has been organised by some friends....It was not too bad...
But the real fun came later when we went to the Circolo degli Artisti to keep the party going. There, Luca, our friend, tried to convince the Dj to play "some real music"...he is djing himself and went a bit crazy...I had to laugh so much....and they also went crazy about taking pictures...here you can see some of them....


However, now Im back to normality....reading a new Hunter S. Thompson book for my thesis called Generation of Swine...it is really hilarious!!! And another one called The American Dream - A short history of an idea that shaped a nation by Jim Cullen which, as the title already explains, describes the origins of the American Dream from the arrival of the first settlers on the shore of the "promised land" to various American Dreams that nowadays constitute an important part of the American identity....ah Im getting too much into my thesis now....but Im professional after all...

So leave me a comment if you feel like....Im a bit weird today, so I dont feel like writing so much....Music of the moment: Hole - Live through this, Queens of the Stone Age - all albums

Pints of Birra make you strong...

Ciao Ragazzi!!

Im back for an overdue update...I have been lazier than ever before and the university courses don't make it any better.
Last Wednesday, we had the usual Traffic night with cheap drinks and I was pretty tipsy at some point. After the club closed, which usually happens at the very early time of 2 o'clock, we went to a famous Roman bakery, Il sorchettaro. They sell a thing called "sorchetta doppio schizo" which literally translated means something like "pussy with double cumshot" - it's some sweet bread, shaped like a egg (or a pussy) with a huge load of whipped cream and chocolate sauce. (here, a bad pic of me with a sorchetta)

Friday I stayed home, I watched "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" with Jack Nicholson which is an amazing movie!!!! If you haven't seen it yet, check it out!
After this I read some more Hunter S. Thompson: A story he published in the Playboy mag called "The Great Shark Hunt"....I had to laugh so much because it's just crazy!!

Saturday, my friend Stefania came to pick me up and we went to San Lorenzo. There, it was so difficult to find a bar that was not featuring the soccer match Roma vs. Bologna. We ended up in the Tirabuchon again, took a Vodka Martini and we forced to talk while all the other people, mainly boys, we're screaming crazy soccer chants...and when Roma scored, they jumped up and hugged each other like Obama just had become the Italian president....
After that, we went to a pub called Jolly Rogers which is run by Francesco's friends. Stefania and me were talking, drinking beer and when we realized that you were allowed to smoke in this bar, I almost felt at home!!!
We left at 3, passed by a vending machine that sells 0,5l bottles of Gin Tonic for 1,60€ ( I love it!!) and went to a Pizzeria al taglio at Piazza Sempione to eat huge pieces of pizza....

Yesterday, I slept basically the whole day and watched a movie called Rude Boy featuring The Clash which is pretty interesting because you see a lot of original live stuff...
Today , I have uni at 18.30 until 20...so boring...but I will survive!!!

I found...

...a strange tissue brand in Italy. It's called Peluche and as you can see on the picture, a little girl tries to suffocate her teddy with one of them..the teddy seems to be a bit scared but the girl has a nice little smile on her face..would you give them to your children???