12 October 2012

Grand Theft Auto V is coming

5 months. Only 5 months (149 days!!!) to arrive at March 9th when a bunch of millions people will assault videogames stores all around the world.
THE Videogames  (with the big V) is coming next.



"Grand Theft Auto V" will be released on next March. But, right now, what do we know about it? Nothing special. Yes, there are a bit of news about scripts, story and graphics... but nothing really incisive.
The news is that on december issue of "Game Informer" there will be the cover. And they usually put on their first page a game tried so much to get a big preview.
Let's hope. I can't wait anymore.



It was 2008 when I bought an X360 just for walking around a fantastic New Yo... ehm, Liberty City. "Grand Theft Auto IV" was so fantastic that I played it for hours and hours, for days, for months... And not only the main game but even the 2 spin-off. In order to this I've been excited for every other Rockstar's games but after "GTA IV" anything else was fine.
"Red Dead Redeption"? Come on, I always woke up suddenly after sleeping on my horse running on that enourmous and useless desert.
"L.A. Noire"? Uff... I just slept during the loading.
"Max Payne"? A normal movie that if it lasts 1 hour and half is ok, but if it lasts hours and hours like the game becomes like stones on your balls.
They were so boring...


Once my cat came and asked me: "Wow, are you playing LA Noire? Awesome! Can I see you playing?"
This is him after 30 seconds...
 


So. They couldn't realize four consecutive flops so "Grand Theft Auto V" MUST be fantastic.
And with this graphics can't be a flop.
Or, at least, let's hope.
I really hope Rockstar's guys are the same who preparared masterpieces like "manhunt", "Bully" and every "GTA". They can't flop again. They can't....




Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)

From "Everybody says I love you" (Woody Allen).
Music by Guy Lombardo.


ENJOY YOURSELF
(IT'S LATER THAN YOU THINK)


You work and work for years and years, you're always on the go
You never take a minute off, too busy makin' dough
Someday you say, you'll have your fun, when you're a millionaire
Imagine all the fun you'll have in your old rockin' chair

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as a wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think

You're gonna take that ocean trip, no matter come what may
You've got your reservations made, but you just can't get away
Next year for sure, you'll see the world, you'll really get around
But how far can you travel when you're six feet underground?

Your heart of hearts, your dream of dreams, your ravishing brunette
She's left you and she's now become somebody else's pet
Lay down that gun, don't try my friend to reach the great beyond
You'll have more fun by reaching for a redhead or a blond

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as a wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think

You never go to night clubs and you just don't care to dance
You don't have time for silly things like moonlight and romance
You only think of dollar bills tied neatly in a stack
But when you kiss a dollar bill, it doesn't kiss you back

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as a wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think








And now dance:

11 October 2012

Discovering Frederick Winslow Taylor

Maybe you don't know his name but maybe your job is organized by his theories.
Frederick Winslow Taylor has been one of the most influential person of the Twentieth Century.
Have you ever seen "Modern times" by Chaplin? Here it is, Chaplin made that movie to say "no" to Taylor. The same situation Chaplin did about Hitler in "The Great Dictator".

So, who was this guy?



1856 - 1915
- His parents were engaged in social activities while, going against his family's ideas, he had more extreme tendencies (the opposite: he was right to racism and stereotypes typical of the time)
- In college he discovered his talent as an inventor:
- A spoon for tennis racket
- A harness that could awoke him at night when he turned his back to sleep: he thought nightmares depended by sleep positions.
- It was believed an innovator (in the sense of reconfiguring existing elements)
- Apprenticeship: He entered in a little industry in Philadelphia asking to have low pay in exchange for being able to change often his role to learn all phases
- After the apprenticeship: In 1884 he joined the "Midvale" (a factory that produced tracks at first, and weapons after) as vice-captain
- Degree: he continued his career coming to Chief Engineer with the responsibility for improving the performance of his sector
- Here begins his work of reorganization of job, despite of many difficulties (his former colleagues at the rowing)
Time after time, however, manages to bring his theory
- He had stayed at "Midval" for 5 years, until 1889 because he could not do more career there
- Join a different company to test his theory in other companies
- In 1895, he read the essay "A piece rate system" in front of the Association of American engineers and it was a great success
- He expanded and put on a team. Among them there was a guy, Thompson, who warned him about the "human variable" when the workers rebel
- From 1897 to 1901 he worked at "Bethlem Company" which produced armored plates for the Navy
- He clashed with the "human variable" and changed some things, like the "differential"
- Up to 1915 he began to make conferences at Universities and other places...


Elements of Taylorism
- Soldiering: the laziness of the workers. For him it was the great problem plaguing America and England and he did not understand how it was possible that this was allowed.
→ people deliberately plan to do less than they can
- One Best Way: there is always a better way to do something and that was the standard for the calculation of the differential
History: Before him people threw 12 tons of cast iron.
He managed to throw 47 per day
He succeeded analyzing everything, including the function of the muscles as every muscle must have a rest period he calculated the exact time for rest
Taught it to 8 people but only 1 (a Dutch guy named Schmidt who was half handicapped) succeeded. He fired the other 7
Result: fewer workers but more productivity
Increased the office of management which was now full of people who designed the various task management



- Collaboration: in its ideal world, management and workers had to work together for the good of the company. That is, the workers had to be happy to work hard (because he did not understand the "Soldiering")
- Task Management: the "brain" of the company wen from local workers to the central department office where each day management determines how much production must be carried out by workers
- Differential Piecework: it is one of his fundamental elements. The management decided the amount of production, if the workers could it, well, otherwise they were being paid less than before.
History: before, a worker produced five pieces a day for a fee of 50 cents per piece (ie 2.50 per day).
Taylor was convinced that it could produce 10 pieces and so worker could earne 3.50 per day and not only 2.50.
If he produced less than 10 pieces he took 2.25, less than before
- Chronometrical studies: each task was broken and timed. Then the worker had to do the amount of work required by this study made it by management
- Costs: you could pay more thanks to the differential, but you even gain more through increased production and cutting workers (I do not need any more as many hours a worker does the work of 10 workers than before). It also does not need skilled workers but just the cheap labor.



Operation of Taylorism
- Observe the basic work process
- Categorize all the tasks and the Times
- With trial and error trying to find a way to speed up any job
- Search the worker suitable (if there is one that refuses gets fired)
- Use the differential to control the production

09 October 2012

All we need is "lebenslangerschicksalsschatz"

The new season has started. Finally cause I couldn't wait anymore and, as usual, it has started like a bomb.
We left our heroes at the Barney-Robin wedding and we start by there, from that night but authors has decided to tell us the story happened from the moment with Barney and Quinn in the airport to the wedding.
But, ok, this is the story of the series, so... go on, search it and star to watch it!

Now, I wanna talk about "Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz", the german word about love.
In 8x01 episode we have Ted and Victoria go back to her wedding for leaving a note where she explains her reasons. But they find Klaus (the Victoria's ex) during his escape. So Ted ask him why he wants to break up with Victoria and he explains to him:


"Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz" is not something that develops over time. It is something that happens instantaneously. It courses through you like the water of a river after a storm, filling you and emptying you all at once. You feel it throughout your body, in your hands, in your heart, in your stomach, in your skin… have you ever felt this way about someone?
- I think so
- If you have to think about it, you have not felt it.
- And you're absolutely sure you'll find that someday?
- Of course. Everyone does eventually... you just never know when or where






Of course, it isn't a German word. It doesn't exist but its meaning is so powerful and so harmful that it should. And not only in German language, even in every other languages.

"Love", "Honey" and others are so old if we confront them to "Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz".
So, if you love somebody, if you feel that your guy is the best, is the one. Don't say him: "You're my love". But go to him, looking at his eyes and say: "You're my lebenslangerschicksalsschatz".




ALL WE NEED IS LEBENSLANGERSCHICKSALSSCHATZ
Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz, Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz, Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.
It's easy.
Nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.
It's easy.
Chorus:
All you need is Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz.
All you need is Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz.
All you need is Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz, Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz.
Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz is all you need.
Chorus
Nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
Chorus
All you need is Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz (All together, now!)
All you need is Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz (Everybody!)
All you need is Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz. Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz is all you need (Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz is all you need).

02 October 2012

The importance of a new name

Anyone with a social network has noticed that the status is in third person and this (What is XXXX thinking / doing / interesting...), for many, may seem strange. But is it? Maybe for Facebook but the "third person" is a device essential for a journey of personal growth because it destroys the ego or personality that we self-built day after day to defend us. Every day we wear masks to be accepted by others, say the role of angry, some nice, good, the compassionate, the sensitive, the reactionaries, creative, and so on. And 'as for the clothes we wear: we try to choose and wear clothes that we can universally to bond with others. The world is wearing the shirt? And we wear the shirt. The world wears a miniskirt? And we will wear a miniskirt. Then there are those who go to get noticed on the contrary: the world wears a miniskirt? And we wear the pants. Everything is made to be noticed by others: for better or worse, as long as we speak. With the ego is the same with the result, however, that we go to work on the subconscious and eventually we end up believing it, we identify ourselves with those masks. This gives rise to the "way I am", "I can not change", etc.. with the result of positions taken, pride, strife, struggle based simply on these masks. But they are only masks, we had to wear dresses and that over time we are ever closer. To this day there comes a sense of dissatisfaction, that want something more, that feeling that the world is much more than what we have been painted in years. Is there a way to get out and reconnect with what we really are and cast off these clothes? Of course there is a long but made of ego shoulder, painful, which must also pass to relive those past situations, thanks to self-ego, we jumped at the foot 'of the illusion of having overcome and then discovering that in reality you are just crowded situations of situations. A first step, however you can do and we start from the name. What is your name? Simply a label, a badge. It 'as the actor who by dint of playing a role in a soap ends up confused and not know who is in reality. The shortest step is to really talk in third person. Who is that funny, sharp, unlucky, lucky, happy, sad etc..? I? No, it's him, is what the name X. At first it may seem strange, but over time unpleasant episodes that would destroy us first become almost comical: it's like to be rude but I'm not the character in a movie I'm watching. Do not touch me so much. And 'the shortest way because in reality it takes a little game but it is also one that requires more time. And it is a sort of step do-it-yourself. The "status" of FB, however, may get the idea. Saying "I'm angry" has a value. Say "Daniel is angry," he has another. Who is this Daniel? The longer wheelbase but is the name change and break the mechanism. "Daniel" is happy, sad, happy, loser, lucky, etc.. etc..? Change, give it another name, a nickname, for example, "Majnu". "Majnu" is a new label, has no features and you can begin a path deeper and perhaps more immediate. It is no coincidence that all the great mystics, from Buddha to Jesus and so chose to change his name to his disciples. Why, for example, Jesus said to Simon, who became the day on which his disciples would be called Cephas (or Peter)? Why, again to be among Christians, the popes change their names? What then is the same concept that is the basis of the "nickname" on the web. As "Judge Daniel" I'm going to be what they are in everyday life. How "Pincopallo76" I can be anything. Here, this situation can be applied to everyday life, with enormous benefits. The name change is an important step. Sure, it's a first step that can be done. The mystics will suggest later that are even harder (for example, Jesus: "I do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth: I came not to send peace but a sword. I have come to separate the son from father, daughter against her mother, the daughter of the mother-in-law, man's enemies will be those of his household "Matthew 10.34. Or Buddha:" Leave aside the concepts of good and evil, give up your family "Dhammapada 267) that are obviously understood and explained without taking literally their sentences but have a very profound sense. Even in this case is identified with something that has nothing to do with us. With a dress. With a mask. But speech is a different and broader. To this I would like to thank FB status, and this thing in third person. It 'only a step, a small step towards a deeper contact with ourselves.

01 October 2012

How Facebook has killed opinions

Once upon a time there was a world where people went to square ready to fight for their ideas, just armed by the force of their opinions. They were ready to die for save their ideas.
This has been for millenniums.

One day Facebook arrived on the web, the modern square. At first everybody was happy because finally you could write everything and you could share your ideas with others. Awesome. At first.
Now that kind of "fire" has died. The "I like" buttom has killed every opinions.


Try it. Put on your state an idea. Everything is ok. What you think about a movie, a politicians or your neighbour who breaks your balls with his noise. Everything. Try it.
What will you have in response? Nothing. A lot of "I like".
Anybody who answers you to say his agree or his disagree. No, just "I like".
Sometimes you can find one poor guy who answers you. Wow, fantastic, finally you can answer him, you can start a discussion and maybe others will join it and maybe you can discuss about your opinion. No, a lot of "I like".
Cause push the "I like" buttom is easier than think. And this scares me. Cause I can have bad or good opinions, it doesn't matter, and I can improve my mind discussing them with others. If I don't discuss them I'm convinced I'm right, my ideas are fine, are the best. And maybe they aren't.

Discuss is the best thing. Discussions drive you into the fantastic world of your mind. A discussion is your personal "whiterabbit" and you have follow it into its lair.

Write opinions. Answer. Scream. Fight. But don't let you to just put "I like". It's a stab on your own head.

30 September 2012

5 Reasons to Love a Chinese Massage

Definitely I must say: I like Chinese massage. Well, I should say I generally like massaging, feeling smooth hands, sometimes feeling a rude elbow rolling on my back or legs, feeling my body completely oiled as a sardin, wow, that's awesome.
So, it doesn't matter the massage, everyone is fantastic. I go on every kind of them: Ayurvedic, Deep, Joint-release, Californian, Stone, Lymphatic, Trager, Shatsu, Tantra and so on. Really, I'm addicted to massage and I went in so many places to have 'em, but at last I must admit I like Chinese massage

I don't want to talk about the technics. Generally they do the Tui-na, that's one of the important part of Chinese Medicine, but I want to talk about their hands, the atmosphere, the pampers.

Life is not only run, stress, work, scream, catharsys and so on. At first, Life is a pamper. Write it on your iPhone's screen

So, this is the top five:
1 The price
At least in Rome, Italy, you can find a Chinese massage well-done with 40 euros for 1 hour. Generally you spend 60 euros or more for a normal massage (nothing special) in an Esthetic center where you stay in a little room beside another one with an old Miss who's having hand care and talking about her life. Thai massage, for example, starts from 80 euros and more.
With just 40 euros you can touch the sky for 1 hour.

2 The chat
Where you are having a massage, inside the room you have smooth lights, soft music, the aromatic smell of a candle, the right climate... and outside you have the city. Traffic, clacson, people that scream, and people who just chat. In your beatitude you are disturbed by the old Miss who explains that her husband doesn't have sex with her for months or years or that there is the crisis and she doesn't have money to pay he bills. Why do people use this time as a Psychotherapy? This is a moment where you must relax your mind. If I want to talk about the crisis I go to a business seminar not a Massage Center.
In Chinese Massage Centers they talk, yes, but they talk in Chinese. So, if you're a Chinese maybe you understand, otherwise you don't understand any words and so your attention can stay with you.
And you don't realise that maybe she is talking about you...

"This is a bit painful"
"Don't worry, I do it for your well"
"What the...?????? Aaaahhhh"




3 Urban Legend: the sex
If we go to the web and we google "Chinese Massage" we find escorts and announces for a massage with "happy ending". What does it mean? The "happy ending" is when at the end of the massage the girl asks you if you like to go over. Yes, on that way.
Generally they mean masturbation but maybe they can accept even sex. You decide the price and if it's ok for her you go to have sex. Basically, it's a negotiation.
Is it true and so common?
Not really. I have been having massage for years and I've never found a masseuse who asked me for a "happy ending". Never. In Chinese or in another language. Well, I generally found ad advice "It's forbidden to ask any kind of sex or we call the Police".
Is the "happy ending" just a Urban Legend for being excited in front of the computer screen? No, it exists because there are a lot of people who ask in forums if it's normal and if he's normal because he has accepted. There are also forums in which people give reviews about some particular masseuses, her skills, what she does, what doesn't and so on, but generally this is the kind of Massage Centers that will close in a while.
Are you looking for sex? My advice is: call an escort (Masseuse or not) but don't think of Sex Massage, don't hope that every woman that touches your body wants to have sex with you. Just let her doing her job in giving you a moment of relax and enjoy the massage.

"Are you stressed? I know the best way to let the stress goes away. How do you wanna pay for it?"
I go to a Massage Center to let my job away, not for developing my negotiations skills...

4 Chineses overwhelm you
If you've had a Tui-na massage you can understand me. You can decide if you wanna a massage soft or hard. Well, if you want to experience the hard one, well, good luck. You could go out from the Centre with a body completely destroyed... I'm joking.
There is a little pain but it's a good pain: 5 minutes later you feel amazingly. Completely relax. But during the Massage you could suffer because the masseuse touches you hardly, with her (or him if you are a girl or a man who likes the man touch) hands, pushing your body with her fingers, her elbows, her knees or feet: yes, feet, because they climb up the table for a little part of the massage. Fantastic.
If you ask it soft, instead, things are different. The whole time is like a little ship on a calm sea during the sunset. You feel her hands moving softly and kindly that you will think: "Oh, I'd like it won't finish".

"Feel how soft is my hand..."
5 Quality
When we say Chinese our mind goes to a lot of products that copy our products but with a worse quality. It's not the common way, of course, but sometimes we see "Made in China" products there are exactly like others made in UK, Italy or elsewhere, even if the quality is not so good (to let the price down). Well, Chinese Massage is not this kind example. Of course there are good masseuses and bad masseuses, but like any other product or service. Maybe it's only been my experience, but I have been massaged by many Chinese masseuse and everytime I found a good quality. And, I repeat for those that are laughing about it, no, I don't mean happy ending. I have never found that situation.


This is a book I advice you to better understand this world:
The Chinese Way to a Long and Healthy Life

03 August 2012

Swimming with Sharks




You think you know it all, don't you? You're 25 years old. You're a baby. You don't know shit. Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too. I felt just like you. Hated authority. Hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say. 'If you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains!' 

Because there are no storybook romances, no fairytale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself--

What do you really want?

Don't come preaching to me about your idea of what's fair. Because you're no martyr here. You're no hero. You're just a fucking hypocrite. You're just like any other punk kid out there, looking for a way in, any way in, and you need me. What, you think someone just handed me this job? I've handled the phones. I've juggled the bimbos. I've-- I've put up with the tyrants, the yellers, the screamers. I've done more than you can even imagine in that small mind of yours. I've paid my dues--

Dammit, it's my turn to be selfish. It's my turn.

See that's the trouble with your fucking MTV, microwave dinner generation. You all want it now. You think you deserve it just because you want it? It doesn't work like that. You have to earn it. You have to take it. You have to make it yours.

But first, Guy, you need to decide what it is you really want.

You wanna go back to your shitty little existence? Go ahead, leave. There's the door. No one's stopping you. You could have left any day, but you stayed. So let's forget the Dudley-damn-do-right crap. Because out here its kill your parents, fuck your friends, and have a nice day! Look, I don't make the rules. I play by them. What, your job is unfair to you? Grow up, way it goes. People use you? Life's unfair? Grow up, way it goes. Your girlfriend doesn't love you? Tough shit, way it goes. Your wife gets raped, and shot, and they leave their unfinished beers--



02 August 2012

Catherine: when Tetris meets manga

The cover. You see a girl who looks at you with those eyes... with visible bra-straps, her red cheeks... what would you think of? 'Oh, yeah, this is the psychological horror adventure game I heard about'

I've been waited for this videogame for years. I still remember the first time I read the news about: "a new erotic game, where a boy cheats up her girlfriend, where there will be sexy pictures, sexy story, sexy..." and so on.
Come on, I though, would it possible a videogame with a sexy plot?
Now, it's arrived. I played it. I finished it.
There's no sexy stuff. Nothing.

In description you can read: "psychological horror adventure game".
It's not psychological.
It's not horror.
It's even not adventure.
Maybe, it could be a game. Could be, but in 'Tetris' idea of game.

The story is: a lunatic boy, Vincent, one of those who prefer to drink beer with his friend dreaming about fantastic girls, motos or other. One of those who live in a bar.
This boy has a girlfriend who's completely different, squared, workaholic, with her head on her shoulders. Her name is Katherine.

I'm Katherine, you're fiancée. Ok, I'm beautiful, charmed, I'm successfull, I'm smart, I'm the best but, anybody knows why, I stay with you, such a failure guy, without a future, without an idea about what the life is. Or better, what the life is outside the bar where you spend the 99% of your time.

One day he meets another girl, Catherine, who's completely different than Katherine. She's funny, she's sexy (I mean, she has hair, eyes, look and behaviours a bit sexy).

Don't be excited. This is the maximum you'll see on the videogame. If it's enough for you, well, maybe you have a problem with your sexuality.

One morning he finds out he had sex with Catherine.
The same day Katherine finds out to be pregnant and announces it to him.

Stop. This is the plot. And here the story finishes. Cause, ok, put this story in a child hand and he will write exactly the followed story of the game. Evertyhing is easily comprehensible. No shocks, no coup de theatre, nothing.

And this is the story that we can see it watching a manga. Interactive manga? No. A normal manga.

The gameplay.
There is a mountain of blocks, a lot of blocks. You're at the basement and you must arrive at the top just using the block to climb. A block after another, one after one, you must avoide some obstacles to arrive at the top.
There are a lot of these block mountains. At least 30 but maybe they're more.

At first it's funny to find the right way to climb up. At first. Maybe the second. Even the third. At the fourth you start to doubt it. The fifth you look at yourself in a mirror and you see a strange face. At sixth you ask yourself: 'where is the game?'. Be quiet. This is the game. For a lot of times.

This is the game. You must find the way to go from the base to the top climbing these mountains.
Stop.

So. The game is: a manga for 5 minutes. A mountain. A manga for 5 minutes. A mountain. A manga for 5 minutes. A mountain. And so on. For at least 10 hours. Ah, yes, the game lasts 10 hours. Somebody from the web complaints about the duration but, you know, 10 hours of manga plus mountain.

Ah, there are few curiosities. Nothing important. Just some curiosities like:
- when you play with the block you're dreaming and you're a sheep. Yes, a sheep, with the horns and others. And all the others people you see in this phase are sheep. This should mean that people who cheat on their wives are like sheeps.
- at the end of each stage the computer will ask you a big moral question like, 'would you habg out with the fiancée of a friend of you?'.
Has it any importance for the game? No. It's just for the online. Ahahhah no no there's no playing online. There is a statistic: you can see how people all over the world has answered to that question. Only this. Or better, your answers will charge your karma: depends on it you will have a different final. There are 8 different ones.
- When you're in the bar you can drink and every drink gives you an information about that. For example: what is the difference between Cognac and Brandy?
Just curiosities.

Do you like Tetris? You like it. Do you like manga as Lamù? You like it.
Do you like every other kind of videogames? You don't like it.




CATHERINE
Atlus Persona Team
Rate: 25%
Devices: Xbox 360 - PS3
Genre: Puzzle - Adventure

Nostalgia vs. Creativity 3-0

John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and all the other music stars would be happy to hear their songs are best sellers. No, not in 50', 60', 70' or 80', no, now, in 2012.
Last news gives us a panoramic view of a strange situation: according to Nielsen, the old music republished has sold more than the new ones. The old musics republished in cd, mp3 and vinils work better. 51% against the 49%. In Italy is the same story, even worst: 65% old and only 35% new.
So, Lady Gaga? Coldplay? Maroon Five? Nothing. In the youngers' Ipods it's easier to find Beatles or Pink Floyd than Katy Perry.

Maybe John's happy. People continue to dream peacy thanks to his music. In 2012.


But the issue is another one. It doesn't matter what people listen, the question is... why?
Let's try to answer.

1) Music is not only a bunch of notes. Music is the powerful way our mind use to write informations. Those informations are our events, our life, our memories. And thanks to the music we can easily remember an event from our past.
The first love? 'No limits' by 2Unlimited.
The first kiss? "Short Dick Man" by... i don't know.
The first sex? "Smack my bitch up" by Prodigy.
Ok, maybe my favourite music is not the best... ehehehe... but do you understand?
Why our teenagers should prefer "Hey Jude" or "Heal the world" or "Love me tender" as the soundtrack of their first kiss?

Answer: nostalgia is better than creativity
A song from the past has a story. Listening it you can dream a world, you're able to go into a specific world. A past world. For example. Close your eyes and play a song like... you know... "Imagine". Suddenly you see hippies, flowers into guns, John Lennon who says 'Make love don't make the war".
Now.
Close your eyes and play "Call me Maybe", this summer success: what do you see? Nothing. Maybe dark because of your eyes closed or maybe the memory of this afternoon while you were reading "50 shades of Grey" on the sands or in the subway.
This is the point: a song from the past remember you something. A song from the present doesn't remember you anything.
Nostalgia vs. Modernity (that means Creativity): 1-0
Cause this means remember an event is better than creating a new one.

5 seconds: who's this completely anonymous girl? 

2) Once upon a time the top ten was made by artists like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Acdc, Queen, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Police and so on.
Everyone of these has changed the music. For their political involvement,  for their talent, for their new way to make music, for their creativity.
Now the top ten is composed by Rihanna, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and so on. Everything seems a copy. Everything looks like something already heard. Not original, funny music, yeah, but anything else.

Answer: new music is rubbish.
The moderns are just a copy remastered. Infact, it's easy to hear musicians tell they have myths from the past.
So, Beatles remastered are better than 'One Direction'


Music is emotion. This is from Woodstock... it wasn't music. It was story. Could we say the same for a Rihanna's concert like... this?

Is she touching herself? Is she masturbating? I don't know. But this is from a concert of her.


3) Especially during the teenage is important to create our own personality. So, for having an independence, for feeling nice and smart it's easy to go over what others like.
Come on, it's cool say 'Oh my gosh, do you really listen to Carly Lae Japsen? Come on, she sucks. She's just a copy. Patti Smith or some other Woodstock's stars are better'.

Answer: new artists aren't credible and fashioned.
They work a lot on their public image, on their style (Lady Gaga... uff.. she doesn't know what else to do, she's done everything possible to catch the general attention) but the misterious alone around the legendary myths from the past is very difficult to destroy.

Wearing meat. Ok. What's the next step? Walking with her pajamas o naked? Already done.

No memories, poor quality and no credibility.
What should modern music do to have new chances to survive? I don't know. Surely, the past is better and this should be a big alarm for the major. They shouldn't think about piracy, they should think about quality, creativity, a new start. Or accept that past is better. It's already happened for jazz & blues music (where there are thousand artists who produce new cds, but the best sellers are still Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and so on) or Classic music (how many orchestras? How many composers? And every camera in the world plays Mozart, Beethoven Tchajkovsky and so on: is it possible anyone has composed something better than "The Nutcracker"?). The same will be for pop music.

Or not?

20 July 2012

Roland Freisler and his anger

Lunch-time, at home. It's time to be quiet, calm, eating some vegetarian food in a very slow way, keeping my rest... and so, waiting for the water boiling I turn on my tv.
Bad cartoons, the spread Btp-Bund on 24h news channel, some annoying sport... well, a documentary about nazism and the "Valchiria Operation" when a bunch of Hitler's staff people trying to kill him the July 20th in 1944. The attempt failed and all the cospirators were killed.

But for some of them there was a fake trial with a terrible Judge, Roland Freiser. This man was famous for his abnegation to the Reich and his words were so hard, horrible. They wrote the sentence before the trial started but this is not important. A dictatorial regime is organized on this way: they must handle this kind of stuff: are you with me? Ok. Aren't you with me? You don't exist. Do you organize a resistance? I eliminate you.
Ok, it's dictatorial stuff.

But what I wanna focused on is how harsh, rough... listen to his words. He called the accused pigs, nothing, and much more cruel... listen to the tone, his voice, the force of his power... and then we can understand why that period produced people like Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and so on...

Ok, now stop. I let the speech to this kind of... ok, you know, man...


And this is a Discovery Channel's part of a documentary about him. Special.


17 July 2012

Il culto del "FARE"


  1. Ci sono tre stati dell'esistenza: ignorare, agire e portare a termine.
  2. Pensa che tutto è una bozza: ti aiuterà a fare.
  3. Non c'è un secondo passaggio di editing, di lavorazione.
  4. Non procrastinare. Se aspetti più di una settimana a mettere in pratica un'idea, è meglio che l'abbandoni.
  5. Il bello di aver fatto una cosa non è tanto quello di averla completata, quanto di essere pronto per fare altro.
  6. Una volta che hai fatto una cosa, poi puoi buttarla via.
  7. Lo scopo del fare non è finire, ma poter fare altre cose.
  8. Ridi in faccia al concetto di perfezione. E' noioso e ti tiene lontano dall'azione.
  9. Chi non si sporca le mani sbaglia, chi fa ha ragione.
  10. Fallire conta come fare. Perciò commetti pure tanti errori.
  11. La distruzione è una variante dell'azione.
  12. Se hai un'idea e la pubblichi su internet, questa cosa conta come l'ombra del fare.
  13. Il fare è il motore del più, della crescita.

(B. Pettis)


Ho passato metà della mia vita a fare, fare, fare, a pensare idee nuove, a lottare per portarle a termine, a costruire... poi ho scoperto il mondo del "qui e ora", del goditi l'attimo, del relax...
A me piace considerare la vita di una persona come un libro, in cui ogni fase è un nuovo capitolo e come ogni ottimo libro non è alla fine che devi dire "wow che bello" ma mentre lo leggi, mentre scorri gli occhi sulle righe, quando arrivi a quelle pagine che per metà sono bianche perché è finito un capitolo: è lì che devi chiederti se il libro ti è piaciuto perché è lì che devi chiederti cosa ti ha dato.

Lo stesso è per la vita. Quindi, la fase del "fare cieco, ansimante" l'ho passata.
La fase del "qui e ora, goditi la strada e fottitene dell'obiettivo" l'ho passata.

Ora posso dirlo, nessuna delle due è quella corretta, almeno per me. L'ideale è un equilibrio. Non possiamo illuderci di diventare delle statue per goderci l'attimo: noi siamo energia e l'energia si muove. La materia è composta di atomi che si muovono costantemente: se quegli atomi si fermassero non ci sarebbe materia.
Noi siamo cellule, siamo sangue, siamo un'attività costante e frequente del cuore: se il cuore smettesse di "fare" chi spingerebbe il sangue in giro?
Al tempo stesso, non ha senso correre troppo perché ci si perderà per strada la meraviglia di questo mondo: non siamo qui di passaggio, siamo qui per godercela e non si può godere se non ci si rende conto di cosa si sta facendo (e ogni riferimento ANCHE al sesso non è per niente casuale).
E questo senza aggiungere che spesso corriamo non a causa nostra ma perché ci è stato inconsciamente inculcato dalla società (e per società intendo i modelli genitoriali e quelli sociali).

Quindi, fanculo al mito dell'uomo che si deve ammazzare pur di raggiungere obiettivi non suoi.
E fanculo al mito dello yogi che campa mille anni perché si rifugia in un monastero sperduto tra le montagne.
Che vita è quella dove per correre non ci si gode i risultati della corsa? E che vita è quella dove per fermarsi si evita di godere la bellezza della vita?

L'unica vera strada che ci possa guidare in questo viaggio è la passione che ci viene da dentro. Non contano le filosofie, non contano i risultati, non contano le teorie, conta solo ciò che sentiamo e che vogliamo.
E quello che vogliamo va seguito... facendo.
Perché il titolo di quel famoso libro della vita è "Passioni". E non nel senso pasquale-vangelico del termine....



  1. There are three states of existence: ignore, act and carry.
  2. Thinks that everything is a draft: will help you do.
  3. There isn't a second step of editing, processing.
  4. Do not procrastinate. If you wait more than a week to put into practice an idea, it is better to give it up.
  5. The beauty of doing a thing is not so much to have it completed, as to be ready to do anything else.
  6. Once you've done something, then you can throw it away.
  7. The purpose of doing it is not an end, but can do other things.
  8. Laugh in the face to the concept of perfection. It's boring and keeps you away from the action.
  9. Who would not dirty his own hands is wrong, who does is right.
  10. Failure counts as done. So you make too many mistakes.
  11. Destruction is a variant of the action.
  12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, this counts as a shadow of what to do.
  13. Doing is the engine of more growth.


(B. Pettis)


I spent half my life doing, doing, doing, thinking new ideas, struggling to complete them, to build... Then I discovered the world of the "here and now", of the moment, enjoy, relax, yoga and other stuff like those...
I like to consider the life of a person like a book, where each step is a new chapter and like any good book is not at the end that you have to say "wow how nice" but when you read it, when you scroll your eyes on the rows, when you get those pages that are half white because it ended a chapter... that is where you have to ask yourself if you liked the book because that is where you have to ask what gave you.

The same goes for life. Therefore, the phase of the "blind doing, gasping" I passed.
The phase of the "here and now, enjoy the road and Fuck goals" that I did.

Now I can tell, neither is the correct one, at least for me. The ideal is a balance. We can not pretend to be statues to enjoy the moment: we are energy and the energy moves. The matter is composed of atoms that move constantly, if they stop those atoms there would be no issue.
We are cells, we have our blood, the constant and frequent activity of the heart... if the heart stops its activity who would push the blood around?
At the same time, it makes no sense to run too much because you lose the wonder of this world: we are not just passing through, we are here to enjoy it and you can enjoy if you do not realize what you're doing (and any ALSO reference to sex is not at random).
And that's without adding that often we run not because of us but because it has been unconsciously inculcated to our mind by society (and society mean models of parenting and social ones).

So, fuck the myth of the man who must kill himself to achieve goals while not his.
And fuck the myth of the yogi who lives one thousand years only because it refuges in a remote monastery in the mountains.
What life is if running you can't enjoy the results of the race? And what life is if stopping you avoid enjoying the beauty of life?

The only true way to guide us in this journey is the passion that comes from within. Do not count the philosophies, religions or others, no matter the outcome, no matter the theories, counting only what we feel and want.
And what we want to go after... making.
Because of the title of that famous book of life is "Passions". And not in the Easter sense...

15 July 2012

Guerra o sesso?

da "Larry Flynt - oltre lo scandalo"

Proviamo a riflettere.
L’omidicio è un reato
ma se fai una foto di qualcuno nell’atto di commettere un omicidio ti mettono sulla copertina di Newsweek. E magari ti danno anche un Premio Pulitzer.
Invece il sesso non è reato, tutti continuano a farlo e vogliono continuare a farlo.
Eppure provate a fare una foto di due persone nell'atto di sesso o del corpo nudo di una donna. Ti mettono in prigione.
Ora, ho un messaggio per tutti voi buoni cristiani di saldi principi morali che protestate perché i seni e le vagine sono osceni.
Ehi, non prendetevela con me, prendetevela con il Fabbricante, no?
Gesù ci ha detto “non giudicate” ma so che voi giudicate lo stesso e allora giudicate saggiamente, con gli occhi aperti.
Che cos’è che giudicate oscena, questo è osceno per voi?
O può darsi che questo sia osceno a voi.
Forse questo è osceno a voi.
Ma che cosa è più osceno, questo...
o questo?
Questo o questo?
Vedete, politici e demagoghi amano ripetere che il materiale esplicitamente sessuale corrompe la gioventù di questo paese.
Eppure essi mentono, frodano, scatenano guerre spaventose. Guardate qui. Essi si definiscono uomini e invece sono pecore in un gregge.
io credo che la vera oscenità sia inculcare nei nostri giovani la convinzione che il sesso è male, è brutto è immorale e che invece è morale ed eroico andare a spargere le proprie viscere e a versare il sangue nei più spaventosi massacri in nome dell'umanità.
Con tutti i tabù che accompagnano il sesso non c’è da stupirsi se abbiamo i problemi che abbiamo. Se siamo aggressivi e violenti e compiamo genocidi.
Ma allora fatevi questa domanda: che cosa è più osceno, il sesso o la guerra?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYm-xNy9CIo



Murder is illegal... but you take a picture of somebody committing the act of murder... they'll put you on the cover of Newsweek.
You might even win a Pulitzer Prize.
And yet...
sex is legal. Everybody's doin' it, or wants to be. Yet you take a picture of two people in the act of sex... or of just a woman's naked body... and they'll put you in jail.
Now, I have a message for all you good, moral, Christian people... who are complaining that breasts and vaginas are obscene.
Don't complain to me.
Complain to the manufacturer.
Okay? And although Jesus told us not to judge, I know you will anyway... so judge sanely. Judge with your eyes open.
What do you consider obscene?
Is this obscene to you?
Or perhaps that's obscene to you. Maybe this is obscene to you. But what is more obscene, this... or this? This... or this?
You know, politicians and demagogues like to say... that sexually explicit material corrupts the youth of our country.
And yet they lie, cheat and start unholy wars. Look at them. They call themselves men. They're sheep in a herd. I think the real obscenity comes from raising our youth... to believe that sex is bad and ugly and dirty... and yet it is heroic to go spill guts and blood... in the most ghastly manner in the name of humanity. With all the taboos attached to sex... it's no wonder we have the problems we have... that we're angry and violent and genocidal. But ask yourself the question... What is more obscene... sex or war?

In gita dallo psicologo


Ci si può vergognare di andare dallo psicologo?
Non dovrebbe essere ma un pochino ancora c'è questa idea che "ma io mica c'ho problemi!" anche se magari soffre di un'ansia galoppante.
Io ho resistito. Per qualche mese ho cercato di affrontare da solo le mie ansia che piano piano sono diventate ipocondria, fobie, ossessioni... giorno dopo giorno stavano logorando la mia sanità mentale nonostante, ironia della sorte, non fossi proprio a digiuno di un lavoro interiore.

Per anni ho seguito corsi di meditazione/counseling il cui risultato è stato sì farmi vedere meglio la vita ma al tempo stesso di togliermi ogni difesa contro le difficoltà della vita.
Per anni ho studiato Psicologia (o meglio, quello che è la psicologia nell'università italiana, cioè praticamente zero) e lo studiare 4, e dico 4, esami di Fisiologia e Biologia non mi ha aiutato per niente, anzi... conoscendo le cose è stato pure peggio perché è lì che è nata l'ipocondria, assente fino ad allora.

Negli ultimi anni ho subìto un po' di eventi negativi intorno a me che hanno messo in crisi il mio io mettendolo mooooolto sotto pressione con risultati negativi oltre che sulla psiche pure sul fisico. Ok, altro discorso...

Ma qui parlavo di psicologi. Una notte l'ansia mi ha strizzato come un calzino bagnato e allora mi sono deciso. Io, amante di Freud, chiamo una psicanalista. Telefono, fisso l'appuntamento, vado.
La signora psicanalista sembrava una tata di un vecchio film di Walt Disney con i suoi occhialetti e il suo sorriso a metà con la tristezza. Gli stessi occhi erano un po' tristi (ok, qui lo dico, sono un esperto di microespressioni facciali quindi non ho visto la sua tristezza perché io ero triste, ma il taglio della sue sopracciglia e degli occhi e della bocca era quello tipico della tristezza).
Per qualche seduta parliamo di me, di quello che mi succede. Io cercavo di spiegarle che l'ansia mi stava bloccando la vita, lei mi rispondeva chiedendomi del mio passato. Per un qualche fine? Sì, "devo capire da dove nasce quest'ansia".
Per farla breve, oltre a sedute individuali ho fatto anche psicoanalisi di gruppo dove ognuno veniva e raccontava quello che aveva fatto in settimana con l'analista che cercava di collegarlo a un qualcosa del passato.
Sembrava di essere al bar con gli amici.

Allora ho ringraziato il Dottore e sono andato avanti. E ho cambiato. Sono andato da una psicologa cognitivo-comportamentale che ha subito cambiato approccio: mi ha fatto scrivere la mia vita tipo biografia e ha subito puntato sull'autostima.
Per lei non è tanto importante il passato se non per capire quanto siamo forti. Per lei conta risolvere oggi l'ansia o quello che è, il passato è passato. Io è oggi che sto male.
I risultati ci sono: l'apertura di questo blog, l'ipocondria azzerata, l'autostima che ha ripreso a salire e la foto di questo blog e su Facebook lo dimostrano.

E così da qualche mese sto andando in gita dagli psicologi. E' divertente se non fosse che costa un occhio della testa. Devo dire che mi divertiva andare dall'analista con gli altri del gruppo a raccontare "mah, questa settimana passavo per strada e ho visto una macchina ferma al semaforo e mi ha colpito..." oppure "ho fatto un sogno in cui ero vestito da pecora" se non fosse che i risultati immediati erano zero e anche quelli a lungo termine non dovevano essere granché visti gli altri pazienti.

Con la seconda psicologa, invece, andiamo più sul pratico, sull'immediato, sul ricostruire qualcosa che un disturbo post-traumatico da stress ha inevitabilmente rotto.
Ci sono state delle tecniche, dei consigli, delle opinioni...

Questo per dire che sentirsi sotto pressione e avere l'impressione di non riuscire a fare tutto è una cosa normale ma come a volte è meglio farsi accompagnare da qualcuno per comprare qualcosa di ingombrante lo stesso dicasi per la psiche. Non c'è nessun problema a farsi aiutare da un professionista.
Non c'è niente di cui vergognarsi. Mai.





There may be ashamed to go to a psychologist?
There shouldn't be but still there is this idea that "but I don't have any problems!" even if he suffers from anxiety runaway.
I resisted. For some months I tried to go it alone, my anxiety gradually became hypochondria, phobias, obsessions... Day after day they were harassing my sanity even though, ironically, I had done a deep inner work.

For years I attended meditation classes / counseling with the result: ok, I see my life on a better way meanwhile I took off any defense against the difficulties of life.
For years I have studied psychology (or rather, what is the psychology in Italian universities, which is practically zero) and study 4 (4 exams, people!) Physiology and Biology exams did not help me at all, but... knowing things was even worse because that is where did the hypochondria, absent until then.

In recent years I have suffered a bit of negative events around me who have challenged my self soooo putting it under pressure with negative results on the psyche as well as well as physically. Ok, it's another item...

But here I was talking about psychologists. One night, the anxiety I had wrung like a wet sock, and then I decided. I, lover of Freud, call a psychanalist. Phone, fixed an appointment, I go.
The lady looked like a former nanny of Walt Disney 50' movie with her glasses and her smile in half with sadness. The same eyes were a bit sad (ok, I say here, I'm an expert in facial micro expressions so I have not seen her sadness because I was sad, but the cut of his eyebrows and eyes and mouth was typical of sadness).
For a few sessions we talk about me, about what happens to me. I tried to explain that my anxiety was blocking the life, she replied to me asking about my past. For some end? Yes, "I try to understand where this anxiety starts."
In short, in addition to individual sessions, I also did psychoanalysis group where everyone came and told what he had done during the week with an analyst who tried to connect it to something of the past.
It seemed to be at the bar with friends.

Then I thanked the Doctor and I went ahead. And I changed. I went to a psychologist, cognitive-behavioral approach that gave me some homeworks: I did write my biography and life type has been focused on self-esteem.
For her, the past is important to understand how strong we are now.
The results are: the opening of this blog, hypochondria reset, self-esteem that has started to grow again and the picture of this blog and on Facebook to prove it, new projects, new smile, new power, new ideas, new me.

So a few months I'm going on a trip by psychologists. It's funny if it were not costing a fortune. I must say I'm amused by the analyst to go with the other group to tell "mah, this week I was walking along the street and saw a car stopped at the traffic light and this hit me..." or "I had a dream where I was dressed as a sheep" were it not that the immediate results were zero and also the long term should not be having much of the other patients.

With the second psychologist, however, we go further on the practical, the immediate, to rebuild something that a post-traumatic stress disorder has inevitably broken.
There are techniques, advice, opinion...

That is to say that feeling under pressure and have the impression of not being able to do everything is normal but as it is sometimes better to take someone to buy something bulky the same it's about the psyche. There is no problem to get help from a professionist.
There is nothing to be ashamed of. Never.

14 July 2012

Dopo 6 anni. Si riparte



Lo dico subito, scriverò "6 anni dopo" un fottìo di volte. 6 volte (ovviamente, una per anno) per la precisione... :-)


Era il 25 gennaio del 2006 il giorno in cui ho aperto questo blog. Vivevo a New York, o meglio, mi ero appena trasferito là da appena 10 giorni ma per restarci. Avevo preso casa, avevo il tanto sognato lavoro nella Grande Mela, avevo conquistato il sogno. Ma il sogno si era infranto appena materializzato: a causa dell'aggravarsi della Piastrinopenia, sono dovuto tornare a Roma per farmi curare. E addio New York.

Ho creato questo blog il giorno prima della partenza, sulla terrazza del "South Street Seaport" di Manhattan, seduto su una panchina in mezzo ai gabbiani grandi come una Smart e connesso a internet con il wi-fi... guardavo i traghetti passare sull'Hudson e intanto scrivevo queste righe, il mio primo post: "Alla fine, domani sera parto. Quali sono le mie sensazioni? Andiamo, e' per la mia salvezza, per la mia vita, quindi, e' la cosa giusta da fare".
E lo facevo da un portatile americano con quelle "e'" che solo loro hanno perché Dio gli ha negato la "è" e il "é".

Da allora ne è passato di tempo. 6 anni. Quel viaggio di ritorno a Roma me lo ricorderò per tutta la vita e un giorno lo racconterò. Lo stesso sarà per il periodo passato al Policlinico a farmi flebo di cortisone in mezzo ad altri pazienti che mi hanno insegnato cosa significa vivere quando dipendi da una flebo. Una umanità fantastica e non ci sono parole per ringraziare chi ogni giorno impiega il suo tempo per fare ricerca, per trovare nuove medicine, per lottare contro dei mali che fino a qualche anno fa non davano speranze.
Comunque, molte delle cose successe in questi anni le racconterò di volta in volta su questo blog che ora, 6 anni dopo, affronterò quasi quotidianamente.

Ora però, 6 anni dopo, non sono cambiato solo io ma anche il mondo, e internet. Allora c'erano i blog, c'era "Second Life", c'era Messenger, c'erano le mail, i primi albori di Skype. Oggi abbiamo Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Instagram e chi più ne ha più le metta.
Quindi la domanda è: perché, 6 anni dopo, aprire un blog?

Perché un blog è il proprio mondo. Twitter è uno spot da 30 secondi. Facebook è una vetrina, ma il blog è il negozio e chi lo scrive è la merce esposta.
Con un blog ci si mette a nudo, con il blog ci si espone, ci si spoglia e, evviva Dio, nudi è bello. Perché quando si è nudi non si indossano maschere, quelle maschere di cui Facebook e soci sono piene.

6 anni dopo si riparte. E chissà, magari questo viaggio si potrà fare in compagnia...


Questa foto è stata scattata la mattina del 28 gennaio 2006. Ero atterrato due ore prima a Fiumicino e mi stavo accingendo ad andare in Ospedale per cominciare tutte le ricerche mediche.
Secondo voi cosa si legge nei miei occhi in questa foto?





Ok, I'll tell you, I'll write "6 years after" many times. 6 times (of course, one per year) for the precision ... :-)


It was 25 January 2006, the day I started this blog. I lived in New York, or rather, I had just moved there from as little as 10 days but to stay. I got home, I had a job in the Big Apple, I had won the dream. But the dream was shattered as soon materialized because of my Thrombocytopenia, I had to go to Rome for medical treatment. And goodbye New York.

I created this blog the day before departure, on the terrace of "South Street Seaport" in Manhattan, sitting on a bench in the midst of large gulls big like a Smart car and connected to the internet with wi-fi ... I watched the ferries on the Hudson and go while I was writing these lines, my first post: "In the end, tomorrow night delivery. What are my feelings? Come on, it's for my salvation, my life, then, and so it's the right thing to do."
And I did it from a laptop with those American "e'" (and) that only they are because God has denied him the "è" and "é".

Since then it has been a long time. 6 years. That trip back to Rome, I'll remember it for my whole life. The same for the period I passed in the Hospital to make me a lot of intravenous drips (I.V.) of cortisone with other patients who have taught me what it means to live when you depend on a drip. A great time and there are no words to thank those who every day takes its time to do research to find new medicines to combat the evils that until a few years ago gave no hope.
However, many of the things that happened in these years I'll tell you from time to time on this blog now, 6 years later, I deal almost daily.

But now, 6 years later, not only me but also changed the world, and the Internet. Then there were blogs, there was "Second Life", Messenger, mails, the first dawn of Skype. Today we have Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Instagram and so on and put the most.
So the question is: why, after 6 years, start a blog?

Because a blog is my own world. Twitter is a 30-second spot. Facebook is a showcase, but the blog is the shop and the writer has the goods on display.
With a blog you are exposed, and gives away, hooray God is good nudes. Because when you are naked you are not wearing masks, the masks which are full members and Facebook.

6 years after it starts. And who knows, maybe you can make this journey together ...

The picture was taken the morning of January 28, 2006. Two hours before, I was landing in Fiumicino and in this moment I was preparing to go to hospital to start all medical stuff.
What do you read in my eyes in this picture?