American Splendor

Posted on September 26th, 2008 in Comics, Music, Movies & TV by michele

Yet another Cineforum night, last night, with a very peculiar movie, American Splendor.

Try to imagine a documentary about the life of Harvey Pekar, a guy who became famous for writing comics about his life. You get the guy as a comics character, or to be right you get many versions of him, depending on the illustrator. Then you get the actor playing the guy. And sometimes you get the guy himself, playing himself as the documentary is shot and also giving the voice to the actor.

Still not confused enough? Ok, so imagine the same thing happening for almost all the characters in the movie. Or in the comics. Or in real life. Doesn’t matter, because each one is everywhere.

Absolutely wonderful. :-)

Friuli Doc in Udine

Posted on September 25th, 2008 in Food & Drink, Trips & Travel by michele

A trip to Udine during Friuli Doc is…

I couldn’t make it Friday night, so I joined the party on Saturday morning, the party being a mix of friends and soon-to-be-friends that happened to arrive in town on Friday. Well, technically it was already Saturday, traffic-jams had them arriving around 2am. They also happened to drink and play board games till sometime around 6am.

You can therefore imagine how prompt they were in welcoming me on Saturday morning, sometime around 10am. I gave a call to the friend owning the house, as previously agreed, and I could sense she was struggling when she answered. “Did I wake you a up?”. “Er.. No.. Just a bit…”. :-D

It took the best part of 5 hours for everybody to get up, have some breakfast and get ready to go out. And in those hours soon-to-be-friends become friends, we had several breakfasts, chatted a lot, laughed even more.

We therefore went toward the city centre, had aperitivo, and after a not-very-long walk we settled for lunch. The meal was full of laughing, too, as well as frico, polenta, prosciutto di San Daniele, gulash and more… not to mention wine. Lunch ended around 6pm…

So there we were again through streets full of people, food, wine, music… not a bad treat, isn’t it?

Chat, food and wine mixed together several times during the evening and night, with a final stop to the All Black pub on the way home, were some “serious” drinking was due (that’s to say, we had a fine dram of whisky, too ;-) ).

A trip to Udine during Friuli Doc is FUN. :-)

There ain’t no space and time

Posted on September 17th, 2008 in Music, Movies & TV, My (neuro) life by michele

There ain’t no space and time
To keep our love alive
We have existence and it’s all we share
There ain’t no real truth
There ain’t no real lies
Keep on pushin’ ’cause I know it’s there