Bitten by an ape

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Neglect

And here we are, after a couple of weeks of silence: should I apologise? Probably not. My head is buzzing. I get this funny feeling the goal is forever moving one step away from me; the songs are on-line, but the CD will take a few more weeks. The live experience as well will take [...]

Here we go

Phase two, mixing, is officially under way.
Today at 11.30pm I will pick up Loz at the airport.
After a short night’s sleep we’ll hit the road at 7.30 in the morning on our way to the studio.
We will emerge four days later with what will hopefully be a good piece of work: our babies, our eight [...]

Saturday afternoon in the City

I’ve been to the City Centre this afternoon, to a bookshop first and to the National Gallery later.
Two events deserve being recorded on these pages.
At the bookshop – I am browsing the philosophy section in search of Zizek’s books, unsuccessfully, as the author’s index seems to mysteriously stop at the letter S. As I turn [...]

Inspired by…

“…the things and the ones we admire…”
Reading now
Dante, Purgatorio
Jacques Ellul, Propagandes [on hold]
Recently read books
Jacques Ellul, L’illusion politique
Dante, Inferno
Albert Camus, L’étranger
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Harold Pinter, Plays, vol. I
Chiara Frugoni, Vita di un uomo: Francesco d’Assisi
Ernesto De Martino, La terra del rimorso
Alberto Alesina, Francesco Giavazzi, Il liberismo è di sinistra
Jacques Ellul, La Technique
Sarah Gridley, Weather Eye Open [...]

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…the awareness that we are, in this network, dots crossed by numberless lines; that we wear and present to others different masks at different times – to the point that our sense of identity withers away. The creation of our own escapist universe, which is not less uncertain than reality, but delusionally more manageable. Finally, our relationship with technology, at the same time useful and threatening.…

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