No one can take it away from me and no one can tear it apart, 'CAUSE A HEART THAT HURTS IS A HEART THAT WORKS!
Day 6 - The song that reminds you of a place (Luca Carboni - Mare Mare)
I guess you never heard this song so I tought I may post a video for this entry.
This song reminds me of Scauri and how…
picNights came too late and Mornings came too soon....
Those are my friends and excavations' mates in Pula's main square.
We used to cheer a lot and drink all we had and make it until…
picDay 5 - A song that reminds you of someone (Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends)
"Here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are
As my memory rests
but never forgets what I've lost
Wake me up…
picDay 4 - The song that makes you sad (Johnny Cash - Hurt)
"Beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
If I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would…
picI've never been an extrovert but I'm still breathing...
One year ago I was in Helsinki. It was my first trip all alone and it was great! I just spent 8 days in complete…
picDay 3 - The song that makes you happy (AFI - Days of the Phoenix)
Oh, I fell into yesterday
oh, our dreams seemed not far away
I want to, I want to, I want to stay
Oh, I fell into fantasy...
Nothing could…
Home.
This isn't a tomb as many may think, but an house completely excavated into a rock. It still has all the post holes inside for…
picDay 2 - Your second favourite song (Joy Division - Ceremony)
"This is why events unnerve me
they find it all a different story
notice whom for wheels are turning
turn again and turn towards this time
All she asks…
picDay 1 - Your favourite song (Placebo - Teenage Angst)
This morning I woke up thinking I wanted to listen to Teenage Angst by Placebo, so I did it. So it's not really a favourite…
picWater Mill (or what's left of it)
So, the survey around the woods was more about having fun than to really discover something. That because all the rests and ruins have always…
picStream in the woods around Orte
We went surveying again in the woods in November and found some very interesting and mysterious things I'll show you very soon.
For now just a…
Sailing
yuk..I sailed safely through the Tyrrhenian Sea many times
but I must admit that it isn't the safest way to travel
besides the fact that you must…
picOld old old old old sculpture.....and me.
That's a very old imagine in the world. Seems like in the Neolithic it was a world wide globalised use to make such kind of…
picShips are always unsinkable but men are always unreliable.
Have you heard about that shipwreck in Italy?
It's a really bad story, the ship was traveling too close to Giglio Island and crashed into a…
picThey miss so much it hurts...
Ministri are on a break, a long break...
This was the last time I've seen them two months ago....I miss them a lot actually.
The pic is…
vidWhat's helping?
I had a period where music was not a big part of life for me...and I guess this was the lowest part I went.
As you…
picBeing away for far too long....
"So I haven't given up, but all my choices my good luck appear to go and get me stuck in an open prison. Now I…
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picBooks
And having no more space for them...
I think I got a bit over taken by books lately. My bookshelf had a little breakdown and just…
picMy talking cricket
this morning I almost stepped on this on my balcony...how fun?
did you know that in Cina they use to breed crickets as pets? and did…
picEating
One of the biggest activities we did in Cyprus was eating.
We like had full lunch and dinner each single day we've been there...which means tons…
picWhere have I been?
Did you ever wondered where have I been for over a week?
Well
I've been in Cyprus for a diplomatic mission with my Municipality. We are planning…
picIl Bel Canto
There is a particular song Ministri always play and it is actually made in acoustic with only a guitar.
So basically Fede and Divi are left…
picMinistri in pink
I went to see them again on saturday.
It was a crazy thing to do because I was alone, and I'm not used in driving…
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blogHere's the so, so wanted traslation! :D
I’m sorry for the really really bad translations but it’s a paradox: in Italian this is an easy text because is just a long list…
vidMinistri - Noi Fuori
New video.
It was made all inside a CPT in Milan (for CPT here we mean squats), by a collettive of artists.
It took only 800 euros…
picHappy as a little kid on Christmas
Ministri had like, their biggest opportunity in life. One of those opportunities that happen once and that not everyone can be lucky enough to meet.
The…
picI'm still alive!
Hei!
I'm busy having exams in these days. That's why I'm not here too much and I won't send messages or comments.
It's just too hectic.
I'm…
pic"New" Telephone
My dad had the awesome idea to resume that old telephone....
It's weird, by the time you dial a complete number you forget who you're calling!!
I…
picLapislazuli
Those are some of my creations made with afghan lapislazuli beads.
Lapislazuli was considered a magic stone in the Near East. People tought it was the…
picDonkey....just around the corner
donkeys are getting rare even in Italy
but you can still find someone using them in small places, where its difficult to go around with cars
picMilan is free...Italy is still trying....
Today we had the final session of elections for Milan and Neaples' majors.
The two candidates from the left won in both cities with a great…
picEndless streets of the City of Deads
Cerveteri's necropolis is a true city, with roads, main streets and fountains. It should have been a really busy place since the street still have…
vidSong in memory of Vittorio Arrigoni - Onadekom (with subtitles)
Vittorio was a friend and a hero, a role model for me an my friends. He took his ideals to the most, deciding to live…
picG is for a GREEN walk to the other side
Do you all know what the term Necropolis means?
Well right, it's a city for the deads. And Etruscans of all people did the best to…
picJules says thank to Miya
Ah
this postcard traveled for more than a month to come in Italy from Malaysia!!
I'm so happy, nobody ever sent a postcard from such a far…
picDid you remember winter time?
I don't know you but here it's hot as hell and I already can't take all this sun. Can't think of my low pressure in…
picLook up!
We've been surveying in the land around Orte.
The rock you see here was originally the sea bottom, some millions years ago.
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picBorderline sunset
Did you wonder where I've been all this time?
I've been up north Italy, in Udine and Trieste, because my cousin Alessandro was getting married.
We had…
picMom
Today is Mommy Day in Italy (or in the world, I don't know) so I tought I could post a pic of my mom.
Sometimes I…
picE is for Exploring.....Indiana Jones Style
Some days ago we went to the beach again. In Tarquinia there is this old dock, I guess it is roman but I don't know.
Well,…
picThanks Livia!
My friend Livia was the first to run away from front row's mess and I gave her my cam so it would have been safe…
picOne of the few
I didn't make a lot of pics this time because of front row's madness, and the few ones are of really cheap quality
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linkIL SITO DEI MINISTRI : Ministri
Go, have a tour into Ministri's official site.
Finally, after 5 years!
picOxigen Sold Out
Sooo...I never told you but yesterday I had my dreaded new Ministri's gig.
I'm sorry I didn't make so many pics as I wanted to but…
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picDelicious Pastiera!
This pic is for ElRich's assignement "D is for Delicious"
Pastiera is the epitome of the world Delicious!
It is a typical Easter cake, made with wheat,…
picHappy Liberation Day!!!
25 April 1945
Remember, o citizen, this day
teach it to your children
and to yours children's children
tell them
how a country in riot
one day freed itself
from the oppressor
and…
picTake your burden...
A pic from our uber old Good Day's procession.
It isn't the classic "via dolorosa" as you can see, it's more like a walk around…
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picThe Clouds' Factory
This factory was blowing white fumes all day long, I guess it is just water vapor
It was a clear day and the only thing in…
picCrucible
This is a clay crucible used to smelt copper. It goes straight into the hearth with the mineral inside and after something like one hour…
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picSTAY HUMAN
Vittori Arrigoni has been murdered this morning.
No one will ever take out of my mind the tought that Israel killed him. As no one will…
picFREE VITTORIO NOW
News are that Italian volunteer Vittorio Arrigoni has been kidnapped in Gaza by a Salafite Group.
They said that if Hamas won't free some 30 Salafite…
picEiffel's night effects
It was hard to make pics of the Tour Eiffel when they flashed all the light games on
picMalachite
From this mineral you smelt copper.
Ancient people (and I'm talking about very ancient people, some 8000 years before christ) first started to use it to…
picCopper...
This week end I spent three days in a sperimental archeometallyrgy convention. It was very interesting and there were a lot of bring brains in…
picPut yourself in line...
I don't know why people is always so keen on making lines when on holiday!
They take it so easily, even if Italians they stay quiet…
picEbih-Il from Mari
Meet my friend Ebih-Il high superintendent of Mari.
Mari was a city in the middle of Eufrate's path in the easter part of Siria, founded around…
picYour lips shine like Paris...ma cherie
but your tears bring a little London for me
Berlin can never be so cold as you leave...
Baby won't you dance with me into the night
into…
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picJules....
Jules was this plastic balloon filled with flour some people was sending under the tour eiffel.
It was a trend in Rome when I was ten…
picWhy do they always die? (some babbling instead of studying)
:(
Funny fact about me....
when I watch a serie or a movie I always get attached to the character that die
it's frustrating right?
Now Godric was trilling…
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picUmberto Bossi
Umberto Bossi is an Italian Minister and leader of the racist secesionist party Lega Nord.
He recently got a new record of idiocy by saying, when…
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picUnderbush spring recovery
yeah yeah
actually this was taken some weeks ago when I went to a specific archaeological survey on the hills around my town
we found something near…
picNo Nuke
Former nuclear plant in Montalto (VT), less than an hour from my town.
Italy planned to turn nuclear in early 80's, then after Chernobyl's disaster a…
picSunday at the beach
Spring is coming and we're starting to go out of our nests!!
Here you can see part of Tarquinia's beach with Alessandra and Luna playing around.
Luna…
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picLook outside there's a world warmer than your inside
....right...here temperature it's getting hotter and hotter, tought it's still raining like hell, so we can say winter is on our back
I miss snow!!
I'll be…
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picHere we are, stuck by this river
You and I, underneath a sky
that's ever falling down down down
Ever falling down
Through the day, as if from an ocean
Waiting here, always failing to…
picGreen Parrots - Most Common Toys In Afghanistan
"Landmine made in Russia, model PFM-1. They throw them on villages, as if they're flyers who invite you to the sunday circus.
The landmine's shape, with…
picBevo, bevo, bevo
To Forget
I drink I drink I drink
To dance better
I drink I drink I drink
For the GDP
I drink I drink I drink
To fuck you in the…
picBlack Swan
Saw this movie last night. It's completely crazy and tought I still think hard about it my mind can't be fixed on a single meaning.
So…
picKing's Gate
This Gate goes straight into the sea and I was afraid to slip on ice and fall into the chill water :D
It was built as…
picGetting Warm
There's a big temperature difference from Sicily to Orte. Here the air is still chilling and the sun does only a small work.
This is how…
picSicily
Last night in Palermo.
This pic was taken by a guy named Giuseppe, who I met last night bur...
I was too drunk since I left the…
picView From Suomenlinna
I was brave at that point and I allowed myself to climb up one of the walls to watch what was around them. In Suomenlinna…
picClear paths in Suomenlinna
At a point I was really stuck in the middle of nothing because I couldn't follow the signs due to snow and I wasn't tall…
linkThousands of Italian women in Berlusconi protest
We were far more than 100.000, official countings says there were around one million women and men in Italy's streets today.
I wasn't in Rome unfortunately,…
picQuiet Living In Suomenlinna
Suomenlinna is an ancient military fortress, an archeological site and UNESCO heritage, thought some people still live in it.
I'd love to have an house…
picTombs, randomly
Wooden sculpture around Suomenlinna, I think this could be a tomb but I'm not sure....It is a really random place for a tomb so...idk
picI missed the greatest moment ever.... sigh
I Neaples Divi jumped on the crowd from a balcony, that should have been the greatest thing ever, since it ended fine for everyone.
I wasn't…
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picTennispalatsi
The Tennis Palace isn't a place where you play tennis. It's a huge cinema with an ethnographic museum inside.
It is to say that finding a…
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picMore from my balcony
We had heavy wind today and rain as always. It's cold but not that much.
My dears
I'm leaving for a week
I'm going to Helsinki and I'm…
vidMinistri's new video answering the question "What can you do to make a city like Milan look beautiful?"
The director is Fabio D'Orta, the girl you see in the video is Sofia from Iori's Eyes band, check them out.
picCrazy Meteo
I found it really funny how people believes more in what TV says than in what they feel.
It has ben days since the news were…
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picFairtrade 0 Miles Double Chocolate Muffin
So
My niece Ylenia and my nephew Christian have been in London with the school and so they had their first Starbucks experience ever.
They came home…
picBunga Bunga?
I'm ashamed. Meaning really ashamed, ashamed to tears.
Because there were many things I was ashemed about in my country, but having as a Prime Minister…
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picIs it late for a Christmas tree?
this was my cousin's christmas tree, she make one different every year and it is huge (almost 3 mt. high). It is so big that…
picIt's all our
Let's throw down the overpass
all the class photograps
let's gain back the instants
let's blow off the melancholy
we don't know who's
gonna have the bad role yet
and…
picFrom my town....New Year Style
Five minutes after midnight.
You see those fireworks? They probably were paid with the money they should have paid me for work
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picPlaying with Glögi
Glögi is a kind of mulled wine used in Finland to celebrate Christmas.
I made some liters of it days ago for my friends and we…
picMinistri - Il Bel Canto
So. My vid!
I wasn't in the front row this time 'cause one of my friend wasn't in the mood to be around sweaty people.
Anyway,…
vidMinistri - Gli Alberi
Ok...first single out of the new album.
There's a fantastic blog about the making of this video, where they were out in the night with big…
vidMinistri - Il Sole
New song by Ministri.
The new album is expected for October.
This song has a full title know among the fanbase and it's "It's important that there's…
blogAn album you should listen to - SUPER ELASTIC BUBBLE PLASTIC "Small Rooms" 2006
IN JOHN’S SHOES
I hate you, God
For what you’ve done
I hate you more than you hated your son
Tell me…
