I am veneer

Two movies I've watched recently and liked, for different reasons: "Blood Diamonds" and "Shortbus" (Cleo, you MUST watch Shortbus and recommend it to the Bordello people.. You'll see why).

After Titanic, and the "Gilbert Grape something" film, I didn't think I'd ever cry watching Leo Di Caprio act again. It happened. The scene at the end of "Blood Diamonds", when greedy-son-of-a-bitch turned good Leo gets shot (he's helping his sidekick - a fisherman from Sierra Leone caught in the middle of the diamond-fueled civil war - and son to escape), he lets the others go ahead, then leans against a 5 million years old cliff overlooking the breathtaking nature of Africa, and calls the woman he likes (all this while the militia is approaching). She is thousand of miles away. He tells her all the things a man can't bring himself to say, until it's too late. She realizes what's happening. Heart-breaking "last conversation" follows. Then he hangs up and prepares to die, looking out to the trees and a sun as big as the sky. I cried my eyes out. That scene sums up the two things that cut my heart: fear of dying alone; bad timing in love. I feel like Leo, on the phone, talking to the woman who will never be.

Now, to "Shortbus": one of "the James", (young attractive gay man in a 4 years relationship with a loving guy, and he's always sad) attempts suicide; to the question asked by the man who saves him (the next door voyeur) "But don't you know everybody loves you, can't you feel the love around you?", he answers (quoting by memory, may not be verbatim) "YES! But it stops at my skin, it never gets in". And that is me again. I never feel it. I can never feel it (enough). Maybe it takes just one love you want and can't have to nullify the power of the others.

And finally, non related movie, but I re-watched it recently and I found it as powerful as the first time: "In my country". Recommended.

Will is legend. I am veneer (and Venus).

Jazz

From Toni Morrison's "Jazz"... tell me if this isn't one of sexiest, most romantic and beautifully written paragraphs you've ever read.

I was reading and I stopped and went back and re-read and said "wow" alone and aloud.

"A colored man floats out of the sky blowing a saxophone, and below him, in the space between two buildings, a girl talks earnestly to a man in a straw hat. He touches her lip to remove a bit of something there. Suddenly she is quiet. He tilts her chin up. They stand there. Her grip on her purse slackens and her neck makes a nice curve. The man puts his hand on the stone wall above her head. By the way his jaw moves and the turn of his head I know he has a golden tongue.

The sun sneaks into the alley behind them. It makes a pretty picture on the way down".

Plastic, Milan

Last night at Milan's Plastic (my sister Cleo's playground) > WILD BUNCH!

Check out Queen Mayday dancing for her birthday at Plastic's Bordello
Bordello at Plastic (Milan)

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And the photogallery at
Ducati's Flickr

I got Scottish in my family

UGK feat. Outkast, "International Player's Anthem". Love the video. Steel Magnolias meets Hustle and Flow. And Andre 3000! In a kilt! Getting hitched!

DEMF2007

Forget the Iliad. Forget 300. This was epic in a Mother of all conventions kind of feeling. It was a superheroes convention, as Professor Genius said. You know that episode where the Fantastic 4 hang out with Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman? That. We renamed out hotel "techno hotel", since we kept on bumping into our "superheroes" lounging around. But it's not even that. We are not easily impressed by flesh and bone, we carry no "starhunter" DNA. We hunt for soul-nourishment, we hunt the music. And that made our trip worthwhile. The music. Model500 (with UR's Mike Banks on keyboards). Jeff Mills (with 3 tunrtables, 3 cd palyers and a 909). 3 Chairs. Monolake. Moodyman at the Rollerskating Rink. Detroit Electronic Music Festival 2007. And the Greektown minibaklavas!

Forget 300. The number is 3000, of course. And 500 - Juan Atkins came out to play. He's a warrior.

Check out photos at
http://flickr.com/photos/ducati75/sets/72157600286409399/

And my video of Model500
Model500 (DEMF2007)

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musick

Perfect, exactly what I need - another great music website to get myself lost it.. check out Critical Metrics

also, for a good laugh, the latest from our man in the closet - it's his album, and you can read about that nutty double-ride here

... AND WE'RE BACK!

What have I been up to? Well, for starters I've been making videos. Nothing pro, just little mementos - as always it's all about the music!