Friday 30 March 2007

Carmen Consoli concert

Hi fellows,



here there are some pictures of the concert of the last 27th March..not good unfortunately!

It was a nice concert, in which acting and music merged in a nice way.

Thursday 22 March 2007

AMREF and water saving ...

Hi
today AMREF Italy starts a water saving campaign to make people aware about the water misuse in Italy. The scope of the project is to donate in order to improve water structures in Uganda.
What is interesting and can be done very easily is to follow the advices about water saving. Look at the "10 golden rules" (unfortunately they are in Italian :( ).

Monday 19 March 2007

AAA ... London!

Aprile a Londra, qualcuno vuole unirsi? :)

April in London, would you like to join me? :)

Monday 12 March 2007

Italian motorways and security!

Hi fellows,
during these days Italian channels are talking about saturday nights' slaughters. In Italy, in the last 5 years a number of young people died on the motorways, or roads in general, and that number is equal to a town of average size. Young people usually go back home from the disco and in the most of the cases they are drunk, or at least the level of alcohol in his blood is quite high according to the Italian laws. I think a beer or two are enough to be over the allowed limit (ACI says).
Those statistics are really amazing, but what I think is that Italian roads and motorways are very dangerous. Many people during the week, while going to work, have accidents due to bad maintenance of bad structure of the roads. Due to high speed too.
Every day, while going to work, I can see incredible things that make the motorway I use to drive very dangerous. So I want to show you one of that INCREDIBLE thing that, in this case, ANAS is able to do!



Look at the pictures (I 'm going to put better quality pictures. I was driving while taking those :P). What you can see at the left side are roadwork signals. Can you see where they are? If you look deeply you can see that the roadways are very small in width. Signals are put exactly on the roadway! Do you think that it can be safe, considering that cars go at 120 kmh!
So, I'm really hungry when I hear that the causes for the deaths is the high speed or alcohol. It is true in part.


I 'll show you also the incredible enormous holes ( my small car can fit the entire hole sometimes :/) in the asphalt after only 2 days raining. The asphalt is maybe made of "pastafrolla"?

Littizzetto yesterday said that : "a very simple and obvious solution for the saturday nights' slaughters is: building car not so potent, whose limit in speed is 70 kmh for example! Is it too trivial?" I don't think so! If young people uses potent vehicles, they can drive over the limit!

Friday 2 March 2007

The "Tune"

Hi "ladies and gentlemen",
I have the pleasure to introduce the "Tune" to everybody :).
Another post related to music is going to be added to my blog.


This is a group that I met for the first time on my last birthday, more or less one month ago. A friend of mine is a member of the group, i.e. the bass player.
The "Tune" usually plays in Catania's pubs. Yesterday they played at Barrique pub. I had my last birthday's party there :) and it was a beautiful party, I enjoyed it very much!
First time I met, I liked the singer so much. She has a "stinging" voice but most of the time she sing softly. Unfortunately, while singing her voice is covered by instruments and is very hard to listen to her.
Yesterday she was nice, but she wasn't strong, she didn't express all her force. Maybe my impression is not exactly the same that people in the pub felt, but this is what I caught. She didn't transmit me any special emotion, I couldn't feel the happiness/desperation in her singing. It seemed that she was just singing and not thinking about songs content. She can do better I know, I saw!
I don't know how difficult is to express the emotion in singing a song, but the 2 greatest singers I 've met till today said me that this is the secret of a good singing.
I observed each member of the group. There were a bass, a battery, a guitar, a pianola, a trumpet and a sax...and the voice ;P. Attending a LIVE concert is always a big emotion. The music reaches your mind and heart.
Music they played was pop music and sometime jazz, but I liked more the music they played at my party.


Time by time, this blog is collecting information about group and as soon as I meet new singers I 'll try to catch the secret to spread emotion using the voice.