Time To Pretend

I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw, I'm in the prime of my life.
Let's make some music, make some money, find some models for wives.
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin, and fuck with the stars.
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.

This is our decision, to live fast and die young.
We've got the vision, now let's have some fun.
Yeah, it's overwhelming, but what else can we do.
Get jobs in offices, and wake up for the morning commute.

Forget about our mothers and our friends
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend

I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world
I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone.

There's really nothing, nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew.
The models will have children, we'll get a divorce
We'll find some more models, everything must run it's course.

We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end
We were fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend

wake me up when september ends

[vista da casa mia]

Cosmic Dancer

I was dancing when I was twelve
I was dancing when I was aaah
I danced myself right out the womb
Is it strange to dance so soon
I danced myself right out the womb

I was dancing when I was eight
Is it strange to dance so late
I danced myself into the tomb
Is it strange to dance so soon
I danced myself into the tomb

Is it wrong to understand
The fear that dwells inside a man
What's it like to be a loon
I liken it to a balloon

I danced myself out of the womb
Is it strange to dance so soon
I danced myself into the tomb
But when again once more

I danced myself out of the womb
Is it strange to dance so soon
I danced myself out of the womb.

...tornato in Continente

------------------------------- I miss you (as usual)

The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow

This time tomorrow where will we be
On a spaceship somewhere sailing across an empty sea
This time tomorrow what will we know
Well we still be here watching an in-flight movie show
I'll leave the sun behind me and watch the clouds as they sadly pass me by
Seven miles below ma I can see the world and it ain't so big at all
This time tomorrow what will we see
Field full of houses, endless rows of crowded streets
I don't where I'm going, I don't want to see
I feel the world below me looking up at me
Leave the sun behind me, and watch the clouds as they sadly pass me by
And I'm in perpetual motion and the world below doesn't matter much to me
This time tomorrow where will we be
On a spaceship somewhere sailing across any empty sea
This time tomorrow, this time tomorrow

[da Il Treno per il Darjeeling]

Chicago by Sufjan Stevens [Little Miss Sunshine]

I fell in love again
all things go, all things go
drove to Chicago
all things know, all things know
we sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
in my mind, in my mind

you came to take us
all things go, all things go
to recreate us
all things grow, all things grow
we had our mindset
all things know, all things know
you had to find it
all things go, all things go

I drove to New York
in a van, with my friend
we slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
in my mind, in my mind
I made a lot of mistakes
in my mind, in my mind

you came to take us
all things go, all things go
to recreate us
all things grow, all things grow
we had our mindset
all things know, all things know
you had to find it
all things go, all things go

if I was crying
in the van, with my friend
it was for freedom
from myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes

you came to take us
all things go, all things go
to recreate us
all things grow, all things grow
we had our mindset
all things know, all things know
you had to find it
all things go, all things go

you came to take us
all things go, all things go
to recreate us
all things grow, all things grow
we had our mindset
(I made a lot of mistakes)
all things know, all things know
(I made a lot of mistakes)
you had to find it
(I made a lot of mistakes)
all things go, all things go
(I made a lot of mistakes)

Give us a chance

Cercando di non pensare a come siano finite le elezioni italiane, scrivo due righe sull'incontro del 5 aprile 2008 a Pordenone per il Dedica Festival con Nadine Gordimer. Tra i tanti argomenti trattati dall'arzilla Nadine uno in particolare mi è sembrato interessante, perché per così dire mi ha fatto pensare all'Italia (nel video un assaggio di 40''). Riguarda la costituzione, in particolare la Costituzione della Repubblica Sudafricana, che così recita, nel suo primo articolo:

Articolo 1- Repubblica del Sudafrica

La Repubblica del Sudafrica è uno stato unitario, sovrano e democratico, fondato sui seguenti valori:
--a) la dignità umana, il perseguimento dell’uguaglianza e l’avanzamento dei diritti umani e delle libertà;
--b) il rifiuto delle discriminazioni razziali e di genere;
--c) la supremazia della costituzione e lo stato di diritto;
--d) il suffragio universale, un unico registro elettorale, elezioni regolari in un sistema di governo democratico multi-partitico, al fine di assicurare responsabilità, capacità di dare risposta alle sollecitazioni provenienti dal basso e trasparenza.

E poi:

Art 3- Cittadinanza

(1) Esiste un’unica comune cittadinanza sudafricana.
(2) Tutti i cittadini:
---a) godono dei medesimi diritti, privilegi e benefici derivanti dalla cittadinanza;
---b) sono egualmente soggetti ai doveri e alle responsabilità derivanti dalla cittadinanza.
(3) L’acquisizione, la perdita e il riacquisto della cittadinanza sono regolate dalla legge nazionale.

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Nadine la definisce una delle migliori al mondo e, in effetti, leggendola, non le si può dar torto, perché non si perde in termini burocratici che per accontentare tutti non dicono nulla e, alla fine, non accontentano nessuno. Certo la nostra Costituzione è una buona Costituzione e non è nemmeno del 1996, ma questo non implica la possibilità di un margine di miglioramento. Dopo il discorso di Nadine mi sono sentito perplesso e deluso, ripensando che da noi, nella civile Italia figlia della cultura millenaria ed altre ovvietà varie, qualcuno ancora non riesca a dirsi italiano, ma preferisca usare, per esempio, l'appellativo di veneto (per dirne uno a caso). Chissà che non si possa imparare, anche da uno stato apparentemente così lontano. In caso contrario, metterò da parte i soldi per migrare a Città del Capo.