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Contents of this blog (Thalideide Summary)

This blog is a showcase of transition from groom: it contains a small selection of items (chosen in a rather brief, hoping to cover a range of topics as broad as possible), signed by me and published in the last three or four years in the following newspapers: Repubbica them about XL , Liberation , Blow Up, Black , Permalink , Catastrophe. Here is a quick summary, in which the items are grouped by genres and link: just click. Good reading - VM

ICONS

Britney, one of us
The fifty years of Michael Jackson
Happy Birthday Madonna
Farewell to the King (Elvis thirty years later)
Genesis P-Orridge

WORLD POP

Tiki Style
Italian Porno Rap: the case of Wild Bunch
Superjesus! Christian Comics and its
80's Revisited
Noon: geographies Partenopop
Forty years after the Summer of Love
Desert in Beverly Hills
History illegal rave in Rome
Satan!

LETTERS & WRITINGS

No Where: interview with Neil Gaiman
Magus: interview with Alan Moore
Unpublished: interview with Rick Moody

ARTS & ARTIERI

Strange Circus
In den SerpeInSeno
Over New Pop : Paper Rad, Cory Arcangel, Dearraindrop
Le Dernier Cri
Interview impossible Infidel

INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY

Inside Wikipedia
Web Radios
Ringtone Melodies
iPod or Die
Fake !

MUSICA

Brian Wilson is Back
Stockhausen in discoteca
Noisers: The Skaters
Bassa fedeltà

STRANE STORIE

I viaggi nel tempo di John Titor
Lo strano caso di Fotografare
Astrofisica per principianti : the strange drift of post-Einstein
The worst singer in history

Everyday Mineral Blush Swatches

Magus: interview with Alan Moore



This article appeared on XL Republic, November issue 2008. To reduce

Alan Moore, the man to whom we owe such masterpieces as Watchmen and V for Vendetta, to the rank of a simple author / writer, one commits a mortal sin from the pen of this fifty five bearded looking a bit 'Mephisto a bit 'late-hippie came out some of the legends that have most effect on pop culture Nowadays, going to affect other giants of the art of comics such as Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison. Well rounded writer, occultist, anarchist, poet, prophet and why not, Moore has envisioned futuristic metropolis crushed by terror (the London V for Vendetta) and parallel worlds to the brink of disaster (the "anti-superhero" Watchmen) but what is more curious is that everything eventually returns to Northampton, a city of 200,000 inhabitants, even in the heart of the English Midlands. From here you have to start to understand the universe's most visionary protagonist of the comic world, and here Alan Moore talking on the phone in what is a conversation with implications both ironic and complex: "Northampton is not the most beautiful city in the world, but it is a special place: the Middle Ages was a land of saints and miracles, wars, crusades, missions to the Holy Land. It is the geographical center of England, and even Hitler planned to occupy it. In my new novel, Jerusalem, I explain a bit 'of things: too many coincidences, too many suspicious events, there must be something in ... "

The coincidences for Moore, never one case. His world view and print explicitly magical, just turn the pages of Promethea - a bit 'a summary of his poetry, published in Italy by Magic Press is going to send printing in the fifth and final volume in the series - to realize this: "In Promethea I tried to summarize my interpretations in the field of Kabbalah, the esoteric, magic and art," says, and the work is done huge fresco in which tensions coexist apocalyptic symbolism and archaic, with a lot of raids and excellent references ranging from Aleister Crowley ("The Great Beast" considered, rightly or wrongly, the father of modern Satanism) John Dee (the magician of the court Elizabeth I), through what Moore is the acknowledged master, namely Austin Osman Spare: "It was one of the greatest people that the environments occultists '900 have never expressed. If Crowley was interesting, Spare was original: he was born into a middle class family and at sixteen was already an established painter, but instead chose to devote himself to his artistic career move to Brixton in south London, in the midst of thieves and prostitutes. He lived surrounded by cats and invented a series of rituals are highly personal, revolutionary, restoring his vision in the form of sketches, drawings and works of art. He became poor, but he did not use the magic power to benefit, as opposed to what Crowley did. And politically, could be distinguished: the magicians of the period often flirted with the right. Spare not. Hitler himself asked for a portrait, Spare and said, 'Mr. Hitler, if you're a superman, then I'm happy to be a monkey'. A few years after his studio was destroyed in the German bombing of London ... "

Austin Osman Spare is considered the ancestor of the so-called Chaos Magick, or" chaos magic "of which he is a member Prince Moore. Promethea works have inspired as herds of occultists "do it yourself", with happily anarchic spirit, do not worry more, no dogma or formula in some obscure language forgotten. It is a completely private, personal, echoing Moore when he speaks of his relationship with the artist Melinda Gebbie: “Decisamente, c’è qualcosa di alchemico sia nel rapporto che ci lega, sia nel nostro lavoro assieme. L’alchimia ha a che fare con l’uso dell’oro e dell’argento, vale a dire con le energie maschili e femminili, e quando abbiamo progettato Lost Girls qualcosa deve essere entrato in funzione.” Come Promethea, Lost Girls è un’opera dal sapore post-femminista, ed è anche il progetto “pornografico” della coppia Alan & Melinda: pubblicato anch’esso in Italia da Magic Press, riprende le eroine di tre classici della letteratura per l’infanzia – la Wendy di Peter Pan, l’Alice di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie, e la Dorothy The Wizard of Oz - and adulthood in key ferries openly erotic, though Moore does not like the term "so-called erotic literature is pretentious, dishonest, even class. Eros means love, but Lost Girls is not intended as a graphic novel about love: he wants to talk about sex. Work is pornographic, inspired by a certain type of pornography is not that of hardcore movies that run now. If anything, porn is a Victorian-inspired, late nineteenth century ... "And as usual with Moore, even pornography - like magic - the importance of political overtones, the reference to the Victorian era is not so random:" A those days you could not talk about sex. Even contraceptives were synonymous with obscenity. The only place where the topic was addressed, was precisely the pornographic literature: in times of repression meant the breaking of a taboo, something quite liberal, subversive. Who wrote the stories or draw those pictures, he tried to introduce elements serious, important, liberating: a comparison of the garbage that runs today, the Victorian era was a golden age of pornography. "

would be say a lot of Alan Moore: of his conflicted relationship with Hollywood, the film versions of his works, his musical projects, and its battles in the days of Thatcher's England. But Northampton's called, and the commitments we make urgent: "I must go home to my friend, his name is Joe Brown and a guy here. We are carrying out a project based on sound recordings and various samples, rather 'an attempt to make music of Austin Osman Spare. Every Wednesday we meet and we write our songs. " Northampton, central England. Where work the last great magician of the millennium.

Metal Demon Shuriken For Sale

80's revisited

Nell ' Fall 2007, Queer - insert weekly Liberation - a series of specials dedicated to the 80's and some of his "indispensable" icons. Here are some of my contr ibuto on:

The Invicta

For years it was a sign of recognition of Italians abroad: here you saw ome with a backpack Invicta (usually bit D TO on one shoulder) in London, Amsterdam, Pa rigid, and you understood it immediately, which was a your compatriot. Now the brand has come to Turin to adapt to the prevailing fashions and signed Jansport Eastpack, resulting in loss of that character was quintessentially italics that the figure of the most famous brand of backpacks (not only) tricolore.Ma in the '80s, imodelli Wild and have really Minipack roost, branded an imaginary youth still not contaminated from long wave of street style.

The reason for success lies in its Invicta line zainiscuola: the Joker, reinforced by straps, pockets and straps, it is immediately noted for his daring combinations of color, in a kind of pop-d eriva psychedelic-rationalist. Here is reflective versions such green on black, yellow to orange and green, fluorescent blue to gray color explosion guardrail ... s urreale and even a little 'indigestible, although much of the Peninsula will appeal to students ages 13 and up . Even more distinctive model Minipack, nylon, unmistakable pattern horizontal stripes (from time to time, white and red, white and blue, etc.). As the Joker, also succumbs Minipack graphomania the ravings of its owners, who fill in the blanks by dint of pen-written (better and Uni Posca s) of all types: names of musical groups and declarations' love, Celtic crosses and TVTB, rozzi disegni amatoriali e dediche imprecisate. È una stagione, quella dello zaino Invicta, che sembra non avere mai fine, al punto da diventare – come accennato in apertura – un autentico carattere nazionale. Peccato che di lì a breve ci penserà lo stile sportivo/militare delle griffe estere, a scalare le vette delle brame giovanili, scaraventando l’azienda di Torino non certo nel dimenticatoio, ma senz’altro parecchi gradini più giù.

Il Ciao

In the collective imagination, the Hello (the motorcycle produced by Piaggio in 1968, so to speak) never came to be Ntare the nobility of their other two-wheel legends such as, say, Vespa Lambretta. Easy to understand why: too problematic launch period, the late '6 0 negative mirror of the boom years, but especially too ugly forms, making it a kind of clumsy motor bike with a lot of pedals, and then, zero facilities (that seat ...), poor materials, performance, yet the lowly ... Hello has been and remains a classic. In the 80 is, along with rival Yes (always Piaggio), the two wheels of reference: blaring a wreck that has been raging for the cities of reflux, is good for purse snatchers on Sunday (usually dressed in jeans and a nail) for the well-known to students refractory to the concept of public transport. The "ciaetto", as it is often called, is a versatile scooter: rearing anthology, amendments to the Penal Code, performance "creative" in the middle of traffic congestion. Two wheels, countless spells. In this regard, the TV commercials that remains unmatched, to the tune of Fame, he saw a white Hello roam alone (yes, without a driver) to the gardens of the EUR in Rome. Two girls noticed him jogging in the middle of a break-source in: "Look," cried one, and Hello, Marple, is approaching. And then from the lighthouse - Zut! - Emits a beam of light hitting the fountain in question, so water no longer water, but ... orange! "Hello works miracles," exclaims the other, and so happy in the saddle. Other than Padre Pio. But from there, the decline is inevitable here is that, even by Piaggio, as well as rival Yes (or, too, "beat yourself"), slightly more aggressive and young, comes just at the end of the decade, Grillo, ill-fated attempt to revive a tradition now the terminus. Because there will soon be the SH, the Zip, the Booster. Farewell to the "motor" for muggings and school is going on a scooter.

The Chiodo

The nail, the black leather jacket unwitting symbol of so many subcultures" street "has ancient origins: it is the first 928 quando la Schott introduce sul mercato americano il Perfecto, primo di una lunga serie di giacchetti per motociclisti che di lì a breve si imporranno, oltre che nei negozi d’abbigliamento, anche in un immaginario collettivo che dagli USA investirà il mondo intero. Prima è Marlon Brando a indossarne un esemplare leggendario nel Selvaggio , poi sarà la volta dei ribelli senza causa di Gioventù Bruciata , poi è Elvis a impreziosirlo con lustrini e frange da cowboy, e alla fine saranno i Ramones a farne una divisa entrata da allora nel vocabolario di ogni punk che si rispetti.

E sono appunto gli ’80, col loro florilegio di tribù and metropolitan cultures, to make the nail (which is a summary of the updated version Perfecto) evergreen icon from time to time be adapted to different needs. For the punks, the nail is a kind of blackboard on which action by dint of badges, studs, safety pins, and finally real pen-written (mostly white) or bearing slogans of various kinds, or just names and logos favorite musical groups. Among the most popular, the snake biting its tail of Crass (reference name for the galaxy anarcho-pacifist) and the "dead punk's'not" of Exploited (motto of the required street punk version). The other 80 tribes in the domain count punk Stradaioli imagination is that of metalheads. With them is linked explicitly to the nail that aesthetics biker who, in addition to the immortalized Brando's Wild is also obliged to put every rocker "hard" and "male" worthy of the name, all beer, women and motorcycles. The dark, our local version of the goth subculture, fetish exhume the inspiration of the head skin, nail and give a more subtle and sensual, with clear reference to the imaginary bondage, bdsm, and fetish. Lastly, the more lateral approach paninari who prefer to nail the real aviator Schott, less aggressivo e apertamente citazionista, ricalcando esso le linee dei giubbotti anni ’40.

Tutte queste varianti finiranno per contaminarsi a vicenda alla fine del decennio, e soprattutto costituiranno terreno fertile sia per gli stilisti (Gaultier, la Hamnett , e poi Versace) che del vetusto Perfecto rielaboreranno la grammatica, sia per la moda casual che alla fine si impadronirà del giubbotto in pelle al di là di tribù, latitudini, e immaginari di nicchia.