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Diary 2014
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December
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22.12.2014
SSC Napoli
wins the Supercoppa Italiana!
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| Masataka now calls it his "Karaoke syndicate international" in Berlin. It was a very happy special night on December 14th, with Masataka and friends @ Monster Ronson's Ichiban Karaoke! Some hits of the night: Daydream Believer (The Monkees), Rock'n'Roll (Led Zeppelin), Don't know why (Norah Jones). I value your feedback, so I improved the About section with more visible direct links to music, places, videos etc. At the office in Lützowplatz we do not have a cafeteria. We go out for lunch. Very often the choice is the Möebel Hübner kantine, sometimes we walk up to Nollendorfplatz and Winterfeldtplatz and stop by the market or by one of the little restaurants there (like today by Sao Mai), sometimes (especially when I am alone) the choice is the italian 'tavola calda' around the corner. I like this. I can experience another area of the city, Schöneberg, which I think is more genuine and berliner than Mitte and Prenzlauerberg. In Schöneberg I still feel being in the Berlin I met - and I fell in love with - some years ago when I started exploring it. |
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While the
guitar solo of Dire Straits' Tunnel
of Love was taking possession of
my head and obsessively going around it day and night... |
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November
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29.11 In Haarlem,
the Netherlands, this week - beautiful place, great time with
my friends and EMEA colleagues - where I received the award
for Building an Excellent Team:
it was very rewarding for me... as a friend of mine said to
me "it's not about sales, tax, money, products... it's
about people!". And now back again to my supergirl!
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A cool week...
because it is really getting cold and because I've been often
around with my friend Matthias, a night at Schwarze
Pumpe (and we agreed on a biweekly Wednesday's men's day!),
again at gym after a long absence, and lasagne and more Italian
food lately (which is always good)
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15.11.2014 Coming back home after 4 days in Istanbul. I have seen nothing of the city, only hotels and restaurants; but many nice friends and colleagues faces.
And soon upon my return, to the Cinema to see Interstellar. Nothing special, nothing really new, a mix of 2001 Space Odissey, Armageddon etc... but a trip in the space, into the future, into the unknown, in the Universe, is to me always worth seeing. They should do more of this sci-fi movies (I recently saw Prometeus which also stimulated my fantasy and dreams a lot).
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Finally seen
(via iTunes): Buffalo
66. Super good! |
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New Glasses !
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October
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| I've been sick some days of the last week, actually we both felt not good in the last period, must be the winter approaching... My parents were here in Berlin for a while, having sightseeing tours with their friends and spending evenings and weekend with us at our place. |
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Bukowski
about shrinks (psychiatrists).
I am re-reading Pulp these days.
"Last dream I had I was laying under this elephant, I couldn’t
move and he was releasing one of the biggest turds you ever saw,
it was about to drop and then my cat, Hamburger, walked across the
top of my head and I awakened. You tell that dream to a shrink and
he’ll make something awful out of it. Because you are paying
him excessively, he’s going to make sure to make you feel
bad. He’ll tell you that the turd is a penis and that you
are either frightened of it or that you want it, some kind of crap
like that. What he really means is that he is frightened or wants
the penis. It’s only a dream about a big elephant turd, nothing
more. Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that’s
all there is to it. The best interpreter of the dream is the dreamer.
Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse."
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Camera
Test 18.10.2014 + Headless Our Simple Song 2014 |
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Headless Gianni On Trial 2014! This video Marco recorded for my birthday moved me a lot. And made me do this brave gesture of recording again, after 20 years, my old songs with my headless guitar. Like in the good old times, I am too lazy to try hard so I just recorded once with a cheap mic and kept it as it came out. I am still On Trial! Headless
Our
Simple Song 2014 Headless
Linda
2014 And if you would like to have the full versions: 1) call a doctor, because there's something wrong with you; 2) contact me and I will send it to you |
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Starting October with my
colleagues visiting me in Berlin, And with my Regine of course.
She's been a bit sick with cold and cough and fever in this
days. But together we stay cool. |
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September
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A very nice weekend in Helmstedt, with my compare Matthias' family Singing "Doraemon" with my Japanese friend Masataka. A privilege, unforgettable! |
15.09.2014 I am Turning 40.
It's been forty years full of Life!
And it's been celebrated with overwhelming beautiful emotions!
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CROATIA from south to north! (end of August - beginning of September) visiting... Dubrovnik + Mlini + Makarska + Brac Island + Milna + Pakostane + Zadar + Vrsar + Porec with... Beautiful Regine & me + Anna & Ugo (the last 4 days in Vrsar) staying at... Villa Avantgarde, Mlini (good) + Illyrian Resort, Brac Island Milna (lovely) + Camping Kozarika, Pakostane (nice) + Campsite Valkanela, Vrsar (incredible! beautiful! immense!) doing... -> |
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August
2014 |
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Nice
things happened last weekend. Regine reminds me of the Guinnes slogan: Regine is good for Gianni! |
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Dario
in Berlin for a Weekend (9-12.08). Greetings from (a beautiful week in...) Herrenberg! (2-7.08) , with Regine, M.L., C. and... 'Tanzen mit dem Ehepaar Fern' + 'il bombo!' + da Gino + Uno! + 'chiocciola' + 'tretigricontrotretigri' etc..etc.. |
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July
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Baustellen @ Zionskirchplatz
I love this city, Berlin, at least
the part of it without the Baustellen (construction sites). What's
goin' on here is ... too much! You can't walk 500 meters without
passing by an excavator or a crane. There's a guy who made a website
about it, wow!
Last year they worked in our innerhof to build the balconies for
the neighbors, and before that they started working and are still
working to a kinda shop or street bureau in the building next door
(what are they doing there? what are they searching for?). And,
I don't remember when (last year?), the Baustellen
invaded the Zionskirchplatz: they say they received funds to
renew the whole square,..., and this week they started working at
our sidewalk. Few weeks left and it sould be ready, they say. Let's
see. To me, it didn't look like it needed a renovation, but maybe
it is just my conservative nature.
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20.07 Swimming in Berlin @ Langer See with my friends and 34° Celsius! 18.07 @ Clärchens Ballhaus for pizza and dance....but it was too hot to stay in the ballroom! But we didn't give up, and moved to Monbijou Park for open air dancing : swinging (and sweating) the night away. |
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Weltklasse,
Weltmeister 13.07.2014 Germany is Football World Champion! Finally, this very well deserved achievement. And I am happy I was here in Berlin when this happened, to see this joy in the eyes of Regine and of my friends and dears. |
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Headless
HookyWooky Amp: UK80, Rhythm: Pop Green 1, Effects: Flanger & Room |
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Italian player at the World Cup
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June
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With Marie-Luise, Christoph, Almi, Sebastian, Peter and Regine in the beautiful Bremen # Ramada Hotel # Beck's brewery tour # Ratskeller # die Musikanter # World Cup (of course) # Becks in´n Schnoor # Science Center at Universum® Bremen # Schnoor # Viertel # "Junge die Welt ist schön" # etc... |
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Mamma
and Papa' were here in Berlin for a long weekend,
20-25-06. We went at Weißensee, visited Markthalle
in Kreuzberg, celebrated my name-day. And we watched Italy's
debacle against Costarica and Uruguay: my World Cup is already
ended.
21.06 watching Ghana – Germany : 2 – 2 @ Dave Lombardo bar (1st half) and then home 18.06 in Haarlem (the Netherlands), watching Holland defeating Australia with friends and colleagues. In the orange crowd. pic 1 - pic 2 16.06 watching Germany – Portugal : 4 – 0 @ Kapelle Saturday @ midnight. Exactly 00.00
Sunday 15.06.2014. |
Incredibly hot temperatures considering we are at the beginning of June, and in Germany! We've enjoyed some free days and the lively streets at evenings and nights, and meeting friends coming from Italy, Francesca, Vincenzo and Roberta. |
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May
2014 |
(24-31) 1 week in Kos, Greece. Relax. Pool. Book. Ping Pong. Sun. Swimming. Beautiful Regine. Champions League final. Souvlaki...and food in general. Collecting Panini World Cup 2014 stikers. Beach. Hippocrates. Atlantica Marmari Beach. Apartment 606. All inclusive. |
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This is what I recently declared
to the Polizei: "Ich parkte das Fahrrad in der Station
am Morgen und fuhren mit dem Zug zur Arbeit zu gehen. Wann Ich nochmal
am Station war am Abend nach dem Arbeit, hatte Ich nicht das Fahrrad
gefunden."
My bike was stolen at S-Bahn
Nordbahnhof on May 14th! Only 3 weeks, or even less: it was born
under a bad sign!
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HEADLESS |
| Giuliano and F. visited Berlin from 9 and 12 of May, and we spent good hours together during the weekend. 1-4.05 In Hamburg |
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03.05.2014
SSC Napoli wins the
Coppa Italia!
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April
2014 |
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After almost 3,5 years in Berlin... |
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Brand
new Tattoo Inn Berlin @ Zionskirchstrasse |
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Easter
@ the Horse Race As an additional sign of how the weather this year has been so unusal warmer and more gentle, the Ping Pong Season has already started on Easter day (20.4), more or less 2 months earlier than in 2013. |
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Starting end of
January from year zero of the Foundation Era (0 F.E.), on
10.04 I've reached - once again - the end of the saga (Foundation
and Earth). And
now, back to the Robots novels... |
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Once
again I was restless in my sleep. This time I was enrolled in
a military mission, I was supposed to personally protect the
Marshal. And it was useless to scream how I had nothing to do
with it. I woke up late the morning of the blitz and so I skipped this responsibility, but I was still afraid of the Marshal's anger. Before running away from the military base I had a stop at the warehouse for one of their cool jackets.
5-10.04 Italian
Dinners @ Zionskirchplatz with
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Qui continuano le giornate
col cielo limpido, e durano anche piu' a lungo con l'ora legale
etc... E cosi' oggi dopo il lavoro c'era ancora luce e non
faceva freddo ed ho passato un po' di tempo seduto su una
panchina in un parco. In questa foto ascolto 'Marmellata'
di C. Cremonini, e si intravede il brufolo che mi rispunta
proprio sulla punta del naso con una certa regolarita'. Cremonini
mi ricorda il mio amico Domenico P., boh... credo si somiglino.
"Ah... da quando Baggio non gioca piu'...". |
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March
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29/30.03. A sunny weekend in Berlin. Almi came to
visit us. I enjoyed this spring days relaxing and reading
@ Weinbergspark . We walked in Kollwitzkietz, and were in
Charlottenburg at the opening party of our friend new vegan
Cafe'. Saturday night we went to "Irma
and the bird" concert @ Bflat.
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Last
night I dreamt of my favorite Italian pizzeria in Berlin being
run by Russians. I was crying in my sleep. In Napoli # Salvio, Regine, D., G. and N. @ “O' Braciuolo è Nata Cosa (!) # La Genovese di Mamma da portare a Berlino # Napoli-Roma uno a zero # Family # Pizza # Dario # Circumvesuviana & Portici # Pub with Regine, Ale & C. # Walking in San Giorgio # too many espresso # ... I am a successful Marshal of the old (and declining) Empire @ foundationgame.com |
| Durante
un recente viaggio di lavoro ho comprato un panino all'aeroporto
ed ho pagato con 20 Euro. Ho fissato interdetto la banconota
di resto pensando "ma guarda che particolari gli
Euro che hanno qua!". Evidentemente il tipo mi ha
visto perplesso e mi ha spiegato "Sir, I cannot give
you Euro - we don't use them here". Marzo
e' iniziato con una festa, che si e' consumata
un po' all'aria aperta - aria fredda riscaldata in parte dal
fuoco in un bidone, dove e' stata anche bruciata una bambola
come rito di augurio per scacciare l'inverno ed i cattivi
pensieri - un po' in una grande tenda Mongola (!) ad ascoltare
musica dal vivo (molto bella) di violini, chitarre, basso
e percussioni. |
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February
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And the last
night of February we went to Mehringdamm and Bergmanstrasse,
had dinner at Marheineke
Markthalle. Like we did as turists and explorers, before
we definitively moved here at the end of 2010.
23.02.14 Sunday afternoon @ Schloss Charlottenburg. Exploration of Berlin continues (started in Prenzlauerberg beginning 2011, remember?). In Paris 19-21.02.14 # Eiffel Tower # The Seine # Colleaugues/Friends # Miss Ko # Business meeting On 13.02.14 we went to the cinema in the Hackesche Höfe to see American Hustle |
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"Effetto Diego", was the headline of an Italian newspaper : not sure if on the team, but on me Diego's influence is still huge! 09.02.14 Karaoke @ Monster with G., L., M. and M.. One of my hits of the night: Love Lies Bleeding (sing it!) |
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This
online game appears abandoned like the Galaxy
suburbs in which it is set... We can finally be Hari Seldon and
Hober Mallow!
02.02.14 We wento to the cinema in Kreuzberg this Sunday afternoon, to watch 'La Grande Bellezza' starring a great Tony Servillo.
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January
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I am reading Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, once again (not a big news, times I read it are becoming countless...but I am taking notes here, so that next time I'll read it I'll know when the previous time had happened). It moves me to another Universe, literally. The only problem with it is the edition I have: one big volume which contains 'Foundation', 'Foundation and Empire', 'Second Foundation' and 'Foundation and Earth': too big to bring it with me to Amsterdam, during a recent short business trip. |
24.01.14
@ La Cueva, Berlin. Another concert
of my Japanese friend Masataka, this time with a German
Sängerin
18.01.14 "...My Life was
saved by Rock'n'Roll...". That's why this is one of my
favorite places in Berlin. pic
1 - pic 2
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Since last summer in Sardegna, when we spent some beautiful evenings watching Moltalbano's new episodes, I am enjoying the series of Il Commissario Montalbano, Il giovane Montalbano and of L'Ispettore Coliandro via internet. It someway connects me to my Italian roots, usually before I fall asleep at night.
There's good free stuff available on the web site of Rai Fiction. |
10.01.14
Tango
@ The concert of my Japanese friend Masataka and his band @ CamBa-La-Che
Berlin
| 06.01.14. An unexpected encounter with Lou Reed, in Berlin. I
was only hangin' 'round, waiting for a man tonight on the
way back home, and this picture appeared from the window of
the next shop. |
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A
congested Christmas and New Year's Eve 2013 Timeline
updated with 2013. Happy 2014! |
