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Like, Not Quite like and Dislike: Menomena, Klaxons and Animal Collective.

By giovanealex | Published: March 17, 2010

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Menomena, the trio from Portland is one of the most creative on the indie scene, beautifully crafting songs dealing with a reasonable level of wild experimentalism without losing the grip on musical appeal. Though Menomena’s songs feature a fair amount of synth and keyboard and the extensive use of percussion, drums and guitar is frequently [...]

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Blast the past with Paul Walker!

By giovanealex | Published: March 8, 2010

Like me, you may have watched only a couple of his movies and may not remember a thing about them. Alright, this is understandable – most of his movies are made of races and crashes and, well, crashes and races! Although, nobody would ever forget Paul Walker – even a comatose would awake mouth watering, [...]

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Blast the past!

By giovanealex | Published: March 7, 2010

I have already said it here that this happens almost everytime. When someone asks for prime examples of beautiful men people don’t even take time to think and promptly answers “Brad Pitt”, “George Clooney” and a couple of other man at most but let’s be honest: they have been far from being references of beauty [...]

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Like, Not Quite Like and Dislike: Emily Haines, (Frederik) Sioen and Broken Social Scene.

By giovanealex | Published: February 24, 2010

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Since I had first listened to her songs, Emily Haines has become one of my music idols. She is not only deeply talented, she is hugely versatile: on her solo project Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton she has showed her most sensible, quiet, melancholic side, sometimes even reaching a sort of existentialism that gently [...]

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Cinema’s Opening Title Scenes: Lars Von Trier.

By giovanealex | Published: February 5, 2010

I know. This blog has not been frequently updated but I swear I’m constantly trying to gather some ideas. It was not what I’d promised to the foreign visitors of my main blog and I’m really ashamed about that. The fact is that it is much more easy to do cultural reviews (like I do [...]