#occhicastani

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Tagged by @dreamers-queen: thanks so much!

Last song: if classical music is to be counted, the fourth movement of Schubert’s Ninth Symphony, which lives in my head rent-free these days; if not, The Wellerman, because of the hivemind

Last film: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: super intense, with a great script and mind-blowing performances by both Viola Davis and darling Chadwick Boseman

Currently watching: The Wilds

Currently reading: The Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Currently craving: going to a museum / a concert / a bar / a restaurant, all the while surrounded by carefree humans.

tagging: @occhicastani, @elysenda, @lost-in-the-fission, and whomever should feel like doing it!

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22 :) and merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you as well!

22: What I want to be when I get olderA traveler, a helper, a volunteer for the Peace Corps, a French bulldog owner, a web developer, and happy.

BR: 8.5/10

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tag 9 people you would like to know better/catch up with

tagged by @lost-in-the-fission: thank you so much =)

last song: so turns out my emotions can’t handle anything pop, rock, or metal as of late, as in I-am-likely-to-meet-the-pit-of-despair-if-I-listen-to-them-can’t-handle-them kind of way, so this is gonna be a piece of classical music. Aaaand... I’ll go with the last movement of Beethoven’s string quartet no. 14 op. 131 (check it, it’s a blast)

last movie: I finally got around to watching Ocean’s 8!

currently watching: I’m refraining from starting anything I am likely to binge-watch until I’m in lockdown, so it’s down to this is us, grey’s anatomy, and the very weird experience of watching gilmore girls for the first time in the year of our lord 2020

currently reading: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and I’m LOVING it

currently craving: going to a concert, to the theatre, to a bar; eating that perfectly fragrant cinnamon roll in my favorite coffee-shop while drinking a chai latte and reading; jumping on a plane to get to a faraway place; walking by the sea and having a gorgeous seafood dinner afterwards; aaand let’s end it up there 

tagging: @occhicastani, @elysenda, @agutterfullofstars, @janoda, @beanarie, @giulifruli00, and whomever should feel like doing it anyway!

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This is the Amazing Person Award! Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain~ nothing will happen, but it’s sweet to know someone thinks you’re amazing inside and outside.

This is so lovely! Thank you so much :) xxx

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Hello ^^ I would love to talk to you :D hehehehe thanks!!

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“La cosa peggiore che mi potesse capitare era successa. Avevo trovato il mare, uno splendido mare. Un mare d’inverno come piace a me. Il problema era che questo mare l’avevo trovato in un paio di occhi castani.”

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tagged by @s-imonopio : thank you <3

rules: put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first ten songs

first movement of Beethoven’s 3rd Concert for Piano and Orchestra

So I’ve been in a Classical Music Moment for a while now, and as I’m trying to expand my horizons a little bit, I keep coming back to Beethoven. My favorite piano concert by him is the 4th, actually, but I do have a thing for this first movement of the 3rd, what with its powerful and mesmerizing ending. 

wolf - first aid kit

There were a couple of songs by First Aid Kit that came to define pretty neatly a dynamic I had with my ex, so I’ve been reluctant to listen to them for a while. However, I have come back to them recently, and I do love this one.

paper forest - emmy the great

She is me, and this is my favorite song by her: nothing more to say about it.

mi primer dia - los aslandticos

This song entered my life a bunch of years ago, but back in December, when my life was coming together again after the storm and I was starting to like the shape it was taking, I fell back to loving it. Totally recommend.

pompeii - bastille

Again a thing from the past that proved to be relevant again as of late: this song evokes long strolls in Cambridge, delicious thai food in the company of other surprisingly unpretentious grad students, the heartbreaking sweetness of willow trees on the river, but turns out it is also the perfect song to listen to while walking my heart out in this eerie fase two of lockdown. 

time has told me - nick drake

a timeless favorite of mine every time I need to just lay down and accept things with softness, forgetfulness, and a bit of irony. “Time has told me not to ask for more”.

und dann warten - juppiter jones

my go-to song anytime I am genuinely and hopelessly sad. It knows me, comforts me, and helps me move on.

100 years - florence and the machine

So Florence turned out to be the singer to understand me the most re: this new relationship that I am apparently living. This song was THE song when I first started to understand that maybe, just maybe, I was starting to care for this thing and I was overcome with the need to set fire to it all because, well, that’s me with new feelings. “So let me hold this lightly, give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly”. Also, to be quite honest, any song with the line “Hybris is a bitch” is the song for me.

washing mashine - shandon

Because it turns out that I am a teen again, and I listen to Shandon just like I did when I was first learning how to fucking drive.

cavalier eternal - against me!

Well this one is fun. A friend of mine - you know who you are - put this song on for me this past summer to make fun of me in what was frankly an unacceptable way - just because I was in total denial re: pouring all my energies into texting with somebody new, who then accidentally turned out to be the person I would spend lockdown with. Btw, the reading we gave to this song back then turned out to be outrageously wrong, but I found myself singing it to myself for quite the opposite reason and the opposite person just a couple of months later, so, yeah, there’s that. “This just isn’t love, it’s just the remorse of a loss of a feeling: even if I stayed things just wouldn’t be the same”.

I know tests are abounding these days, so if I tag you and you don’t feel like doing it of course feel free to ignore it! This being said, I tag @occhicastani, @elysenda, and @lost-in-the-fission

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Tagged by @lost-in-the-fission​. Thank you, dear!

favourite colour: my automatic answer is still blue, but it’s been pretty clear for years now that it is, in fact, red.

top three ships: jim x bones; charles xavier x erik; silver x flint x madi if I focus on silver, flint x silver x hamilton if I focus on flint; mako mori and raleigh beckett; and I could go on forever. 

lipstick or chapstick: red lipstick.

last song: last song that I listened to, boys don’t cry by The Cure. Last song I let crawl her way into my life, unfucktheworld.

last movie: A fistful of Dollars: I was in a nearby theatre, a small, artsy place on Sergio Leone’s death anniversary, and loved it to the bones as usual.

currently reading: just finished a book a friend of mine wrote. It was a painful reading just as much as it was pure, and I loved it. Now on my way to Vietnamese literature.

tagging @occhicastani, @elysenda, @aloejoos, @twofigs, @janoda, @godrevy, @apocketfullofstars and whoever felt like doing it!

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Sweater, Pumpkin pie, Cornfield e inquestigiornitipossochiamare? ^.^

sweater: a favorite comforting thought. there’s a song I love, whose title is va a escampar, which would roughly translate to “it’s going to clear up, eventually it’s going to stop raining”. Its lyrics are beautiful, utterly honest, and… that sentence, that title, is something I find myself going back to when life is harsh. So, yeah, I guess that would work.

pumpkin pie: a favorite comfort food. milk and biscuits (you know why), culurgiones (I guess that’s because I’ve made an habit of eating culurgiones on my own just before I leave the island when summer ends, with messy hair who usually leaves a day before I do), pizza with-everything-on-top (that’s what I resort to those times when the night comes and taking care of myself on my own seems like a huge effort).

(thank you for asking, dear, and we need to catch up!)

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Muuumble mumble. 1) 15) 29) 40) 55) 57) :***

1) Put your iTunes on shuffle. Give me the first 6 songs that pop up. PequeNa Serenata Diurna by Silvio Rodriguez, La niNa de la cueva by El Bicho, I’m not dead by Pink, Never go hungry again by Courtney Love, Insonnia by Virginiana Miller, Intr-un fel by Travka, All the Girls by Caracol - ups, that’s seven!

15) How do you vent your anger? I don’t like anger because it tends to overwhelm me. When I’m angry my instinct is to linger on what made me angry in the first place and my head is not exactly my best ally those times. Moving is what helps the most: walking faster and faster, dancing alone, tidying up, so on so forth. Writing may help too. If the person who made me angry - real angry - is still at hands, though… my words can be very unpleasant.

29) Do you have any obsession right now? Little, cute obsessions are How to train your dragon and a romantic couple in La voz dormida, an otherwise very painful and powerful movie about the early years of Francoism in Spain.

40) Are you the kind of friend you would want to have as a friend? Sometimes I am and sometimes I am not - you know how much I dislike my tendency to be self-centered. Well, that’s not something I’d be too fond of in a friend. There are times when I’m better, though, and those times I’d befriend myself with pleasure =)

55) You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again? AAAAAAAAH! No, you can’t make me choose ONLY one half-an-hour! I’ll just move on and assume you’re okay with me choosing some more of them - so: half-an-hour in my body when I was ten years old: I’d want to play rugby again, or just run, or prepare those ridiculously small sailing boats I used to sail in and do that with that boy who was a friend before having a boyfriend was a thing; I’d like to rejoice in the feeling of wholeness and health and strength of that body of mine, even for just one more time. Or: half an hour in Alguer, 2001, with you, and M., and S. who takes me by the hand while the sun sets over the sea, which is violet and terse and so, so sweet, and everything feels simple for the last time in so many years. Or: half an hour of dancing at Potemkin in the city that saved me in Spain, the Pink Floyd or the Killers playing louder and louder, a cloister of friends around me, and the rhythm taking over my body in a joyful ecstasy in which everything is just life, life burning with a thousand desires. Or: half an hour during the first days of April 2010: days of rebirth, of feeling whole again; the sparkles of a newborn sentiment which felt as pure as being born anew; Easter, our island, april showers, and the sudden sun.

57) You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your chice. Who would it be? Bwahahah ok. I’ll say it. It’s quite obvious. Bruce Springsteen. I want him. Now. (also, can I have a sleepover with Emmy the Great?)

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