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Mike Patton – Mondo Cane

Mike Patton – Mondo Cane

Apr 30, 2010 | 2010, Toons | 2 comments

Since I first saw it 10 years ago as a student, I’ve been a huge fan of the ‘original shockumentary’ Mondo Cane, and managed to find an 8 DVD version from the states. The original Mondo Cane is infinitely better than the reprisals, sequels and...
Letter to D – A Love Story

Letter to D – A Love Story

Sep 12, 2009 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

You refused to follow the fashion and had your own ideas about what to wear. You refused to let advertising or marketing supply you with needs you didn’t feel. On holidays, we’d stay either ‘with a family’ in Spain, or in modest hotels or...
Marcovaldo

Marcovaldo

Aug 4, 2008 | Fiction | 2 comments

The heavy man pointed the tip of his cane towards the rows of lights that were coming on, down below. “In the evening,” he said, “with this stick I take my walk in the city. I choose a street, a row of lamps, and I follow it, like this… I stop...
Marcovaldo

Marcovaldo

Jun 18, 2008 | Fiction | 0 comments

At the summons of the loudspeaker, the crowd of customers was gripped by a frantic haste, as if these were the last minutes in the last supermarket of the whole world, an urgency either to grab everything there was or to leave it there – the motive wasn’t...