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VEROnica's Interests
General
Arts and culture.
Travelling in body and mind, in space and time, in people.
The top for me is to find the right thing to do, the right word to say... or to use in my poem.
Trying to be useful, helpful, good for the others (my addiction - not always successful, alas!)
The talents I lack: to keep control when necessary, to plan, to notice details, to pretend, and not to care.
Music
Music is my divinity. Not to serve it is my great sadness. To worship it is my great delight.
Music is the greatest mystery, although we are used to it. Nobody can explain the endless power of this sequence of tones, its capacity to express all the hints of soul.
My pop idols and life teachers for years have been Albano (Sun in person) and Renato Zero (Moon in person) - united in this planet parade year!
My soft points span from Sarah Brightman to Scorpions - infinite forms of the same thrill... in between are Matia Bazar, Laura Valente, A.Ruggero, Paola Turci, Modugno, Ofra Haza...
My all-time loves are Mozart,Verdi,Chaikovskij... and A.L.Webber. With many others there have been shorter or longer stories, each one unique.
My songs: "Silhouette in red" by B.Tyler, "Appena in tempo" & "Accade" by R.Zero, "Così ti scrivo" by L.Bertè, "Kicks after six"&"When love kills love" by Scorps, "Fata Morgana" by Ofra Haza, "Armata fino ai denti" by Paola Turci...
Movies
Tutto Fellini, tutto Benigni, most of Almadovar, "Farinelli voce regina", "Neverending story", "Lethal weapon" trilogy (guess why), "Aristocats", some Russian cult comedies... Ah how could I forget? Everything with Banderas! Eh eh everybody has bad habits ;)..
Television
Good films and educational programmes (Discovery channel, History channel etc.), the "Highlander" series (Amanda is my archetype); and of course musical shows.
Books
Narnia, Sidhartha, Das Parfum, Veronika decide di morire, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Prophet by Kahil Gibran... Poems: Dante, Petrarca, Lermontov, Russian symbolists and acmeists...
Heroes
Great men who have influenced the world without hurting it.
Small men who have found their role on Earth and fulfil it with dignity.
...I'm a runaway freight train,
The eye of a hurricane,
A tiger under the bed,
A hunter with a hungry heart,
I'm incurable:
A new sensation means NO RESERVATION......
("Sexual device" by Bonnie Tyler)
I am a Sphinx - between Leo & Virgo, meaning a double nature: human head and lion heart - rational mind and crazy temper.
I am transpatriotic! - have always felt more Italian than Russian (like my city, in a way...).
I am Catholic for the reasons of karma! Credo in Unum Elefantum of which some have touched the legs, some the tail, some the nose...
To live 1 day in vain is my recurrent nightmare.
TONGUE is my working tool, my weapon, my painting brush, my replicator and time machine... and often my enemy!
I am an interpreter, I help people to understand each other, to comunicate, to collaborate, not to get lost in a foreign land... I am free-lance, I go where I am needed, change places and spheres... I love my profession. It is not just earning money - it's more like justifying my presence on the surface of Earth :)...
My symbol is: the Strength
Fortitude, strength, energy, vitality. Power not arrested in the act of judgement, but passing on to further action, sometimes obstinacy.
This card represents both the Lion's hot, roaring energy, and the Maiden's steadfast will. A woman covered in flowers who may be opening or closing a lion's mouth. Above her head is the cosmic lemniscate of eternal life. She is showing spiritual courage. DIVINATION MEANING : Indicates willpower to overcome adversity. Love over hate. Spiritual power overcoming material power.
With strength you can control not only the situation, but yourself. It is about anger and impulse management, about creative answers, leadership and maintaining one's personal honor. It can also stand for a steadfast friend.
The message of the Strength: "It's hard when you love something so much you want to possess it. But we do not possess anything. If you let go of the stone, it will one day become the sand beneath your feet"
Who I'd like to meet: Old friends, starting from the undersigned, for you never know anybody enough.
New people with their stories and energies, creative and stimulating, breaking the routine and opening new horizons, with whom to speak the same language (whatsoever), to have something to offer each other, to feel on the same wave and be ourselves..........................................................................
The song below is my personal hymn: "She's looking far, far away - It seems there is no escape from the prison without bars - Only to follow the bright stars..."
...e adesso il tendone blu...e' un giorno che fu...che io dovrei dimenticare? No...son giorni difficili da dire...da interpretare per chi come me ha vissuti quei giorni di rose in celofane... quei giorni che chi mai li scordera'... e se c'eri anche tu in quelle folli notti sotto il tendone blu...mi chiedo come fai a non capirmi...
Wow!!! Grazie mille Veronica soprattutto per aver capito al 100% tutto. Non solo il significato palese delle parole ma anche ciò che ho cercato di dire con la musica abbinata al testo in modo per nulla casuale. Poi vabbè va anche detto che questo tipo di musica "poco dinamico" mi è assai più congeniale di altri... ognuno gioca le carte che ha... Come hai perfettamente notato ho cercato anche di ammorbidire il suono rinunciando a molta elettronica e dando al brano un pizzico di melodia in più e una struttura decisamente più convenzionale... Ovviamente non vuol dire che sia la mia nuova strada... ogni brano, come ogni tua poesia immagino, è una storia a se inserita in un contesto più ampio. Grazie ancora sei tanto carina.
Ciao Veronica, ma non dovevamo rimanere in contatto?!? Si lo so il tempo è quello che è... Sai che finalmente sono riuscito a trovare la poesia dello strumento musicale? Ti ho scritto anche un commento... è proprio bella. Io nel frattempo sono riuscito a finire una nuova canzone, mi farebbe molto piacere sapere che ne pensi, riesci sempre a sorprendermi (e mi raccomando niente falso buonismo, adoro la schietta e brutale sincerità!)... A presto Ale (qui sotto il commento standard) Nella mia nuova canzone me la prendo con uno dei due oggetti raffigurati in questa immagine e soprattutto con la bassezza delle ambizioni che porta ad avere... "il silenzio non è più di moda".
Come sempre sarò felicissimo per ogni ascolto e grato a chi vorrà dirmi che ne pensa.
Привет дорогая Веро! Вот я и врернулась из очередной поездки :) На сей раз по маршруту Гамбург - Вена. В Гамбурге была на двух концертах Шиллера. Позже выложу фотографии, наверное. Сейчас вот пытаюсь написать речь - в пятницу защита дилома.
