Monday, May 19, 2008

I Bought A Boat With A Lien

Morning Star: reviews and notes scattered meeting pending

Pending that Bolger, or at least some of them have finished reading the Morning Star and / or have formed an opinion on Wu Ming 4 answers "imaging" to its reviewers. Among them, are cited Saverio Simonelli, that we all know ( his review here), and RS Blackswift ( here), in turn author - or should I say the authors - the delicious noir Monochrome , who personally advice. Among the other reviews scattered around the network, including that of Andrea Fannini and Giuseppe Genna . Also essential interview the author on yerba mate. Finally, keep an eye on, as James rightly reminded us of the good, the debate around the essay New Italian Epic .
Stay tuned.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Comando Online Arnold

Report 11/05/2008

... and after long lamented the absence, they return also reports monthly.

Present: Shelidon & Tafkal, Dawid & Donatella (bruised), Nymeria
-inclusive last minute: Tarabas

The meeting opened with a story from our friends from Verona, the Rohirrim : he told me how good Dèorwine e-mail, Friday, May 16 at 21 the group will organize the Library Mondadori Via Verdi 50, of Mantua at that, a nice presentation meeting. Subject of the initiative, the presentation of the book The Music of Lingalad - from Tolkien to the Secrets of Nature of Donato Zoppo (ed. Bastogi ). An exciting new piece in the already rich Italian publishing. It felt really miss him. Store

good news, we went to brief on the situation Nymeria Net Tolkien Festival, bringing to his attention some recent e-mail discussion group dall'apposito. [snip to which I refer to the mailing-list]
Having sent special greetings to Frodo, and which equally dense bolgericità the Bolger Bolger responded with a lovely text from Angera, the gay forum has gone to make some proposals for further initiatives, for which reference to guide the picnic, and mailing-list, next to e-mail to agree.
We have also been running a bit 'copy that the householder has given man the honor of his company, Morning Star Wu Ming 4. Why, you ask. The reason is clear from the cover flap: "Oxford, 1919. The First World War has just ended and a host of young veterans back on the shelves at university. The shadows of the dead comrades populate their nights, the academic routine has no answers to offer the horror experienced at the front. Overnight, the austere quiet of the college is disturbed by the arrival of TE Lawrence, the legendary "Lawrence of Arabia." Party as an archaeologist from Oxford and became inspired the Arab Revolt against the Turks, the man of action now has a new assignment: to write the memoir of his business. While the memories come to life, the saga of 'Lord Dynamite "alternates with the story of three survivors of the massacre: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, a philologist and writer of short stories, Clive Staples Lewis, a student of letters that the war has had the gift of a double life, Robert Graves, poet who tries in vain to free her verses from the nightmare of the trenches. The meeting with Lawrence will forever change their lives, will force everyone to confront their own ghosts and will be the new home of memorable stories. "
is planning a review of the book, if not more d ' one. In the meantime I'd like to know what you think our reader Journal of Wu Ming, the 'Ubi Mario , and our favorite reviewer, Fritz Tegularius. If you're listening, make a sign.

eviscerated these and other cool topics, having stopped to tell the breadwinner of the cultural ferment that reigns on other channels Tolkien, the group moved to the usual Grom ice cream and the usual Feltrinelli, to dissolve the assembly and taken back home the pain Donatella. How was the other initiatives of the weekend? Wood is burned right? And the concert football? Tell told told.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Sale Of Human Organ Debate

Lilium Aeris Berry




hasten hasten Hasten. The ensemble Lilium Aeris , and it is an honor to welcome among our ranks and distinguished members, Sunday, May 11 (day of the rally also Bolger) at 21 held that in football, and more specifically at the Abbey of Arlate, a concert of medieval music .
is what it is by the mouth of the newsletter group:

"Dear friends,
we are pleased to invite you to the next concert of the ensemble Lilium Aeris
to be held May 11 at the Abbey of Arlate, Calco (
province of Lecco). In
this page you will find some information about which
participate.
This will be a concert focusing on music from the twelfth or thirteenth century and
will include songs from the new album of medieval music to which we are working
well as music of the troubadour repertoire. "

Monday, May 5, 2008

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chez Le déjeuner sur l'herbe: lost in a year after Fagnana



It was not the homecoming we had planned, was not the initiative that we had hoped, there was the turnout that we had expected, the organization was far from impeccable. Yet we had fun. Hey, you remember anything?

As announced on several occasions in meetings and mailing-list vis-à-vis , yesterday some Bolger went on a picnic Fagnana memorial and a small discussion on possible future initiatives. Here is the guide of bucolic fun day.

Present: Shelidon & Tafkal, Donatella & Dawid, Paul & Andrea
Agenda: Fagnana lunch in front of, next to svacco Fagnana, proposals and dissertations on initiatives past, present and future, wild game of Munchkin.
Menu: pasta salad with tuna cooked by Dawid in a way that was not bnene Dawid, rustic tart that Dawid did not like, crushed Dawid who deemed it inappropriate for consistency, bread and cold cuts (which is not Dawid is pronounced), blueberry pie, cherry.

After briefed those present on the issue III Festival and developments of Tolkien Net, the group bolgericissima launched into a discussion on a range of short-term projects, more or less feasible. Referring to the mailing list for the display of some of these projects, here are some suggestions for outings and meetings for the next month:
  • Saturday 10 and Sunday, May 11: Book Fair of Turin : . As announced by Alberto in mailing-list, the weekend of the regular meeting Bolger is the book fair in Turin. As pointed out by Albert, if you would be the case to go Saturday. But there you go? I'm not sure I care.
  • Sunday, May 11: Palio di Legnano : as always warmly announced Tarabas in mailing-list, the Sunday of the rally in that the Palio di Legnano of the districts. And I'm reasonably sure that I do not care (but if the initiative collecting signatures, we can think of a rally outside the city Bolger);
  • Sunday, May 18 the FAI organizes the Monastery of Torba (province of Varese) staging "A day in the history ", "a troupe of traveling players to tell visitors, between reality and fantasy, the stories of those who lived in this place now more than a thousand years ago: The head, which tells of from square to square his wanderings in search of glory, the Mother Superior, who complains to the excessive a novice, confined against his will in the walls of the convent, the Legionnaires, who awaits the arrival of unnecessarily frightening and dangerous invaders of the Empire, and finally the simple peasant, which marks the time of life with slowly changing seasons. " ;
  • Sunday, May 25 at Villa Della Porta Cocoon (Casalzuigno, always in the Varese) always FAI organizes theater Stories ", an initiative linked to the puppets (and some also noted that if we are interested we could also avoid the kind of climb up to Varese and go to see the real the glue, sometimes, even the
  • FAI organizes Sunday, May 25 the Castello della Manta (in Cuneo) initiative Frescoes on the scene, with guided tours to the park and medieval festivals, hunting scenes and more;
  • to Monday 2 June, a Royal Palace , stationed on the show futurist Balla (to the delight of Elderion) Bolger about which some have expressed interest: it is not my thing, but even here, where the initiative is riscuotesse accessions can think of a cultural trip Bolger.
I remind you that, even this year, will most likely repeat the Gardaland trip to Bolger, almost surely and certainly after May 12 week: the Bolger and who are interested in bigiare work / school / college to give a voice.

end of the day:
  • to Dawid is never anything good;
  • you need to stop giving us the hole;
  • we're not used to being outdoors;
  • none of us are allergic to pollen of poplars;
  • we need a picnic basket for Bolger;
  • noob to the Munchkin to be stopped regardless, no matter what seems to be trailing, because he always ends up winning.

In the images, in order from top:

Kill Scabies With Nail Polish

The Hobbit - The Inevitable Return of ...

back from four days of little rest, but also a nice déjeuner sur l'herbe Bolger in Cascina Fagnana one year after the terrible events , with renewed energy I find in a box set of news cinematographic happy (oh yeah?) propose here. The more informed you are already aware of the news, the less well informed fregherà probably nothing, but it is possible that some ingenuotto back from Foggia do not yet have heard, so here is the series of news (thanks to my friend Julian I reported this article help catch up with all the news).


Guillermo del Toro, now confirmed by the director of the film of The Hobbit, issued April 25 an exclusive interview to TheOneRing.Net . In the interview, the director of Pan's Labyrinth first announced its intention to be heard several times on the tag-board Forum and, secondly, he complains that Bolger does not have one. Then ended their grievances to the now obsolete blog of the Milan group, moved on to discuss some aspects of his poetry and applications of these principles to the transposition of the book by Tolkien.
What shines a greater extent from the interview, spiegabilissimo in terms of marketing, I find it a desire for continuity with the work of Peter Jackson , beginning with the desire not to embark in the direction of the film unless the legal issues between the former director and New Line had not been resolved. Del Toro announces continuity with regard to location yet - New Zealand - and regarding use of the same: "the location can be improved by technology, of course, digital or not. What I want to avoid, however, is to recreate the natural environments in digital graphics : it is not something I enjoy doing. The film is basically a travel film, I think you should use the location as possible. " To a large extent, this is - at least in words - to make a cube that Peter Jackson has done, that is largely an "assembly" on several floors of existing landscapes. "The essential elements for keeping continuity are on track, "he said when asked about the future use or otherwise of special effects Weta Digital. The confirmation of many members of the same cast and the staff is further evidence of a desire to build a true "prequel" to the Jackson movie, instead of a stand-alone product: confirmed Andy Serkis, Ian McKellen , Howard Shore, John Howe, Gino Acevedo (the supervisor at Weta trick), Richard Taylor (creative supervisor maquette, monsters and all that jazz ) and, apparently, even Alan Lee. And Del Toro a nice reassurance, in the same interview about the plot a story that would be independent: the autonomy of a product should be something else and I would have preferred to Hobbit entirely different interpretation of Tolkien subcreation than that given by Jackson, I do not feel very satisfied after reading this. Not if the differences, at least according to Del Toro, are attributable to a chromatic scale "more golden" and less use of computer graphics in the creation of monsters.

Now, that thing about responding to a question on notorious "second film" , what should pursue chronologically between Lo Hobbit e la trilogia.
«You know, I traveled to New Zealand just a little while ago, and one of the main reasons for going was to sit down and talk about the second film. The Hobbit , the book, is really one self-contained film, so for the second movie we sat down and worked it out. When we did this we got really excited because this second film is not a ‘tag on’, it’s not ‘filler’, it’s an integral part of telling the story of those 50 years of history lost in the narrative. There will be certain things that we will see from the first movie but from a different point of view, but it will feel like a volume, in the 5 volumes of the entire story. It will not feel like a bridge, I’ve hearing it Been Called 'a bridge film', it's not, it's an integral chapter of the story, and I think we're all on the Same Page. "
Fear, eh?