This is Italy.... Again.

The director of the Museum were this piece of art have been exposed, has been fired, just because she decided to show this piece in the Museum. The Pope too spoke against it, and there you go: no crucified frog in the Museum anymore and no director anymore.

Isnt it written in the Italian Costitution that Italy is a lay nation? Shouldnt the Pope not intervene with something that is NOT concerning religion??

Well, this is Italy. AGAIN.

New Barbie "The Birds"

A nice omage to the great film director from Mattel. Funny, dont you think?
Well, it is defiitely a "must have" in my new flat.

Answers to Saviano from Napolitano - President of Italy - and Berlusconi (NO, he´s NOT the Italian President)

For those who cant understand Italian, it is pretty clear that Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic is expressing his solidarity to Roberto Saviano and he´s also saying that the threats against Saviano are threats against the Italian culture and against civil society in Italy. He´s not actually saying anything against Saviano leaving Italy, I assume that he think it´s a good idea.
What Berlusconi is saying is that the Italian government should grant to Saviano the right not to have fear. What the hell is that suppose to mean?
He is adding that the Italian government should grant the absolute incolumity of Saviano. Berlusconi is saying clearly that Saviano shouldnt leave Italy. Maybe because he´s one of the camorre people who would like to see Saviano dead???

GIORGIO NAPOLITANO. Caro direttore, le minacce a Roberto Saviano, da parte del più feroce clan camorristico, sono una sfida non solo alla cultura ma alla coscienza civile del paese. Lo Stato deve fare la sua parte come garante della sicurezza e della legalità. Ma tutti devono comprendere che sono in giuoco valori basilari di libertà e di dignità nazionale, che è in giuoco il prestigio dell'Italia democratica in Europa. Roberto Saviano è stato costretto a una vita dura, a una vita assurda: bisogna fargli sentire che non è solo.

SILVIO BERLUSCONI. Egregio direttore, vorrei rincuorare Roberto Saviano e dirgli di tenere duro, di non cedere alle minacce della camorra. Abbiamo ripulito Napoli e la Campania dai rifiuti; intendiamo agire con la stessa determinazione per liberare l'intero Mezzogiorno dalla camorra e dalla criminalità organizzata. Ai giovani talenti come Saviano dobbiamo tutti una civile gratitudine: ma il Governo gli deve qualcosa di più. Deve garantirgli il diritto a non avere paura, la tutela più completa della sua incolumità. E su questo prendiamo assoluto impegno.

Roberto Saviano leaving Italy after death threat.

ROME - The author of the best-selling book "Gomorra" about the mafia in Naples, which has been made into a hit movie, wants to leave Italy to try to have a more normal life after reports that the mob wants him dead by Christmas.

After reports that the "Camorra", as the Naples mafia is known, has added urgency in its threat to kill Roberto Saviano, the 29-year-old who has been in hiding for two years said he was tired of being a "prisoner" of his book's success.


"I'm going away from Italy, at least for a while, then I'll see," he told La Repubblica newspaper.
"Right now I don't see why I should keep living like this, as a prisoner of myself, my book, my success. Fuck success. I want a life, that's all," said Saviano.
"I want to take a walk, get some sun, walk in the rain, meet my mother without scaring her and being afraid."
First published in 2006, the gritty chronicle of how the Camorra dominates life around Naples and makes its money -- by a local boy who saw his first murder victim at 13 -- has sold 1.2 million copies in Italy and been translated into 42 languages.

Saviano worked in a textile and building firm controlled by the mob to research his book, which narrates the Camorràs involvement in protection rackets, drug trafficking, smuggling and even illegal waste disposal.

Saviano worked in a textile and building firm controlled by the mob to research his book, which narrates the Camorràs involvement in protection rackets, drug trafficking, smuggling and even illegal waste disposal.

Now "Gomorra" has hit the big screen and is a candidate for the Oscars, the mafia is said to be even angrier and wants Saviano killed by the end of the year.

Naples police said they were checking the veracity of the reports and politicians from President Giorgio Napolitano down commented on the need to safeguard Saviano's life.

Separated from friends and family and moved from one police barracks to another to avoid attempts on his life, the writer asked: "What is my crime? Why must I live like a recluse, a leper, hidden away from life, the world and other men?" "I only wanted to tell the story of my people, my land and their humiliation," he said, raging against the head of the notorious Casalesi clan of the Camorra, Francesco Schiavone (nicknamed "Sandokan" after a fictional pirate), who is currently serving a life jail sentence.

A police informer said it was Schiavone's Casalesi clan, which is based in Casal di Principe near Naples where Saviano grew up, who wanted the writer murdered as soon as possible.


Saviano gave no clue as to where he would try to rebuild his life, for obvious reasons, saying only that when first obliged to go into hiding in 2006 he rejected advice to leave for New York: "I stayed here, but how long can I carry this cross?".

Lately I am wondering why the letter "M" has so much importance in my life.
It is really true what Pirandello was saying "Bisogna che tutto cambi perchè tutto rimanga uguale" or, with Eddie Vedder word, "Everything has changed, absolutely nothing changed".

I have the urge to write and take pics.

Rule Number One

Never say to other people something that you wouldnt like other people telling you.

Italy part 1

it's been a while since the last time I was able to post something. My laptop has something wrong and wont connect wireless here, cant understand why. It seems that as soon as I am living Berlin it starts refusing working properly. Probably it's just time to buy a new one, but dont have enough money to do that right now and I am about to spend a lot of money as I am moving out from the flat I am actually leaving in.

Had a nice Saturday with my sister and my brother. We went around in my hometown drinking all together, then eating in a nice restaurant and then drinking again! My brother and me we drove home at 2, our mum was waiting for us awake, as, as usual, I didnt tell her that I wasnt actually coming home for dinner...she was kind of pissed and she was definitely right.

Sunday I stayed home, my grandparents came for lunch, it was their 60th wedding anniversary.

Monday and Tuesday I was in Siena, I passed both my exams and I am quite satifisfied of that.
I saw my friends, it was very nice since that long time. I went to the bookshop and bought some books I'll definitely enjoy while back in Berlin.
I had booked a room in the heart ofthe city, my room was up in the topfloor and I had a great view from the balcony. I'll post the pictures I have taken from there.

Sunday I'll leave from Florence and I'll be back in Berlin in the early afternoon. Glad of that. It always feels good to be back in the most beautiful city in the world.

Peace.