Ok, it was like this: Yesterday I was an extra in a TV game show. I was in some kind of Pictionary game, but instead of pen and papier they used a shaver and six guys with hairy backs. Two F-list VIPs had to guess what image was forming onto our backs. Eventually I had a stylized mushroom on my back.

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Today it finally arrived: the 25th anniversary edition of Peter Gabriel's wonderful album "So".
I am so proud of having purchased it! That particular album is a relevant part of the soundtrack of my life, and I just wanted to know how it feels to hold in my hands my own special limited edition of something. It feels great!


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Today I cried to the music of the band "Everything Is Made In China". It felt like catharsis.

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Eventually I gasped listening to new music by Trent Reznor's new band How To Destroy Angels.
http://soundcloud.com/howtodestroyangels/keep-it-together

A picture of Modica, the place in Sicily I come from, taken in the year 1902, shortly before a devastating flood hit the city. It was also the birth year of my grandmother. She and her family were safe from the flood as they lived on the hill side of Modica.

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