Just received a rather frantic call from my father, informing me my mother's s been diagnosed a strangulated hernia and will be undergoing emergency surgery within minutes. I'm hitting the road to Piacenza right away. Kudos and wishes most welcome.

I've finally found a new place to stay! A nice single room, much unlike your usual student flatshare as the landlords actually lived there with his family up to last year - which means good furniture, elbow room, all comforts. A bit far-off into the suburbs, but this is hardly a malus - if nothing else, it'll make for long, healthy walks in the ( Read more... )

One nice thing about looking for a new accomodation in an University town is the chance to get acquainted with all sorts of freaks: from the terminally apathetic thirtysomething undergraduate to the guy who prides himself for living in a mold-ridden, rat-infested cellar because "dude, it's so near the city centre", and so on. However, booking a ( Read more... )

Sooo, after showing off my new camera a few days ago I heard you wanted some pictures. Well, here be pictures. There you go.

( Warning: cute inductors inside )

If nothing else, one reason for sneaking into dangerous, unwholesome abandoned places, is the (infinitesimal) odds of stumbling into something like this.

... let me introduce you to my new toy.


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Late night, baking hot, no sleep.

Thunder cracks in a distance.

( Save the planet )

Wondering: is it just by chance that after being to Forms of Hands 07 my appreciation of scruffy jungleish stuff has increased by a factor of ten, while my interest in anything even remotely related to the italian electro scene has near-instantly dropped down to a neat, net zero ( Read more... )

Riddle riddle: suppose it's monday morning. Suppose you're wired up and jittery as fuck after a couple of days abstinence from smoking - hands trembling, light-headed with hyperoxigenation, your sense of smell agonisingly amplified ( Read more... )