mamma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLkONVcfvNg

I look at a picture of my mother:
she was happy, she was probably three years old, 
she squeezed a doll -
the most coveted gift - on her chest. 
It was her birthday party, 
a faded black and white. 
I look at my mother at that time and I see again 
my own smile. 

And I think of how many times 
I felt her distant. 
And I think of how many times... 

I would have wanted to tell her about me, 
at least ask her the reason 
of those long and hostile moments of silence 
and of carelessness. 
Every time again I proved to be inflexible, 
inaccessible and proud,
intimately fierce, 
fearing a silly rivalry. 

I look at a picture of my mother: 
she was happy, she was probably twenty, 
her hair gathered in a silk scarf 
and a lost expression. 
Clear snapshot of the Sixties 
in a shiny Catania. 
I observe it carefully and find 
my own expression.

And I think of how many times 
I felt her distant. 
And I think of how many times... 

I would have wanted to tell her about me, 
at least ask her the reason 
of those long and hostile moments of silence 
and of arbitrary indolence. 
Every time again I proved to be inflexible, 
inaccessible and proud,
intimately fierce,   
fearing an innate rivalry. 

I would have wanted to tell her about me, 
at least ask her the reason ... ... 
I would have wanted to tell her about me 
at least ask her the reason ... ...

bocca di rosa

They used to call her 'rose lips'
she put love, she put love,
they called her 'rose lips',
she put love in the first place.

Just as she dropped at the station
in the village of San Vicario,
everyone realized with a glance
that she was not a missionary.

Some people do love so for boredom,
some others choose it to profession,
'rose lips' neither one, nor the other:
she did it for love.

But the passion often leads
to satisfy one's cravings
without investigating whether the one you sleep with
has a free heart, or has a wife.

And so suddenly
'rose lips' attracted on herself
the deadly wrath of the dogs
to which she had stolen the bone.

But the old ladies of a village
do not certainly have much initiative,
countermeasures up to that point
were limited to invective.

We know that people give good advice
feeling like Jesus in the temple,
we know that people give good advice
if they cannot be a bad example.

So one old lady, never been married
without children and without cravings,
engaged herself and certainly enjoyed
to give to the other women the right advice.

And turning to the betrayed women,
she told them with witty words:
"The theft of love will be punished -
she said - from the official police."

And to the betrayed women
she said without paraphrase:
"That slut has already too many customers,
more than a food consortium."

Four gendarmes came
with plumes, with plumes on their hat
and four gendarmes arrived
with plumes on their hat and with the weapons.

Tender heart is not a dowry
which characterizes gendarmes,
but in that occasion they were reluctant
to accompany her to the train.

They were all there at the station,
everybody from the Superintendent to the sexton,
they were all there at the station
with red eyes and their hat in the hand

to greet who for a little
unpretentiously, unpretentiously,
to greet who for a little
had brought love in the town.

There was a yellow sign
written in black,
it said "Goodbye rose lips,
with you the spring is leaving."

But original news
do not need any newspaper,
just like an arrow from an arch leaves
they fly fast from mouth to mouth.

And at the next station
there were far more people than when the train left,
some sent a kiss, some threw a flower,
some made an appointment for two hours.

Even the pastor, who 

between ordinary miserere and extreme unction 

does not despise the good ephemeral beauty,
wants her next to himself during the procession.

And with the Virgin in the first row
and rose lips not so far away
sacred love and profane love
are led together around the town.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jJYA9xaqcs

A for apple

When I was 6 I started learning English in primary school and we used to sing a song...but I cannot find in in Youtube...aargh!!!!
And I cannot remember it exactly....

A for apple, B for ball,
C for cat and D for doll.
E for eagle, F for friend,
G for ? and H for Hand.
I for ice, J for ?,
K for ? and L for log.
M for moon, N for not,
O for ? and P for pot.
Q for quick, R for red,
S for ? and T for Ted.
U for ?, V for ?,
W for ? and X for x-ray?.
Y for yacht, Z for zip,
boys and girls now close your lips!!!.

But I found a cute one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtFXYvNIxws (and the melody is the same of my song!!!!)

Lot of laughs

And don't tell me that u never had the thought "I did everything wrong!!!"

Hilarious

Do you know these??? I used to sing them back as a child...

One banana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6xz0HXomZo
Uattanciù: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKIdQUA5RDA&NR=1
Il fachiro Casimiro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEaFuWS34eY&feature=related
Jack va in cucina con Tina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvCxzmCWscc&feature=related
C'era un cocomero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kItq7g0a0tg&feature=related
Laurenzia cara Laurenzia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywGDPbbmnQ&feature=related

Wish u were here, my friend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1moiym6-Nk

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell,
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

cheers!

Now everything is clear. Yesterday I got to my hotel in Daytona Beach and my floor was crowded with young teenagers, cheerleaders. I thought "How lucky I am: my first time in the US and I can see them". This morning I went down to the beach and there were another couple of groups of cheerleaders taking photos. Then I walked to the city centre and it was crowded with little girls, teenagers and mothers....all dressed like cheerleaders, some were training and stretching.

Now I came back to the hotel and read
The State Cheer & Dance Championships
January 9 -11, 2009
Daytona Beach, Florida

...everything is clear now!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZyAXvtawEU

to shamrock

...the daughter, married with a daughter, confesses her mother that her husband has an affair. She (Meg Ryan) says her mother that she has no idea how does it feel and the mother answers...

Catherine Frazier: It feels like someone kicked you in the stomach, feels like your heart stopped beating, feels like that dream you know the one when you are falling and you want so desperately to wake up before you hit the ground but it's all out of your control, you can't trust anything anymore, no one is who they say they are, your life is changed forever, and the only thing to come out of the whole ugly experience is no one will be able to break your heart like that again.

from "The women" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXWjjISkRi0

EiAiEiEi

I've been here this week http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=1811

And that's where you meet working on your same stuff. And that's where you realize how wonderful science can be. And that's when you remember why you chose to do what you are doing :)

2009: magnolia's odyssey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prjWY0rwM_U&feature=related

flying to the moon

Today I was here http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/

Kind of touristic space, but also very nice. This high technology in a green sunny area with the ocean, lots of birds and alligators :) And there was a nice video of one of the astronauts who was walking on the surface of the moon and singing a song. I don't know what song was that, but since I saw that video I'm keeping singing in my mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rAsoLm1Ges

Fly me to the moon
Let me sing among those stars
Let me see what spring is like
On jupiter and mars

Dinner for one

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9105942950207814319

James: By the way, the same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?

Miss Sophie, delightedly: The same procedure as every year, James!

James: Well, I'll do my very best!