This is the second part of the list of memories I wrote down for the illustrated book I'm working on. (I found a curator and I'm preparing a presentation for the publisher.)
I'm not translating the whole list (about 230 memories, and growing) because many of the things I talk about are not comprehensible for the not-italian readers. Everyone's childhood is pretty local, you know. ;)
But many other of memories are not local: movies, books, tv shows, news come to us also from the dominant culture of the world - which is the American one, as everyone knows. ;)
So, in this list I translated to English just a part of my memories. I posted half of them yesterday. Now, here are the other ones.
- I remember "The Boheme", the "Don Giovanni" and "Le nozze di Figaro"
- I remember a record by Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillespie with "A night in Tunisia"
- I remember a three-volume edition of "War and Peace"
- I remember "The Call of the Wild".
- I remember "Davy Crockett in Baltimore"
- I remember "Jesus Christ Superstar"
- I remember the faces of Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Clint Eastwood and Gian Maria Volonté.
- I remember "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965)
- I remember "Apocalypse Now"
- I remember Tarzan played by Johnny Weissmuller
- I remember "Caravaggio" by Derek Jarman
- I remember the wax pasted to the fingers, working in a Art foundry.
- I remember the first stones I sculpted using a drill and a screwdriver
- I remember the first canvas I painted with oil colors
- I remember the first bronze and brass meltings.
- I remember playing Subbuteo
- I remember "Wings of Desire" and "The Gospel According to St. Matthew", and an exhibition I did from those movies.
- I remember the quicksand in the movies and comics.
- I remember Pippi Longstocking and how we envied her
- I remember the liquid mercury from broken thermometers.
- I remember a peasant woman skinning a rabbit in the field.
- I remember the fireflies trapped in a glass.
- I remember the pages for female underwear in a mail order catalogue
- I remember that, after the dentistry, you were entitled to have an ice cream.
- I remember Grendizer, Heidi, (Nobody's Boy:) Remi and Mazinger.
- I remember the Olympic Games in Montreal
- I remember camping in the woods.
- I remember Elias Canetti's death
- I remember David Foster Wallace's suicide
- I remember rubbing the eyes to see images inside the eyelids
- I remember the Chernobyl Disaster
- I remember Gorbachev, the perestroika and the glasnost.
- I remember the punch cards computer at the Engineering College.
- I remember that Savarez and Augustine were classic guitar strings brands.
- I remember "The day of Triffids" (novel).
- I remember the movies starring Fred Astaire
- I remember the gear lever of the Renault R4.
- I remember a summer spent reading "In search of lost time" (7 volumes).
- I remember an emotional piano concert of Sviatoslav Richter
- I remember Antonio Inoki (wrestling)
- I remember Kirk Douglas playing Bix Beiderbecke - and Ulisses too.
- I remember bars and shops that were where now are other bars and shops.
- I remember I confused Jean Pierre Belmondo and Clay Regazzoni. (?)
- I remember I thought Isabelle Adjani was the most beautiful woman in the world.
- I remember the documentary films by Jacques Cousteau.
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Do you want to tell me any of your memories? :)
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