kovachevitza and the art of oblivion

my friend rex, a rare expedition in the world of cute

21,000 words under sea level

three weeks of

writer's confinement

one wisdom tooth crisis

21ooo words

a gastroscopy

(no worries yet)

and a summer passing

down my window?

oh, well, and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0aTrKE-xck

european re-union

midnight resolution at toba & co

back to the gypsy...

the queen of bulgaria

the mighty mouse

a united nations observer

happy birthday, oona!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhNrrrCCTdA&feature=related

a playlist, as promised

antony and the johnsons – dust and water

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46rf1AUJXRU)
radiohead – reckoner

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIn_8EZWH7k&feature=fvst)

santogold - lights out

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwNkuw-YTVo)
the specials – ghost town

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4)
the gossip – heavy cross

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLLxdcrk0-s)
the killers – human

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCE1MeUZgNk)
the yeah yeah yeahs – hysteric

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqKjIquR5Bc&feature=related)
the gorillaz – don’t get lost in heaven

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1pu4O9vzLY)
bat for lashes - pearl's dream

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek3coSedm7o)

empire of the sun – we are the people

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj_Nlm0871E)
siouxsie and the banshees – dear prudence

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pHGwtc6ceM)

miles davis - human nature

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGBPSx1Zxlo)

the streets of napoli

some cities are not built

they spread like bacteria

reaching over topographies through abrupt gestures

napoli is one of them

the only one?

grandma will make pasta, and right next to her,

in the middle of the kitchen, someone will park a motorcycle,

tyres muddy from the rain outside,

and we will eat straight from the gigantic pot,

looking out on the street, through a door that we never close and,

through the rain,

there will be gushes of water of a different provenance,

the juice of dirty laundry graced by the tired smell of dirty soap

napoli is hungry

to climb up past the web of balconies

to clean up and erase the scars

but

napoli is eating well tonight...

amalfi of winds

under the skirt of this volcano:

a little bit of homemade pasta with fresh seafood, rich people's homes on impossible precipices, old people nodding off into their soup, the occasional blue-eyed swimming pool, a tennis court suspended over a lagoon, too many languid looks suggesting satiety or a certain boredom of a very pleasant kind

jamaica in roma

a wonderful place to die under public scrutiny

former pied a terres

trastevere grafitti

shutter bliss

god's residence in rome

official vatican propaganda

3/4 of heaven

the judges suspected foul play

feather-weight

one of many construction sites abandoned after the market crash

old money

the pantheon's life support

siena unspoilt

pushing nudists out of the garden of eden

wet tourists, unphased

the origins of skyscraping

running down that hill