domenica 16 gennaio 2011

Distance

Raining mosques,
falling flags,
on my head and on my shoulders.

Must i tell how that place is out of ordinary? so extraordinary? how is beautiful hookah breathing? how are beautiful some laughts? how is it all new? how is beautiful that house? or how is normal to fight the independence of their country? how turkish people are so fucking nice? how turkish is so beautiful?
how all is so beautiful, big decadent but handy? how is possible movin?
and how i feel home in this country of genuine people?
Do you need to know it??

(10,9,2010)

Istanbul breakfast!






Istanbul, new and old, forgotten (or remembered by few person, perhaps only by the domes of mosques discolored) and desired city

Two reading keys of the city, two different colours.
Sometime i forget that i'm here, i sit down looking without searching more deeply, multinational stores and 500 hundred years old mosques can easily looked throughout without cracks, but superficially.

How can't we asking questions? and after you did that, starts difficulties.

It's hard to understand, and comprehend this city, resigned to the idea of a blindy accepting and stop.
See a woman and her chador in the street, and observing just behind she an high class shop, maybe european, maybe french, change its significance.

Veiled women in black, with eyes not resigned for all, nothing sad, non like the thinking the countries enslaved by the images-cult, them, under the heavy dark coat hide their woman's body, the same than me; them, with every head colored by veil, caring on their shoulders the weight of an Istanbul that is disappear, destroyed and consummated and changed and still change, old falling and wonderful Istanbul.

The old and the new, perfectly divided, incredibly detached, but approached in an only City of Cities.
New people, open to the new, embracing foreign people makes Istanbul new and really advanced in the spirit, and makes it all that She is now, that continue to be, and if it isn't for them, she couldn't exist enough.

Fall and rise, every building, every door, every face.

(14,9,2010)

School's Garden

Students bouncing and swaying here and there with books, coffee, albums, instruments, well dressed and torn clothes, without looking too much around, with the air of who is doing really important things and the cockiness that only young people keep in their eyes, non exactly touched deeply by spiked club that forced changes of direction are.

The sign "men at work" is there between students that pass by. Only the noise of pneumatic hammers don't cares about barriers or respect or different worlds and destroy all that it has around, he love to destroy the professor's voices.


Fat cats pointing the garden, sit down compounded or sprawled, they are borderline between animal life and human life.

There are also janitors in pajama that supported by the window seems upon rising, while some others, more early-riser, looking for keeping, with a little rake, all the leaves that doesn't stop falling down.

If we consider the number of components, the world that win is the one of little çay glasses, here if now all they can animate thyself by homicide fury, there would be nothing about this peaceful place, would be destroyed by evil little glasses.

Last look to the water tank in the middle, looking south the water is full of leaves, keeped there by the wind.

(27,10,2010)

Bitches, bombs and Flags





Today is the 31th of october, and i'm writing not because i need that, but because one day i would read and fix, with words that i can't choose, that day.

Two days ago i was walking between turkish flags  waving in everywhere in Osmambey, in the Turkish Republic Day, breathing joy of live in your country. 
It was a feast day, of proud and unconditionally happy acceptance, that it's not ever a good thing because it hasn't a critic sense, infact i mean in a negative way; but in italy i miss the proud, i never felt proud the two of june, maybe because i feel that nobody feel that, and there are waving flags only for football matches.
In italy i'll found infact, waiting me at my return, the old issues of "La Stampa" near the library, and i know that all the first pages will expose all the imbarassing newspaper articles that i can read online, and it will be the parade names of the Premier's dental igenist, , the Premier's journalists, the Premier's Tv presenter, the Premier's bitches and the Premier's aides, the foot cleaner, soup-cookers, rather if woman, maybe busy in some ritual totally naked.

Today, 500 meters far from my home in Istanbul, a man blew himself up, and i can't understand how the most important publications can propose for more than a week in first page supped and useless articles on sex political scandal that, at the day appear only for turn-attention about the real and radiated social disasters.

I live here and i'm happy about it, i'm happy of fighting in this reality, hard reality, real reality.
Tonight, only a few hours from the attack, walking by foot in Taksim, all was exactly equal at the other evenings, other days, people walking eating a "dondurma" and police stayed here and there hanging rifles from there necks, like every evening.
The "normal" word", "but it's normal, horrible, but normal".
Death habit.
From 27 years Istanbul is subjected to terroristic attacks, until 8 years ago there was weekly attacks, 60.000 people died in that until now, and i understand that the country can't do anything. They can accept the fear, live it, can accept and stop. The most incredible thing to understand for me, is that for everybody life continues.In a few Hours life restarts like ever.


11,11,2010

sabato 15 gennaio 2011

Impression

Taksim Bus Stops
Empty, Full.





Art Ataturk.

Loving fishing.

Tavla in Gran Bazaar.

The çay entrepreneur.

My lazy home, in Istanbul.

Galata Tower, painted by my friend came to visit me.

Nap.

venerdì 14 gennaio 2011

Istanbul, Litfiba, Lyrics



"[...] I have traveled in the cold
Face to face with my
Shadow which cast
In the white veil of time
Istanbul Istanbul

I have traveled in the cold
Faceless no age
Piloting a
Body without a guide in Istanbul,
Istanbul
Istanbul sacred bulwark for
The 'crossing of the races of man will burn'
I 've tried in the cold
It was just the `
My face in the mud of Istanbul,
Istanbul Istanbul sacred bulwark
The 'crossing of the races of man will burn'
Istanbul, Istanbul
Dark forces in Istanbul
Istanbul, Istanbul [...]"




" [...] Ho viaggiato nel freddo 

Faccia a faccia con la mia 
Ombra che si gettava 
Nel bianco velo del tempo 
Istambul Istambul 

Ho viaggiato nel freddo 
Senza volto senza eta` 
Pilotando un 
Corpo senza guida a Istambul, 
Istambul 
Istambul baluardo sacro per 
L' incrocio delle razze degli uomini bruciera` 
L' ho cercato nel freddo 
Se ne stava solo la` 
Il mio volto nel fango di Istambul, 
Istambul Istambul baluardo sacro per 
L' incrocio delle razze degli uomini brucera` 
Istambul, Istambul 
Forze oscure in Istambul 
Istambul, Istambul [...] "