Rivedere G. è stato emozionalmente forte.
Ha lo sguardo triste, di un cane bastonato, ma sa farmi ridere per ore.
Vive in una baita ad Avigliana, nel cuore della Val di Susa. La sua stanza, tutta dipinta di azzurro, affaccia su un lago enorme e sulle montagne innevate. Ha degli amici stupendi, come lui. Nessuno fa un cazzo, precisa , ma dicono tutti che sono artisti. Tony, ad esempio. Avrà circa 60 anni e fa il restauratore ed è felice di cucinare per una decine di ragazzi affamati e strafatti di canne.
Non lo so se l'ho trovato meglio. Mi nasconde qualcosa, lo so.E mi racconta che ha fatto delle cose cattivissime, con leggerezza. Perche non vuole ammetterlo a se stesso quanto è grave.
Ma G. mi vuole bene, lo so. E non vuole rovinarlo. E io lo stesso. Vuole preservarmi dai suoi casini. Sento che mi ha riposto in un cassetto speciale, ma a patto che io mi fida di lui. E mi fido.Rideva come un bambino mentre parlavamo di Marco Zullo che ha fatto un frontale con il cinghiale. E delle suore a Timor Est, che ogni volta che recitavano il rosario e lui guidava, si faceva un incidente. E di mattina l'ho trovato sveglio in mezzo al letto che fumava e gia rideva. Ha messo su Kid A e mi ha fatto un caffè. Everything in its right place.
Parla della sua depressione come fosse un raffreddore. Sminuisce ogni dramma della sua vita. Allora io ci scherzo su e lui ride.
- Topina ma perche non resti qui a Torino.
- G., io sto ad Oslo.
- Ma neanche se mi pagano, ma tanto non mi pagano.
Ma il freddo non è solo ad Oslo. Cè una tempesta di neve e dobbiamo salire sulle montagne della Val di Susa senza catene. Le montagne innevate offrono uno spettacolo mozzafiato.
Speravo che il giorno della partenza non arrivasse mai. Al suo fianco mi sentivo al sicuro. I portici di Torino offrivano riparo. E invece G. mi ha svegliato alle 8 e mi ha detto: Dove lo trovi un uomo cosi ginnico che si sveglia alle 6 per spalare la neve in neve in giardino. Topina, tu invece hai gia perso un treno.
Ma è tutto fatto apposta, per non avere il tempo di salutarsi.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Hustling in a waiting room
Tunng - Hustle
When I come home, you won't be there any more
When I come home, you won't be there any more
And you will tear off your clothes and kiss the floor
When I come home, home, home
When I see land you will conjure up a storm
When I see land you will conjure up a storm
And I will tie your hands to the highest mast
When I see land, land, land
And we will hustle, hustle, hustle to be free
Free from all the
Happy thoughts and smiles across the sea
In favour of the
Mean, mean, moves,
And back doors to the heart from where we
Always, always fall apart
And you will slide on the back seat of my bike
And you will slide on the back seat of my bike
And I will ride you home drunken in the rain
and you will win again and again
Now it's your turn you will tie me to the tree
Now it's your turn you will tie me to the tree
And you will sing and sing, forever you and me
And in the dark you wonder what I see
And we will hustle, hustle, hustle to be free
Free from all the
Happy thoughts and smiles across the sea
In favour of the
Mean, mean, moves,
And back doors to the heart from where we
Always, always fall apart
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Santa Claus is everywhere, even on the toilet paper packaging!
Parties, parties, concerts, dancing, then the family came over, and work-deadlines...
Oh, only Lucia knows how deadlines work with me. She used to see me writing a 20-page-essays the day before the due date, seating all day in the same place, without moving nor speaking, only writing and smoking, occasionaly standing up because my ass was hurting.
But now it's Christmas time and Oslo is beautiful, with lights, snow, Christmas food and all these julebord...
The "julebord" is the Christmas party, and besides the one with your friends, your association etc., you always have one with your colleagues. There are many stories in Norways about the work julebord because usually companies hold it outside Oslo, rent an hotel, people get very drunk, and no wifes or husband is allowed so...
Our department julebord was absolutely fun. First of all we had in one of the coolest underground club in Oslo (it's a place that hosts an Art school in the morning and in the evening concerts). Then we were all dressed up but very relaxed. During the dinner we had lots of activities, speeches of course but also Christmas songs, dancing, prizes and...a competition: building a house with peppercaker (biscuits), sugar, chocolate and nuts!!!
This is how it was supposed to be
But the team was composed of me, Nele, Aike and Wael (four Non-Norwegians who had always thought that biscuits are made to eat, not to create something stable!)) and the result was..broken biscuits, all the chocolate in our stomachs and the sugar on our faces :) We tried to convince the jury that our masterpiece was called "The power of deconstruction" or The Post-post-modernism in remembrance of Haiti 2010 etc., but we didn't get any prize!
But since when stability is considered to be a value????
Oh, only Lucia knows how deadlines work with me. She used to see me writing a 20-page-essays the day before the due date, seating all day in the same place, without moving nor speaking, only writing and smoking, occasionaly standing up because my ass was hurting.
But now it's Christmas time and Oslo is beautiful, with lights, snow, Christmas food and all these julebord...
The "julebord" is the Christmas party, and besides the one with your friends, your association etc., you always have one with your colleagues. There are many stories in Norways about the work julebord because usually companies hold it outside Oslo, rent an hotel, people get very drunk, and no wifes or husband is allowed so...
Our department julebord was absolutely fun. First of all we had in one of the coolest underground club in Oslo (it's a place that hosts an Art school in the morning and in the evening concerts). Then we were all dressed up but very relaxed. During the dinner we had lots of activities, speeches of course but also Christmas songs, dancing, prizes and...a competition: building a house with peppercaker (biscuits), sugar, chocolate and nuts!!!
This is how it was supposed to be
But the team was composed of me, Nele, Aike and Wael (four Non-Norwegians who had always thought that biscuits are made to eat, not to create something stable!)) and the result was..broken biscuits, all the chocolate in our stomachs and the sugar on our faces :) We tried to convince the jury that our masterpiece was called "The power of deconstruction" or The Post-post-modernism in remembrance of Haiti 2010 etc., but we didn't get any prize!
But since when stability is considered to be a value????
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