Saturday, November 29, 2008

Leroi Model 125 Manual

... Play me a song, Curtis Loew ...

Ronnie was just a boy of ten, when the line of his destiny was mapped out for good. Curtis
however, was then a man already done and finished. Yet one could easily say that nothing had been for sixty years after his wandering on Earth, if not to ensure that their lives are intertwined, there and then, with that of Ronnie.

If it were not for Curtis, in fact, the young man would certainly be devoted to another activity, well better suited to a carefree Southern of his age - such as hunting for lizards, chewing grass surrounded by the redness of sunset and with his back resting comfortably against the bark of a tree, or simply run for the boundless fields of ' Alabama, its home sweet home ... - Rather than give so much to do, waking up even before the morning song of the rooster, selling bottles of soda or improvise any other job, to collect some 'grain ...
If it were not for Curtis, in fact, perhaps the life of Ronnie would have been different today. Or at least, perhaps, he would still ...

It was not difficult to recognize long-Curtis le strade del paese: il tipico viandante, dalla pelle coriacea e nera e dai capelli crespi e bianchi, entrambi tipici di chi la vita gli ha fatto il mazzo; tanto che oramai non fa nemmeno più male e si può perfino ricambiare con un sorriso. O con una canzone. Inseparabile compagno di Curtis, infatti, era il suo vecchio dobro . Quello, ed un immancabile fiaschetto di vino. Ecco tutto ciò di cui aveva bisogno per poter far sfoggio della sua arte. Ed ecco svelata la sua preziosa mercanzia, per poter acquistare la quale, Ronnie si dava sempre così tanto da fare...

In effetti, non era poi così complesso il rituale per poter ogni volta accedere a quella magia: bastavano un po’di soldi da bere e, subito, Curtis tirava su il suo dobro , lo piazzava ben fermo sulle ginocchia, ed al primo pizzicar di corde, Ronnie riusciva d’incanto a vedere in quell’uomo ciò che tutti gli altri semplicemente non potevano... Ma del resto, si sa... La gente è sempre troppo sciocca ...
...Troppo persino per poter arrivare ad accorgersi che quel vecchio ubriacone lì davanti a loro... Quel vecchio ed indiscutibilmente inutile vagabondo... Non fosse in realtà altro che il miglior bluesman di sempre...

(Ma Ronnie, questo, lo vedeva – e soprattutto, lo ascoltava! – perfettamente; fu a causa di ciò che la sua sensibilità... E la his life ... We can now say with almost absolute certainty that they were marked by his meeting ... With Curtis Loew ...).

When the end for the old Curtis was time to go, and leave dobro flask and say that no one came forward to pray for him on the day of his funeral ... But then, how could it be otherwise? This man had dedicated to the music his entire, life itself ... And then, at the time of his death, what else could ever have to lose ... ... If only her dear, old blues ?!...

Twenty years later, Ronnie and his cronies, things were not too different: of course, their funerale ci sarebbe stata molta più gente in lacrime, e dei giovani trucidati in un disastro aereo fanno senz’altro più clamore rispetto alla morte di un vecchio vagabondo nero del Sud; tuttavia le circostanze, o chi per loro, vollero comunque che l’insegnamento e l’impronta che quell’uomo lasciò nel giovane – in quel breve periodo in cui le note delle loro vite suonarono all’unisono... Allo stesso ritmo... – unissero i due nello stesso Fato: un’intera vita consacrata alla Musica; null’altro da lasciare, se non il capolavoro del loro blues ...


Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd


Thursday, November 6, 2008

Black Pearl What Is It Worth?

The disco and PR!


As we all know, advertising is the soul of commerce and the disco, department store wholesale fun, certainly does not escape this rule. But in addition to the printed press, radio, TV and all other traditional media, dance halls can rely on a system of diffusion of the whole Exclusive: This is PR, likeable character and charisma tested nightly by phone hot. Its task is, in short, to distribute tickets on a widespread advertising of the club, but focused, their methods provided by the local target. So much for the theory, but as in all professions are no tricks, tactics, and above all hierarchies that differ radically different subspecies of PR

- the lowest rung of the hierarchy we find the humble pavement Pierre, who spends half of his nights stamp the tickets and the other half to trim the young people passing through, it often rid a few meters. Recruited from small clubs summer, these propaganda workers often perform their job in exchange for simple free admission, but can say with pride to friends (and without fear of contradiction): "You know, I do the PR."

- Going up a step, then we find the public relations full time professionals with a good but not yet mobile, is acting for discos open all year but not exactly on top. In this case, the valuable work often ends in careless placement of large bunches of tickets in pubs, gyms and shops: the person in question begins to receive a fee, often related to so-called "fall" or, more rarely, in proportion to the collection . From this level to take up the PR name battlefield, often exotic, sometimes evocative, in some cases absolutely idiotic.

- The breakthrough takes place in the third level, where there is the ineffable men-image: the class rooms of the club further, and proportionally decreases the amount of tickets available. Tone and style are starting to become essential, even if the outfits shocking pink or pastel green color on the preferences must be doubted. In this case the distribution of valuable cards is nominal, it is often necessary to book early or attend the strategic places where we know that sooner or later "he" will pass. Man, the Image also available lists, elitist system input recommended filled mostly with female names. Obviously nonmalignant on priority criteria adopted by the subject to compile that list.

One might suppose that the hierarchy of the PR end here: there is instead a higher level, said Gotha or Valhalla, where the Public Relations Man frees himself from his human essence to take the esoteric. Paid handsomely by the most "in" in Rimini and Riccione Alta High, appears to be more famous Pub in the heavenly vision of the Coast, as expected a Messiah by throngs of the faithful, who in exchange for a place on the list would be beheaded. The smaller they make their entrance on carriages drawn by two white stallion quadrille, but there are some who, as we vedere nel disegno, preferisce l'apparizione miracolosa con seguito di putti e cherubini. Questo tipo di P.R. ha carta bianca nel suo operato: può cambiare il nome del locale, se ha voglia può licenziarne il propietario e non di rado lo si ritrova all'ingresso della discoteca, pronto a giudicare, novello Minosse, chi è degno di frequentarla e chi no.

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