Today I wanted to talk to me about something that's running through my head, rather delicate issue, because if, as they say, the first step to recover from an addiction is admitting you have a problem, well, 'I've already done, but no signs of improvement at all, indeed, if possible, worse to stay in it until recently always up to rimurginare. And I know, initially the idea was this, except that this morning, reading the setlist of the show yesterday in Des Moines that, and doing a few hours later, revealing a discovery, I decided to put for a while 'by my malaise and tell you about this discovery (given also that last night, talking to myself, I got at least a rational explanation at least in part of the affair, but that's another story, as they say).
When last week I was in Rome to give the last review of the first year, I have not failed to give me a ride in the Galleria Sordi Feltrinelli, of course uscendomene with something in hand, a blue-ray (of Gran Torino ), a DVD (Escape From Alcatraz, Escape From Alcatraz ) and a book (The Wanderers ). Initially, we had entered knowing that they must buy, in addition to Eastwood's film, The Wrestler also, which unfortunately I had to give up then for the price too high for Gran Torino, and because I absolutely need a book, because after reading Cell by Stephen King in the original the end of August I had a full immersion in the study that led me to not open more than a book for mid-September (and also because I lacked a fiction: I read three or four at once, and when I have one on the bedside table of entertainment Blinded by the Light , and a study Real World - pretend mica going to the States unprepared, no?). As I climbed the stairs to the furniture industry books, I took from his pocket a note that I always carry with me a list of movies to buy, to delete the two in my hand, look at the list known at the end of the package name of a book (and its author): Richard Price - life easy (and mica are an organized person, me! If I need anything - movies aside, I've learned to do so - the sign mica me, me!). Fortunately I have a good memory and associative quotazionale, I can quickly remember movies or books by reasoning or by rifermeno to specific things or situations, which is why I said to myself that I had already bought and read last fall and I put package in the back pocket of his jeans. In all this I came upstairs and I had reached the area that interested me at this point the question was what the heck to buy: King aside, I decided to read only in English now on, I was somewhat short of ideas. While I was wandering thoughtfully through the shelves looking for a cover or a title that I struck, suddenly I was reminded of Richard Price, but swapping it with Richard Ford, another author I greatly appreciated last fall thanks to The State Of Things . So, in short I tried believing Price star looking for Ford, obviously I had not yet recovered from the examination, my friends. I have looked over the coupon books "P" for a bit, 'until I just found this book, The Wanderers by Richard Price, written on the cover: "The other side of American Graffiti ... A perfect amalgamation of sex, violence and humor "piece of Rolling Stone review of American newspaper that I trust almost blindly, but in the end what got me convinced more than just the setting and the praise given by William S. Burroughs was this sentence: "Through a completely new translation, which allows for the first time to appreciate the richness of the dialogues of Price, the Italian reader can finally approach to a book-cult of contemporary American fiction."
So I bought the book and Saturday 's I started reading, page 33:
"'And now, ladies and gentlemen, please stand up for the national anthem' announced Eugene, attention to the stacked deck. A plan of crackling static introduced the voice of the belly of Dion.
Oh, I'm the type of guy who will never settle down,
Where the girls are pretty, well you know that I'm at aroun 'I
to kiss' em and I love 'em cause they're all the same to me I
to squeeze' em and I hug 'em, They do not even know my name
They call me the Wanderer, yeah the Wanderer I roam
aroun' aroun ' aroun '
Where the girls are pretty, well you know that I'm at aroun 'I
to kiss' em and I love 'em cause they're all the same to me I
to squeeze' em and I hug 'em, They do not even know my name
They call me the Wanderer, yeah the Wanderer I roam
aroun' aroun ' aroun '
After their theme, Eugene prepared a stack of 45 rpm, making for a quick two lenses. The party had begun. "
And here begins the surreal side, believe it or not. When I read the last two sentences of the verse (not being told the title of the song, but does not take much to get there, given that their gang called The Wanderers, and is said to be the official put their anthem) I stop a moment and think it would be was a good song for a chorus of Bruce Born To Run, then I remember that the story is set in the early sixties and step forward, at least intends to go on youtube to listen to, so just out of curiosity. But the thing in the end it slipped my mind, I did not sign and end up going in dmenticatoio of my brain, even though almost every time the characters of the book guys put on a disk or listen a song is something of Dior, to the point that many times I tell myself to go look for news about him.
Sunday I finally decide to put in place and record two bootleg I had already burned about a month and lay abandoned on my desk, along with a lot of other things, as usual. One of these was the New York Children's Health Project Benefit, show charity dating back to December 1987 by Paul Simon, one of the reasons why it was still there was the lack of an artwork suitable for: registration is a new source is not circulated before, and differs from the previous one as complete. To work around this problem I decided to put the cover of the (Yellow Dog license plate) and then write down the tracks on the back of the booklet front, and given that several tracks were guilty every time I looked at those records I had found something else to devote at least until Sunday. Now, to continue with the series "Incredible But True", if you go to comb through the list of guests that evening and their performances will find a nice surprise: number 8 Disc 1 (Yellow Dog) or number 13 Disc 1 of the new source, mr. Dion The Wanderer, a nice round of applause ladies and gentlemen.
therefore understand my surprise and my stunned expression when I read this morning the lineup of yesterday's Des Moines : the 13th position, we find the "The Wanderer, originally recorded by Dion, for the first esecution EVER by the E Street Band .
That is to say certain things ... some things do not happen just by chance.