Chasing the beetle is the English slang to describe the act of smoking heroin. Although it seems a heartbreaking love song, one of Blur’s most famous single is mainly the tale of a drug experience. But…
Vertigo, the undisputed masterpiece of Hitchcock cinema, has many elements worthy of a careful analysis, elements that would not do anything but confirm the genius of the British filmmaker. There are many aspects of this perfectly-structured…
The Man who Sold the World is a song written by David Bowie (although many continue to think that it was by Nirvana) that, after years, still remains enigmatic. Why? Let’s start from this verse: …
In Florence the years ’80, there was a kind of Renaissance. The echoes of the new wave and punk wave of the late ’70 arrived in Tuscany and some groups took life through the downtown streets.…
Julius Henry Marx was born in New York in 1890, the third of six children (the first died a few months after birth), in a family of German immigrants. His mother, Minnie, had a crucial…