Resoconto fine anno 2011

So here is my end of year considerations. Never easy to do them, as my life is not really that trivial.

The 2011 year is going to end, and so I am about to fly back to Sicily for Christmas as I have always done. I will be back in Berlin for the night of the 27th, due to reasons not completely dependent from my own desire, and I will spend New Year’s Eve in Germany (I am not that excited about it, I have to admit). Then, on the 11th of January I will go back to the Netherlands after almost four months in order to attend the Eurosonic Festival in the city of Groningen, where I spent two and a half years and, despite all, remains the city closest to my own way of living. I mean, Berlin has its own peculiar, interesting style: but the relaxed, quiet life of the Netherlands is probably much fitting to the kind of profile I am.

As usual I have no plans for my future. After years of wandering around, I am just hoping to be able to move back to Italy one day, given the circumstances. The crazy (but appealing) idea to move to Barcelona has basically become impossible following the outcome of the latest Spanish general elections and the huge economic crisis of Europe, so a comeback to the Netherlands is presumably the only viable alternative to Berlin, should I theoretically decide to leave Berlin tomorrow morning. However, I have never moved backwards in my 29 years life, mostly because of a personal stubbornness, so this option is quite unlikely as well. Regarding my music, I have sort of stopped recording my new album due to lack of motivation, however I am currently seeking for potential collaborations aimed to enter into the huge Berlin music scene. And, lastly, I am also searching for a new home from March 2012, when I will be forced to leave my current apartament, at the 4th floor of a building not far from a minor S-Bahn train station, located in a dead residential area of the city.

So time to say goodbye. Enjoy your holidays, here is the song for you, This time I want to surprise you with “Salato parte uno” from Jovanotti, 2002. Totally unrelated with rap despite the musician’s past: a piece the sounds kind of South American, and that phrase about a “word inside a book in the Babel library“, a quite classy piece of lyrics and a clear homage to Jorge Luis Borges. And also a good metaphore for my occasional feelings, after 11 years spent around Italy and the world without a real goal.