Diglielo a Dio se sai che c'è
In the span of two weeks I did a couple of things that filled the heart of my inner adolescent.
1 - Went to Denver to see Alanis Morissette and Garbage live from the 8th/7th row! (A tall guy in front of me and my short friend sweetly offered to switch seats with us during Alanis's performance). Amazing concert, made even more amazing by the fact that they did not confiscate the 3 airplane bottles of liquor I snuck in haha. Seeing Alanis live was a dream come true, when I was 11 I didn't have the money to see her when she came to The Summit in Houston, nor would my parents have let me gone even if I had gotten my hands on scalped uber-expensive tickets. I spent so much of my allowance over the years on imported singles of hers which included recordings of live performances, then bought her Jagged Little Pill Live VHS. Being that this was the 25th anniversary JLP tour (which was postponed because of COVID) she sang every song off the album and the background screen had lots of video clips from back in the day. Garbage was incredible as well, and Shirley Manson talked to the audience which Alanis apparently never does.
Though I consider myself super fortunate to have gone to this concert (and been so close to the stage), it pales in comparison to living through a time when music like this was all around, when the future seemed so bright. Today The Summit has been turned into a megachurch, and I can easily find the setlist from said Alanis concert online, where I discovered she sang this song that never made it as an album track in the 90s or on any of her singles as a b-side:
2 - Found the IHOP from Scarlet Diva (confirmed by Asia Argento herself after I tagged her on Instagram!) and ate there with Claudio. I watched Scarlet Diva in high school more times than I can count. I first received a bootleg copy of the movie on VHS on my 16th birthday. I sent a $10 money order to a seller on eBay to make a copy of the movie he was selling, though it was the version that had been dubbed completely into Italian so I barely understood what was going on. A year later I got the original version, though I believe it still had no subtitles in the Italian parts. Then I started chatting with Claudio online when I tried to get my hands on the soundtrack to the movie. We've since gotten married, I've since found a version of the movie with subtitles, and I've since read Asia Argento's two books in Italian.
I remember watching that movie and thinking that I couldn't wait to have sex, travel the world, and do all the things that my age and lack of money were preventing me from doing.
And I remember thinking Asia was so lucky to have famous parents and be a beautiful actress, only to learn, years later after reading her latest book, that her parents were pretty absent and she had been raped by producers and directors of the movies she starred in.
It seems like I've stayed the same and the rest of the world has changed dramatically, but I know that can't be true.
1 - Went to Denver to see Alanis Morissette and Garbage live from the 8th/7th row! (A tall guy in front of me and my short friend sweetly offered to switch seats with us during Alanis's performance). Amazing concert, made even more amazing by the fact that they did not confiscate the 3 airplane bottles of liquor I snuck in haha. Seeing Alanis live was a dream come true, when I was 11 I didn't have the money to see her when she came to The Summit in Houston, nor would my parents have let me gone even if I had gotten my hands on scalped uber-expensive tickets. I spent so much of my allowance over the years on imported singles of hers which included recordings of live performances, then bought her Jagged Little Pill Live VHS. Being that this was the 25th anniversary JLP tour (which was postponed because of COVID) she sang every song off the album and the background screen had lots of video clips from back in the day. Garbage was incredible as well, and Shirley Manson talked to the audience which Alanis apparently never does.
Though I consider myself super fortunate to have gone to this concert (and been so close to the stage), it pales in comparison to living through a time when music like this was all around, when the future seemed so bright. Today The Summit has been turned into a megachurch, and I can easily find the setlist from said Alanis concert online, where I discovered she sang this song that never made it as an album track in the 90s or on any of her singles as a b-side:
Click to view2 - Found the IHOP from Scarlet Diva (confirmed by Asia Argento herself after I tagged her on Instagram!) and ate there with Claudio. I watched Scarlet Diva in high school more times than I can count. I first received a bootleg copy of the movie on VHS on my 16th birthday. I sent a $10 money order to a seller on eBay to make a copy of the movie he was selling, though it was the version that had been dubbed completely into Italian so I barely understood what was going on. A year later I got the original version, though I believe it still had no subtitles in the Italian parts. Then I started chatting with Claudio online when I tried to get my hands on the soundtrack to the movie. We've since gotten married, I've since found a version of the movie with subtitles, and I've since read Asia Argento's two books in Italian.
I remember watching that movie and thinking that I couldn't wait to have sex, travel the world, and do all the things that my age and lack of money were preventing me from doing.
And I remember thinking Asia was so lucky to have famous parents and be a beautiful actress, only to learn, years later after reading her latest book, that her parents were pretty absent and she had been raped by producers and directors of the movies she starred in.
It seems like I've stayed the same and the rest of the world has changed dramatically, but I know that can't be true.