Il grande indimenticabile Maestro
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La Grande Guerra
The last post gave a glimpse of what Falco did in the Great War (not really representative, I haste to add). In Memoriam 1914-1918 is a blog that makes me wish I could read la bella lingua faster. There’s so much useful stuff about the mules of the Alpini, the plight of the Slavic minority [...]
Reporter Blues
On YellowPeril, I was being nostalgic about the anime series of my childhood (Muskehounds, Queen Millennia). There were some interesting collaborations between European TV producers and Japanese animation companies at that time. One example is the Italian series Reporter Blues from 1991, also shown in other European countries (such as Germany, on Pro7). It’s set [...]
Music, War and Nationalism
I have posted a small review of Laibach’s latest album Volk in Yellow Peril. An in-depth review is available in Finnish for those who frequent Lassen Purkki.
Inspired by that iconoclastic industrial band from Slovenia (where some gruesome battlegrounds from the Great War are located), I drew an anti-propaganda poster of Falco in the battle of [...]
11th November: Armistice Day
Tomorrow, 88 years will have passed since German politicians - civilians - signed the armistice declaration in a railway carriage at Compiégne, under the watchful eye of France’s Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The German military leaders refused to participate in the “shameful” peace, thus placing the blame on the politicians. The myth of the undefeated army, [...]
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