Completeness

People use to say that a man is only complete and has fulfilled his mission in this world after he contributes for the generation of a child, he writes a book and plants a tree!

If we believe on this we are then supposed to realize we achieved the ultimate state of happiness in our life(1) by the time we achieve completeness. Life may become boring, [...]

Commander Cohen

Author of the following discography (the plus sign means I own it):

Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967 [+]
Songs From a Room, 1969 [+]
Songs of Love and Hate, 1971 [+]
Live Songs, 1973
New Skin For The Old Ceremony, 1974 [+]
The Best Of, 1975
Death Of A Ladies’ Man, 1977
Recent Songs, 1979 [+]
Various Positions, 1984 [+]
I’m Your Man, 1988 [+]
The Future, 1992 [+]
Cohen Live, 1994 [+]
More Best Of, 1997
Field Commander [...]

Marriage Sucks…

I’m an old fashion mid-age man. I will not then take into consideration in this post the marriage between homosexuals. In fact, if for some reason I was asked to give an opinion about that modern stuff called “same sex marriage” I would answer “no”. I know, it’s controversial but let me have the freedom of having my own opinion, will you?

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“Marriage it’s [...]

Farewell Mr Pavarotti

Pavarotti, the opera side of him, tells me nothing more than what every simple mortal can see at once: a male powerful voice. Opera it’s a musical style which I can not integrate in my list of favorite music styles. But Pavarotti it’s much more than Opera as he decided, at some point of his life, to enlarge his space of performance by connecting himself [...]

Same blog, new domain…

Today this blog has been upgraded to WP2.2 and “switched on” for the first time in this new domain “op351.com”. Very soon it will be totally up and ready for lots of posts from our users…

Be our guest !!

Lady Virginia

Long time no see… A good reason for a writer not writing it’s the lack of inspiration. I assume I am a writer just for the simple reason that I write things I want them to be read by someone. In the last couple of weeks I have had nothing I wanted to be read by someone, therefore I’ve been all this time long without [...]

Brothers In Arms

My Vietnam is over. I’m counting already the minutes. Suddenly I thought I could go looking for the lyrics of that song from Dire Straits, “Brothers In Arms” (from the album with the same name, 1985), and add some more fantasy to this post. “My Vietnam” it’s a fantasy only. No dead bodies, no pain, no invasion, no politics, no racism, no “born to kill” [...]

My English Sucks -part 2

It’s so hard to understand English, isn’t it? As much hard as to understand any other language but only English is the worldwide official spoken and written language for communication between people not speaking a common language. This time I leave space for the language experts. Let’s see what Richard Lederer has to say about the “universal” language…

1 – Crazy Language
(May 1990, in Writer’s Digest):

English [...]

Size matters…

No matter what you’re talking about, size really matters. It’s impressive the power of this phrase to make people thinking about sex. I believe that such a power is no more than the effect of good marketing operations because the phrase has been used lately in TV advertising sketches to promote some products which, normally, have nothing to do with sex but for which the [...]

My English sucks…

…or “What the hell am I writing these fucking posts in English for?”. The answer may be quite complex but understandable if you really care about it, I mean, if you are patient enough to understand the reasons that Reason knows nothing about…

Let’s start from the beginning then, even knowing that not everything has necessarily to start by the beginning. In the beginning was Word [...]