... because life is elsewhere ...noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:14:23 +0100Blogger http://www.blogger.com40125http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/en-ushttp://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/05/phantom-bodies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sat, 28 May 2005 20:05:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111739033048200920I’m referring to two BBC online reports about bodies of war victims.1) 64 corpses will be transferred from Belgrade to Kosova. These are the corpses of Kosovar civilians who were probably killed by Serb security forces during the war between Milosevic’s Serbia and Kosova. The killers buried the corpses haphazardly on a site which catered for some police academy. Once transferred to Kosova, the 11http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/05/wanted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sat, 28 May 2005 14:11:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111728232003044023WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/05/tabellina.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sat, 28 May 2005 13:50:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111728211986112445 Friends and friends of friends,this is the online journal which Sharon blogged about a couple of days ago. I have very little to add to Sharon's post, but I'd like to renew her call to all those who would like to contribute. You can do that by sending an email.Many of us have been complaining about the Maltese media being controlled by powerful entities. Many have pointed out that journalists, 1http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/05/bloggo-woman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Wed, 25 May 2005 18:03:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111702839226377125Got an email from a journalist writing for the Malta Independent asking for a comment about the Maltese blogosphere. It's the second invitation of this kind in a couple of weeks. Apparently the Maltese print media have become aware of this fairly 'recent' phenomenon and they got interested in the subject. Fair enough, especially when the print media in Malta is usually more absorbed in what the 0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/05/i-knew-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Fri, 20 May 2005 21:17:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111661667032783648I knew it!0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/05/piano-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Mon, 16 May 2005 21:28:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111626606348284548Piano Man While reading the latest reports re the current violent crisis in Uzbekistan, I came across this story about a man in his twenties who was found wandering aimlessly by the sea on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, dressed in a black suit carrying music sheets in a plastic folder. Refusing to talk, the young man was taken to a hospital where by chance it was discovered that the man could or 0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/05/power-to-people.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sat, 14 May 2005 13:28:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111607153020502107I hardly know where Uzbekistan is but the bloody incidents which took place over these last couple of days can hardly go unnoticed. Whenever people take to the streets, protesting against their own government, it is always a sign of grievous problems. As is the case with the Uzbekistani crisis.What baffles me is that the people have defied all the state-inflicted fear and went out protesting 1http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/05/feed-your-head-feed-your-head.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Thu, 5 May 2005 01:35:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111524975463946543Jefferson Airplane 1967 On 2 May, www.jeffersonairplane.com announced the release of a double cd: Essential Jefferson Airplane, featuring 32 tracks penned by the legendary psychedelic band. Well, this afternoon I happened to be killing time before appearing in court (I was booked by some warden! ... it happens sometimes) and bought this compilation from exotique.Unfortunately I was too busy to 1http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/05/ci-vandalised.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Wed, 4 May 2005 22:25:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111523543987462740Ms Sara Sue SammutHaving read Toni Sant's blog re the vandalistic attacks on Portes des Bombes and the Catholic Institute, where reference is made to Ms Sara Sue Sammut, I feel dutybound to let readers know that this time Ms Sara Sue Sammut has had nothing to do with the vandalistic attacks on the CI.As her mentor and former lover I can vouch for her innocence. And so help me God!0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/05/19th-may-2005.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Tue, 3 May 2005 18:21:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111513765471449947KLABB KOTBA MALTIN is publishing Immanuel Mifsud's collection of travel poems, km. The book launch will be held at the Francis Ebejer Hall, University, on Thursday 19th May, at 7.30pmThis book was inspired by the kilometres I travelled through ten European countries: the Czech Republic, France, Finland, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia and Austria. The poems range 0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/05/poetry-and-patti.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Mon, 2 May 2005 04:39:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111496969228716645Enrico Ghezzi's Fuori Orario - Cose Mai Viste opens with a clip from Jean Vigo's 1934 trancelike feature film L'Atalante, narrating the story of two young newly-weds' trip through the waterways of France. The track Ghezzi uses for his series' opening is none other than Patti Smith's fetching 1970s masterpiece Because the Night.Despite the hundreds of times I've watched this opening, I still find 2http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/04/km.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:52:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111358397764880319soon out! KM, my collection of travel poems will be out by mid-May. I'll post more details in the very near future.My other book, the one which Toni Sant and Feltrinelli have blogged about, will be out much sooner than I imagined.Thanks to all those who have been waiting very patiently.0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/04/should-we-blame-mtv.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:07:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-1113581268679362701979: four boys attending a Church school, in their blazer and tie, had this friend they had nicknamed Pizu. Pizu was their laughing stock, and their regular victim of foul pranks and macho bullying. Once they forced his head in a toilet bowl and flushed. They laughed their heart out; so did nerdy Pizu. Someone filed a report to the Rector who immediately excluded them from school for a whole 1http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/04/when-pope-dies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Tue, 5 Apr 2005 01:28:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111262496003776602It's not my intention to blog about Wojtyla's death for the very simple reason that tv stations (in Malta that means RAI and Mediaset and their poor replicas broadcasting from Guardamangia and Marsa) have been broadcasting endless services since last Friday. Even the net is full of weblogs, pages and what have you focusing on the Polish Pope's death. But I found it really interesting how certain 0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/03/un-cavallo-bianco-via-da-qui-ci-porter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:52:00 +0100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111161400405460233White horse at Nadur Valley, Gozo I came across this picture I took last November while on a 12-hour holiday in Gozo. I was fascinated by the beautiful landscape. Actually I could hardly believe my eyes since in my country it is quite rare to find a spot with no streets, without cars parked on both sides of the road, etc etc. It almost struck me as surreal; especially the white horse which 0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/03/other.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:15:00 +0100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111142602909906146Feltrinelli's most recent post got the attention of a number of people, motivating them to post their own response. These are my comments following the post itself and the replies to it:1) I am still uncertain whether to consider self analysis a positive exercise or not. At times I'm inclined to think that this is a 'natural' tendency of an inward looking small nation which tends to take itself 0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/03/feltrinellis-back-on-rock.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:21:00 +0100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111122454738710267Feltrinelli's back on the Rock. While packing his things, or before that or after, he sends a post on his blog. He refers to the Spring, and makes a very intriguing comment:I am all the more believing that this phenomenon of Maltese blogs(particularly those written in Maltese or in a bilingual form) could prove to bethe precursor of radical changes in the Maltese cultural sphere. Whether it 0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/03/no-comments-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:04:00 +0100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111110395182671650no comments 2 1http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/03/no-comments.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:33:00 +0100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111110241841903526no comments 0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/03/spring-is-in-air.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:55:00 +0100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111107937625895468Life it's a candyWith a red hot chilly pepperFilling inside- Nenad Jankovic (The No Smoking Orchestra)Spring is in the air. I'd say you can see it, feel it inside you. My balcony is full of fresias, and the fields next to the street where I live are green, with yellow spots of mimosa, corn sorrell and wood marigold.Since Mother Nature favoured me by not subjecting me to hay fever, I'm happily 1http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/03/guz-passes-away.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:37:00 +0100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111074627737976499I was saddened with the news of the death of Guzè Cassar-Pullicino, a pioneer in Maltese folklore studies. His formidable academic credentials earned him the respect of the Maltese intelligentsia and others.Cassar-Pullicino, who was born in 1921, authored a number of studies on Maltese literature and folklore; his latest, published in 2003, dealing with riddle telling as a means of popular 0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/03/of-nerds-stars-and-romantics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:09:00 +0100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111059203894653730 Today's Corriere della Sera, ran a short article about a recent discovery of an early 1960s documentary produced by Florida State University in which Jim Morrison appears as an 18 year old applying to study at the said university. The short video shows a docile-looking Jim Morrison acting the part of a disappointed student who has just received a refusal notice from FSU. The unsigned article 1http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogscape.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sun, 6 Mar 2005 02:13:00 +0100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111059183988355604The recent proliferation of Maltese blogs is an interesting social and intellectual phenomenon. While some of these blogs are merely diary-like posts fulfilling the owners' narcissitic and exhibitionist needs, others are creating a discourse which is not yet to be found anywhere in the local print. It seems that writing a blog gives one the freedom that the Maltese print is still denying to 0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/02/nostalgia-for-rotten-regime.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:38:00 +0100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111059165873356157I get a kick reading Mark Vella Feltrinelli's blog. I've decided it is one of the best, if not *the* best weblogs by a fellow Maltese citizen. Like myself he is one of the 80s generation who is still trying to come to terms with the period when he came of age and one of the small group of one-time-hopefuls who is analysing the present through a very disillusioned pair of eyes. I cannot but share 0http://mifsudimmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/02/priests-uprising.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:48:00 +0100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11385647.post-111059137950006364Twenty years ago, when the socialist regime in Malta was already preparing for its own funeral, the now defunct "ateatru" produced Ir-Rewwixta tal-Qassisin (The Priests' Uprising) by Alfred Buttigieg, a Maltese playwright whose untimely decision to quit writing left a void in the political arts in Malta.Theatre scholar Marco Galea has welcomed the revival of this play, being once again produced 0