602> Meandering the meadows... bring on the wild bore! | |||
Oct 29, 2018 | Rome> The rione of the week is Prati: These rioni on the west side of the Tiber—b-sides a part of Trastevere—aren't inside the originul city walls... in fact, Prati wasn't an official rione until 2013, thus is the last rione, # XXII. Below are the official boundaries of rione XXII, tho when folks talk about Prati they usually mean the entire area northwest of Rome/Vatican on the west side of the Tiber:
Which makes it easy to traverse, but also a bit boring, especially the long blocks occupied by military complexes. There's a monument to Teresa Gullace outside 1 of the barracks, to mark the location where she was shot trying to talk to her husband, who was taken by Nazis back in 1944, an incident that inspired the famous scene in Rome, Open City (1945) where Anna Magnani gets shot. If u aks us, the only cool part of Prati is the area near p.zza Cavour, which is 1 of the parks in Rome that is actualy maintained, meaning they actually—gasp—clean up the garbage + pick weeds, etc. In fact there were protests here last week cuz of how janky Rome has become, to "to denounce the ragged state of the Italian capital, where roads are potholed, rubbish often goes uncollected and wild boar roam the streets." We say bring on the wild boar! B-sides Rome-ing, Sound Furies continue to lay down vox + finalize trax... almost done w/ side A. Originally we was thinking of having a dubble album but our senses got the bedder of us + now we're widdling it down to a single LP. Stay tuned. |
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601 <( )> 603 > Alt. sick (d-spite C17H21NO4) @ Σn6/n! in Bolvian altered plano #206 w/the other Derek | |||
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