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working abroad
Last week I've started a new challange! I would like to go abroad and improve my skills there.
I've worked two years, mostly in the south of Italy(where I live)..but without achieving very much. The result is that my current contract will expire in two months without any chance of a renew.
On the other hand, I'm still not fluent in english, so I guess it will be tough, but I feel like doing it... I'm still young and I want to improve my working condition.
If there's anyone interested in doing language exchange, I would be glad to help with italian. I really need to practice in english as much as I can.
Thanks
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A skin too few
Sometimes I need to listen to Nick Drake. It was a great english songwriter that composed his music between the 60th and 70th before disappearing in the 1974 committing a sort of suicide taking an overdose of amitriptyline. His music was so deep and pure, it's very far from everything I have heard.
Today searching among my music collection, I've found this documentary of the Dutch filmmaker Jeroen Berkvens. I decided to watch it again, also to improve my english, using english subtitles. I remember that I watched to it the first time during a special event about Nick in my hometown. The film was presented by the producer of Nick, Joe Boyd.
I particulary love this documentary and I find it very touching. The way it was directed is quite unusual a lot of slow scenes or even still images, with the music - most of the tracks were taken from the raw recordings of Nick - that seems is played among the walls of the house of Nick, and it seems to feel the mood that he probably felt during his life.
If you already know him and you never watched this documentary, just try to watch it here: http://www.viddler.com/v/ddc7dbb4
In the case you don't even know him, I suggest you to discover him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake
Here some links of songs that I particulary love:
http://youtu.be/9IUqN9ozmhw (Place to be)
http://youtu.be/idcaRTg4-fM (River man)
http://youtu.be/L1AkYgBTc4M (Things behind the sun)
http://youtu.be/NA4azQW55pg (Fruit tree)
http://youtu.be/H_-EGWy8Fek (Three hours)
oh but to be honest I love everything he made!
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