Comments on: Smiling at Strangers http://www.giornaledibarganews.com/2009/08/13/smiling-at-strangers/ busily putting barga on the map Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:24:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: monacu http://www.giornaledibarganews.com/2009/08/13/smiling-at-strangers/#comment-1932 monacu Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:47:13 +0000 http://www.giornaledibarganews.com/?p=11122#comment-1932 Let's all be thankful, Dan the man, that the graffitista didn't stoop to scrawling happy faces. Let’s all be thankful, Dan the man, that the graffitista didn’t stoop to scrawling happy faces.

]]> By: thedanarchist http://www.giornaledibarganews.com/2009/08/13/smiling-at-strangers/#comment-1931 thedanarchist Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:34:17 +0000 http://www.giornaledibarganews.com/?p=11122#comment-1931 Wow, what a continuing mystery. We have been intrigued by those enigmatic messages since our first visit to Barga, and now the same message has been spotted in Virginia, USA. Weird. Also: Paolo tore it up in at least two of his U.S. concerts (We live near D.C., and we just happened to be in Minneapolis-Saint Paul on other business). Many of Barga's blues-soul musicians would approve of the covers Paolo included in his sets, by the way. A Willie Dixon-Little Walter song, "Mellow Down Easy," for example, and a nod to Cab Calloway (if you pass Paolo on the street, say, "Hidee, hidee, hidee hi!" Wow, what a continuing mystery. We have been intrigued by those enigmatic messages since our first visit to Barga, and now the same message has been spotted in Virginia, USA. Weird.

Also: Paolo tore it up in at least two of his U.S. concerts (We live near D.C., and we just happened to be in Minneapolis-Saint Paul on other business). Many of Barga’s blues-soul musicians would approve of the covers Paolo included in his sets, by the way. A Willie Dixon-Little Walter song, “Mellow Down Easy,” for example, and a nod to Cab Calloway (if you pass Paolo on the street, say, “Hidee, hidee, hidee hi!”

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