Appearances are VERY misleading!

Yesterday morning I was cheerfully walking back home from my grocery shopping extravaganza. I was on a main street buzzing with people and vehicles right by my house. I was slowly walking enjoying and absorbing everything I saw and encountered. Suddenly a brand spanking new Audi pulls over the sidewalk. The passenger door opens up and a very well dressed and elegant woman steps out. She is slim, with perfectly coiffed bleached blond hair and make up, she is wearing designer trendy clothing and high heels. She opens up the back passenger door and a lovely little girl covered in designer clothes matching her mommy jumps out. I instinctively glance over at the driver seat to reveal the image of the husband/father in his perfectly pressed shirt and confident posture... I think to myself with a pinch of envy (which is very unusual of me), I think "Wow, look at them! they are the perfect family, with the perfect jobs, the perfect car, the perfect daughter... is it real?". They seemed like they had come out from a glossy magazine ad. I interrupt my fantasizing about them, and tune into the reality of what they are doing... 'cause I'm nosy! The "lady" has stepped right in the middle of the sidewalk and she is holding her daughter in a very awkward way... while telling her "come on love, you will do it just like puppy dogs do! come on, like a woof woof!". To my awful surprise she is pulling her little girls pants down to her ankles and ordering her to pee in the middle of the sidewalk!!! Not to mention it's freaking COLD! And there are people walking by, cars... and how about a cafe' and three restaurants right there! Couldn't she have taken her to use the cafe's restroom? I have never seen even the gypsies do that! You better believe I gave her a dirty look! It's not about being prude, it's about manners and not treating your 4 year old little girl as a dog! Needless to say my myth of the perfect family instantly crashed... at least in the human genre... I have more faith in the baboons' perfect family!

USA men vs Italian men

A few days ago I was having a conversations with some Italian girlfriends of mine. I was stating that the majority of my friends are usually men; I feel more comfortable around them, I trust them more, and I don't have to worry about hurting their feelings if I need to confront them about something. Then I also have a minority of great girlfriends too that out stand from the rest of the "female crowd". It just seems (please know I'm talking out of my own experience therefore my statements are purely personal), as I was saying: it just seems that a lot of times I have had a girlfriend the friendship has often ended up badly due to jealousy, hypocrisy, or falseness. Are women intimidated by me? The dumb ones of course! I guess that involuntarily I shake the worst behaviors towards my own person out of some females! This is something I had to start experiencing since childhood, my male teachers and male school mates always loved me... my female teachers and female school mates could not stand me! I am talking in percentage of course.
As I was saying I have always had wonderful honest friendships with men, whether they are straight or gay. It's not just about partying, good and strong friendship are formed by exchanging stories, asking for moral support, advise, having hours long conversations about anything from physics to politics, or society and nature, human behavior or just plainly venting about your day or family.
My two Italian girlfriends after hearing me say all this, they looked at me as if I was delusional and some mad spirit was talking through my mouth! At which point they asked me: "Are you talking about your friends in the US?".... well I guess that after living abroad for the past 15 years most of my friends are actually not Italian... which makes me feel strange... but that is a whole other story and blog I will need to write about.
From what they stated in Italy is not possible for a man and a woman to have a sincere friendship (that is ABSURD to me!). Additionally they said that men are very boring to be friends with as they don't read anything, they only watch soccer on tv, and talk about T&A... that is the description of a cave-man! Can Italian men have regressed to this point? Really? This country has given birth to some of the most amazing geniuses... yet our average man is only interested in looking at a ball rolling on a field or staring at some big hooters? What happened to the theory of the Ugly American? Has it reversed? Are American men the new intellectuals? And we have now a new breed of Ugly Europeans? That is terrifying!!! I don't like that one bit! I will need to research this further. While I will do so, I would like to calm some of you down by guaranteeing that no matter what fortunately the gays are safe! It seems to me that gay men are brilliant, cultured and wonderful to talk to not matter on which side of the Atlantic you are on. Once one is a fruit fly, she will be one forever no matter where she is!

Dreams in two or three levels are my reality!

Any of my close friends know how fascinated and passionate I am about "dreams". From talking to various people in my life I've come to the realization that I belong to a very exclusive club: "I remember my dreams when I wake up" Club. Every night I look forward to my dream-reality where anything can happen... although I mastered this art so well that I now can change the course of events by "waking up" into another dream! I swear I'm not joking, I'm not drunk nor high!
Needless to say I could not wait to go see "Inception". I was blown away, I think it's pure genius. It's such an intricate and beautifully told story that I doubt the general public really gets it. In fact I would love to run one of my anthropological research tests... to draw the statics of how many people fully got it.
Not knowing how many of you have already seen it, I don't want to spoil it. All want to say is that some details in script freaked me out, because it was so personal and familiar to my own experiences... if someone wrote about it must have gone through the same madness... through the subconscious gateway... a gateway to dreaming in levels like I do.
Aside from the story, I also really enjoyed the acting, the cast is exceptional! What a surprise to see the kid from "3rd rock form the sun" (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in such a cool role! And of course the magic of Christopher Nolan as a writer and director! What a creative brilliant mind he has... although has anyone noticed that he sort of looks like Leonardo Di Caprio... or is it me? Please take a look: