"I won't repeat it anymore." "Life is not perfect." "Lives in movies are perfect." "Beautiful or ugly, but perfect." "In movie lives there are no dead times, NEVER." "And you know something about dead times, don't you?" "Finally this fucking radio is closing." "It's Livio." "I wanted to say that for me it's a shit of a time now." "Too bad Radiofreccia is closing, a bit it was helping me, really." "Hi, it's Sonia." "Will anyone of you go work in some other radio?" "Can you tell us, please?" "It's your fault if you close down." "You became too commercial." "Actually it was a long time since I listened to you last." "Now I was told you are closing, so I wanted to say goodbye to Radiofreccia." "The old one, I mean." "The one that was." "It's Guido Bellelli." "Boys, these days you've been just great." "One could feel you were free, that you had no duties with music majors and sponsors." "It was about time, you reminded me the first days of your radio when it was called Radio Raptus." "The age of free radios" "Me again... sorry." "Wanted to finish telling my stuff." "When they called radios for free radios..." "And I wanted to ask: the radio tomorrow would become 18." "How's that you close today?" "You don't want her to become adult?" "Cheers to Bruno and" "It's Linda." "We will miss you a lot, just this." "Ah, this evening I'll be at Plutonio too." "We wanted to say just one thing to Radiofreccia..." "Finally this fucking radio is closing." "It's Gibbo." "I'm terribly sorry you're closing." "I wanted to say that this evening I'm coming at Plutonio." "Speaking of which, now that you're closing, would you tell us why her name is Radiofreccia?" "Hi everybody, Bruno Iori speaking." "It's 22 o'clock, of June 20th, 1993." "Two hours, we've got two hours left after which Radiofreccia's signal will be closed forever." "The last two hours, then, of this radio of ours." "So small it never covered all of the province." "Though I know that for some of you it's never been so small actually." "Two hours of full freedom." "No duties with anyone, except for you." "I want to answer your last messages." "Speaking of messages, these days we received a bunch of letters with cash, bank checks, money-orders." "Well boys, thank you, but we can't accept them." "This radio is not closing because of money, at least not only." "This radio is closing because it's about time!" "94.3, you're on the only radio in history closing a minute before becoming 18." "18 years ago... it was '75." "Many things were different." "We, for example." "We were 18-20 years old and this radio to make our voice heard." "There were no sponsors, so all was simpler." "Oh my, it's not that we always had big things to say, but that was our voice." "And we were putting it everywhere." "In people's stores, in their factories, in pubs." "Speaking of pubs..." "I'm sure that in this very moment two or three idiots in a pub I know very well have taken their handkerchiefs out and pretend they're moved." "Play the jerks as much as you want, but this radio, of which you saw the birth, you'll damn miss her." "I was saying..." "We were in '75." "At that time FM radios could be counted on a hand's fingers." "Here in town who got high had first name, surname and nickname." "And it was first names, surnames and nicknames that again could be counted on a hand's fingers." "One of these first names, surnames and nicknames was Ivan Benassi, aka Freccia, because of an arrow-shaped birthmark he had on a temple. (Freccia=Arrow)" "The radio was called Radio Raptus, and became Radiofreccia the day they found him in a ditch." "He'd been there a while, and it was up to one of us to identify him." "Now, I don't know if any of you went through anything like that, but there's a time you give up." "It's the time when..." "that's really him." "Then, it stops scaring you, because you go through another bad time." "You know you won't see him ever again." "The ones with him were caught, also because his gang was not that big." "They realized his overdose only after he died, they panicked and threw him in the ditch." "They got some months for corpse concealment and neglect of aid." "Freccia, one of the best funerals in town." "The band played:" ""Can't Help Falling In Love"." "The song Elvis closed his concerts with." "Vün, du, tri, quater." "You've always been a cuckold, dad." "Everybody knew." "And I think you knew too." "But I understand you, 'cause..." "Yeah, I don't know a thing about Freud, or not-Freud... but mom, she's really hot." "I understand that you may lose your head for one like that." "The point is, though, that one can't be the only one for her." "And you always closed your eyes." ""Your mom is like a cat." "She pops up only when she wants, she doesn't give a shit if you're in need."" "How many times did you tell me that?" "Remember Carlo, the one from the hardware store?" "Mom's doing what she wants with him." "Only, she took that jerk home." "I tell you all these things 'cause... over there... nothing should piss you off anymore." "In any case I hope you aren't too bored." "Cheers from the pub." "The friends from the Laika pub" "Gimme a Cora drink!" "Kingo, Don't know if you know that, but you're dressed as Elvis." "Friend, I'm not dressed as Elvis, I'm dressed as Kingo." "That's different." "You mean, there are still some fools buying your performances?" "You're very ironic today, Freccia." "There's a queue, outside, with people wanting my concerts." "I had just finished performing at a wedding, the bride:" ""Mr. Kingo here, Mr. Kingo there..."" "Mr. Kingo my dorks!" "I told her:" ""Stay away from me, else your husband won't pay me!"" "Hey Freccia!" " Wanna ticked for the lottery?" " How much?" " 3.000." " Prize?" "Fine stuff." "English, 25." "Very experienced." "And, hey, two hours." "And what about size?" "Still 110-110-110?" "Hey buddy!" "I have always guaranteed good stuff." "Ask anybody in here." "Size!" "Now I should measure the size!" "I've gotta kinda suspect of an headache, right?" "No stick bashing, no rolling and very little noise with balls, ok?" "Have you ever heard, you rookies, about acoustic pollution?" "No, because you never see and you never listen to TV7." "You ignorants!" "Congratulations on the beer, nicely warm." " You keep it in a thermos?" " No, I give it a round on the fire just for you!" " Did they already talk about Inter?" " When it wins you come to see it." " You stole the match again today." " Yeah, you from Juventus talking?" " We even ate out our penalty!" " Uh, right that." "Speaking of which, Virus:" "this tuesday, what are you going to eat?" "Mr. Virus declared... 24 dry biscuits in 4 minutes." "No drinking for 2 hours." "If it goes, it's 2.000 for each spectator." "If you want to book, get a move." "Last thing missing here is that we pay to go shit." " Can one still do something for free here in?" " Taking the doorstep out, for example." "Rocker test!" "One, two, three." " Well done, Rocker." " Adolfo, get the radio volume down." " What's that, Rai?" " Yeah, Rai." "It's a free radio." " Free from what?" " 'Morning!" "You know FM?" " A radio stuff." " Right, a radio stuff with free radios inside." " Free from what?" " Free." "You're on Radio King, from Reggio." "Only good music, only the music we want." "For you requests call 581363." " We don't pass you bad songs." " Get the volume down!" "Get down that attidude yourself, buddy, if you don't like it, it's full with pubs outside." "This is a beta 3, they're just kids." "They pass on even soul music, not just Wilson Picket at Sanremo festival." " How do they do that?" "You'd need a bunch of money." " They told me it's not that." "Can you warm me up a beer?" "He's the guy who could fix you up, sissies!" "Guys, when he organizes these trips for us, our friend Bruno Iori, aka... 'Bruno Iori',..." "There are no catches, if the FM is empty it'll be enough with a 1-penny transmitter, a little mixer, a microphone..." "Now cool down Bruno, otherwise you'll freak out." " I've got the place as well." " Couldn't you stay home, you, Ilaria and your radio?" "No, Ilaria had to study." "Also, I know where to get an antenna." " I like Rai as well, eh." " Eh, we know, Jena." "We know." "You read too much Spiderman comics, Freccia." "When we're finished with this bullshit we go at Plutonio, shall we?" "I'd like to know what we're goint at Plutonio for." "One goes at Plutonio to try to get laid." " Then we always went there for nothing." " Speak for yourself, loser!" "If that's the stuff, we're going great!" " Right, he's got headphones as well." " Bruno?" "You're telling us that in there you see only headphones?" "Two record-players." "Then it's about time you get a check-up with a very good doctor." "What with all those egg boxes on the wall?" "Do they make cocktails in there?" "That's a good idea." "With all those hot girls!" "No, it's for sound." "I think there is rock wool beneath." " I wanna eat something!" " What is Virus going to eat?" "Last tuesday he ate three worms." "Then he threw one up and lost the bet." "Last evening in the pub he says:" ""If you give me a flexible disc saw and a week's time" "I can eat my sister's car as well!"" "Speaking of sisters." "Should I tell you, Tito?" "Your little sister is growing up very well." "How old is she, 12?" "I can book something in 3 or 4 years." " What are you booking with my sister?" " Hey, you freaked?" " What are you booking?" " Hey, Tito!" "Hey!" "Hey, Tito!" "Enough!" "You're nuts!" "And people say such of southerners." "C'mon Bruno, let's go, we're done here. let's go down." "You are not alone in this house." " Close the door at least." " If we want it." " Well, make sure you want it." " Or else?" "Or else what do you do, uh?" " What a piece of shit you are!" " Who called you for a piece of shit?" " You don't say 'piece of shit' to me, got it?" " Stop now!" " You are 20, you have a job..." " And a slut for a mother!" "Damn fuck, fucking shit motherfuck!" "Slow down, it's right over here on the right." "You realize, you idiots, that if we get caught with my father's van he kills me!" " If we get caught with my father's van he kills me!" " ..." "Go fuck off." "Turn, Mr. Garibaldi, it's here!" " Uh-oh." "Guess there's a full fuck going on!" " Let's go then, go!" "Stay where you are!" "Uh-uh-uh!" "40 years old, doing still the bad things in the car?" "Good evening." "Many good things to your husband, and you to your wife." " You are a dork!" " Jena, please." "There is so much people in the world, right jerks like you did I have to find?" " Either we make this radio, or we die trying!" " Go fuck off!" "Look what we got here?" "Rock wool!" "We've got a singer as well!" "Get a move, you dork!" "Fuck!" "Maybe these boards here can help." "Sorry I put them... here." " You, don't you die." " Gotcha." "We're set." "Get back in you, for it's an ugly world out here." "You are really nuts!" "This is Radio Raptus." "Well,... my pleasure." " What's that?" " What's that, a candlestick, ain't it." "You'll need a bit of atmosphere, in here." "River Po's Queen" "Hear me Benassi, take it easy, or else your pressure gets up!" "And at your age!" "C'mon, c'mon!" "Hear this." " What's that?" "Jazz?" " Jazz!" "This is Radio Raptus." " What the fuck is Radio Raptus?" " This is the Weather Report." "And they are just an appetizer for what you will hear on Radio Raptus." "Radio Raptus." "Technical broadcasting tests." " Will you take me home now?" " I got it by chance." "I bumped into the radio controls, and don't I catch Bruno leering on the Weather Report?" "It arrives all the way here, 30 kms from home!" "Maybe even further." " I said take me home!" " He's got it." "He's really got the radio!" " Who did you call?" " Eh, I called him." "So that he put on a decent song." "It may seem impossible to you, but there is still who, in the middle of the 70s, wants certain rock." "Let's hope this is his first and last request." ""Sweet Home Alabama"." "Lynyrd Skynyrd." "For Ivan, from Brescello." " Squeeze me as you want, whatever!" " What a bad taste, Benassi." " My deepest congratulations." " Shut up and religious silence." "He's doing like dogs, he wants to mark his territory." " Go, Jena, easy." " Good, baby Jena." "Do as you please!" "Whatever!" "So, if we don't win today we're going down in B series." "Amateur B series, in Reggio." "No, sorry, but this does it." "It's ok in life to make a fool of oneself, but we're reaching the impossible!" "I tell you now: if you don't win, next year you can fuck forget I pay for the shirts and come here to lose time, I already have to find a substitute at the pub." "It's two weeks you don't pop up at trainings." "Well done." "The one you had to follow last time, you looked for him for 4 days in the field, and you still have to find him." "No problem, that time he scored only two goals." "You're lucky that Maselli didn't show up, Else, my dick you would have played!" "Hey, players!" "Now get out and make sure I don't end up in the Shame Guinness!" " Questions?" " Have you got some chewing gum?" " Shouldn't you have gotten tetanus by now?" " Hey, those give me self-confidence." "Yes!" "Yes, yes!" " You could also make less shitty noise, uh." " You're an expert in shit, aren't you?" "Hear me now, who do you think you are, rookie?" "This shall be a decent house." "You come in, do as the fuck you want." "What, did you mistake it for an hotel?" " You for a brothel." " What the fuck!" "Holy God!" "Are you crazy?" "You broke my nose." "Look your son leaving." "So sorry!" "We miss you already." "Bonanza, it's not the time." "And with this shit you've in your hand, what's that?" "How many times do I have to tell you?" "Life in not perfect!" "Movie lives are perfect." "Beautiful or ugly, but perfect." "In movies there are no dead times." "Life is full of dead times." "In movies you always know how it's going to end." "In life you never know!" "Bonanza, fuck off, ok?" "I don't understand a fuck of what you say." "We fixed the big room, didn't we?" "Well!" "Rio's Carnival!" " Joke as much as you want, you." " C'mon, let it be." " I've a sleeping bag, no need for a mattress." " I told you you don't bother anyone." " Did you do his nose?" " I don't know." "Getting it, I got fully." " And that car stereo?" " That's the first instalment." "Jerk." " You don't need it here?" " Not me." "Then I think I'll fix this on the Beetle." "First I'll disinfect it, it was touched by that dork!" "Hear me Bruno, nothing personal, hey." "Look, the radio idea is good." "You're good when you talk, but, I mean..." "the music you pass is really cheesy." "No hear, cheesy may your Elvis and Rolling Stones be, who don't say a thing." "No look, it's a question we discussed already." "I like mine, you like yours." "Look, you know what?" "You and the others will take me your records, mine are consumed." " So you won't protest anymore." " Good." "I want to move from 2 hours' broadcasting a day to the whole afternoon." "I need to find people coming to broadcast, like, who have things to say..." "I need some bucks, 'cause here with records, lights, stereos to be fixed..." "The game is getting time-consuming, ain't it?" "Game?" "When you put on the headphones and raise the microphone fader and hear your voice... which it's still your voice but it's more... more precise, you feel you can say what you want, but you know also that what you say has to be the top." "And you notice that every time you improve a bit." "When you can't go any further with words, then hey!" "You use the music." "The one you chose, the one that continues talking about you." "I think that there should be such a radio in every house." "Everyone telling the rest of the world his thing." "Do you know what movie Bonanza saw lately?" " It should be something with desert." " The Wind and the Lion?" " Who knows." " Who knows." "Good evening." "'evening." "Buddy, radio is a hobby." "You could have been a stamp, catfish, or what-the-fuck freak..." "You'll have anyway your 300 bucks a month." "You will change your 127 every three years." "You'll marry Ilaria, because the ones like you always marry the one they met in primary school." " What do you mean "The ones like me"?" " I mean "The ones like you"!" "The children." "A male and a female, if it goes bad two and two." "In 50 years your little house with iron bars at windows, for we fear gypsies." "You'll fuck Ilaria once a month, only when you'll be drunk." "And then muffins sunday morning, tortelli on the Eve, some fireworks at the first of the year, the jokes in dialect at the pub and Italian facing the boss." "Sport news all life long and the 127 washed on saturday, to take the family out on sunday." "A life of extra work to buy yourself a Zodiac boat for trips on the Po, and 3-400 new hobbies because free time it's killing you." "Way cool." "The ones like you can even become volunteers at the Red Cross." "The ones like me send the ones like you to fuck themselves!" "Also the ones like me." "The ones like you are the next Kingo, Virus, Bonanza." "All people that decided how to live in this world." "The ones like you, the only thing they do is telling others how they should live." "What the fuck are you laughing at, do you believe you're better off?" "No, I don't believe in anything." "I just believe you're a bit of a jerk." "You're right not to believe in anything." "You never believed in anything." "No God." "Politics, oh please." "PCI, DC, bombs or not, it's the same." "And the funny part being that you really don't care." "You stay here playing bully with these two or three things." "But that's easy, buddy!" "This way it's very, very easy." "Amen." "Of course you're nervous." "You never fuck." "Polish. 24." "Just 2.000." "Burned-out discount." "Damn burned out!" "Too burned out." "I am not here to sell, but to give away!" "Polish!" "24, I repeat polish!" "Anyway, you want to know what's your real problem?" "It's that now you've got a tag." " Tag!" " Holy shit!" "Tag!" "You got hurt for real?" "Come here." "Try to straighten it, c'mon." "Freccia!" " Go take the car that" " Tag!" "Good night." "Here Radio Raptus on air." "and I am Benassi, Ivan." "Maybe out there there's someone who's not sleeping." "Anyway, you being there or not, I have a thing to say." "Today I had an argument with a friend of mine." "He... he's one of the good ones." "Good in believing in what they are told to believe in." "He... he says that if one does not believe in certain things, doesn't believe in anything." "That's not true." "I believe too." "I believe in Bonimba's bicycle kicks and in Keith Richards' riffs." "I believe in the double bell ringing of your flat's owner who wants the rent every first day in the month." "I believe that everyone of us deserves to have a mother and a father who are decent with him at least until one stands on his feet." "I believe that an Inter like Corso's, Mazzola's and Suarez', will never exist again." "But it is not for certain that there will not be others beautiful in other ways." "I believe it is not all here." "But, before believing in something else we have to deal with what is here and now." "And so I think I will believe sooner or later in some god." "I believe that if will ever have a family, it will be tough going on with 300 bucks a month." "But I believe too that if I won't lick boots as my boss is doing, things will hardly change." "I believe I've got a big hole inside." "But I believe too that rock'n'roll, some girlfriends, football, some satisfaction at my job, bullshit with friends, sometimes they fill this hole." "I think that wishing to escape from a town with 20.000 inhabitants, means you wish to escape from yourself." "And I believe that you cannot escape from yourself not even if you are Eddy Merckx." "I believe it isn't fair judging others' life, because anyway you can't know a fuck about others' life!" "I believe that for believing, sometimes, you need a lot of energy." "Now, try to reload your batteries with this." "Tag!" " Want to dance?" "No." " 22." "Want to dance?" " No." " 23." "Want to dance?" " No." " 24." "Want to dance?" " No." " 25." "Want to dance?" " No." "26 and 27." "Good." "New round, new gift" " No harvest this evening too." " I think it's you taking me bad luck." " You take bad luck for yourself." " Is Freccia in the car?" " I tell you it's false." " Jena, give us a break, will you?" " They don't exist." " What do you know?" "Let's try at least." " Let's go sheat-fishing?" " Let's go sheat-fishing." "Ok, good." "He jumped." "Now:" "loser pole for Boris, loser's pole for Bruno." "Losing pole for you, Freccia." "Professional pole pour moi." "Neutral pole, Jena; here, for you." "Violation of private property." "One ends up in jail for this, you know that?" " You see there's nobody around, all closed." " Maybe 'cause normal guys are sleeping now." "You jerks!" "And stubborn ones as well." " Sheat-fishes don't exist!" " Jena, should get that this is possible." "These guys, the ones full of money, keep in their homes aardvarks, pythons, tarantulae." "Guess it's typical for them having an exotic stuff like a sheat-fish in their little pond." "I read it even in a book." "It's all fairy tales." "Anyway, you group of envious ones, nobody talks about that, but our friend Ivan Benassi, aka Freccia, got a never-to-be-seen hot girl." "That's completely true." "Go Freccia!" "Never seen?" "Never seen by losers like you." "Are we sure that anchovies are a good bait?" "I guess that with sheat-fishes steaks would do better." "C'mon, Sheaty!" "C'mon, let's go home!" " What should it look like?" " An about 2 meters long catfish." "A bijou." "Where in the hell are you going?" " I am here." "Get out now." " Now I'm coming too." "Good, Tito." "What the fuck are you doing, you idiots!" "Get out and let's go." " So..." " You're so funny, Boris." " More or less like sheat-fishes." " I check over there." "C'mon idiots!" "Get out of there." " A sheat-fish!" " I got it!" "Jena, come in the pond!" "There's something big." " Yes, I've got it!" "It's between my legs!" " I've got it too!" " Boys, he took the beast!" " It's disgusting." "They don't exist, right?" " So ugly!" " Looks like a boar with gills." "Get back in, you." "For it's an ugly world out here." " Jena!" "You read too many books." " Too few Spiderman comics!" "Here we are, the record is ending." "Just put on the headphones, raise the fader and you're on air." "You can say what you want." "Spit out what you've got, a poem." "What you want." "Ok?" "Fine." "Yyyeeesss!" "You're on Radio Raptus' magic magic magic frequency!" "It's three o'clock in a really ok afternoon!" "Boys what a wacko and music here on 94.3!" " I can't understand those..." " ..." "Jerks," " Who find anything in Bob Dylan." " Jackson Browne." "Song singer-writers." "Music must have balls!" "Keith Richard's open-sol tuning is left-wing." "Because it comes from Robert Johnson, from Muddy Waters, representatives of a minority culture, but a winning one thanks to the word being passed on." "No. 'Cuz yer on Radio Raptus." "Dunno if I make me understood." " We need Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath." " Deep Purple." "The Stones' sexism is really right-wing." "Yyyy-oouu a-aare o-onn Rrrad-d-dio Raptuss." "He-arr mom-mmy t-that I alm-mos-t don-n't s-stut-tter annym-mor-re?" "Very good." " I leave her for you." " Kingo!" " Hi." "I didn't know how to do it, I haven't your phone number." "Maybe I found you an home." "A bit modest, maybe." "It has to be modest." "Glamorous balcony on glamorous garden." "With glamorous pond." "I know that pond." " So?" " So what?" "So what's this, are you kidding with me?" "The Tirellis moved to Milan a couple of months ago." "They're so scrooge they won't even pay a guardian." "So?" "So, until I find someone who buys or rents it you can live here, if you don't crash it." "I caught a sheat-fish, in that pond." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "I remind you that from monday we will activate a phone line." "Well?" "What are you doing here?" "House stuck with relatives." "Speaking of which, is everything alright home?" " Why?" " Well, so." "'Cause there are some rumours, dunno, that'll be the usual bullshit." " Spit out, what rumours around?" " Nothing, I told you, bullshit." "No, now you tell me what rumours are around." "That you became gay." "Go to the bloody hell!" "Freccia, you dumb!" " 142.000, approximately." " Hey!" "Bonanza." " Look, 007 is in no more." " You're in no more." "Bonanza, you know all about cinema and you don't do anything to make it?" " Do your business." " I will, but you're throwing in shit a great talent." "Don't you tell me you don't know a thing about the horror producer?" "There is a horror-movie producer coming here every first friday in the month, at Astrologo street 5." "They rent him the house for certain parties... you get it." "And nobody knows." "Now, in my opinion, the best screen-test one can do for a horror producer is scaring him." "Imagine yourself coming, kinda 3 o'clock AM, right in the middle of the party, with a horrifying mask." "You ring the bell." "When he comes out you vomit a beast-like cry, so that he either passes away with an heart attack or gets you a part in a movie." " Then, go yourself." " I will for sure." "Good for you!" " Astrologo street 5, ain't it Neck's address?" " That's Neck's address." "Are you awake?" "Hey!" "I need 50 more." "My flat's owner wants the previous rents." "50 you asked for and 50 I gave." "I am a worker." "Come on!" "It's 50 bucks more." " You live in this place and don't have'em?" " That's right what I'm telling you." "What a son of a bitch you are!" " Well, that's true." " Die!" "Go away!" "Go away!" "Go away!" "Go away!" "Motherfuck, Go away!" "I said you must go away." "Go away, fuck!" "Please, Go away!" "Radio Raptus International." "What's international, you reach just Modena!" "That International is bullshit, but with all the money Ruini threw in..." " You mean Ruini, the one of the slaughterhouse?" " Yeah, right him." "Why didn't he call it Radio Salami International?" " Be silly as you want." "This is a serious job." " Until yesterday it was a passion." "Of course it's still a passion." "You mean that you still say what you want and pass on the music you want?" "Hey boys, what the fuck do you want from me?" "Correggio: hippo found in city centre had fled from the circus stopping in town" "Hey boys, what the fuck do you want from me, uh?" "Sir Ruini, can I pass on the Pink Floyd?" "Who are these you want to pass on, Mr. Iori?" "Following a kind request from Sir Ruini, a great walzer by Castellina Pasi, here on Radio Raptus" "International!" " There's Pluto, Hi Pluto!" " Hi, Pluto." "Hi, boys." "Look who I see this evening!" " Hi, Maestro!" " So, whom did you get this evening?" "Er, you see, this evening I think I met" "Enrico..." "Berlinguer (Secretary of the italian coummunist party until 1984)." "But Enrico Berlinguer is not yet dead, Pluto." "Not yet, but there are rumours he will die around year 2000." " Ah, so he talked to you from the future." " He talked to me from the future." "Let's hear." "Let's hear, because we don't know even what he said." "We'll know now!" " C'mon, Berlinguer, c'mon." "Enrico?" " Good evening, Mr. Pluto." " How do you do?" " Listen." "I'm well." "How do you do?" "Where did they put you?" "Heaven or hell?" " Hear where he is." " Look, you won't believe it but I am in Heaven." "Impossible!" "Impossible!" "I don't believe it, because you didn't believe in it!" " Oh my goodness." " He got angry." "He got angry because we didn't believe him." "Anyway boys, see you around again with very important personalities." " And always new ones." " And always from the hereafter." "Yes, because the worthiness is in the hereafter." " Bye, Pluto." " See you, boys." "We'll meet again, bye." " See you, boys." " Bye, Pluto." " I'm going." " Where are you going?" " Going at the radio to pick up a thing." " Yeah... good." "Bye, Bruno." "Next time we ask him Christopher Columbus." "I think he's got it." "Instalment number two, you jerk!" "YOU BEAST!" "YOU BEAST!" "YOU BEAST!" "Hey, Freccia." "I killed my father." "Well done." "Instead songs don't betray you." "Even he who makes them can." "But songs, your songs, the ones that meant something to you, you will always find them there, when you want to find them." "Intact." "It does not matter if he who made them will change." "If you want to know my opinion, songs, your songs, you can trust them." "How do you do?" "How did it happen?" "Nothing." "It is known only that he beat him with a club." "He thought he killed him." "He even told me that." "How can you believe a friend that tells you he just killed his father?" "Instead he couldn't even finish him off." "Now the father is in bad shape, but alive." " Hope they throw him in jail." " Is it true he's been raping the daughter for years?" "And the little girl, how is she?" "How are you?" "Tell me why." "Tell me why." "You could have asked me, couldn't you?" " Listen." " What do you want me to listen to?" "What could you ever say?" "Come on!" "It's just 80 bucks." "Spend them well." "Did you buy the plates Sir Ruini likes?" " So what?" " So what's this car?" "You blind?" "It's a Mini, ain't it?" "And the Beetle?" "I... keep it for sundays." "Gotta some losers to hang around with on sundays." "It was a good deal." "It's comfy." "I'll keep it for a while." "So, had a fancy." "Listen, This does not go." "You're Italy's only worker with 2 cars." "You're the only one that passes out after half a round of the field." "It doesn't go." " Who told you?" " All at the training." "What did I do?" "It is not my fault, is it?" "I'm tired, it happens." "12 yoghurts and a tray dried plums in 4 minutes." "Afterwards two hours with no toilet." "Go!" " Gotta go, have the shift." " Shift?" "Did the radio become a factory?" "Wish I knew too." " Bye." " Bye." " Factory." " Factory." "Hey, if you slam stronger, maybe next time you can break it down!" "Come out." " First I finish my" " You will finish it later." " Hey!" "You freaked?" " Come on!" "Plutonio's wardrobe." "There should be also Ilaria's jacket." "This afternoon she was going there." "How does it work?" "Do I have to buy it back or what?" "What the fuck are you doing?" "Freccia, what the fuck are you doing?" "Hi, Tito." "Do you want Zandegù or Balmamion, Freccia?" " Bitossi." " Bruno's got him already." "Jena the sissy's got Anquetil." "'Cause he must have all the french ones." "Boris has Gimondi and I Motta." "If there's a sissy it's you!" "If I don't have Bitossi, I don't play." "So he drove in a jewellery window, with the Mini, and got away with all possible." "But it started going like usual, they caught him." "He began going in and out of jail." "Inevitable." "He escaped even from hospitals every time." "Once he had a fistfight with a pub guard in Reggio and passed out." "He recovered at the orthopedy wing." "They saw him 1/2h later hitchhiking with a pyjamas on by the airfield." "They could not keep him in." "Partly because they would have kept him away from heroin, and partly because they reminded him his sick heart." "Because every hole for him was much more hazardous than for anyone else." "But that was surely not going to stop him." "To do it heroin had to become a fashion." "In the second half of the '70s, when many began, he gave up." " Hey, do you know those two?" " Why yes, they're my brother and sister." " The oldest is 14." " 14 badly spent years, then." " Stop the car." " You're pathetic." "I said stop it!" "We'll talk about is in a while, ok?" "We'll see if you can buy without selling!" "Just by coincidence, those days Tito came out of jail." "With all mitigating circumstances he had 21 months." "21 months he never talked with anyone about." "Neither about those months nor about the bad story with his father." "Who's that?" "If I could I would help you out, but I can't." "I don't drive an institute, this is a factory." "If it does not produce what it has to, here nobody eats." "Your colleagues don't eat, neither do the employees or my sons." "You've always worked well, always been on time." "But on Christmas you always had my bonuses." "Who assures me that now you don't get back in jail or hospital?" "Or that anyway you're ill and can't come here?" "I don't have any backup to call out, if by chance a worker is missing." "Excuse me." "I told you not to let anybody in." "Yes, right." "A second." "Here." "This is your severance pay and this is a small present." "Hallo?" "Good morning Sir Ruini, how are you doing?" "Sorry, it's personal." "You're still on Radio Raptus International." "It's 19:30." "The exact time is offered by goldsmith Cocks." "From Cocks, the perfect clocks." "Maybe in one hundred years, but Cathands." "Undertaker Cathands." "Your last travel in the best hands." "Hey, congrats." "Can I make you a cappuccino before you pass out right there?" " I guess I'll pass out if I drink it." " So do a nice thing:" "pass out a bit on the side, else people can't come in." "Then not a cappuccino, but I'll take the risk of a coffee." "A coffee for the national biafran." "Did you run into a car lately?" "Golden business, in the morning, ain't it?" "If my business consultant dies I'll call you, ok?" "Very good your coffee." "Tastes like sewer." "Then pieces of shit like you shouldn't drink it, but float on the top of it instead." "C'mon!" "The ball is the round one, the white one with black spots!" "I'll reveal you a secret!" "You play with us, you've gotta kick that way!" "Nothing personal, Bartolini." "You and football are incompatible!" " This evening, Catfish Festival." " Meow, meow!" " So disgusting!" " Doesn't look like, but actually..." "No bullshit, ok boys?" "First night on the couch, dear Jena Next life you choose other friends" " Ruini Salami." "The best..." " Either you shift or you switch off." "Uuh!" "Great controversies at Radio Raptus International!" "How was that it was Jena the first one to get married?" "I was sure about good old Bruno." "It's 60 years he's with Ilaria." "Speaking of which, how's this Nadia?" "People say that she's not so perfectly still." " That would be?" " That would be she took in a bunch." "So what?" "Now she marries Jena and she stops." "Sure, Jena will make sure she stops." "Can you, for one day, I'm not saying not be a jerk, but at least hold yourself in average?" "I've been wondering for a while..." "Who's got the tag?" " You." " Tag!" " Tag!" " Tag!" "No coming back, no coming back!" "And for the bride and groom:" "Hip hip hip, hurray!" " My pleasure, Tito." " The pleasure is mine." "Congratulations, Jena." "Tag." "He's busy today." " Kiss!" "Kiss!" " Naked!" "Naked!" " I think they recognized me." " Thanks, no more." "No more." " Can I have two more?" " Only broth for me." "Yes." "Listen... can I have some ice when you have got the time?" "As long as you're still standing, can you wash my car as well?" "Let's eat." "He arrived." "Kiss!" "Kiss!" "Ahoy!" "Is there anyone wanting some more?" "Well done!" "Coccinella!" "Non far più la barboncella e non vestirti più di blu." "Tu sei come un whisky, io mi sbronzo di te." "Ma togli quel vestito che fa proprio schifo." "Coccinella!" " No, not for me." "Thanks." " No, now you eat it." "Good." "Stop." "Please, stop." "Listen, if I pay the difference can I get a better Lambrusco?" " I'll give you that, the Lambrusco!" " Excellent, thank you." " Hi." " Hi." "Pie!" "Pie!" "Long live bride and groom!" " What's up?" " I guess we need a hitch." "What a nice fuck of a day." "Excuse me, but do you and Ilaria ever meet?" "We don't meet so much, but well." " Do you want to talk a bit?" " About what?" "Boris?" "I f you want about that as well." " Or else?" "Or else you know." "Bad subject." "Wait, wait." " You want to talk a bit?" " About what?" "Boris?" " If you want about that as well." " Or else?" "Or else make sure to go fuck off, all of you!" " What's that?" " Cristina. 642215." "Bruno, you sure?" "You're the only one risking a job here." "C'mon, c'mon, have a move." "Hi everybody, Bruno Iori speaking." "It's 3:30 and it's now beginning "Recreation time"." "Radio Raptus International's new program." " The program will be held by myself..." " Benassi Ivan..." "And no more." "It's saturday night and right now many of you have probably better to do than listening to us on the radio." "Many probably have worse to do." "Many are having lots of fun, I'm sure." "But I'm sure that many of you, that by chance are 18-20 years old, are there not leaving themselves be, not even this time on saturday." "I don't know how it was being 18-20 in the '50s or '60s." "I know what it means to me and to many others to be it now." "This 1977 is a big mess." "There is a large movement around, can't say whether it's nice or ugly." "But... but it's fast." "There are bombs, there's the student movement, there are free radios, there are parents, who more and more are like what you swear you'll never be." "There are Utopias, religions, and there are, right, those who don't let themselves be." " You mean it's my turn?" " I think so." "There are holes and in the middle of all this there's our need to know more." "We're travelling without a map or with an useless map." "Well, I think it's about time we make this map ourselves." " And once made we show it around." " People say a lot of bullshit about heroin." "Right." "You, for example, how did you begin?" "I let myself be begun." "It was a girl who made me try, I'd never thought about sticking a needle in my veins." "And why did you let her do?" "Well, probably that time more than asking myself "Why?" I asked myself "Why not?"." "And how was that?" "Well, that time, beautiful." "A big flash came and suddendly all bullshit was gone." "A big heat and then... like..." "like many orgasms at the same time." "In the back, on the legs, everywhere." " And then?" " And then I did like everybody does." "I said to myself: "I'll get high one or two more times and then I stop when I want"." "Did it go like that?" "No." "I guess it never does." "At least, after a couple of times I was already in it." "You mean?" "I mean you want more and more." "And the more you get, the more you need." "Then, it's easy you fuck all up." " You mean?" " I mean..." "I mean you must steal, got it?" "'Cause none gives you that for free." "Anyway, after some time it stops pleasing you too." "But you get sick if you don't get it, and then you get high only to be normal." "It finally becomes a thing between you and it, and everything else doesn't matter a fuck." "How did you get over it?" "Shitting in my pants." "With my stomach breaking up and my heart pounding." "Big flashes of heat and then cold." "And a great fear of dying of pain." "I passed 10 days in a bed I was soiling and that a person was cleaning." "If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't surely have got out of it." "But I don't know whether I can say I really gave up." "Well yes, since some months I don't get high anymore, but..." "Maybe it's better if I don't think too much about it." "Do you think it was worth it asking yourself that "Why not?" the first night?" "This is a fucking question." "And by this fucking question, "Recreation time" closes." "We talked about holes, or better said the holes someone made in himself." "We do not know if that's the same thing for everybody." "But, now we maybe know something more." "Good night." "Those days two new things happened." "First, Radio Raptus International got a competing radio in the same village." "Radio Raptus Town." "Second, Freccia for the first time lost his head for a girl." "He was badly struck by one that, even if she lived in Carpi, was light years from him." "A hot girl, about 9½ over 10." "How do you say, one of those cats that pop up only when thay want." "Maybe this as well was the reason for the hit." "It was such a big hit that for the second time we lost sight with him." "How can one tell a love story with Freccia in it?" "He would never forgive me." "And that's difficult to imagine." "Anyway, the story was true." "People say that there's nothing worse than losing your head for someone who doesn't lose it for you." "People say it was a very short but powerful blast." "So powerful that Freccia and he only built on it who-knows-what." "People say he didn't understand that one couldn't be the only one for her." "People say... have said... many things." "HE never told us anything." "I wanted to give you my number." "Gotta something to write with?" "So, 632426." "Done?" "How do you do?" "Alright?" "Yes, yes, me too." "Very well." "What are you doing?" "No, it's not to date you." "So, just wondering." "What do you mean you never promised me anything?" "What's that got to do with it?" "Did I ever ask you something?" "Do you know you're the first one I didn't ask to meet the parents to?" "No, baby, I'm not old-fashioned." "I couldn't care less about your parents, ok?" "I wanted just to understand why." "Ok, I stop calling you "baby" and you stop feeling ashamed for me." "Pick up." "C'mon, pick up." "Pick up, fuck!" "Will you pick up?" "Good evening." " Can I have a cold coffee?" " You studying to become a sissy, lately?" "Hey, what's that big bottle?" "I want it shaken out." "You think that I, 50 years old, will jerk off coffee?" " Then you'll drink it." " Knife or gun?" "Gun." "If you get killed he pays a round on everybody." "Scotch for everybody!" " So, Freccia." "How are you doing?" " Bad." " I'm dead." " Don't be silly, I mean it." "Me too." " You, how are you doing?" " How am I doing..." "I'm doing like the one that almost killed his father." "I can't make love." "I'm afraid of hurting someone." " It was her." " Really?" "She said things like:" ""You're a good boy," "I don't want to hurt you." "I'm afraid you're not strong enough."" "She was fair." "There are also ones who don't tell you these things." "She said that's better if we calm down for a while." "And she rang here at the pub, she doesn't even like that." "Really fair." " You saying?" " No, nothing." "It's like I should disintoxicate from something else." "I could lock you in my home, it worked with heroin." "Besides, this time I too would have some fun." " What are you doing, reproaching?" " Don't even joke about that!" "What if I tell you to let her be?" "That my home's door is always open?" "The only thing I can do is eating you." "Right now you die of poison." "Do you think it's because her parents are full with bucks?" "Can cars have a role?" "She meets often a guy with a Mercedes." " Hi, Jena." "Is Cristina here?" " I'm happy you want to know how we are doing." "C'mon, c'mon, that's her Duetto." "Is she here or not?" "So what?" "Can I get in?" " You know Nadia: she doesn't want to see you." " Ok, so call her out, c'mon." "You stay here and don't move." "I'm sorry, she won't." "She's with a guy." "I'll try again, c'mon." "She says you must let her be." "She says it's best for everyone." "Did you see her with this guy before?" "It's a guy with a Mercedes, isn't he?" " How are you and Nadia doing?" " What an asshole!" " Who's there?" " It's Ivan." "Can you come at the window?" " C'mon, Ivan." "What do you want?" " That you come at the window." " So?" " Don't you like Mercedes'?" "What about this?" "Is this all?" "I expected more, you know?" " Who's there?" " Me again." "Can you come at the window?" "Now stop that, Ivan." "My parents will call the police." "A second at the window." "What's the problem?" " So, will you give up?" " Is this enough?" "You disappoint me, buddy." "A handsome like you on a pimp car!" "You're an expert in pimp cars, aren't you?" "And don't call me buddy." "In five minutes I'll be here with a coach." "Wait for me awake, darling!" "People say things went on this way." "We can't know, we weren't there." "But I like imagining him like that, between two fires smoking his last shot." "Because that was his last shot." "Vün, du, tri, quater." "After an hour that jerk had already found back the girl that made his first hole." "She and her two friends." "Together with them he got high for the last time." "I don't believe he went voluntarily for overdose, but what I believe won't change anything." "16 years have passed since that fucking night," "In these 16 years we pronounced Freccia's name every time we pronounced this radio's name." "How many times we thought of what we would have done together." "What he would have done, how different these 16 years would have been." ""Useless thoughts", you may say." "No." "You're on Radiofreccia, 94.3 until 23:59." "In these two hours I told you a lot of things I don't know how much could interest you, but, as you understood, this radio's story is a group's story as well." "So, if I did so much, I can do a bit more." "Let's do like in those movies where at the end you look at where all the people are." "Bonanza doesn't go almost anymore to cinema but watches some home videos." "His son sometimes gets him in some of them." "Hope it will never come the time of horror movies." "Virus has not been betting in a while." "People say he's not well." "But some say he's preparing for the Guinness, maybe eating the famous car." "Omero tried to renew himself, and instead of the usual lottery tickets, now he ordered some "Scratch'n'Fuck" tickets." "But clients seem less and less interested." "Kingo..." "Kingo goes on." "Pluto, instead of showing his recordings from the hereafter at one by one, shows them at high volume for everybody." "Adolfo left the pub to his daughter and passed on this side of the bar, finally ballbreaking he as well." "Jena and Nadia are still together." "She calmed down with time." "Maybe because none was left after her." "Anyway they look like a nice couple." "Boris is a business consultant." "Sometimes he takes around his little thing, and sometimes he still does some bullshit." "Tito has no fixed job." "His father got out of jail but never popped up." "Until now he always hacked his way through." "He's got a wife, 3 sons and his ghosts." "I will finally pass some time with my family." "Ah, speaking of which, at least about this Boris was right." "Actually, people like me marry Ilaria." "I remind you that at Plutonio the goodbye party is going on." "It's 23:55 and..." "we're really there." "I leave you with the voice of he who gave his name to this radio." "Thank you for having been there all these years." "It has been a pleasure." "I believe in Bonimba's bicycle kicks and in Keith Richards' riffs." "I believe in the double bell ringing of your flat's owner who wants the rent every first day in the month." "I believe it is not all here." "But, before believing in something else we have to deal with what is here and now." "And then I think I will believe sooner or later in some god." "I believe that if will ever have a family, it will be tough going on with 300 bucks a month." "But I believe too that if I won't lick boots as my boss is doing, things will hardly change." "I believe I've got a big hole inside." "But I believe too that rock'n'roll, some girlfriends, football, some satisfaction at my job, bullshit with friends, sometimes they fill this hole." "I think that wishing to escape from a town with 20.000 inhabitants, means you wish to escape from yourself." "And I believe that you cannot escape from yourself not even if you are Eddy Merckx." "I believe it isn't fair judging others' life, because anyway you can't know a fuck about others' life!"