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Gabriele Benzing
@gbenzing.bsky.social
Harmless sociopath. Writer at @OndaRock

https://www.ondarock.it/staff/gabrielebenzing.htm
O fellow castaways, all aboard!

The three paths of the castaway according to the Mountain Goats (and the hidden power of caring)

#review @themountaingoats.bsky.social @ondarockwebzine.bsky.social

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November 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
“Lord, I'm one
Lord, I'm two
Lord, I'm three
Lord, I'm four
Lord, I'm five hundred miles from my home”

Micah P. Hinson at Teatro Girolamo Magnani, Fidenza #BarezziFestival
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Look what I found in the mail today… (Lego jd loves tapes!) @themountaingoats.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
[John Darnielle, Master of Reality]

#RipOzzy @themountaingoats.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
July 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
“Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home
I wanna go home”

Goodbye, Brian
June 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
YEAH Dino Buzzati was also a visionary painter! This is his fantastic depiction of the “colombre”, his greatest monster character
June 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Qui dentro ho provato a mettere tutto quello che rappresenta questo disco. Da vent’anni “The Sunset Tree” è lì che ci aspetta quando ne abbiamo davvero bisogno. Pronto a rivoltarci dalle viscere.

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May 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
(spreading the cult once again in the land of the old Roman Empire…)
May 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“In affliction there’s nothing to love, Simone Weil would say, and yet the soul must continue to love, or at least to desire to love. It’s the only way not to surrender to hell, here on earth. It’s the only way to reach the dawn of the new year that awaits us”
May 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water, Triumph Of (@themountaingoats.bsky.social, Byzantine version)

[Ravenna, Basilica di Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, A.D. 2025]
April 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
“No one will survive
Ash Wednesday alive
No soldier, no lover
No father, no mother
Not a lonely child”

#AshWednesday @elvisperkins.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
“Long live independent film!”

(AMP by Lovas Tibor)
March 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey, why isn’t there an Italian edition of this book yet?!
“La casa del diavolo”… come on, it’s amazing! It sounds like a Pupi Avati movie!

@themountaingoats.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Thanks jd, refusing to harden your heart is a radical act - as @artofmarza.bsky.social says
February 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Chalamet, certo… ma anche l’invasione dei biopic musicali, il business della nostalgia, l’importanza dei barattoli di fagioli e di un frigorifero pieno di uova: è possibile portare Bob Dylan al cinema? ->
January 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
'Twas in another lifetime
One of toil and blood

This day, 50 years ago
January 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
But not today
January 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
8 favs from 2024
January 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
5 romanzi (e 1 saggio) che hanno segnato il mio 2024:

• Cărtărescu - Theodoros
• Hedayat - La civetta cieca
• De Maria - Le venti giornate di Torino
• Di Mino - Lo splendore. L’infanzia di Hans
• Volodine - Liturgia del disprezzo
• Camurri - Introduzione alla realtà
December 30, 2024 at 7:11 PM
“Fuck the world, you said it quiet
No one could hear you, no one but me”

(with a little help from il Gattone di Edoardo Camurri)
December 30, 2024 at 7:57 AM
My EOY list
December 23, 2024 at 7:49 AM
The best of the year according to OndaRock
December 23, 2024 at 7:49 AM
“In my imagination
I'm sitting on the fence
Between the life we almost had
And whatever's coming next”

A therapy session with Christian Lee Hutson: “Paradise Pop. 10” & the theater of life #review
November 28, 2024 at 8:38 AM