We had about 11 years, me and Alex, the day when we invented the SuperLemon.
We were at his house, and as we listened Cuccuruccucù Franco Battiato, mixed sulfuric acid and lemon juice in a flask from the box famigeratissima ChimicaMAX.
We were convinced that they have invented a detergent for her mom! We used our concoction on the marble of her kitchen, revealed just how powerful our new detergent.
She looked at us shocked, but in reality he feared for his precious marble.
That afternoon I went home with a burnt finger, but happy ..
The magic box that Alex brought out in the summer afternoons in that house on a Impallomeni contained strange objects, even in a vial with a blue liquid, which Alex claimed to have obtained from the dissolution of a "drugged candy," probably taken from a boy of Mestre, who had pulled him avergliela ..
great.
I made a lot of dreams with that box of disturbing substances. But there was only
ChimicaMax in our afternoon. There was also a collection of electric scooters, which Alex and I rode in cars to door electric transformers with overeating and washing: The effect was that of a toy car schizzante over the fence of my house in a rural Viagrande.
Alex and I looked into his eyes, like a ritual, before operating the processor after connecting the wires .. Then it the trigger and there .. the toy car .. spikes, while the electric motor was burning ...
Then we grew a bit '.. and spent the Commodore64. I was always convinced that sooner or later my plans to take the road to self-consciousness, and was hoping to become like the Master Control Program, the villain of the film Thron ..
It was the '80s. Grow well. We wanted to become mad scientists, ingengneri crazy and full of desire to do and build.
Now that we have become men, we were in his pocket a bunch of insane ideas. We are always ready to spend some emotion, but the confidence of this country, inventiveness seems to have vanished altogether.
There are more electronics stores, with skilled salespeople who you invite into DIY. Apart from some fanatic Lego Brainstorm I do not think that television invoglino adolescents creativity.
We were not different from kids today, but even adults seem more Scazzi now than they were our parents.
Something has changed. They say it's the fault of the crisis. They say that people love to sit up inside a pub, to continue watching their country from a Sony flat screen with a bar, when they do not match Italy .. They say that children
break, the family takes away time, but I do not believe it. The question is
that we no longer believe in us and in our ability to invent something that is ours.
Yet, it was not the case for an Italian, a Turin to be exact, who invented the mp3? I'd like to know what happened to those kids of the '80s. Those who are self-made stereos, those like me who do not attract ugly girls but the gains later, after having installed them at home "psychedelic lights" ..
Guys where are you? We should take a leaf from the inventor of Arduino, Massimo Banzi, Italian contemporary who has invented our Ivrea to the concept of open source hardware .. Possible that there was only him? What happened? We took i nostri sogni da ragazzi italiani e li abbiamo barattati con le patatine americane? Adesso siamo pieni di patatine e di sogni non ce ne sono rimasti più?
Non ci credo. Perciò ragazzi, se a casa avete una collezione incompleta e menomata di Force Commander, di Baron Karza e di altri micronauti, se in casa avete residui bellici della ChimicaMAX, se come me conservate ancora un vecchio C64 ancora semifunzionante..Fatevi vivi.
So che ci siete e che non vedete lora di parlare di voi e dei vostri sogni.
E magari vuoi vedere che a furia di riesumarli, 'sti sogni, qualcuno di voi finisce con il crederci di nuovo??
Un abbraccio,
Sonny.
