Sometimes life surprises me with really unexpected situations. Sometimes it is as if the dreams I had as a child suddenly materialized, once forgotten.
When I was in high school, my father and I didn’t miss an episode of Zelig. How good it was to laugh together on the sofa! And we watched it, all of it, all the way to the end, because at the end was them, Ale and Franz, or rather say Fitz and Gin. We loved that schetch of theirs!
And then years go by, more or less 20, and from Friuli, I find myself living in Milan. And it happens one day, that. I find myself in a tiny restaurant in the Bovisa area, that in the table next to mine I see sitting just them: Ale and Franz! Heartbreak!!! I didn’t want to be the one to get up and go ask him for an autograph though…it seemed priori unfashionable 😉
So I my brain was strategizing so that I could at least talk to him a little bit, when I see Ale getting up from the table, and going outside to smoke cigarettes.
Bingo! I also go out and, I sneak him a cigarette (which never goes out of style!) and from there we start chatting, exchange numbers, keep in touch and become friends!
How strange to think of me as a little girl on the couch waiting to see them on TV and now I know them!
But this is just the premise to tell you about a specific day when something happened that is even more unbelievable.
That day I had an appointment in a studio with Ale and Franz to do a photo shoot from which we would later select photos for the poster of their new Comincium tour. First unavoidable stop: cafe coffee all together. While we were there between chats and coffee, Franz looks out the window and makes a strange face. The light outside darkens, as if it were suddenly cloudy. We all turn around and open-mouthed walk out of the bar. A gruesome spectacle! A flock of birds, just like in Hitchcock’s film, swoops down on the strange and passing cars. A truly splatter scene of which I will not show you photos to let you sleep sound dreams…because what an impression! We did not understand how this was possible. It was as if they lost altitude and could in no way climb back up from that nefarious landing.
We rush out to rescue them by dodging cars and leave the survivors in the hands of animal protection. Uneasy, we returned to the bar, paid for our coffees and finally went to do our photo shoot: crossing the threshold of the pose room was like entering another dimension, the right one! The one we were supposed to be in! And the service went very well. What a crazy memory to think about, though!
Anna Antonelli
