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About me — Marcello
How an outspoken teenager came into adulthood
I grow up in Italy, in a small city in the North of the country, close to Milan. My teenager years were strongly influenced by music (Punk, Rock, Grunge) and literature (the Beat Generation, William Blake, Rimbaud, Nietzsche, Cyberpunk, among many others), which reflected my feeling as an outsider, a rebel to our current society and its hypocrisy.
It was a tough and revolutionary change, but it was very real and genuine.
I wanted to step out of the normality and middle-class environment I grow up in. I was craving a deeper understanding of the human soul through arts or religion. This is what I actually wanted: a life with true feelings, the ones artists and shamans work with.
I would have done everything in my power to achieve that.
So I actively embarked in the world of music and literature. I started to play an electric guitar, with a DIY punk attitude, naively trying to learn to play spontaneously; I was composing some simple, kind of dissonant songs. I read as many books as I could, specifically selecting authors maudit of anytime in history; I was then writing mostly poems in this style.
But what did I want to do with all this? I wanted to be special, different, go beyond the border of knowledge and…
