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#pausaca by Paola Iezzi

Aug 17, 2025 | A COFFEE WITH, MUSIC, WOMEN

#pausaca is Paola Iezzi‘s coffee break hashtag.

#pausaca is pausa = break and ca = coffee without the last three letters, but it lacks nothing, quite the contrary!

It’s the kind of coffee break long-awaited, when you are deeply in need to stop, the kind of break representing a well-deserved reward.

Coffee that is desired, necessary, therapeutic.

With this in mind, it all happened one day a year ago or perhaps more, when Paola decided to share a photo of a coffee she drank with the mood “ah! Finally!”.

What word do you usually use to express the concept “ah! Finally” with the maximum reinforcing sense?

The expression used by Paola is now well known and has climbed the rankings of examples where the use of a comma makes a definite difference.

She wrote pausa cazzo and cazzo is the corresponding of dick.

But since then, Paola’s coffee breaks have become an unmissable and impertinent moment: they are pauseca.

Here she herself cites the origin…

#pausaca di Paola Iezzi

Do you always put commas in the right place?

How do you behave in the event of a gaffe?

Do you play it cool and “play dead”, or do you make light of it because laughing is always better?

Paola created a trend without a comma: it’s a short step from pausaca to pausaqueen.

THREE SOULS

Jul 19, 2025 | A COFFEE WITH, WOMEN, MUSIC, MUSIC, ROCK, ROCK, A COFFEE WITH, WOMEN

Tre Anime Three souls is Carmen Consoli‘s new artistic project.

The Cantantessa described the genesis and concept of these Three Souls on Instagram

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One of the things around which I find myself reflecting more and more often is time.

Many times we have found ourselves exchanging our reflections on time even here over our virtual cafés.

I continue to believe in and practise slowness and following the rhythms set by Nature to choose and be happy.

Slowness. A luxury even.

If you can, do you practise slowness?
Do you like to slow down?

Or perhaps you like to organise a thousand things on the wave of ‘he who has time, waits for no time?’

Carmen also emphasises the use of Artificial Intelligence: why delegate our lives to machines?

What do we do with all this time gained because it is not lived?

In fact, very often we fall into the paradox: the acceleration of processes thanks to technology generally does not lead us to have more time for ourselves, but to find ourselves with more things to do. Do you agree?

Beyond speeches or declarations, to be fair, Carmen Consoli seems to live out of time.

Her bio boasts a very long list of awards, accolades, collaborations, yet she always manages to appear measured, always in the right place, with refined musical taste and more.

Elegant? No: True artist.

Artist who found inspiration in Quintus Ennius who spoke and wrote in three languages saying he had three hearts.

From three hearts to three souls:

Sicilian culture soul
Rock soul
Songwriting soul narrative

Sicilian as Nina: first woman poet in Italian literary history.

As you well know I always value the use of dialects.

Rock like experimenting with his father’s Gibson, in the years of radiant Catania when R.E.M. opened the world tour in Catania with openings by the very young Radiohead.

Rock! Ça va sans dire …

Songwriter like La Cantantessa who gave us precious songs like Contessa Miseria from Mediamente Isterica.

Not surprisingly, time also appears in one of its facets in the lyrics of this song.

Confused and Happy, Butter Words, Orange Blossoms, The Last Kiss, In Black and White, do you continue with your favorite?

And what Souls are you?

ITALY SLOW TOUR

Feb 1, 2025 | A COFFEE WITH, JOURNEY FROM MUG TO MUG

Italy Slow Tour is a website, Italy Slow Tour is a YouTube channel, Italy Slow Tour is much more.

How can you encapsulate two people like Syusy Blady and Patrizio Roversi in a single description?

Syusy describes herself as an eclectic artist, journalist, actress, TV presenter and whatever else pops into her head.

Let’s say that a lot of interesting things have popped into that mind so far.

Patrizio‘s bio is a narcissistic double-edged carping exhibitionist complex.

So it seems quite natural how Patrizio could have been thunderstruck by Maurizia while literally ruling a group of kids on the beach in that Stop Model splendour that we would all later discover.

The union of two diametrically opposed yet inextricably complementary personalities.

Together they gave us programmes like Lone Wolf or The Arab Phoenix that made history, and became The Travellers par excellence.

Tourists by chance.

Before Beijing Express, before the Travel Bloggers, before the Digital Nomads, Patrizio and Syusy taught us the true spirit of Travel.

Thanks to them, we saw distant and unseen places, discovered real life, observed food, learned customs and traditions.

Experiences based on two unfailing ingredients: respect and irony.

Syusy and Patrizio’s irony is something I have always loved, which is why I recommend you follow their Syusy and Patrizio News.

A condensation of useful and interesting information told with their way of being themselves: Tourists by chance but Artists by merit.

CAFFEINATED ZOMBIE

Jan 4, 2025 | A COFFEE WITH, MOVIES, ISN'T IT IRONIC?, ISN'T IT IRONIC?, MOVIES, ROCK, ROCK, A COFFEE WITH

Caffeinated zombie in particular is impersonated … can we say ‘impersonated?’ Just kidding of course!

I mean, reading the title you must have immediately thought of Jim Jarmusch’s film The Dead Don’t Die, do you know it?

If you don’t know it, ‘this is going to end badly’ …

I don’t know about you, but we really like to quote some iconic lines from this film.

But back to our caffeinated zombie aka the Iguana of rock: Iggy Pop.

Born James Newell Osterberg Jr., you can really say anything about him.

Even that he roams Centerville with his inseparable pot of coffee.

Caffeinated zombie

Over all I like to recall his friendship with David Bowie.

“He resurrected me” were his exact words in an interview with the New York Times.

Together they went to and from Berlin and together they gave us that little gem that is China Girl, not to mention the legendary The Passenger.

Together is the adverb that can also be used when referring to Jim Jarmusch because the interpretation of a zombie is one of the many occasions in which he and Iggy also collaborated.

Staying on the subject of zombies for now, what do you think?

Do you like films and series with their range of versions from the most macabre to the most ironic?

The word zombie has its roots in the West Indies, roots intertwined with woodoo rituals, but why am I telling you about it at the start of this year?

To quote The Simpsons: ‘zombies prefer to be called disadvantaged living.’

That’s it: let us rise from slumber and worry less about definitions.

Let us live, let us feed on beauty and not on our fellow man, let us distinguish, let us change.

Otherwise, as Adam Driver repeats: this is going to end badly.

And of course I would also like to toast, like the old Mallory: Chardonnay!

MY BAR, FAMILY, HEALTH

Nov 30, 2024 | A COFFEE WITH, WOMEN, ITALY, ITALY, WORK, A COFFEE WITH, WOMEN, WORK

My bar, family, health … this is the recipe that Anna Possi gives us as an example of a centenarian.

Yes: tireless Anna in front of the espresso machine at the Bar Centrale in Nebbiuno on the occasion of her 100th birthday declared:

I don’t want anything, I already have everything. My bar, my family, my health, my brain is fine… What counts is being among people, loneliness hurts.

What can I say! First of all, many many good wishes also from Keep Calm & Drink Coffee and then sincere congratulations for the message that is certainly worth sharing.

Being among people.

Do you agree with Anna?

Do you also think that being among people is what counts?

Or do you love solitude?

My bar.

Can loving your job, or being able to turn your passion into a business, really be the essential component?

Health.

One more secret to longevity for Anna is to eat little.

I think I can say that we all agree, on the theory, of course on the practice … do you know how to moderate your meals?

Between ‘my bar’ and ‘health’: family.

Il mio bar, la famiglia, la salute

Family: a word that in a broad sense encompasses a universe, so varied and multifaceted that it cannot fit into a specific description.

It is no coincidence that countless quotations are striking in this regard:

I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!
Louisa May Alcott

A happy family is, but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

The family will last as long as man. It is the cradle of humanity.
Giuseppe Mazzini

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
Albert Einstein

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Friedrich Nietzsche

And in your opinion?

WINONA FOREVER

Sep 7, 2024 | A COFFEE WITH, WOMEN, A COFFEE WITH, WOMEN

Choosing a name for a newborn child is never a trivial matter, and certainly Mr and Mrs Horowitz decided on a name for their daughter that is striking.

Winona.

One would be inclined to quote Donnie Darko: “What the hell kind of name is that? It’s like some sort of superhero or something.”

Winona is the place of birth, but more importantly Winona is a female name of Native American origin meaning ‘first-born daughter’ in the Dakota and Sioux languages.

The surname Ryder, on the other hand, is a tribute to Mitch Ryder.

We could also consider a married surname: Reeves.

Since the 1990s, in fact, she affectionately calls Keanu ‘husband’ because unbeknownst to them, the person who celebrated their wedding in Bram Stoker’s film Dracula was not an actor but a real priest.

Francis Ford Coppola, but also Martin Scorsese and The Age of Innocence that earned her a Golden Globe, or Tim Burton with Edward Scissorhands or Bettlejuice that closes the circle in a way.

The iconic scenes featuring Winona would be so many, do you want to name one?

Is there a particular film you prefer out of all the ones she has starred in?

Winona was also a testimonial in a Japanese commercial advertising coffee