27 years after the loincloth
Published:
March 29, 2009 at 10:04pm
Where have all the hairs gone?
If they really wanted to resurrect Gensna to compete with Christ, they should have done it with contemporary performers. Then the result would have been less tragic.
Twenty-seven years ago, Renato had long hair and could just about get away with a loin-cloth when crouching. Now, he’s in a baggy ‘syoot’ and a wig. Not a performance wig, you understand, but a wig-wig, one he wears all the time, even when going shopping.
What is it with these people in the public eye and their urgent desire to paste road-kill on their heads?
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I told you everyone carried a bixkilla bil-frott.
He should have tried this style:
http://www.maxwigs.com/jacki-by-jon-renau-wigs-p1186.html
He must be over 60 so he should have some white hair.
[Daphne – The whole point of a wig is to look young, not to look like you have hair. A white-haired wig defeats the purpose, which is why all the men we know who wear wigs and are over 60 wear dark ones. I suspect that the real reason, though, is that men begin to go bald before they begin to go grey, so when these men buy their wigs, they’re dark. And then they have no way of ageing them gracefully. You can’t exactly switch from a black wig to a white one overnight, though I’ve noticed that Vince Farrugia has swapped his ‘ahmar bhal tan-nisa tad-dar ta’ Bormla’ colour for a smooth-dude dark brown.]
Nahseb li baghtha dry cleaning u biddlittlu l-kulur.
[Daphne – Le, dak libes il-lojnklot fuq rasu minflok.]
My barber wears a wig. Can’t quite put my finger on it, but it doesn’t seem right for a barber to wear a wig.
Give up on them D….they cannot and will NEVER get anything right. Sadly 40% of this crazy nation of ours do not seem to realise it. I’m not saying the Nationalists are anywhere near perfect by any means, but they are still miles ahead. Plus they give us something that’s intangible but priceless, and that’s peace of mind and a sense of security (despite the present. turbulent economic climate). I suppose there are a few of us who are disillusioned and would like to know there is an alternative……that’s democracy. But it ain’t gonna happen.
Il-madoffi. They have a websajt now….www.gensna.com. Morru ha tinfaqghu bid-dahk. Hemm erba pozi tad-daqqa ta’ harta! U hemm dak il-mignun Degiovanni warajha!
Mario Debono – I thought you were somewhere on holiday, so please close your laptop and forget about Gensna! (Though once online, maybe you’d like to tell us how well – or otherwise – you think Renato’s toupee compares with Vince Farrugia’s?)
I actually heard and saw Anglu on Super One….he was really `kommoss’. I thought for a moment that they had extended Gensna to include the 1980s. Alas..they had not.
Hi Mario
Welcome back. Missed you. Thought you still had it in for Daphne, after the way she went all out against Vince. By the way, Daph, could you make out what Vince was talking about at the Kunsill Generali? I couldn’t understand a thing he was saying. He seemed to be the odd one out.
[Daphne – I missed the speech. The excitement would have been too much for me.]
Well Daph, did you watch Muscat’s speech on One? He seemed to be drunk……. ‘ghada jisbah jum il-MEHLUSIN!’
I couldn’t stop laughing. Mohhu fil-holm…oholmu mieghi….
[Daphne – So now he’s gone from Obama to Martin Luther King. Always one for a cliche…]
Amanda, it’s a holiday and Gensna was too big a topic not to comment about. As your husband will tell you I am a gadget freak and the internet is something I access all the time. [Daphne – Ah so you’re a nerd, unlike Chrysander Agius http://www.maltastar.com/pages/ms09dart.asp?a=650%5D I have been logging on to this blog, just not commenting. As for having it in for Daphne, I don’t operate that way. As Eddie said of a famous person, she has her good qualities and her less good qualities, like all of us. There are enough judges around. I don’t want to add to their number.
Not comparing Daphne to that famous person are you??
Pull the other one Mario….
Don’t drag him into it please.
Dear Mr Mario DeBono,
Your insults do not make me worse or you better. It is a gentleman’s obligation to apologize. Or am I expecting too much. Freedom of expression entails responsibility and self regulation. I would have expected higher standards of correctness in a blog run by such a distinguished jounalist.
Anthony DeGiovanni
[Daphne – Actually, I hadn’t a clue to whom he was referring. Who are you, anyway?]
he is a man who does not need you to know him for recognition (actually he should thank his lucky stars)… A man with great talent!!! Well done to you Tony and the rest of the team, and keep it up!!!
I don’t understand what you have against ‘Gensna’, oh… yes I know, you’re a racist, you can’t stand anything that’s related in any way to MLP. Grow up Daphne!
You criticize others, such as Sander, on being racist against people of a different race, but my dear, please do us all a favour and look in the mirror. Take a good look at yourself, because you are a hypocrite, and a racist yourself! Not a racial racist perhaps, but definately a political racist beacuse you HATE anyone or anything that is associated with MLP!
[Daphne – Il-Bambin jaghtini l-pacenzja, plis.]
The Labour Party is not a race.
Dear ‘Life-as-we-know-it’ – you could not have chosen a better user-name!
Problem is, that you and MLP supporters seem to have a life of your own, totally outside reality and commonsense. We do not hate the MLP or LP or whatever it is nowadays. We pity you.
oh no!!! now we are really worried coz jomar42 of pn or gonzipn whatever they call it nowadays is pitying us…..Now we have an even bigger problem than the elecricity bills!!
lara borg
Your real problem is not the cost of electricity but the people you’ve placed at the head of your party.
not really ta i think Joseph has great potential.. if you do not think that the bills are a problem ha nghatik tighie u hallasuli please :)
Tal-Muzew, I have taken inspiration from Joseph. I ( tremulously ) loooove everybody. Hate is such a wasteful emotion, I reserve it for non-events like Niesna or Gensna or whateveritsnameis. And I am a self confessed gadget freak. Explains why I make so many mikstejks in the spelling. I use the blekberry and it daz not as yet hef a spellchekker .
Allow me to apologise to Mr Degiovanni. I wanted to say that you have to be mad to restage an opera based on half-truths and downright inaccuracies 30 years on. If you have the freedom of expression to hurt my feelings and the feelings of many others, by reminding us of a very sad period in our formation, Sir, then allow yourself to be labelled with this very expressive epithet.
You really have no idea what this opera represents to the repressed generation that is mine, Sir. It represents a time when we truly lived in a world of lies, half truths, violence and Dom- adoration by many, but not by all of us. Three years earlier I saw the PN kazin next door to my house burn, Sir, with the Labour mob that torched it dancing around the burning pyre of its contents. I was 10 years old. It is you and your ilk that have burned that image into my brain. Three years later I saw The Times building burn, and Eddie’s house ransacked, and my classmate, his son, terrified out of his wits. [Daphne – And ‘Joseph’ had no embarrassment in telling all those of us who remember this that ‘Michelle’ would divorce him if he doesn’t stick to their holiday plans for a ‘gita’ to Sicily. Mur arha f’dik is-sitwazzjoni, Michelle. Jew Joseph, ghaldaqshekk. That’s where you can really assess the mettle of the man, by trying to imagine how he would cope.]
Again, the proverbial torca that your singers sing so blithely about and wave about in that pseudo-farce that you promote burned that, and many other images, into my mind, and the mind of many of our generation.
You have a responsibility to the younger generation and to history and you have failed. You have staged this opera and coated it with sweetness in order to gloss over these incidents and many others. You hope to present an image of the PL of those times as some kind of liberator and saviour, and draw parallels with our times. The suggestion is clear. The PL will liberate you from your woes today as Mintoff did in ’79.
You will not succeed. Our generation has seen the worst possible excesses perpetrated in the name of this ridiculous “Helsien” that you bleat about in your commedia buffa. We will keep on reminding our children and their children that the PL may change its leaders as many times as they might change their children’s nappies, but they will remain the same bitter, disgruntled and envious people they were in 1979, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, and 2008. You think you can govern because “its your turn”. We think that you will never be fit to govern.
Oh, you may stage as many ‘rok opri’ as you want. You and the Man From Moscow in these blogs can snigger all you like. But the facts remain the same.
Gensna, or Niesna, or whatever it is called, has been staged this year to give a much needed leg up to the PL. No mistake about it. In the process it has reminded everybody of how utterly false the ’79 Helsien was, and how little, despite the many bloody noses, the PL has changed.
But at least let me thank you for providing us with those truly naff and hilarious promos from 1979 on your website. And the sight of Drydocks workers in drag vinyl skirts as well as various hirsute people crawling around on the earth like some gigantic hairy beetle. I laughed.