Only god knows how the hell we ended up with a Sears catalogue in the living room - I’m guessing it had something to do with the flight attendant that lived next door. But the thing is that this catalogue accompanied me for years until I somehow lost it 6 years ago. It’s was a fascinating take on the American shopping culture - seeing those kids wearing american football pijamas, or hulk costumes was very entertainning. Also, the Star Wars toys, the MAD game (I’m still curious about that) and the fact that Sears had their own Atari console, with the same looks and cartridges was very mysterious to me.

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No, not James Bond, Ian Fleming. It was 1987 and I had (almost) all his books in my father’s library, all binded with his initials - which, not really by coincidence, were the same as mine. So those books felt like they were mine and Ian Fleming was the first of many authors I discovered [...]

Nothing too special here, I think. Every kid in the 1980’s daydreamed about NASA. Everything about it was just too exciting, too futuristic, adventurous and new. Sometime around 1984 I got a silver jacket from some relative that visited Cape Canaveral. I used to go to this very very posh religious school wearing this while [...]

These are some of the Matchbox models my father bought himself pretending to everyone it was for me. We had a great collection with over 40 cars, all in their original boxes, mainly from the 70’s collection. I wish I still had some of them but after he passed away my brother and I manage [...]

In 1983 a (then) local tv channel had this sunday night film program, but they only had four movies at that time. They were, Sssssss, The Daring Dobermanns, Alligator and… The Last Circus Show - also known as Last Moments, and Il Venditore di Palloncini, the original italian title. It is, undoubtely, the saddest movie [...]

It was 1990 and my personal heroine was going though hard times. We needed money, and my mum decided to sell my father’s record collection. This bald man came to the house to put a price on it and I didn’t want to let it go. My mother said I could choose one record, and [...]