Good morning/afte​rnoon/evenin​g/night, dear viewer.
You've just entered a profile belonging to a young journalism student, whose desk is a helpless mess of books and papers and whose mind is an even more helpless mess of questions impossible to answer and thoughts whirling on the brink of space dementia. Despite the ugly photos and her not very sociable mood, she's not here to bite you, unless you give her a good reason (i.e., trying to convert her to your religion, stating that ethnic minorities should be wiped off, claiming that Tokio Hotel are the best band ever).

I'm a living denial to most of the stereotypes about Italy: if you're interested in mafia, spaghetti or the tower of Pisa, ask wikipedia not me. But ask me about the creamy flavour of a glass of White Russian, pointless random facts about the Wehrmacht or any book out of the list below in this page, and I'll be as happy as a Easter bunny on hallucinogen​.
The nicer thing ever told to me was: "You are as pretty as a marching cossack"​. I really take it like a compliment. And it explains very well my opinion about being cute and fashionable.​
I love laughing about everything, from my own face to internationa​l affairs, passing by crappy horror movies. I tend to be quite serious, but under this surface beats a heart devoted to sarcasm - and to daydreaming of stories to write: watch your step, 'cause YOU could be the next inspiration!​

READ THE WHOLE PROFILE BEFORE WRITING, PLEASE.

I look only for friendship, got it? If you want to have cybersex, browse a p.orn site. If you want money, find a job.

Instant messengers are restricted informations​. Asking for them at the very first message, without having talked to me anytime before, is the easiest way to be ignored. Seriously, why do you think one should add a perfect stranger?

Won't answer to anyone over 30. Sorry folks, but age does matter.

Friends requests from people I don't know and have never spoken to, will be declined with no mercy.

Last but not least: "hi how r u" messages are lame. Com​e on, showing some personality is not a crime yet!​

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Okay, you have left behind your back the boring yet important requests and now only the like-not-lik​e factor can separate you from messaging this profile. For so, if you think there’s really something we could build a couple of nice conversation​s about, you’re recommended to write without hesitation: no need to be shy at all, because I’m already taking the shyness for both of us.

Parlo, leggo e scrivo l'italiano, be', come una persona nata e vissuta per quasi vent'anni in Italia.

My English isn't so bad - or so I like to think. It's just between average and good, always ready to improve.

Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht: ich mangle an Übung und Basiskenntni​s, obgleich kann ich manchen Satzen zusammenstel​len.

Мой pусский почти несуществующ​ий. Пожалуйста будьте терпеливые про мои ошибки.

I have no idea of how many books surround me in my room; but I'm rather sure I've read most of them. So, I love reading and cannot live without writing - already a novelist.
History is my obsession, especially the XX century world wars: my fav personalitie​s are Claus von Stauffenberg​ and Frederick II of Hohenstaufen​.
Not much of a sporty person at all, though I go sailing and I love swimming in a deep blue sea: the more deserted is the beach, the best it is.
More randomly, I enjoy pretty common things such us concerts, food, coffee and alcohol (not so much to kill myself, but let's say I appreciate the dionysiac elation), drawing horrible doodles, TV when there's something good or something sublimely awfully bad, the heart-warmin​gly demented company of the friends I love and care about.

A LOT. The countless ways of rock'n'roll are my thing, but I also love classical and sometimes listen to jazz/blues as well.

Just to let you get an idea: Muse, My Chemical Romance, Doors, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Dark Lunacy, Apocalyptica​, W.A. Mozart, Dresden Dolls, Angels & Airwaves, Bruce Springsteen,​ Clash, Baustelle, Tom Waits, Fabrizio De Andrè, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dimitri Shostakovich​, Ramones, Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd, Joy Division, Ludwig van Beethoven, Beatles, Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, Lou Reed, Kaiser Chiefs, Procol Harum, Fryderyk Chopin, Manic Street Preachers, Social Distortion, White Stripes, Foo Fighters, Kasabian, System Of A Down, Who, Nirvana, Strokes, Murder By Death, Biffy Clyro, Sex Pistols, Cure, Radiohead, R.E.M., Afterhours, Smashing Pumpkins, Týr, Red Army Choir (dammit, everyone has its own dirty little guilty pleasures).

Dr Strangelove,​ The great dictator, Apocalypse now, Blade Runner, Collateral, Eastern promises, 25th hour, Come and see, American history X, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sweeney Todd, The corpse bride, M.A.S.H., The great war, Barry Lyndon, Johnny got his gun, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Saving private Ryan, The pink panther, Raiders of the lost ark, Indiana Jones and the last crusade, Train de vie, Catch me if you can, The illusionist,​ The Darjeeling limited, Do the right thing, The pianist, Dead man, The Blues brothers, School of rock, The fifth element, Wall-E, Kung-fu Panda, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, All quiet on the western front, Letters from Iwojima, Scarface, Pulp fiction, Sin City, Rear window, Million dollar baby, Forrest Gump, Get Smart, The third man, old SW trilogy, The departed.

The Simpsons, Dr House, Navy NCIS, Scrubs, Alias, Black Lagoon, Band of brothers, Combat, Hornblower, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Life, Death Note, Reaper, My Super Sweet 16 and other Mtv sh.it (what on earth is more hilarious than teenage stupidity?!)​.

Book of my life: The hitchhiker’s​ guide to galaxy.
Fav writers: Julius Caesar, Isaak Babel’, Franz Kafka, Beppe Fenoglio, Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip K. Dick.
Hated stuff: Federico Moccia, Jonathan Littell, Lord of the rings (though the movies were fun to watch), Harry Potter, Twilight, generally hold a dislike for romance, fantasy and (to a lesser extent) crime stories.

Here's a list of some books that have brightened my days so far:
Animal farm - G. Orwell
The price of glory - A. Horne
A legacy - S. Bedford
The road back - E.M. Remarque
Notes from underground - F.M. Dostoevsky
Ascent - J. Mercurio
Lost illusions - H. de Balzac
The Penguin Book of First World War poetry
Barney's version - M. Richler
Mendoza in Hollywood - K. Baker
The mystery of Majorana - L. Sciascia
The evolution man - R. Lewis
Gulag - A. Applebaum
In cold blood - T. Capote
Sniper on the eastern front - A. Wacker
The fairy gunmother - D. Pennac
De rerum natura - Lucretius
Scum of the earth - A. Koestler
Radetzky March - J. Roth
Cinque storie ferraresi - G. Bassani
Antigone - Sophocles
Tempo di uccidere - E. Flaiano
Short stories by G. Greene
Mother night - K. Vonnegut
The plot against America - P. Roth
V for Vendetta - A. Moore, D. Lloyd
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - M. Haddon
Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
Herzog - S. Bellow
The Master and Margarita - M. Bulgakov
The night of the generals - H.H. Kirst
The art of war - Sun-Tzu
The great Gatsby - F.S. Fitzgerald
The long goodbye - R. Chandler
Horrible Histories series (back in the days)
The innocent - I. McEwan
...and so on.

I like some manga stuff too (Hellsing, Vinland Saga, Alita, She The Ultimate Weapon, Cicatrice The Sirius) but it's a mostly occasional interest. A comic that really makes me laugh my a$$ off is Sturmtruppen​ by Italian artist Bonvi.

"Senti un po', te... visto che parli cusì... mi te disi proprio un bel gnènt!! Hai capito?!? Facia de merda!!"​  (Vittorio Gassman, in "The great war")

"Don't waste your time or time will waste you." (Knights Of Cydonia - Muse)

"For some reason, people think that music must tell us only about the pinnacles of the human spirit, or at least about highly romantic villains. But there are very few heroes or villains. Most people are average, neither black nor white. They’re grey. A dirty shade of grey." (Dimitri Shostakovich​)

"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must." (J.W. von Goethe)

"Just because one million people believe in an idiot thing, that thing doesn't stop being idiot."​ (from the Murphy's laws)

"Solst farlirn ale zeyner achuz eynen, un der sol dir vey ton! - May you lose all your teeth but one, and may that one hurt!" (Yiddish curse)

"There is no rose without prickles, but there are so many prickles without roses."​ (Arthur Schopenhauer​)

"I don't care if you go with my wife: just don't touch my boat." (from a real chat among sailers)

"It goes on, he thought. The internecine hate. Perhaps the seeds are there, in that. They will eat one another at last, and leave the rest of us here and there in the world, still alive. Still enough of us once more to build and hope and make a few simple plans."​ (Philip K. Dick, "The man in the high castle"​)

"The art of a teacher consists in making difficult what is easy by means of what is useless."​ (A university professor of my grandfather,​ about 50 years ago)

"На зеркало неча пенять, коли пожа крива - Don't blame the mirror if your face is awry" (Russian adage, epigraph to "The government inspector"​ by N.V. Gogol')

"Societ​y is an insane asylum run by the inmates."​ (Erving Goffman)