Laura+Todesco

Hello to everyone! I'm Laura and I was born in 1985 in a little town near Padua. I live at 25 km from Padua and so every morning I've got to travel by bus for more than an hour to reach the university. In this time, I usually listen to music, if I don't meet any friends.

I love music, I think I will be lost without it!!! In fact, when I finish the battery and I forget at home a new one, I fall into panic!

My favourites kind of music are rock and metal (epic and progressive), and my (main) favourites bands are U2, Guns n' Roses, Dream Theater, Blind Guardian and Angra. I like to "try" new kind of music, so I'm open to listen to other kinds of music, even if I don't like very much disco, techno, hip hop and others.

A thing that I really like to do is to translate the songs I like the most. Well, I may say, I like to try to translate, because it's really hard, sometimes, to understand what the author means and exactly translate it.

I'm studying Modern languages, literatures and culture, in particular English and Spanish, but I would like to learn Portuguese, too. I've always find languages very interesting, and I like to compare one to another, find similarities and differences.

I also like to read, books and manga (Japanese comics). For what concern books, I love fantasy, J.R.R.Tolkien in particular, and Terry Brooks. The Lord of the Rings is my favourite book; I've read it three times, and now I would like to read it in original language, that is to say, in Middle English. However, since I haven't a lot of free time, I fear I'll have to wait a little before to do it.

About manga...well, what can I say? I just love them!!! I read a lot of manga and I spend a lot of money, but I can't renounce to them!

My passion includes also the "anime", that is to say Japanese animation. I really like Miyazaki's works (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle and so on) even if a lot of people consider his works as cartoons for children. Well, they are, but they can be watch with an adult eye, because they deal with themes that are all but for children: the classical battle between good and evil, the fight of few versus the destruction of the nature, the power of love and so on. I mean, they could enjoy children and adults, too, but they can also make reflect the latter.

Well, this can make you understand what I think about people saying about anime and manga: "They are just things for children!"