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Monkeyrockworld

The Truest Hardcore Opinion on Living and Traveling Asia
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IL PERSONAGGIO

Marco Ferrarese, classe 1980, nasce a Voghera (PV). E’ Laureato in Lingue e Letterature Straniere alla Statale di Milano e sta attualmente completando un Master of Arts presso la USM di Penang, in Malesia.

Dopo aver suonato la chitarra per 10 anni nel gruppo punk The Nerds Rock Inferno che ha raggiunto fama nell’underground internazionale e ha calcato i palchi di Europa e USA in varie occasioni (7 tour Europei e 2 Americani), alla fine del 2007, stanco della vita italiana, si trasferisce.

Dove? In Asia, e piu’ precisamente in Cina,dove insegna l’Italiano e l’Inglese per un anno e viaggia via terra, treno, carretto e bue per 22 delle sue 33 province.

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Fame di emozioni ancora più nuove, la scoperta di una realtà molto diversa da quelle che ha già vissuto e la scelta di alzare la testa e dire “bene, prendiamo il controllo del mio tempo” hanno concretizzato l’idea base di questo sito: il condividere la sua visione della vita e pubblicare i propri scritti, cercando di raggiungere (e potenzialmente coinvolgere) anche tanti che ancora non la conoscono.

La Scimmia Tatuata Contro il Dragone Meccanico e’ il lbro che Marco scrive durante il suo soggiorno in Cina, e che ne racconta le avventure, le impressioni e il grande adattamento. E’ l’avventura tragicomica di un professore dI lingue straniero con l’hobby del rock and roll in una terra di verze bollite, sviluppo incontrollabile e cultura millenaria. Il tutto SENZA SAPERE UNA PAROLA DI CINESE.

Marco Ferrarese ha viaggiato e vissuto in piu’ di 30 paesi, attualmente facendo dell’Asia la propria base operativa. Interessato a raccontare le realta’ di vita e viaggio in cui si imbatte in modo caustico, diretto e senza peli sulla lingua, sta sviluppando progetti di viaggio e ricerca etnografica. Al momento radicato in Malesia, e’ disponibile ad aprire qualsiasi tipo di contatto per scrivere e raccontare le sensazioni e situazioni che fanno dell’avventura il suo pane quotidiano.

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Welcome to Monkeyrockworld!!

Ok, so…what did you stumble across? This website is born to share my writings and travel reports with all the old friends I made playing for 10 years in the punk band The Nerds, and possibly to make some more acquaintances interested in music, living the odd way and travelling the world. A world that is everyday changing and needs to be told.

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Who Am I ?

My name is Marco Ferrarese and I come from Voghera, a small town buried in the southwest part of Lombardia,Northern Italy, that bored the hell out of me with its sleepy life. My band, an abrasive 300mph rock and roll punch in your face, took me all around the so-called “civilized world”: many European and two USA tours (plus other American visits) already brought me to experience situations and emotions that just a few people are able to recall thinking about their past lives. The roaming and touring life has bit so deeply into my own that I decided to leave one more time, jumping on the chance of teaching Italian in China starting in October 2007. After having spent one year overthere, I cruised down to South East Asia, and then to Australia, mostly overland, just taking one flight from Bali to Melbourne.

Hunger for new experiences, a need to discover new, way different realities from the ones I’ve been used to, and a fierce determination to raise my head and keep control of my own life and time are the motivational core of this website. Sharing my vision with who already knows me, trying to reach as far out as possible to those who still are unfamiliar with it.

Having been involved in underground rock music for the past 10 years, played in a band and written for international magazines and fanzines, it’s pretty obvious that Monkeyrockworld speaks about music too: you will find record reviews and some interviews too. Also weird and b-cinema, my other great passion, will be covered.

My idea is also to educate our users to the term “open travel”, which is both unorganized and cheap because travelers are supposed to exchange hospitality and support. I have to thank for the umpteenth time all of the friends who gave me a couch, a floor or a car seat to crash on, making me live all the places I’ve seen with a couple more local eyes to filter and understand the reality of facts with. I’m telling you, you are all welcome to come and visit me wherever I might be at the time you’ll be reading this. Who knows, maybe next week I’ll be sleeping on your brand new couch. Maybe this might be the start of a little thing that, however just a little, will change your lives.

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