A personal recount of a life within Berlin, Venice and the EU

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Friday, December 25, 2009

Back to Venice

Hmpf
T.G.Ash on Poland, Poles and British nationalists

Friday, December 18, 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Christmas reading

A first list which I chose thanks to google news and thanks to the fact i did not read any of those books.
A second list, which I read myself in the last Economist issue.
There is also a third one, which gives a kind of too long list.
Or just listen to this for a second

Monday, December 07, 2009

Thursday, December 03, 2009

BLU in B. Aires and Baden
....cause thank to this Mister B. thinks he has more chances to grab a Nobel Prize too...lately it does work.....
Apart from that what has he not already achieved...?
BBC

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

...Like an overplayed Blur song, once more feeling out of time, out of tune, out of place and silently lonely, i.e. still in love with the past...

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Sinking to a low

A Christian Conservative and a never-faced-an-election British politician...Europe and the complex of inferiority on NYT

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Friday, November 06, 2009

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Sunday, November 01, 2009

For Blair, against Balkenende

The numbering of articles of the EU Treaties changed three times in less than twenty years...as far as I recall it is easier to say those articles whose number did not change than the other way round...I asked myself on what exactly were the french and the dutch asked to vote for...and what about with the Irish, twice....what are we supposed nowadays to stand for...? For a process started with good intensions but become a huge pachydermic animal, able to decide what is a third of the national parliaments of the 27 members state of the union, but unable to give a highly profiled political post to someody able to create some hype...

European Union is often referred as an unstoppable process, though slow and full of drawbacks, but for the good....being not stoppable looks nowadays the only thing many fans of the EU could be proud of...

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Sunday, October 25, 2009

H E R B I E N I C H O L S

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Sunday, October 18, 2009

There is the way you walk through this life, with its duties and its chances, and the way you think about yourself in that process....the best ones are those for whom the difference is not too big...in my case the gap is so big that it screams aloud every time I am back home...
I should believe I could give myself another chance...a defeat is most of the time better than a tied up...
Yours

Saturday, October 17, 2009

M U S I C

The Black Heart Procession - Six
Rain Machine - ibid
Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper
The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves
Antlers - Hospice
The Felice Brothers - Yonder is the Clock
Soulsavers - Broken

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Awesome

This is just a try

This is the first try with the sidewiki.

in reference to: Matador Records (view on Google Sidewiki)

10 Questions: no answer. 1 question: 10 different answers

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Preziosi ritrovamenti lo-fi

Old stuff

Today has been Newsweek

Another article on the series "The whole world journalism is part of a communist plot againt him"

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

IDTLO

I do think less of people voting for Mr. Berlusconi
I do think less of guys stinking at 8.30 on Monday morning
I do think less of women wearing fur
I do think less of people thinking less of not vegetarian people
I do think less of punks begging for money with Nike shoes on
I do think less of people talking about what they posted on Facebook
Though no Ribbentropp-Molotov Pact, as the Polish Foreign Minister says, this new North Stream is not the best solution ever, to let the Central European feel they are as worth as the Werstern...
Where is the EU Energy Policy gone then?
NYTimes on pipelines

Monday, October 12, 2009

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

The Drones live yesterday...Copenhagen, I am coming today...the Ipod is getting nuts...
...Not sure to be able to hide it forever...

Monday, October 05, 2009

...Thinking about following the travel tips given by the gmail interface...
...today it was Amsterdam...yesterday holiday inn in Brno...

Sunday, October 04, 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The Gentle Side of me and you

There is all that music and those comics we never talked about
There is all those moments we did not share
There is your idea of me and my idea of you
which run away from each other
every hour
a tiny step further
while I feel like there is no word,
nor gesture
no sentence
nor gaze
to heal this misunderstanding between us

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Retarded wanna-be politicians

NPD should be banned. Period.
It is extremely unpleasant to see their campaign posters.
Just the next reason to ban them

Monday, September 21, 2009

Neukölln - Taksim - Neukölln

Beingworking4daysnonstop,liketypingwithoutspaces...

Feel so melancholic today, listening to some Italian radio...

Still dreaming depressive stuff...holy shit...

Inschalla

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Mkakou: "I am Rick James, b______!"
I use my old Macbook almost only to listen to music, read news and surf through wikipedia to get new information...no more Facebook, any other social network or chat community except my loyal gmail account.

Kill the Vultures - Ecce Beast
The Jam - (a lot of different stuff)
Maximo Park - Quicken The Heart
Timbre Timber - ?
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy
Giant Sand - proVISIONS
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Times New Viking - Rip it Off
Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today

Friday, August 21, 2009

Thursday, August 20, 2009

So the most exciting weeks of this summer are passing by, I fell in love with Berlin and its pretty laid back attitude of welcoming you...I enjoyed the visit of some very special friends, those who will always be kept in a special part of my heart, I guess...

Cheesy but so true....

The party in Sux Bar turned out to be a kind of success...definitely a very good first party...

Leaving Berlin soon for the next weeks, heading est, as it should be more often than it happens to be...

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

I did not even know her surname until yesterday night...now I only know how it sounds, no idea how that should be written...

I realize now that the decision of letting Facebook go was one of the few smart ones I took lately....together with deciding to stop working in Goldener Hahn...
Though I decided very instinctively in both cases, they turned out to be so wise and right...

I have the mind full of kind of cheesy thoughts...plans that do not actually start...and a bunch of good friends coming over in the next days...

Earthless (2007) / Earthless (2008) / Blank Dogs (2009) / Cargo (1983) / Eric Clapton (?) / J.J. Cale (forgot)

Monday, July 20, 2009

A kind of cheesyslashromantic story and a useful tool


40 years later
Animal Collective (2001) / Black Keys (2006) / Pontiak (2009) / Pontiak (2007) / Wilco (2009) / Elvis Perkins (2009)

La danza del gabbiano - Camilleri
Zanzare - Faulkner
The Use of Adversity - Garton Ash
Kleine Geschichte der Ukraine - Kappeler

Thursday, July 09, 2009

...the drones and jesus and mary chain...
...a shrinking social life in Berlin and two boring jobs...
...Budapest and Istanbul in the next two months...
...need a woman or a girl or something beautiful to happen...

Sunday, June 07, 2009

...old ashes for treesssss....

...Sehnsucht an P.Floyd...why, actually?
Maybe because it is the third grey ady in a row...maybe because I am here home, loooking at my sage plant on the window...maybe because I am still wondering whether I should eat something...whether the music I have collected so far still satisfies me, whether Soviet Union is interesting enough...whether I should watch the R.Garros final, whether I should not care about the small things for a while...

Saturday, May 09, 2009

...lately listened...

Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Dntel - Discography
Spacemen 3 - A bunch of stuff
Holloys

Monday, April 27, 2009

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
The Drones - Havilah
New Order - The Best of New Order
Beirut - The March of the Zapotec

Thursday, March 26, 2009

The biggest change in my blog´s conception

I guess I met you three times in the last four days...I also guess I met you twice today...the only thing I am sure is that I met you once in an Austrian restaurant and we both pretended we did not know each other...you had your point though, being not alone...
I had only a newspaper...

I am deeply spaced out, once more...do not have anything to say anymore unless that I am still and totally in love with you...
Since this sentence would be the most stupid thing I could ever say to you, I think we are not going to talk to each other that much...not going to tell you other stuff, that would be awkward...no compromise rather than no surprise...the way you would stand me once more...
And somehow in my crazy never ending longing about your voice and your body, your smell and the way you walk, I think it is a pretty good deal...
People say dreams cannot last longer than 8 minutes...well I would like to tell them the feeling someone gets when he wakes up and thinks and remembers he has dreamt only one and single thing...


I know what I want and I know I will never have it...it is balanced, it is neverchanging...it is assuasive...

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Menodimena - Friend and Foe
Menodimena - Under an Hour
Jenny Wilson - Myspace.com
El Perro del Mar - Myspace.com
Grizzly Bear - Horn of Plenty
Grizzly Bear - Sorry for the Delay
Joe Henderson - In `n Out

Sunday, March 01, 2009

I thought about S.F.Scholz, born in April few years ago, early this morning in the most beautiful library I have ever visited, while writing up a paper; while swimming few hours later; while eating home; while riding my bike through South Berlin; while doing some extra hours work in the evening; while drinking in a couple of Kreuzberg´s bars; while dancing in a huge and funny though fucked up private party until the police came; while travelling with a stinking taxi; while walking home from the shortened taxi-ride; while typing this lines...while my life will go on, apparently...tomorrow and in the days to come.
I consider it a true damnation, a never ending state of contraction, like the Barry Adamson´s song.

Simone Weil has been probably one of the smartest persons of the 20th century, by the way...

German police, in the XXI century, is probably the most polite Police of the world...almsot a complex to be developed...

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

This swiftly and boldly thing...

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Tonight I believe that if I talked about it, it might help...

I was at school today, listening some guy talking about law systems in comparison...and had a strong, wild and lasting sense of Sehnsucht of a summer dinner in Schöneberg, where language, for once, did not look like a problem, where the smell of a bridge on the Großbeerenstrasse was of rotten flowers and fresh dawn, where my bycicle was silently carried over, and the voice, that I miss the most in every single hour I remember having lived since, told me of the beauty of small things, on which I then happened to believe...

What else?

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Dan Auerbach - Keep it hid
Nickel Eye - The Time of the Assassins (pretty bad)
Ralph Stanley - A lot, randomly, I would say
Beirut - March of the Zapotec
Frienldy Fires - Friendly Fires
Taylor Swift - Fearless (very bad)
Coffee and swimming pools...

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Saturday, January 31, 2009

I. Berlin´s speech/1
I agree with him once more. A very intelligent thinker, once more.

Friday, January 30, 2009

From the cold though comfortable Swiss heights, another debate that brings nowhere....?

Friday, January 23, 2009

Jealous for the girlfriends I do not have, impatient to show they are cool with the thing no matter what, all of them with a boyfriend who - allegedly - is the perfect guy (to be noticed the comparison of a boyfriend with a provider of services they are looking for, that is the language they use), they nevertheless disintegrate my patience in a sort of perpetual way...and I do not get anything else from them...

Thursday, January 22, 2009

CNN on Tiergarten

Have a look...

No eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth...

Anyhow and anywho, against death penalty should we all be.
I feel so much like a reckless nerd today...oh my god, it is paramounting...

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

21.01.2009

What I found out, what I watched and what I read online this evening.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

All love letters, good intentions or statements of goodwill have just been swept away, literally, by a stupid automatically planned option that you click on in these stupid social networks websites...so deeply and unexpected...

I am still so vulnerable and at short with other solutions...

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Worsening Relations
After years on inactivity, I went to rehearsal with a friend...three times in a week was fun...
Apart from that, Berlin is cold and not very lit by sunlight lately but we all know this...
My plans to go to New York are probably gone for this year...I will try next time, if I ll have some more money...there is a good chance I ll be in Budapest for five weeks or so though...
Something interesting to read: 1; 2.

Wayne Shorter - Adam´s Apple
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Phosphorescent - Pride
Elvis Costello - The Very Best of
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Song of the week contest: the Phosphorescent cover of "Can I sleep in Your Arms" by W. Nelson and "Possess Your Heart" by DCFC. I picked up songs with so cheesy titles...damned...

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Monday, January 05, 2009

Sunday, January 04, 2009

01/5th aka today

Vivian Girls - Self Titled
Phosphorescent - To Willie (2009)
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Jackie McLean - Swing Swang Swinging
Jackie McLean - Capuchin Swing
Freddie Redd Quintet - Shades of Redd

Song of the week: "Reprise" by Grizzly Bear (Yellow House) together with "Forks and Knives" by Beirut (The Flying Club Cup).

(On January the fifth, aka today, I spoke only through Skype and while ordering breakfast...The English version of Firefox does not recognize the words "Swang", "Skype" and "Capuchin" ... I do not understand the reason to say "creating quite a bit of a stress", when reproaching somebody... either you bore or you don´t, either you should not or you should ... Israel should not even dare to do what it is doing... the never ending clash of ways of behaviour ... southern or northern ... mixes up with the never ending fight between the rights and the wrongs of a piece of land as big as Tuscany ... I am so discouraged
I cooked an awesome ragú ...)