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

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Venezianischer Umzug

This very early morning a transportation company takes all our stuff out of Venice...and brings it far away....23rd February 2010...and I listen to Califone - Krill....while looking at the rain outside before going to work....

Saturday, February 13, 2010

DBAI: Don´t Be An Idiot

Out of town, out of situation, out of friendships, out of memories....
Out of continent?
Lost in no translation issue...

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

OK Go - Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (Wonderful Title btw)
Efterklang - Parades
Beach House - Teen Dream
Beach House - Devotion (from November)
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (idem)
James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing (grazie Matté!)
Jack Rose - Jack Rose (2006, probably my favourite)
Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement ( from October, thank you, dudeeee!)
Midlake - Bamnan and Silvercock (danke, Pieter!)
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther (idem)
Jimmy Smith - Different stuff but a lot again
Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter (Awesome Title track btw)
Black Keys - Blakroc
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Finale - A Pipe Dream and a Promise

and many many others...

Song of the Week: Talk Show Host - Radiohead (1994?)

Im memoriam of Jack Rose

He died way too young. Such a pity. Such a loss. Such beautiful finger picking tracks....
Damn´!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Rom rom rom rom....rom is definitely a woman, is definitely out of time, like the bunch of public clocks reminding you all the time when you walk around: you cannot found two of them telling you it is the same time...even if slightly different, the time they point is another....and in the end whether the time is slightly different or very different it is the same, so it is wrong to ask yourself too much....

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