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

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Nachträglich

At the end I had actually got used to:
chatting with my buddy everyday
big eggy breakfast
dreadfully cold tap water
smoking in the middle of the streets (well,at least 15 feet away from living creatures)
very loud regional transportation
24 hours wi-fi access for my kindle
visiting three record stores a week
no selfphone whatsoever
honey tasting sparkless beer; among others.

The plan of moving to N.Y. will maybe take a more defined shape soon.

Here an interesting chart by Google, which is kind of cool.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Long flight, quick Brooklyn night

I needed 50 Minutes in brooklyn and I am in love with NYC.
No other city can match this up...
Rock on, Mmkakou.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Conversions

I am 6.1 feet and weight 182 pounds...
The temperature is around 64 and I kind of do not want to go away from California

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

San luis obispo

Wakiing up and staring at seals...

L.A.

Malibu, venice beach, sunset boulevard, amoeba, echo park nightlife, poolparty,nba finals, jameson and ipas, court basketball, song writing in German, diving in the ocean.

Thursday, June 02, 2011

159.25$

..for my visit to Rasputin in Berkeley...
Amazing! Better than the amoeba in SF i reckon....

Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Oxford/Addison Berkeley, CA

Sitting on a park in Berkeley...down the street i can see the bay...alone, maybe a bit lonely, hangover...sunny...awesome.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Oakland on wednesday

I misunderstand the level of acquaintance among people in her a lot....
Sometimes i believe that people know each other rather well but they are simply a customer and a client...just happened in the coffee place where I sit now...
People talk rather directly in here, though in friendly way...getting to the point seems the very first need and impulse to social interactions....

Amoeba
Went to the one down in san francisco!!!
Boy....oh boy...
I did stop before the jazz "section", which under normal circumstances would be a shop in the store itself...the dizziness i experienced half way through the shop is also unfrogettable...it looks like you could go ere twice a day...in the end you find so many records for 2.99 or 1,00...a dream...
Judah street and surroundings are amazing...could easily imagine myself living in there....

The ocean
At dawn, windy...smells great... a bar called the pork challet brews its own beer...
Finally went to the ocean from that side...sydney is definitely far away...in all senses...

Readings
An article on die Zeit from last week about Detroit
Guido viale, la conversione ecologica
Wire from April
Neue Zuercher Zeitung on New York

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Fulton/Arguello, San Francisco

In san francisco, drinking coffe and reading about possible ecological conversion...with new sunglasses bought yesterday in Berkeley at the fleamarket...if you believe it or not the stand where we got them is called "the black dude and the chinese lady". An awesome name and i am sure you all out there agree.
Work and Berlin and life in Europe are not as far as i would like them to get in the next tree weeks.
I had more avocado these first three days than in my own life, i guess.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Luggage - packed
Room - rent
Ipad and Ipod - charged

California here I come...

http://youtu.be/RwGkv7cuM1k

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Halley Galley

Lullaby by The Halley

Times are on a changing....

My assistent is to leave the office: she got a job offer for a full time position.
Looking for a new one. It is going to be tight ´cause of my plan for holidays...
Need to get a good one.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Pet sounds

Let's go away for a while

From Human Rights Watch

After Friday's carnage, it is no longer enough to condemn the violence. Faced with the Syrian authorities' ‘shoot to kill' strategy, the international community needs to impose sanctions on those ordering the shooting of protesters.

Here more

Voilá

Verpasst: Festival

Thursday, April 21, 2011

GrĂĽndonnerstag

Fleet Foxes are recorded live on BBC ( audio only ) but in Germany they are not available....rather annoying....
here if your server is not in Gerentodeutschland,,,

Listening to the Bonus Tracks of Veckatimest, which are rather beautiful and craftmanship like....
A great band.

TV on the Radio´s last album is bad reviewed...three tracks made my days at least twice in the last week...so I do not agree...und es ist auch gut so....

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Sunday, March 27, 2011

My room in Neukölln


From May 20th through June 16th you can have my room in Neukölln Berlin.
The apartment is 110sqm. On the 4th floor, it has bathtub, wifi and phone, washing machine, fridge and all you need.
The room is 20sqm. Two windows and a balcony heading east (around 4 sqm.)

Option 1: Room swap
You live in New York and want to come in Berlin at the end of May. We swap your room or apartment in the Big Apple with my room: I would be in N.Y. only from June 10th to June 17th while you could stay here for the whole period (May 20th to June 16th).
No cost for you in this case.

Option 2: Room rent
Price is 450€ to be paid half in advance and half at your arrival.

Here attached you can see some photos of both the room and the apartment.

In case you are interested, mail me.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Self consciousness does not bring me resolution.

Conscious as I am of the deprecable state of my working activities and of my social life, I nevertheless do not get to the next step of taking active steps to counter act it...

A thousand thougts a day keep me company...I could be anything, I would like to be this or that or both, it is a matter of minutes and the version will change, the priorities slide away and the inaction increase...

Self destroying is it not, rather preserving my schizophrenic attitude towards myself and life in general...

I changed the layout of this aweful blog...until I learn to XHTML properly ( here used as a verbal form like google) there is nothing better I can offer...

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Awesome: eight cars and a house in Ireland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFOpifdJXcs

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Worth a try

Nyt about a Marco other than me
Here

New band of the week of mine

Propaghandi

Freedom to dissent

Super good or super shallow? Franzen
After half of it I'd rather go for the first one...

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

E. Forcella: 1500 Lettori e un giornalista

"Un giornalista politico, nel nostro paese(Italia), puo’ contare su circa millecinquecento lettori: i ministri e i suoi sottosegretari (tutti), i parliamentari (parte), i dirigenti di partito, sindacalisti, altri prelati e qualche industriale che vuole mostrarsi informato. Il resto non conta, anche se il giornale vende 300 copie. Prima di tutto non e’ accertato che i lettori comuni leggano le prima pagine dei giornali, e in ogni caso la loro influenza e’ minima. Tutto il sistema e’ organizzato sul rapporto tra il giornalista politico e quel gruppo di lettori privilegiati."

Da leggere anche qui.
Anche il Blog di Stille Ă© da guardare.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Miss Misery

one of those Elliott Smith evening...

Friday, August 13, 2010

Berlin Wall

New numbers

NaziMarsch in Hannover

The paradoxical logic behind is rather having a nazi demonstration than calling up more police officers from other states...
So bad it has become....NaziMarsch in Hannover...

Invincible, a couple of years ago

...you know how people say: love is the answer....but what the fuck is the question?

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

South American neighbours

A good piece of news.
VEN - COL

Germany and die Angst vor Google Maps

Street View finally in Germany possible...by the end of the year
Hier

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Unidentified Fucking Odd

The best way to invest time and resources in EP ever, Mr Borghezio. Chapeau.
Borghezio and UFO.

Monday, July 05, 2010

Italy and foreign students.

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Friday, June 04, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

If only the Italian minister of tourism could think about education.....
Since nobody else does...
I think that the worst is approaching with amazing speed....and as my most beloved grandfather used to say when pissed, there is some of it for everybody...you just need to wait for it, lazy people...

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Saturday, May 01, 2010

OK GO

Pretty cool and pretty strange I had not seen it yet....

Avoid the stones while taking photos, if you can, dude

How is to make money out of anti capitalism hot spots?
Spiegel International on the most stressy day in Berlin.
Here

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Greacy...
Die kulturelle Dürst Italiens zu bekämpfen!
Chapeaux!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

I miss that feeling and all that comes because of it...

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Friday, March 26, 2010

Caro Ordine,

sempre e comunque troppo tardi, dal mio punto di vista.
Cappellle di Feltri

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Oh my God

Such a pity

Apart form reducing conversation to a series of click, and inducing people to be lazy surfers and to communicate with a shorter version of their shrinking communicative abilities, Facebook killed the habit of many of writing blogs...I just relaized that the few ones I still have hyperlinked on my blog do not exist anymmore since at least one year...

If you are not looking for a flat or a room in city other than yours, and if you do not want to play the mafia game or sell a toaster, well start typing sentences again, you know...those periods with subjects, verbs, descriptions and the subtle wish that the reader has some few minutes of patience to get through your thoughts for the good of feeling closer to somebody else...

Monday, March 22, 2010

Hard to believe but truth

The most read article on the guardian online...
Tampon and V-word

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Monday, March 08, 2010

Pissed in the metro in the morning

Reading the monday version of the International Herald Tribune this morning, I bumped into an article written where it was easily explained how it is completely impossible not to send troops to Afghanistan if you want to be a good ally of the US.
Not just to save the Afghani people but to keep ourselves safe and secure...
I cannt stand this rethoric anymore....someday somebody will need to explain us why all these military did not emprove the situation in the last 9 years....which are almost 120 months....
Have done with being so rhetoric, US media, and think that some people may see the Afghan war in a different way.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Diglielo tu che tornerĂł

Nilla Pizzi
Video Clip ante litteram

Vola, colomba bianca, vola,
diglielo tu che tornerá.

Dio del ciel se fossi una colomba
vorrei volar laggiù dov'è il mio amor,
che inginocchiata a San Giusto
prega con l'animo mesto:
Fá che il mio amore torni, ma torni presto.

Vola, colomba bianca, vola,
diglielo tu che tornerò.
Dille che non sarĂ  piĂą sola
e che mai più la lascerò.

Fummo felici uniti e ci han divisi,
ci sorrideva il sole, il cielo e il mar.
Noi lasciavamo il cantiere
lieti del nostro lavoro
e il campanon din don ci faceva il coro.

Vola, colomba bianca, vola,
diglielo tu che tornerò.
Dille che non sarĂ  piĂą sola
e che mai più la lascerò.

Tutte le sere m'addormento triste
e nei miei sogni piango e invoco te.
Pure el mi vecio te sogna
pensa alle pene sofferte
piange e nasconde il viso tra le coperte.

Vola, colomba bianca, vola.
Dio del ciel diglielo tu

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...