It is always nice when you get mentioned on an article, dude

Last Sunday night I talked with my friend Stephanie, the mother of the most wonderful baby I have so far cuddled, about some cliches about Italians. The discussion, started from der Spiegel after the Costa Concordia´s tragedy and continued by the crazily insulting strikeback of il Giornale on the day supposedly dedicated for remembering the Holocaust, had left some traces on me too: as a regular and long established Berliner citizen I realized to be more acutely sensitive to this kind of very shallow discussions than before.

Il Post started a discussion trhough Twitter and one comment of mine ended up in their article. Have to thank Stephanie once more!

Here the link

Elliott Smith-No confidence man

Video

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Monday evening

talking for two hours with this old friend living in Granada I have not seen in ages...
There is something magic about the oldest friendships you have

One of few things I am really good at

One day in January

Sie dürfen nur den Anhänger mit der zulässigen Gesamtmasse von 1000 kg mitführen. Mit einer Fahrerlaubnis der Klasse B dürfen Sie Kraftfahrzeuge - ausgenommen Krafträder - mit einer zulässigen Gesamtmasse von nicht mehr als 3500 kg und mit nicht mehr als acht Sitzplätzen außer dem Fahrersitz fahren. Anhänger mit einer zulässigen Gesamtmasse von nicht mehr als 750 kg dürfen mitgeführt werden. Anhänger mit einer zulässigen Gesamtmasse von mehr als 750 kg bis zur Höhe der Leermasse des Zugfahrzeugs dürfen mitgeführt werden, sofern die zulässige Gesamtmasse der Kombination 3500 kg nicht übersteigt.

Trial with the old amp in the new flat at Home by Marco Baldan. Uploaded with SoundCloud iPhone

Nachgeholt

To the previous one I would add

Replacements - All Shook Down (1990)
Maximum Balloon - (2010)
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes (1995)

Mmkakou´s new listens

Being on vacation is also about listening to (for me) new stuff in peace, in the hopeless try to catch up with the albums of the year...

Booker T Jones - Way back from Memphis (nice - easy listening)
Noel Gallagher solo project ( not so nice - an amarcord of the 90s)
Glen Campbell - Ghost on the Canvas (too easy listening for me)
Frank Ocean - Nostalgia Ultra (fell asleep with it yesterday night)
Tune Yards - Who Kill (not in the mood right now)
Wire - Red Barked Tree (I never got into them, sorry)

Playlist - 2011

Beach House - Walk in the Park
Wilco – One Sunday Morning
Jonathan Wilson – Can we really Party Today?
Josh T. Pearson – Woman When I Raised Hell
Fela Kuti – Zombie
Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes
Black Milk – Brown & Black
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Midnight Black Heart
Russian Circles – You Already Did
Liars - Sailing to Byzantium
Paolo Conte - Tra le Tue Braccia
Arcade Fire – Deep Blue
Gil Scott Heron - I'll Take Care of You
Colin Vallon – Rruga var.
Lou Reed – Sad Song
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans -

Berliner stream of consciousness in short

Living in Berlin is still wonderful...
Maybe because the winter has not come yet...
On Saturday night, watching at all the customers of this bar I thought indeed, how lucky I was to live in here...

Jazz is back in town

Im gonna DJ some jazztunes in Neukölln tomorrow - Saturday at Nathanja & Heinrich, free Republic of Neukölln

Algebraic

+ A new government
+ A different government
+ No daily bullshit -like discussion on every possible media
+ The accent posed on equal opportunities
+ A serious image to present abroad
+ a huge indirect popular support registered

- a bunch of not elected technocrats
- a bunch of ministers looking for the support of the same bloody parties
- a bunch of defendants of free market philosophy at (almost) any cost
- only three women out of 18 nominees
- a change that bypassed the parliament, whatever bad it might have been



+ The chance to play some jazz records any time soon in Neukölln
+ A night jam session
+ A beautiful plan for NYEve
+ Tickets for Radiohead´s

- A shrinking number of proper Italian friends
- A limited accession to optimism
- The indifferent silence of clouded people
- The absence of an alternative job so far




= 0

There is something profoundly wrong about the way people inside the italian PD discuss about fried lies and so may others from the civil society and the media try to get a sense of a senseless and awkward discussion.

The article by Luca Sofri on the Ilpost is a good piece...why am I writing in English I have no idea myself....maybe because I hope more strangers read this tiny blog....

Anyway new stuff I have been listening to:

Tom Waits - As bad as me
Pulnoc - City of Histeria ( thanks #pauladam)
Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
Liszt played by Pierre-Laurent (German Radio, thanks #ursli)
Sabu Martinez - Sabu´s Jazz Espagnole (thanks #adamridley)
Zola Jesus - EP Stridulum
Hank Mobley - Straight no FIlter (over and over again through my life Ill listen to it)
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest ( awesome, it reminds me of my short Brooklyn stay)
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises (still in my top 20 for the albums of my 2011 year)
A song called Prairy Dog Rample by Andy Schroder (I believe I always knew the song but it definitely not true: that would be the perfect opening track for my radio program: which might one day come true)

The speech Steve Jobs gave in Stanford back in 2005 is something I came back to a couple of times in the last few years...he is a sort of declination of the American dream in the two thousands...rather inspiring...

Music:

Villalobos and the ECM Extravaganza
Beirut´s last album
Wilco´s last album
A deep pre-grunge revival (Melvins, Soundgarden and some Pearl Jam too...for Nirvana I need some more time)
Bud Powell on Verve (1953-1954?)
Interpol´s Turn off the Bright Lights all over again..like you dont know, uh?
dEUS´ last album
Radiohead at Colbert Nation: rather awesome
Andrew´s Hill Smokestack ( crazy good )
An italian jazz label named Auand
Anais Mitchell
Fennesz and Sakamoto
Rava and Fresu together
Jolie Holland
Saint Vincent´s last album
Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project from few years ago
Sunbear concerts by K.Jarrett randomly...still one missing

....and few more I already forgot...


People I know make babies and get married...way more often than it used to be...

memories

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/sep/08/september-11-anniversary-your-memories#/49027

Not mostly because of the occupation but still good vibrations

Photos

LA/CA/11

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.

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.

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

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.

159.25$

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

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.

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

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.

Records
Magazine
Issues

Luggage - packed
Room - rent
Ipad and Ipod - charged

California here I come...

http://youtu.be/RwGkv7cuM1k

Parapapozzepozzepooooo

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.

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

Gründonnerstag

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....

My room available: spread the word

AIRBNB

Death Cab for Cuties´ new track

Death Cab for Cutie - Some Boys by ATL REC.

European Public Policy Blog: Google to invest in German solar power plant

European Public Policy Blog: Google to invest in German solar power plant

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.

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...

Awesome: eight cars and a house in Ireland

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

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...

Literature Festival upcoming on the Spree

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 é da guardare.

Miss Misery

one of those Elliott Smith evening...

Thanks you, Colbert Nation

Chuck Close

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?

New Book

Pennacchi

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

Foreigners abroad, guests in Germany

International Spiegel

Adesso

Moni Ovadia sull´Unitá

Unidentified Fucking Odd

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

Italy and foreign students.

as big as this

Butcher in the Reihe

Spiegel in english here

Editorial NYT

Germany and the Old Continent

Spiegel International on the Ipad, Mr. Jobs and alike

der Spiegel

Lufthansa´s frequent flyers

This and that

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...

leggi qui

Russia center south

Pretty interesting

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

Greacy...

Die kulturelle Dürst Italiens zu bekämpfen!
Chapeaux!

HMPF

Do you want to read my SMS or scroll my Contact list?

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

Der Spiegel on Mr.B

He, himself and him

Percorso netto o quasi.
Death penalty and execution in Europe

Caro Ordine,

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

K.P.

Nichts ist zuhause wie zuhause

Leopardi, not an operating system

Le Ricordanze

Hmpf

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...

Hard to believe but truth

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

New York Findings

The gentle side of a famous unknown man

Un gentiluomo di meno

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.

Olympic games though few rights

SI

Yes!!!

Diglielo tu che torneró

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 sarà più 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 sarà più 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

Italian Court Convict 3 Google Executives

CEI o non CEI

Quando anche i preti fanno lo scaricabarile

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....

A New version of Mc Ewan´s Amsterdam

Pillows and Painful

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...

Zuschauer

Audiences and events

Evil

Crazy and so aweful I have no words...