We should all have the right to tell Israel "you are sooooo wrong" without being marked as antisemitic.

Warum schweige ich, verschweige zu lange,
was offensichtlich ist und in Planspielen
geübt wurde, an deren Ende als Überlebende
wir allenfalls Fußnoten sind.

Es ist das behauptete Recht auf den Erstschlag,
der das von einem Maulhelden unterjochte
und zum organisierten Jubel gelenkte
iranische Volk auslöschen könnte,
weil in dessen Machtbereich der Bau
einer Atombombe vermutet wird.
Doch warum untersage ich mir,
jenes andere Land beim Namen zu nennen,
in dem seit Jahren - wenn auch geheimgehalten -
ein wachsend nukleares Potential verfügbar
aber außer Kontrolle, weil keiner Prüfung
zugänglich ist?
Das allgemeine Verschweigen dieses Tatbestandes,
dem sich mein Schweigen untergeordnet hat,
empfinde ich als belastende Lüge
und Zwang, der Strafe in Aussicht stellt,
sobald er mißachtet wird;
das Verdikt "Antisemitismus" ist geläufig.
Jetzt aber, weil aus meinem Land,
das von ureigenen Verbrechen,
die ohne Vergleich sind,
Mal um Mal eingeholt und zur Rede gestellt wird,
wiederum und rein geschäftsmäßig, wenn auch
mit flinker Lippe als Wiedergutmachung deklariert,
ein weiteres U-Boot nach Israel
geliefert werden soll, dessen Spezialität
darin besteht, allesvernichtende Sprengköpfe
dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz
einer einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen ist,
doch als Befürchtung von Beweiskraft sein will,
sage ich, was gesagt werden muß.

Warum aber schwieg ich bislang?
Weil ich meinte, meine Herkunft,
die von nie zu tilgendem Makel behaftet ist,
verbiete, diese Tatsache als ausgesprochene Wahrheit
dem Land Israel, dem ich verbunden bin
und bleiben will, zuzumuten.

Warum sage ich jetzt erst,
gealtert und mit letzter Tinte:
Die Atommacht Israel gefährdet
den ohnehin brüchigen Weltfrieden?
Weil gesagt werden muß,
was schon morgen zu spät sein könnte;
auch weil wir - als Deutsche belastet genug -
Zulieferer eines Verbrechens werden könnten,
das voraussehbar ist, weshalb unsere Mitschuld
durch keine der üblichen Ausreden
zu tilgen wäre.

Und zugegeben: ich schweige nicht mehr,
weil ich der Heuchelei des Westens
überdrüssig bin; zudem ist zu hoffen,
es mögen sich viele vom Schweigen befreien,
den Verursacher der erkennbaren Gefahr
zum Verzicht auf Gewalt auffordern und
gleichfalls darauf bestehen,
daß eine unbehinderte und permanente Kontrolle
des israelischen atomaren Potentials
und der iranischen Atomanlagen
durch eine internationale Instanz
von den Regierungen beider Länder zugelassen wird.

Nur so ist allen, den Israelis und Palästinensern,
mehr noch, allen Menschen, die in dieser
vom Wahn okkupierten Region
dicht bei dicht verfeindet leben
und letztlich auch uns zu helfen.


Günther Grass, 4.4.2012

Father John Misty´s awesome single

E. B. thought a car would have suit me back those days...

Ill have the first drive of my life by myself in half an hour...and I think now while listening to Interpol, about this very beautiful woman, who once told me that she totally saw me driving a car..it was a long time ago, so long ago that she got married, have (at least) one child....
but I finally got it myself and am going for a drive

maybe with the Soundtrack of "Drive", to make it completely sentimental...

Dear John

...yesterday I was in this one bar in Berlin where I deejay from time to time ( also a lot of records of yours) and was listening to some tracks, sipping Brandeburger beer...after the "Rebirth of the Cool" by your old chap Miles, your "Ballads" with your quartet made its come back in my ears...what a surprise! What an epiphany of warm sounds and smooth atmosphere...

Oh man, you cannot believe how happy and uniquely moved your music still makes me, even more when your tracks come unexpected...
I regret so much that I never had the chance to see you live, neither the chance to say that you were still playing by the time I am born...

April 5th 2012

I read the interview with D.Barenboim on this week die Zeit and I felt so enticed that I bought tickets for a concert at the Staatsoper.
One spare card still available
Staatskapelle

Spot(h)ify(ve)

...is a bit intrusive in my computer and did not ask whether it could be so...
...still it was time for Germany to welcome it...
...

Skirting...

easily said

In here it is simply sunny since a week.
Period

BUM

One record per week - one week with a record

This album is a must if you listen to me
The guy is bliss on a piano

I am considering a feature of this blog nobody reads where I write down my gotta-listen-to-it record of the week

Number 0 is out now

P.S. On NPR you could listen to the whole of it in streaming
Long live to (this kind of) Jazz

New words (for me) and old habits (for everybody)

Yesterday I was thinking about the idea of using internet with the bohemian, idealistic and shallow attitude by which you believe you do good simply by clicking or re-tweeting...
Today I found the word for it...

Slacktivism

Which I believe is very contagious though I am confident I am immune to it...

Greenwood playing Reich being hacked

How comes you are here?

If you happen to read this blog, please think that you either landed here by chance, in which case we could both thank internet for that (unless you want to sell me porn), or you googled my name, in which case you are a voyeuristic geek and should focus more on your friends on FB, LinkedIn, Orkut or Google+ (if you still remember your logindata).
In the very remote case you googled me because of a job opening, you should definitely read my CV and my cover letter and let this aside.

Whichever way you should listen to Wrecking Ball by B. Springsteen

Verdammte Scheisse

This is the trouble

Some more deejaying

This Friday Night
@nathanja & heinrich
Weichselstrasse, 44
Free Republic of Neukölln
From 10 p.m.

Strictly Jazz in broader sense

Come!!!

From Mark, of Vimeo

This Is My Home from Mark on Vimeo.

By moving out old stuff comes out

Sender: ex girlfriend

"Mein Süße,

da du deinen ersten deutschen Schultag hinter dir hast brauchst du unbedingt eine Schultüte!
Ich liebe und küsse dich, mein perfekter Geliebter!

Dein Mädchen-Kachi"


Possible lessons to be drawn:

1. Never throw away stuff if not necessary;
2. Germans forget using punctuation sometimes;
3. Suspect of all those people thinking you - or anything - is perfect.

I should give him a ride

Marco Notari - Io? by Libellula

Gott sollte mich segnen

Object: undisclosed

"Hi, Marco

Wie geht ? :-)
Es war gut, das dich zu kennenlernen.
Manchmal grüßen wir uns peer e-mail.
Oder hast du facebook? :-)

Gott segnet dich."

Signature

City Slang Playlist

City Slang Playlist

One of those melodies in the back on my mind all the time

Soundtrack For A Revolution

A memorable Friday afternoon

Flats visited: 1

Job openings completed: 1

Job refusals received: 2

Bananas bought: 3

The less he sings, the better it gets

Live at JFLN
Roots and Justin Vernon
Link

http://cargocollective.com/sfs

http://cargocollective.com/sfs

Saturday by - 12 celsius in Berlin

Watched drive at the theater, thought of my short echo park experience last summer, went home and started listening to my itunes library on random modus...
Current 93 is the kind of thing that depresses simply by the starting thirty seconds....why do I keep it anyway?
My track with Matteo also came out...we had such a perfect song ready to be published, damn....

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

Post-it Ari: proudly brought you by mdebellard.blogspot.com/

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