Tigran Hamasyan

Júníus Meyvant - Color Decay

INTERNET USAGE OECD

Best November musical discovery so far: PROTOMARTYR from Detroit

Brexit asap then

On some levels I do hope that the UK simply opts out from the EU so that ink and bytes can be finally spared. The UK government is the worst the country had in a very long time. Let them go

Zentrum für politische Schönheit: 25 Jahre Mauerfall

The Global Gender Gap Index 2014

hundred years of rock as an infographics

Click image to see the full interactive music graphic(via Concert Hotels).

Iran, the internet and a Berlin-based graphic designer

Where are the Romanians? Why don´t they come? J. Fischer at the Hague Institute for Global Justice

God save the Italian internet providers

Slowdive           
Mac DeMarco                 
Haydn Sonatas and Symphonies
FKA Twigs                      
Broen Season 2                      
Chapterhouse                       
Charlie Haden & Co
Charlie Liberation Music Orchestra    
Ornette Coleman  Free Jazz
Swervedriver
Ambrose Akinmusire    
Lush
Africa/Brass J.Coltrane
Black Sabbath
Bob Mould                
Sharon Van Etten               
Boros - En Otra Parte           
Lee Fields and the Expressions  
The Blasters
Sylvan Esso               
The Antlers  Familiars        
Black Keys - Turn Blue       
Ty Segall                   
Brian Jonestown Massacre       
Burial Untrue               
Burial, 4tet and T.Yorke
Amen Dunes   

T. Yorke´s new album is a kick in the nuts of the self elected gate keepers (and costs 4.72 euro over BitTorrent)

His and N. Godrich´s letter

As an experiment we are using a new version of BitTorrent to distribute a new Thom Yorke record.
The new Torrent files have a pay gate to access a bundle of files..
The files can be anything, but in this case is an 'album'.
It’s an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around ...
If it works well it could be an effective way of handing some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work.
Enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves.
Bypassing the self elected gate-keepers.
If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.
The torrent mechanism does not require any server uploading or hosting costs or ‘cloud’ malarkey.
It's a self-contained embeddable shop front...
The network not only carries the traffic, it also hosts the file. The file is in the network.
Oh yes and it's called
Tomorrow's Modern Boxes.
Thom Yorke & Nigel Godrich

Fokus Europa : Festung Europas

Die Flüchtlingssituation an den Europäischen Grenzen und die EU-Migrationspolitik

My week in few words (so far)

Bron/Broen
Rebecca Hall
James Blackshaw
Idiots not doing their job
Asian food
Goodbye

Neil Young still believes that change can happen: new track recorded live

Glitches in the Break, jo

mapping of climate change vulnerabilities

Walk-through - Projects EMAPS Amsterdam Sprint March 2014

Gianni Ansaldo thinks he knows stuff about Radiohead´s new album

Here the post : link

Please reckon with me that the whole post is about old tracks which G.A. imagines Radiohead will use.
It has been fun to listen to this old stuff though.

A great metal band, discovered thanks to my buddy PH

D´Addario Series

B. Eno and P. Schwartz on the Gaza conflict and US politics: chronologically linked READ IT

Brian Eno initial letter

Peter Schwartz´s reply

Brian Eno reply to Schwartz

My personal  sum up:

There is no reason left to support Israel in the way he wages war to Palestinian: This is one point where the two agree.
If Israel is guilty of war atrocities as it is the case since the eighties at the latest, it has no more moral primacy left.
Two states and two people PLUS ejection of the extremists on both side the only solution.
Europe and US shall work for it without reluctance to engage.

I am still very angry.

You can´t do that ´cause it is freaking me out (via visualisingadvocacy.org)

Suddenly this video started popping out all over my feeds: where good ideas come from

New German expression I learnt

Satz des Monats:
Du laesst mich abblitzen

GIRL by Pharrell Williams

How records are (not) sold + tracklist

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If you download music illegally, you might feel like buying that record or not.

If you had not bought the record anyway, downloading it does not make any difference to the artist.

If you subscribe to Spotify or MOG or similar, you will not feel like buying a record, ever; plus almost no cent will end in the artists´ hands. For the only sake of the industry.

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Albums I (il)legally listened to lately (a lot of NPR first listen and suggestions, plus Blow Up inspired discoveries and other stuff friends uploaded on the cloud).

Beck - Morning Phase
The Notwist - Close to the Glass
St. Vincent - om.
Chopin - Nocturnes et Ballades (Ashkenazy)
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum
Angel Olsen- Brun Your Fire For No Witness
Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Thumpers - Galore
Cecile McLorin Salvant - Woman Child
Menahan Street Band - The Crossing
AAVV - Red Hot + Fela
The War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues
The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
Flamin´ Groovies - Supersnazz
Blondie - Greatest Hits
De La Soul - Stake is High
Tinariwen - Tassili I
Grant Hart - The Argument
Kaboom Karavan - Short Walk with Olaf
James Holden - The Idiots are Winning
Egyptian Hip Hop - Good Don´t Sleep

From Rainer Veil an amazing slot of electronic tracks on Soundcloud

Freizeitgestaltung

When taking one position feels like coming to terms with what you are worth of, i.e. good

Dear Ms _________, I would like to come back to the offer I received from ASEF for the position I applied for. Once more I would like to stress the fact that we have had an open and constructive dialogue throughout the application procedure, which I held in high respect: this mail tries to develop that openness further. Ms ______ and Mr _______ read in :cc ( though I know that the first is currently on leave). After having attentively evaluated your financial offer (and the related conditions), discussed living costs and rentals´ situation with acquaintances living in Singapore, considered the profile of the person you had been looking for in your opening, and - last but not least - after having considered my profile and my previous professional experience, I came to the conclusion that the income you offer does not correspond to the expectations I would have for a such a position. For as much as I am willing and excited by the idea of moving to Asia and developing the projects of the Foundation, discovering a new and vibrant culture and getting to know new colleagues and friends, I do not find appropriate the kind of living arrangements I would need to undergo if working (full time) at ASEF under your offer. I am aware of the fact that I would need to share a flat with some other people, but still it would be a matter of how much I would need to share. Furthermore, together with the costs of living, one has also to consider additional health benefits costs, travel costs (at least once a year a flight way and back to Europe, I reckon), pension founds, savings and so on. I am not sure whether there is room for negotiating the salary with ASEF, i.e. with you or any other person in the Foundation; in case there was such room, I would be willing to discuss any job offer entailing an income ranging from ___ to _______ thousand Singapore dollars (gross). I am fully aware that this request would represent at least an increase of more than a third of your initial offer; still, after a long consultation with friends and an extensive internet search I am confident that this request does not look too high or unfair if compared with living conditions in Singapore for a 33-years old professional with almost 7 years of experience in educational programmes. I hope that ASEF will be as open to discuss the issue as I have been in reviewing my profile and qualifications in the past weeks with you. If not, I do not want to prevent the Foundation from selecting another employer in due time. I thank you for your attention and hope to hear form you soon, either way. Let me finally wish you a nice day. With very kind regards from Berlin

Soundtrack

And I read you from afar

Mail I got on October 6

"So I have been thinking about sending you a message a lot of times. But every time i started writing i got the vague feeling of having to apologize for something but i wasn't really sure for what exactly. Anyway, today i was cleaning up and found a box of old pictures and i saw the attached one. Maybe i am an enormous sentimental fool.. but I think it would be a shame if we would loose contact and become strangers. Hope you are doing well.
x Name

Full albums I have been listening to today

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse

Sebadoh's new 

Rokia Traoré's latest

E. Costello and the Roots

Chvrches, the new one

Oneonthrix Point Never, the new one on Warp

Pearl Jam's Lightning Bolt (twice)

OM Advaitic songs

VH-1 - Purple R@in (1984)

En Espanol sobra Soundcloud

New track from NY

Anniversary and Colbert

The Colbert Report
Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Video Archive

An email from July 2nd Id love to see answered at some stage

(...) "I just came back from an event organized in Venice by the regional authority. It is about sharing memories about different tragedies of the recent European history, though, given the organisations involved, it turned out to be only about remembering the Shoah. Long story short there was a guy from an an org in Munich named name removed and for a moment I thought it was one of those guys you worked with. I hid this memory somewhere until I came to my office; then tried to figure out whether I knew the guy from before, which involved going through our correspondence from the days in Djermanie. Looking at it today, it seems to show that we were very close or maybe only lonely back then. Anyway a very beautiful souvenir in my inbox has been kept all these years and I rejoiced. I hope you are fine, at some point you will also update me on your whereabouts, Miss name removed, I am sure. Take care until then and enjoy summer (...)

Coffee and Flats

11th commandment If s/he burns your coffee machine, keep the distance and run away as fast as you can, if you can...

True buddy: a friend able to tell the truth and to be your best friend

Ich kann Dir nicht genau sagen warum und es geht mich auch nichts an, aber als ich Dich gesehen habe am WE beim schwimmen und auch nachher am Telefon – ein Supergefühl von Dir für die Dame höhrt sich anders an…

A take of mine I like, the city of mine I love

Singles

TVOTR´s single on NPR. Here

Few thoughts on how people send in job applications (after having read ca. 200 for a senior position (sic))

Dear applicants,
Doctors,
PhDs,
Researchers,
Savers of the lonely,
Defenders of the poor,
Unique hopes in a world of poor management,
....Dudes,

When applying for a position, what you should do is (it is actually very easy indeed):
- read the key qualifications requested
- read the opening in the very first place, for God's sake
- avoid bragging around with all the languages you speak for a paragraph or more (unless you apply for a god-damned interpretor job!)
- avoid sending 8-pages-long cvs with your experience in fostering coordination whatsoever
- Insert your name at the beginning of the cover letter 

What would also be very welcome(, I swear, and might actually give you an opportunity to a proper interview)is:
- use the same font for your cover letter
- write a cover letter ( at least as long as it is asked in the opening!(sic))
- put your cover letter separately from the email text (for the cv you should do the same)
- check the spelling
- stick to the deadline for submission ( if not, at least acknowledge that you are late).

Good luck (you very much need it)

#nograndinavi

Via Garibaldi vinerized

The day after my birthday at work

Correspondence July 3rd

There are loads of friends meeting up every couple of years over a drink and chatting about life, trivia and stuff: since we have been doing so in the past decade or so, I guess it'd be better to keep that way. I am happy to know you are happy and do not intend to mess anything up. That is why I think name of the city can and should wait. Take care, enjoy your holidays, which I think are starting soon, and good luck.

Trouble will find me

I am hunted by the last album by The National. I rarely look into lyrics of songs I like, this is one of those cases. So go there and buy one yourself! I have been also listening to a lot of Joy Division, Primal Scream and John Prine. They have not so much to do with each other. The main reason is that I did not know them that well so far.

Montalbano

Mist

I feel like one of those Central European cities, mostly interesting and possibly charming but covered with a veil of unremovable, melancholic and sad reminder of the past. Good for a weekend trip, they are otherwise dull and become boring quite soon. There was that one Czech word Kundera wrote once an essay about...

Rabat

Not about discounts. It does look like indeed that I am going to Morocco next week.

Jochi is not in town

The 4th by Bruckner, its 1st movement in particular The speed you can download via torrent any new issue, always faster than anything else My favourite Single Malt from Scotland The green of this one tree in front of my room, which the wind shakes constantly The time I spent to get the flat tied up The days I long to be here while simply doing nothing " I should live in Salt" by The National

Calligraphy

Id rather be able to say good bye to Europe

Rainy Saturday Morning playlist: The Ashes of Piamonte

Suggested by P.A.Howe

Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust on Rdio

I have been invited today by Rdio to join and so did I.
It looks like as good or bad as MOG was two years ago, which does not sound so tempting, right?
Plus: NPR, Soundcloud or any other major music portal offers more new releases than Rdio apparently does here in Europe. Subscription seems necessary but also quite pricey.
Right now I am listening to the only Sigur Ros album I dont have in digital.
Is that enough? hhhhhnop.
If you want to try it yourself, just drop a line and I ll invite you.
Peace

Digital Zoo

Snow at the seaside, Floods in the city. 11.2.2013

Wishlist reviewed

After listening to "Carpe" by Russian Circles, I realize I wish I was with my buddies Paul and Adam on our way to a gig of this band. Would turn awesome for sure.

NCATBSs

AAA Tandem Danish Italian/German in Venice

http://venice.it.craigslist.it/grp/3581417209.html

My work on this Saturday has been mostly like

Musicians and Musicians

There are those artists like Phosphorescent or the Afghan Whigs, an example, who write the same song all over again.
And people listen to that, me included, and like them. Fair.

Then there are those few ones, less than a dozen I guess, who are not able to write the same kind of song twice. And we fall in love with them.
David Bowie is a full fledged member of this latter category.

Lonleytude: (med.) feeling lonely while being alone a.k.a. willing to be alone in order to feel lonely.

Possible symptoms: seriousness, monotone and/or dull looks; Twitter dependancy; pour diet; laziness.

Therapy: sun, sex (possibly with sentimental involvement), good sleep, vegetables, vodka ginger beer on the rocks, internet restrictions.

Mourning together, 54 years apart

Nico Duvinage´s Video

Dave Grohl turns Director: Sound City Preview

Phosphorescent´s new single

2013 Resolutions (italian)

Imparare il danese seriamente

Imparare a vogare alla veneta

Non arrabbiarsi troppo spesso

Non parlare di politica italiana fino al 2014

Fare più volontariato

Tornare agli 82 chili

Fare una vacanza di mare con mamma

Vedere Zoe, Fratz e Luc

Risparmiare

Comprare una bicicletta nuova (da Martin o qualcun altro)

Resolutions 2012 accomplished

Get the driving license 
Leave the old job  
Find a new job  
Find a new flat
Swim in an open waters competition 
Quit smoking completely  
Get a wetsuit


I am considering options for the 2013 resolutions.
Any idea is welcome. Silly ideas more than ever.

My top 30 of the year as far as I can recall: #annushorribilis

1 Yet Again -- Grizzly Bear

2 We Take Care of Our Own -- Bruce Springsteen

3 Leviathan -- Mark Lanegan Band

4 I Found You -- Alabama Shakes

5 No Banker Left Behind -- Ry Cooder

6 Varúð -- Sigur Ros

7 Deep Cover -- Sun Araw

8 1904 -- The Tallest Man on Earth

9 The Star of a Story -- Vijay Iyer Trio

10 Cold Dark Eyes -- Tombs

11 Sixteen Saltines -- Jack White

12 Cowgirl in The Sand -- The Byrds

13 Driftin´ Back -- Neil Young and Crazy Horse

14 Nightcall -- Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx

15 Wild -- Beach House

16 Sleeping Ute -- Grizzly Bear

17 Elephant -- Tame Impala

18 Cherokee -- Cat Power

19 Random Call -- Random Axe

20 Said the People -- Dinosaur Jr.

21 Oh My Love -- Riz Ortolani 

22 Moskovskja okna -- Lida Goulesko & Schnuckenack Rheinard Quintett

23 Blue Black -- Andrew Hill

24 Kinski Assassin -- Ariel Pink´s Haunted Graffiti

25 Tell Me A Tale -- Michael Kiwanuka

26 Mladic -- GYBE!

27 Headache -- Metz

28 Clouds -- Deep Time

29 Rework -- Beck / P. Glass

30 I. Moderato -- Bruckner 2.nd Symphony / Barenboim 

Help Greece, Help Greeks

Back on track

Having being offline much longer than usual for more than two weeks, without my beloved and outdated Ipad1, made me realize I did not miss that much.
A rather personal understanding of stuff happened lately:

- Lakers´negative streak in the league so far
- Berlusconi´s embolic attack, III
- 3000 "best ofs" of every possible thing, item or person you can imagine
- Christmas´ boredom for some, war on Christmas for other.
- Snow
- Pollini in Berlin
- Augustiner nostalgia

http://www.npr.org/event/music/165674353/metz-a-royal-headache

Musical Flashbacks

Cocorosie are now on in the 24/7 NPR radio I am listening to, with that old album where they played actual instruments, guitars, glockespielen, screw stuff and so on and I think that it was as a matter of fact a good one.
I cant help but thinking that in 2006 Berliner life seemed much easier...

Sufjan Steven´s Xmas Record

Margarita Margarita

Dont Need Love by Matthew and the Mainstream

"Don't Need Love" by Matthew & The Mainstream from Bumbleton Communications on Vimeo.

Chrome´s autofill @ Marco´s

A airbnb.com

B berliner-sparkasse.de

C colbernation.com

D dict.leo.org

E easyjet.de

F facebook.com

G gazzetta.it

H How i met your mother season 8 episode 2 torrent

I icloud.com/mail

J -

K klout.com

L linkedin.com

M mail.google.com

N news.google.com

O opodo.de

P potsdam.dlrg.de/inselschwimmen/anmeldung.html

Q -

R repubblica.it

S soundcloud.com

T twitter.com

U uefa.com

V vhsit.berlin.de

W wordreference.com

Y youtube.com

Z zdf.de

Another album on streaming: H.Herndon

Let´s relocate Vijay Iver´s gig from the Passionkirche to somewhere else 2.

I got a reply from the management the very next day.

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Dear Marco,

I'm Vijay's manager. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We will certainly look into it. I don't know if it will be possible to change this plan, but we'll absolutely investigate the possibilities.

All the best,
Steve

Creepy video by Mercury Prize Winners ∆

Andy Borowitz @ 92nd Street Y

The first mail I wrote with an old Samsung smartphone: check the outcome yourself

"Kommatde bicht nehr.wah"

I had a hard time to understand the sense myself, this friend was worried I had a stroke.

Guess the text hidden behind it and you will be honoured my deepest respect.

Discussion at LSE on the US elections

Let´s relocate Vijay Iver´s gig from the Passionkirche to somewhere else 1

Dear Vijay,
dear Management of Vijay,
I was delighted to bliss by assisting to your second set on April 28th this year and I am so looking forward to seeing you again live. I am a fan of yours since 2010 and I love your work and your way of presenting it around the globe.

I understand that you plan a concert in Berlin, my city, next February. My immense excitement left place to discourage when I realized the gig is organized in the Passionkirche, a church in Kreuzberg, West Berlin.
Though charming the idea of having a concert in a Berliner church might be, let me underline that the sound in there is bad-to-crap, on the average. If maybe bearable for a choir or organ music, I am not sure that the venue would in any way be right your music.
I would really appreciate if you, by means of your management or whoever is in charge, could consider a more adequate location, as Berlin is full of venues which would better suit your amazing talent and your excited fans, as I consider myself.

With regards

Julia Stone in Postbahnhof

A friend invited me to Julia Stone´s gig in Berlin last Thursday.
Another friend was supposed to come and when asking me what I thought of the concert, she received my email with the following reply, which may sound a bit harsh, though I did like the concert, a bit.

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"Sparks of fine pop music condensed in a landscape of cheesy songs, with the structure of music lesson-week 2, paired with the lyrics a 12 years old with evident psychological and intellectual imbalances would write, if only she had had unfulfilling teenager sex, as apparently is the case for the poor Julia...
The lights were good.

I enjoyed it anyway, not least since our (friend) does like her a lot.
You would have liked a bit too, I guess. Too bad you did not come.

Let me only say that I sometimes believe English speaking artists are allowed to sing about the most irrelevant and superficial stuff of the world and it is fine because it does sound much better than in other language...
Lucky them
That is probably also why the real Tina Dico is such a hit in the English landscape of pop music at its best....(infinite points)...

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Farmor på dansk

Slikke Rikke, Slikke Rikke, 
hun skal altid tigge.
Må jeg få, må jeg få?
Slikke Rikke, du må gå.

Special offer

I cant get out of my mind the thought that yesterday I could have booked a round trip Berlin-Thessaloniki for December for 60 bucks all inclusive

The "Recently Added" Itunes Playlist of mine

Beth Orton complete discography
Flaming Lips complete discography (but Embryonic and that other one from 2006)
Matthew Dear from 2009
Dinosaur Jr latest cover album of his own songs
Two Door Cinema Club
Band of Horses´ Mirage Rock
Block Party´s Four


....too much of the same and few very exciting albums, I know.

Tonight it could have been either Tame Impala or Liars live and I picked the latter.

I would like to get wasted one of these days.

Radiohead @ Austin City Limits

Watch Radiohead on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits.

Kind request

Whoever has stuff by John Cale from the sixties, please share it on Dropbox or Minus.
Thank you.

Spooky Stuff I Like to Do Lately

Use anybody´s toothbrush
Walk on dark staircases at night
Swim in the darkness
Listen to OM or Swans very loud
Talk alternatively three different languages with myself

A personal and futile list of overrated stuff

• Barcelona: just thanks to Mirò and the seaside there is no way you can become a world city, though yoga lovers, mozzarella exporters, shallow fashion parade monkeys, a couple of Scandinavians and horny Erasmus students love you. 
• XX (Band): the riffs of a 13 years old guitarist with an affinity for triplets (mus) became the "song" to worship: it is so sad and depressing that it is enough. You can listen to it on Spotify, though... 
• Lasagne: please stop eating crappy food, if not cooked by a close relative (Michelin chefs do not apply either). 
• Pepsi: oh come on. 
• Carmelo Anthony: you'll never get to become crucial 
• Manu Chao: your flavor for global politics cannot hide the fact your music is boring as hell
• Iphone: yeah, get the membership to the club of those retarded owning a phone you cannot make phone calls with (note the repetition, please) and let the US GDP grow by 0.5%. 
• Beck (the singer): No comment
• French design for cars: please make up your own mind by observing the shape of a Twingo or a Megane

Grizzly Bear´s new album on Streaming: guess where? On NPR!

My answer for the one email too much from Airbnb Berlin

Leave my neighbourhood alone, please and let us Berliners in peace. Discoveries, even more the best ones, require dedication, curiosity and luck. You take care of tourists, right? Let them do that with the thousands of platforms already existing and stop with this over parolous, superficial crap you sent way too often per email.

My thoughts on the spotification of music listening: a bad thing for us all

The idea looks simple and sounds catchy: get on board with us, share your tastes, activities, photos and so on (music) and you will be by default be considered cooler, reach a higher stand in front of your (digitally speaking) friends and (for the few ranking high on Klout) subscribers. The content of these possible great achievements is taken for granted by those offering you their platform (only if not respectful, will it be questioned and eventually erased), shared by those interested in it, ignored by the most, either since they don´t agree or don't care. The drive for getting some digital reward makes us focus on one cool something, on looking for a catchy phrase and/or motive, on sharing a overwhelmingly colorful pic so that the other express their acknowledgment of our digital worthiness. This spiral of expiring moments of "kloutness" (neul.) is bad for arts, for ideas, for exchange and, to me currently the dearest thing, to music. We people living in GErMAny were very happy to have finally access to Spotify early this year, after all our Scandinavian friends dragged (sic) about it for years. But, dear fellows, is Spotify or are its copycats and very similar contenders so cool? …. Really?! We focus on catchy gingles more than we had already done before, we are constantly asked to make a playlist out of songs we listen to (most of the time not halfway through the track anyway) and we are finally rather unspectacularly made into sharing this bunch of stuff socially. But where does the music stay in this equation? Where is the drive (again) of taking some "quality" time with ourselves and listen a damn song from 0´00´´to 4´55´´and maybe consider it as part of an artistic creation (that old fashioned thing called album), put into a chronological order as thought by it composers and its producers? There is no way Spotify & friends can possibly come out as the advocates of music and the artists behind it. But they want you to believe so. They want you to tell them as fast as possible which song would be the catchiest, so that somebody may use that information to sell even more of the same crap. They do not reward artists directly (they admit so) and could not care less how this happens. We need to move away from a business model where the medium of sharing content becomes the thing counting the most and where the content slowly disappears and becomes cool only if shared and not on its own merit. A great antidote are all those album streaming chances you can enjoy lately: serious portals made by awesome journalists, music lovers and great people who make an album available online in its whole for a while. They ask for your best asset actually, so you should watch out: your attention and passion for stuff, your curiosity and love for new artistic creations. More of NPR and Guardian and so on then, please, and let Spotify go to hell and survive thanks to those geeky and massified nerds, who would listen to MTV crap over their overpriced smartphones anyway.

Der Email-Verkehr ist der einzige Verkehr zurzeit

....ho fatto oggi ´sta gara di nuoto di 1,7Km e ho cercato di andare piú forte che potevo, invece delle serate in giro e della marotta faccio così ultimamente. Son arrivato primo, e son andato 4 minuti piú veloce di 2 settimane fà, quando due giorni prima della gara - il giovedí - avevo fatto le sei con una tipa (e dormito 2 ore) ed il venerdì ero stato a cena da amici a base di carbonara e drinks.....oggi invece uscito dall´acqua sembravo un armadio e peccato che lo sappia solo io; mi hanno dato il premio che mi son portato a casa e devo riportare l´ánno che viene; ero solo tutto il tempo. Son tornato a casa e ho deciso di uscire alle 11. Per fortuna dopo qualche drinks son finito in un bar dove lavora un mio vecchio amico barman e mi son dato il colpo di grazia, vista la prestazione sportiva odierna ci è voluto poco...in ogni caso credo di essere l´unico che dopo la fatica di oggi si sia dato alla uscita serale...ci giuro....

Talk talk in silence

The "Laughing Stock" Album by Talk Talk is amazing and this morning, listening to it one more time, I remembered of 2008 and that beautiful late spring and (now looking backwards) lonely summer with a sense of missed sweeping declarations. My favourite track is indeed "Ascension Day".