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.