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´Your father´s right,´she said. ´Mockingbirds don´t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don´t eat people´s garden, don´t nest in corncribs, they don´t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That´s why it´s a sin to kill a mockingbird.´

I would have loved to be in Cannes this year, though I followed the news less than those coming from Kuala Lumpur (nothing personal K.L.).
After two weeks spent in small and cozy Italian villages, I would have loved to be in the hottest spot for a couple of days. Still I have very opposing feelings for the French way of interaction. Which will probably never go away.
Back in Berlin since yesterday.

New stuff I have been listening to:
Liars´ new album
Japandroids´ new album
Beach House
Barenboim directing Staatskapelle for Bruckner´s Symphonies
Barenboim doing the same for Beethoven´s Symphonies
Damon Albarn´s new project
Sigur Ros´ new album
Johnny and Santo
Hilary Hahn and Hauschka´s Silfra

To sum up this post NPR Music rules and/or Spotify does not.

We need to blog more, says S.Lobo.
After three days of re:publica, a conference on internet and similar in a G8 country with a lively civil society and amazing cultural institutions, I believe we should also try to talk more to each other in person, at least when there is the opportunity.
Tweeting can be fun and useful...during a conference which implies the physical presence of their participants, the full-on tweeting seemed to me a bit sick...you can pick a session at your choice and see whether the laughter for a joke is delayed as the audience is stucked with a RT of some sort of RT or FF which will be forgotten as fast as the hype for Windows Vista...

Internet is seen as a sort of solution for everything by many: when is the shop open? Check online, dude! What is the weather like tomorrow? Check the website, dude. German girls buy a lot of their shoes online, which has some very visible consequences for the most (that looks horrible, darling) but make their budgets happy...
There is a lot of truth in the fact that internet helps us through our daily duties and social challenges...the more it gets to the core of our interests, the more we need to interface it with something offline...unless we are all digital nerds...which I hope it wont be the case, ever
I can use yelp all my life as long as I actually visit restaurants....I can overload Instagram with my shots as long as I keep my eyes open, I can care for a Mindestlohn as long as I see the dignity of people everyday while being around the city...if not so, well my blog entries become rather shallow while my thoughts get haunted by some #shitstorm of no importance.

On the other side many think that people willing to control the internet behave with an hidden, though awful, goal...
I think that most of the time the goal is much simpler (but not because of this less awful) than many think....it is called making money asap.

I have no solution but maybe we should all show the evil capitalists 3.0 that the online world and the offline reality are two sides of the same story, and that we need to add more offline links to our life on the internet, for our own sake and for letting internet remain driven by human needs and not by hashtags trends...

Liquid democracy sounds maybe cool...to me it does sound like biofuel...still CO2 pollution, but with a human face, dude...

Bratwurst im Zoo. So sind die Menschen

RSD12

It is RSD12 tomorrow, dude! Go to the RSD website for more info or just visit the one store you like, get out there and check out special issues, listen to r e c o r d s and forget for a while that Itunes & Co exist, at least until Monday. http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home

Pictoplasma vs Berlin

Pictoplasma Festival 2012 Opener from Pictoplasma on Vimeo.

A bad day

The story is simple: a Venetian guy my age gets a very bad disease and dies. That happens yesterday.
I knew him, we went to secondary school together: the thing I remember the most is a birthday party as we were 11. His mum as a sweet and wit woman, the party with a lot of stuff to eat.

So let us go back to yesterday: by chance - I thought - at once on FB a lot of traffic is taking place on his page: people saying bye, have a safe trip, I see you soon...

Today my mum tells me by phone (thanks Marconi) what actually happened....

My thoughts on this are the following:

First reaction: I found revolting that people post on the all of somebody who just died.

Second reaction: I try to believe that if they do so, it is because they are shocked...but then ask myself: whom do they do it for but themselves? The disgust comes up again.

Third thought: is there a way to tell FB that an account should not be active anymore?

Man, I am sad.......

Composed in 1997, released 10 years later

A very interesting input from a government I dont like at all

UK government´s digital design principles

I am in love with Bruckner

Another example of one-sided affection, this time because of his (for me) premature death though.

Inspired by a Coca Cola Commercial

What are the odds of finding a single straight woman between 27 and 32, living in Berlin, without:

- eating disorders
- a distorted perception of reality
- ongoing family issues
- addiction to drugs
- disbelief in relationships
- a genuine hate for jazz music
- the need to get children straight away
- bad breath issues?

I still believe is more than 0.0000001%.
Still.

Fantastic

Pretty awesome pic of the Boss and his Corvette

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...