Those times when only Zapatero won...

Gloomy times

The Pope in Moravia again...no dope this time

2006
2009

Foreign in Germany

Alinkingkingkingking

Desease of the day
Last month rock suxed for one night

Retarded wanna-be politicians

NPD should be banned. Period.
It is extremely unpleasant to see their campaign posters.
Just the next reason to ban them

A never ending quest for relevance for a tiny small minded man

Allons y Sarkozy

New discoveries

Everybody wants a girl he can trust till the very end

Mastermind

Awesome

Neukölln - Taksim - Neukölln

Beingworking4daysnonstop,liketypingwithoutspaces...

Feel so melancholic today, listening to some Italian radio...

Still dreaming depressive stuff...holy shit...

Inschalla

Per chi capisce l´italiano e non si sente fannullone

Da ascoltare

New Living Room...long live the Vinyls!

Speechless

Mkakou: "I am Rick James, b______!"

I use my old Macbook almost only to listen to music, read news and surf through wikipedia to get new information...no more Facebook, any other social network or chat community except my loyal gmail account.

Kill the Vultures - Ecce Beast
The Jam - (a lot of different stuff)
Maximo Park - Quicken The Heart
Timbre Timber - ?
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy
Giant Sand - proVISIONS
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Times New Viking - Rip it Off
Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today

amazing: a lesson of music. Period

Miles at the Isle

VERGOGNA

Vergogna!

So the most exciting weeks of this summer are passing by, I fell in love with Berlin and its pretty laid back attitude of welcoming you...I enjoyed the visit of some very special friends, those who will always be kept in a special part of my heart, I guess...

Cheesy but so true....

The party in Sux Bar turned out to be a kind of success...definitely a very good first party...

Leaving Berlin soon for the next weeks, heading est, as it should be more often than it happens to be...

Una donna speciale per un paese che fu di lettori...

Addio

Mr. Mura and Mr. Maradona

Still the best sport reporter being around

I did not even know her surname until yesterday night...now I only know how it sounds, no idea how that should be written...

I realize now that the decision of letting Facebook go was one of the few smart ones I took lately....together with deciding to stop working in Goldener Hahn...
Though I decided very instinctively in both cases, they turned out to be so wise and right...

I have the mind full of kind of cheesy thoughts...plans that do not actually start...and a bunch of good friends coming over in the next days...

Earthless (2007) / Earthless (2008) / Blank Dogs (2009) / Cargo (1983) / Eric Clapton (?) / J.J. Cale (forgot)

A kind of cheesyslashromantic story and a useful tool

40 years later

Animal Collective (2001) / Black Keys (2006) / Pontiak (2009) / Pontiak (2007) / Wilco (2009) / Elvis Perkins (2009)

La danza del gabbiano - Camilleri
Zanzare - Faulkner
The Use of Adversity - Garton Ash
Kleine Geschichte der Ukraine - Kappeler

...the drones and jesus and mary chain...
...a shrinking social life in Berlin and two boring jobs...
...Budapest and Istanbul in the next two months...
...need a woman or a girl or something beautiful to happen...

...old ashes for treesssss....

...Sehnsucht an P.Floyd...why, actually?
Maybe because it is the third grey ady in a row...maybe because I am here home, loooking at my sage plant on the window...maybe because I am still wondering whether I should eat something...whether the music I have collected so far still satisfies me, whether Soviet Union is interesting enough...whether I should watch the R.Garros final, whether I should not care about the small things for a while...

...lately listened...

Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Dntel - Discography
Spacemen 3 - A bunch of stuff
Holloys

...may day listening...

Fleetwood Mac - Greatist Hits
Agitated Radio Pilot
The Invisible
Larkin Grimm
Polar Bear

Obama and Eastern Europe

Monitoring

Vorbei

TIME

Hungary´s new PM and right wing idiots

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
The Drones - Havilah
New Order - The Best of New Order
Beirut - The March of the Zapotec

The biggest change in my blog´s conception

I guess I met you three times in the last four days...I also guess I met you twice today...the only thing I am sure is that I met you once in an Austrian restaurant and we both pretended we did not know each other...you had your point though, being not alone...
I had only a newspaper...

I am deeply spaced out, once more...do not have anything to say anymore unless that I am still and totally in love with you...
Since this sentence would be the most stupid thing I could ever say to you, I think we are not going to talk to each other that much...not going to tell you other stuff, that would be awkward...no compromise rather than no surprise...the way you would stand me once more...
And somehow in my crazy never ending longing about your voice and your body, your smell and the way you walk, I think it is a pretty good deal...
People say dreams cannot last longer than 8 minutes...well I would like to tell them the feeling someone gets when he wakes up and thinks and remembers he has dreamt only one and single thing...


I know what I want and I know I will never have it...it is balanced, it is neverchanging...it is assuasive...

Christopher O’Riley

Link to NYTimes Music Outfit

Menodimena - Friend and Foe
Menodimena - Under an Hour
Jenny Wilson - Myspace.com
El Perro del Mar - Myspace.com
Grizzly Bear - Horn of Plenty
Grizzly Bear - Sorry for the Delay
Joe Henderson - In `n Out

I thought about S.F.Scholz, born in April few years ago, early this morning in the most beautiful library I have ever visited, while writing up a paper; while swimming few hours later; while eating home; while riding my bike through South Berlin; while doing some extra hours work in the evening; while drinking in a couple of Kreuzberg´s bars; while dancing in a huge and funny though fucked up private party until the police came; while travelling with a stinking taxi; while walking home from the shortened taxi-ride; while typing this lines...while my life will go on, apparently...tomorrow and in the days to come.
I consider it a true damnation, a never ending state of contraction, like the Barry Adamson´s song.

Simone Weil has been probably one of the smartest persons of the 20th century, by the way...

German police, in the XXI century, is probably the most polite Police of the world...almsot a complex to be developed...

This swiftly and boldly thing...

Hm...

...

Tonight I believe that if I talked about it, it might help...

I was at school today, listening some guy talking about law systems in comparison...and had a strong, wild and lasting sense of Sehnsucht of a summer dinner in Schöneberg, where language, for once, did not look like a problem, where the smell of a bridge on the Großbeerenstrasse was of rotten flowers and fresh dawn, where my bycicle was silently carried over, and the voice, that I miss the most in every single hour I remember having lived since, told me of the beauty of small things, on which I then happened to believe...

What else?

Dan Auerbach - Keep it hid
Nickel Eye - The Time of the Assassins (pretty bad)
Ralph Stanley - A lot, randomly, I would say
Beirut - March of the Zapotec
Frienldy Fires - Friendly Fires
Taylor Swift - Fearless (very bad)

Coffee and swimming pools...

amen-break

I. Berlin´s speech/1

I agree with him once more. A very intelligent thinker, once more.

From the cold though comfortable Swiss heights, another debate that brings nowhere....?

Jealous for the girlfriends I do not have, impatient to show they are cool with the thing no matter what, all of them with a boyfriend who - allegedly - is the perfect guy (to be noticed the comparison of a boyfriend with a provider of services they are looking for, that is the language they use), they nevertheless disintegrate my patience in a sort of perpetual way...and I do not get anything else from them...

CNN on Tiergarten

Have a look...

No eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth...

Anyhow and anywho, against death penalty should we all be.

I feel so much like a reckless nerd today...oh my god, it is paramounting...

21.01.2009

What I found out, what I watched and what I read online this evening.

All love letters, good intentions or statements of goodwill have just been swept away, literally, by a stupid automatically planned option that you click on in these stupid social networks websites...so deeply and unexpected...

I am still so vulnerable and at short with other solutions...

D
A
M
N
E
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Worsening Relations

After years on inactivity, I went to rehearsal with a friend...three times in a week was fun...
Apart from that, Berlin is cold and not very lit by sunlight lately but we all know this...
My plans to go to New York are probably gone for this year...I will try next time, if I ll have some more money...there is a good chance I ll be in Budapest for five weeks or so though...
Something interesting to read: 1; 2.

Wayne Shorter - Adam´s Apple
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Phosphorescent - Pride
Elvis Costello - The Very Best of
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Song of the week contest: the Phosphorescent cover of "Can I sleep in Your Arms" by W. Nelson and "Possess Your Heart" by DCFC. I picked up songs with so cheesy titles...damned...

Crazy and aweful

Zur Info

NYTimes on Central - Eastern Europe

01/5th aka today

Vivian Girls - Self Titled
Phosphorescent - To Willie (2009)
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Jackie McLean - Swing Swang Swinging
Jackie McLean - Capuchin Swing
Freddie Redd Quintet - Shades of Redd

Song of the week: "Reprise" by Grizzly Bear (Yellow House) together with "Forks and Knives" by Beirut (The Flying Club Cup).

(On January the fifth, aka today, I spoke only through Skype and while ordering breakfast...The English version of Firefox does not recognize the words "Swang", "Skype" and "Capuchin" ... I do not understand the reason to say "creating quite a bit of a stress", when reproaching somebody... either you bore or you don´t, either you should not or you should ... Israel should not even dare to do what it is doing... the never ending clash of ways of behaviour ... southern or northern ... mixes up with the never ending fight between the rights and the wrongs of a piece of land as big as Tuscany ... I am so discouraged
I cooked an awesome ragú ...)

Therefore, I thought that telling you of my situation would be a clear enough indication that I am totally unavailable and that any affair between you and I would not work. But, I guess I wasn't clear enough or that somehow I gave you the wrong idea...and for that I apologize also. I never ever wanted to 'play' with you..neither when we were together nor now. And, i can't help but feel guilty that you have had a hard time on my behalf.

But, as I said, I am in love with someone. That is it for me. This is the relationship that I was ready for, and somehow looking for - already when you and I met. With us, it was a case of inappropriate timing, i think. I was just coming out of a bad relationship. You were not yet over your last one. And, there was some kind of barrier between us for whatever reason. I think you are really very great and I was extremely attracted to you. We did have a very nice connection. And, the truth is, we could probably have it again. But, as it goes, things have moved in a different direction. I hope you can respect that.

Latest post alive

This next and last chapter of 2008 is ending soon. The Italian come back was altogether fine. I ll go back with the memory of the faces of my cousins´ children, two books by Magris and three by Braudel, some more kilos that I gained eating in here and a wonderful sense of belonging to there and not to here anymore.
Venice is (not) sinking is the title of a magazine; printed here from time to time it tries to hide the actual development of this (my) amazing and damned and doomed city.

Music wise it is a kind of boring period, not really keeping up with new releases. Ill do it in the next days.

Diana Krall - Love Songs
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Feist - The Reminder
Feist - Let it Die
The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams

Peace(in the Gaza strip and in Africa, first of all and to the whole of you too).

Uno ci crede anche che il tempo cura, cuce, cicatrizza e disinfetta e per la maggior parte delle giornate e dei mesi é vero...
Poi peró ci sono cose di cui non son capace, e quelle ed io cosí sono e cosí rimarranno...per quanto? Me lo sono chiesto cosí spesso che se lo faccio ancora mi sale il vomito...

sunday night in san sebastiano

I listen to Blonde on Blonde so that I may avoid to feel melancholic...

No Berlin before new year...a half emptied Venice for 5 more days instead...old friends, awesome food and a sense of growing laziness...

I have the feeling that something big will happen to me in this next 2009...

I am so relieved that this 2008 came to an end and that I am still on track...

I am not sure I will be surfing so much in the next days, so I wish all of you a pleasant end and a wonderful beginning...

Exit Interviews a sum-up

Et voilá

P J Harvey

Tired

"Boredom is the cause of everything"

Discussing does not equal behaving like parrots

Venice around 13.00 CET

I guess the thing is that my body understood the year was coming to the end and just gave up...
I am so exhausted and feel dizziness in my head since days...I called it fever but it is actually not...I would have liked to enjoy these last few days in Berlin since i am off from work(s) and studying until next year, but if I feel like the last 2 days, I guess I ll just sleep the whole day through...
Friends came over for the week-end and it has been fun: we did so much altogether...it is so easy to do stuff in this city, somehow...

Is there anybody who wants to come to the movies with me tomorrow night?

I am so tired, almost burnt out, and I guess that on top of that I am going to be sick before tonight...
I fly to Venice on the 24th...a year long away from Italy, a lot...

Take care you all.

EU2009

Fast dran

"If you have a Submariner Watch with you, the world will belong to you!"

...new frontiers of the spamming...my work addresse is oberated by shit, but some mails have so funny phrases on the "Subject" line...this one from this morning is awesome...when I read I was like:: "What?".

P.S. Submariner Watch is probably a registered trade mark, I apologize with the enterprise for the misuse: it won´t happen anymore.

The oldest and the youngsters

Three days of good purposes and 349 days of silence, a year.

More about Dostoevskij, less about Socialist planning

2 + 2 = 5

Pitseleh

I'll tell you why I don't want to know where you are
I got a joke I've been dying to tell you
The silent kid is looking down the barrel
To make the noise that I kept so quiet
I kept it from you, pitseleh

I'm not what's missing from your life now
I could never be the puzzle pieces
They say that god makes problems just to see what you can stand
Before you do as the devil pleases
And give up the thing you love

But no one deserves it

The first time I saw you, I knew it would never last
I'm not half what I wish I was
I'm so angry, I don't think it'll ever pass
And I was bad news for you, just because
I never meant to hurt you

Terms of the upcoming Czech Presidency of the EU

For those who are interested

It is not so easy to keep yourself updated with music when (1) your apple is so full that there is no place left for any extra torrent file, (2) you earn less money i.e. cannot buy so much new stuff...

So a small section of this blog, without title and completely personal, used to host a almost weekly top five of albums I had checked; now it turns into a songwise thing:
I guess the price goes to "Murder by Mistletoe" by The Felice Brothers this week...I almost cried on my wayback home on wednesday afternoon with this song, but I am very empfindlich lately...
Last week has been my "Misery is a Butterfly" week. The song "Melody" had the power to hypnotize me over and over again...
The week before that was all about this song by E.Smith and Pete Krebs: an astonishing concentrate of sadness...the way Marco likes it, you know.
Before that I guess it had been again about my personal Jesus, E. Smith, with his Demo of "Twilight"...
I had my quarter of an hour of E.Smith at the restaurant thursday and yesterday too (maybe even longer)...with the first try one girl actually started to weep a bit...too bad..but no way I am going to play Kaiser Chiefs because of that...

I thank people who post stuff or show in some other ways interest for this small blog.
Even if I am kind of skeptical of those who believe they can talk about everything because they know, I. Kant having been the very last and only one who truly could do it, I thank the anonymous about the Zizek contribution. I am listening to it.
I kindly recommend everybody to give a try to the chain of interviews George William Bush will have in the next weeks: he actually already started...you know, just for a record nowadays of what he would be able to say in 5 years.

What happens in Italy is so out of touch of any "rather functioning than not" system that I do not bother you any longer...The German Press is pretty good and objective in analyzing the Boot-country: if you know German you should read some analysis and then boycott the country (some other solutions?) and go for holiday somewhere... but I guess Croatia is not heaven as we would love to think.

I quit one job...you know in times of financial crisis I thought it was time to find myself some other form of occupation...it is going to be fine, isn`t it?

Blog readers and music makers

MilkBoy UnLabel

Tief verknalt zu sein in der Zeiten des blöden Chatten

I wonder what she does during her busy days...and I have no ideas...sometimes I wonder whether she listens to the music I recently gave her...sometimes I try to believe that she thinks about me at least a tenth of the time I do it...sometimes I just hope she is not too tired, sometimes that she is so tired and fed up that she might come back to me...then there are those few seconds when she logs in, and for those few minutes I know what she does...and I feel good and at the same time an idiot to think that this small information means anything...

Misery is a Butterfly - Blonde Redhead

I walked back from work in the cold..this album describes almost perfectly the feelings I had...such an amazing collection of songs!

I am doing very fine lately, I miss a bit the funny side of life though...

I went to the TVOTR´s gig yesterday: they are definitely the most interesting band I have seen lately...really really cool...I guess I just found the vocals kind of worse than expected...

The day before yesterday I saw Fleet Foxes...well, nice but probably a bit overrated by myself in the first place...maybe we have to wait until the next album...

I am in love with a band called Grizzly Bear. The LPs cost already so much, damned...

I am waiting for a reply from a mail I sent Sunday...

I wish you a good week

Der Goldene Hahn

There are always those who like it a lot and those who don´t...

As if I only played T. Waits, all the time...

Perché in Italia non ne parla piú nessuno, per dio?!

Anthony

I need another place.
Will there be peace?
I need another world.
This one’s nearly gone.
Still have too many dreams.
Never seen the light.
I need another world.
A place where I can go.

I’m gonna miss the sea. I’m gonna miss the snow. I’m gonna miss the bees. I’m gonna miss the trees. I’m gonna miss the sound. I’ll miss the animals. I’m gonna miss you all.

I need another place.
Will there be peace?
I need another world.
This one’s nearly gone.
I’m gonna miss the birds.
Singing all these songs.
Been kissing this so long.

Another world. Another world. Another world. Another world…

Another small big scandal

Roberto Saviano was supposed to participate yesterday or the day before to an event in Berlin...exactly as last year happened - I found out by myself today too - he could not come and assist to the premiere of a theater piece on Naples auf Sicherheitsgründe...that means because of security problems...
I hope that next time (1) the German police either motu proprio or because of an intervention of the Italian Embassy/Institut of Italian Culture (what does the Italian governemnt say?) will provide enough security to a man, as old as me, who just thought he had to describe a world of injustice and ignorance, violence and enormous amount of daily symbolic and actual shit...(2) I also hope that Mr. Saviano will tell us soon which kind of security problems he has in Berlin.
To him all my esteem, and wishes to succeed in remaining a normal 28 years old interesting and interested Italian guy...once more.

News from Czech...

Colourful, well I can say it is sometimes...but playful as well...hm...
Czech Logo

With the same sounds of feathers falling on mattresses, my thoughts slowly turn in circles..."Der Weltpresident" (so much bullshit on the German media auf einmal), Tolstoy and his anarchist tendencies, Ammaniti and his funny and weird first book, a story of cheating that never ends, the warmest Berliner November days of history...I sleep randomly, I wake up often and at the strangest times ever...I am busy in my mind and empty of small things in my soul...I think "do it yourself, share with others" is an awesome and right starting point...where are you though?

I am not sure Christmas is further enough to accomplish all the things I have to.
But I stay positive, like that old odd Streets´song

Travis - Ode to J. Smith (hmmm)
Anthony and The Johnsons - EP (Amazing)
The Felice Brothers - Ibid.
The Faint - EP (Oh My God 1.1)
Jack White and Alicia Keys - The Single (Oh My god 1.2)

Listening to italian radio ( not an indie one but anyway ) in the morning, while drinking the first coffee is such a nice moment of the day...even better if i could share it while somebody...
A good day to everybody...

A video

It is a bit pretentious to talk all the time about the politics of a country I never visited...but I think it is also the right of informed people (or at least for those who want to be informed more than the average Idontgiveasheet citizen) to evaluate and express their opinion about political events in foreign countries...even more when decisions taken there, change in many ways the quality of everybody's life...

These last 8 years of American Federal Government seemed to have had elected the most provincial people to the most powerful posts, for the worse...as opposite to that, this last never-ending primaries and main elections, which lasted too long anyway, awoke my interests, encreased my knowledge of American social cleavages, issues, news report and geography as well...I am so relieved and truly happy to have B.Obama as President of the country that attracts me since ages but I never saw so far.

I am in Barcelona, listen to C. Evora and imagine that even if the roofs of Raval look exactly the same as yesterday, a small big day is taking place...
I will enjoy my coffee a bit more anytime soon then!

Kensington Blues & Co.

There is not a lot to say, that is probably why I listen to jack Rose and find it very beautiful.
I have been working too much, probably...
I ll be in Barcelona on monday morning for a couple of days...
I do not need vacation, actually, I need some tenderness and a bit of intimacy...

A nice week-end to the whole of you.

Wassuuuup

friday night on a sleeve...

I am 28 years old and am just the why I am...

I escape hypocrisy and pop culture, I love LPs and indie radio stations, real Merlot and contemporary British writers...

Aufgabe: finden was dran nicht passt

Ein Bild

We know that it cannot keep him safe, but at least these few bites will hopefully have some effects on rotting Italy...

Roberto Saviano is under death threats for denouncing the criminal deeds of the Camorra in his book Gomorra, translated and read all over the world. His freedom is under threat as well as his autonomy as a writer, his chances to meet his family, to enjoy a social life, to take part in public life, to travel in his own country.

A young writer, guilty of having investigated organized crime, revealing its methods and its structure, is forced to live a hidden, underground life, while the Camorra bosses send him death threats from prison ordering him to stop writing for his newspaper, La Repubblica, and to keep silent.

The State must make every effort to protect Saviano and to defeat the Camorra. But this is not a mere police case. It's a problem of democracy. Saviano's freedom and safety concerns everyone of us as citizens.

Signing this appeal we intend to take charge of it, as a personal commitment, urging the State at the same time to assume its responsibilities because it's intolerable that something like this can happen in Europe in 2008.

DARIO FO
MIKHAIL GORBACIOV
GUNTHER GRASS
RITA LEVI MONTALCINI
ORHAN PAMUK
DESMOND TUTU

Sign here

Endorsement number 2.345.987, probably...

Neva Dinova - You May Already Be Dreaming
Josephine Foster - Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You
The Dodos - Visiter
Mogwai - (EP whose name I do not know)
CSS - CSS

Probably talking shit on politics and driving a car too fast are two events not interrelated at all...anywho and anyhow...

Menthally embalanced

Small accomplishments and never ending everyday life loops...

I listen to "The Gun Club" but I am not sure I shall do it again any soon...
I learnt how to switch on the dinamo on my bike with a foot, while I cycle not handling the bar...uh?...take that...!
I stopped smoking four weeks ago....baaaam!
I work at the restaurant: so boring....
I work in an office, where I fill Excel files in and write mails.....boring...
My holydays are not paid, my bed is double and I always sleep alone, my guitar does not weep at all, my back hurts, my neighbours are badly sick ...
...but I keep on listening music...

TV On The Radio - Dear Science (Amazingly modern)
Lambchop - Oh
Blonde Redhead - 23 (Again, mostly because of the song "SW")
Calexico - Carried to Dust
Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs (Bootleg n.8)
Kings of Leon - Only By The Night

I cannot get rid of the wonder when I think she has been directly voted in Alaska...

Ms Bromberg and nightlife in Kreuzberg on wednesday

Tonight I wanted really badly and managed to meet the only girl who drove me really crazy for a while this last year...I wanted to meet her mostly because I thought it would have been better to talk to her first and not to meet her by chance...but I also wanted to see her, just that...in the end I had a lot of red wine, no food, went to a birthday party and realized it is so much about timing, my dears...and I am not talking about mortgage or the financial investments...timing with biological needs, life achievements, drinking levels, acquaintance with compromise and need of company...

I am lonely, I live with Marthe, I wake up when I have to work...and I love to buy presents for people I love...

I am so lonely somehow...in a irreparable way....