H E R B I E N I C H O L S

Deutschland - France

Another first place for the Danes

Bosnia and Namibia, among others scoring better....

Ausstellung auf der Auguststr.

Nico, his camera but also a 1st of May and lots of beer.

Using A Packing List :: One Bag

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There is the way you walk through this life, with its duties and its chances, and the way you think about yourself in that process....the best ones are those for whom the difference is not too big...in my case the gap is so big that it screams aloud every time I am back home...
I should believe I could give myself another chance...a defeat is most of the time better than a tied up...
Yours

M U S I C

The Black Heart Procession - Six
Rain Machine - ibid
Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper
The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves
Antlers - Hospice
The Felice Brothers - Yonder is the Clock
Soulsavers - Broken

Awesome

This is just a try

This is the first try with the sidewiki.

in reference to: Matador Records (view on Google Sidewiki)

10 Questions: no answer. 1 question: 10 different answers

Preziosi ritrovamenti lo-fi

Old stuff

Today has been Newsweek

Another article on the series "The whole world journalism is part of a communist plot againt him"

IDTLO

I do think less of people voting for Mr. Berlusconi
I do think less of guys stinking at 8.30 on Monday morning
I do think less of women wearing fur
I do think less of people thinking less of not vegetarian people
I do think less of punks begging for money with Nike shoes on
I do think less of people talking about what they posted on Facebook

Though no Ribbentropp-Molotov Pact, as the Polish Foreign Minister says, this new North Stream is not the best solution ever, to let the Central European feel they are as worth as the Werstern...
Where is the EU Energy Policy gone then?
NYTimes on pipelines

The new geographies of German Politics

New alliances, old habits, wrong comparison...
Cohn-Bendit rightly outrage...no Jamaica needed in Germany

Google Books and Merkel

Not so on her side

The Drones live yesterday...Copenhagen, I am coming today...the Ipod is getting nuts...
...Not sure to be able to hide it forever...

...Thinking about following the travel tips given by the gmail interface...
...today it was Amsterdam...yesterday holiday inn in Brno...

Three hundred thousands / 68 millions makes...

...not even one percent...
...disaster...

Getting ready for the 3rd of October

The Gentle Side of me and you

There is all that music and those comics we never talked about
There is all those moments we did not share
There is your idea of me and my idea of you
which run away from each other
every hour
a tiny step further
while I feel like there is no word,
nor gesture
no sentence
nor gaze
to heal this misunderstanding between us

Living Room 3.0.1

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
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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

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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...