Halley Galley

Lullaby by The Halley

Times are on a changing....

My assistent is to leave the office: she got a job offer for a full time position.
Looking for a new one. It is going to be tight ´cause of my plan for holidays...
Need to get a good one.

Pet sounds

Let's go away for a while

From Human Rights Watch

After Friday's carnage, it is no longer enough to condemn the violence. Faced with the Syrian authorities' ‘shoot to kill' strategy, the international community needs to impose sanctions on those ordering the shooting of protesters.

Here more

Voilá

Verpasst: Festival

Gründonnerstag

Fleet Foxes are recorded live on BBC ( audio only ) but in Germany they are not available....rather annoying....
here if your server is not in Gerentodeutschland,,,

Listening to the Bonus Tracks of Veckatimest, which are rather beautiful and craftmanship like....
A great band.

TV on the Radio´s last album is bad reviewed...three tracks made my days at least twice in the last week...so I do not agree...und es ist auch gut so....

My room available: spread the word

AIRBNB

Death Cab for Cuties´ new track

Death Cab for Cutie - Some Boys by ATL REC.

European Public Policy Blog: Google to invest in German solar power plant

European Public Policy Blog: Google to invest in German solar power plant

My room in Neukölln

From May 20th through June 16th you can have my room in Neukölln Berlin.
The apartment is 110sqm. On the 4th floor, it has bathtub, wifi and phone, washing machine, fridge and all you need.
The room is 20sqm. Two windows and a balcony heading east (around 4 sqm.)

Option 1: Room swap
You live in New York and want to come in Berlin at the end of May. We swap your room or apartment in the Big Apple with my room: I would be in N.Y. only from June 10th to June 17th while you could stay here for the whole period (May 20th to June 16th).
No cost for you in this case.

Option 2: Room rent
Price is 450€ to be paid half in advance and half at your arrival.

Here attached you can see some photos of both the room and the apartment.

In case you are interested, mail me.

Self consciousness does not bring me resolution.

Conscious as I am of the deprecable state of my working activities and of my social life, I nevertheless do not get to the next step of taking active steps to counter act it...

A thousand thougts a day keep me company...I could be anything, I would like to be this or that or both, it is a matter of minutes and the version will change, the priorities slide away and the inaction increase...

Self destroying is it not, rather preserving my schizophrenic attitude towards myself and life in general...

I changed the layout of this aweful blog...until I learn to XHTML properly ( here used as a verbal form like google) there is nothing better I can offer...

Awesome: eight cars and a house in Ireland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFOpifdJXcs

Worth a try

Nyt about a Marco other than me
Here

New band of the week of mine

Propaghandi

Freedom to dissent

Super good or super shallow? Franzen
After half of it I'd rather go for the first one...

Literature Festival upcoming on the Spree

E. Forcella: 1500 Lettori e un giornalista

"Un giornalista politico, nel nostro paese(Italia), puo’ contare su circa millecinquecento lettori: i ministri e i suoi sottosegretari (tutti), i parliamentari (parte), i dirigenti di partito, sindacalisti, altri prelati e qualche industriale che vuole mostrarsi informato. Il resto non conta, anche se il giornale vende 300 copie. Prima di tutto non e’ accertato che i lettori comuni leggano le prima pagine dei giornali, e in ogni caso la loro influenza e’ minima. Tutto il sistema e’ organizzato sul rapporto tra il giornalista politico e quel gruppo di lettori privilegiati."

Da leggere anche qui.
Anche il Blog di Stille é da guardare.

Miss Misery

one of those Elliott Smith evening...

Thanks you, Colbert Nation

Chuck Close

Berlin Wall

New numbers

NaziMarsch in Hannover

The paradoxical logic behind is rather having a nazi demonstration than calling up more police officers from other states...
So bad it has become....NaziMarsch in Hannover...

Invincible, a couple of years ago

...you know how people say: love is the answer....but what the fuck is the question?

New Book

Pennacchi

South American neighbours

A good piece of news.
VEN - COL

Germany and die Angst vor Google Maps

Street View finally in Germany possible...by the end of the year
Hier

Foreigners abroad, guests in Germany

International Spiegel

Adesso

Moni Ovadia sull´Unitá

Unidentified Fucking Odd

The best way to invest time and resources in EP ever, Mr Borghezio. Chapeau.
Borghezio and UFO.

Italy and foreign students.

as big as this

Butcher in the Reihe

Spiegel in english here

Editorial NYT

Germany and the Old Continent

Spiegel International on the Ipad, Mr. Jobs and alike

der Spiegel

Lufthansa´s frequent flyers

This and that

If only the Italian minister of tourism could think about education.....
Since nobody else does...
I think that the worst is approaching with amazing speed....and as my most beloved grandfather used to say when pissed, there is some of it for everybody...you just need to wait for it, lazy people...

leggi qui

Russia center south

Pretty interesting

OK GO

Pretty cool and pretty strange I had not seen it yet....

Avoid the stones while taking photos, if you can, dude

How is to make money out of anti capitalism hot spots?
Spiegel International on the most stressy day in Berlin.
Here

Greacy...

Die kulturelle Dürst Italiens zu bekämpfen!
Chapeaux!

HMPF

Do you want to read my SMS or scroll my Contact list?

I miss that feeling and all that comes because of it...

Der Spiegel on Mr.B

He, himself and him

Percorso netto o quasi.
Death penalty and execution in Europe

Caro Ordine,

sempre e comunque troppo tardi, dal mio punto di vista.
Cappellle di Feltri

K.P.

Nichts ist zuhause wie zuhause

Leopardi, not an operating system

Le Ricordanze

Hmpf

Oh my God

Such a pity

Apart form reducing conversation to a series of click, and inducing people to be lazy surfers and to communicate with a shorter version of their shrinking communicative abilities, Facebook killed the habit of many of writing blogs...I just relaized that the few ones I still have hyperlinked on my blog do not exist anymmore since at least one year...

If you are not looking for a flat or a room in city other than yours, and if you do not want to play the mafia game or sell a toaster, well start typing sentences again, you know...those periods with subjects, verbs, descriptions and the subtle wish that the reader has some few minutes of patience to get through your thoughts for the good of feeling closer to somebody else...

Hard to believe but truth

The most read article on the guardian online...
Tampon and V-word

New York Findings

The gentle side of a famous unknown man

Un gentiluomo di meno

Pissed in the metro in the morning

Reading the monday version of the International Herald Tribune this morning, I bumped into an article written where it was easily explained how it is completely impossible not to send troops to Afghanistan if you want to be a good ally of the US.
Not just to save the Afghani people but to keep ourselves safe and secure...
I cannt stand this rethoric anymore....someday somebody will need to explain us why all these military did not emprove the situation in the last 9 years....which are almost 120 months....
Have done with being so rhetoric, US media, and think that some people may see the Afghan war in a different way.

Olympic games though few rights

SI

Yes!!!

Diglielo tu che torneró

Nilla Pizzi
Video Clip ante litteram

Vola, colomba bianca, vola,
diglielo tu che tornerá.

Dio del ciel se fossi una colomba
vorrei volar laggiù dov'è il mio amor,
che inginocchiata a San Giusto
prega con l'animo mesto:
Fá che il mio amore torni, ma torni presto.

Vola, colomba bianca, vola,
diglielo tu che tornerò.
Dille che non sarà più sola
e che mai più la lascerò.

Fummo felici uniti e ci han divisi,
ci sorrideva il sole, il cielo e il mar.
Noi lasciavamo il cantiere
lieti del nostro lavoro
e il campanon din don ci faceva il coro.

Vola, colomba bianca, vola,
diglielo tu che tornerò.
Dille che non sarà più sola
e che mai più la lascerò.

Tutte le sere m'addormento triste
e nei miei sogni piango e invoco te.
Pure el mi vecio te sogna
pensa alle pene sofferte
piange e nasconde il viso tra le coperte.

Vola, colomba bianca, vola.
Dio del ciel diglielo tu

Italian Court Convict 3 Google Executives

CEI o non CEI

Quando anche i preti fanno lo scaricabarile

Venezianischer Umzug

This very early morning a transportation company takes all our stuff out of Venice...and brings it far away....23rd February 2010...and I listen to Califone - Krill....while looking at the rain outside before going to work....

A New version of Mc Ewan´s Amsterdam

Pillows and Painful

DBAI: Don´t Be An Idiot

Out of town, out of situation, out of friendships, out of memories....
Out of continent?
Lost in no translation issue...

Zuschauer

Audiences and events

Evil

Crazy and so aweful I have no words...

OK Go - Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (Wonderful Title btw)
Efterklang - Parades
Beach House - Teen Dream
Beach House - Devotion (from November)
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (idem)
James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing (grazie Matté!)
Jack Rose - Jack Rose (2006, probably my favourite)
Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement ( from October, thank you, dudeeee!)
Midlake - Bamnan and Silvercock (danke, Pieter!)
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther (idem)
Jimmy Smith - Different stuff but a lot again
Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter (Awesome Title track btw)
Black Keys - Blakroc
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Finale - A Pipe Dream and a Promise

and many many others...

Song of the Week: Talk Show Host - Radiohead (1994?)

Im memoriam of Jack Rose

He died way too young. Such a pity. Such a loss. Such beautiful finger picking tracks....
Damn´!

USA - RUSSIA

Nuclear Arms

Rom rom rom rom....rom is definitely a woman, is definitely out of time, like the bunch of public clocks reminding you all the time when you walk around: you cannot found two of them telling you it is the same time...even if slightly different, the time they point is another....and in the end whether the time is slightly different or very different it is the same, so it is wrong to ask yourself too much....

Bavarian horny police man

Sex and the holy spirit

Curious

Back to Venice

Hmpf
T.G.Ash on Poland, Poles and British nationalists

Venice

10th on the chart of all times

NY Times

so cool

interesting

...

Number 500 for Poland

Heiße Musik im kalten Krieg

Repubblica

Tra mozioni ed emozioni

The Shy Chef

Christmas reading

A first list which I chose thanks to google news and thanks to the fact i did not read any of those books.
A second list, which I read myself in the last Economist issue.
There is also a third one, which gives a kind of too long list.
Or just listen to this for a second

56 times

BLU in B. Aires and Baden

....cause thank to this Mister B. thinks he has more chances to grab a Nobel Prize too...lately it does work.....
Apart from that what has he not already achieved...?
BBC

...Like an overplayed Blur song, once more feeling out of time, out of tune, out of place and silently lonely, i.e. still in love with the past...

...

Sinking to a low

A Christian Conservative and a never-faced-an-election British politician...Europe and the complex of inferiority on NYT

Dalle brigate rosse ad Abu Omar

A noble man

Fresh air

New Museum in Rome

Barzelletta alla fine

Herr Rossi

Crazy charts

What tha fuck....

Hmpf

Wall and Poetry

After the Nan Goldin exhibit..

Anne Arbus discovered

How cool is that!

MauerBlocks

Iron Man from Slovenia

Very simple, refusing to stop

For Blair, against Balkenende

The numbering of articles of the EU Treaties changed three times in less than twenty years...as far as I recall it is easier to say those articles whose number did not change than the other way round...I asked myself on what exactly were the french and the dutch asked to vote for...and what about with the Irish, twice....what are we supposed nowadays to stand for...? For a process started with good intensions but become a huge pachydermic animal, able to decide what is a third of the national parliaments of the 27 members state of the union, but unable to give a highly profiled political post to someody able to create some hype...

European Union is often referred as an unstoppable process, though slow and full of drawbacks, but for the good....being not stoppable looks nowadays the only thing many fans of the EU could be proud of...