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

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