All Picks posted by Jens-Christian Rabe
David Denby says: “Cheap nihilism offers its own kind of pleasure.”
The american poet, publisher, drug addict, gambler and heir Harry Grew Crosby was wedded to Mary Phelps Jacob, inventor of the first modern bra. In 1929 he wired from Paris to his father, a Boston investment banker: „Please sell $10,000 worth of stock. We have decided to live [more]
Mogwai says: “Hardcore will never die, but you will.” Scooter agrees.
Talking about priceless pop verses you need to learn german for consider Trio once said: “Wenn du denkst, dass ich Angst hab’, leck mich erst mal am Arsch.” Rest in peace Kralle Krawinkel.
The Notwist say: “Fail with consequence, lose with eloquence and smile.”
Tennesse Williams says: “In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
European vs. American Philosophy: Theodor W. Adorno says: “Fun is a bath of steel.” But Lady Gaga sings: “If it’s not rough, it isn’t fun.”
André Aciman says: “If over the years they (Marcel Proust and his live-in housekeeper Céleste Albaret) developed a certain affection, neither would ever have dared call it love. But love it must have been. Not the love of a servant or of a master, not the love of [more]
Newsweek once said: “Most Humor has the shelf life of milk, but terror never goes out of style.”
Mary Poppins says: “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.”
The Dutch anthropologist Joris Luyendijk asked London bankers, traders and brokers what they do regret the most about their job. Many of them answered: That they once had been loyal to a bank they worked for. No bank happened to be loyal to them later on.
A veteran holiday resort host says: German tourists very much act like their own cliché. They really reserve their sun lounger early in the morning and they like to live ecologically aware even on vacation in Egypt. That’s why there is waste separation in so many Egyptian hotels. [more]
Tomi Ungerer on what it takes to be successful: “Discipline, pragmatism, enthusiasm.”
Today I like the idea of being the worst enemy of my own prejudices.
Pharrell says: “Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof / Clap along if you feel like happiness is a truth.”
Eugene Allen, a White House butler for more the 30 years, says: “The room must feel empty when you’re in it.” Shouldn’t we remember that next time someone babbles about that contemporary fetish named charisma?
Don Winslow says: “I’ve lost the ability to be shocked long ago.” Is that a good thing? Or just unconditional surrender?
Ernst Bloch said: “I just know Karl May and Hegel. Everything else is just an impure mixture between the two of them.”