Mogwai says: “Hardcore will never die, but you will.” Scooter agrees.
Ein Teil der Wand zwischen ihnen wurde durchgebrochen, vermutlich mit dem Vorschlaghammer, die Bruchstellen wurden nicht verschalt, sondern an ihrer rohen Oberfläche verspachtelt und gestrichen. Der Durchgang ist nicht eckig sondern bogenförmig und bröckelig wie die Seiten eines Minenschachts, aber eben verspachtelt und gestrichen. Andere Teile der beiden [more]
To no surprise, I have come to realize that I have many amazing women in my life. Women that have overcome incredible hardships or are going through them as we speak. Women that chose a life of security that comes with tons of commitment, honor, love, energy and [more]
Are you a leader? Are you in charge of a team in your company or organisation? Then you might know these management strategies: Top Down, Down-up, Management by exception and so on. And you will probably have heard that a good manager delegates tasks. It’s good for the [more]
Can You Share A Line Of Coke, Please? For A Lost And Angry Dope Fiend? Have You Ever Heard Of Dolpins? Getting High Like Post Rich Golf Teens? XIV II XIV I II III
Keine Sorge, ich habe Geld, für einen Monat reicht es. Vier Etagen weiter oben gibt es zwei freie Räume mit Aussicht, die mieten wir. Ich werde sie mieten. Du kommst jeden Morgen zur Arbeit, du arbeitest für mich, ich zahle. Wir haben unsere Arbeit verloren, es ist nichts [more]
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.
A few nights ago, I read a story I wrote for the launch of Block Magazin at a gallery in Berlin. As is customary to disclose, I informed the audience that the story had been translated from English – the language in which I write – into German. [more]
Habe ich mich um nichts, als das Aufstellen und Niederschmettern von Kriterien gekümmert, stand mir vielleicht nicht zu, meine Verantwortung mit so viel Selbstvertrauen zu tragen, war die Entscheidung gar nicht meine, haben wir die Bewegungen derweil abstürzen lassen, haben wir unsere Stelle verloren, halten wir nun unsere [more]
Mussafah, United Arab Emirates. I had seen these faces before. But only in the cosy environments of art history classes or museums. Käthe Kollwitz or George Grosz drew the faces of workers in Germany in the early twentieth century: haggard, empty faces, to exhausted to protest their exploitation. And [more]
When my grandfather passed away, his daughter decided to move into a temple and join the vietnamese buddhist association. I was thirteen, when my mother left us. She shaved her long black hair and put a grey cape over her shoulders and moved in the buddhist pagode in [more]
Feeling offended by stereotypes that indirectly concern my identity, I decided to fight against my own stereotypes. The first step to fight against stereotypes is to be aware of the fact that you’re going to think or react according to a particular stereotype. This may help to avoid [more]
Pro-motion #3: OK, I don’t have like mines & valleys filled with this precious & in-apprehensible thing called time. test test, WAVETEST. So I just tell you a short story about what’s going on in a distinct district close by, just over by the 3rd bridge, where the [more]
Wachendorf, Germany. Germany landscapes are very orderly. Village is village and field is field. It is prohibited to build outside of the boundaries of villages, and thus the fields and forests are more or less free from any scattered buildings. Only very small structures may be built in the [more]
Things didn’t get better on my way back to Zurich, when I was sitting next to Algerian asylum seekers. They didn’t have a train ticket. They were drunk. They asked everybody for money and every woman for a romantic dinner. The train police had to come. They told [more]
achtung: alle analog, synthese, maschinen- und sequenzer-sexuellen menschen unter uns musik liebenden: heute abend spielen wavetest aus liechtenstein & züri von der zuki & der drumpoet community in der ladybar. das ist live hausmusik mit dem gewissen boogie und das alles vom feinsten. dazu gibt es ohne weiteres noch [more]
Sweet voice: “Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix…one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, lady, buy, lady, one dollar!” A voice with an accent “No, thank you.” Sweeter “One dollar, lady, postcard one dollar.” Voice a little bit nervous “No, no.” [more]
Paris, France. In a typical Parisian street in the fifteenth arrondissement there is a house that people enter knowing that this is the last place they will live in. The hospice is located in an old, but slightly run down building. Behind it is a small garden with [more]
While traveling to Lausanne, I was sitting next to a “modern” Moroccan couple. At the beginning of our common train ride, they were focused on their smart phone. Each of them had the newest version of the Samsung Galaxy SX and was staring at it as if their [more]
Rilke says: «Don’t take away my demons because my angels will depart as well.»
Yesterday someone on facebook contacted me. Something bad happened to a woman, that I am friends with. She tried to commit suicide. This leads me think about death. If people don’t want to live anymore, actually what is wrong about deciding not to live anymore? I know what [more]
Or you can think about a dark and grey building called „The White Building“. The housing complex has space for over 400 homes and was originally built for social housing and used for artist residences in the 60s. It has turned grey with time and events. It is stretched [more]
Merkato, Ethiopia. Merkato is the busiest place I know. If economy is defined as the flow of goods and services than this is an extreme example. Within an area of not more than a square kilometre there are hundreds of thousands of people doing business. Small, very small business, [more]
Start oder Ende einer Bewegung, oder ihr Kreuzen eines bestimmten Punktes, stösst weitere Bewegungen an, das weiss jedes Kind. Heute also im Stadtbad, statt im Büro. Es (unsere) wären keine ordentlichen Bewegungen gewesen, folgten ihrem plötzlichen Ende nicht eine Reihe neuer Bewegungen. Trotzdem nicht auszuschliessen, die Bewegung ohne [more]
“let the music do the talking..” like laid back. click on the bazaar if you want to hear that music. that simple.
“Do you remember what I told you to forget?” (Foreign Correspondent Club, January 31st, 23:60)
Muscat, Oman. There are two things I miss in Muscat: public spaces and exhibition spaces. Where would be an urban outdoor place for temporary events that is accessible for all? We were looking for such a place in vain, when we wanted to exhibit some delicately constructed models that [more]
I went to the ER this evening because of a pain in my left eye. The eye doctor on duty, a young bespectacled fellow with an extravagant quiff of blonde hair, wanted to test my vision by making me read a series of ascending odd and even numbers. [more]
Tiefer musst du fallen, so tief, dass du im Spiegel dich selbst nicht erkennst, warte nicht darauf, bis dich das Alter entstellt, vergiss deine hübschen Pläne, mach dich kaputt. In unserer Branche sagen sie es auch. Geh auf die Strasse und leg dich hin, öffne das Fenster und [more]
Have you ever dreamed the dreamers dream? I know a place close by, where dream and reality verge to each other like day and night time. It’s hard to differ but also pointless. Either you’re having lucid dreams or reality is like a dream itself. You can choose one [more]
Will be still be able to celebrate immigrants who won an Olympic medal for Switzerland in a couple of years? Fight again mass stupidity!
Or wouldn’t they build like this to prevent the houses from being flooded during the rainy season we wondered. But as a matter of fact these houses sit on stilts, so that the Nagas can pass under them – protective snakes that are often depicted shielding the Enlightened [more]
Tutzing, Germany. It could have been a dream project. The client: a former CEO of a bank who had just retired on a substantial severance package. The place: a sloping ground by the lakeside south of Munich with view of the lake embedded in smoothly undulating hills; the [more]
The cafeteria in Building A of the Gesundheits- und Sozialzentrum Moabit (GZSM), where refugees arrive to complete the first stage of the asylum process, knows its clientele. On Monday, the “World Food” lunch option consists of Rinderroulade Hausfrauen Art, Apfelrotkraut, Klösse (beef roulade à la housewife, apple red [more]
The Notwist say: “Fail with consequence, lose with eloquence and smile.”
(I know we agreed not to dwell in unknown places but…) He has a wonderful, round belly. No neck. And big ears. He sometimes pulls them away with one of his four hands so he can hear you better. (In India they say that you can whisper your problem [more]
Hooray! Felix Loch went Gold in Sotschi. Are you watching the olympic games in Russia? A friend of mine used to be an olympic athlete. His name is Kofi, and he belonged to world’s best long jumpers. He jumped more than 8 meters. He had the sex appeal [more]
Wälzen sie sich nicht unter dem Wochenende wie kalte Gewässer, die zum Montag und zur Oberfläche strömen. Im Gegenteil, soweit ich spüren kann, ist es ein warmer Abend, und es waren warme Nächte seit Freitag, oder es war das Schmerzmittel. Die Zehen sind blau, beim Aufprall haben sie [more]
Ping pong balls? MoL’s lips are sealed. Psalm 119:9 {Magnificent Purity} February 10, 2012; 20 Comments This morning (like before breakfast!) I put a bowl in front of the kids. I told them it was them – their heart and their mind. We began to talk about what [more]
Auf der Sylvesterparty, die das Jahr 1995 einläutete, bekam ich armes Schwein den geilsten und perversesten Blow-Job meines Lebens verpasst. Shoshi war erkältet und ging früh nach Hause. Da war diese ziemlich geil gebaute Fußballerin, die ich mit dem altbewährten “Wow, bist du kräftig/Armdrücken”-Trick ins Treppenhaus lockte. Sie [more]
Hörte ich meinen Namen von oben. Bin ich aus der Büroetage gestürzt.
Lange geschwiegen und meine Arbeit gemacht und nichts zu sagen gehabt. Aber jetzt kann ich nicht länger auf dem Mund sitzen. Ich schäme mich für meine alte Heimat, die gerade drauf und dran ist, sich selbst ins Ausland zu schießen. Am kommende Wochenende kann sie es verhindern. Ich [more]
Have you ever experienced difficulties to wake up in the morning? Have you ever ignored the snooze function of your smart phone? Yesterday, I thought to have found THE solution: the intelligent alarm function of my Samsung Galaxy Advanced. It’s so intelligent that it starts very smoothly to [more]
This is my subway story. 1986. Berlin Wall still there. S-Bahnstation Humboldthain. I was standing in front of the ticket machine. No money, no jacket, no mobile phone (they haven’t been invented yet). I must have been 9 years old or so. Tears ran over my cheeks. I [more]
Have you ever paid to argue about any thing? Not the suffi kind of paying for receiving (I know, every good or bad thing has its price before hand). I’m talking dead presidents for an argument or two. Have you ever learned moves without behaviour? Or hanged yourself [more]
Wie immer die vier Etagen hochsteigen müssen, ins Büro. Besonders leicht heute, vielleicht war ich in Gedanken. Auf einmal vor meinem Schreibtisch, eben noch auf der ersten Stufe oder Zuhause im Bett. Gar nicht so sauber und frisch, nachdem der Moment im Bett sich mit dem Moment am [more]
What’s wrong with purity balls? One virgin’s perspective I (Daughter’s Name)’s Father, choose before God to war for my daughter’s purity. I acknowledge myself as the authority and protector of my daughter’s virginity, and pledge to be a man of integrity as I lead, guide, and pray over my [more]
I grew up just a few hundred meters from the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church, the most distinctive feature of West Berlin’s silhouette. The church bookends the city’s former main shopping artery, the Ku’damm. It is visible from our street corner, except in summer, when the trees obscure the [more]
But what if you’ve been born into a uniculturally oriented multicultural family? And if you don’t feel equally comfortable in both branches because you’re not familiar enough with the culture and because you’re not able to communicate equally well in both languages. And, importantly, if your family expects [more]
Multiculturalism: one culture, two cultures, three countries, four (potential) languages. I am not sure how to think about multiculturalism. If both branches of your family are multicultural, then great. If both branches are unicultural, mmhhhh. It depends on how much you identify yourself with each branch. It depends [more]
I’ll tell you a story now. The story of a generation that gets easily overlooked and technically isn’t even a generation at all. Why does it get snubbed? Because it’s a fortunate generation, a generation of great promise, ambitions and privilege. There’s a tendency not to think about people [more]
Fünfunddreissig Wände, zehn Toiletten, sechs Säulen … ich sagte, ich muss mich auf dich verlassen können, Jémand. Seit ich mich nur noch mit dem Einen beschäftige, hältst du die Bewegungen in deiner Hand. Ich bin nicht sicher, ober er das verstanden hat, wir sprechen nicht einmal dieselbe Sprache, [more]
I recently quit my contract with my fitness studio. Imagine, I have been a member since I was 18. That’s exactly half of my life, and I still don’t look like an athlete. Actually the most important thing for me is to have a flat belly. When I [more]
Tennesse Williams says: “In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
I like Roman numbers especially ten. X looks like a letter for voting, kissing and seeing through (ray vision) . ‘On my 4th birthday I’m going to be ten’ says O for Olive and I laugh because she is serious and because choosing an age to be makes [more]
You really become aware of the hours in the day, the days of your life and the years in a human life time in the waiting room of a doctor’s office. For reasons I have never understood, a waiting room always seems to have a clock that ticks [more]
Some Swiss guy has written a semi-literary thriller that is taking the welt by storm, the title of which no one can remember. Set in the US but written in French. He is being touted as the “coolest Swiss export since FED”. Not cool. Back to the drawing [more]