I’m starting to loose my voice. time for salvia and quality music. no fancy post today, just a little pro motion: don’t be afraid, come to ladybar for any kind of jackin’, head bangin’, bouncin’ or just foolin’ around. Neevo is here (if you say quality balearic & house music, I say [more]
Est-ce que l’on sait où l’on va? Jacques le Fataliste et son maître, Diderot
Beginnen wir mit einer guten Nachrichten für alle, die Sex mögen: Erektion ist ein Menschenrecht! Und aus diesem Grund darf kein Unternehmen ein Patent auf Pillen wie Viagra haben. Lange Zeit hat Pfizer einen Vorteil aus dem Leid von vielen Männern (und Frauen) gezogen. Pfizer hat sein Monopol [more]
I can’t stop now I have accepted the challenge to write 60 chapters on whatever for whoever. I was invited by Sandra Bartoli whose essays on the Tiergarten were so riveting that I read them in one sitting. A hard act to follow. I mulled over what to [more]
Or did I already have this silent prejudice before really thinking about it? While I am travelling, indulging myself in a flirt with exotism, my mind is travelling into phrases, losing itself in gloomy flowery encounters of wished-for wonders. Where is the play with thoughts in all these [more]
MoL says the BBC is a terrible institution which has been making awful programmes for years and pretending we all like them. It is run by senior executives and middle-management who speak the language of bureaucrats, achieve consensus by committee and replace product with organisation. There are no [more]
Geert Mak: In Europa. Complex circumstances can best be described through simple structures. One of my design teachers told me that when you are stuck with a difficult matter make a sketch of it every hour, it will clear up things for you. Similar frames are set by [more]
I commercialize my thoughts by expressing one after another. When I have commercialized myself hollisticaly into this infinite allness, the rest of my wrappings will be blown into the wild and open sea where we will all meet again in an area of vasted vastness, filled with glorified [more]
Der Raum ist derselbe, alles, was sich darin verändert hat, bleibt mir verschlossen, vermute ich. Vielleicht hat der Luftzug eine Blume gedreht, einer mit seinem Mantel ein Plakat gestreift. Vielleicht fehlt die eine Wand. Staub. Dann betritt einer den Raum und fühlt sich ein. Die Gefühle ermatten. Seine [more]
Tonight I had a precious phone call. I didn’t expect this person to call me. And even less what she asked me. She wondered what I was doing in my life. Strange phone call I thought. She wondered what would be the next step. And then I told [more]
Und als dann der leicht besoffene, fast zwei Meter große Basketballer-Crack Dan Vojgel bei irgend einer bescheuerten Tanzparty meine Shoshi kurzerhand auf einen Stuhl hob, damit sie endlich mal gleichgroß waren und er sich beim Tanzen nicht andauernd zu ihr runterbeugen musste, wir alle auf den Boden fielen [more]
Whenever I hear someone exclaim enthusiastically: “There’s an app for that!”, I go a little ballistic inside. Yes, there very likely is an app for it – and that is exactly what’s fundamentally wrong with the concept of “developer-friendly” software platforms like iOS or Android. They’re supposed to [more]
Kate Moss HBx40 lol MoL and its affiliate Museum of the Unrequited
How many goals in the history of the world? How many fucks? How many wanks? MoL’s Berlin correspondent calculates that the latter (teenage testosterone) may outnumber the former by maybe as much as 10-1. MoL thinks even 20-1. It’s a lonely business. Heard at a football match, screamed [more]
What is really at stake is one’s image of oneself (J-L Godard, quoted in How German Is It? by Walter Abish)
Robert Gernhardt: Gesammelte Gedichte. There are endless, and futile, attempts to define quality in design (or lets rather say in anything we make). The easy ways out are to either find a safe ground on hard facts and restrict the verdict to judging by counting, or to seek [more]
– 58 110 000 000 Chickens – 2 817 000 000 Ducks – 1 383 000 000 Pigs – 654 000 000 Turkeys – 649 000 000 Geese and Guinea fowl – 517 000 000 Sheep – 430 000 000 Goats – 296 000 000 Cattle – 24 [more]
At least once a week I’m completely lost during two hours: “Every mode consists of two tetrachords. The names of the modes may be the same than the tetrachords. In between tetrachords you have trichords and pentachords that may share the same names than the modes (not always [more]
In the last days of my 60days I reconsidered what my father said at the beginning, about sharing information publicly like we do here and the danger that might come with it. Well I still wouldn’t go so far to talk about danger, but I did question myself [more]
When I walked along the beach in San Francisco in 2012 I have seen so many young people who slept there, obviously they were sort of homeless, but somehow not suffering from living without a shelter. In the streets you see selfmade cardboards serving as temporary mini homes [more]
Vor einer Woche habe ich Werner rekrutiert und die Nachricht an alle Abteilungen gegeben. Zwei Tage später erfahre ich, dass Werner in Wahrheit Berndt heisst. Das sagt nicht er selbst sondern Enzner, der im Keller gearbeitet hat, zusammen mit Berndt. Enzner sagt, Kowalski wundere sich, warum statt Berndt [more]
Recently I asked a drummer slash producer about the best jazz drummer there is, dead or alive. I can’t remember what he said but I still recall that most of the mentioned players were already gone. But still, some of them are alive: Take Chris Dave (used to be [more]
Hot news. Following MoL’s revelation that Nigella Lawson is really Russell Brand, it reports a sensational drop in ratings for episode two of The Taste, down from 1.8 million to one million, representing an audience share of 4.2 percent, whereas MoL’s Big Balls channel regularly attracts viewers in [more]
With so much choice now, MoL operates a policy of no choice. MoL will watch anything these days, even Nigella’s The Taste. Last week a kid broke down and wept on being rejected and Saint Nigella, for that is what she is, said, “He’s just a child!” and [more]
MoL is so sad these days that it has become a fan of Strictly Come Dancing. It likes the big spangly glitter balls, the silly costumes, the senile presenter, the show-off judges. Strictly Come Dancing is the Alpha Course set to music. Life-changing, life-affirming, touchy-feely, dance your way [more]
doo oo oo yeah a but I try and tell ’em straight, tell ’em a wrestle my hand doo oo oo yeah a simmer down my darling… I hope yeah doo oo oo yeah I don’t put down a crossing lines doo oo oo yeah a riverside stop [more]
Bijoy Jain: Studio Mumbai. It was about time for an Indian architect to step forward and break out of the standard mould of how things are done in our profession. The way we think and make architecture is still defined by the practices of the Western world (including [more]
sorry, we’re closed. daytime was longer than expected, not too many 60minutes without a chit or a chat & no more muse for amusement left over. so just chill. and listen to lou bond. but never forget cato the elder: “niemals ist man tätiger, als wenn man dem [more]
Recently I went to have a coffee with a Magrebian friend of mine. And we spoke about many different things. One such thing was the adoption of a new constitution by the Tunisian parliament. Despite the fact that Islam is the official religion in Tunisia, the new constitution [more]
Vor kurzem habe ich eine Crowdfunding-Kampagne namens c3s (Creative Commons Collecting Society – eine Genossenschaft, die Creative Commons sammelt) unterstützt. Das ist eine Initiative, die versucht mehr Gerechtigkeit in unser Urheberrechts-System zu bringen. Die Regeln für das Urheberrecht machen in Deutschland seit vielen Jahrzehnten die GEMA (Gesellschaft für [more]
Wandering between texts I should have written, bits and pieces in my apartment I should have fixed, and dinner-appointments, where the question, if what was deferred to infinity was the actual dinner or the friend I wanted to have it with, seems blurry, I got stuck on Youtube [more]
Best sex noises ever audio only by Xxporn123zyz 1 year ago 52,791 views Neighbors Having Sex Pt. 3 (audio only) by Lourdes Medel 2 years ago 278,125 views My neighbor and his skank got home after 4 and thought it was an appropriate time to have [more]
Sissy Boy Slap Party by bravofact 2 years ago 4,064 views A micro-montage of mime with music and sound effects of seven slap-happy suntanning sailors. Screened in competition at the …
‘Blaming Assad is red herring, West still intends to destabilize Syria’ by NEWS 20 hours ago No views Fox business news, fox cable news, uk news, abc news, nbc news, reuters news, canada news, world business news, cnn student … zero hour audio only by Neville Pass 3 months [more]
Weird Trick for Baldness by cabokicom 3,040,732 views How I Get Full Head of Hair With This 1 Simple Trick. Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus VEVO 4 months ago 480,931,633 views Download the album “Bangerz” on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/bangerz?Iqid=yt Music video by Miley Cyrus performing Wrecking [more]
Die Bewegungen sind ein Weiteres. Verfehlt die Bewegung ihr Ziel, war sie vermutlich eine Platzverschwendung. So kann ich mir überflüssigen Platz vorstellen. Ort an dem eine verfehlte Bewegungen zur Ruhe kommt. In meiner Arbeit sind treffsichere Bewegungen gefragt. Ware, Menge, der Ort an dem sie sich befindet, der [more]
Dirk Baecker: Organisation als System. This title doesn’t sound like holiday literature, does it? I read it over a long weekend holiday in Arba Minch, a small town near the border between Ethiopia and Kenya, which is a rather unlikely place to have an enlightening encounter with a [more]
Was ist Wasser wert? Nun, für einen Liter abgefülltes Mineralwasser (von Evian) müssen Sie 95 Cent bezahlen. In Deutschland spült eine einzelne Person etwa 1.320 Liter Wasser pro Monat ins Klo. Damit könnte man ein gutes Geschäft machen, demnach 1.250 Euro pro Monat. Verschwendung von gutem Wasser. Aber [more]
Jonathan Harris, writer, visionary, artist, published a very moving, personal essay about his achievements in life. The internet-wunderkind, always striving for sense in a connected world, has come back to his original talents and gives precious advice: «We have these brief lives, and our only real choice is [more]
My 60 Pages term comes to an end today and I look back with joy and sadness. Joy that I had the chance to be part of it for a short while and sadnees because I coulnd’t write as much as I wanted to write. When I started [more]
“Es stimmt nicht, dass ich, dass ich auf, eines Tages auf die Idee gekommen bin, dass ich meinen Beruf oder wie auch immer meine Betätigung, falsch ausgeführt hätte. Das ist, das wäre Unsinn wenn man das so verstehen würde. Sondern dass ich seit langer Zeit, danach gesucht habe, [more]
MoL asks why can’t DVDs be packaged in the same size boxes as CDs? That way you would need only one kind of shelving. MoL admits to being depressed by the boxed set because it either sits there, useless, after being watched or reproving for not having been [more]
Nigella and the high-Tory scandal. She is a ex-Chancellor’s daughter; her ex-husband Charles Saatchi, whose advertising agency got Thatcher elected. His major art collection; her public cooking, done as music-hall burlesque and sexual innuendo. Beauty and the Beast. The Domestic Goddess. The pointlessness of acquisition. A secretive husband [more]
Who make better goalies, Catholic or Protestant? MoL thinks Protestant. The gatekeepers. Lutheran. More defensive.
Riva Jakubowicz, die, so wie ich mit einem polnischen Elternhaus gesegnet, in die ich, wenn auch aussichtslos, wohl mein Leben lang verliebt sein werde, eine vielversprechende Jura-Studentin, die mit ihren semitisch-wollüstigen Lippen irgendwie an Jassir Arafat erinnert – eine Entdeckung, die Shlomke Schultz gemacht hatte, nachdem sie ihm [more]
Zweitens grösser und freier, höchstens eine oder zwei Etagen, mit möglichst wenigen Winkeln, Pfeilern und Wänden. Also ein oder zwei grosse, freie Räume mit Tageslicht von mehreren Seiten, vielleicht auch von oben. Das suche ich. Für mich und meine Abteilung. Einer der Räume soll im Erdgeschoss sein, mit [more]
Hans Ibelings: Supermodernism. At the end of the last century, a new ism was proclaimed. The Dutch architecture critic Hans Ibelings wrote a book about his observations of a paradigm shift in architecture triggered by globalization. The assumption is that, if anything can happen anywhere at any time, [more]
It’s already post seven, post-day of the sun and it’s night time again. On one side at least. We shall all rest now and delight the things we created during time and space in those sevennights. If you click on the dreamcatcher (handmade by Seraina of K-Pony) you can [more]
From January 18 to March 4 2008, Okwui Enwezor organized the exhibition Archive Fever at the International Center of Photography in New York. According to Enwezor himself, the aim of the exhibition was “to show the ways in which archival documents, information gathering, data-driven visual analysis, the contradictions [more]
The French First Lady Valérie Trierweiler was apparently admitted to hospital when she read in a stupid magazine that her boyfriend, the French President François Hollande, had an affair with a pretty French actress. The personal bodyguard of Mr. President himself went every morning to buy two Croissants [more]
Carol had always called me nonchalant, a word I never understood the meaning of, a word I looked up in a number of French dictionaries and could never find. I always suspected Jamie and Carol had done something but since I never really liked Carol that much (only [more]
MoL shares Big Sam’s pain. West Ham in free fall. One tabloid dubbed Allardyce, “The duffer in the puffer.” He’s an experienced football manager, say his backers but talk on the terraces is of Will Self being brought in to manage West Ham, in accordance with an FA [more]
Friday night I went to a new club that goes by the ominous name of “Kauz”, which translates into “oddball” or “little owl”. I didn’t encounter any birds (nor anyone resembling Athena, for that matter) but I sure did run into some oddballs. And they make for a [more]
If you share too much though it is exhausting. Life is so good that we can end up feeling empty, back at too much steak, when steak is not the point. I believe firmly that more is more and that more is better, even more so with people. [more]
I know people who remember everything. They remember what they were wearing when we met, every time we met, they remember everything we talked about, every silly little joke. They remember everything about their childhood, every punch they’d taken, the names of the punchers, the shape their bloody [more]
Kürzlich ging ich zu einer Tankstelle, um Luft in meine Autoreifen zu pumpen. Normalerweise gab es dort immer einen gewöhnlichen Druckluftbehälter. Heute haben sie dort eine große silberglänzende Luftmaschine. Und sie haben mir einen Euro für Luft berechnet. Natürlich wegen der Innovation. Aber ich habe mich gefragt, ob [more]
I learned: politics is all about how to spend your recourses. And – at least in the German model – to stick to some assumed combination of integrity, transparency and emotional readiness (Volksgeist). Otherwise people will tear you apart. In my personal list of “Relevant Things”, nationality sits [more]
Dieter Wieland: Grün kaputt. In the eighties there was an apocalyptic mood in Germany. Whether or not the environment was treated better of worse than today is hard to say, but certainly the take on the situation was much less optimistic then now. The world was seen as being [more]
Jerry Zaks, the Broadway director tells a story of when he was a young actor replacing Austin Pendleton as the character Mostel. He had to ask for the hand of one of Tevye’s daughters and was consistently rejected and humiliated by Tevye. Tevye was still being played by [more]