two towns ago

2012-01-29T10:25:00.002+01:00

Fukehu Xewoqe Sishingi

2011-05-12T09:34:00.000+02:00

"In other phonetic transcription systems, such as the Americanist system, the affricates [ts], [dz], [tʃ], [dʒ], [tɬ], and [dɮ] are represented as ‹c› or ‹¢›; ‹j›, ‹ƶ›"

The loneliness of the long distance googler

2010-09-30T12:47:00.003+02:00

In case you have lost your throwing star in the ceiling of a Sluncev Bryag hotel room, just ask at the Lion reception, they will be glad to help you.

2010-09-01T13:02:00.002+02:00

The space hound has been sighted... a completely new interpretation of "bark at the moon".

2010-08-31T14:27:00.001+02:00

-7.999507,110.253005

towa mi charestwo

2010-08-10T13:29:00.002+02:00

Cooking a rice-pudding while learning Bulgarian: not an effective method for meal or language. And the kyrillic subtleties of the alphabet keep their secrets. It's still a month until the holidays in Bulgaria begin and I still hope to learn a few sentences before September. But the rice-pudding was a success.

Goblin - Profondo rosso

2009-10-20T21:03:00.001+02:00

For one of my readers completely devoted to the Italian film from the 60s and 70s. One day we will a watch a French film again (not necessarily built on dialogue only).

Blue Oyster Cult - In The Presence Of Another World (1988)

2009-10-09T08:51:00.001+02:00

It starts promising, but all passages beginning with "Your master" are turning flat. C'est dommage, the lyrics contain some promising lines, I liked "born of a yolkless egg". The first BOC song I ever heard.

2009-05-16T14:46:00.008+02:00

The most revealing news of the presidential race in Indonesia was the pairing of Megawati and former General Prabowo. Today they register in the election office. It must be a purely strategical choice to form this coalition of two politicians who have only their opportunism in common. What is their goal? To fight for "workers, fishermen, peasants and teachers who are still considered to be poor" (Prabowo), while Prabowo is reported to have a private fortune of 1,6 bn. Rupiah (about 110 mn. € ) and is the richest of the presidential candidates. It's a consequent succession of his father-in-law Suharto who, with his children "built up a fortune estimated at $15 billion in "cash, shares, corporate assets, real estate, jewelry and fine art," (Time magazine).

2009-03-11T19:50:00.002+01:00

Movie of my life

Picked this game up from Thoth, I just had to try it. If a shuffle function is involved, I can't resist:

1. Open your music library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc.)
2. Put it on shuffle & press play
3. For the first question, type the song that’s playing
4. When you go to a new question, press the next button TWICE
5. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool... just type it in man!
6. Tag people

OPENING CREDITS: Maggot Brain (live), Mike Watt (1995-09-29 - Metro)

WAKING UP: Öngyilkos Vasárnap, Venetian Snares (Rossz Csillag Alatt Szueletett)

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL: Solomon Song, Cassandra Wilson (New Moon Daughter)

FALLING IN LOVE: J.S. Bach Sonata in G Minor Adagio, Nicolas Goluses (Bach: Sonatas BWV 1001, 1003 & 1005 for Guitar)

FIRST TIME: Rogos Uton, Zalatnay Sarolta (Desperately Seeking)

FIGHT SONG: Down In The Park, Tubeway Army (Replicas)

BREAKING UP: Costa Del Sol, Psychotropic Circle Of Lower F

PROM: Breaking The Girl, Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)

LIFE: Gelb Zwo Drei, 17 Hippies (Soundtrack "Halbe Treppe)

MENTAL BREAKDOWN: Stuck In This Rut, Bayonettes (Stuck In This Rut)

DRIVING: Sesame Street (Theme), Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

FLASHBACK: Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysées (Take 4), Miles Davis (Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud)

GETTING BACK TOGETHER: Daglar Daglar, Sibel Pamuk (Yürekten)

WEDDING: Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Variatio 8 A 2 Clav., Martin Stadtfeld (Bach: Goldberg Variations / Martin Stadtfeld)

BIRTH OF A CHILD: Welcome To The Mighty East, Smokey and his Sister (S/T)

FINAL BATTLE: Guachi Guaro (Soul Sauce) (Live), Cal Tjader (Colors Of Latin Jazz : Soul Sauce!)

DEATH SCENE: The Sycamore, Scott Joplin (Scott Joplin & The Kings Of Ragtime)

FUNERAL SONG: Al Dizzy Gillespie, Bebo Valdes (Bebo Rides Again)

END CREDITS: Right On Time, Red Hot Chili Peppers (Californication)

It would be lovely to see Akatsuki's life this way, but he's immune to randomly chosen music.

2009-03-09T20:08:00.001+01:00

To die for something, to die without something. No one left Chi.

2009-02-28T20:46:00.001+01:00

Root intrusion in the sewer system, that's what it is all about.

2009-02-05T11:16:00.001+01:00

Feast of the Carnivores cancelled.

2009-01-29T12:46:00.003+01:00

Role models in finance, explained by The Economist:

"Over the past 35 years it has seemed as if everyone in finance has wanted to be someone else. Hedge funds and private equity wanted to be as cool as a dotcom. Goldman Sachs wanted to be as smart as a hedge fund. The other investment banks wanted to be as profitable as Goldman Sachs. America's retail banks wanted to be as cutting-edge as investment banks. And European banks wanted to be as aggressive as American banks. They all ended up wishing they could be back preciselywhere they started."

2008-12-31T12:29:00.005+01:00

A voice on the phone early this morning, he called several times. "Look out of the window!" A psycho? Kid playing communication? "Who are you?", I asked. "You will get to know me!" he said. Not a pleasant way to spend the last day of the year. But we turned the phone off now and I decided to enjoy the day without duties, listening to Paco de Lucia's Antologia (now playing "La Barrosa").

Tom comes to my mind, friend of a friend, who learns musical instruments as if he entered a competition. The latest pet is the trumpet, he can play as much and as good as is considered normal after a year and he has managed it in three months. When his wife complains about his exercises, he shows he points to the wedding ring on his finger. "You are married, you have to endure it, darling", he says. They both use "darling" as a weapon and after attending their show for two or three hours, my wife and I get tired of it. But they tell us a few days later what a nice evening we had together.

Happy New Year to everyone who still reads this! 2009 will be a good year, I will have more time and then even blogging will get more attention.

12 Days of Christmas

2008-12-26T17:57:00.001+01:00

Boymongoose explains India.

2008-09-05T11:35:00.002+02:00

This is an Arupadhatu day, abstract and formless. Whoever touches my head will become rich and famous. Or so they say.

2008-09-04T10:30:00.001+02:00

"The Lampung gubernatorial election has the most candidates for any such election in Indonesia, including the two pairs of independent candidates. Lampung also has the largest number of candidates for the election of a regional head (for a regency). The multi candidate phenomenon, however, is best explained by local culture.

Cultural observer Isbedy Setiawan Z.S. said the phenomenon was ascribed to the piil pesenggiri life philosophy imbued by Lampung people which means "no retreat or backing down". In their daily lives, people local to Lampung refuse to allow their dignity to be belittled and will not allow themselves to be looked down on." (Jakarta Post)

2008-09-02T13:42:00.003+02:00

In my weather-eye, the slaves of coolness get too much attention.

2008-07-31T09:38:00.001+02:00

"SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of SourceWatch is documenting the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. SourceWatch also includes profiles on think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests."

2008-07-24T10:14:00.002+02:00

"He's locked up in a Schloß of his own mind, which, by all accounts, has walls so thick, as to leave very little room within." (The system of the world: 70).

2008-07-20T11:45:00.002+02:00

"Noch schwieriger dürfte es für viele sein, sich von der verhüllten Bigotterie der Psychoanalyse zu emanzipieren, nach deren Dogmatik auch der kraftvollste Mensch nicht mehr sein kann als der bewußte Dulder seiner liebeskranken Kondition, die Neurose heißt." Peter Sloterdijk: Zorn und Zeit. Frankfurt 2008, S. 35.

2008-07-20T00:50:00.003+02:00

Since a few years, there is no excuse left for not doing the film you always wanted to do. If walking corpses in Oxford Street are on your mind, then find a few million Youtube participants all over the world and do the Internet Zombie Movie. It just seems to have started and the process (documented by BBC) will be interesting to follow.

Another manifestation of unwanted dead visitors are fake ghosts appearing on photos, collected on websites like the Indonesian Penampakan Hantu. A reflection could be a face, a shimmering spot behind a child could reflect the existence of the mother who died years before etc. But ghosts lose their meaning where death is hidden from the living. They have lost ground to the sturdy undead and will die out with developped films where they used to appear on printed copies.

Enough of this gloomy Sunday thoughts, try to see the sunset this way:
"The sun is setting/ and evening spreads its peace upon the earth. / The little birds fly to their nests/ and the flower shuts its eye." Let the Norwegian Trio Mediaeval sing this as a lullaby to you, their beautiful voices are bridges to a peaceful mind. Folk Songs is my Album Of The Year.

2008-06-13T13:47:00.000+02:00

NRW II: Wuppertal

2008-06-10T15:21:00.003+02:00

In memory of Peter Rühmkorf's vollkommen neue Republik:

Hinterzarten – Fleischwangen – Büchsenschinken – Gesäß

Oberbusenbach – Tüttendorf – Tettenborn – Mammendorf – Titisee
          Zizishausen – Tittmoning – Titting – Tittling – Titz

         Niederhosenbach – Schambach – Wald Amorbach

   Oberreitzbach – Ritzhausen – Gailbach – Kerben – Voitze

2008-06-10T10:17:00.002+02:00

Abnormal Sloppiness
Deformed Negligence
Kinky Waywardness

My forearm and upper arm (right side) tend to quiver the last few days - keyboard diseases.

Is it correct to work in a supervisory board if one has lost his job in the company he should represent in this board? He was chosen as a person, regardless of his future CV.

Relieved to read of the homecoming of a fictional character (from a Soviet penal camp in a novel). Strange to be affected in this way, this morning I felt better immediately.

Ang Lee's Hulk disappointing, Guardian? Don't make me angry. You won't like me...

THE ORIGINAL Scary 'Mary Poppins' Recut Trailer

2008-06-04T21:29:00.001+02:00

This brings Horror to a new dimension, all you can cut.

2008-06-01T16:33:00.003+02:00

One night, when I had thrown a couple of tanks, I discovered the inner Hulk. But I accept the apologies of Brian Hughes of Again With The Comics and enjoyed his brilliant collection of incredible Hulks. What a great blog!

2008-05-30T12:00:00.002+02:00

The South Korean government has denied a report on an Internet news site that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-Il, had been assassinated, South Korean media reported Thursday.

Paulskirche for lunch break.

2008-05-29T12:03:00.002+02:00

Rumours of the week:

* Kim Jong Il assasinated, dead. (N-tv)

* Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August' (Asia Times)

* A dead woman in Sumatra, buried for eight years, was still fresh when her coffin was opened (Kompas)

* Untunlich looking for a new job (Two towns ago)

2008-05-28T14:40:00.002+02:00

Vacuum cleaner bags: Swirl P38 should match with Wolff 0380, we try it. Vacuum cleaner bags are categorized into clans who loath each other: Never will a Y98 help a S30.

2008-05-28T10:59:00.002+02:00

In the year of the gnome: Cannsch comes to Neckthrough and is scorned by the whole village. The marquis de gnome accuses him of polluting the beach, time is short to persuade him to beware of the threating Hubinger invasion. Will he succeed or be sentenced to work in the gnome woods?

2008-05-26T21:32:00.001+02:00

Google Ads: "Dracula now on Special Offer Instant Download" .

2008-05-20T10:38:00.004+02:00

Buddha's birthday

After you rub nose (a "nose kiss") with your former enemy, every conflict will end.

Crude Oil Price today is 126.19 $
Gold: 908 $

Yesterday, a man named exactly as one of our canary birds called me. Melodic voice.

2008-05-19T08:07:00.002+02:00

The Sunda Strait Bridge (Jembatan Selat Sunda, JSS), once it is built, will be the longest in the world (29 km). 160.000 vehicles will cross this "Amir Hamzah Highway" daily.
Let's hope the frequent earthquakes there will not harm the project. Every mean of connecting the islands other than through the presence of a strong military is a good sign.

2008-05-16T06:17:00.003+02:00

Going the distance...

The old man from Switzerland leaned forward and said to me "You remember me to the young Schubert. His face was broader than yours, but the characteristic features were similar!" He recommended the piano trios op.99 and 100 and I still haven't heard them, but it is great to be schubered.

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Uwe Johnson, Jahrestage:
"Wenn es untunlich war, Griem anzugehen, kam Irmgard nie zurück nach Schwerin, oder ohne ihn." (16. Januar)

"De Rosny hatte sich nicht nach oben gedient im Geld, er hatte das Geld nicht geheiratet; seine Eltern hatten es ihm gegeben, ihm allein, und durch des Geldes aromatische, nahrhafte, schützende Schale hatte er geatmet, seti er den eigenen Vornamen kannte, und nicht erst, als er in Singapur das Bankgeschäft zu lernen anfing: aus Langeweile." (25. April)

2008-05-07T09:00:00.004+02:00

Around the world

Another 250 old auto rikshaws (bajaj) have been destroyed in Jakarta. This destruction is part of an effort to replace the old gasoline-powered bajaj with newer ones that are gas-fueled.

The custard apple is the fruit of the sweet-sop.

Planorbis planorbis, a freshwater gastropod, likes to sleep "in house", simulating an empty snail-shell drifting through the water. We have two specimen, Sandy and Randy, provided on permanent loan by the federal state.

In a fossil state in Nusplingen, the whole jaw apparatus of a Belemnite was found.

2008-05-01T21:36:00.003+02:00

Houses I lived in: I 1970 - 1990 (1st floor)

2008-04-19T07:41:00.005+02:00

"Bagaimana sapu dapat membersihkan lantai, jika sapunya sendiri kotor?" ("How can the broom clean the floor when the broom is dirty?") asked the General Attorney referring to corruption cases in the parliament of Jakarta. The systematical approach can be exhausting but according to the last "Coach yourself" book I found, it is important to get rid of the tiny obstacles that suck your energy every day.

Some nights ago, I dreamt of the place where I grew up (a foto will be delivered later). The high-rise building still had flats in it, but the most part of it had become a chinese department store with cheap clothes and risky escalators. Growing up in a high-rise building has a deep impact on the architecture of your dreams.
"Vertical Thinking: Sky scraper basements and the postgenital adolescence in public housing" written by Untunlich should have reached the scientific journals if Psycharchitecture had been my field of study.

For Thoth:
Funny Games by Michael Haneke (the 1997 Austrian Version) was disturbing and of course a shock when two friends of me saw it and were not prepared. Since it is a kind of film essay with the actors addressing the spectator directly, I found it better to know his intentions before seeing it. If I remember it correctly, it says the audience wants to see violence and therefore we show it, without the comfort of a statement. You have to endure the whole terror and cannot escape to a psychological explanation, two young men tormenting a family just for the voyeuristic pleasure of the audience. Mr. Haneke could have written an essay, but he chose to make a film, and if it should have a moral background, it is irritating that cruel people like to rent this film for fun as I have heard (like Passion of Christ, of course a completely different matter).

German Accent

2008-02-29T11:17:00.001+01:00

This guy declinates different accents from speakers of all countries (in English). The German version aroused more debate than most of his other videos, some people seem seriously offended.

How sad that Indonesian accent is never mentioned in all his "fake languages" stuff. You Tube is poison on your spare time on a day off.

2008-02-17T15:24:00.003+01:00

Inner morticians / Kochen des Vinyls

* Psychoanalysts have become inner morticians who help to bury parents and grandparents instead of healing, Peter Sloterdijk says in his book "Sphären III: Schäume".

* "Sie kreuzen mein FREIES Download des Weges mit Xfm (März 3.) u. CD und Vinyl (Mai 19.) Das 10. Studioalbum der Scharlatane, kreuzen Sie meinen Weg, werden in seiner Ganzheit als FREIES Download von der Web site www.xfm.co.uk Xfms und vom amtlichen Aufstellungsort der Scharlatane von Montag März 3. 2008 vorhanden sein. Das Album erhält dann eine körperliche CD- und Vinylfreigabe, in 33 Ländern, an Mai 19. durch das Kochen des Vinyls. "

2008-01-15T23:42:00.000+01:00

Orde Baru: the final chapter

When Harmoko was still Indonesian minister and responsible for bringing the press into line, Suharto's daughter Mbak Tutut answered on critical questions about her family's wealth: Who said the president's children are not allowed to do business? To print the truth about the family's corruption would have meant the end of any newspaper.

Now that Pak Harto is in bad condition, the family has rejected a settlement offer to pay $1.5 billion to avoid a civil corruption lawsuit.

It would be a good time for them to apologize and repay what they hoarded. They won't, and I can't take pity on this old dying man.

2008-01-13T15:45:00.001+01:00

Meanings of W U I

* Web User Interface
* Wildland Urban Interface ( a mapped wildfire hazard zone)
* Waseda University International
* Worker's Union of Ireland
* "What's Up, India?" (a weekly 5 minute show)
* The Wake Up Inspired Circle
* Werk - und Industrieschutz (plant security)
* Woman Union International
* Writing (or Walking) under influence
* Bavarian for "will" (I Want)
* In a Washo legend, there is a monster named Hanuh Wui-wui whose name came from the grunting sound he made when he ran.

Films:
* Hak se wui (2005), directed by Johnny To: "A drama-thriller centered on a democratic election within an organized crime society." according to the urban dictionary, Hak sei wui pek yau ah!! means "The mafia is here to kick ass."

* Help! (Lat sau wui cheun) (2000), directed by Ka-Fai Wai: "A trio of idealistic young doctors take on a corrupt, ineffective hospital management more interested in saving dollars than lives. Sub-plots crop up in the form of a love triangle, an electrical blackout, and a major car accident."
* Yiu Ye Wui Long (2004)

Surnames:
* Wui-Gee
* Wui-Jin
* Wui-Ming
* Wui-Ping

Species:
* A loach (Sinogastromyzon wui) in Guangdong and Guanxi provinces
* a tiny fossil creature ( Hadrocodium wui), an insectivore with fragile teeth
* ray-finned fishes in China from the cyprinidae family: Sinilabeo wui, Sinibrama wui, Discocheilus wui and Hemiculturella wui who lives in Zhujiang and Qiantang River
* a goby (Rhinogobius wui) that frequently climbs on rocks and plants
* a new moss species, Orthomnion wui.
* an enantiornithine bird which lived in the Early Cretaceous, aberratiodontus wui.

and also
* A File extension
* A Game ("Shit Wui" - not recommended)

2007-12-30T14:27:00.000+01:00

Thoth honoured me in the Montreal Writer's Storm Sewer with a quotation. The job search is the most difficult and displeasing task for me at the moment, I didn't have even one job interview as a reaction to the applications I sent. But no moaning in this blog.

2007-12-05T23:15:00.000+01:00

After one year, Akatsuki is back!

2007-12-05T22:42:00.000+01:00

Week of the fist: II

[Attention: disturbing content!]

Today the fist of perversion knocked me. Someone jumped in front of t
he train I sat in and was killed. The train stood at the entrance of a tunnel and waited nearly two hours until a new engine driver had arrived. The annoyance of the passengers led to cynical comments and jokes. This may be a way of trying to stomach such a terrible incidence. But when we arrived, the gawkers in the train station made pictures of the blood on the locomotive. A disgusting imagination to keep this memory alive by looking on a photo afterwards. It knocked me out the whole day to see people doing this.

2007-12-05T21:49:00.000+01:00

Week of the fist

Beginning from Tuesday, day of the martial arts, the fist has declared its right to occupy a whole week.

Mr. Fist called our hotline yesterday. He was proud not to understand what a letter was all about and told me about his lawyer (who also didn't understand the letter because it can't be understood even when you call me and I explain it to you, according to Mr. Fist): fingers curled into the palm and the thumb retracted. He doesn't know (and wouldn't care), but I've been in the cafe he owns - 18 years ago.

It was a school excursion for a weekend to the big city. Friend Mad (who went mad a few years later) bought magic cards on a flea market and played with them wherever he went. On Sunday morning we ran aground in the average central cafe and Mad did his card tricks. Before long a nervous lisping waiter told us that the boss doesn't want anyone to play cards in his cafe. We saw the name of Mr. Fist and thought about him as power load, watch him explode etc., laughed and left the place. I've never been there again but recognized his adress.

My thoughts turned to Mad who began to try drugs after school. The first Gulf War brought the solemn vigil where the girls and the joints waited for Mad. Since he tends to overacting, he didn't talk and care about anything else than how to roll and consume the joint. He didn't finish computer science and giggled on the phone when he said that they planned to throw him out of the faculty. After that I lost track of him and now heard he moved back to his parents' house. I can't blame Mr. Fist for all this but sometimes it may be better to let the people play their card tricks.

disappointed hippie vol. I

2007-11-21T17:52:00.001+01:00

grow your own hair

2007-10-18T10:55:00.001+02:00

Aji no aru hito... [Mr. out of fireline for posting once a year will comment "pseudo" on this]

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Republicans vs. Democrats 2008: my guess is Hillary vs. Mitt Romney.

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Fascinated by conservative people. Am I turning myself into one? Hair cut is not relevant. Reading Economist may be.

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"Meaning of the name "*leska": That name was not found in the database." Out of 70 alumni, some learned the financial business and Leska was one of them. Mr. Akatsuki told me she worked in a bank and now the search engines don't know her. In the Google success game, Hab is more successfull, overpowered by Lars who is still beneath Ben. Leska will keep her secret, married to Anyone. I don't attend the alumni meetings (17th year), they suck your energy.

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A Flickr group: Guilty Landscapes.

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John Cusack in "Room 1408": A cursed (?) mean hotel room is playing with him and only his tape recorder saves the voice of the dead child of his memory of his death of his surf board of his ex-wife of his autograph of his books. Ghost stories have a beginning.

2007-09-18T12:01:00.000+02:00

"If Britons over the age of 30 meet a prime minister in their sleep, it is likely to be Lady Thatcher."

2007-09-17T17:09:00.000+02:00

Unemploy

The managing director had tears in his eyes when he spoke about his "inability" which had led to the cancellation of his contract. He was the only one in this position who ever spoke clear words to the employees other than "you are replacable". It will be spooky to have the former ruling technocracy back with her open contempt for helpdesk assistants: "they only do the phone calls". Getting a new job is a must. To unemploy the company.

2007-09-11T20:36:00.000+02:00

10 songs chosen by shuffle in iTunes:

Carlos Malcolm: Tiptoe (60ies)
It's not as catchy as the Bonanza Ska, but takes you on the tiptoes nevertheless. When writing about Ska and its legends, never forget to smuggle in some word play, something like "skauthentic". It gets better every time I hear it. *** / played 6 times

Laura Veirs: Songs My Friends Taught Me (2004)
A song in a delicate balance, with a fine Cello part. "Behind all the brightest smiles
Twist the tortured, tortured souls who I'll never, never know". My current life in the train, if filmed, would be underlined by songs of Laura Veirs and Waltari. Melancholy, irritated by weltschmerz lyrics. *** / 10

Gene Faith: Family Man (60ies)
A gift of Soul-Sides. No more tortured souls, this one is to dance around again: I'm a family man, I do the best I can. **/ 5

Bebo Valdes: La comparsa (1995)
Gunnar provided me with this CD. He used to talk admiringly about his strict old-school father, conservative and straight. I never saw him eating, he always had a beer instead of a meal and is somewhere in Asia now. ***/ 8

City of Prague Philharmonic: The Shining Opening Theme (2000)
Underwater bells and a redrum-finger predict the worst. Why do I hear it all alone in the dark? Shuffle is your best friend with dark humour. **/ 4

Auf der Maur: Skin Receiver (2004)
Untypically galloping like a Steve Harris song, it sounds like someone very very hungry for skin contact. Melissa Auf der Maur has her own blog and seems to be a nice star. See her fingers on a bass guitar if she comes to your town! **/ 6

Bruce Dickinson: Abduction (2005)
A punishment by iTunes for writing about the bass player of IM. The Air Raid Siren, as Mr. Dickinson was labelled decades ago, sounds reasonable when talking in his BBC show (I heard him interviewing Steve Hackett). Another "bloke knows his destiny and will die without fear" lyrics. But I like fast songs. **/ 7

Serge Gainsbourg: Des Laids (1979)
At least one for relaxing (as long as you don't mind the text). Where is the Reiser comic? Maybe I would have liked this much too short song if I had heard it in 1979 (in the age of nine). ****/ 4

Cal Tjader: Soul Sauce (Guachi Guaro) (1964)
A successful tune (from an album that made the word "Salsa" popular in describing Latin American dance music (according to Wikipedia). Cal Tjader is one of my all time favourites. ****/ 5

Troggs: Wild Thing (1966)
Composed by the Uncle of Angelina Jolie, see the Wild Thing Wiki for details. Then you will learn that it's an ocarina solo in the middle, played by Reg Presley. * / 12

2007-07-25T15:44:00.001+02:00

Ancient Art MN081cu
Originally uploaded by *Gabisa Motonia

This morning I found jazz tunes of Branford Marsalis and Cal Tjader very comforting. A friend had asked me what was so fascinating about a music you can't dance to and only see people whipping their beer glasses with their thumb. The abstract patterns are a river that keeps you meditating like these ancient statues.

2007-07-11T18:20:00.000+02:00

If I were more enthusiastic about it, maybe I would understand the election system in Hongkong, but when I read in the Economist

"The Liberals' biggest proposed reform for 2012 is to give everybody a vote in the chief-executive elections, but to raise the number of nominations a candidate needs to run; this hurdle would then be lowered in 2017 and removed in 2022. As Mr. Tien [chairman of the liberals- Untunlich] suggests, voters "could choose between Donald Tsang A, Donald Tsang B and Donald Tsang C". Others also see the election committee as a useful mechanism for restricting the choice to candidates Beijing supports."

my fantasy of cloned Donald Tsangs fabricated in government controlled production halls runs riot.

2007-06-24T23:16:00.000+02:00

19 years after he wrote the "Satanic Verses", Salman Rushdie is honoured by Britain and a wave of protest is started. I think the ones who should defend the book are British muslim immigrants, for it's a (well-written) novel about them and how they are treated, not about religion.
But Thomas always says that Mr. Rushdie doesn't know how to bring a novel to the end. He dislikes novels that are not crowned by a perfect composition. I don't care much about composition, if I like the language of a novel.
The award for Rushdie is not a "provocative act" and it doesn't show "lack of sensitivity". If one claims the right of offendedness, he should choose a suitable insult (being insulted by reading a book without a proper ending).

2007-05-29T12:16:00.000+02:00

"She'd meet vampires, too, but she's not allowed to stay up that late."

2007-05-13T10:24:00.000+02:00

To be offended / liver sausage

Another European Song contest results in German Tv commentators being offended. The Swing Contribution of Germany made only the 19th place. The evil half of Europe, the Eastern part, once again didn't vote for the obviously most brillant song of the evening, Roger Cicero's government of women song. While being malicious about look, design, voices and gender orientation of other country's artists, the masters of ceremony in German TV can't admit that other songs were better than Germany's. Last year they laughed angry tears about Finnland, this year it's Serbia. What a sad drama.

Protests in Indonesia rised after the malaysian press reduces the country's name to Indon. "Malaysia has only one letter more than Indonesia".

If the upload of photos worked, I would blog more. But I feel offended by Blogger. With the lights out, it's less dangerous.

2007-03-15T08:38:00.000+01:00

Now I'm insignificant on my own. Bye, truthlaidbear!

2007-03-09T10:49:00.000+01:00

By definition, a kacamata saya hilang story is an adventorous tale of doing something in a foreign country without thinking of the consequences, a foolish act of curiosity. A kacamata saya hilang story always ends with a minor loss (it means "my glasses got lost" in Indonesian), too annoying to be forgotten. The half of my two readers always urges me to tell such stories when I come back from holidays. This time, I didn't fall into a river (when wading through it upstream in the Aceh jungle) nor was I lured into dark places, only forgot my backpack at Piazza Goldoni at Trieste.

But I met the unique cave salamander in the podstajna Cave in Slovenia and learned that there is a black subspecies with eyes (Proteus anguinus parkelj). The cave salamander doesn't need glasses, he's blind but doesn't like to be illuminated by a pocket lamp. If he had been in the mood for talking, he surely had told me a lot about kacamata hilang.

2007-02-09T10:33:00.000+01:00

Two quotes from Confusion:

"Upnor made a sound like heh-heh, a completely unconvincing simulation of a laugh." (338)
Sometimes what you think of as meanness, turns out to be only hysteria. If I had nothing to do, I probably would try to write the classification of laughing sorted by sounds.

"if an idea is terrible enough, the mind is unwilling to swallow it in one go, but regurgitates and chews it like cud many times before it goes down for good." (349)

2007-01-24T21:43:00.000+01:00

The inscription on the backside of a statue of Heruka reads

hahaha hum huhuhehau hohauhaha

interpreted by John Villiers as cannibalistic laughter as I read in a book on the history of precolonial Southeast Asia. He seems to be a lot less enthusiastic about this tantric god than a lot of websites I found. A friend of mine says the vocals you use for laughing tell something about your character. Heruka is definitely not the "hihi"-type then.

2006-12-17T21:09:00.000+01:00

back from Alsace, at least a short christmas post. Have a good time and take care of your family (or alternative family or chosen family or someone else) everyone. I don't like Christmas very much, but it could be a better time if the world slowed down a bit in these dark december days.

2006-11-27T22:04:00.000+01:00

around the corner

2006-11-26T22:25:00.000+01:00

what I searched for
"How Prussian blue works

Prussian blue traps radioactive cesium and thallium (mainly Tl-201) in the intestines and keeps them from being re-absorbed by the body. The radioactive materials then move through the intestines and are excreted (passed) in bowel movements. Prussian blue reduces the biological half-life1 of cesium from about 110 days to about 30 days. Prussian blue reduces the biological half-life of thallium from about 8 days to about 3 days. Because Prussian blue reduces the time that radioactive cesium and thallium stay in the body, it helps limit the amount of time the body is exposed to radiation."

and what I found
racist garbage

2006-11-26T22:03:00.000+01:00

A camera helps me not to get lost in these crazy months of spending four hours daily in trains.

2006-11-22T22:51:00.000+01:00

this morning in cologne.

2006-11-07T21:50:00.000+01:00

Hawkface: who knows the mind?

2006-11-01T17:53:00.000+01:00

"Neptune now arose from the waves and sang a duet with the mermaid, his daughter. He wanted to know why she was so morose. Learning the answer, he became cross with Jean Bart and vowed to take revenge on him in the traditional godly style of subjecting him to an inconvenient metamorphosis." (Neal Stephenson, The Confusion. Arrow Books 2005)

2006-10-20T10:19:00.000+02:00

Uh. It has been a long time, I wanna contact the living. When the micro sinks down, 30.000 throats complete my song. Nonsense.

As matters stand, I can only blog from work and it is hardly possible at the moment.

SF anthologies have become out of fashion. I have bought two older ones and the quality of the stories was really poor. But it is sad I don't have the chance to get collections of poor stories in a regular book store.

2006-09-16T12:59:00.000+02:00

3 Minutes to get ready with an entry in the internet cafe.
No reason to miss computer, blogging or internet when you can swim and read in the sun. Sorry readers, time is up, read you when back.

2006-09-03T09:53:00.000+02:00

lumpur
Originally uploaded by Farl.

The tragedy of Sidoarjo (East Java) where about 10.000 people had to leave their homes has taken a bizarre twist as Jakarta Post reports. The company Lapindo Brantas Inc. who caused the disaster has agreed to cover all cost for a Tv soap opera (working title Gali Lubang Tutup Lubang "digging a hole, filling a hole"). In the soap the, stories of Lapindo's heroism (?) should be highlighted.

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060711/3/2n0iy.html

2006-08-31T09:09:00.000+02:00

Check out the other photos of jpstanley as well, some of the are really amazing!

2006-08-31T08:37:00.000+02:00

Neptune
Originally uploaded by jpstanley.

Now that Pluto has lost its right to be called a planet, we should care more about the new last one, Neptune. I always liked this blue little giant, and now I found a flickr photo expressing the distance to Neptune perfectly. jpstanley's photo shows Neptune as a spot , not as the blue circle from the Nasa picture you find everywhere.

I look forward to moving to Neptune Street in Octobre, a quiet little dead-end street.

2006-08-09T11:13:00.000+02:00

[In Bahrain] Recently, the government cut off access to Google Earth,
[Mr. Abdulemam] said, probably because too many citizens were zeroing in on royal palaces." [NY Times] [Ogle Earth]

I think it's not an indicator for transparency of any government to have a "ministry of information" (like the one in Bahrain who cut off G.E. access). Many people in Indonesia for example were angry when Megawati reintroduced the "Departemen Penerangan", the ministry that had served as a tool for controlling the press.

Of course this blog entry is completely off topic regarding the serios problems of moderate Arab reformers named in the NY Times article. US plans for a "new Middle East" frighten me, but as long as the world never hears or reads about the reformers, it will lay its focus automatically on extremists.

2006-08-02T08:22:00.000+02:00

A bundle of hard facts:

* in a mater dolorosa church nearby I read that the altar bread doesn't like to wait for communion followers to hesitate too long before coming to the priest. So if you want your share, hurry to get it as soon as the priest is ready.

* a child counted 36 tunnels on the route I use every day. Her mother is agoraphobic, she doesn't use elevators and hates tunnels, so she counted the time we spent in every tunnel and wrote a list of it. She hopes her mother can accompany her some day to her grandpa and doesn't have to take the other route (which takes much more time). But 36 tunnels are in the way.

* I don't like clothes with anything printed on it. When I bought the red underpants I wasn't aware of the tribal chief printed on it (on the backside). But now I expect the days when I wear it to become festivals of wise decisions (this doesn't mean I wear it for several days, and of course noone is interested in details like these)

* in the cellar of my new home is a safe, left by former lodgers. My brother will be delighted and I will have a place for quittances and secret papers.

2006-08-01T21:36:00.000+02:00

Regional autonomy in Indonesia

Since spring 2000, I have always been interested in the regional autonomy of the provinces in Indonesia. I had seen the angry faces of Sumatran village people when they talked about Jakarta ("they take 90 % from us and return only 10%). Though it seemed risky in a multi-ethnic state like Indonesia, where military rule silenced the most dangerous separation movements violently, regional autonomy (otonomi daerah) was the magic word.

Because of this delicate balance of ethnic groups, religions and 'races', the Regional Autonomy Law expressly states that matters pertaining to religion can only be decided by the Central Government (except for the province of Aceh). Now that Islamists have gained grouned politically, especially in the regiencies. The New Straits Times indicates that of the country's 440 regencies, 30 have Syariah-based bylaws.

If the moderate majority stays silent, the pluralistic basis of the country might be endangered. But this is only part of the problem. The former chairman of Muhammadiyah (Indonesia's second largest muslim organization), Ahmad Syafii Maarif, spoke about the "Jakarta disease" in an interview with Jakarta Post in June. "I once hoped that regional autonomy would empower locals. Instead, regional autonomy is transferring "Jakarta disease" to the regions. Small kings are everywhere, with their eyes set on power.", he said.

2006-07-12T13:13:00.000+02:00

It seems like I don't need the linking element of blogging and psychoanalysis, the talking cure, too much at the moment (at least in these two forms). In the past week, I had some Allen-like scenes with friends, girlfriend and analyst and decided to end the therapy. It simply doesn't help me as much as it structures my time. But try to persuade an analyst that you don't need it. "Not all impulsive decisions should be followed", "flight into health", it is a long-time-process etc. I need the time to organize my time, no time to feel bored. Thursday will be my last session.
Next destination: Montenegro. Relaxed in September, no masses, no excursions to Kosovo.
Newspaper:
- Female managers tend to cultivate a powerful male mentor. The male bosses have mentors, too, but for some reason split with them, whereas the women leaders keep these guys in their pockets to mobilize them later.
A mechanism I can witness daily.

2006-07-04T08:55:00.000+02:00

No real news. But I feel obliged to renew the blog, now that audience doubled (two readers!).

Anglican church will change the patron from St. George to St. Alban.
In Finland, 1 and 2 cent coins are not appreciated and people throw them away.
A man with indian accent tried to persuade me to give him paper money by blessing me and telling me everything he thought I would like to hear. Small coin made him angry (he didn't look Finnish).

The first furniture made it to my Room of Boxes. I am still in good hope that my appartment one day will have a structure.

A Tarantino remake of Where Eagles Dare (in the original version, Clint kills 49 people according to Clint Eastwood's Killing List ) is planned, and I wonder whether the setting will be changed into something contemporary. A villain state approach (N.Korea, Iran) could ruin the story.

2006-06-23T08:11:00.000+02:00

Thursday is ritualized: work, therapy, having cake with a friend and in the evening a film on his gigantic home movie screen. The last few Thursdays I managed not to fall asleep while watching it, a great achievment (some people know how I have to struggle with my eye lids when the dark surrounds me).
Yesterday's combination: Sachertorte, cherries and The Descent (don't click if you don't like Horror movies). Six women who climb down a hole and look for an exit. Fortunately, it was a cut version, I am not keen to see gory details (it still had enough of that). A good story and as scary as the attitude of our Managing Director, with elements (and sometimes quotes) of Shining, Blair Witch and Alien.

2006-06-16T10:48:00.000+02:00

Three words I learned this week:

Robocup
Congolité
Pallywood

2006-06-15T17:20:00.000+02:00

Si! Any questions left about Ecuador? Se pueden! Spiderman go!

2006-06-13T12:58:00.000+02:00

Stink bombs: Care should be taken as some compounds tend to be toxic in higher concentrations

At least my perfidy lured railway hater into a blog resurrection.

2006-06-12T22:14:00.000+02:00

where a "next blog" tour can lead you:

- an interview with a sexpert at the Book Bitches ("I don't focus a lot on the size as much as I do how the heroine feels")

- a warning of The Montreal Writers' St0rm Sewer from Taiwan to use the "Next Blog" Button (strange to read it after nextblog has led you there)

- an online notebook of book excerpts that looks like one of those "online poker" deserts but has an eye on the empowerment of the underprivileged. Enigmatic
("page 4 contains a good sketch of what distinguished NSM").

- a blog of party pics

- blogs that resume news to "Iraq is not a safe place"

2006-06-12T17:26:00.000+02:00

Watching the World Cup can turn out rather complicated, Endy M. Banyuni states in Jakarta Post:

"Indonesia is not the only country in the developing world where a sizable portion of the population cannot watch the most important tournament on the world soccer agenda. This business of granting exclusive broadcasting rights to one channel per country in return for an exorbitant fee is alienating millions of people around the globe from what is said to be the most popular sport on earth.
The increasing commercialization of the tournament means that watching it is now more complicated than it ever was before for many people around the world. There was a time, back in the 1980s and 1990s, when watching the quadrennial cup was simply a matter of switching on your TV set. "

This is a monday of wrath, not only for Indonesian journalists who complain about the lost soul of soccer.
For the mental stability of a friend who has spent years as a virtual soccer coach (with a local British team), it would have been better today not to watch Oz defeat Japan. He even destroyed his Kidman altar.

2006-06-09T16:21:00.000+02:00

World Cup fave

I don't really care about the World Cup, but it's prediction time: TNT will bring the decision and Ecuador will win.

2006-06-08T08:07:00.000+02:00

"for they would all be one, and if they laboured or did anything for their lords, they would have wages therefor"

Two posing punk kids in the supermarket in the queue in front of me knew the solution: "What Germany needs, is the next peasant's revolt" and had fantasies about peasants rising and how cool it would be to see them swinging flails and axes. The first imagination that came to me was those peasants hanging the kids for not labouring. And imagine the bizarre coalition of chicken run owners and drunk Jaegermeistiroquis, I can't think of concerted claims of the two groups.

2006-06-01T08:32:00.000+02:00

Haters and the haters haters

A perfect description of what happens in internet discussions is delivered by devon's comment in the laptopguy-story:

"I watched as people reported where they were posting the links. I watched as the press got involved, and the conspiracy theorists and the wackos came out of the woodwork. I watched the haters and the hater haters come out. Still, it is not enough, I need my fix."

A harmless opportunity to hate haters is on their very own website, I hate this! Go and hate.

2006-05-30T08:45:00.000+02:00

"Young man??" a voice called me in my sleep. The eyes still closed I asked "Hmmm?". "Last stop. Get out of the train" (a song that train personnel had sung to just a few). Four hours in the train every day reduce me to a passenger, surrounded by those " I prefer a fluffy solution"- business men.

2006-05-23T07:47:00.000+02:00

Onos luras (the donkey, the lyre)

Local bird dialects where I live seem to have adopted Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals to keep others off their patch. I here the first line when I wake up at home (not too often). This morning I had just escaped flighty dreams (I transported a bird and later was a bird myself) when they greeted me with Raymond Scott.

A nice coincidence brought the donkey and the lyre as today's fable on my website (see on bottom of the page), now I know I am the donkey and the birds play the lyre for me.

2006-05-17T12:00:00.000+02:00

Role model of spammers: Ned Ryerson.
"Hello, My name is Walker. I told you about exploading stookcs before, and as you remember I was right. Please pay attention to what I say, becasuse next few days this stokc will explode significantly! Do you want to know why I'm so sure ? Because I'm going to buy myself! "

Am I right or am I right or am I right?

2006-05-15T12:03:00.000+02:00

When Mt. Merapi in Indonesia releases wedhus gembel, hot fast clouds, and the population must be evacuated, you should feel alarmed even on the other side of the earth. But for me it's an empty, relaxing day I had to take off. In Jakarta Post I read

" "The thundering rumblings and the sight of the black clouds scare me. I didn't even go to work in the forest because it is so quiet, with the only sound the rumbling of the volcano," the father of two said Sunday "

In 1994 there was a broad discussion in the Indonesian media about poor farmers refusing to leave their live stock and insted living too near to the crater. 50 to 60 were burned by wedhus gembel, clouds of 600 degree celsius. It touches me to read some young men stayed to guard the villages. In my new appartment, the only thundering rumblings I hear are the moves of my neighour who rearranges her dustbin. And 11.000 km far from Merapi, small problems like finding a cable to connect pc and stereo (it is so quiet with the only sound the rumbling of Hannelore) still matter.

2006-05-09T08:03:00.000+02:00

The first familiar face I see in the morning is soldier Z. (family name embroidered on backpack), who looks for love in a world of violence. At 5:15 am he's at platform 16 and reads Resident Evil and seems eager to defend DieBrücke.

2006-05-04T08:53:00.000+02:00

No access to the internet at home, only at work. My life at the moment: 4 hours in the train every day, difficulties to breath when I lie down, no furniture. My housemate forgot to move a piano out of the house when we left, whereas I left underwear and socks in a train. A deity of forgotten things prevents every attempt to keep all things together.

I will be back soon, two towns ahead, a perfect replacement of a weblog is uroulette (if you only look for links you didn't know before).

2006-03-23T08:53:00.000+01:00

An idea that keeps haunting me, an obsession I confessed already to the person sitting behind the couch:

I see every random group of people as a pool, bound together by unknown destiny, a fellowship of morning train, lodgers, passers-by etc. who could reckognize their tie on occasion. Maybe this means I try to establish a connection between strangers simply because I don't feel comfortable with strangers. Maybe my brain wasn't left undamaged by fellowship of X or catastrophe survival films.

2006-03-14T19:09:00.000+01:00

A dream last weekend

On a journey to Romania, China and North Korea. Slept under cloudy sky. An immigration officer in the plane to North Korea was overwhelmed by her love to the country leader when she saw his picture in a passport, sank to her knees and caressed the passport with her fingers to show her affection.

For me, it was a dream about not showing what you really think or feel.

2006-03-13T08:35:00.000+01:00

Accompanied by the Chimpunks ("I don't have a mind of my own/ everything in my life just thinks for me"), I left my bag in the train (it contained a camping mat, an adapter and sudoku magazines, three things you need on a sunday). I got it back but then missed the next train and had to walk pass this building.

2006-03-08T17:02:00.000+01:00

As I know someone who likes to accuse me of bringing up unnecessary neologisms, I feel only meta-guilty.

2006-03-07T22:05:00.000+01:00

As long as you love me (via croakcroak)

2006-03-07T14:03:00.000+01:00

A thin man alicecoopering on the stairs near Main Station where drug addicts meet, spends the day knitting (seems like the beginning of a bad joke) and surprised me. Sometimes I see the latest version of Till Eulenspiegel or Diogenes in the public saying in their very own way:
"Then cowboy better change your ways or with us you will ride,
Trying to catch the devil's herd across the endless skies." (I don't get rid off the ghostriders today).

2006-03-01T19:53:00.000+01:00

Ekelhulk the landlord

Too bad, my glasses were broken this morning when the opening in the t-shirt was too narrow for head and glasses.

The name of my new landlord reads Ekelhulk in the lease ("vile hulk"). At closer inspection, it is abbreviated Ehel. ("married couple") H. u. Ch.
I don't expect this to be a bad sign, I like the Hulkian motto "You wouldn't like when I'm angry" . And my glasses won't prevent me from starting.