Silence is easy. Starsailor meli pravda!

So the thing is: is it easier to profess confusion but keep the mouth closed though? Or talk and explain yourself?
Is it easier to profess revolution once a year - tomorrow is the first of May -than revolutionizing your life day by day and bit by bit?
Is it easier to keep just the pleasures and refuse the complications than to learn from the troubles in order to be better off next time?
Is it easier to be blindly idealistic about the most generic and utopistic issues of this complicated world - Neukölln ist Himmel! -or to try to get
the best and not just something for yourself, your life, the aims you chose and the people all around you?
When I go forwards, you go backwards, somewhere we will meet sang the Radiohead...this world is round, no?

Samstag

So first communication: the first album turned to be crap...apart from one song...you know Cat Stevens was probably already living the 80s probably...the album is from 1978 but the sound, damned, is already too much 80s...you know what I mean? I really dislike the music form that decade actually...on the average...whom should we save from those ten years? ...some British Punk Bands...The Pavement, D.Bowie..I am too tired to think about it...anyway the weather is not cool today...no washing machine yet, but we will manage a solution soon...not in a good mood yet...but we will manage a solution soon...

Anmd by the way have a look at this funny quiz, just to get some more motivations to come to visit me....
http://www1.spiegel.de/active/survivalbible/fcgi/survivalbible.fcgi

Peace to everybody

Back in Berlin: Lp sales

Today I woke up deadly tired...few hours of bad sleep as always so lately...I was drinking my coffee in a small cafe before going to the language school and I got a flyer from a man: "Till saturday we sell Lps for two euro!". Yeah, commercial for a music store. So after the school I went to this store and I actually realized why the lps were so cheap: half of the offers were damned aweful music...but then, after a long research, I found two albums by C. Stevens that I think I´ll be able to play in the restaurant...there is this one song in "Back to Earth" whose lyrics are so defining and well describing a situation familiar to me too...but it is weird: I just read the lyrics and not heard the song yet...
I think I broke the heart of one of my school mates when, two weeks ago, I told her that: 1. J. Cash was dead; 2. C. Stevens is now a kind of orthodox muslim; 3. Beth Orton is lesbian ( I made up the third by myself just to sound more interesting...). IFirst she thought my German was so poor that I could not tell her what I wanted but then, she understood and she was really surprised...but, Hallo, would you make a movie on the whole life of somebody who is still alive....? I mean in this case at the end the director should write "To be continued..." or" To be finished soon (hopefully)"...not very nice for the person concerned...no?
But anyway in these last two months I am more looking for music made just with few instruments, more connected with folk somehow, more intimate and whispered...and I started to re-evaluate the role of the lyrics in a song...I usually did not pay attention to that...
Id love to get a lp player now...it is so charming to touch the lps and read them...and the covers are usually much more meaningful because of their size...
Hope for you all a nice week-end. Have to go to work now...

Hmmm

Since the second time I went to Czech Republic in 2004, I had the opinion that their problem with events was that they are not really good in promoting them...I never studied marketing but I would say that if you have an International Jazzfest going on, only for days long, and one concert that is supposed to start at ten is not started at 11.15 yet, then there are some problems of promotion. In the end they started, late and without a big audience...but you see Czech are really sensitive and smart as well....they knew this band was not so uauau and they did not show up...walked back in the center...there is a terrific shopping mall, in the eastern part of the Namesti Svobody that looks like a gigantic pocket of atomically endangered aspirines...they should have some rules that take care of the visual health of the population...
Apart from this everything is fine...the sun is still high today...I am gonna visit an exhibition that is called "When the Pope smoked some dope" or something like that...Ill let you know, guys...mejte se hezky a hodne stesty pro vas a vase kamarady...

Jazz Fest

There is a concert tonight..we will go there and try to get wasted and obliterated...the weather was awesome today..I probably could hide my eyes "bags" from tomorrow because of the taint...

Jsem v Brne!!!!

I arrived yesterday...and today is sunny and very spring!!!....will stay just for few days...very few....but I can state that just with the dinner I had probably my weekly dose of garlick!!! Czech Republic!!!
Yeah really weird to know the city so well but to know so few people rightnow....
Take care you all...Ill tell you more soon...

I see a darkness

This song definitely drives me crazy and this guy has been the best musical discover of the last year probably...

I See A Darkness

Frühling

So finally the spring arrived today...I went to visit the kindergarden where I will be volunteering since next June...it is kind of far away from the center, actually it takes one hour to go there from my house...it is in the deep Eastern Berlin: I have a a big map of Berlin and the street of the kindergarten is almost at the border of it...big buildings and straight streets...but the people I talked to - actually we talked in German so they talked to me( but I got the meaning of most of the things) - were really nice...
I saw many young children sleeping and some older playing: this really convinced me I made a good choice!
Peace to everyone...even to you...

Trying to get distracted by music

Top five of the albums of the week:

• Tex Perkins: Wild Horses : (Check this lyrics... check the lyrics for this song!);
• The Best of Paolo Conte (Una verde Milonga is awesome!);
• Wilco and Billy Bragg (Can´t remember the name of the album...);
• Lambchop: Is a Woman;
• Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better ( Track number eight overall).

Is there room for private concerns in my blog?

Few days ago a friend asked me something like:"Do you have dreams for your future, Marco? Concerning your professional future (1); people you want the dreams come true with (2); so, just to generalize it, a project for your life...?"
Not an easy question, uh guys?
I think: (1) I don´t have a very clear idea about it; (2) I have a very clear idea...
But why shouldn´t I at least have some deep expectations? How can you live without them?
And by the way at least I think I have found a spot in this globe where I can feel satisfied...
But probably the clearness in the second case is too clear...I mean: the more it got clear, the less is become the space for acceptable differences/modifications...and the less they are, and the more vulnerable you feel, no? Even close-minded, no?
Or maybe, the less they are, the more somebody is blind/ a childish dreamer...I guess this second one fits to me a lot nowadays...hmm...is it freedom when you choose you are so sure about something that you give no other possibility to yourself? Free not to have something, then, because the choice implies this?...I guess it is...but the consequences cannot be under your control (obvious)...so the freedom then it is just the way you live together with them, the way you handle them...or what? Or maybe it´s already gone so, for your own sake, you have to consider your life a sequence of unrespected situations that obliges you to make up a new version that fits to the new circumstances...?
Anyway...both blindly dreamer and totally free...it sounds a very strange combination for a 25 years old dude, uh?



But that is the way it is...so I´ll get along with that! Or what?

The fourth part of the story

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article357233.ece

Chart

So after almost a month let´s describe some of the funniest things seen in here:
a guy from Jamaica who plays chess on the streets: if you want to compete with him, he switches on the radio, keeps it very loud, and plays fast: he declares he is the fourth best player in his country...possible, no? The more you play with him, the more you pay...
A man who comes to the restaurant every single night trying to sell candles, the big coloured ones...so far nobody among the personnel has ever seen him selling at least one but he seems so peaceful and happy...
A man who comes to the restaurant every single night offering you to have a Polaroid photo: we once asked for one and realized he actually has no perception of the proportions: half of the photo had no subject and we were put in the left part of it...he asks five euro for this and in Berlin it is a lot for such a service....but whatever....
Turkish children playing football in a yard, everybody against everybody...joyfully screaming and running hard...
A Georgian man talking a good Italian with an American guy, living in Rome, in an Italian restaurant in Berlin: they understood each other so well!!!
A Techno party in a grungie place in Kreuzberg: five in the morning, 1500 people sweating in a dance floor with a tropical climate...unbearable...I have been told some people kept on partying till four in the afternoon..guess thanks of what?
German people eating half a kilo of fried cabbage with french fries, with fried Curry wurst, curry, mayonnaise and ketchup at three in the morning...the last three not fried, unfortunately for them!!!

Silvio go home...

I never thought my country is a normal democracy but somehow elections still work...even if the media have been occupied by this paper-tycoon Italian voters chose five years ago...What this country needs is rules, equity and hope: that fake statist, this Narcisus, this bullshit-teller, this unpolite man, this doubtful money-maker could not provide any...and to me this seemed obvious from the very beginning... I don´t miss Italy...don´t miss a crapped system where the rich people are not even judged for their crimes, where the environment is a good as butter or towels and where the hipocrisy rules on both sides most of the time...
Too pessimistic..maybe but have a look at the reports on these last election days and you ll agree with me a bit more, I guess...

Still cold

So today it seems it is still winter; the school was kind of boring and it seems like the teacher, though too young for this, suffers of some menopause side-effects: she would keep the window always open....damned! When it is cold, just close it!....but probably German people are used to this strange spring time....are they cold? Are they close? Would they show their feelings? Would they express themselves without the need to make detailed questions? Would they cry when something is sad and howl when something is awesome? I don´t knwo yet...But after all: Would I either? Probably....
I go to work...

house

We finally got a washing machine and a vacuumcleaner, a table and some chairs...
The neighbourhood is awesome...almost everything I need is in the surrounding...
The only thing I still miss is a laptop but Ill try to manage it somehow....
Stay tuned!

Complete Address

So I live in: Baruther Strasse, 11. 10961 Berlin Germany.
Peace to everyone.

Get Google Earth and have a look!

Hey guys, the addresse of my new house is Baruther Strasse, 11. Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Check it out, have an air-view...Enjoy!

And the first dream comes true

I finally got a room in a flat with three other German students!!!!!!!
It is not a joke, the one from April the first!!!!!
I am so happy...you can´t even imagine...
Have a nice you all!!!

Funny Championships

http://ch.tilllate.com/DE/partydetails.php?gid=304058
After the Sudoku World Championships, won last month by a Czech woman, professor of Economics, here it is another weird competition...