Thinking about all the wars this planet is currently drowning in led me to search out one of the best musical adaptations of a Blake poem I have ever heard: “Lullaby” by Loreena McKennitt. The perfect reading is by Douglas Campbell, who unfortunately died recently. Blake would be proud. The …
Working hard on Phenomenon 32 and listening to the new Muse album. The first song, Uprising, is pure poetry. Paranoia is in bloom, The PR transmissions will resume, They’ll try to push drugs that keep us all dumbed down, And hope that we will never see the truth around. (So …
I’ve posted this before, and I’ll probably post it again, but with the coming elections here in Germany this is an important reminder of what the SPD (the Social Democrat Party) actually stands for. It was the SPD and the Greens that went to war against Kosovo, a war as …
My friend Ivo (aka Qondory Weary) has, once again, started updating his blog. I’d like to take a tiny bit of credit for that, though not more than 5% – after all, he’s a writer, and the urge for writing is alive in him. The one bad thing about blogging …
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry being hilarious. Be sure to watch the whole thing, and think about it next time you see some disgusting nationalist (American or not) on TV.
While I realize that one shouldn’t feed the trolls, sometimes I simply can’t help it. And so I would like to dedicate this video to “J.H.”, the sociopathic user who wasted my time with absurd arguments unconnected to observable reality and went on to offend myself and my wife. Enjoy! …
Here’s one of the greatest musicians of all time doing a song that is just dripping with cool. Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Warren Zevon. We lost a truly great one when Warren died.
Today shall be a day of work. Yes. And a bit of playing Divinity 2: Ego Draconis, of which a review will appear soon in both my blog and Verena’s. But mostly work. Phenomenon 32 work, looking-for-a-honeymoon-destination work, and of course the secret work that you don’t know about (muahaha). …
And now for some music with Jason Webley and Jay Thompson. (“These people watched too much Monty Python growing up.” – our friend Sebastian, upon seeing this.) Enjoy the insanity! P.S. The reason cats do not go to heaven is because it’s not fancy enough for them.
I know, I know. I keep writing about Tom Waits lately. But there are so few artists like him – artists with an absolutely unique vision and voice (literally and metaphorically), and integrity. The music, the words, the singing… it adds up to something absolutely magical and beautiful. Currently I …
