Do you really have to?

A few months ago I started an attempt to ban the use of 'have to' out off my vocabulary. Instead of having to do something, you better should do it to avoid suffering consequences.

I was quite sure to break a small circle with the effect to feel a little better in daily life. But then my theory crackt...

A friend of mine - Marie J. - got some examples with me that made it hard to stick to it. "What about pooing? If you have to shit, you really have to!" But still I said "You should shit to avoid suffering bowel conditions!"

But now it got me: I just ran into another big thing I HAD TO do: not saying it! So listen to my rather radical conclusion while you softly say it: YOU DON´T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING. YOU HAVE TO FUCK IT AND YOU HAVE TO DIE!
Period!

Blumm, Blumm, Bobby&Blumm

If you wonder why a heavily bald man needs a comb, check the whole video!



Next to many other things he also does a sweet neat project called Bobby&Blumm. He has also something to do with Dave Grubbs.

Belfi / Grubbs / Pilia

Don´t listen to this stuff until you have enough time, pot or tiredness to be weird or just/even accessible to weird thing!

Here´s also the first song in live audio and picture if you´re more into seeing these things played live (even if it´s only on youtube...). But you can´t miss the second song off of the first link!

If you´re digging it check out more music of David Grubbs at meischbäss, läbelwebbseit (more easy to listen to) or jutiup:


You definitely should know/get to know Grubbs from bands like Gastr del Sol, Bastro or his several collaborations. I don´t know the other weirdos in the title above, so checkem out on your own if you like!

But don´t forget to be relaxed/high/sleepless!

Come visit me and use my bathroom

Sitting on the toilette I read an article in the GEO magazine from May 1985. It was about an American photographer called James Nachtwey. There´s so much reporting about war (it´s maybe there is so much war), but often you get the feeling that these people try to profit from the pain and suffering of people in "war-like situations". But he wrote something else, he wrote something you can comprehend and what´s human:

"There is war since there is mankind. And the more civilized the people, the more effective, the more cruel their methods of destruction of the fellow men. [...] Since the 8th of May in 1945 there has been not a single day in the world without war, even though nowhere war has been officially declared according to international law. [...] World War 2 has cost 50 million lives and since then at least 35 million people died in warlike conflicts. [My remark: it´s 1985, there has been no Kosovo War, no Rwandan Genocide and no Gongo War ...to name a few]
Why do I photograph the war? Is photography able to do something against a human behaviour that lasts history? You think it´s sheer a ridiculously exaggerated vision. But that´s exactly this vision that drives me to picture war. I see the big chance for photography to awake a sense of humanity. If war is a consequence of the breakdown of communication and understanding, then photography is a kind of understanding and the opposite of war. [...] If every person could see with his own eyes what phosphor does to the face of a child or how a stray shell splinter rips off one leg of the man next to you, then everybody should understand that no conflict in this world justifies to do these things to a person, let alone millions of them.
My biggest problem as a photographer of war is that I could profit from the sorrow of others. This thought follows me every day[...]"

Check out the homepage for his photography!

*UPDATE: Thanks to this guy I got to know that there´s a film about Nachtwey called War Photographer!

New stuff from Owen

There´s new stuff coming out:
- a new 7inch with two songs
- on facebook he´s writing about currently recording a new full length record!

Yaaaay111
Who knows, maybe we´ll able to see him in Germany someday again...

Btw: you can listen to the title track of the 7inch on the Polyvinyl website!

10:00:16:14o

To match my new haircut, I´m really into the early Beatles again.



There´s no way around to tell you that I adore the songs they wrote about 66/67 when they officially announced lsd and weed as their influences.

H&M clothes get more expensive

At least that could be a possible headline in the near future.

But I don´t wanna say something against the convenience of western consumption. The terrible things hanging together with bad working conditions and child labour are happening so far away that I really don´t have a problem about giving a shit.


Maybe there´ll be a different actual headline like "New H&M line broaches current issues"!

Me in ten years

Is this me in ten years? Wtf? Ya know I´m sayin!


Nice shirt btw!

Perdón, señor?

The funniest thing I saw since Sarah Silverman! It had been a long time since I cried because of laughing so hard:

Boycott it!

After a friend of mine told me this nice line: "Of all wonders of nature that exist in the world, the sky is the most astounding and therefore my favorite, because everybody can enjoy it wherever you are." I came to the decision to stop consuming this mainstream shit!

Join me111 I don´t know why and what for, but it doesn´t matter! Mainstream is always lame, isn´t it? No, seriously...isn´t it?

*Update: There are already the first messages from people all over the world expressing their sympathy! Check out their pics: