This summer I hung out in the Czech Republic in the lovely town of Běhařov with Sonya. Tina and her boyfriend Phill dropped by and Julia so, inspired by the movie Zombie Lake (1981), we decided to make a music-video called Making Fools, which is now up on Sonya’s website. It is my first completed track (so far, and not really indicative of what I’m into but it was made in one day with on a nasty hangover).
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I just got back from MAGISTRALE Kulturnacht’s Medialounge in which a good friend of mine has some photos on exhibit. There was a series of laptop audio performances by various artists which climaxed with a live performance of the so called Laptoporchester Berlin. Seven guys on laptops nodding their heads.They opened with a couple of pieces that were lead by a guy on a cool seven string electric guitar which had a body that was just snap on bars in the shape of a traditional guitar (see picture). They then ended with a cover of Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ which I’d only recently discovered being a big fan of Steve Riech.
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I asked Sebastian about tomato recipes as I came home from the market last Friday with 5kg of cherry tomatos (only 2.50 euros!). This is what he sent me:
This pics of the salad are from one that I made last night. It’s dead easy and rocks.
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There is a new episode of Urban Uncle out with a feature on Berlins own underground Hip-Hop MC Face Error. If your into Hip-Hop you should defiantly check it out.
A wet sky ends another flushed day
Letting go of the days hot frustrations
Releasing the struggle that started at dawn
So one can finally say “I’m done.”
The race is over. Nobody won.
The cool breeze retires ambition
Let the shoulders sag and, put on loose shoes,
Smile in the company of others
Reflecting at the slow replay of the days events
Forever to be frozen in memory
Washed in hopes or regrets
Last night I saw a movie that revolted me so much I could not watch anymore: Pink Flamingos (1972). I can’t remember when a movie had pulled such utter revolt from me to the point I was almost throwing up.
However, it has in a way inspired the Urban Uncle project and given it a style, ‘Trash’, which brings its own freedoms to create. All are encouraged to go out and film their own trashy dreams and ideas. This is what I believe the Punk or New Wave movement was about the “Just do it” attitude. But I digress…
I wish I was a pie-man
And lived by the sea
A pie-man gets to try one
And in the sea he gets to pee
Today could be the last day of my life
I made a curry, rode my bike.
The sunset took its time fading away,
One orange at a time
While sparrows madly cut and dived
Cut and dived
Madly took their flight
Through the last days light of my life
My clean bare feet still soft from the moist heat
Timidly caress the wet gravel
The rain starts again
People shut their doors,
Close the windows from dark rooms
Whims to this weather
The sun silently drowns on the grey horizon
And it ends, this soft goodbye
Coffee is my new God
I worship the black grainy truth
Biting the nails off slow seconds
Master makes the pages turn
While inside the mind burns
One thousand thoughts a second
This pen stains my accuser finger
Like the scribes of ancient old
Darkly out of shape the eye brown stalks
The day jumps in time
The Day Jumps Peter Pan
The Day JUMPS kAnGaRoOs
Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee
For for for for for for
Me me me me me me
Went to this gig at Station Park last night. Was a bit of a fizzer, as far as Berlin gigs go. It was 9 Euro which is a bit pricey for most students here and there are plenty of other things happening on a Friday night in Berliner town. Otherwise there was a lot of potential as the live acts they lined up were quite good.
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