The Shins: New Slang
My nephew and my brother like the Shins and they’ve turned me on to them. “New Slang” is a melodious oldie from 2001. Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth. Only, I don’t know how they got out, dear. Turn me back into the pet that I was when […]
George Harrison: Here comes the sun
So what’s the weather like in your neck of the woods? Das heißt: Wie ist das Wetter denn so bei Euch? Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say it’s all right Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here Here […]
The Police: Roxanne
This song is still amazing after over 30 years. Don’t you love early videos of great bands? They’re working their butts off jamming and the audience is sitting there like so many dead ducks. Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light Those days are over You don’t have to sell your body […]
Sonic Youth: Antenna
Surfing round re Cunningham I came across several Sonic Youth videos. These old masters have a new record out, called The Eternal. I love the intro to this. But the lyrics are awfully melancholy. Well, after all, “she’s far away”. my darling cruises the streets for pleasure skyscrapers in the blood red dawn throbbing blood […]
Beatles: All you need is love
I met two German teachers from Ukraine yesterday who are taking a course to brush up their German and are being supported by the Ukraine Project, which has for over 20 years been organizing an exchange of teachers between Munich and our partner city Kiev. We talked love and the joy of committment being a vital source of energy for anything you want to do.
Stealers Wheel: Stuck in the middle with you
Gary Rafferty and Stealers Wheel sang this way back in 1972, but the feeling is universal, isn’t it? “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you!” Life can be a circus. If you’re stuck, well, I hope you find a way out of the […]
Pina Bausch: The man I love
Pina Bausch (7 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) introduced the fragile, intense emotional nakedess of everyday gestures to dance, and had her dancers make sounds to match. I came across “The Man I Love” by chance and was utterly charmed: Sign language, both with and without speech, as dance. The man I love – […]
