We are in the Beginning of the 21st Century and and shit like this is still happening it makes me very sad. Check out the web site Justice in Jena! its time for no more strange fruit.

after they spoke he walked to carry his thoughts through a fog-numb berlin, september’s kill of dirt-gold leaves, lamp-lit breath and double seraphim (the couples out) (in matching coats) (to windowshop in tones as hushed) (as awed librarians)

he sought the cold to clarify his longing for such comforts as her tantalizing call half-promised: a stove-warmed kitchen and the cook in it, the postprandial dinner fadged in minutes; and imagine the phone between her shoulder and her Rossetti chin, no man to lift a spoon to then, no man to press her back into, no face-lost man in her book of kursiv hair, nor judge of the taste of her curry paste with his tongue-tip, lips, blessing kiss, breathless air

this walk in the cold was the closest he got to being there

what is the heart? a drum explaining Life to the body, or the red-walled bedroom of a lonely dream? let’s say it’s a newborn we take everywhere with us, a baby we can’t bear to leave, kicking as we carry it from point to point unseen like parents of a changeling or a vestigial teen. is His

as beautiful to Hers as Hers was to the god She did not care to keep?

in winter the foreign girl sings with her cocoa voice as she pedals her bike uphill, some think she’s puerto rican, a chica mami, untamed, some berliners claim she came from israel, or fancifully others suggest her family fled in well-bred exile from old red money, or black brazil

boys walking home from school who have committed to memory her body smashing the wrinkled mirror of the heated pool, who have committed to memory the superbity of green her eyes enjewel, or the beach-burned gold of her shoulder blades at the Strandbar at Monbijou’s gates, pause talkless as she crests the sundown hill shifting gears, each alone in reverie about that foreign girl turning 34 next year

there’s a dead sparrow on the brick walk in the garden, breeze-ruffled feathers on its thumb-sized chest suggest flight though its blood is a page-thick shadow on the brick she kneels on, probing with a twig. it’s gone

south for forever’s winter. the foreign girl’s lover calls her to dinner, she uses her fork to poke the chicken’s liver

Short-stories.co.uk/ has a pretty good collection in various formats!

Archive for classic literature on the web

This dude has two rare interviews with the comic genius from England up on YouTube. It's cut into pieces for some reason....

4 Search requests: funny event for kids from wikipedia 2 Search requests: funny english country pictures Search Request: Language of West Berlin Search request: artists born in the US working in another country Search request: funny blog weird topic

Last.FM started a new campaign and a new blog for all the independent artists out there.

"The Campaign for Better Music is here to say: it doesn’t have to be like the old days. We’re going to show you how to produce, promote and distribute your music, without spending a load of money, and without lots of other people getting involved."

SO, follow their blog, they're trying to come up with some helpful info:

Now Form a Band

All the funny stuff!

Tuesday 25 Sept. 9 pm Georgy Girl (1966) GEORGY GIRL, a world-wide smash, was a ground-breaking film -- one of the first to deal with the sexual revolution of the '60s. There was considerable pressure to censor the film's "frank and ultramodern" portrayal of complex relationships. It was also part of the leading edge of European films invading American theaters. And, of course, it marked the auspicious debut of its star, Lynn Redgrave, who won the Golden Globe® for Best Actress, the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Actress of 1966.

Thursday 27 Sept. 9 pm The Book Group (Series One first three episodes) On The Road Claire from Cincinnati, Ohio hosts the first meeting of the book group, with her favourite book, On The Road by Jack Keroac, under discussion. But being bossy (banning smoking and mobile phones, for example), she struggles to win over the rest of the group – wheelchair user Kenny, footballers wives Dirka, Fist and Janice, stroppy Rab and dishy student Barney. And her clumsy pass at Barney results in embarrassing rejection. The Alchemist Dirka hosts the group for a discussion of new-age classic The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Fist has taken the book's message to heart by leaving her husband, Rab is impressed to be in the company of footballers, and the Playstation proves to be more popular than literature. Meanwhile, after turning down two admirers, Kenny has no luck when he tries it on with Claire. Magical Realism Kenny is writing a book set in a mountain cabin, with his heroine resembling Fist, while Claire is writing a novel, envisaging Barney as her dashing professor hero. Barney and temporary flatmate Fist host the group's discussion of Gabriel Garcia Márquez but Claire's criticism upsets Barney so much he has to go to the toilet to shoot up on heroin.

Friday 28 Sept. Dinner 9pm Movie about 11pm The Bad Seed (1956) review from Horror.com

I must confess to a weakness for horror films with kids who either start out perfect, or look perfect, then turn out to be horribly evil or morally corrupt. I love Village of the Damned, The Exorcist, The Omen, Audrey Rose, The Good Son, and so on. The Bad Seed was one of the first horror movies I saw as a child, so maybe that's the reason for my penchant. I liked it so much, I even sought out the book it was based on (and delightfully discovered the much darker ending in the William March novel).

Ten year old ice princess Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) is pretty as a picture and polite as you please, but behind the blonde, pigtailed facade lurks a sinister and slippery sociopath. Her long-suffering mother Christine Penmark (Nancy Kelly) can barely keep up with her precocious offspring as Rhoda goes from one crime to another (of course, she doesn't want to believe her daughter is bad and wears the proverbial parental blinders). The only one who really knows that Rhoda isn't sugar and spice and everything nice is the slow-witted janitor of her apartment building, LeRoy (Henry Jones). Unafraid, he underestimates the girl and eggs her on -- when one of her classmates winds up dead, LeRoy taunts Rhoda about blue electric chairs for little boys and pink electric chairs for little girls. As Rhoda's roster of victims grows, Mrs. Penmark can no longer turn a blind eye. With Mr. Penmark conveniently away, the lives of a suspicious mother and a dangerous daughter spiral into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Most of the cast of The Bad Seed played their roles in the hit Broadway play, clocking in hundreds of hours as these characters. As you watch them onscreen, you can see the ease in which they embody their fictional skins -- mostly, this works to the movie's advantage but the acting is often very theatrical, and certainly by today's standards is well over the top. For adults seeing The Bad Seed for the first time it may come off as slightly campy, but with all of the creepiness and suspense mostly well intact (I say "mostly" because decades ago, The Bad Seed was rare in its depiction of a child as evil -- now, it's old hat and viewers are jaded). As I mentioned before, the moralistic Hollywood of the 1950s forced the filmmakers to tack on a feel-good ending (the play retained the book's chilling climax), but it doesn't ruin the overall impact of the story. Sunday 30 Sept. 14:00 We are going to have a planning meeting about bridge today, if you are interested in playing or learning bridge please come by or talk to Alan any time except Friday.

Tuesday 02 Oct. 9 pm The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) The passions and pitfalls of a lifetime in the military are dramatized in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's magnificent epic, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. The film follows the exploits of pristine British soldier Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) as he battles to maintain his honor and proud gentlemanly conduct through romance, three wars, and a changing world. Vibrant and controversial, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is at once a romantic portrait of a career soldier and a pointed investigation into the nature of aging, friendship, and obsolescence. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Powell & Pressburger's masterpiece in all its Technicolor glory. from the Criterion Collection website

The bookshop will be featured in an upcoming issue of Berlin's biggest city magazine (Not the one coming out today!)

Why Fidelity # 89 - Another Country

Senses Working Overtime has tons of great mixes like that up there for download. One of the coolest MP3-blogs I've seen so far!

papertools about "Another Country"

"A blog about books and publishing, aimed at both readers and writers. Listed by the Guardian in 2005 as one of the top ten literary blogs"

I know, the quality sucks, but it was a great evening and maybe someone else wants to take pictures instead? Graham is off for a while, I heard!

There is another long video on my cellphone, but I gotta transfer it first and before that I gotta throw all kinds of things away which takes very long and....

future cities as gift shops in the earth’s museum. future kids with sky to play with kinda boredly and mutagens to dabble in. future sex like polio eradicated: no his’ or hers’ just thems’. i see

those long thin silver twilights, perforated like player-piano rolls, performing the weather. yes i see golden characters with violet tongues licking themselves with vile aplomb like cats. cats i see on commemorative coins. coins i see in teflon-lined sarcophagi. brazil will be miles of amusant bonsai forests itching with speck-like game and stars in trillion-tonned lots by deed and obscured by a Moon in flames. Lo

i see books of the ancients in Sino-African translations inscribed on long blond strands of hair: The Collected Works of Pearl S. Buck in a hooker’s wig those golden cats shall wear. Yea

I see berlin in this vision though we’re no longer there

Amazon interview

In his personal blog...

Wallywoods, Sunday, 7 October, 7pm