This is an interview with a young Iggy Pop to the music of Mogwai. I especially like when he says: “What sounds to you like a big load of trashy loud noise, is in fact the brilliant music of a genius ….. myself. And that music is so powerful that it is beyond my control.“
I have just recently discovered ‘the show‘ a series of tiny video episodes from and with zefrank. I think he’s funny, Tina doesn’t, but that’s ok. He has great humour and it helps that he thinks, so I don’t have to. I also now that he likes me, he says so on his website!
This video is special. A great song to sing whenever you are scared: “At least I don’t suck at life, I keep on trying despite.”
Gestern haben wir den Film “Schultze Gets the Blues” gesehen und uns trotz des abrupten Endes super amuesiert ueber diesen Ur-Teutonen, der so gaaaaaaaaaanz langsam aus seinem Schneckenhaus herauskommt und dank einiger energischer Damen noch mal was ganz anderes erlebt nach 40 Jahren Untertagebau.
This is a great talk by Stanford professor Larry Lessig about how the current system of enforced copyright is turning us and our children into criminals for only creative expression.
Hier mal wieder ein paar gemischte Fotos von Aurin und Robin. Ich habe auf Wunsch von Oma Renate die Gallery vereinfacht, so dass die Bilder jetzt besser zum Ausdrucken sind.
Heute haben wir dieses Possumbaby in unserem Garten gefunden. Da Possums nachtaktive Tiere sind, ist irgendwas nicht in Ordnung wenn man sie tagsueber sieht. Dieses Baby hat wohl seine Mutter verloren und lag also zitternd da. Wir haben es dann in eine Wolldecke gehuellt und in eine Box gepackt. Der Sydney Metropolitan Wildlife Service hat uns dann zu einem Tierarzt verwiesen, wo wir das kleine Ding dann abgeben konnten.
Ooch mal schoen nicht immer nur mit Schlangen und Spinnen konfrontiert zu werden.
This is copied from Sean’s Website who has copied it from somewhere else, so I feel safe to copy it again without fear of eternal damnation
Top Ten Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the “atrocities” attributed to Allah, but you don’t even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in “Exodus” and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in “Joshua” including women, children, and trees!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs — though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most “tolerant” and “loving.”
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in “tongues” may be all the evidence you need to “prove” Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01% as a “high success rate” when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.
You, yes you, dinosaur of the industrial age, get this into your head: this age is about information and information is really totally different from material matter. One curious property of information is that if you try to take it away …. it multiplies! Not by magic, but by the nature of the human mind which just loves to delve into a big sea of information and reacts strongly to forces that try to dry up this well.
So, read up on the Streisand Effect and learn a lesson. All you RIAA, DCMA, Cease and Desist lawyers and Patent Pushers out there. You are of the past, just lie down and die.
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