Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Every Year Again

Alle Jahre wieder**
Kommt das Christuskind
Auf die Erde nieder,
Wo wir Menschen sind.

Kehrt mit seinem Segen
Ein in jedes Haus,
Geht auf allen Wegen
Mit uns ein und aus.
*
Every year again
Comes the Christ Child
Down to earth
Where we humans are.

Stops with its blessing
At every house
Walks on all paths
With us in and out.
* * For the past twelve years I have been posting this very "Christmas"-photo "every year again". The accompanying texts: different.
Nothing has changed for the better. Callousness, egoism, greed, hypocrisy and – above all – stupidity are obviously increasing at the same speed as (wo)mankind is proliferating.
In this sense: Merry Christmas.
Enjoy life as long as you can.
And don't feel guilty!
Humbleness is for the others, eh?!

Saturday, December 21, 2019

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Thursday, December 12, 2019

You are entering Free Britain now

It's not about The Cockroach.





 It's about the mindset of a "majority".*

 Good night, England, and good luck.


* The cockroaches will teach them, anyway.


Saturday, December 07, 2019

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Saturday Night Music



Joaquín Rodrigo (22 November 1901 – 6 July 1999)

Paco de Lucía (21 Dezember 1947 – 25 February 2014)

Friday, November 22, 2019

Thursday, November 21, 2019

The Moor's Revenge



Henry Purcell (10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695)

Saturday, October 26, 2019

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Saturday Night Music



Dmitri Hvorostovsky    16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

Elīna Garanča
             * 16 September 1976

Constantine Orbelian  * 27 August 1956

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Wednesday, October 09, 2019

La quête



Jacques Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978)

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Idiots from Indonesia

1,822 visitors, all from Indonesia, today left 902 times the same idiotic spam.
While deleting the 902 unknowns, giorginas, maddox pax, broklyn hazard, lehman kartojo, i gede putut and adhe donat, accidently I did also delete the latest comments on "Plethora & Wastefulness".

Sorry Mark and Andrew.



Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Plethora & Wastefulness

Hungry villagers?
Obviously ... not ...

Saturday, September 07, 2019

Saturday, August 03, 2019

Friday, August 02, 2019

Friday is Skyday

Flying high ...
... diving deep

Thursday, August 01, 2019

Laughing Lhursday*

Ah, yes, I see.
* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Saturday, July 20, 2019

Friday, July 19, 2019

Saturday, July 13, 2019

Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Sunday, July 07, 2019

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Waltz No. 2

Enjoy this as a little appetizer for the next Saturday Night Music.



Stjepan Hauser

Dmitri Shostakovich


Saturday, June 08, 2019

Saturday, May 04, 2019

Saturday Night Music



Dmitri  Hvorostovsky 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

On Sunday, May 7, Dmitri Hvorostovsky who after being diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2015 had had a hiatus, performed “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata” from Verdi’s Rigoletto before an adoring crowd, in Metropolitan Opera, New York.
It's so sad seeing him so weak. But his voice!

Video credit: Metropolitan Opera

And here the "same", performed but four years earlier, on 19 August 2013

Saturday, February 09, 2019

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Monday, January 14, 2019

Sunday, January 06, 2019

Toreadór



Dmitri  Hvorostovsky 9 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Déjà-vu in 2019



Dmitri  Hvorostovsky 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017

In 80 Words Around A Year


While perverse bastards felt fancy to call the war they started the year with "Operation Olive Branch"; while worldwide many people built walls around their heart; while there were natural, moral and ethical disasters galore, I was allowed to enjoy the best year of my life, so far, on this planet. And now I am looking forward what we shall make of 2019, the first months of which I am going to live and write in Spain. Happy New Year!