John Martyn R.I.P.

Paillard Bolex H8

I prefer my household items to be transparent

Thanks, Lisa Katayama.

I Don't Know What It Is, But I Want It

Kids With Cameras

Shelby announces world's fastest electric car

www.140it.com makes your tweet less than 140 characters. But hey, then I am out of work. My daily 140 character updates are my works of art.

Leon Kirchner

Will Ferrell’s “You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush”

A Message from George W Bush from Will Ferrell

Yes, I am a music buff. Tonight? The russian pianist Olga Kern @ Mogens Dahl Koncertsal. Haydn, Brahms, Liszt and a cool Rachmaninov sonata!

The BPA feat. Iggy Pop, "He's Frank (Slight Return)"

Norway (Orkla, Opera), Sweden (Vattenfall, Proventus) and Finland (a philosopher) are represented at Davos. No Danes. http://www.weforum.org

Stanley Kubrick

Going back to the amazing DR Koncerthuset for the 2nd Friday in a row ("P3 Guld Awards"). I can get used to this. http://ping.fm/Krvwi

Danish electronic pioneer 'Fuzzy' performed a set of bleep works from 1962 to 2002 @ Brorsons Kirke in CPH tonight http://ping.fm/coZ5j

The Danish String Quartet really rocked during the 3rd Movement of Haydn @ Hellerup Kammermusikforening tonight http://ping.fm/fTHP2

The Barack Obama administration launches new, cool, blog-powered web site immediately after the inauguration show http://ping.fm/8vE8H

It's Monday and it's battle of the giants. Today, Depeche Mode ("Wrong") and U2 ("Get On Your Boots") release new singles to radio stations.

In honor of Kobe

Japan marks 14th anniversary of deadly Kobe quake

Japan has commemorated the 14th anniversary of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that destroyed the western city of Kobe, killing 6,434 people.

Thousands of survivors and relatives of the victims held pre-dawn candlelight vigils at temples, public parks and in their homes, observing a minute of silence at 5:46 am (2046 GMT), the exact time the 1995 quake struck.

Most of the victims in Kobe died instantly, many in their sleep as their houses collapsed.

The quake, the first to hit a densely-populated area in Japan in more than 70 years, injured 43,700 people and left around 400,000 people homeless.

"I believe we have a duty to talk about the disaster of the earthquake to the generations to come," said Chiharu Tanaka, 53, who lost her mother in the quake.

"We must treasure the bonds among ourselves. We must treasure lives," she said in an address at a gathering in Higashi Yuenchi park in Kobe.

Japan sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" and experiences 20 percent of the world's major earthquakes.

The deadly quake shattered Japan's illusions that the country's post-war economic reforms and vaunted building standards could ensure complete security.

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The Irrepressibles "In This Shirt"

The Irrepressibles "In Your Eyes"

My good friends Depeche Mode announces album title, release date and details about the album in this press release http://ping.fm/5eOzu

DEPECHE MODE Sounds Of The Universe - Press Release

DEPECHE MODE
ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF
SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE
APRIL 21, 2009

January 15, 2009- Groundbreaking, chart-topping electro legends Depeche Mode are proud to announce the release of their long-anticipated new studio album, Sounds Of The Universe on April 21, 2009 (Mute Records).

Eclectic and energized, the band's new release is their most dazzling and diverse album in decades. Recorded in Santa Barbara and New York, Depeche Mode returned to using a lot of vintage gear, from analogue synthesizers to drum machines, in order to conjure up the retro-futuristic arrangements featured on the album. Lyrically the release contains many of the group's enduring obsessions plus more overt black humor than any of their previous collections.

Like with their 2005 studio album, Playing The Angel, Sounds Of The Universe features writing credits for both Martin Gore, the group's primary songwriter, and Dave Gahan who after honing his talents on two solo albums, has earned his place as Depeche Mode's second writer. The release also marks a reunion between the band and producer Ben Hillier (Blur, Doves, Elbow), who worked with the band to help give their new album its timeless sound. The first single from the release, "Wrong," grabs the listener's attention from its first stack-heeled, staccato shriek. Over stomping beats, screeching synthesizers, and Dave's overlord chant, "Wrong" already feels like a Depeche Mode classic. Other standout tracks include Martin's velvet-lined Scott Walker croon on the sensual lounge-music ballad "Jezebel," to the sci-fi gospel-blues hymn "In Chains" and "Hole To Feed," which marries modern electronics to a floor-shaking, bone-rattling Bo Diddley beat.

As one of the most influential bands of the post-punk era, with global sales in excess of 100 million, Depeche Mode belongs to a select premiere league of super groups who have survived from the early 1980s with their ideals, creative vision and core members intact. Formed in 1981, Depeche Mode - Martin Gore, Dave Gahan and Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher - continue to win critical and commercial acclaim across the world both in the studio and on the road. All of the band's 11 studio albums have reached the Top Ten in not only the UK and USA but 20 plus countries around the world including Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Belgium. Additionally, since their inception Depeche Mode's live shows continue to be a must-see attraction, with the group playing to 2.8 million people across 31 countries on their last tour alone.

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Man On Wire

Brian Eno about the Gaza crisis

Inspired by Germany in Japan, and vice versa

Everybody is raving about Facebook Connect. I can understand why. Just flew in on the Joost site with my Facebook credentials. Real Web 2.0.

Facebook Connect on Joost

What iTunes for News Would Really Look Like

Vanity Fair created a graphic for an idea published in the New York Times. Meanwhile, the prestige newspaper is struggling.

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Cisco Linksys 1TB Media Hub

Facebook 500

Fuck Burger King. I found my best friend in school, Mogens Toudahl, yesterday. He is my Facebook friend number 500. Facebook rocks.

Apparently we both (partly, for my part) live in Berlin!

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Mickey Rourke, Kate Winslet (2), Heath Ledger and Woody Allen all picked up Golden Globe Awards in Hollywood last night http://ping.fm/a64B1

Bono Guest Columnist in the New York Times

Bono, the lead singer of U2, on what Frank Sinatra taught him about art, innocence and experience.

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Will favourites Sean Penn or Mickey Rourke win @ the Golden Globe Awards 2009 on Sunday?? http://ping.fm/a64B1

I just posted some new photos and a web video clip of the Depeche Mode recording sessions in New York City http://ping.fm/11idk

Video web clip of Depeche Mode in the studio in New York City

Depeche Mode in the studio in New York City

Listening to my own music tip of the day. Eerie and gorgeous at the same time. Ennio Morricone is god. Check blog: http://ping.fm/xcY8H

Alexander Von Schlippenbach " Piano Solo 77 "

Just put this CD on my wanted list (=waiting for iTunes release).

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Ennio Morricone "Macchie Solari (aka Autopsy)" Original Soundtrack

Chilling giallo soundtrack work from Ennio Morricone -- music that features some very spooky vocal touches from I Cantori Moderni and Edda Dell'Orso! The starting theme is quite sweet, but the soundtrack quickly moves into starker, darker numbers that stand with some of Morricone's best horror work of the 70s -- music that's very artfully prepared, at a level that's much higher than the image on the screen, and which is key to setting its tension. There's no too-easy musical moments here -- and also less of the too-tense or atonal orchestrations that Morricone might use. And instead, the darkness comes almost from an inversion of the usual sweetness -- electric harpsichord played hard and heavy, or Edda Dell'Orso wheezing raspily instead of crooning dreamily! CD reissue features 22 tracks in all -- with titles that include "Sibili", "Con Voce Strozzata", "Macchie Solari", "Passagio Primo", "Preannuncio", "Sesso E Potere", and "Sul Filo".

This soundtrack is now available on iTunes.

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Simona Sana (Mimsy Farmer) is a young pathologist whom works in a morgue in Rome, Italy which gets with with a wave of violent suicides which are attributed to a summer heat wave. Driven to exhaustion from the intense heat and the long hours worked, Simona struggles to complete her college theses about natural deaths when one suicide victim is brought in the morgue in which a young Catholic priest named Paul Lenox (Barry Primus) who identifies the corpse as his sister, but that did not commit suicide, but was murdered and set up to look like a suicide. Simona teams up with Father Lenox to solve the mystery and stay one step ahead of a mysterious killer who now begins to stalk her when Simona gets a little too close to the truth of the suicides.

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Toshiko Akiyoshi Piano Trio 1958

Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500

Checking the Berlin concert calendar for January 2009 makes you think the wall is back: D.A.F. (7th), Click Click and Portion Control (10th)

Reading the news about Prince's upcoming three albums in 2009 made me want to see this amazing performance again: http://ping.fm/l1C3p

Super Bowl Halftime Show 2007 Prince

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VICE PICTURES by Ryan McGinley