Followup to the below post–
The artist responsible for the concrete block I mentioned in the entry below is none other than the illustrious Arthur Ganson, who just so happens to have some videos hosted a ebaumsworld.com. I particulary liked Cory’s Yellow Chair and Child Watching a Ball.
The German slang term for abacus is russicher Rechner. Russian Calculator. Of course, the abacus is not solely a product of Russia. They were present in ancient South America, and were also found in Greece and China. I’ve never personally seen an adept, but my math teachers in elementary and middle school oft told of Japanese excange students they encountered in their own studies who had–and usually mastered with blurring speed–such devices.
PSB Rumor
Of course I can’t confirm any of this, but a source of mine tells me that Mayor Rossbach has invited the Pet Shop Boys to perform on the roof of a highrise in Dresden sometime this year.
The Onion AV club reviews Schultze Gets the Blues.
Woo-hoo!
Wrapping up Valentine’s Day, and with it the second day of the Dresden Firestorm, Here is how the Washington Post covered it, prefaced by an editorial from Sam Smith, and an entry from the Daily Bleed anarchist almanac.
Just walking down the street over the weekend I happened to several bills posted on walls and lightposts–
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Toast
Thanks to everyone who helped out with my little FLA problem. I now have a couple of CDs from which I can try stuff. Patrick, please send me an email. I have a question for you but I am afraid I lost your email with the new install…
this Sunday marks a memorable day here in Dresden. Perhaps ya’ll saw these postcards:
"Lieber eine Bombe auf den Kopf als nach Auschwitz"
(I'd take a bombing raid instead of Auschwitz any day[my translation])
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Face About Face at AZ Conni
This evening I saw Face About Face perform at AZ Conni on Rudolf-Leonhardstrasse.
It was an enjoyable evening. All bandmembers are clearly passionate about the music that they make. The music unto itself is very thoughtful, brooding, pensive, and then explosive.
At any rate, they are musically very adept.
What cannot be denied is that Face About Face does what they do very well. They played their asses off tonight, and I am sure no one was left feeling wanting. Rock on, Face About Face! I’ll be sure to catch you guys and girl the next time about time you play about play in Dresden around Dresden.
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After a few days of knuckle-biting suspense, I am back on line with my newer setup. I have upped to an Athlon xp 2000, which is not all that fast compared to what is out there now, but still a 300% speedup from my last cpu.
I had to reinstall winders, as I now have a new motherboard, but at least a reformat was not needed. The most confusing thing was that the new system would suddenly freeze up while I was moving the mouse. The mouse would freeze looking half-arrow, half-text symbol every time. It turns out that this is probably the result of a little spat between mouse and graphic card. Knocking the hardware acceleration setting of the graphic card down by one notch seems to have solved that issue.
However, the MS site is bogged down right now, so I am having a hard time getting those important updates. So I am reluctant to fool around with IE and Outlook for the time being. Your emails may go unanswered for a few days until I get the ship up and completely running.
This evening I caught a showing of Andrej Tarkowski’s Solaris.
The germans have a word for works such as his: langatmig, which would mean–at least in the negative sense– slow paced. Or, you could call it meditative.
Nevertheless, it is a beautiful film less interested in kapow and more in the m-hmm.
The last scene made my hair stand on end.
Afterwards, we watched a documentary film about Prohlis, aptly titled the same. Also creepy.