happy birthday!

i need to know, did you finally meet some owlets outside or was it meant to generally express your affirmation of their existence (i suppose your spring is more advanced than here, it will probably be a month until our new owlets appear)?

the first character is the same as in "(nippon) banzai". and i must say, i don't get why everyone is complaining about google lately, one of my first results was people asking (and answering) the tough questions

"les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans" (which happened to be on tv at night around 1999) was my gateway to the whole demy/varda universe

Someone sent me this.

Happy Birthday!

i liked it and want to rewatch it at some point but i think i can also understand why one wouldn't

haha i forgot that is what happens when one writes "tempelhofer feld" on this platform. btw i think you mean long eared owls, great horned owls (virginiauhus) only live in the americas afaik, would love to see them one day

disagree) it's just not idyllic in the conventional sense. my apartment is 200 m from tempelhofer feld and even closer to the owl-park, very walkable with good public transport etc. so for me the owls are not a reward for hardship (drug people usually mind their own business) but cherries on top.

i should probably clarify that i loved neukölln even before discovering the owls, i think it's a great place to live (a lot of rightwingers who regularly depict it as some kind of failed leftist-islamist hellhole within the failed leftist-islamist-green-gay-woke state of berlin would probably

having lived here for 10 years, they're not really shy but quite discreet: after watching videos of flaco the eagle owl of nyc i heard a similar hooting sound and followed it to a tree where they roost in winter) add an unexpected and delightful element.

long eared owls. it's close to the former tempelhof airport (the owlet from my avi was sitting on a fence surrounding defunct airport lights) where there are a lot of mice which the owls hunt. so it's a strange mixture but the owls (which i only discovered after

it's not idyllic in the conventional sense: i also live close to a subway station where theres a lot of hard drug dealing and consumption going on, its very much an urban environment. but a few steps away there's a former cemetery which is now a park with an established population of

i really love them, they bring me a lot of joy, and I can't wait to hear and see the new owlets exploring the area (usually end of may), hopefully not too close to my windows though, when they're young they're crying/begging their parents for food all night for some weeks and are quite loud)

i always welcome owls and their friends to my neighborhood! (by owl-friends i meant the literal owls that live close to me, i see some of them almost every time i walk through the park near me (my avi pic was taken about 300 m from my apartment) they're like flying street cats

Schubert: Im Frühling, D. 882 YouTube video by Anne Sofie von Otter - Topic

among them "in spring" which i (and many others) find to be one of the greatest of schubert's 600+ songs. it's the season and here's one of my favorite versions.

poet

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who died from tbc (there's an english wikipedia page about him
but it doesn't properly convey how wild his short life was). i only know his name because schubert (who died from syphilis) put some of his poems to music

when i came back from morocco i stayed near frankfurt with my younger sister and her family for some days and went to this

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(partly excellent) exhibition. it made me think of our conversation and also about this

i heard someone speak in such detail about the origin of words, i think they also mentioned elias canetti. i didn't find it too interesting then but now i'm quite interested in etymology (and mostly like what i've read by canetti)

very strange to see this post, i remember (imprecisely but vividly) listening to a programme on the radio at night sitting in a car at night (with my parents probably) when i was quite young (early teens?) which dealt quite extensively with this etymology. i think it was the first time

that's where i and my owl-friends live

so the bülbüls, marx and musicology all came together today. i won't forget the bülbüls, but now i'm waiting for the time when the nightingales sing, in may there are sometimes quite a lot of them in my neighborhood, heine loved them (and they feature prominently in his writing) and so do i.

he wrote it for a french audience, one of the reasons why he moved to france was this infamous scandal
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platen-... which for some reason i looked up again after posting about the bülbüls. i had completely forgotten about this poem that triggered the scandal.

i don't know how familiar you are with heine, one of my favorite german language writers of all time, also a second grade cousin of karl marx whom heine mentioned in passing in his (very enjoyable) "history of religion and philosophy in germany" which i read last year

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interested but then i happened to find it in a cardboard box on the sidewalk and read it (well written but i have mixed feelings about it). when i finished it (still in morocco) i started another book i had also found in a cardboard box, a (gdr) collection of texts by heinrich heine about music

i thought about this since i read it this morning and strangely you posted some other stuff that i just saw coming home: when i arrived in morocco i read "the rest is noise" by alex ross, a friend had recommended it to me last year when i was in india. i wasn't too

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i'm not married

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not invalidenstraße, friedrichstraße, but it's like a short, very clear sequence from a movie, i could show you with an accuracy of maybe 10 metres where i walked then

i remember listening to this album on a discman walking down johannisstraße in berlin mitte (toward invalidenstraße, behind tacheles) in 2001

Vincent YouTube video by Don McLean - Topic

just sayin'