The other day my dear friend Ian wrote a post about the ten books that shook his world. I immediately thought that was a great idea and decided to do it myself too.
After a minute I realized I was not going to do it, after all. It would just take too much time and effort of trying to remember them all, write about them as well as what they meant too me…, nah, just too much. I am not as dedicated as Ian and he wins. Touché.
But, in the process of thinking about it I did remember one of the very important books of my life, one that I haven’t been thinking about for a long long time since I read it, say, 25 years or so ago, when I was pretty young: Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game.
When I discovered Hesse I read many of his novels and I loved them all: Demian, Siddharta, Journey to the East and especially Steppenwolf. By the way, do people still read Hesse at all? Anybody knows what the situation is nowadays? In my time if you were into personal growth, Hesse was a must. I believe even more so if you were male, as I remember. Which, now that I think of it, is quite interesting.
Anyway, for me The Glass Bead Game was above it all. I still remember how very shocked I felt when reaching the last page and reading something I was totally unprepared for. After everything the main characters has gone through, after finally achieving the very top of the world, he decides to let it all go. He decides to abandon it all and to step into something very simple yet meaningful, into serving. But then, finally feeling completely free and content, he suddenly dies. Abruptly. The end. No more.
I can so easily reconnect with that moment, lying in my bed with the last page in front of me, my heart pounding hard and my face staring in disbelief. It felt as if all the four existential dilemmas (freedom, death, isolation, meaninglessness) suddenly hit me in my forehead, really hard. For days my mind was pulsating with thoughts: “Everything I begin, will end. Everything I build, will eventually crush down. Nothing is permanent and whatever I may achieve, whatever peak I might reach, even if I reach the absolute freedom, it will all end in total isolation and with death I will vanish from this world. So what is the meaning of it all? What difference does anything make? Why move? Why try?“
The romantic worlds and illusions started to crush down and I kept attempting to build them up again, and again, and again. I wanted to have a nice illusion of absolute meaning, of eternity, of connectedness and free choice, yet the pictures never held for very long and there were always pieces missing. Only in the last couple of years I seem to be starting to come to peace with it all.
Well, that book definitely shook my world. I believe I would be somewhat different had I not read it. But I am totally happy I did, of course. No mourning here, just a celebration.

Herman Hesse-lezers! Ik zag er net eentje op de trein.

Pon el motor en marcha,  camino a la autopista, buscando aventuras…

Descubre las canciónes favoritas para llevar en la autopista:

10.- Bad to the Bone

9. – Midnight Rider

8.- Born To run

7.- Detroit 442

6.- Roadhouse Blues

5.- Learning to Fly

4.- La Grange

3.- Show me how to live

2.- Highway Star

Y la numero 1: Born To Be Wild

NOTA: No todos los videos se pueden abrir en la misma pagina, por derechos de autor tendras que verlos en el enlace del mismo video que te llevara a la pagina oficial, Da click en el nombre de la cancion para ver la letra.

Yo voy, lobo estepario, trotando
por el mundo de nieve cubierto;
del abedul sale un cuervo volando,
y no cruzan ni liebres ni corzas el campo desierto.

Me enamora una corza ligera,
en el mundo nada hay más lindo y hermoso;
con mis dientes y zarpas de fiera
destrozara yo su cuerpo sabroso.

Y volviera mi afán a mi amada,
en sus muslos mordiendo la carne blanquísima
y saciando mi sed en su sangre por mí derramada,
aullara luego yo solo a la noche tristísima.

Una liebre bastara también a mi anhelo;
dulce sabe su carne en la noche callada y oscura.
¡Ay! ¿Por qué me abandona en letal desconsuelo
de la vida la parte más noble y más pura?

Vetas grises adquiere mi rabo peludo,
voy perdiendo la vista, me atacan las fiebres,
hace tiempo que estoy sin hogar y viudo,
y que troto y que sueño con corzas y liebres
que mi triste destino me ahuyenta y espanta.

Oigo al aire soplar en la noche de invierno,
hundo en nieve mi ardiente garganta,
y así voy llevando mi mísera alma al infierno.

— H. Hesse

É inevitável dizer que o novo profissional aguardado pelo mercado de trabalho desta época de retomada de crescimento econômico praticamente já  deverá nascer com o compromisso de fazer a diferença. 

Exageros à parte, como neste simpático comercial da LG, continuará valendo a soma de competências dos recursos humanos de uma empresa para se desenvolver projetos bem-sucedidos e manter o espaço da organização neste mercado cada vez mais competitivo. Nenhum projeto tem como dar certo se não houver o reconhecimento que pessoas é que continuam fazendo a diferença. Chorar é só uma consequência e um ato inerente ao ser humano.

Em tempo: no comercial da LG, o verso da música ”Born to be wild”, algo como “Nascido para ser selvagem”, da banda Steppenwolf, é parte da trilha do filme Easy Rider (Sem Destino, 1969) que aborda a história de dois motociclistas que viajam pelos Estados Unidos, com a ideia de alcançarem a liberdade pessoal.

Que bons profissionais tenham sempre destinos conhecidos e que sejam agressivos (e não selvagens) apenas na forma de fazerem a diferença. E que as empresas permitam a liberdade de atuação, orientada e pautada por políticas que sejam sempre respeitadas, de forma ética e profissional.

In honor of today’s release of Dawson’s Creek: The Complete Series, I’ve rounded up some key cast and crew to reflect on the monumental series.  If you followed my coverage of the Paley Center panel, you probably noticed a certain lady was MIA: Mary Beth Peil, better known as the one and only Grams.

I was lucky enough to track her down.  In our interview below, Peil discusses her favorite parts of playing grandmother to Michelle William’s Jen and shares memories of her time at Northwestern University, where we each attended college.

Enjoy the first part of TDW’s stroll down memory creek…

TeenDramaWhore: You started out as an opera singer and then moved on to theater.  What attracted you to a serialized drama about teenagers?

Mary Beth Peil: My life as an opera singer had NOTHING to do with a teen drama other than the fact that, having left opera in my early 40s, I was working very hard to prove myself as a legitimate actress and musical theatre performer. When the audition came along I went with the attitude of  “nothing ventured, nothing gained.”

TDW: Do you think you share any qualities with Grams?

Peil: Age-wise I am closer to Grams NOW than when we started. I always thought of Grams as in her late 60s, early 70s. When we started the show, I was 57. I have a wonderful relationship with my daughter as opposed to Grams with Jen’s mom. BUT I DO LEARN something new everyday it seems…from my kids and young granddaughters. Being able to work with young actors all the time is a wonderful way to keep learning … AND give advice when asked for it.

TDW: Why do you think Grams was the one to teach the greatest lessons and have the wisest sayings?  (My favorite is probably “Love is the hardest of woods.”)

Peil: Oh I love that line! When I was shooting FRINGE with Josh [Jackson, Pacey],  he brought out that line as one of his favorites. Grams was really the only GROWNUP. It seemed that everyone’s PARENTS were going through their own adolescence angst/identity crisis etc. and I think [creator Kevin Williamson] wisely tapped into the “PRIMAL Tribal Elder” syndrome which our society seems to fight or ignore.

TDW: Grams had a pretty progressive love life for her age. Which parts of that did you think were realistic and which not so much?

Peil: Again…I think society dictates that she was progressive for her age. But I think being surrounded by all those raging hormones and libidos had a subliminal affect on her. Made her see herself in the mirror a little differently each day and as time went on begin to realize there was something missing in her life. I think the only thing TRULY UNrealistic about it was the availability of single straight age-appropriate MEN!!!!

TDW: They touched on this a little bit at the Paley Center panel and I’m wondering what your take is.  Fans would’ve been devastated had Grams died during the show, just as they were when Mitch did.  Why do you think it was so important that she even outlived her own granddaughter?

Peil: Another life lesson for everyone…the only thing you can expect  is the UNexpected. Parents are supposed to go first  BUT it doesn’t always turn out that way. AND of course it gave Kevin the opportunity to write some of his best stuff for the last episode.

TDW: Your Grams voice isn’t actually your natural one.  What inspired the voice and what was it like having to do it so often?

Peil: It just CAME at the audition. Her name was GRAMS so I knew that she was older than me. The first time I said  “Jennifer!!!”…it all fell into place. They wanted a hint of Cape Cod  but not too much. It was like part of my costume…that voice…part of putting gray in my hair…that voice…GRAMS.

TDW: As you mentioned, earlier this year, you reunited with Joshua Jackson on the set of Fringe.  What was that like?  Are you in touch with any of the other cast or crew?

Peil: When I arrived for a fitting the day before I was to shoot, Josh came through the office where I was waiting and all the
staff was peeking out of cubbies and from behind desks to see what would happen when he saw me. He did not disappoint.
He is such an OPEN Unaffected person…he literally jumped up and down with joy like I was his favorite Christmas present. We hadn’t seen each other in a while. We had done a reading together a couple of years ago. And it was sheer delight to work with him on set and to see what a splendid actor and MAN he has become.  I shot a film in Wilmington (THE LIST) and reunited with many of the wonderful crew. The DAWSON’S crew was just HEAVEN! Salt of the earth types…happy to be living and working in coastal NC.
I saw Katie [Holmes, Joey] in ALL MY SONS on Broadway and was so proud of her. Have occasional emails, conversations with James [Van Der Beek, Dawson]. But Michelle is  my ANGEL! I have unconditional love and respect for her. For her choices in her personal life and her professional life

TDW: Finish this sentence: When I look back on Dawson’s Creek, I think ….

Peil: I’m a big believer in the Gods and Goddesses of TIMING and the CREEK came into my life at the PERFECT time. I am deeply grateful for all that I learned (about being on camera regularly) AND for my beautiful Upper West Side apartment which we call the “HOUSE THAT DAWSON BUILT.”

TDW: Will we see more of you on The Good Wife?

Peil: I think so…am shooting a wonderful episode right now. Hoping Jackie has more to do as we go along through the season.  It is a wonderful show…cast, crew, producers AND WRITERS !

TDW: Lastly: I’m a Northwestern graduate as well, and I’m wondering if you’ve been back to the campus since you went there and what reflections you have of your time there.

Peil: Yes, I have been back. Shortly after graduation I was appearing at the Opera house in Chicago so I came up to Evanston to visit. They were just starting the lakefront development. In the early 80s I was back again with Chicago Opera Theatre and 4 years later I was there with KING AND I and went up and was knocked out by the changes. And then recently I was doing a play at Steppenwolf and came up and literally did not recognize the place. I was a Music Major and it took some doing to even FIND that big old white elephant of a building. I had a wonderful rich time at NU…  a solid liberal arts education, the BEST preparation for a career in Opera AND one year of acting with the legendary Alvina Krauss. She let me take her class because she was an Opera fan..and I think she knew even back then that I was a singing ACTRESS as opposed to an acting SINGER. Even life in the Sorority house has given me life long friends.  How lovely that you too are an Alum….quite an impressive group of folks, eh???

Come back Sunday for another exclusive Dawson’s Creek interview!

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URL : http://www.flashgame-girl.com/Puzzle-board/SteppenWolf-Chapter-3-Episode-2.html

Game description :

Parachuting into the Antarctic! SteppenWolf is closing in the Heruka! First he must steal frost jet and dodge snow mines at super fast speed while avoiding Donovan’s special agents!

Game controls :

Arrow keys to walk
Shift to run
Ctrl to short jump
Shift + Ctrl to long jump
Space for action keys
T to toggle the selected items
I to open inventory

URL : http://www.flashgame-girl.com/Puzzle-board/SteppenWolf-Chapter-4-Episode-2.html

Game description :

In Norway, SteppenWolf must find professor Olaf Hargvor, the inventor of a deep water device that can reach the mythical Kraken. But first, he must defeat the Dagger League, a green extremist group that has the Professor in captivity.

Game controls :

Arrow keys to walk
Shift to run
Ctrl to short jump
Shift + Ctrl to long jump
Space for action keys
T to toggle the selected items
I to open inventory

Despite my love of sports, I’ve never been an athlete. But thirty-nine years ago today, I wore a jersey as a member of a team for the only time in my life.

It was the last week of the football season at St. Cloud Tech. I was a manager, and I think we were all glad the season was coming to a close. It hadn’t been a good year: We were 2-6 heading into our final game. That was quite a come-down from 1969, when we were 6-3 and ended up ranked No. 9 in the state. (A three-loss team in the Top Ten? That was because we played a tough independent schedule, and our losses were to the top three teams in the state.)

There was a good reason that we’d not had a good season, though. That fall, St. Cloud had opened its second high school, Apollo High School, over on the north side. And when the kids from the north side went off to become the Eagles, about half of the underclassmen from the previous year’s team were among them. There was no way we were going to be as good as we had been or as good as we could have been, had we stayed one school. Things were no better across town at Apollo; the Eagles were 2-5 as the end of the season approached.

The Eagles’ difficulties, though, weren’t our concern. As the season had progressed, we’d kept up with our former teammates and their performances, and I assume that they kept an eye on how we were doing. We weren’t happy with their poor season, but we were pleased that they were doing no better than we were. And during that final week, we cared not one bit about their difficulties because our final game was against those same Eagles. It would be the first football game ever between St. Cloud’s two public high schools.

(One of the oddities of the split between the two high schools was where the boundary line between the two schools was drawn. On the East Side, the line was drawn at the north end of Kilian Boulevard, a block away from our house. It happened to fall right in the middle of the attendance area for Lincoln Elementary, and that mean that a number of kids I’d been in school with since first grade went to Apollo. Had the line been drawn only a little further south, I’d have gone to Apollo; I was relieved to stay at Tech.)

One of the long-standing traditions at Tech was that, on the day of a game or a meet, varsity athletes wore dress shirts, ties and sport coats to school. As a manager of the football team for two years and the wrestling team for three years, I did the same. But as our final week of practice came to a close and we gathered for a meeting Thursday afternoon, the captains had a question for the coaches: Since it’s our last game, and the first ever against Apollo, can we wear our jerseys during the school day on Friday instead of coats and ties?

The coaches looked at each other and thought for a second, then nodded. We left the meeting room,  and as we headed for the locker room, I wondered how out of place I was going to look in school the next day. I didn’t have a jersey.

I pondered that as I went over our supplies in the training room, making sure everything was packed into the kits we’d haul to Clark Field, a block away, the next evening:  Bandages, various sprays, a couple of cleat cleaners and cleat wrenches, lots of tape and all the other things that we managers were responsible for. Well, I thought, as I packed the tape, I’ll just wear a coat and tie.

As I finished packing and was about to head out of the training room, certain that Dad was already waiting in the parking lot, one of the other seniors on the team, Scott, poked his head into the room. “So what are you gonna wear tomorrow?”

I shrugged. “A coat and tie, I guess.”

He shook his head. “C’mon,” he said, motioning with his hand as he walked through the locker room. I followed him to the equipment room, where Scott addressed the equipment manager, Mr. Kerr. “We need a jersey here,” Scott told him. “What can you do?”

Mr. Kerr pulled a jersey from the shelf and tossed it to me. Number 14. I pulled it on. I was of slight build, and the jersey was cut for shoulder pads, of course, so it hung on me like a large orange, black and white curtain. But it was, right then, my jersey. “There you go,” Scott said, as we walked back toward the training room.

I wore the jersey to school the next day, of course, and on the sidelines during the game that Friday evening. We beat Apollo fairly handily (a score of 26-14 pops into my memory, but I’m not certain) and crowded back into our locker room, happy to have ended the season with a victory. The next Monday, I handed the jersey to Mr. Kerr. I learned later that many of my fellow seniors had neglected to return their jerseys, eventually paying something like $25 for their “lost” jerseys. I wish I’d done the same.

A Six-Pack From Late Autumn 1970
“Let’s Work Together” by Canned Heat from Future Blues
“When You Get Right Down To It” by the Delfonics, Philly Groove 163
“Easy Rider (Let The Wind Pay The Way)” by Iron Butterfly from Metamorphosis
“Games” by Redeye from Redeye
“Too Many People” by Cold Blood from Sisyphus
“Who Needs Ya” by Steppenwolf from Seven
Bonus Track
“St. Cloud Tech School Song” by the Tech High School Band

During the week that we kicked off the Tech-Apollo football rivalry, six of the titles above were listed in the Billboard Hot 100. (See the note below regarding singles vs. album tracks.) There was one nice slice of Philly soul, one light rocker with some nice vocal harmony (Redeye’s “Games”) and four bits of fairly tough bluesy rock. I recall hearing “Let’s Get Together” once or twice and being intrigued, but I doubt that I heard the other five. Why not?

Well, only two of these six titles made it into the Top 40, which was guiding my listening: “Let’s Get Together” went to No. 26, and “Games” reached No. 27. During the week in question, the one that ended Saturday, November 7, 1970, these titles were strewn mostly in the lower levels of the Hot 100:

“Let’s Work Together” was already in the Top 40, sitting at No. 33. The Delfonics tune was at No. 56 after peaking at No. 53 two weeks earlier. Iron Butterfly’s “Easy Rider (Let The Wind Pay The Way)” would peak at No. 66 two weeks later. (I never paid much attention to Iron Butterfly after buying and quickly selling the group’s live album way back when, but I have to note that “Easy Rider” is a better and more interesting record than I expected it to be; it had been languishing, ignored, in my files with the rest of the Metamorphosis album for a while.) Redeye’s “Games,” on its way to its peak of No. 27, was in the Hot 100 for the first time and was sitting at No. 90.

Cold Blood’s “Too Many People” was in the “Bubbling Under the Top 100” section and had moved up one slot from No. 108 to No. 107. It would be gone when the next chart came out a week later. And Steppenwolf’s “Who Needs Ya” – a typical but fun Steppenwolf boogiefest – was in its first week in the “Bubbling Under” section, sitting at No. 119.  It would peak at No. 54 five weeks later.

As I was planning this post – I do plan sometimes – I called Gary Zwack, the current band director at St. Cloud Tech, and asked about a copy of the school song. He emailed it to me, and as I heard the song for the first time in what must be thirty-five years, I remembered all the words:

March straight on, Old Tech High
To fame and honor great.
The glory of our colors
We’ll never let abate.
We’re with you!
March straight on, Old Tech High!
Be loyal to her name.
Fight gallantly for dear old Tech
And all her worthy fame.

Gary added a note, telling me that the music for the song was written in 1931 by Erwin Hertz, who was Tech’s band director at the time. I wrote back, telling Gary that in 1964, I took my first lessons on cornet from Erwin Hertz, who was very close to retiring. Thanks for the help, Gary.

Note:
In five of the six cases, I’ve tagged the mp3s as coming from the various albums, as I’m uncertain whether the mp3 offered here is the single version. The only one I am sure of is the Delfonics’ tune.

I am nearly certain that the single that Cold Blood released was edited significantly, as the running times – 4:05 on the album version I have and 2:52 on photos I’ve seen of the single (San Francisco 62) – are so far apart. Redeye’s “Games” is the same length on the single (Pentagram 204) as it is on the album [This is decidedly not so; I misread my notes badly. See Yah Shure's comment.] , and Iron Butterfly’s 45 (Atco 6782) is timed at 3:05 while the mp3 runs 3:06, so I think those were the same, but I’m not sure.

As to the Steppenwolf and Canned Heat tracks: The running times I’ve seen on photos of those singles – Dunhill 4261 and Liberty 56151, respectively – are relatively close to those of these album tracks. That leaves me wondering if the singles and the album tracks were the same but the times were listed differently, as was often the case. But I don’t know.

show openings

A You Like It - Loyola University

Burlesque Is More - Annoyance Theatre 

Gossamer - Adventure Stage Chicago

High Holidays - Goodman Theatre

Horrible - Apollo Theatre

Murder in Green Meadows - Citadel Theatre

The Music Man - Rising Stars Theatre

Phedra - New World Repertory Theater

The Shape of Things - University of Chicago

Shootin’ the Shit with EJ and TJ - Annoyance Theatre

The Spectacular Comedy Spectacle - Theatre Building Chicago

When She Danced - TimeLine Theatre

Young Frankenstein - Cadillac Palace Theatre

show closings

An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Dr. John Faustus on His Final Evening - Theater Oobleck 

Arsenic and Old Lace - Northwestern University 

Bastards of Young - Tympanic Theatre

Calls to Blood - The New Colony

Cotton Patch Gospel - Provision Theater

Everyone’s Favorite Lobster - Gorilla Tango Theatre

Fake - Steppenwolf Theatre

The Flowers - About Face Theatre

The House on Mango Street - Steppenwolf Theatre

Kill the Old Torture Their Young - Steep Theatre

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Filament Theatre

Lettice and Lovage - Redtwist Theatre

Lucinda’s Bed - Chicago Dramatists

Night Watch - Jedlicka Performing Arts Center

Rhymes with Evil - InFusion Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire - Polarity Ensemble Theatre

Yeast Nation (The Triumph of Life) - American Theater Company

List courtesy of The League of Chicago Theatres 

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Obama, Wright, Gore, Auchi, Soros, Edwards, Ayers, Rezko, Farrakhan, And Oprah: Wealth Spreading Redistributive Media Cons???

OH YEA, THE PUSHER IS STILL HERE – HE JUST TOOK ON A NEW PERSONA- GLOBALIST PUPPET OBAMA! USING (GENERAL ELECTRIC – MSM – JEFFREY IMMELT) FOR MEDIA PROPAGANDA CONTROL

GOD FORBID WE PROTECT OUR BORDERS FROM THE CARTEL

Obama, Wright, Gore, Auchi, Soros, Edwards, Ayers, Rezko, Farrakhan, And Oprah: Wealth Spreading Redistributive Media Cons???

* My car ran out of gas one night (college years) and I was walking home on the highway, a car stopped and I got a ride home with Peter Fonda – very kewl person. True Story! My brother also a well known bass player, assisted Steppenwolf in one of his concert appearances from Germany to here in the U.S.

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Peter helped John Lennon write She Said She Said

Obama, Wright, Gore, Auchi, Soros, Edwards, Ayers, Rezko, Farrakhan, And Oprah: Wealth Spreading Redistributive Media Cons???

FROM HIPPY’S FREEDOM TO MARXIST SLAVERY? 1960 – 2009?

Obama, Wright, Gore, Auchi, Soros, Edwards, Ayers, Rezko, Farrakhan, And Oprah: Wealth Spreading Redistributive Media Cons???

AMERICA

Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, & Jack Nicholson

Dennis Hopper

STATES OF AMERICA COME TO FRANCE TO OVERTHROW THE EVIL EMPIRE OF HITLER’S NATIONAL SOCIALISM

An dieser Stelle möchte ich darauf verzichten, in einer endlosen Vorrede meine Meinung zu der Frage, ob man den Menschen in eine gute und eine schlechte Seite aufteilen könne, lang und breit darzustellen, sondern möchte dies stattdessen folgendem Gedicht überlassen:

Kontraste

Ja, die Menschheit liebt Kontraste,
Tier des Schattens, Tier des Lichts,
Kennt Geliebte und Verhasste
Doch dazwischen kennt sie nichts.

Dies ist Untat, jenes Sitte.
Dies ist rechts und jenes links.
Doch es gibt nichts in der Mitte,
Kein Zentaur, keine Sphinx.

Ja, die Menschheit liebt Extreme:
Dies ist schwarz und jenes weiß.
Verschiednes Grau bringt nur Probleme.
Dies ist kalt und jenes heiß.

Trennt die Seele von dem Leibe!
Wer nicht Freund heißt, der ist Feind.
Ja, die Welt bleibt eine Scheibe.
Alles ist so, wie es scheint.

Stellt die Wahrheit an den Pranger!
Auch die Natur kennt dies’ Gebot:
Niemand ist ein wenig schwanger,
Keiner nur ein bisschen tot.

(Niklas Drude)

Ich denke, mit der menschlichen Persönlichkeit verhält es sich ähnlich: Der Mensch ist einfach derart stark auf sein Schwarz-weiß-Denken fixiert, dass er meint, eine gute und eine schlechte Seite in den Menschen zu erkennen. Ein Charakter ist jedoch einfach zu vielschichtig, um ihn in zwei voneinander abgrenzbare Züge aufteilen zu können. Stattdessen besteht er aus unendlich vielen Strömungen, wie auch Harry Haller in Herman Hesses “Steppenwolf” feststellen muss. Und ob diese nun gut oder schlecht sind, ist höchst subjektiv und lässt sich somit kaum abschließend klären. Ich bin mir also recht sicher, dass ich nicht eine “dunkle Seite” habe, sondern ganz viele, die jedoch ihren Helligkeitsgrad permanent sowie unabhängig von einander ändern und folglich auch in wechselnder Besetzung zu “hellen Seiten” werden können.

Quem jogou Mega Drive ou Super Nintendo deve ter jogado Rock N’ Roll Racing e, caso não tenha jogado, tem de jogar!
O jogo era sensacional! Uma corrida estilo “corrida maluca” com 5 músicas (6 na versão do Mega Drive) que representavam, para os amantes do jogo, o melhor do rock.

Fiquem com o download da trilha sonora oficial do game.

1. Henry Mancini – Peter Gunn Theme
2. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
3. Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild
4. George Thorogood – Bad To The Bone
5. Golden Earing – Radar Love (Somente na versão para o Mega Drive)
6. Deep Purple – Highway Star

Lembrando que as músicas estão na versão que era tocada no Mega Drive e no SNES (Midi)

02. – 05. September 2009 Friedrichshafen

Alles rund ums Rad!  Unter diesem Motto besuchten wir die EUROBIKE in Friedrichshafen. Unser Moderator Florian Wagner zeigt die aktuellsten Bike-Neuheiten und führte Interviews mit Herstellern und Radsportprofis wie Eddy Merckx und Jens Voigt.

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Wir sehen uns auf der EUROBIKE 2010

01. – 04. September 2010 in Friedrichshafen

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Es ist wieder soweit. Der Jahrestag der Schließung unseres geliebten Steppenwolfes steht vor der Tür – und das begehen wir mit einer Neuauflage der nun schon etablierten Steppenwolf Revival Party im Honky Tonk – diesmal in der Halloween Edition:

Am 31.10.2009 um 21 Uhr beginnt das Metall zu klingen.
Austragungsort ist wie gehabt der Honky Tonk Music Pub in der

Hopfenstraße 34,
20359 Hamburg.

Wolfgang hat wieder seinen metallenen Kindersarg ausgepackt. Inhalt: Ja, richtig, Metal!
Der Eintritt kostet dich wie immer ein müdes Lächeln.

Lezers,

waar Zutphen gisteren in ’s lands musea zocht naar de monsters uit vervlogen tijden, trok uw Redactie door de haven van Scheveningen op jacht naar het Groot Wild van het huidige era. Nabij de 1ste haven troffen wij dit monster. Wij schoten met onze camera dat het een lieve lust was, maar het vertrok geen kabel.

Wij hadden het er niet best van af gebracht, ware het niet dat ook dit Metalen Beest zijn zondagsrust genoot. Gelukkig maar!!!

Evenwel een mooie aanleiding voor een ode aan Zware Metalen…

Black Sabbath – Iron Man
Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread

Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild
I like smoke n’ lightnin’
Heavy metal thunder

Sammy Hagar – Heavy Metal
50,000 watts of power
And it’s pushin’ overload
The beast is ready to devour
All the metal they can hold
Reachin’ overload
Start to explode

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Ich glaube, ich habe schon mal erwähnt, dass ich stets einige Bücher gleichzeitig lese. Alhamdulillah komme ich damit auch nicht durcheinander. Außer religiösen und politischen Büchern und die über Marketing und Fundraising gehören da nämlich noch diese hier:

1.

Den Steppenwolf von Hermann Hesse.

Zugegeben ist dieses Buch psychologisch etwas anstrengend. Es geht darum um einen Harry Haller, der alles hasst, was für die anderen Menschen seiner Zeit bedeutend ist. Außerdem verliert er alles, was er liebt. Diese Schicksalsschläge machen ihn nämlich einsam. Mehr und mehr verirrt er sich in seine Welt. So entsteht in ihm der Steppenwolf, dessen Seite die entgegengesetzte der menschlichen ist. Dadurch steht er allen Situationen immer gespalten gegenüber und seine Seele scheint nie zu ruhen, da sie immer hin- und hergerissen ist.

Erst als er einem jungen Mädchen begegnet, lässt er es zu, dass sich etwas in ihm ändern kann …

Das ist wirklich ein spannendes Buch.

und 2.

Den Zauberberg von Thomas Mann

Darin geht es darum, dass ein junger Mann – Hans Castorp – seinen kranken Vetter in einem Sanatorium besucht. Aus dem ursprünglich dreiwöchigen Besuch werden 7 Jahre. Im Vordergrund steht dabei das Erwachsenwerden des Hans Castorps – was ich bei jedem Menschen für eine spannende Sache halte, denn das Leben und die Seele des Menschen sind sehr tiefgründig und komplex. Auch die Probleme der damaligen Zeit, es war kurz vor dem 1. Weltkrieg, werden hier detailreich erwähnt.

Zwei Bücher von zwei besonderen Menschen und genialen Schriftstellern, die sich trauten, der Welt mitzuteilen, welche Weltauffassung sie vertraten und nicht mit allem einverstanden waren. Dafür mussten sie dann im Exil leben.

Had a little inspiration over the weekend. *smiles*

Everybody Knows ~ Leonard Cohen

Magic Carpet Ride ~ Steppenwolf

Paint It Black ~ Rolling Stones

Sunshine Of Your Love ~ Cream

Raise A Little Hell ~ Trooper

Hot Blooded ~ Foreigner

Closer ~ NIN

Poison ~ Alice Cooper

House Of Fire ~ Alice Cooper

You Shook Me All Night Long ~ AC/DC

Thunderstruck ~ AC/DC

Plush ~ Stone Temple Pilots

Black ~ Pearl Jam

Don’t Cry ~ Guns N Roses

PRODUCTION — PLAY – LARGE
Ruined - Goodman Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club
The Seafarer – Steppenwolf Theatre 

PRODUCTION — PLAY – MIDSIZE
The History Boys - TimeLine Theatre 

PRODUCTION — MUSICAL – LARGE
Caroline, or Change - Court Theatre

PRODUCTION — MUSICAL – MIDSIZE
Tomorrow Morning – Hilary A. Williams, LLC

PRODUCTION — REVUE
Studs Terkel’s Not Working - The Second City e.t.c.

ENSEMBLE
The History Boys – TimeLine Theatre 

NEW WORK — PLAY
Lynn Nottage – Ruined - Goodman Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club

NEW ADAPTATION — PLAY
Seth Bockley – Jon – Collaboraction

NEW WORK OR ADAPTATION – MUSICAL
Josh Schmidt, Jan Tranen & Austin Pendleton – A Minister’s Wife - Writers’ Theatre 

DIRECTOR – PLAY
Nick Bowling – The History Boys – TimeLine Theatre

DIRECTOR – MUSICAL
Charles Newell – Caroline, or Change - Court Theatre

DIRECTOR — REVUE
Matt Hovde – Studs Terkel’s Not Working – The Second City e.t.c.

ACTOR IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE — PLAY
Larry Neumann, Jr. – A Moon for the Misbegotten- First Folio Theatre
William L. Petersen – Blackbird – Victory Gardens Theatre 

ACTOR IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE — MUSICAL
Joseph Anthony Foronda – Miss Saigon - Drury Lane Oakbrook

ACTRESS IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE – PLAY
Saidah Arrika Ekulona – Ruined- Goodman Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club

ACTRESS IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE — MUSICAL
E. Faye Butler – Caroline, or Change - Court Theatre

SOLO PERFORMANCE
Max McLean – Mark’s Gospel – Fellowship for the Performing Arts

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE — PLAY
Alex Weisman – The History Boys - TimeLine Theatre

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE — MUSICAL
Max Quinlan – The Light in the Piazza- Marriott Theatre

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE — PLAY
Spencer Kayden – Don’t Dress for Dinner - The British Stage Company

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – MUSICAL
Liz Baltes – A Minister’s Wife – Writers’ Theatre
Summer Smart – The Light in the Piazza – Marriott Theatre

ACTOR IN A REVUE
Mark David Kaplan – Forbidden Broadway: Dances with the Stars – John Freedson, Harriet Yellin and Margaret Cotter

ACTRESS IN A REVUE
Amanda Blake Davis — Studs Terkel’s Not Working- The Second City e.t.c.

SCENIC DESIGN – LARGE
Lucy Osborne – Twelfth Night – Chicago Shakespeare Theater

SCENIC DESIGN – MIDSIZE
Brian Sidney Bembridge – The History Boys - TimeLine Theatre

COSTUME DESIGN – LARGE
Mara Blumenfeld – The Arabian Nights – Lookingglass Theatre

COSTUME DESIGN — MIDSIZE
Rachel Laritz – The Voysey Inheritance - Remy Bumppo Theatre

SOUND DESIGN – MIDSIZE
Lindsay Jones – The K of D: An Urban Legend – Route 66 Theatre

LIGHTING DESIGN — LARGE
Christopher Akerlind – Rock ‘n’ Roll - Goodman Theatre

LIGHTING DESIGN — MIDSIZE
Jesse Klug – Hedwig and the Angry Inch – American Theater Company

CHOREOGRAPHY
David H. Bell – The Boys from Syracuse - Drury Lane Oakbrook

ORIGINAL INCIDENTAL MUSIC
Dominic Kanza – Ruined – Goodman Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club

MUSIC DIRECTION
Doug Peck – Caroline, or Change - Court Theatre

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SPECIAL EFFECTS
Steve Tolin – Special Effects – The Lieutenant of Inishmore - Northlight Theatre

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN VIDEO DESIGN
Mike Tutaj – Film & Video Design – Tomorrow Morning – Hillary A. Williams