Theres a place I have never explored
Another world we have yet to conquer
And until then none of us have anything

broadcast - until then

Is it asking too much to be given time
to know these songs & to sing them
Is it asking too much of my vacant smile
& my laugh & lies that bring them

But as the stars are going out
& this stage is full of nothing
& the friends have all but gone
for my life my god I'm singing

We'll take our hearts outside
leave our lives behind
I'll watch the stars go out...

Is it asking too much of my favourite friends
to take these songs for real
Is it asking too much of my partner's hands
to take these songs for real

Is it asking too much
is it asking too much...

dubstar - stars

Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801), a literary and linguistic scholar, invented the crucial concept of mono no aware to define the essential of Japanese and Japanese culture. The phrase, derived from aware, which, in Heian Japan meant something like "sensitivity" or "sadness", means "a sensitivity to things." Motoori wanted to show that the unique character of Japanese culture (and he considered Japanese culture to be the "head" of the world; other nations were the "body") was the capacity to experience the objective world in a direct and unmediated fashion, to understand sympathetically the objects and the natural world around one without resorting to language or other mediators. The Japanese could understand the world directly in identifying themselves with that world; in addition, the Japanese could use language to directly express that connection to the world. This, for Motoori, is the aesthetic which lies behind the poetry of the Manyoshu. The poetic and historical texts present the "whole of life", which has meaning because all of nature and life is animated by the "intentions" of the gods. People experienced this wholeness of life by encountering things (mono); these encounters "moved" or "touched" them ("aware")—hence the unique Japanese character: "sensitivity to things" (mono no aware). This concept became the central aesthetic concept in Japan even into the modern period. more...

in der amateurmannschaft.
der trainer des profikaders kommt nie zu den spielen.

The second war, the war of 39 to 45
Begins when you identify your own inner Third Reich
The second war begins with a sudden hypochondria
A visit to a doctor who waves a piece of paper and says
'This time it's just a false alarm'
The war begins at work with some intoxicating news
When the letter comes that offers you promotion
And ends when you decide to let them offer it
To younger men with more ambition
The war brings new perspectives when you suddenly see through
The politics of power which possessed you
Through all your working hours

And a generation lays down its life
When the whizz kids of the industry
Slow down and die resurrected as your enemy

momus - 'three wars'

ihr trefft auf menschen, die euer leben verändern, es aber nicht wissen und euch schrittweise verraten, ihr seht sie mit dem feind paktieren und am ende abziehen wie eine armee nach der plünderung, im hintergrund trümmer und untergehende sonne.
frederic beigbeder in neununddreissigneunzig