Last week I had to compensate for A having a good time in New York City, full of excitement and VIPs. So I watched The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix. For inspiration, as I myself have been planning a p…

I have by now a proper library on Erik Satie. My latest purchases are the books by Ornella Volta: “Satie Seen Through His Letters”, “Satie / Cocteau. Eine Verständigung in Mißverständnissen” and “Erik Sat…

In the local coffee shop Pausini I have a chat with the barista. Turns out she was born in Alt-Tempelhof, went to school here, left the neighbourhood only shortly for a stay in Pankow and some work in Pre…

This Easy Piece was played on New Year's Eve.  You can hear the Berlin fireworks in the background, at some point with a bang. It is a melange of  children pieces by Erik Satie, some fun facts, a piec…

I've been watching the documentary The Life of Andy Warhol and it made me, if possible, even more in awe of what Andy Warhol did. Another nice detail that I found out online (sorry, forgot where, I th…

A has been indulging the new publication of Paul McCartney's songs. He sent me a snippet that he thought I would like. It's about novelist and short story writer Donald Barthelme who in his essay …

In one of my seminars at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, a student came up, in a bisociative thinking exercise, with the idea of a Museum for Losers. Robert Filiou would have liked that. In his Teaching and…