OSCAR & WALT (Donald Steven Olson) - New Works Virtual Festival #1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aufbruch - Abend in der Stadt

Lyrics in English:

"I stand here alone

Run away from home

All traffic lights are red

In this city, in this country

But where should I go?

I don't have an apartment

Best to go to the next pub

And there I get drunk

There's only trouble at home

Quarrel and quarrel and quarrel

My old people work in the factory

Not a big account in the bank

They gave me notice at the factory

I had no sheet of paper at my mouth

And now I stand here

It's evening on the town

Damn it, on this street

So many houses are empty

And the owners make money on the decay

Much, much more

The cold makes me freeze

The jacket doesn't keep the wind out

Something has to happen today

It's evening on the town

So go to my friends

As always in the damp corner

The houses must be inhabited

That's their purpose

And we don't want to ask any longer

Fed up with the authorities

Today we're moving into the houses

It's evening on the town

So go ahead, into the first house

Man, how this is falling into disrepair

We have our dreams

And that's more important than money

We want to live together

And not in a locker

That has a toilet

We're going to renovate

It's evening on the town!

What's going on out there?

Police march

The chief cop read an explanation

The politicians smeared it

The politicians represent the speculators

And lie outright

When the law is and is law

Yeah then I give a shit about it

It's evening on the town

So go ahead, built barricades

Let's defend our rights

Our right not to have boots on our faces

The mollis don't burn badly

The state shows its teeth

And we ensure tooth loss

We will fight back

We do not surrender in any case

Politicians, if you want the war

Then just keep on seeing the wind

The storm is coming back to you

When we are without an apartment again

Then we will occupy your villas

And the Deutsche Bank

And the German Reichstag

And then tomorrow it will be red in the country"  

 

 

 

 

 “Punk ain’t no religious cult

Punk means thinking for yourself

You ain’t hardcore when you spike your hair

When a jock still lives inside your head”

- Nazi Punks Fuck Off

 https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/03/18/etienne-louis-boullee-newton-cenotaph/

 No one is more exacting than a man who is not conversant with a given art for he is unable to imagine all the difficulties the artist has to overcome.

 

 

 

[The topics mentioned] had become whisked up together in my mind and had formed something slightly less solid than an idea, but more solid than a notion. I smiled, rose and murmured my goodbyes, desperate to get out of the room before the emulsion curdled into its separate elements again and drained away.

 

Philip Glass Ensemble Retrospective from Obsidian Lens on Vimeo.

Watch Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble (PGE) perform at the iconic composer's own Big Sur-based Days and Nights Festival in 2011, in an evening of Glass's seminal works for the PGE -- the principal performers of his work since 1968. The concert features Glass's Music in Similar Motion, Façades, "Building" from Einstein on the Beach, excerpts from Music in Twelve Parts, and "Dance IX" from In the Upper Room.

BTW... (Comments on a local FB page)

The built environment of Shepherdstown is finished, complete, and has been for decades. There will not ever be any new construction of housing, or anything else for that matter.

What land there is available AROUND and OUTSIDE of Shepherdstown is "unincorporated", and therefore immune to any such planning schemes.

On that land, it's only up to the market to decide, and the market will not ever be interested in "affordable, equitable, shared, sustainable, alternative" housing ideas. Those things happen in areas where such ideals are FORCED through planning regulation, and have never been voluntary.

The market serves banks selling mortgages on private fiefdoms for petit barons, who never will actually OWN their estate.

--Your friendly neighborhood radical antiquarian architectural designer.

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I shall continue to work on the things I CAN do by myself to affect positive change for my clients, and leave the big picture ideas to those that still have faith in working with "community" and committees.

--Your STOIC friendly neighborhood radical antiquarian architectural designer.

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Yes, there are many hoops both a landlord and tenants have to go through to qualify for government subsidized housing schemes.

There are not, however, ANY hoops or obstacles preventing a landlord from charging a reasonable rent based on ACTUAL COST OF OWNERSHIP rather than "market value" (I.E. collusion, price fixing). Thereby reaping a profit off a tenant fully subsidizing the landlords investment.

It should not be the tenant's, nor the government's burden to pay for someone's investment.

MEMENTO MORI

The corpse of a boreal raccoon, with mushrooms growing from the palm of its paw, like a bouquet of flowers from beyond.

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 https://andrewbatson.com/2021/03/16/misunderstanding-malthus-mistake/

 https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/first-revisionist-historian

BTW... (Got skills?)

BTW...

If they were properly burned at the stake to sufficient temperature, yes. A good meat thermometer is recommended.

An accelerant may be necessary when burning the rich, for sanitation purposes. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Currently...

Problem...

I have a lovely Delft pottery cookie jar.

It matches several other lovely Delft things that make me aesthetically happy.

I am not allowed to own things that I do not use.

Therefore, the cookie jar MUST have cookies in it to justify it's existence.

Please advise.

 

 

 

 

 

Currently...

 These guys are at ALDI! I can't get there fast enough. Gotta buy all the gnomes!