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I am not sure if I posted this video before, but rarely does a song affect me this strongly. Here is Glosoli by Sigur Ros:

This 1995 music video by Radiohead is the best music video I've watched. Until a few days ago, the memories of this great video were lingering in my mind, but I was not able to recall the name of the song. Thanks to Wikipedia I have prevailed over visual "Ohrwurm". Here it is, Just by Radiohead. My other all-time favorite is the Alexander Rutterford , video of my favorite IDM band Autechre's Gantz Graf: Lastly I couldn't have possibly left the famous Chris Cunningham video to Aphex Twin's great song Come to Daddy:

"All I can do is be me, Whoever that is. Bob Dylan" The trailer of the new Dylan movie " I Am Not There " opens up with this prophetic sentence by Dylan. This sentence made it clear to me, why I felt like Dylan has written something about everything. That "whoever that is" coupled with the title of one of the best biographical accounts I watched " No Direction Home " , by Scorsese, tells you of a soul looking for home, not finding it and changing on the way, and writing about it on the way. He has been everyone on his search, that's how he can sing about everyone. I was introduced to Dylan by my sister , Desire album, and baptized by Thuan . After that he has become a sort of an addiction to me. "Blonde on Blonde" has become my personal best album, and "I Want You" my personal best song. So the news of semi-biographical movie shot in Dylan's imaginative style comes to me as a great news. Whats more interesting is the ...

In the western media our current prime minister -and ex poetry reader- Tayyip Erdogan is depicted as a re-born democrat who suffered under the opressive secular elite. Though I agree on the second part, that the secularism in Turkey is opressive, I do not believe Erdogan is a re-born democrat. Recently, Bekir Coskun, a prominent opposition journalist wrote on his column that the president-to-be Abdullah Gül will not be his president, and accused Gül -like many in the opposition- of having a fundamentalist agenda. Erdogan, in an TV Interview a day later told Coskun should give up his Turkish nationality and leave the country. This kind of "join us or leave us" is more reminiscent of authoritarian dictators, and must send shivers down the spines of every Turkish citizen who is dreaming of a freer and more modern Turkey. If you are interested in my personal opinion, I believe everyone, including the politicians have the right -and must- change as the times go by. However Abdulla...

No matter what I am doing the night I always get in the party mood with hip-hop. These days my favorite pre-party tune is Stronger by Kanye West, which is a collaboration with one of my favorite bands Daft Punk. Two years ago it was Nasty Girl by Biggie and Friends: Hope they help getting in the party mood on this lovely August saturday!

"Is there anyone in there?" A shrill female voice broke the the dead hours of the night. It was brighter than the hot and sticky summer day that the dreadful night followed. The deep monotonic humming of the generators powering the huge flood-lights that turned the dead night into dead day mixed with the incessant humming of the cicadas, remaining true to their local name -the august bug. Hundreds of people waiting anxiously did not hear this humming, they did not hear anything for the first time in their life. They refused to hear, they refused to see, and they refused to let their heart beat until an answer came from inside of the ugly thing, which only a very trained eye could recognize as a 8 story apartment... I was sitting hypnotized in front of a TV thousand kilometers away and did not feel a thing for the first time in my life. I refused to feel alive, until that lady who shouted through a hole in the wall of that toppled in building gave a positive sign, a sign of ...

BBC's Europe Editor Mark Mardell has written a delicious piece on Turkish cuisine . These lines watered my mouth and made me look even more forward to my Turkish Trip: "Diced tomatoes and cucumber in a pomegranate sauce. Watercress in yoghurt, smoky aubergine puree. A tangy lamb stew. Juicy kebabs. Flaky, puffed-up balloons of sesame-sprinkled bread. Like the Platonic lemon of Cizre they all tasted complex, full not just of flavour, but of flavours." Interested can read a series of entries leading to the landslide election of 22 July on his blog. Another interesting news from the blogosphere comes from the Economist's Euro Blog . As you might know, France and her President Sarkozy are horribly anti-Turkish. Yet, Sarkozy might be lifting the referendum clause for new members to EU in order to make more room for diplomatic maneuver. Well this does not mean that he will turn pro-Turkish, and might mean that France will be more intrusive in the membership talks. But this...

Here is a neat site . What DailyLit does is simple and elegant. If you are one of those like me who cannot find the time they would like to have for reading, Daily Lit parses online books that are public (The Divine Comedy, The Communist Manifesto, The Prince, The Paradise Lost and more) into daily digests and sends to your e-mail. You can set the period, and the time of the e-mails. Great idea, well execution.