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I used to wake up with Nothing But Flowers by Talking Heads back in the states. I found a new favorite wake up song. Iggy Pop's Lust For Life. I've been listening to Iggy Pop lately, and am amazed by the depth of his seemingly basic lyrics. A social critique is hard to miss in his songs. This is not surprising, considering he may well be the only Rock'n'Roll artist to have published in a scholars magazine about Roman History. The piece is short , yet entertaining.

This is punk rock: And this is what it means: "I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dillitante's and ah... and ah... heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies and the bodies and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it and give everything they have to it and it's a... it's a term that's based on contempt, it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism and everything that's rotten about rock'n'roll. I don't know Johnny Rotten but I'm sure... I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius, myself . And that music is so powerful that it's quite beyond my control and ah... when I'm in the grips of it I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emoti...

The weathers been unbelievably sunny in Berlin recently. I know a real nice song that suits my mood these days. It's from the good old Punk days, which I missed with a few years, Here Comes the Summer by The Undertones: To my sister: I hope you know now, who influenced Jarvis Cocker's weird mimics on stage Thinking about the glorious days of Punk, the most disgusting music video I've seen lately came to my mind. It is a proof that the popular culture has chewed, swallowed, and digested Punk. And I think what Avril Lavigne -former prom queen from middleofnowehereville, manitoba, canada- did in her last video is the end product of this digestive process, commonly referred as shit. It is about a handsome guy who is dating a dull geek girl, who wears glasses and long skirts, and a punk-rocker girl who dresses in black, but is not afraid to show her curves with sexy mini skirts and do hip-hop style dance moves when it is necessary, who wants to steal the guy from the evil ge...

Spent the Monday home. Devoted the the whole day (well almost the whole, I woke up at 2pm) to spring clean-up. I did not know my apartment could house so much garbage without me knowing. Anyway I found some time to surf the web for interesting music news. I wanna share two... Queen is my first musical obsession, to whom I owe a great deal for the appreciation for multi-layered polyphonic music I grew by listening to them, and helped me appreciating music across the spectrum. Dubbed the first "Stadium Rock"ers, their stage performances had always been great. More than their show on the stage, thanks to flamboyance of Freddie Mercury, they distinguished themselves by getting through to the guy sitting on the last row. People could relate to Queen, composed of the only true male rock diva, the scientist turned guitarist Brian May, the true rocker Roger Taylor and the shy guy on the street John Deacon who plays most of his sets facing Roger Taylor... Their brilliance on stage pea...