on the search for an el cheapo dvd player: yagma.com, ciao.de, dvdboard.de (thanks, innocent x).
the masterplan: buy a simple dvd player for little money now, get a real solid recorder later.
friendly fascism.
after talking all that moore, i've finally seen "bowling for columbine", like it very much.
it takes a guy like moore, appearing as the prototype of european prejudices against white american male, to expose the existential orientation of this nation.
obviously, it's high time for another roosevelt. and probably the only mistake in michael moore's movie is that it might leave you drenched in fear of the us of a, its right-wing politicians, greedy business-men and fanatic christians. most (if not all of them) being stupid white men.
btw. europeans certainly are on the same path down the spiral of conservative extremism, germany is already coated with angst and virtual depression. problems are immenent, but they can be solved unless they let stoiber et al. continue with terrorizing politics and still allow smirking journalists to blow their apocalyptic horns of hysteria and hipocrisy.
»nach sechs jahren ehe sah ich meine freundin nicht etwa tief enttäuscht, denn nie hatte sie begeisterung gezeigt, sondern außerstande, selbst vor außenstehenden die gereiztheit zu verbergen, die uns immer jene einflößen, die in unseren augen überflüssig sind.« – javier marías: »der nachtarzt«.
on tuesday 10 december 2002, prof. tom fuerstner gives a lecture about "the chronofile society" at the department of medical cybernetics and artificial intelligence, vienna.
digital ist besser. maybe. but this antville site definitely is.
vienna is different.
it's good to be here. scheuklappen-mentalität rules ok.
two days until election day... too much hot air in the mid of november. fortunately, maschek make my day.
via e-mail from betablogger.
Playwright Jim Sherman wrote this after Hu Jintao was named head of the Communist Party in China.
HU'S ON FIRST By James Sherman
(Scene: The Oval Office. Enter the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice.)
George: Condi! Nice to see you. What's happening? Condi: Sir, I have the report here about the new leader of China. George: Great. Lay it on me. Condi: Hu is the new leader of China. George: That's what I want to know. Condi: That's what I'm telling you. George: That's what I'm asking you. Who is the new leader of China? Condi: Yes. George: I mean the fellow's name. Condi: Hu. George: The guy in China. Condi: Hu. George: The new leader of China. Condi: Hu. George: The Chinaman! Condi: Hu is leading China. George: Now whaddya' asking me for? Condi: I'm telling you Hu is leading China. George: Well, I'm asking you. Who is leading China? Condi: That's the man's name. George: That's who's name? Condi: Yes. George: Will you or will you not tell me the name of the new leader of China? Condi: Yes, sir. George: Yassir? Arafat is in China? I thought he was in the Middle East. Condi: That's correct. George: Then who is in China? Condi: Yes, sir. George: Yassir is in China? Condi: No, sir. George: Then who is? Condi: Yes, sir. George: Yassir? Condi: No, sir. George: Look, Condi. I need to know the name of the new leader of China. Get me the Secretary General of the U.N. on the phone. Condi: Kofi? George: No, thanks. Condi: You want Kofi? George: No. Condi: You don't want Kofi. George: No. But now that you mention it, I could use a glass of milk. And then get me the U.N. Condi: Yes, sir. George: Not Yassir! The guy at the U.N. Condi: Kofi? George: Milk! Will you please make the call? Condi: And call who? George: Who is the guy at the U.N? Condi: Hu is the guy in China. George: Will you stay out of China?! Condi: Yes, sir. George: And stay out of the Middle East! Just get me the guy at the U.N. Condi: Kofi. George: All right! With cream and two sugars. Now get on the phone. Condi (On the phone): Rice, here. George: Rice? Good idea. And a couple of egg rolls, too. Maybe we should send some to the guy in China. And the Middle East. Can you get Chinese food in the Middle East?
words of the day: potted meat food products and mechanically separated chicken.