I recently rewatched Alfred J. Kwak, which is a series about an orphan duck who fights social injustice. I think it’s really great. The series has little arcs in which different problems like overfishing or whale hunting are presented and solved by Alfred and his friends by organizing against it. There are also some heavy episodes in which Alfred joins the fight against apartheit or in which he fights the rise of nazism in his country.

I watched it in german, which I think is spoken slow and carefully.

“Underground techno partys will liberate Iran.”

Hey, I’m your cool new professor. There’s no need for formalities because we all create the seminar together and teach each other. Also you have to regularly participate in the course, do weekly assignments, do a presentation resulting in an essay and write a extensive final paper. 20% of your grade will be the result from…

I came in contact with them when I started at uni and I attended some of their reading circles. Basically they’re trotskyists who claim that there has been no real left movement since the october revolution. Because of this they are stuck reading the same texts over and over again, condemning anything outside of their framework. Also they are very cultish. When you want to join, you have to do some kind of mentoring program in which you have to discuss texts of Chris Cutrone on multiple occasions with a member you haven’t met before. I also remember different mailing lists in which all conversations come to an end when Cutrone makes a statement.

I had an interview for an internship and they said I would have to work overtime and on the weekends in a position with major responsibility. They said it would be good for me to experience this kind of stress and pressure. How do you just tell somebody that they will have to work like that for basically no money (1.5k for two month) in an interview and think this is something good? Assholes.

I would recommend listening to some contemporary classical music . The different experience that you can get with contemporary music that is not build on traditional tonal and harmonic principles helped my understanding of music a lot. Maybe start with some pieces of Anton Webern (the six pieces for orchestra op. 6 are short and really impressive) and other members of the Second Viennese School. If you want to listen to more recent contemporary pieces I would recommend the work of Michael Finnissy and Brian Ferneyhough.

I had a close friend who once told me that he thinks he became a convinced fascist and that he was afraid of losing me as a friend because of it. After that I never talked to him again. He’s in the military now.

A bird just flew into my living room, shat on the floor and left. Cute little idiot.

Noooo. I forgot my mothers birthday for about a week and I just suddenly remembered it. Her birthday is two days after mine so I really shouldn’t have forgotten it. Shame on me

CW: police violence, ableism

There has been an incident in may where the police chased a man through the city of Mannheim and beat him to death. The man was mentally ill and the police was called by his psychologists.