Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern. Rose, oh pure contradiction, desire, To be no one’s sleep under so many Lids. (Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his own epitaph sometime before October 27, 1925. He requested that it be inscribed on his gravestone. This was fifteen months before his death. (Translation: John … Continue reading
I met Todd McCarthy* in sunny Los Angeles and asked him to tell me about his top ten favorite “happy” movies. Continue reading
Recently I have visited the West Coast and was reminded what a magic and different attitude Los Angelenos radiate unlike the rest of us. I was puzzled why this optimism is only possible in the city of the illusions of the pink sky (caused by the pollution), and the lost angels of Hollywood dreams. In one … Continue reading
The world happiness report, released on Monday by Columbia University’s Earth Institute, ranks Russia as the 68th happiest country in the world. Every Sunday at 12:00, Russian seniors gather together in a few of Moscow’s parks. Regardless of the weather, they meet each other and dance. Since I was a child I remember seeing them … Continue reading
Photos by my friend Markus Kloiber: Photos by my friend Anastasia Rogers: Continue reading
Austria’s young bright burning star extraordinaire, Les Tardes Goldscheyder, the autodidact, street artist, visionary, poet, painter and curator (www.durchhaus.org) narrates the mystic spaces between the hell and heaven. Continue reading
Watch how Vienna is chillin’. Continue reading
