Alex in Wonderland pres. Il Mondo Meraviglioso vol. 1

After long hiatus, AiW is back in saddle. Mixed story in sound format can be heard here:

To download mix click here:
http://www.filesonthe.net/BC0FX
Tracklist:
01.Chiara Mastroianni & Olivier Bernet - The Eye Of The Tiger
02.Boogie Belgique - One Day Soon
03.Gadjo Dilo - Sou Sfirizo
04.Hello Seahorse! - Que Nadie Sepa Mi Sufrir
05.Ian Ikon Feat. Marina Celeste - Supersonic Love
06.Scala and Kolacny Brothers - Le Vent Nous Portera
07.Haris Alexiou - Ena Fili (Soumka remix)
08.Sia - Unforgettable
09.Taj Ranjid - Mumbai nights
10.Let's Talk - Death in the Afternoon
11.LP - Lost on you
12.Papik & Ely Bruna - Parole Parole
13.Vicentico - Paisaje
14.The Rasmus Feat. Anette Olzon - October And April
15.ZHU - Palm of my hand
16.Rebeat Feat. Michael Jackson - Neverland
17.Triggerfinger - I follow rivers
18.The Baseballs - Umbrella
19.The Drapers - Million Dollar Baby
20.Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows ( The Gunman Ripoff Merchant mix)
21.Rebeat Feat. The Doors - Light My Fire
22.Kate Ryan - Runaway (Smalltown Boy)
23.Joachim Pastor - Joda (Worakls Remix)
24.The Vinylistic - I'm Confessin That I Love You
25.LuvBug - Best is yet to come

51 tasty cheeses from around the globe

Rebeat feat MJ - Neverland

Map of Neverland (© Walt Disney Company)

Wikipedia claims Neverland is a fictional place, and dwelling place of Peter pan and Tinker Bell. No one ages there, and in metaphoric way, it is used to describe childhood, immortality and escapism.
In popular culture, beside Walt Disney' Peter Pan, Neverland is also known as a name of Michael Jackson's estate in Santa Barbara.

Residents of this magical place (not the ranch) include: Fairies, Birds, Lost boys, Pirates, Native Americans, Mermaids, Animals and other residents.

Reference to Michael Jackson still remains one of the most important in the Magic Kingdom. Hear the immortal king in the Rebeat's 2014 remembrance.

Keep calm and carry on

My daily routine is quite simple: I wake up, I have my lemon-orange-ginger-honey drink and breakfast, I have my coffee while checking emails and news, I have my green tea while work, I do the lunch, I go out for 7km walk and do yoga, I have another coffee and sweet while seeing more news and facebook/twitter trash, I have my dinner, I have my herbal tea while watching the movie, after which I go to sleep. I see people in the meantime. I do phone calls. I play with my cats. I take care of their needs. Sometimes I blog. Occasionally, I go out at night, I visit friends, eat with them, drink with them, nod to their dramas (not necessarily interesting).
People live similar routine all over the world: Madrid, Rio, Toronto, Pyongyang.
Alright, maybe not Pyongyang.

Geo 12 Paris ©AlexAndic

Paris.

I have to be honest, my first reaction to the Paris terrorist attack news was total horror. I felt the same thing when this summer I saw report from Tunisian resort at Port Kantaoui. I watched the news report about the massacre and saw the resort I stayed at, just few years ago. Familiar pool area, corridors and hotel lobby were flashing on tv screen. I got plenty of photos and videos from this place. This time some blurred areas were hiding bodies on the beach.
Since I read the news on Paris Bloody Friday I felt bad. I felt sorry for the people involved or got-involved into this insane crime. I felt helpless and frightened. Of course I felt hate, and anger. I saw some well-known places on the screen, I recalled my moments there, and felt shivers thinking it could be me or someone I know. Victims are same everywhere - dead. The only difference for me was: yes, I (or you) could be in charter flight from Egypt, or laying on that beach in Imperial Marhaba, or having dinner in Paris restaurant.
I love Paris, who doesn't? My favorite neighborhoods are Le Marais and Latin Quarter. However, I feel strange when I get close to Gare du Nord/de l'Est and see hijabs and taqiyahs way too often. Strange, like uncomfortable. And, since I've been travelling all my life all over the world, this is a new feel.
I have relatives and friends in islamic faith. Faith as faith, I say potato you say potato. Big deal! But this strange new feel came with the horrific things done in the name of this religion, and I see it as natural reaction to the suicide-bombers, the Jihadi Janes with knives, the stories of promised virgins and kids with kalashnikovs. "Nigerian teenage girls killed 12 people in suicide attack".
What the fucking fuck?!?!?!
In my time, teenage girls were playing with their Barbies. If they were "bad", they coughed trying to smoke, winked at guys and wore mom's high heels. Not the explosive vest, for fuck sake.
After fear, I felt anger, than sorrow, than worry.
Further on, I realized these psychos actually aimed it: our deepest fears. To do things people do every day. To feel uncomfortable every time we go out, we squeeze in commute train, we pay at the cashier. To shrink from all our fellow citizens with appearance that differs from ours. To grab the floor at any sudden move and sound.
Living in fear isn't living. Half of Hollywood production is based on this premise.

So, the only thing to strike back is normal life. To keep on going with whatever makes you happy, satisfied and fulfilled person. To go out and see people you like (trust me, you don't have enough time for the bullshit ones), to visit that new cafe opened last week (if it's good leave a tip, if it's not just slaughter it in TripAdvisor), to see a movie in that hipster festival, and buy new shoes you're looking at for few weeks (not that you REALLY need them).

French director Michel Hazanavicius had own very graphic way of saying the similar, and you may read it HERE.

My daily routine remains quite simple: I wake up, I have my lemon-orange-ginger-honey drink and breakfast, I have my coffee while checking emails and news, I have my green tea....

Enjoy life, because you only got one, no matter what the religions are telling you. 

Deutschland83

I was born in the last quarter of the 20th century (officially) and I remember muuuuch better times. Now, I know it sounds like a beginning of the romance biography, but it won't be.
I remember vinyl records, Rubik's cubes, Joe Bazooka bubble gums, Tahiti treat, Karate kid movie but also Grease and neon clothes before its revival. I remember loads of music tapes and the way to use pencil with it (no clue, mp3 kids?) I remember Converse and Levi's were really cool, and not in today's retro way. I remember my first Mackie Dee before we all became aware what toxic waste lays within. I remember Coke was Coca Cola, good, old-fashioned million-calories mixture of sugar and water, not the symbol of american imperialism. I also remember writing down things by hand, running scale of the radio, eating red meat, rotary dials on the phone, Pacman and tv antennas rotation. I remember how Madonna REALLY looked (before facelifts, photoshops and hyaluron fills she doesn't use). Cher looked same as she does today.

So 80s were fun. But some places fun was different. East Germany, for example. To show you the joys of living in the communist paradise, RTL made an 8-part series Deutschland 83, thriller in its best form of the Bourne franchise. As most german TV shows it lacks humor (and, knowing lots of Germans, I got to say it is so NOT like them) but not the action and suspence. As an architect (luckily) uninfluenced by ridiculous american architectural mambo jambo, I find architecture of Berlin marvelous, and authentic interiors and buildings in D83 are really worth seeing the show. Script written really good, dialogs make sense, so no lines after which you're puzzled "WTF is he saying?"
Characters are logical and colorful. Of course, all commies smoke like crazy, btw Alexis was the only smoker in Dynasty, another pearl of the eighties tv. Loved her dragging Chrystle through the mud.
Anyway, the show is great for another thing: soundtrack is like a Top40 of the decade....it was soooo good to hear those hits again.
Acting is realistic, direction really, really good, whole story even covers some phenomena so new at the moment (AIDS, computers) but still polished enough to be broadcasted publically. Costumes and archive footage majestically inserted into story.
Generally, 8 x 45 minutes of good fun, and you may see it online by clciking the link below.

For info purpose, you may see ALL 12 episodes online by clicking on the link below (active after 5 sec delay):

• http://www.any.gs/C4Rm2

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Yello - Beyond mirrors

The age of science has failed to explain our universe in rational terms.

Consequently, the power of magic has gradually emerged from our conscious minds to fathom the unfathomable.

Our most distinguished scientists reluctlantly admit that mankind is nothing but some billion creatures sitting on a piece of solar driftwood, floating in space.

Magic is the art of influencing the course of events by the intervention of spiritual forces or some other occult device.

According to Arthur C. Clarke any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Early civilizations often mistook the unexplained world around them to be magic.

Rupert Sheldrake in his book "Seven experiments that could change the world" has stated that scientists attitude towards the experiments affect the results of their experiments.

There is no such thing as a definite fact in science and therefore the irrationality of magic plays an important part in our rational world.

Werner Heisenberg, the leading 20th century physicist has stated that mass is a physical  interpretation of energy.

Religious organisations have understood the power of magic and therefore monopolized

the interpretation of the supernatural to control the human mind.

The universe as a whole is beyond explanation. Only at the end of the 20th century the

Roman catholic church admitted that the great visionary Galileo Galilei was in fact correct.

The second millennium has come to an end. Scientists have to admit that the universe is magic.

The sentence of the Inquisition was delivered in three essential parts:

• Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions.
• He was sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition. On the following day this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life.
• His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.

Epur si muove.

The A list of the art list or the 1% in the paintings

Last time you could read about one of the most important professions in modern history of mankind art critic (if you didn't, you may read it HERE) and now it is time to discuss the fruit of their hard labor:

THE LIST (of 10 most expensive paintings*)

Paul Gauguin - Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)  1892, sold in February 2015 , in a private transaction for
(close to)US$300 million 
to unknown buyer, possibly the state of Qatar (after Saudi Arabia, the most conservative state)

Paul Cézanne - The Card Players 1892/93, sold in April 2011, in a private transaction for
US$259 million
to the state of Qatar, where Sharia law is the main source of the legislation. No, you wouldn't like to live under it.

Mark Rothko - No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) 1951, sold in August 2014,
in a private transaction for
US$186 million
to Дмитрий Евгеньевич Рыболовлев, a business entity that took part in the most expensive divorce settlement in history

Pablo Picasso - Les Femmes d'Alger Version O 1955, sold in June 2015,
by Christie's NY for
US$179.4 million
to former Qatari prime minister, simultaneous arms dealer and peace mediator :-)

Jackson Pollock - No. 5 1948, sold in November 2006,
by private sale for
US$140 million
to David Martinez, a business creature that hides traces successfully and has only 1 (one) photograph on the internet, but numerous links to the wealthiest of the planet

Willem de Kooning - Woman III 1953, sold in November 2006, by private sale for
US$137.5 million
to Steven A Cohen, a "humanitarian" continuously linked to criminal insider tradings and hedge fund strategies that, somehow, end in financial authorities' inquiry

Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907, sold in June 2006, by private sale for
US4135 million
to Ronald Lauder, son of Estée Lauder, who bought it for Neue Galerie NY

Pablo Picasso - Le Rêve 1932, sold in March 2013, by private sale for
US$155 million
to Steven A Cohen, yes the one above, again

Vincent Van Gogh - Portrait of Dr Gachet 1890, sold in May 1990 by Christie's for
US$82.5 million
to Ryoei Saito, creature that said things like
"My motto is: If you have money, make it into a big pile and roll naked in it" and
"It's my principle to get what I want, no matter how much money it costs." Adding later he wanted the Renoir and Van Gogh paintings to be put in his coffin and cremated with him when he died. Looney case locked two paintings away from the public in a warehouse. 

Francis Bacon - Three studies of Lucian Freud 1969, sold in November 2013 by Christie's for
US$142.4 million
to Elaine Wynn, (...erm, how should I put it....) socialite, philanthropist and an ex-wife 



*as on August 1st, 2015