Shanghai just shut down to celebrate the new year, the year of the ox.
Everything is closed, streets are empty and so are the clubs. The best time
to prepare at home new music for next months parties. DJ Passion
is coming out for a few shows in Asia; he will be paying at my other party
called BANANAS and do a set at Song in Beijing but more important:
DJ PASSION & KAMIKAZE at MAO for YUM YUM Saturday 21st February 2009
(smile)
While on the road or in the sun for four months last year, and actually even longer if i count all the many weeks travelling in between and coming back here, there were a couple of songs which i kept on listening to on repeat. Since i feel my insides longing to live in another place, with it being so cold and dark here, these tracks come back to mind and are a steady companion at all times.
One was Regina Spektors – Fidelity.
heres the audio version: fidelity_regina spektor
[audio:http://www.chromemusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/01-fidelity.mp3]the other one was: sam-cooke-summertime . i had this song on my headphones till all of south-east-asia got tired of hearing it.
[audio:http://www.chromemusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/sam-cooke-02-summertime-pt-1.mp3]2 old sayings comes to mind when i hear these songs:
“The cave you fear to enter, holds the treasure you seek.” & “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Absolutely one of the best documentaries i have seen in recent times. Shocking and gripping. Since there is no way we can get a hold of this movie in Germany – Watch this movie here. More info about the movie: Flow on imdb.
About the movie:
Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question “CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?”
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
On December 10th, 2008 FLOW was invited to screen at the United Nations as part of the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Watch the video here: FLOW at the UN
Join the cause on their website flowthefilm.com
Trailer:
