Category: Culture

For a nostalgic and lazy music saturday afternoon Enchanting Vladimir Horowitz plays Robert Schumann: Träumerei / Reverie / Daydream from Kinderszenen Horowitz plays Bizet's Carmen Fantasie

Diwali, Divali, or Deepawali is a major Indian and Nepalese festive holiday. What started as a harvest festival in ancient times, became associated with many legends and became a significant festival in Hinduism and all the faiths which originated in India - Jainism and Sikhism. Today it is celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs across … Continue reading Festival of lights: Happy Diwali to my Indian friends!

Nobody can tell the future of our dear Y!360 community! I'll stay here with my friends until the ship is definately sinking but I've got a rescue boot as well - just in case! I'm there @ multiply together with a lot of Y!360 refugees which make me feel confortable in the new home as … Continue reading Visit me @ multiply!

Albert Camus, né le 7 novembre 1913 à Mondovi en Algérie et mort le 4 janvier 1960 à Villeblevin dans l'Yonne, était un écrivain et philosophe français. Albert Camus (IPA: [al'bɛʁ ka'my]) (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher who won the Nobel prize in 1957.Mon oeuvre préféré c'est … Continue reading Bon anniversaire Albert Camus!

A goodnight song for my friends!I feel somehow "arabic" tonight - so I put this song of which I don't understand nearly anything at all - but I just love the wonderful sound of the language! And I will try to understand a bit more one day... I'm working on it :)) Ce soir je … Continue reading Raoui – The Storyteller by Souad Massi

A few days ago I got the following mail from my dear Indian Y!friend Raman: “Today I saw a Malayalam Movie "Mazhavillu", meaning the rainbow. Malayalam is our vernacular. The movie was shot mainly in Vienna and Hymberg. And Hymberg is just as beautiful as the dreamland of a romantic girl.” The video below shows … Continue reading Saturday’s Song: An Indian Movie in Vienna

Jamais je n’oublierai ce moment magique où ma fille assise sur un chameau fredonnait pleine de joie Au clair de la lune sous le ciel noir rempli des étoiles brillants dans le Sahara... I'll never forget this magic moment of a rising moon when my little daughter - sitting hight on the back of a … Continue reading a waste land – where poetry arises

It seems that Paris and memories are haunting the blogs at the moment… So I’ll dedicate this MUSIC entry to an ingenious film – one of the best, most perfect and greatest ever shot – CASABLANCA and also to this marvellous place, which gave name to the film and to all politically engaged people… I … Continue reading Music Saturday: Play it again, Sam!

Inshallah it has been announced that Eid ul-Fitr will be Friday 12th October 2007 UK. The visibility of the New Crescent Moon has began. The Coordination Committee of Major Islamic Centres and Mosques of London has agreed that 1st Shawwal 1428, Eid ul-Fitr, will be on Friday 12 October 2007. This website was last updated … Continue reading Eid Mubarak! Aïdkom Mabrouk!

GOLDEN GIFTS Seeking you in the desert After long days and lonely nights When all of a sudden the sand dunes Are changing into wide ocean waves The blue water over flooding the land The last of the golden hills of sand Sinking into the deep blue sea Metamorphoses under the surface To an immense … Continue reading Magic Wednesday Poem

Che: The icon and the adBy Stephanie HolmesBBC NewsIt is perhaps the most reproduced, recycled and ripped off image of the 20th Century.Che Guevara, his eyes framed by heavy brows, a single-starred beret pulled over his unruly hair, stares out of the shot with glowering intensity.It's now 40 years since the Argentine-born rebel was shot … Continue reading Che Guevara – there is no other image like it

Pour ce samedi matin je vous présente Les Duos de l’Impossible…. A tous qui aiment Joe Dassin À ma chère Dominique qui as attiré ma attention a cette bien faite émission française que je ne connaissais pas À La Sorcière qui adore comme moi Joe Dassin et - comme il me semble bien – Paris … Continue reading A chanson on saturday by an impossible duo

In memoriam Glenn Gould to his 75 anniversary Glenn Herbert Gould (September 25, 1932 - October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He gave up concert performances in 1964, dedicating himself to the recording studio for the rest of his career, and performances … Continue reading Thomas Bernhard and Glenn Gould

Today’s Laylat al-Qadr ( لیلة القدر) (also known as Shab-e-Qadr), literally the Night of Decree or Night of Measures, occurring in the last third of the month of Ramadan, is the anniversary of the night Muslims believe the first verses of the Qur'an were revealed to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel. It is also the … Continue reading Some words of salam and hope to my friend Aladdeen!

The Witch’s blog with her Helsinki Complaints Choir and a certain Dave – who called me French existentialist – reminded me of my past wild days when I was only wearing black (not to forget my black hat ;), growing crazy about translating Jacques Derrida – and singing loudly and quite drunk to great Italian … Continue reading Music saturday: M.A. Numminen