I am a little fed up with myself that I continue posting stuff about politics and especially the war and the alienation between the US and some European countries. This is very important and moves me more than most music nowadays but I feel I should stop here for two reasons.

Firstly I wanted this to be a blog mainly about music and culture. I know that my political attitude is quite irrelevant especially in the view that I am not a very political person. I mean in the sense of politically active etc. By the way I am not a very religious person neither.

Secondly I think it is about time to accept the facts and to stop lamenting. What has happened has happened and nobody is going to reverse history. Therefore let's just hope that the world has become a better place after the invasion in Iraq and let's face the future and not the past now. It is always easier to criticise than to do things and get criticised by others then. I still think that the Iraq attack was not ok but that is really totally irrelevant now. End of politics mode.

P.S. There are probably several reasons for this change of mind. A kind of fatalism has settled in. Not the depressive and passive fatalism but more the kind of amor fati (love of the destiny) as described by Nietzsche. It is also my pragmatic side which seems to become more dominant. Maybe there is a relation to the fact that today is my fifth day of fasting. I only drink water, tea, filtered juices and clear soups plus occasionally a mix of coke and lemonade as a highlight and want to continue until Friday. After my 275 watt ergometer ride this morning I have lost 4.6 kilos from last Saturday morning. 94.9 kilos, I couldn't believe my eyes. I feel light and outside it is dry and sunny. Everything is gonna be fine. Even the Minima Moralia reading group seems ready to take off soon with the help of Mr Praschl and I am relaxing. Time to do some work outside.

The soundtrack to my current mood is Yo La Tengo's new warm and lovely album Summer Sun. Tracks 4 and 5 are what I'd call a perfect couple. No 5 is called Today Is the Day (download link) and I won't contradict Georgia there.