The painter that killed Hitler
“I wasn’t eleven years old when I rebelled for the first time in my life. I didn’t want to be a clerk. I was...
Worshipping Freddie
“I would only believe in a god who knew how to dance.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Fr. Nietzsche
“I won’t be a rock star. I will be...
Charles Bukowski: “It’s the only good fight there is”
Don’t try.
Written on Charles Bukowski’s gravestone.
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I write this on the occasion of the birthday of Charles Bukowski, but it is not his biography. Only...
Men that didn’t go to school and changed the world
There's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life.
Charlie Chaplin
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After “Bad pupils, ingenious adults” we go on with some people who either didn’t...
A suicide’s gospel
“I know that each one of us travels alone to love, to faith and to death.”
Yannis Ritsos
“Of a book full of death, reading how...
A child that they named him Amadeus
Sometimes I wonder: If Mozart was born in our time, what kind of music would he write? Instrumental? Cinematic? Jazz? Or would he be...
