Today’s quote is from William Gibson one of our favorite fiction writer.

Click on the image below for a larger version (original drawing)

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, simply surrounded by assholes.“

• image (CC BY 2.0) based on mihalorel at flickr
• Wikipedia on William Gibson

An animation created by illustrator and animator Ian Higginbotham for Random House to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Catch-22 – Joseph Heller’s epic novel.

Ian, who currently lives in NYC, has previously worked with companies like Random House, Titmouse, Blue Sky Studios, Kill Screen, Time Out and millions are greeted everyday by his drawings when opening the Vimeo homepage. His Catch-22 short won a gold medal in the “Moving Image” category of the 2011 Society of Illustrators competition.

More information at Ian’s web site and blog

And for those who might have forgotten: Yossarian lives!

Today’s Europe Day celebrations might turn out to be rather toned down particularly with the political development of the last days in Greece and France.

With the right wing Nazis getting a come-back in Athens and even more votes (around 20%) for far right wing parties in France after the success of those extremist parties in Hungary or Belgium, it demonstrates that some certainly never learn from history. Together with the disasters created to cover-up the crimes of Bankster and their friends / financial special interest groups better known as market liberals, it seems Europe is making huge steps away from becoming unified and results from decades before are being destroyed fast.

Europe’s anthem – Schiller’s ode to joy – set in music by Ludwig van Beethoven, describes an ideal society of equal people linked by friendship and brotherhood. While it became one of Schiller’s widest known poems (and also as the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony one of his most played musical setting) even Schiller himself later in his life had considered it as detached from reality.

Appropriately to the current situation in Europe and recent comments by Goldman Sachs we have chosen the version of the anthem performed by the Muppets.

The tune of the European anthem was also used from 1974 – 1980 as the anthem of Rhodesia – let’s hope Europe does not follows down the same path.

And one more – the Leningrad Cowboys.
and guess what they are singing about – Leningrad

… after 20 years they are still going strong with their very special way.

More – and this time really loud.
Skrillex -Bangarang

… it never stops

A bit of music tonight.

Let’s get started with Miike Snow

and yes it will not help to keep those curtains close. Nooooose…