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Sicher, der Film läuft noch nicht in den Kinos und ich hab ihn daher noch nicht gesehen, aber mal ehrlich wenn man sich Daniel Craig anschaut und liest dass er durch die Bond-Rolle einiges gelernt hat (um's nett zu formulieren) dann hat man doch eher den Eindruck dass hier der Bösewicht die Hauptrolle hat. Sollte er mit seinen blonden Haaren und blauen Augen nicht lieber eienen Nazi spielen als einen Geheimagenten Ihrer Majestät? Ich bin aber trotzdem gespannt wie der Nazi-Bond sich auf der Leinwand macht. Schwul wird der nächste Bond wohl nicht sein: http://oskar.twoday.net/stories/2655387/

Seit ein paar Wochen kommt jetzt Naruto auf RTLII, komplett eingedeutscht, die Titelsongs auf English und ich muss sagen dass ich doch etwas mehr erwartet hätte. Für mich kein Grund auf die Japanischen Folgen mit Englischem Untertitel zu verzichten, die ich ja schon mindestens seit Anfang 2003 schau. Am meisten stören die Songs am Anfang und Ende der deutschen Fassung, da haben die Orginalen schon um einiges mehr an Power. Die deutsche Synchronstimme von Naruto ist auch nicht so besonders mitreisend. Naja, wer zu faul ist sich die Orginalen Folgen zu besorgen oder nicht so fix beim mitlesen der Untertitel dem wird's wohl ausreichen. Mir aber leider nicht.

This is a extensive essay about the life, work and poetry of the Doors singer/songwriter Jim Morrison. Back in the days when I was in the final class of school I had to write a 20 odd pages paper and I had choosen Jim Morrison as topic, yeah we had a lot of freedom in school. The teacher gave me 12 out of 15 points, though it could have been better if I hadn't been so Morrison-alike (aka drunk as can be) back then. What you read here is a corrected and improved version of the paper which I might extend one day to include things like the references to the beatlits like Kerouac. When moving it into the blog I removed most of the footnotes that pointed into literature, so have a look at the originals for the footnotes. I'm reworking the whole paper but you may download the old, original version as HTML, Plain-Text, PDF or LaTeX. You may freely use the paper alongside the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

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Preface

This is the end, beautiful friend, This is the end, my only friend, The end of our elaborate plans, The end of everything that stands, The end. ... The end of laughter and soft lies, The end of nights we tried to die. This is the end.From the song "The End". See The Doors - Lyrics 1965-1971 p. 18ff.

When I think of my most favorite song, I remember these powerful lines, sung by the young Jim Morrison, a powerful man looking like Alexander the Great with his long hair. When he stood on stage, one foot at the micro-phone's base the other aside, right hand at the micro-phone's head, the left hand on the stand or at the mic, his eyes closed most of the time and his voice telling us about his visions, dreams and thoughts. As Ray Manzarek once put it, Jim was the reborn Greek god Dionysus, a modern-day shaman full of feelings, spontaneity, dance and musicSee The Doors - In Their Own Words p. 89. With their music and rhythms the band helped Jim to get on his trip, to open himself.

His Life

Growing up

They claim everybody was born, but I don't recall. Maybe I was having one of my blackouts.See The Doors - In Their Own Words p. 9 – James Douglas Morrison

James Douglas Morrison was born on December 8th 1943 in Melbourne, FL as the eldest of three children. His sister Anne and brother Andy were born in 1946 and 1949. His mother Clara (née Clarke) rose the three children nearly alone while Jim's father Steve was in the US Navy and busy with his careerHe became at the age of 47 the youngest US Navy Admiral and the young family had to move a lot. This mobility had a major impact for his later poetry. There's The Hitchhiker, a traveler or the various poems about crossroads and highways and his movie HWY are showing this mobility. Over the years the Morrisons lived in Clearwater FL, twice in Albuquerque NM and Washington DC, Claremont CA (near Los Angeles), Alameda CANear San Francisco and the center of the early Beat-movement in the 50s, Alexandria VA. In Alexandria Jim graduated high-school, with a score 30% above the national average in verbals, he made a 88.32 average in grades with only basic effort. But more interesting, in his high school years he read Nietzsche, PlutarchAfter reading Lives of the Noble Greeks Jim supposedly started to imitate the look of Alexander the Great, RimbaudA major influence for the style of Jim's short prose poems, Jack KerouacMost famous beatnik author who wrote. On The Road. Jim read it in 1958, Allen GinsbergFamous for his poem Howl which he first performed at Six Gallery in San Fransisco and Michael McClureBoth became good friends later and planned a film with Jim playing the main-role. After finishing high-school and a year at the St. Petersburg Junior College, he enrolled at the Florida State University. In his second trimester he took two influential courses, one on the philosophies of protest, which included Montaigne, Rousseau, Hume, Sartre and of course Nietzsche, the other course was on collective behavior which later showed useful when he provoked riots at Doors concerts. In 1964 Jim finally enrolled at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). The university just entered it's golden age with directors like Stanley KramerDid High Noon" and "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"; Died in Feb. 2001, Jean RenoirGreatest director in the world as Chaplin once said; Died 1979 and Josef von SternbergDid The Blue Angel" starring Marlene Dietrich; Died 1969 and students like the young Francis Ford-CoppolaWell-know for "The Godfather". Jim was interested in film and he somehow managed to graduate, but he did only one film which he got a "complimentary D" for, it was a montage of abstract and loosely connected scenes. During his days at the UCLA Jim wrote most of the material for his four years later published The Lords: Notes on Vision, hundreds of notes and definitions mirroring the times he lived in. After leaving UCLA (he was still enrolled, but never attended his courses) in June he moved to Venice Beach, LA's upcoming hippy-community full of long-hairs, runaways and artists. For a while he lived on the in a warehouse rooftop and began to write songs. In August 1965 he met Ray Manzarek, who he knew from the UCLA, at the beach, telling him that he had some songs and after hearing them Ray said "Those are the greatest fuckin' song lyrics I've ever heard. Let's start a rock 'n' roll band and make a million dollars."

Music

At the beginning Jim rehearsed with Rick and the RavensThey actually did three singles in 1965, which consisted of the three Manzarek brothers and three other musicians. Short after only Jim, Ray and his brothers were left and together with John Densmore, who was in Ray's meditation class, they did a 6-song demo tape. They took the songs to every record company they knew but were always rejected. But in October Jim and Ray saw a picture of Billy James, Columbia Records talent manager for California, and decided that he was hip enough to understand their music. Two days later they virtually had a contract with Columbia but Ray's brother decided to leave and Robby Krieger, also in Ray's meditation class joined. In the next weeks they rehearsed five days a week, working for a occasional gig on weekends. Jim was still very shy at that time, and Ray sung most of the songs. Because nothing happened with Columbia, Billy James got no attention of the producers, the band auditioned for several clubs and finally came to the London Fog were they played for lousy $5 each on week-nights and $10 each at Fridays and Saturdays Because nothing happened with Columbia, Billy James got no attention of the producers, the band auditioned for several clubs and finally came to the London Fog were they played for lousy $5 each on week-nights and $10 each at Fridays and Saturdays. By February 1966 they had about twenty-five own songs in their repertoire. As the weeks passed, Jim became more self-confident and the band grew closer. In May the owner of the London Fog fired the band, but in their last night Ronnie Haran , the talent booker from the legendary Whiskey a Go Go asked them to play the next Monday night, for union scale, $499.50 for the band. The Doors played at the Whiskey two months, from mid-May on and were fired at least once a week by it's owner Elmer Valentine. Jim went really crazy at that time, every day on acid and sometimes making everyone, including the go-go dancers mesmerizing. The Doors were finally fired when Jim sung "Mother... I want to FFFUUUCKKK YOOUU!" in The End. No one of the band knew about this lines and owner fired the "foul-mouthed son of a bitch". When Jac Holzman , founder and president of Electra MusicWho had its first big success with LOVE he said "This group doesn't have it". The second time he saw them he liked Ray's organ play and after the fourth visit in the Whiskey he gave them a contract. Three years or six albums (what ever takes longer), $2,500 as an advance against future royalties of 5% or the record's wholesale price. Paul Rothchild was their producer and they've learned a lot from him during the first years, enough to do their last album L.A. Woman nearly on their own. I want to mention only the most important moments until 1971, like the concert at the Hollywood Bowl July 5th 1968, which was filmed and can be purchased on video. Or the 1968 European tour where the kids took music seriously, discussed about music and didn't know the super-star Jim Morrison yet. And of course, there was the concert in Miami.

Theater & Film

Jim had a strong interest in theater and film. Still at the FSU he played in The Dumbwaiter , a two-person play and as the other actor Keith Carlson said, Jim "tended to play the role very differently all the time". For his class in theater history he wrote facetious interpretation of plays and suggested obscene sets. In 1968 Jim made Feast of Friends , a documentary film together with his friends Paul Ferrara and Frank Lisciandro. For the concert at the Hollywood Bowl there were another three cameras. HWY was a experimental film Jim made in 1969, this time Babe Hill joined the trio. HWY is Jim's abbreviation for highway but the original title was The Hitchhiker. When the filming begun in Palm Springs in March 1969 the title had been changed to HWY. The story is mostly take from Jim's Hitchhiker theme but it wasn't accepted by the audience. When it was shown to 3,000 people in Vancouver March 27th 1970, most of the audience left early (see hankstermania.com). tbc...

Einen schönen Blog-Eintrag hat Oskar Welzl dazu geschrieben dass in Wien jetzt auch andere Familienkonstellationen für Pflegekinder gesucht werden. In Deutschland ist man eh ein paar Jahre weiter, dazu gab's erst vor ein paar Tagen in der taz eine nette Reportage über zwei Lesben die zwei Pflegekinder aufziehen: taz vom 26. Oktober 2006: Mama, Mimi, Sina und Emmi.

Es war schon ein wenig unheimlich als vor zwei Stunden diese Explosion in Salzburg zu spüren war. Wir wusste dass um den Bahnhof abgesperrt war, aber ob die Sprengung geplant war nicht. Hat die Stimmung beim Fersehn etwas gedämpft, es hätt ja sein können dass es schon wieder so ein grausamer Unfall war. Gut dass es nicht so war. Ein Newsbeitrag dazu: http://salzburg.orf.at/stories/148118/ UPDATE: Das Problem mit dem alten Fliegerbomben ist in Salzburg eigentlich nicht so groß, es wurden bei den 15 Angriffen damals fast nur die Gegend um den Bahnhof angegriffen, es liegt heute aber trotzdem noch eine Bombe im Nonntal die vor sich hinschlummert, und wahrscheinlich noch ein paar mehr. Warum die Bomben nicht rausgeholt werden? Naja, es ist so dass für die Kosten der Bergung/Räumung/Sprengung trägt der Grundbesitzer, und das ist bei einer 800m Zone in die gestern auf noch der Bahnhof fiel was ordentlich kosten. Die Sache war ja auch extrem kurzfristig wie man in den Salzburger Nachrichten lesen kann.

Ein neues Layout weil mich das alte so gelangweilt hat. War zu schwarz und schwermütig, daher jetzt ein wenig fröhliches Grün. Ein paar Grafiken werden noch kommen. Ich hab nebenbei auch noch das Seitenmenü in bocking boxes umgewandelt. Die Library findet sich hier: www.brothercake.com/... Ist eine recht schöne Sache aber eigentlich nur für all jene nützlich die öfter auf die Website kommen. Die kleine Pfeilchen sind Eigenproduktion. Und wo ich schon dabei war hab ich auch die Google Werbung anders platziert. Ist jetzt doch recht auffällig, oder?

Den ersten Schneeball bin ich gestern schon losgeworden, Sasa hat's getroffen :-) Das Bild ist von heut morgen.

Jetzt bin ich grad in einem anderen Blog auf rassismusstreichen.at gestoßen. Nicht gerade neu die Seite, aber die Idee finde ich super und unterstützenswert. Mir sind letztens eh gegenüber vom Rockhouse auf dem Gehweg zwei aufgeschmierte Hakenkreuz aufgefallen. Das ganze fordert zum Mitmachen auf, ist aber auf Wien beschränkt, zumindest hab ich auf die Schnelle nichts aus Salzburg gefunden.

Es ist schon wieder Zeit für das „erster Schnee“ Posting. Ich hatte ja erst nächste Woche damit gerechnet, und auch nicht unbedingt gleich in Salzburg sondern erstmal nur in Berchtesgaden. Anyways here we go, ein paar Beweisfotos (mit der Handycam gemacht und verkleinert). Das Wetter ist in letzter Zeit enorm anstrengend, den halben Oktober durch nur Sonne und keinen Regen, seit ein paar Tagen manchmal ekligen Regen und nach dem Schnee heut Nacht schon wieder strahlend blauer Himmel. Auf wieviel maximalen Schnee in diesem Winter tippt ihr? Es waren sicher zwei Meter auf unserem Stalldach in Berchtesgaden aber ich glaub nicht dass das heuer wieder erreicht wird. Anderswo hat's noch etwas mehr Schnee: Gmunden, Hochfilzen und mein Favourites: Feldkirchen und Nordhessen