pphaneuf | Destruction is not negative. You must tear down to rebuild.

I talked with someone I hold dear tonight. She's going through some tough times, and no one but her can resolve this, but I hope I helped comfort her a bit, in my own inept way. It hurts to see someone you love hurt like this, but there is nothing else I can do. If you need an ear, a shoulder or comfort, you know how to find me, that I can do.

Happy birthday,

azrhey! If you manage to extract yourself from your bed, let me know. I enjoyed my last evening with you very much, despite all the threats of bodily harm made against me. ;-)

Made a dent in my study room. Pushing boxes aside, ripping stuff apart, then putting things back together differently. My desk is set up, except for my small shelf, which I put behind a huge pile of boxes, smart as I am.

Found an interesting pair of articles (here and here) about Einstürzende Neubauten, not so much for the historical bits, but rather for the large quotes from Blixa, explaining a lot of what drives their work.

I actually find a lot of pop music negative. Not because of the lyrical content, because it's certainly not the lyric contents that define the positiveness or negativeness of music. In musical terms, I find much of it depressive, even if it consists of classical harmonies that never leave the scale, nothing atonal or anything like that.

They so perfectly remain within the laws of how to create music and how to work with music that they are basically just delivering one announcement after the other, and that announcement is that things have to be just like they are. The statement of pop music is simply that things are as they are there, and there is no escape, and that is negative.

What I mean by positive is obviously the opposite, and precisely because I am not able to define this opposite perfectly even makes it more true. If I were able to define it, I would just be stating again that there is no escape, no exit, no other way out.
— Blixa Bargeld