02007-08-23 | Movies
A few days ago I watched the movie Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. So beautifully filmed! In the nineties I read the book “Das Parfum” and loved it. One day a good friend visited me and I told him I had read this fantastic story. While I was looking around to find the book he bolted upstairs and returned with a book he was reading and wanted to recommend to me. There we stood in the kitchen – he was holding the English edition “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” and I was holding “Das Parfum”, the original German book…
From the wikipedia entry:
The song “Scentless Apprentice,” by the American grunge band Nirvana, was inspired by Perfume. It appears on their 1993 album In Utero. The band’s singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain often described it as one of his favorite books.
02007-08-23 | Uncategorized
From the Upaya newsletter
Even now,
decades after,
I wash my face with cold water –
Not for discipline,
nor memory,
nor the icy, awakening slap,
but to practice
choosing
to make the unwanted wanted.
– Jane Hirschfield, “A Cedary Fragrance”
02007-08-23 | Uncategorized
New York City is Greener that Hastings, NE (TreeHugger)
Yahoo may have named Hastings, NE the greenest city in America, but a new study proves them wrong;. bucolic little towns like Hastings or Bedford Falls or Grover’s Corners are less green that good old New York City. It appears that cities are like mammals, conforming to the phenomenon of “biological scaling”- the larger the organism, the more efficiently it uses energy. The elephant is far more efficient than the mouse.
02007-08-23 | Environment, News
I am watching the German TV news from yesterday (on my Nokia N95) and there is an interesting piece on the drilling of a hole into Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze – see this photo. The hole will go deep into permanently frozen soil in a research project to explore global warming and climate change. Apparently many mountains are “held together” by permafrost at the top. With climate change those mountain tops might literally fall apart.
02007-08-23 | Environment, Health, News, World
Noise of modern life blamed for thousands of heart deaths | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Thousands of people in Britain and around the world are dying prematurely from heart disease triggered by long-term exposure to excessive noise, according to research by the World Health Organisation. Coronary heart disease caused 101,000 deaths in the UK in 2006, and the study suggests that 3,030 of these are caused by chronic noise exposure, including to daytime traffic.
