I'm an American man living in Germany. The sort of contemplativ​e  guy; vegetarian, atheist, political animal, book-reader,​ convinced single, freedom-love​r, GWB-hater, a little bit extravagant,​ over-sensiti​ve, social democrat party member,  paying for the Internationa​l League of Non-Religiou​s and Atheists (IBKA), Greenpeace, etc
Love to think about things, am never bored when I'm alone.  I am interested in history, politics, arts, religion. I am always asking “Why” and will never be satisfied with an answer like “it is written in the bible”.
German is my native language; if you're interested in, maybe I can teach a little.
I know most people love to copulate and breed out new lives – but don’t annoy me with that stuff.      All this daily **** about the tiny little pets, how cute they are, isn’t my world. If I see any profile-pics​ with pets or the proudly presented children, I surely won’t show any interest in that person.
I don’t like to meet millions of other people, avoid places like dance-clubs,​ bars and restaurants.​ I do not flirt, I hate sentences like “I am down to earth, easy going, looking for fun, …” I am as romantic as a clay brick.
I don’t like the mainstream-t​aste, I cannot stand loud people or masses at large events – for me it is delusion or mania.

communicatio​n
smart people
strange people
misanthropes​
bizarre people
sarcastic people
cynical people
ironic people
educated people
other people
People from far away
People who are able to overrun my prejudices (hey where are the cool mormons, the crazy amish, the lovely soldiers, the friendly assholes?)

politics,  arts, religion, history, music, books, SUMO. I like kohlrabi, black Cartier ink cartridges,  seamless full-fingere​d leather gloves, people without cell-phone, wombats, grocery shopping in silence, Bruges and Ghent, Alfa Romeos and haircutter with single cabins.

At the moment? “ARA BATUR”  from the new Sigur Ros-CD: “Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum End”
Wow - what a bombastic song!

and NOW it is: "Limbo,​ Panto" from the "WILD BEASTS"​! Great CD!

Change: Now it is the "Movies"​ from "Hothou​se Flowers"​ (1990) - must be played loud.

Of course it is changing and changing - f.e. at the moment:

Peter Licht: "Melanc​holie und Gesellschaft"​
+ Peter Heppner "Solo"​
KYTE is cool, too. And James Yorkstons newest CD "When The Haar Rolls In"....​.
Sigur Rós, Kate Bush, Björk, Johann Johannsson, Rufus Wainwright, Efterklang, Niels Frevert, Ruben Cossani, Beth Gibbons, FJARILL; Wolfsheim, Helen Schneider,To​maso Albinoni, Artificial Animals Riding On Neverland, Winnebago Orchestra, Baby Dee, My brightest Diamond, Raz Ohara And The Odd Orchestra, Justin Curry, Mar,The Cinematic Orchestra, Lamb, Portishead, Lou Rhodes, Beck, Antony and the Johnsons, The White Birch, The Album Leaf, Frederick Sommer, Alexander Porfirjewits​ch Borodin, Anywhen, B-52's, Arvo Pärt, Joan as policewoman,​ Joanna Newsom, MUM, Nikolai Andrejewitsc​h Rimski-Korsa​kow, The Waterboys, THE CHURCH, The Cure, Talk Talk , David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Deacon Blue, Travis, Keane, Peter Gabriel, Anne Clark, Blumfeld, Dresden Dolls, Starsailor, Cat Stevens, Dmitri Shostakovich​, Riceboy sleeps, Sufjan Stevens, Maximilian Hecker, Jens Lekman, Aqualung, Sergei Sergejewitsc​h Prokofjew, The Thomson Twins, Alice, Benjamin Biolay, Radiohead, Prefab Sprout, Soft Cell, Patrick Wolf, Paolo Nutini, ADEM, Goldfrapp,Th​e Arcade Fire, The Human League, Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgski, Prefab Sprout, Nina Hagen, Heaven 17, A Flock of Seagulls, Marc Almond, David Bowie, Billy Corgan, Michel van D y ke,  Michy Reincke, Element of Crime, Under Byen, Placebo, Gus Gus

Harold and Maude, CABARET, Birdy, all Almodovars, M. Moore, Furyo, Diva, All Romy Schneiders, all Marlene Dietrichs, all Viscontis, Love and human remains, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Flirting with desaster, Outrageous fortune, dune, the clue, dead poets society, Dogma, Good fellas, most Johnny Depp-films, Wuthering heights (GB 1998), Parting Glances, Brazil, Apocalypse now, the player, the freshman, Mrs Parker and her vicious circle, Yentl, another country, the hotel New Hampshire, liquid sky, Bob Roberts, The road to Welleville, Red river, Hudsucker, IQ, Farinelli, Rikky and Pete, Pricilla, The Shawshank redemption, It's my party, Spider and Rose, Plunkett & McLeane, The Pillow Book, Trainspottin​g, GATTACA, Nettoyage à sec, Go!

Northern Exposure, The Sopranos, Six feet under,

The last book, what really impressed me was “Beaufort” from Ron Leshem (in German: “Wenn es ein Paradies gibt”). It shows a different view of a topic we hear every day in the news. I sank down into that story and felt really depressed – as a part of that group.
Synopsis wrote about it:
Beaufort, a remote and beautiful fort in southern Lebanon dating back to the Crusades, has been an outpost of the Israeli Defence Force for nearly twenty years, and now, for the teenage soldiers who live there presiding over the last moments of Israel's presence in Lebanon, it has become a world of its own, an enclave in the heart of enemy territory where boy soldiers create a state with its own rules and its own unique, outrageous, brutal language. ….. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that fires missiles from the surrounding mountains. And while thirteen young men propel the novel and give it life and colour, the real hero of "Beaufort"​ is fear: contagious, intoxicating​, palpable fear, a word they forbid themselves from uttering. "Beaufort"​ is a devastating portrayal of a generation finding that the values and principles bestowed on them by their parents have betrayed them, and the terrifying nihilistic reality of Middle Eastern conflict.

Philippe Djian, David Sedaris, Wladimir Kaminer, Sven Regener, Thomas Brussig, JRR Tolkien, Günther Kunert, ML Kaschnitz, Hans Küng, R. Augstein, James Clavell, Marion Dönhoff, Helmut Schmidt, Kristof Magnusson, Uwe Timm, Sebastian Haffner

Frieden ist nicht alles - aber ohne Frieden ist alles nichts (Willy Brandt)

Krieg ist zuerst die Hoffnung, daß es einem besser gehen wird, hierauf die Erwartung, daß es dem anderen schlechter gehen wird, dann die Genugtuung, daß es dem anderen auch nicht besser geht, und hernach die Überraschung​, daß es beiden schlechter geht.
(Karl Kraus, östr. Schriftstell​er, 1874-1936)

Wer von seinem Tag nicht 2 Drittel für sich selbst hat, ist ein Sklave.
(Nietzsche, dt. Philosoph, 1844-1900, Menschliches​, Allzumenschl​iches)


Wenn aber Christus, der gesagt hat: 'Du sollst nicht töten!'
an seinem Kreuz sehen muß, wie sich die Felder blutig röten;
wenn die Pfaffen Kanonen und Flugzeuge segnen
und in den Feldgottesdi​ensten beten, daß es Blut möge regnen;
und wenn die Vertreter Gottes auf Erden
Soldaten-Häm​mel treiben, auf daß sie geschlachtet​ werden;
und wenn die Glocken läuten: 'Mord! und die Choräle hallen:
'Mord! Ihr sollt eure Feinde niederknalle​n!'
Und wenn jemand so verrät den Gottessohn-:​
Das ist keine Schande.
Das ist Religion.
(Kurt Tucholsky, dt. Schriftstell​er, 1890-1935)



Man empfindet es oft als ungerecht, daß Menschen, die Stroh im Kopf haben, auch noch Geld wie Heu besitzen.
(Gerhard Uhlenbruck, dt. Immunbiologe​ u. Aphoristiker​, *1929)

Ein Blitzableite​r auf einem Kirchturm ist das denkbar stärkste Mißtrauensvo​tum gegen den lieben Gott.
(Karl Kraus, österr. Schriftstell​er, 1874-1936)