Happy Friday! ☀️
Spent the first full week in Berlin since early December and it felt good to be back for a bit to enjoy the sun, do some admin work, workshops with love-clients, and walks around the neighborhood.
What I’m reading 📖
Fascinating profile of a former undercover FBI agent who spent 25 years infiltrated in extreme right-wing networks in the US. Dive deep.
What I’m listening to 🎧
After binge-listening the new ‘White Lies’ album for a week, this week I spent with one of my favorite band of the recent years: Gang of Youths. Perfect indie songwriting mixed with poetic lyrics. It’s good that they are back. Listen to ‘angel in realtime.’
What I’m watching 📺
Matze shared the link to this documentary about Angela Merkel and I finally watched it. It’s just incredible the journey she’s had, joining the upper ranks of the party shortly after entering politics, becoming the first women Chancellor, and staying in power for 16 years. The documentary emphasizes the person Angela Merkel and her charachter a bit more than the politician we’ve come to know. I wish she would have shown her deaad-pan humoristic side a bit more while in office. ‘Im Lauf der Zeit.’
What I’m thinking about 🧠
After watching ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and the Coldplay documentary (for the fourth time), I wish every band would document the creative process of making a studio album. I would love to see the creation of some of the recent albums I loved by Bear’s Den, White Lies, and Gang of Youths.
What else?! 💯
While in Bad Gastein last week I had the chance to visit my colleague Peter’s Villakraft. Tucked in the far end of the Gastein Valley before climbing into the town’s center, Villakraft is one of the oldest houses in the village which Peter and his wife Jadwiga renovated with so much love and attention to detail in the last two years. It features four apartments and some cozy communal spaces, with a sauna and ice bath in the basement. If you ever venture out to Gastein, make it a stop. Kraft.
Thanks for reading, and have a great weekend!
David
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