Happy Friday!☀️
My view sitting here, reflecting on the week, is from the 8th floor of a hotel looking onto the Kölner Dom, the reliable backdrop from a time where I used to live in city. Coming back here always is emotional and yesterday & today in particular. I write more about it below. Just texted my best friend how happy I feel right now about the life I’m able to live.
What I’m reading 📖
A busy week and an unfinished book ‘The Nix’ kept me from reading anything new this week so here is a call-to-action to read up on why to consider voting for the Climate Referendum in Berlin on March 26th. If you’re a Berlin resident and are able to vote, mark your calendars. Here are more details about the referendum.
What I’m listening to 🎧
From time to time I crave a good history lesson by way of a podcast and I often get my fix from Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. In a different podcast I heard the guest recommend the Fall of Civilizations Podcast where the host looks at different eras of history to investigate and understand how and why a dominant civilization ceased to exist or lose dominance. Where else to start than with the Romans (in Britain).
What I’m watching 📺
My friend Olli suggested that I watch the live documentary of The 1975 who played a live show at Madison Square Garden in New York. I haven’t watched it yet and plan to over the weekend. It’s available on Amazon Prime so if you’re a subscriber, you can watch it as part of your subscription. Watch the show.
What I’m thinking about 🧠
This section should be called “What I’m feeling” today. Yesterday I attended the last-ever live concert of a band called Pale. Pale were from Aachen and in the early 2000s I became their tour manager. For about three years we traveled all over Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the UK and played shows to audiences ranging from none to tens of thousands. These years were some of my most formative and adventurous and also ended on an emotional note. 23 years later–after several studio albums, hundreds of shows, the unfortunate passing of their guitarist Christian, and a final album, Pale played their last show. And me? I was standing in the third row, stage left, listening to a set comprising of 27 songs which represented the soundtrack to my young adulthood. Watching the show also resurfaced dozens of moments and memories from that time and made my cry and smile at the same time. Thank you for the fun ride, Pale. We will miss you as a band.
What else?! 💯
Succession, one of the best tv shows in recent years, will be back with a fourth and final season this year. Here’s the trailer and of course there are Reddit threads with theories of how it will end.
Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!
David
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