G8, Globus, Makeovers and Death

Some say 85.000 people, other say 25.000, but one thing is sure, more than 500 people were wounded. We are talking about the demonstrations that take place in Rostock (Germany) these days

It is sad how a very undemocratic organization like G8 has been fought with even more undemocratic ways by the “Black Block” who demonstrated there.

Burning cars, stones, fire works, Molotov cocktails, potatoes with razor blades, were used against the police, who responded with tear gas, water cannons and batons.

These young men are doing the most stupid thing that anyone who wants to change the world can do, they use violence. First of all they loose all support from viewers around the world, furthermore they make it seems like “peaceful NGO’s” that are also there are violent as well.

I think it is only a matter of time before the next person gets killed in Germany during the next few days because of the G8 meeting.

Everyone is talking about the “Third World” these days, if you want to see how to mix politics and art in a perfect way, then check out this Germany artist living in NY: http://www.worldprocessor.com/ or http://worldprocessor.com/catalog/world/ (I like the population one)

And now for a little secret of mine. I guess I shouldn’t share this with anyone, but have you ever watched “Extreme House makeover”? If this cannot give you the creeps or a bit wet eyes, then nothing can. Damn, this is the only American TV show where I actually feel something while watching it….scary!

One of my parents’ friends called today. He told us that he had just been at the hospital and they had discovered a brain tumour and that he would only have three more months back to live in. That is a week ago and he can already feel that some parts of his body doesn’t act the way he wants them to. That made me thinks… What would I do if I was told I only had three months left? I could impossibly read all the books I wanted to, so I had to select some few good once. I could not see all the countries I wanted to, so I would have to select some few. I could not talk and meet enough with the people I care about….yes, again I would have to do the impossibly and select.

I would also spend a lot of the time planning my funeral, buying the right tombstone, the right psalms, the right flowers.... What would you do? Three months is not really a lot of time.