tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post9151814209264717674..comments2024-03-15T20:32:39.815+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: The art of activismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-67329666000787408372009-11-08T17:40:52.396+00:002009-11-08T17:40:52.396+00:00Love that Goldman quote. Thanks for sharing it -- ...Love that Goldman quote. Thanks for sharing it -- I'm going to appropriate that in an ongoing argument I've been having.La Cowntessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11373178747064421890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-92171305676379603392009-11-07T03:26:08.850+00:002009-11-07T03:26:08.850+00:00"Reading Sartre on the terrace of a disco on ..."Reading Sartre on the terrace of a disco on the island of Hvar and watching a sunset of indescribable beauty while Led Zeppelin played outrageously loud on the sound system"...sounds like heaven actually. I'd call it youthful sensory overload more than pretentious or self-indulgent.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-41915782021673146972009-11-05T21:23:07.584+00:002009-11-05T21:23:07.584+00:00I certainly hope that I haven't pre-empted you...I certainly hope that I haven't pre-empted your Berlin Phil and the Deutsche Bank post!!<br /><br />Or next time should I limit my comment to ... "ooooh ... what a cunning little vixen!! -- which was my "animal spirits" response?Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-66429248357873938322009-11-05T20:57:54.703+00:002009-11-05T20:57:54.703+00:00Garth, thank you for that.
For my part I am delig...Garth, thank you for that.<br /><br />For my part I am delighted that someone else noticed the Deutsche Bank Group/Berlin Philharmonic link.<br /><br />You've preempted my post asking what Tom Service will write in the self-righteous <i>Guardian</i> about the link between the Berlin Phil and the Deutsche Bank.<br /><br />http://www.overgrownpath.com/2009/02/right-banker.html <br /><br />But I guess Tom Service will be too busy talking the Berlin webcasts up for the BBC.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-38078310818295640222009-11-05T20:29:09.387+00:002009-11-05T20:29:09.387+00:00Pliable, in this autumn season when the buses of W...Pliable, in this autumn season when the buses of Washington, D.C. are plastered with sidings celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Fall of the Berlin Wall (paid for by the German government) and the Berlin Philharmonic is offering a free, world-wide viewing, on-line, of Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic performing Brahms’s Symphonies #3 and 4 (‘paid for’ by the Deutsche Bank Group – timed to coincide with numerous state-inquiries into the awarding of banking ‘bonus’ payments after banks were bailed out this and last year with taxpayer money), it is good to see one music writer in a thousand remembering Sarajevo – and also Pančevo, Kragujevac, Bor, and Novi Sad. Thank you. You’ve earned more than a free bus pass for your cultural and environmental work the past several years.Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.com