der Wille zum Leben

Nothing is gained by forcing an issue. 
If you want to survive you must be crystal clear and deadly sure of yourself.

- Journey to Ixtlan (1972)

Olymp

Nach Jahren mit den Geliebten
Habe ich es erkannt,
Wo die Götter sitzen;
Im Verstand

as great as

„with great power comes great responsibility“

- Spiderman (2002)

things everybody knows

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a Human Being, God damn it! My life has Value!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M As Mad As Hell, And I'M Not Going To Take This Anymore!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

- Network (1976)

wo steckt die Liebe

Grün, Rot,
Rund oder Quadrat?
Gerade oder Krumm?

Verbinde Farbe mit Form,
Tue Melodie und Geruch dazu.

Bringt dir das nein bei,
Um das ja zu verstehen.
Forme das ich, dann du,
Das wir zu erleben.

rien ne va plus

Das Rad dreht sich wieder,
hast du Interesse dran?

Glaubst du, du kannst gewinnen?
Begehrst du den Preis oder willst du d'rauf verzichten?

Mangel oder Erlebensfreude?

Das Rad dreht sich auch für dich.
Mehr bist du kein Zuschauer.

Ob du heute oder morgen gewinnst,
was dein Einsatz ist, was du entbehren kannst,
darum nennt sich es das Glücksrad.

Der Geist hat es erschaffen,
die Natur nährte es,
die Seele speist.

Schaust du heute zu oder spielst du dann?

Die Liebe läuft rum, Musik spielt,
hast du Interesse dran? 

Faites votre jeu!

auf dem Berg

Der Engel des Lichts bringt dich hoch

Die Luft ist klar und frisch,
Das Auge fliegt wo der blaue Vorhang fällt

Im Bauch vibriert die Bereitschaft,
Den Schritt im richtigen Moment zu tun

Im Herzen entfacht eine Flamme,
Strahlt die Wärme

Der Geist des Dünkens sitzt,
Schaut freudig den Tanz der Wandlungen zu

Eine Melodie der kosmischen Harfe rückt nach vorn

Das Viele vereinfacht sich im Kreis,
Gegenpole paaren sich,
Entscheidungen verlassen den Ort

Es wird nur noch getanzt,
Wenn das Sternenlicht pulsiert

Auf und zu,
Auf und ab