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Jørgen Hedegaard zu Never Ask for Help: Hi It's true, and even danes who move from one part of the contry to another have the problem ! Danes live and stay in one place, there "hometown", only exception is Copenhagen (people come to this town, if they have money :-( ). I have lived in different places in Denmark (and Germany), and I feel like a foreigner here myself. All Best Jørgen Hedegaard

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Gerd Gerhard Loeffler zu Winter Depression / Part II: If you think you look worse you probably really do? ;) That's time and gravity!

Gerd Gerhard Loeffler zu Coffee Flowers 2008: @gowing down of europe: If we consider the Hippie-idea as the strongest in the western world I do not woder why europe is going down!

Gerd Gerhard Loeffler zu Coffee Flowers 2008: @downfall of europe (again): Maybe the fact that capitalism bought the hippie-idea was the biggest mistake the hippies could ever make. They sold out their ideals, didn't they? @production: I'm not sure if production is the actual key to a society. In my opinion the eastern countries produced quite well. The stuff just worked. Try that with China's stuff...

Gerd Gerhard Loeffler zu Coffee Flowers 2008: @ ALL* the rest of what you said: Gimme some stickers!

Gerd Gerhard Loeffler zu Humour: Humor in Austria? What did u expect???

Humour

Something I really like about Danish people: I think they have a great sense of irony. Quite often in Austria when I made a very dry or weird comment people say ‚ah really?’ In Demark people laugh. I like that.

02.01.2008, 10:11, One Comment hier kommentieren

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Coffee Flowers 2008

New Years day. Went to the sauna and this man from Irak all of a sudden gave me a herbal scrub. He said something about that his mother had kept these herbs the hole year in her garden in Irak but I was not sure if that was made up. Anyways - allthough I was a bit embarrassed (why?) - it did feel great and moodlifting and was kind of my New Years present.
Later I picked up 2 dear friends who came all the way from Bavaria. I made some dinner and then we went to Christiania through the Dyssen entrance. First we visited N. who just had finished an opulent meal with friends and we sat and talked quite sweet.
For the New Year we went to the Dyssen bridge and watched the fireworks. Funny to us was that the fireworks were going all night long - ofcourse more intense just around midnight. In Germany this happens with a ridiculous punctuality: You basically can set your watch according to the shootings. This one guy close to the bridge on the Dyssen side went a bit beserk though with all his firewhatevers... We visited Galloperiet. There we recognized a few people who we had seen on this great movie ‚Christiania you have my heart’ on the Sofiagaden-imagery. More >>

01.01.2008, 10:13, 3 Comments hier kommentieren

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Winter Depression / Part II

Again, winter depression. Now phase 2. I have puffy black, deep rings under my eyes in an unseen size. What’s going on? I do Yoga and go to the Sauna every day. I eat and cook very careful, beetroots and proteins and fish and nuts and and brown rice etc. This guy at the party in the potatoehouse had told me his cure in winter: ginger, ginger ginger. Ok. I use lots of ginger now. I drink Hyldebeerejuice, Kräuterblut (haha! produced in Bruckmühl/Oberbayern close to where I come from originally!). I eat Vitamins. I got a nice Danish lover. I go out during noon. I socialize. And still I feel my hole system - again - is completely run down. As if my chest is sinking towards the stomach into the ground. I feel sick. A feeling as if my face is shrinking inwards. I have the impression I look worse every day and don’t even know if I am exaggerating or being hysterical. I mean what is next? I have another month to go. I experience this lack of light as really tough. It seems kind of chemical to me. And what role does the social part play? Being here over the holidays alone has been bloody tough. Will have to reflect on it this week.

30.12.2007, 10:17, One Comment hier kommentieren

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Light will Increase

Ungdomshuset Dec20th 2007: the Demo ended at the former site of the house which they now call Ground69. The organisers liked my idea and had asked in their demo-sms’s ( - organised in a kind of a flash mob strategy - ) to bring ‚Dark stories along and read them on one of the darkest days of the year’. So we read... Baudelaire ‚Flowers of Evil / Abel and Kain, T.S.Eliot ‚Waste Land’, Celan ‚Death Fugue’, Allan Ginsberg, Peter Laugesen, Michael Strunge and more and some people came up and improvised. I was impressed by their sincerity and honest anger. It is a very dark chapter in Copenhagens younger history. To me personally these people represent something like the good conscience of this city.
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* kind a speech at the beginning: *
It has been a tough year for Copenhagen.
When the world saw the images last spring
it was hard to believe them,
we rubbed our eyes.
What is going on in Copenhagen?
And when I came here 2 months ago
and started to talk with people
it still was hard to believe.
It made me sad.
It seems that mistakes have been made,
probably on both sides.
But humans make mistakes.
Maybe there is a point where it is possible to go beyond accusations.
Well, I am an artist and not a politician.
And I know that images and poetry are good for the soul.
I think we tend to forget that.
Today is one of the darkest days of the year.
I wanted to read with you tales
that talk about the dark sides in life.
I wanted to celebrate with you
that after tomorrow the light will increase.
So if you have a story about darkness you want to share,
come up and celebrate with us!
We have some wodka here
that we will drink it out of Urban Pilgrims shells.
Since hundreds of years this kind of shell accompagnies the pilgrims.
It has become a symbol for the journey through life.

23.12.2007, 10:25, Comment here hier kommentieren

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‚Host Mi’ - Bavarian Communication

Bobi Bar. At some later point of time this older and drunk but jolly fellow adressed me and first I thought he speaks Bavarian. So I answered in Bavarian but the guy did not realize it so we chatted for quite a while, he in Danish, me in Bavarian and I believe we had a very good conversation! Reminds me of a story when the Pope (Mr Kardinal Ratzinger) once adressed a cat and the journalists who did not understand what he said were speculating it was Bavarian dialect. When I see small kids or dogs I realize I also tend to speak Bavarian. Am I strange? Or just Bavarian?

21.12.2007, 10:23, Comment here hier kommentieren

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Rattling Chain

Drove on my bycicle from Noerrebro to the inner city at night. At a corner one young Dane locked his bike with a rattling chain and looked around with a wild expression on his face. I think 600 years ago I would have been quite scared. Then I drove past a choir of 20 singing Santa Clauses. They sang quite nice but one of the tenors had such a substantial voice that he sounded like a soloist. Quite enthusiastic and very happy in their ‚hygge’.

18.12.2007, 10:31, Comment here hier kommentieren

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Christmas 2007. Wishes for Christiania

Imagine: Christmas in the Grå Hal. 1500 people fold 1500 red and yellow paper airplanes and make them fly in the entire huge space. On the airplanes there are written wishes for the future of Christiania, and who wants can write his or her own personal wish. During the hole night some airplanes with the wishes for Christiania fly circles in the hall.
I called the person who is in charge of the Xmas decoration this year, told him my basic idea what I would like to perform and read out a few wishes for Christiania to him I already had collected. He said he really liked the idea and we should do it and continue talking. When I met him a few days later he said the idea with the wishes for Christiania could be a problem and he could not take responsibility, I should talk to the hole Christmas group. I actually got the feeling he was backing off but he said he would support me and my idea.
At the meeting of the Christmas group they spoke about that having people read or write wishes would be too political for Christmas. The Deco person was on the phone most of the time I presented the idea and didn’t say anything to back me, instead denied that I had spoken about wishes for Christiania. The group said the idea should be altered somehow and he should decide. When I asked if I could rely on his decision now he said yes, but I would get no time on stage. Then A. said I would get 5 minutes on stage and he also would like to discuss with me which I was happy about because I get a sincere sensation from him.
So I left the meeting with a few more thoughts: More >>

17.12.2007, 10:02, Comment here hier kommentieren

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Shawarma & Samsara

M. had invited me to this cool event party in the Design Academy with life acts and an interactive bar made out of wool. I had been out the night before and on my way to the place I realized I was too late to get into the entrance on time, also that I was terribly hungry and hangover so I felt like a loser but turned around and went to a Shawarma place opoosite of Christiania. I immediately felt a connection with the owners of the place and we started to talk. They are from Pakistan and also missed the mountains. I asked them how it is to live in Denmark for them and they said it is ok but they have no Danish friends. One of them made some delicious chicken for me without me having to pay and I felt a great warmth coming from them. I promised to come back with friends and when I left they were standing behind the counter waving their hands. Their eyes looked sad.
Then I went to a small cosy party in Maelkeboetten of R. and R. from Seattle. There E. said she would go later to this Samsara Dancing place on Islands Brygge that happens once a month and is supposed to be great. More >>

16.12.2007, 10:32, Comment here hier kommentieren

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Tales about darkness. Jagtvej69. Dec20th 2007

Was at the Mondaymeeting of the Ungdomshuset people. Very impressive setting, in a school hall that was covered with colorful grafitti on every spot, ceiling, doors, flloor, coloumns, everything. I was thinking of a guy in Montreal who was getting into spraying and he told me that very few people did it because the fines if you got caught were extremely high and there was almost zero tags around. Here in Copenhagen especially in Noerrebro everything is full of Graffiti.
The approximately 60 guys an girls looked amazing in that space, like afilm set, dressed mostly in black. R.s friend wore a jacket with the words that could be translated with something like ‚Shoot Fogh’ and I was wondering More >>

11.12.2007, 16:19, Comment here hier kommentieren

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Am I now a Wiking?

Winterbathing on Sunday. People get together on a bridge, blow into a horn - some association with Neptune - and then jump into the water, naked. Ok. So I wanted to do it, too. While we undressed the others wanted to know who had told me about it, this seems to be really important in Christiania, like in a vilage. It was M. from the potatohouse and it turns out that people in Christiania often have names of their houses. Potato because the subject of the house is somehow touchy, like a hot potato. ☺ That is like in rural Bavaria and Austria where people used to or still sometimes today get the names of their houses no matter what their real name is. So finaly I stood naked in front of Scandinnavian salt water in December and shouted ‚Mama you kow I will always love you’. Then I became nervous and wanted to use the ladder but I slippe and hurt my foot. Then I jumped anyways. It was refreshing chilli, but doable. So am I now a Wiking?

09.12.2007, 16:20, Comment here hier kommentieren

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