THE WEAKLY 165
The Weakly number one hundred sixty five.
Welcome friends, foes and people with ugly toes.
Important:
My weekly reminder about the Genocide in Gaza and against the Palestinian people, want to keep asking everyone, at least when you can and if you haven’t lately to give some money to either one of the great organizations that do so unbelievably much, not only in Palestine, but also all over the globe or if you want to put in a bit of research and find one for yourself or specific people who still are alive down there and need our help. As always with these things, it’s only for those who can afford to to give, but here are my two recommendations: Doctors Without Borders and World Central Kitchen. Two amazing organisations, that as I mentioned not only support and operate in one place but really everywhere. These are strange times, where after nearly two years, in the case of the Genocide in Palestine, those who have been there from the beginning, supporting to stop the violence and slaughter need to resort to mostly refering to the children and elderly or sick and wounded, instead of talking about Palestinians as a whole does not penetrate the cruel racist, islamophobic rhetoric and propaganda about them. At least now, more and more people find the courage to speak up and we as humans need to do more and better. We all. And look find someone you trust and like who speaks about these things and see what they share and talk about. Maybe find some literature and read up about the history of all of this and not only rely on what school taught you… or the media. I know I learned about all this way to late in my life and ages and ages of a very very one-sided view of things that was taught in Germany.
Thoughts:
Jeezus FUCKING Christ or whatever the fuck… TILT doesn’t even cut it anymore.
It’s not the biggest surprise as US and Israeli intentions and posturing have been quite open and clear in the past few weeks (and I mean Israels for ages really). Waking up to this Shit-show today though really was not good in any shape or form. For those who don’t know, my parents were from Iran, came here as young adults to study and never really went back, mostly because of the regime that is still ruling the country and oppressing its people. Those who know me, know that I always had a very difficult relationship with Iran and my Iranian heritage. Being born in and having been German on paper for basically all my life, I was very anti for the longest time, but as I grew older bit by bit that changed and after my parents passed something shifted even more. At the same time, getting more politically educated and developing in my world views has done a lot to change me as a person in the past 10 years especially. Covid… the Genocide in Palestine are two of the biggest and most eyeopening world events really that changed a lot of my view on humanity and our societies and culture. And the layers keep revealing themselves. Politics, culture and the regular everyday things that keep most of us from actually diving deep into these things, but are so important to actually learn and understand. That might partly be by design, but when we do not care about some brown people in some far far away lands that is one thing we have been used to that by now unfortunately, but not caring about anything anymore, having excuses for everything or just shrugging it all off and in the end loosing what I learned was humanity is very sad… I could as always go actually on for hours, but I am just so exhausted. And attacking a country without any provocation or proof of anything really… “preemptively” and attacking civilian targets, as Israel seems to be always very keen on, is just still outrages. Especially as talks were ongoing as that attacks started. No matter how much you like or dislike the Iranian Regime. That is not right, same as it wasn’t right for the US to attack Venezuela and kidnap Maduro. Another step further away from the little bit of ethics and pretentious world order. The World is falling apart, I am just happy, even if not that much in my circles, but that the regular people are at least to some degree waking up to all these atrocities and crazy crazy things going on. Epstein Files being another shocking thing a lot of people are trying to explain away or just ignore. From our Politicians to Celebrities or whoever the fuck and as with the Billionaires it always comes down to the one thing… the people at the top, with all the power and money, bamboozling normal people into rooting for them and thinking of them as the perfect, intelligent and infallible, yet they all are nothing but criminals with no regard for human lives. Fucking hell.
I also finally decided on how to handle my Patreon Page for now, as I am not able to book many or any Shoots at the moment. I will just LINK it up for you guys here, so you can read it over on the Page itself if you want to.
Besides that… so much shit to organize and get myself to do, look for Apartments and stuff like that. Also all very exhausting.
Podcasts & Livestreams:
Youtube Random Selection:
Movies & Shows:
Nothing… really… well.. one Episode of Cross and a few Ghost in the Shell SAC. Yet a weird week in that I have to admit and my Watchlist is so so long. I want to mention though how frustrating it is to not be able to get and stream movies and shows you want. A good reminder why physical media really really matters. If I want to do a Takeshi Kitano Marathon I have to use several services, most where you have to rent it even-though you pay for streaming, then you don’t know how many of them actually have the original language track and english subs. Ah well. Me and my weird preferences. How easy it all would be if I would be a good german boy and enjoy the shitty german dubs of everything….
Music:
Listening to a bunch of Music, as always just check my Apple Music Profile.
Only thing to point out maybe, even-though I just listened to once so far is the new Gorillaz Album that just dropped.
Gaming:
A bit of The Division 2. And two evenings of yet another Server Slam of a new upcoming game… Marathon. Been a fun experience so far, I am not sure though I actually want to buy it. Not because of not liking the game, but after having played Arc Raiders so excessively when it launched, I kinda feel like I can’t put in the time it needs to be competitive enough. We have to see… maybe maybe. I am sure I had posted the reveal cinematic last year before the whole drama and all that, but I’ll leave it below again, as it really is very very good.
Books:
Slowly bur surely reading through Go tell it to the Mountain. It really is me not being able to concentrate and/or take the time out of the day to sit down and read than the books fault or so. Ah well.
Making:
I did not get much done with the notebook case I mentioned last week for my Field Notes besides cutting it out of leather, but did not stitch it yet. I did use some scraps jus to test the fit this time just so I don’t waste any of the “good” leather I have, but the thickness of the leather, or weight rather, is quite different. Gonna be interesting to see how much of a problem that might be in terms of fitting correctly.
Photos:
For a change I did take some photos on my walks, but not many and might wait for next week to post those. I will leave you with a little Gallery though from the first Road to Photokina Photowalk event Series Ben Hammer and I used to organize. I really miss doing more community events and just hang out with other creatives and do fun things like that. And as Ben mentioned one of the last times we saw each other, those walks were so cool and special they felt so much more intimate and like friends meeting and hanging out instead of just strangers coming together for something like that. This first one was, as it seems, must have been in 2016… HOOOLY MOLY. 10 years go… jeez.
Have a beautiful Sunday and…
stay safe out there, be kind, to others, to yourself.
T.
Also here you can find my friends post of this week with whom?(!?!?) I entered into this weekly arrangement. It will be updated as they link their posts. Some are in German btw.
AND AS MY EMBEDD DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE I WILL DO THIS MANUALLY NOW.
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