Erwin «Radu» Stangel

Erwin «Radu» Stangel
Erwin Stangel was born in Vienna in 1942. He lived the normal life of a furniture salesman, got married to his wife Brigitte with whom he had three daugthers. in 1975 he joined the community of new born christians and started to hear the voice of Jesus Christ. For over ten years he seemed to be able to handle the orders of the Lord but in1986 he developped a habbit of preaching in trains and elevators of department stores. 1992 Jesus ordered him to leave his family, call himself «Radu» after his romanian grandfather and start his own sect «Das Feuer Gottes» Stangel for many years lives in a deserted factory outside vienna and every friday in front of his twelve whitnessesfalls into trance and gets new orders from the Lord. His agressive preaching in the Stephan?s Dom and other cathedrales in city got him arrested several times. He was released from the hospital for the mentaly disturbed when Prof. Rudolf Schwarzkogler testified in court, that Erwin Stangel was no danger for the community.

Impersonated by Dieter Meier Zürich / Los Angeles 1974 / 2005
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Rilke on Gaga

Elle cover of Gaga reveals a new tattoo on her arm. The quote is from Rainer Maria Rilke. Rilke wrote several mail to his friend Franz Xaver Kampus who was in the army and sent poems to Rilke to get his advice on them. Rilke is very polite, and very encouraging. He is saying, that no matter what, write because you feel so. Let me put here Gaga's quote:

Erforschen Sie den Grund, der Sie schreiben heißt; prüfen Sie, ob er in der tiefsten Stelle Ihres Herzens seine Wurzeln ausstreckt, gestehen Sie sich ein, ob Sie sterben müßten, wenn es Ihnen versagt würde zu schreiben.
Dieses vor allem: fragen Sie sich in der stillsten Stunde Ihrer Nacht: muß ich schreiben?


Gaga's translation is "'In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?"

My translation is more like this:

Research the foundation what is writing for you. Prove if the writing deeply rooted in your heart, and ask if you would die if you can't write anymore? Ask in the quietest moments of the night, if you really must write?



From Rilke, we never get the answer if the sent poems were good or bad. Rilke sends the poems back to the writer. His advice is not to compare you to other writers. Try to find your own voice. Do not write because the others do so. And here is the answer from Rilke again:



"wenn Sie mit einem starken und einfachen ich muß dieser ernsten Frage begegnen dürfen, dann bauen Sie Ihr Leben nach dieser Notwendigkeit; Ihr Leben bis hinein in seine gleichgültigste und geringste Stunde muß ein Zeichen und Zeugnis werden diesem Drange. Dann nähern Sie sich der Natur. Dann versuchen Sie, wie ein erster Mensch, zu sagen, was Sie sehen und erleben und lieben und verlieren. "



If you find the answer is "I must write" ...then you start writing, and tell like the first man, what you see, what you live and bear and loose.


The nice thing about the tattoo that it also makes people read Rilke again...

Eskimo Asszony Fazik 0085512

Eskimo Women Feel Cold...
One of my old time favorite movie: this is a classic Hungarian from the late 80s. The music is from the New Wave group Trabant, the singer is Marietta Mehes. The film also features an other New Wave group, the A.E Bizottsag. (Albert Einstein Committee).
The movie is a sad love triangle around Marietta . She played in an other movie from Gabor Body (A Kutya Eji Dala - The dog's Night Song) which is a very dark art movie. The scene here is when she says goodbye to her deaf friend, and her lover lies behind the drums, stabbed to death.
The movie touches many layers: the first the artist intellect Laci (Boguslaw Linda) rebels against... parents, world, everything. He finds a new life with Mari (Mehes Marietta), the simple goodhearted caretaker of the deaf husband Janos (Lukats Andor). Their bond is from the misery, where the artist is an alien. They form a rock group, making bitter sad songs, exposing the common depression of the misunderstood life.


One of the best thing about these movies is that they show how vivid alternative music life was at the time in Hungary. The feeling, the songs are unrepeatable experiences. I am just amazed that I have a way to touch this level of history. You can still feel the power of creativity, and the art-genius behind all of these.
When I realized the importance of this art I was 19 years old. Now I am 20 years older. The power, the gravity of the words are still shocking. The feeling did not changed much. And the deaf guy for me is the figure I see as Gyula Marton from my favorite book.

I will insert here a 'feel-good' song from the eighties Hungary (lyrics of the inserted song):

Trabant: You know that Never

You know that this never ends
You know how much is enough.
I‘d like a shelter in my brain
I just want to survive

Today arrived for the yesterday,
Tomorrow it will be the same
You are gone, useless to wait
But I am OK if you don’t miss me

I am waiting soon for nothing,
You see – everything is closed.
I don’t leave, though you ask me
I won’t find you anyway

I won’t go though you’d like me
This city is empty for long
I don’t believe, though you ask me,
Don’t understand, why talk

I hibernate in the summer
I can’t find the words,
These nights are horrible,
If you don’t catch me I’d fall

I am fallen and crashed,
I see myself in the mirror,
Shining face in the darkness,
Tired and broken

I looked, and crashed,
This is better than I thought,
I feel either good or bad,
I was not and now I am

You know that this never ends
You know how much is enough.
I‘d like a shelter in my brain
I just want to survive

Today arrived for the yesterday,
Tomorrow it will be the same
You are gone, useless to wait
But I am OK if you don’t miss me

Transformers - The Revenge of the Fallen - 1055369

The movie is pretty dumb. (Dumb and Dumber is actually more fun to watch...) I suggest not to watch it, because there is nothing good to say about this movie.
Well, the only good thing I can say - I remembered a Sci-Fi book I've read in the past. The book is from Francis Carsac: Ceux de nulle, where the antagonist is a metallic crystal (called Misliks) killing the sun by their power. The creature capable to resist the rays is the human, who has high level of iron in their blood.
This book is only available in French (I've read the Hungarian translation), never been translated to English.

Cooking Pork Loin Roast

I've got inspiration from my Brother-In-Law, Jim. He is a great cook, and when we are visiting him, he always surprises us with something gourmet. We had a veal roast made for us during Christmas.
I had a piece of pork in the freezer, so I decided to cook something similar. Here is the recipe, and made-in-Montreal by using special ingredients: Maple syrup and Schwartz barbecue spice.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon grape-seed oil 1 (4 pound)pork loin roast with bones, salt and pepper to taste 3/4 cup maple syrup 3/4 cup Dijon mustard 1/3 cup water 1 tablespoon minced garlic
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until smoking. Meanwhile, season the pork roast with salt and pepper, Schwartz-barbecue mix, and shake off excess. Sear in hot oil until browned on all sides, about 1 minute per side.
Place onto a large sheet of aluminum foil set on top of a baking sheet; set aside. Stir together the maple syrup, mustard, water, and garlic. Pour 3/4 of this sauce over the pork. Fold the foil over the pork, and seal to form a packet.
Bake in preheated oven until the internal temperature reaches 170 degrees F (75 degrees C), about 2 hours. Carefully open up the foil packet, and broil for a few minutes until the sauce glazes the meat. Serve with remaining sauce.
I serve this with fried finger potatoes and roman salad.

Millenium - The Film - 1132620

My first movie watched completely in French. I am not fan of the series, but the movie is good. Actually it is better than the book. The characters are well established, the story is interesting, really like an Agatha Christie novel.
Frankly, a nice break to watch a good European movie in the US dominated film industry.

Original title: Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
Director:Niels Arden Oplev
Writers:Nikolaj Arcel (screenplay)
Rasmus Heisterberg (screenplay)
Release Date:29 May 2009 (Canada)
Genre:Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Plot:Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a journalist and a young female hacker. |
Plot Keywords:Hacker | Female Hacker | Journalist | Jail | Handcuffs

Cast:
Michael Nyqvist ... Mikael Blomkvist
Noomi Rapace ... Lisbeth Salander

Your love life will be happy and harmonious

Your love life will be happy and harmonious