The Solution

In collaboration with Csonti, the sax player and thereminist of the Anima Sound System we started to work on 'The Solution', a digital travelogue, based on my 'The Southern Cross' travel journal trilogy. 'The Solution' is going to be released exclusively via the internet, in a downloadable format, which will include music video clips, printable cover art and excerpts from the books of 'The Southern Cross' trilogy. The music for the first clip is a remix of 'Dance The Newyork', a song I wrote in 1984 and recorded with Brian Briggs, Tony McMaster, Jean McAllister and Julia Wallace, at the Hell's Kitchen Studio, in New York City, in 1985. The song is from the album of the same title, which was released by iNteRNeTTo/Big Ear Record, in Budapest, Hungary, in 1998.

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YIPPIE!

In collaboration with Zsolt Prieger (journalist, leader of the band Anima Sound System), and with Gabriella Schuller (art-historian), I am writing a book on the history and ideas of the Yippie movement. The book is being written in Hungarian. There is very little known about the Yippies in this country, although the ideas of Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and other American civil rights radicals had a strong influence over the most important Hungarian neo-avantgarde artists, thinkers, in the 1970s. We are hoping to fill a long hiatus with this book. We are not in the business of putting together a collection of scholarly essays, we rather decided on writing a Yippie book, a true tribute to the heroes of counter culture, a vivid response to the challenges of our own chaotic time and age. The 'Yippie!' book is due to come out in the Spring of 2008, published by the Golyós Toll Kft. Parallel with writing the book I started up NewsRoom, an independent Hungarian language news portal, with the motto: "Steal This News!".

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