I am now getting deeper and deeper into my M.Sc. thesis (which I am writing together with Marie Jensen).

The thesis about capital structure (for non-finance people: the way you finance your assets, i.e., with the bank’s (debt) or your own money (equity)) and strategy, specifically innovation strategies. I will get deeper into what the thesis is about in another post at a later time.

What this post really is about is when the going gets tough — and it does happen when you’re writing a thesis. When it does, Marie tells a joke, starts to gossip, or pulls me to the kitchen for a cup of tea to get our spirit back to the max.

What she did the other day, however, was to buy the new volume of Hôtel Costes (vol. 9) and put it on. And WOW, that album is just great! As is the case with most of the Hôtel Costes volumes, this is a balanced album that covers a great deal of the musical spectrum — and you can keep on listening to it for hours on.

The first song on the album is called The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti. What you would have never thought, when you listen to this song, which is such a great song, is that it is actually about two American-Italians, Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927), who were executed in the United States in 1927 for a murder. Much controversy exist around their guilt and many believe they did not commit the crime.

So this is how far back in history a Hôtel Costes album can take you. I bet you that the hipsters in Paris, who listen to this song, don’t know that :-). Read more about the Sacco-Vanzetti case on Wikipedia.

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