I am an American expat living in Germany. It's a far away land on the other side of the ocean. It's interesting and often weird here. If you read this and want to comment then email me at nate(the at symbol)chillmost.com. If you find any spelling or grammar mistakes, you can keep them.
Yesterday Karstadt had a super sale on CDs. They had 5 or 6 huge bins full of CDs, each for 4€. Most were total crap but there were a few gems to be found. For a total purchase price of 40€ I got:
- KRS-One +kristyles
- Herbie Hancock +Empyrean Isles
- Sonny Rollins +New's Time
- Chet Baker +Plays It Cool
- Rob Swift +Sound Event - really good turntablist
- Primal Scream +Evil Heat - alright, partially produced by Kevin Shields
- Amon Tobin +Out From Out Where
- Buffalo Daughter +"I"
- Zwan +Mary Star Of The Sea - Listening to it now, crap. Will be gotten rid of.
- U2 +War (!!!!)
I heard some 15 year old girl say, "Oh U2!" and she holds up the CD and looks at it. "Hmm. I've never heard of this one". She then threw it back on the pile. As soon as it hit I said, "Yoink" and snagged it. Heh.
I found this link today at memepool.com. It's a flash based presentation of the history of electronic music. The guy who did it hasn't exactly approached the whole thing in an objective unbiased way. He is often prone to dismiss a genre with one sentence. Anyway, there are all kinds of audio samples and brief descriptions to explain it along. Enjoy.
Last night Detlef and I went over to Ingo's and ate homemade pizzas and killed 4 bottles of wine and a half bottle of grappa. I'm not really sure what grappa is made out of but it tastes like paint thinner.
We were going to go out after we ate and tear it up somewhere but Bier auf Wein, lass das sein. So we ended up staying at Ingo's and playing cards. I don't remember what it was called that we were playing but it was difficult to learn after the 3rd bottle. Did you know that in Germany card decks don't have cards 2 through 6? I'm not a big card player so I had no idea. It explains why I kept loosing. I was trying to pick up sixes or fives and I was wondering where the hell they all were. M said that a 52 card deck is only used in Canasta.
So in Germany they don't play with a full deck.
This explains a lot.
Xerox Germany has the worst customer service.
Ever.
Believe me I know.
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