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.
May Day, May Day!!
Happy first of May. I danced it in as tradition dictates at Schröder's Biergaten.
Welcome the new EU countries to the party. Keg's in the corner, bottles in the fridge. Snacks on the table..
Tonight I'm going to a Pink Floyd laser light show in Hamburg. Like, totally trippy...Man. I'll be wearing my DSoTM t-shirt of course.
Might have some cool remixes to do in the near future. Now I'm gonna get something to eat in this cool little town.
Late to the Party
At the recommendation of my friend Bob, I picked up The Soft Bulletin by the Flaming Lips. Whoa. It rocks. It was released in 1999. I wish I would have heard it earlier. I'm so late to the party.
Now go to your local record shop and get it.
Three
About this time three years ago I was arriving in Germany to start something new. I brought a huge Suitcase stuffed till bursting and a few hundred dollars in cash and was really nervous about what I was about to do. I was leaving my friends and family thousands of miles away. I didn't speak the language. I knew only a few people. I had no job. Luckily however, I had a room in an apartment that I had never seen. I had Meike but we had never really spent so much time with each other like other "normal" couples do. I didn't really know if it was going to work out between us or not.
I got to Lüneburg and crashed for a few hours and then it was time for "Tanz in den Mai". I wasn't sure what that was but I found out. Go here for more info. Two days later I was introduced for the first time to German bureaucracy as I had to register myself at the Burgeramt/Auslandsbehörde letting the local government basically know that, Hey I'm here and I'm a foreigner. then a few days later I signed up for German classes at the Deutschinstitut in Hamburg. A week later I started my classes.
The rest, they say, is history.
Not much new here. Just raging against the machine that is UPS. They are holding my iPod hostage.
I just saw and heard Dubya on CNN say "If we had something to hide we wouldn't have met with them in the first place", in regards to his and Dick's unrecorded meeting with the 911 commission. Umm, excuse me dumbass. Didn't you guys fight against having to testify under oath for weeks, months even maybe? The fact of the matter is that you didn't want to. You tried to invoke your executive privilege, so that you wouldn't have to testify. You arrogantly implied that, because you are the president, you don't have to testify. The only circumstances under which you would do it, was if there was no public or private record of what you said. That makes quoting you hard doesn't it? It sure makes it hard to hold you accountable for what comes out of your mouth.
Back when Clinton was president, I could never understand how some people could hate the president to much. I mean sure he was a bastard and he pulled a lot dirty things as well but he was getting it done somehow. When I read about all the crazy shit Bush has pulled and all the shit he will pull if he is re-elected (reinstating the draft for example) I now understand how someone can hate the president so much. Man, I miss Slick Willie
ANger!!!11
This year's Tickle-Me-Elmo? Go ahead, throw the first stone.
Daily Reason To Dispatch Bush.
Courtesy of McSweeny's, this list contains many good reasons why Bush has got to go. This list is only going to get longer.
