Before I was making videos for JibJab, I was keeping it real on Soul Train back in the day. I’m the one with the ‘fro

A series of pictures depicting the differences between German and Chinaese cultures by artist Yang Lui.
This has been bouncing around the net for a few weeks. If you haven’t seen it, here you go.

Boo!
Halloween is getting more and more popular in Germany but it is not yet quite mainstream. Case in point: Halloween zombie mistaken for murder victim. That is so German in so many ways.

Anyway, we carved pumpkins last night and put them on the front bench when we were done (I won this year, hands down. Pictures are coming soon.) And then sadly…after we put out the jack-o-lanterns, we went on a twenty minute walk. When we came back, M’s pumpkin was gone. We found it smashed on the ground around the corner in front of a restaurant. Of course nobody saw anything. Those fuckers. They didn’t take my pumpkin because it probably scared the hell out of them. Yeah, it’s that good.

I bought candy but no kids came to the door except one little boy and his dad who I found checking out the pumpkin wondering why it looked so awesome. They were a bit unfamiliar with the Halloween concept. I schooled them on it. They got some candy but I’m not sure if they know why.

I didn’t dress up because, as the linked article demonstrates above, who knows what kind of trouble I could get into. Although my friend Bob has a pretty good costume. (don’t click if rubber dildos make you uncomfortable. Ummm, you know what I mean.)

Check out my photos of when my parent visited

Peace out.

These lobsters are tough.

Dozens of lobsters destined to be boiled alive made a successful getaway from an Asian supermarket in the German city of Stuttgart in the early hours of Sunday morning, police said.

Wait a minute. Haven’t I seen these lobsters some place before?

This makes M laugh her ass off….

Busy busy. Last weekend we were with with Marina ripping (heh) through the Lüneburg and Hamburg nightlife scene. This weekend we are going to Munich to meet up with Mom and Dad. We will visit the Oktoberfest and Neuschwanstein Castle.

I’m leaving right now for the airport. Okthanxbye!

The chances are slim to none that I will get tickets for this but I entered the drawing anyway.

And now a hodge-podge of random info.

I have been so busy lately with work and music, I haven’t gotten enough sleep and my brain is like mush. I’ve been working on a remix for Hot Bitch Arsenal that is turning out really cool. The Venusberg show last week went very well. The next show on October 10th in Marx at the Markthalle in Hamburg. I saw Spiritualized there a few years ago.

I have been doing lots of Internet-nerding as well. Have you ever seen the show The IT Crowd? It’s about some company’s tech support people that have offices in the basement where they answer the phones like, “Hello?……Have you tried restarting the computer?” I can relate to this. Apparently there is was a German version but it doesn’t seem to have made it past a few episodes. There is also an American version planned for NBC.

(nerd-alert!)

One interesting thing is the announcement from Apple concerning the release of Logic 8, their professional recording software. I have been considering a switch from ProTools to something else for a few years now. I really like the ProTools software and I know it very well. I cut my teeth on it at Streeterville Studios in Chicago in the late 90’s where I was one of the young kids that knew his way around that new digital technology. Unfortunately, unless you have about $20,000 laying around and can afford their top of the line system along with a variety of plug-ins, you’ll have to settle for their LE-system and learn to accept a few limitations like a max of 18 inputs, lack of portability, lack of versatile audio interface options, crappy MIDI sequencer (granted it has gotten better, but have you used Live?) and no automatic delay compensation.

Logic used to be developed by a company called eMagic in a small town near here called Rellingen (where M. grew up). After getting bought by Apple in 2002, a lot of resources were dedicated to the further developemant and inprovement to the software. I was very close to making the switch before the intel macs were announced and released. There were a few stability issues with Logic and Intel so I decided to wait.

The newest version of Logic has supposedly overcome these issues and added a lot of cool features and plugins. Plus the whole audio suite costs around $500 instead of $1000 like the last version.

Hmmm. I’ll wait a few months and see.

Faraday Suit, originally uploaded by chillmost.

I bought a suit last month for a wedding we were invited to. I picked it up at a place in Hamburg called Policke which I highly recommend. Anyway, I found this tag on it when I was getting dressed for the occasion. I was wondering why nobody called.

Thanks to Bastian for the link.

I’ve been very busy lately recording and rehearsing with a new band called Venusberg. Our first show is this coming Sunday in Hamburg at Fundbureau.

Doors open at 20:00, Show starts at 21:00.
Cover is 5€.

If you live in or near Hamburg, you should come and check it out.

Do it.