I went to Köln this pastweekend to visit my friend Brian and his sister Meghan from Chicago, who were visiting the festival c/o pop which was going on. We saw some great parties and heard some great music.

Johnnie Walker, originally uploaded by chillmost.

We live on a high traffic corner in the Innenstadt. Often we find things like this in front of our door on a weekend morning.

Krack Nuggets, originally uploaded by chillmost.

I saw this packaging for nuts in a vending machine at the Hamburg-Harburg station. I bought it just so I could take a picture. I then proceeded to get high as a kite as I ate the whole bag of Krack Nuggets

Are we living in a fractal?

or

in some nerd’s basement?

Hmmmm, should I take the red pill or the blue pill?

The more we know, the more we don’t know.

What a fucking Dick!

This past weekend was one of the best. I spent Friday and Saturday recording a demo CD for Tussika and I spent Saturday night rehearsing and recording with Venusberg. Yeah music! It’s been keeping me pretty busy lately.

Then on Sunday Meike took me on a hot air balloon ride for my birthday. It was great! I made a little video for your viewing pleasure….

We started at the Flugplatz in Lüneburg and landed in Brockmühle/Witzeeze, about 23K as the crow flies. There is no footage of us inflating or deflating the balloon because I was busy doing it. I’ll throw some pics up on my flickr page whenever I get around to it. If you are interested in going on a balloon ride in the Hamburg/Lüneburg area, more info can be found at aeroballooning.de. I highly recommend it.

I was stalking myself today and I found this interesting reference to yours truly concerning this enlightening post from Nov. 22, 2005.

Today is my birthday. I took the day off work and caught up on my sleep, sort of.

As a gift to you loyal readers, I give you pictures of breasts, er…sort of.

There are stupid people everywhere. This is a fact. It is often not very obvious who these people are. In the case of the American President, it has been made abundantly clear. However, today’s post is not about him and how stupid he is. It’s about some German Dummkopf I met yesterday.

As I was at the gas station filling up* I noticed two guys standing on the sidewalk in front of the gas station, about 10 yards away. One was a German soldier in uniform, the other was a short prollig meat head with CZs in his ears. Both guys were smoking cigarettes. Hmm. I guess it was far enough away to not be a huge explosion risk, but it still made me nervous. Maybe a hot ash could get flicked off and carried by the wind towards the pump. He might put his butt out on the ground and it might roll over towards the pump. Unlikely, but theoretically possible.

As I am taking out the nozzle and putting it back in the pump, the meat head walks over to his car which is about 3 yards away from me. WITH HIS FUCKING CIGARETTE IN HIS HAND!

I point at his cigarette and say in my friendliest German, “Uh, hey dude. Not too clever.”

His response: “What this? Pfft, whatever. It’s far enough.”

I remarked while moving quickly away from the pump: “Your standing next to a gas pump with a lit cigarette! You fucking idiot!”**

He muttered something in Proll-Deutsch and got in his car and left.

I’m all for people Darwining themselves out of the gene pool, but I’d prefer they not take me out with them.

*Americans, stop bitching about gas prices. €1.40/liter ≈ $7.30/gal
**“Du fucking Idiot.” If I really mean it when I swear, I don’t say it in German.

US Publisher Turns away from Cartoon Nudity

The drawings are harmless really. But a US publisher has decided not to publish a series by children’s book author Rotraut Susanne Berner. The problem? Cartoon breasts and a half-millimeter-long willy.

That little fella has more balls than Boyds Mills Press.

German Labels Search for the Real Sound of America

For three decades, the German labels Bear Family Records and Trikont have rescued classic American music from obscurity. From hillbilly to deep-fried Southern funk, anything goes — as long as it’s got soul.
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One of such fortuitous discovery was a lost version of Johnny Cash singing “Ring of Fire” in Spanish, which Weize found after listening to an unmarked master tape in a California studio.

That probably sounds better than it does in German…
“Und es brennt, brennt, brennt. Der Ring aus Feuer, Der Ring aus Feuer.”