M is away in Ireland for a week so once again I have rebuilt Chillmost Studios and have transformed the apartment into a sonic palace. Well, there are no floating floors or base traps, no acoustical treatment on the walls, no vintage plate reverb chamber in the basement but I got vibe. Tons of it. I got cables all over the place. To the bedroom aka Amproom/Vocal booth 1 and to the bathroom aka reverb chamber/Vocal booth 2. Sends. Returns.

It looks like a snake pit but I love it. My neighbors are lucky I don’t have a drumset.

I went for a walk today to get a coffee and get some fresh air and exercise. Lo and behold what did I see? A Subway will be opening soon. Hmm, will it be a hit with the Lüneburger Jugend? Only time will tell.

Here are some other pictures I took today.

I found a good online German radio station via The Berlin Blogger: Motor FM out of Berlin. Of course if you were Berlin you could actually listen to it on that radio invention thingy. I don’t even know if there is a radio station in America that is this cool.
Check it out!

Here is your very own score card.

I just installed Haloscan comments. That means all other comments made using the blogger comments software were deleted. Sorry. Deal with it.

But according to CNN..:

“…there has never been a Jesuit pope. Indeed, the word ‘Jesuit’ has at times been used as a pejorative suggesting a scheming politico and reflects a long-standing distrust of the church’s most intellectual and freethinking of orders.”

Wow, intellectual and freethinking. Heaven forbid. They taught me to logically question blind dogmatism and conformity.

I personally owe them a lot. If it weren’t for the Jesuits, I’d probably be a practicing Catholic.

Not that my opinion matters, but I nominate James Brown for Pope.

Jake: The band… the band…
Reverend Cleophus James: DO YOU SEE THE LIGHT?
Jake: THE BAND.
Reverend Cleophus James: DO YOU SEE THE LIGHT?
Elwood: What light?
Reverend Cleophus James: HAVE YOU SEEEEN THE LIGHT?
Jake: YES. YES. JESUS H. TAP-DANCING CHRIST… I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT.

Gedownloaded, Gesplitted, Geinterviewed

These days, German youths don’t just act “cool,” they are also “gestylt,” “designt” and find things “super easy.”  A German brewery markets “the Beck’s experience.” Even Germany’s most venerable TV news program, the Tagesschau, talks about “jobs” rather than Arbeitsplätze, “statements” rather than Stellungnahmen and “Erfolgsstorys” rather than Erfolgsgeschichten.

I’m curious as to what goes on at The Great Ding-Dong Festival.

• Program cell phone to play Innagaddadavida when it rings. Next challenge: Black Dog (tough)
• Spend 8 hours trying to install Mysql on iBook. Realize that it is installed just fine but you made a syntax error 8 hours ago and you’ve been trying to fix something that wasn’t broke in the first place.
• Reinstall TYPO3 and realize that after all that bullshit you installed the wrong version of Mysql, start over
• wait for Blogger.com to work for just once when you want it to this week.
• Cough
• Sneeze
• blow nose

Good news:

• I am an uncle. On Thursday, March 24th, 2005, my sister Betsy and her husband Jorge had a baby girl: Yness Sofia Martinez. Yeah!!
• My brother Ben turned 20 on Easter Sunday

Bad news:

• I am sick with a big thick snotty cold.
• I was in bed for most of the weekend and will probably have to miss work tomorrow as well.

On a completely unrelated topic, I think “No Quarter” is my new favorite Led Zeppelin song showcasing John Bonham’s drumming skills. It’s not too fancy, but he hits all the right notes in all the right places.