So I downloaded the Grey Album that everybody is talking about. It’s ai-aight. I wish a different rapper would released something called “The Black Album”. I really don’t like Jay-Z’s style. His flow is kinda like a wagon with broken wheels.

Yeah, that’s right. I said it. What?

EMI should just clear the samples and make some chedda with the whole deal. Yeah, DJ Danger Mouse shoulda went through the proper channels and cleared the samples, but the Beatles/Apple Corps. are supposedly renowned for denying sampling requests. If he would have submitted the tracks and EMI would have denied the sampling rights they could have automatically claimed ownership, confiscated the masters, hard drives, DATs, and we may have never gotten the chance to hear it.

Or is it Michael Jackson who owns thee rights to the White Album? In that case he should grant the requests cuz he needs the cha-ching.

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And what’s with all the hubbub over the gay marriage over there? Never-mind that it’s all about basic human rights. 50% of all marriages fail, are they afraid homosexuals are going to do it better? What’s the big deal?

Oh right, it’s an election year. I forgot. We need to have an campaign issue to deflect attention from the economy and the situation in Iraq.

*sigh*

Anyway here is a good article about it from Savage Love.

Today I was again on the Musikalisches Quartet, a radio show hosted by my friend Ingo. I introduced AIR’s Talkie Walkie. The others brought Tasty by Kelis, the self-titled debut from Franz Ferdinand and Blah Blah Nonstop by Stoppock, which was my least favorite. Over all it was a lot of fun and I wasn’t too nervous speaking German live on the air before tens of people. That is, if they were listening.

One more while we’re at it

IHT: Giving science the brushoff: “Although the Bush administration is hardly the first to politicize science, no other U.S. presidency in recent memory has so shamelessly distorted scientific findings for policy reasons, or suppressed them when they conflicted with political goals, as George W. Bush’s has.”

Good night

It’s the link that is sweeping the world!

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

• Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
  

• Britain will be ‘Siberian’ in less than 20 years
  

• Threat to the world is greater than terrorism
  

Got no time to wonder why. Whoopee! We’re all gonna die!

I wonder if the secret report is real or if it is just a screenplay that got mixed up with W’s papers. If it’s a screenplay, the president is probably portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

It’s Karneval Time Again courtesy of the FAZ’s Living in Germany section.

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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Translate here. Copy it first before you click away.

First Lüneburg, then the world!!

dit dit dit dit…Just in from Lüneburg….dit dit dit….

Teachers mistakenly eat ‘space cake’. 13/02/2004. ABC News Online

Ten German school teachers were taken to hospital after eating part of a chocolate cake left as an anonymous gift that turned out to be baked with marijuana, a city spokesman said.

The teachers in the northern city of Lueneburg complained of jitters, nausea and hallucinations after consuming part of the ‘space cake’ and were treated and released late on Wednesday.

A laboratory test conducted by police on the pastry showed it contained cannabis.

The school staff was not suspicious about the cake because of an ongoing fundraising project in which students sell homemade baked goods to benefit victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Police said they were investigating on charges of grievous bodily harm and drug possession and looking for anyone seen leaving the teachers lounge at the time in question.”

Rumor on the street is that some teachers that were affected didn’t feel that going to the hospital was all that necessary. Others were out “sick” for a few days. If I was a student I would definitely now know who the cool teachers are.

Do they really need to call in the Polizei and get the stuff tested? Next time save the taxpayers some money and call me. I’ll do it for free.

Ahem, Ahem!

For the past few months I have had to constantly clear my throat. Sometimes it feels like I have a huge ball of phlegm in the back of my throat. Anyway I went to a doctor, who sent me to a specialist because she thought it might me nodes on my vocal cords. That would totally suck because I would not be able to sing for a while…and I got a studio gig coming up….

The specialist says it is not nodes (whew!) but I must be allergic to something. So we did this allergy test which basically says I am allergic to…Everything! I already knew this. Cats, dogs, hay, rye. Take a heavy object and throw it out the window. Whatever it hits I am probably allergic to.

So it’s not nodes but we don’t know what it is. Ahem, Ahem!