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The Big Picture

The covers of the former recommendations from the Essential Listening and Essential Reading sections are now available in separate photos sections. Here you find the music and over here are the books.

End Of The Ebb Tide

Nitzer Ebb are definitely back on the map after they have been cherished with many remixes during the last years. Touring Europe they will come back to Cologne in November. While no one really mentions bands like Front 242 these days, Nitzer Ebb still are cited by many producers, DJs and party people in general as a major 80s influence. With their collected works and the remixed version being presented on the fab Body Of Work release, the anticipation for the forthcoming concerts is huge.

Some of their offering have been added to the Essential Listening section, recommended books to the other one.

Well...

No, the global weather is not changing, no hint of that. Not even minor ones! We´re just enjoying the wettest August I have ever seen in 41 years. It does not rain, it POURS DOWN as if it was a very bad sort of April.

So will Singapore and Ko Samui come up with some better conditions? The lady that fixed the trip for us said even in Asia people had given up thinking in the traditional categories of rainy season, dry one and all the bits in between. The global weather situation shows chaotic outbursts and peaks, does no longer follow the plot one can hear about in gossip, books and old newspapers. So what is Ernesto doing at the moment? Uh, it heads towards south Florida...

Jump They Say

The parachute covering the dancefloor at last weeks open air party with Richie Hawtin.

Blog Me Some More

A couple of blogs have been added to the Essential Blogs section. Especially with this one I haven´t got a clue what is going on. Is this a well planned hype or media stunt? Will they ever deliver a proof?

Wot Is This?

Who did this silly drawing and what is it about? Fancy modern art? Strange chemical diagram of a new super drug? The new tube plan of Dubai? Something you can stitch onto a handkerchief? No, but try it yourself here!

Quo Vadis Pluto?

To our surprise, Pluto is no longer considered a planet! The International Astronomic Union - never trust an organisation called union - has decided there will only be eight planets from now on, not twelve as was expected after the recent discoveries in the outer solar system. So what would Pluto, the trusty old dog, say if someone called him dwarf planet? After all he became famous on what is now called classic planet. Woof!

100 Ambient Tones

You´ll find the strangest site I discovered this week here. The remark about "It makes the perfect background sounds for conspiracy theorists and space enthusiasts, and it's different everytime you listen to it", is very funny indeed. But you might as well insert an average sample CD with the random playback function switched on. However, the Internet Archive page is worth browsing around.

Pictures from last Sunday will be up later, I´m on a business trip for two days now.

Kenny And The Ant

At last Sundays Cunst 9 open air the DJ tent was guarded by this enormous ant again, so at one point I stuck one of my all time favourite CDs into it´s hand. Anyone on this planet needs to own at least one CD by Kenny Larkin. If you don´t have one by now, go out and get one!

This all happened before the thunderstorm broke out in the evening and we couldn´t do more than play Riders On The Storm and try to keep the equipment dry.

Conversion Of The Week

Pollerwiesen can be nominated for the useful military conversion of the year, because they plan to use a military transport parachute for this Sundays open air party! As it keeps raining, dripping or even pouring down, the event headed by Richie Hawtin needs to be secured. So the plan is to rise the transport parachute above the outdoor dancefloor with it´s capacity of around 2000 people. Cool idea, dudes! But will the whole dancefloor fly away if it gets stormy?

Bowling

The April-in-August weather somehow leads to strange activities. Last night we all of a sudden found ourselves playing Bowling. All I can tell you is the Australian team won by far and I couldn´t  a perform more than one strike in an hour of time.

To comfort me, I got a mail from Michael Jackson at work today. Looks like he´s less showbiz and more of a pharmacist these days, as he was offering prescription drugs to me...

Google Away Now

Seymour Hersh could the man of the moment, providing insight instead of brainwashed media hypes about the forthcoming plans of the so called New World Order. Go and google for him now!

Reflections

Taken in London this July.

Walthamstow Terror

Today we read and hear news that the terror originated in Walthamstow!

Sarcasm mode on.

Didn´t we all know this ever since East 17 started releasing records?

Sarcasm mode off.

Plastic Carrier Bag

In a single (ideally transparent) plastic carrier bag, only the following items...

If I have to sit thru a 12 hour flight without my iPod, books or any other entertaining gadgets I might get pretty bored and flip peanuts around! Or play Battleships by marking the tray in front of me with a fork. Even on 09/11/2006! Your choice, Singapore Airlines...

Haben Sie Maggi Maggi?

Some Germans show strange habits when arguing with people that are not so fluent in German. Eating in a small Turkish restaurant half an hour ago I witnessed such a prime time German.

After ordering some Turkish food he was not satisfied with the taste of the dish and asked for Maggi, the legendary but nevertheless disgusting German spicy sauce. Instead of asking and waiting for an answer he went "Haben Sie Maggi Maggi?" while shaking his hand as if he had a bottle of it already in hand. The poor Turkish dude didn´t have a clue but was confronted with more rigid exercises of "Maggi Maggi, haben Sie Maggi Maggi hier?". All in all I must have heard "Maggi Maggi" around ten times in a row. The Turkish waiter does speak German, so he politely asked what Maggi is. But instead of an answer he heard the "Maggi Maggi" staccato once again.

So remember, if a foreigner does not understand your German phrase while being abroad or while you´re talking to people of different tongues, keep repeating it until the end of time! They might get the meaning sooner or later. Or realize you´re a dickhead.

Fourtyfirst

My 41st birthday happened more than a month ago, time to come up with nine shots from the birthday weekend we spend in London. The photos can be seen here. No birthday cake on there, no sleazy parties or drinking massacres. At least not on the pictures. The rest will not be revealed to the public.

Keeping Up With The Pics

Quite a few pictures are in the pipeline, with London and some parties beyond us.  Moving into the inner city and hanging out on the new terrace BBQing put a hold on those new pictures. But I´m sure some will be revealed soon.

Sunlight

Taken in Bruxelles a few years back.

Full Of Birds

Mummy...
Daddy...
The day is full of birds
Sounds like they’re saying words

Less Wires

Did you know that this entry is actually the first to be zoomed over via wireless LAN? It´s not exactly 20 minutes to install but after an hour it somehow worked...

Bling Fest

With the Ringfest in Cologne taking a break in 2006, Panjabi Bill came up witth the idea of putting up The Cunst 9 under the guise of Bling Fest. It will happen on Sunday the 13th of August from 14.00 onwards at the Ifficial Art Project site.

More information can be found in this pdf: The Cunst 9

Do we need to mention who DJ The Wizzard Of Memory Loz is?

More Lyrical Spam

Got this today:

He did not ask her about it. He knew just how long because of the pen, the Flair Fine-Liner he had been carrying in his pocket at the time of the crash.

"But would you want to stay? She stood looking at him, at the darkening, bloody sheets with vague consternation — her face was the face of a woman who hears on her radio that an earthquake has killed ten thousand people in Pakistan or Turkey. — or as an act of atonement, or possibly even as a quasi-superstitious rite: enough bandage-changes, enough sponge baths, enough ns filled in, and Paul would live. Another side-effect, a rather more serious one, was respiratory depression in sensitive patients.

Annie walked back to the mower, got on, started it up, and drove it around back. Dont cut anything more off me.

She turned Mary up the lane which ran beside it, shivering at the ghostly sound of the wind playing along the eaves. Paul sat looking at it for a long time, almost as if there were something to see.

No Synch

Sorry folks, but having the phone working at the new flat does not mean the DSL line is willing too. Tried since Saturday but all I see on the ADSL modem is a flashing sync LED. Gave the ISP a ring yesterday (clocks in around 1,79 Euros a minute...) and they found out with their far out technology the line should be working. A promised remote reset overnight did not work, the modem was still stroboscoping this morning. My ISP is killing this blog...