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Still Waters

Farewell Plymouth, your morning cold and grey

Is painting shadows on my thoughts

And we're bound for nowhere

Singing the dolphin through

Singing the dolphin through

Singing the dolphin through

Still waters

Singing The Fado In Spring

Finally the photos from Lisbon and southern Portugal are online here! Funny enough the riddle about the photos opening up in the wrong size has not been solved yet, but a workaround helped to put them on display properly.

Time Keeps On Slipping

It´s shortly after New Years Day - or so it seems - and the first three months of 2007 are nearly over! Having experienced no real winter this year makes this effect even stronger, I guess. So now it´s time to stock up on a big umbrella for the terrace and a deckchair. Things should be here before the sunny season really starts...

Mighty Strange Bug

A very strange bug stops me from uploading the pictures from Lisbon! The helpline of Typepad has been busy since Saturday morning, but it looks like a brand new problem which has never ever happened to blogging mankind before. Man machine has never been a smarter alliance...

In between more essential records and reading matter has been added to the sections. After the recent Bowie monoculture we now have a match of The Undertones vs. Max Frisch. Eat your heart out!

Ocenario

The Ocenario in Lisbon, taken a weekend ago.

Computer Says No

It´s funny (non pun intended) I still meet people who have not watched Little Britain yet. We saw an episode from series 2 again last night and were still cracking up with laughter. I can´t remember seeing anything that funny for ages. Normally German television is quite keen on importing series from abroad or copying concepts. So Mr. Bean was seen here soon after it was show in the UK, Spitting Image had a brief and not so funny cousin in Germany and even The Office has a spawned a twin with Stromberg. But Little Britain has the advantage of showing deepest black humour, rude and camp jokes that can not be translated nor dubbed properly. I suppose there would be a major outcry - like in some parts of Bavaria - if Little Britain was shown on German prime time TV. The series was on in catholic but liberal Spain, but I can´t imagine it being show here. As well because Germans are too lazy to watch movies with subtitles on their national channels. So cheer up Germany and meet the people of Britain, Britain, Britain! Now it´s ten past Hermann by the way, I must go...

Oh My God - It´s 2007

Hard to imagine this is actually the year 2007 when you read those tour listings for the summer. Genesis, Police, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Lionel Richie, Iron Maiden, Meat Loaf, Joe Cocker, Aerosmith... Just name any of those boring old farts and they are more than likely playing a huge venue less than 50 miles away from you in bloody 2007. Do you know how to spell Corporate Schmock Rock now? Ever heard about the yearning desire for fresh cash?

Late Start

We did know that clubbing starts late on the Iberian Isle, but the two clubs we saw in Lisbon topped it all. Don´t expect much going on before three or four in the morning! While the wannabe super club Kremlin didn´t pull a reasonable crowd all Friday night, Lux Frágil on Saturday (or Sunday morning...) saved the weekend from being very boring club wise. Lux Frágil is a very decent club spread over three levels which plays solid music on two floors. While one served the funky and breaky side of things, the other came along housey,  minimal and techy - which made us stay for long hours. We saw loads of people being turned away from the door, but in a acceptable manner. Therefor Lux Frágil has been added to the Essential Clubbing list on the right side. Groove on!

The Village

Vila De Sintra, taken last Friday.

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Soon...

...we will be back from Lissabon!

European Actionism

Politicians have definitely conquered the subject of Global Warming in this luke winter.  They make it serve whatever purpose they can think of. I smell of multitude of taxes, legislations and very funny efforts of actionism around the corner.

In their ideal society all people suddenly exchange traditional light bulbs for the energy saving ones. Which takes a little bit more spending on those new lamps and more efficient heating systems in general. Which is good because there is less money left for oversea holidays. People should stay in their country anyway, because the dosh spend will fuel local tourism and less kerosene is blown into the skies. Ticket prices should rise too, ruling out budget airlines. Eco taxes will be added depending on the length of the flight. Because there would be less air traffic, the chances of planes crashing into nuclear power stations will go down. Which means we should go back to building new ones instead of spilling Arab oil.

Sometimes one thinks politicians should be the only people with an allowance for travelling in planes and limousines. And having electric light in their houses. Plus pensions...

Do You Like Caps?

The most useful link of the century is here. What you´ll find on this page is more precious than gold, diamonds or crack cocaine. At least if you´re a nervous PC user running Windows! You´ll find links to registry modifications there, that do disable that goddamn CAPS LOCK key on your keyboard. I don´t know how many billion times I touched that key accidentally, but I´m sure so did many of you. So hurry and get rid of that bloody key FOREVER. Backup your registry before you do, just in case something goes wrong. Computer needs to be restarted after the hack.

Fitnesscorner

A Cologne shopping road this February.

*******

Heard news that this hotel claims to be the first real seven star hotel on this planet. So forget about that fancy little Burj and other places, in Milan they have the real deal. So we read "Butler service, Concierge, Multi-lingual staff, Room service & laundry service, Business centre, Nannies (available upon request), Complimentary shoeshine service" - isn´t that what nearly every hotel above four stars claims to have? OVERRATED, we think!

Bloguniverse

I´m waiting for the day when there is one blog for every head on this planet... We´ll need another planet of people to read them, that´s for sure. If the other planets´ population is keen on reading our stuff!

Or could they be most likely interested in a blog from planet Earth regarding the Apple iPhone? In case they are, they´ll find one plus other new ones in our Essential Blogs section to the right!

Silver Giraffe

Strange arrangement in a shop window.

Just A Knob

This piece of hardware arrived today and is quite handy. It´s not some futuristic knob for the oven in the kitchen or the odd Marshall amp. It allows you to navigate in 3D-environments very easily, e.g.  Google Earth. Once you started you don´t want to miss it again or ever exchange it for yer olde mouse. Connects via USB, can be bought here.

Total Eclipse

Lunar madness hit new heights as a total lunar eclipse was promised. As it rained for long hours yesterday here in Cologne, chances were low to see it. So what I saw was my girlfriend nearly crawling out of the window to spot the red moon or even better the eclipsed one. She saw "something", but my best guess was this happened due a solid cloud layer swallowing the moon...

Red White Rose

If you need assurance that drinking red, white and rose wine in a row is no good on Thursday evenings: trust me! I felt not so good today.

And tonight Blumengold having its Friday night debut, Colognes new club. Should I consider staying sober?

Thought For Today

And all the order in our lives
Left some time ago
Along the way
We are the ones who never cry
Like we dont care
Today
Me at home and you out there
And on your way
Its gone so far and now it seems
Its only me
Who cares
I know it helps the times you asked
Though never gained
A little hope to set you free
Less restrained
And though the order in our lives
Left some time ago
We are the ones who never cry
Or so were told
Its gone so far and now it seems
Its only me
Me at home and you out there
Along the way
Me at home and you out there
Along the way
Me at home and you out there
Along the way

Did listen to this OMD track for the first time in 20 years or so today. And I do think the lyrics surely made no sense to me 25 years ago, though I always liked the song.