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Kurz & Lang

 

This shot should have been a teaser for the forthcoming ones from the 32 hours spend in London. We saw this Bratwurst Company close to Fabric. Looking at it again I spotted one of those Space Invaders symbols in the corner that seem to have appeared in London after our stay in 2008. A look around led me to this page. What a great campaign! Just how does one attach one of these on busy Oxford Street or similar locations of the world? 

Returned From Eden

Seeing a classic band more than 25 years after attending the last concert can surely be a disappointing incident. This was definetely not true with Ultravox last Friday in London. They had fun being back on stage and the audience was eager to see them again or for the first time ever. Catch a bit of the atmosphere here.

Voxhunt

Stay tuned for some pictures from the Ultravox concert at Hammersmith being added soon!

Turbine Cracked Up

The lights went out (The last fuse blew).
The clocks all stopped (It can't be true).
The program's wrong (What can we do?).
The printout's blocked (It relied on you).

The turbine cracked up.
The buildings froze up.
The system choked up.
What can we do?

Please remember to mention me,
In tapes you leave behind.

The Power Of The Voice

Hearing only favorable things about the recent reunion concerts of Ultravox one can´t help about being excited to see them soon. The short clips on the net look really tasty and the sound is likewise. As if they never had been away! Minus Midge Ures hair, that is... So the best thing about this week will be to see them on stage at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, I guess!

Apoptosis

apoptosis from takcom™ on Vimeo.

Syncopation For The Nation

There’s a party going on that’s
going to change the way we live
But how do we know we’ve even been invited
Now the invitation’s waiting and the table is reserved
So just play it cool and don’t get excited
Work all day or work all night it’s all the same
Will we ever change
It’s vocation or vacation
Some are workers
Some are not
It is time for a party
Syncopation for the nation now

Universal Everything

Sometimes you come across a website and are puzzled what it is all about. This happened yesterday when I hit Universal Everything for the first time. But as I do like freaky graphics and computer art, surfing around was worth the time spend! But just as many things on the net, it made me nosey what can be seen on the DVDs they feature in the Advanced Beauty section. Looks like good fodder for our plasma tv...

Empty Cafe

An empty cafe in Bangkok, taken this March.

We Are Five

Teena from Toronto kindly reminded me this blog is now online for five years!

Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, what a surprise

The Story Of My Life

I am telling myself the story of my life, 
stranger than song or fiction. 
We start with the joyful mysteries, 
before the appearance of ether, 
trying to capture the elusive: 
the farm where the crippled horses heal, 
the woods where autumn is reversed, 
and the longing for bliss in the arms 
of some beloved from the past. 
I said 'Your daddy loves you'. 
I said 'Your daddy loves you very much'; 
he just doesn't want to live with us anymore'.

The Clouds

The clouds last night.

HOUSE!

In the beginning, there was Jack,
and Jack had a groove.
And from this groove came the
groove of all grooves.
And while one day viciously throwing
down on his box, Jack boldy declared, 
"Let there be HOUSE!"
and house music was born.
"I am, you see, 
I am the creator, and this is my house!

Global Repairs

Imagine you take your iPod Classic 160 GB to Malaysia to provide some entertainment during the flight and three weeks of vacations. After less than half of the time your device stops working, can not be switched on or reloaded again.

Back home in Europe you start searching for things that could have gone wrong, but not a single clue does help. Asking Apple is not much use either, because the iPod is one and a half years old and no extended warranty scheme was arranged. Apple dealers have vaguely heard about iPods biting the dust in the tropics but don´t know details and surely can´t do anything.

So in the end all that does work is sending it back and giving them your credit card details. They find out the iPod must be replaced and charge around 190 Euros for this. A couple of days later a device arrives by airmail from Shanghai. Shiny and new, but not a single line or explanation about what was wrong with the old one. So basicly one iPod more "sold", without any valid information why the old one couldn´t be repaired or what to avoid next time. Global repairs indeed...

Flying Concrete

Skytrain structures, shot in Bangkok in early March.

Maybe Nature Has A Plan

Maybe nature has a plan
To control the way of man
He must start from scratch again
Many battles must he win
Till he earns his place on earth
Like the other creatures do
Will there be a happy end
Now that all depends on you
Supernature, supernature, supernature, supernature

Catch The Drift

It´s fun to see Playstation 3 games being sold at major prices for a while and buying them once they reach Platinum status. One can be sure they have been tried and tested by the masses and are worth having a got at, but normally at around half of the original price tag.

Which I did today with MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, which is the craziest racing game I have played in a while. The graphics are very sweet but even better is the fast paced gameplay which needs very little time to get into. Just like the good old arcade games you just started and had fun with from the very first second onward.