rocko schamoni

very entertaining, indeed!
lots of laughter, sheer joy as he read from all three of his books.

[pic by rocko schamoni]

oi!

for those fans of hardcore breakbeat [back in the days]:

knite force has opened it's entire backcatalogue for free [including artwork and 320kbps mp3 files].

big up!

via scheckkartenpunk

the internet isn't better

today i went out at 8 am, rainy and cold, to buy some tickets for chirstmas concert of the germand die toten hosen, christmas 2009 by the way.

sale started today at 10 am, only local shops like the counter of the local soccer team [fortuna düsseldorf], a brewery downtown [uerige] and at the soccer game that day. all opened at 10 am, we waited 90min with freezing feet to get the tickets but the job was done.

roumers were spread that the internet ticket sale started at 8 am, which would have meant no waiting in the cold/rain. but what do i see?

never seen before

ok, it's a typical german sunday winter morning, around 0 degrees, something between rain and snow. nothing as an excuse not to do any sports.

but do you have to do your running with an open umbrella in hand?

sydney as you might never have seen it before

a stop motion film by keith loutit, looks amazingly like it was all made up by modells:

The North Wind Blew South from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

low budget video clips

here is someone offering his abilities to make low budget music videos. allthough i doubt that the original would have cost much more i like the unofficial better than the original version:

update

at least germany`s foreign minister, frank-walter steinmeier, is able to tell us the exact name of the indian city:

"...the attacks in mumbai, the former bombay...."

to the german media:

could someone please notice that it`s MUMBAI instead of Bombay [as the old name of bombay referres to the portugese  occupation].

Astonishingly only the public service tv-station use the old name...

 

similarities

yesterday at the cinema [vicky christina barcelona, directed by woody allen, with scarlet johannsson, penelope cruz and javier bardem] i noticed a slight similarity between javier bardem and a friend of mine from barcelona: nacho!

scrambel this anagram

the magazine for the sueddeutsche zeitung has a funny collumn:
gemischtes doppel

today it was

osama bin laden - obama sin laden
[picture of him]- [white house]

thank god

the banggang-djs are back again ;) and they great with the following picture:

easy like friday morning....

friday morning, 7:14 AM, at the train to work:
a group of women gathering around 2 bottles of sweet smelling sparkling wine, exactly what i do not need at this time of the week/day.....

every year

after the first circuit-training for the season you have slight muscle ache the next morning. but nothing beats the feeling that you want to sing buju bantons - champion:
walk like a champion, talk like a champion.


only your attitude changes to 'in your face' because you feel invincible.

skate for peace / afghanistan

german newspaper 'die sueddeutsche zeitung' reports about an australian skateboarding tourist who started a skatecamp for children in kabul. it's frequented also by girls, quite uncommon for that regio. now he is looking for gifts.... there are only 9 boards/decks right now.

german skateshop titus supports this great idea for a cupple of months with 'skateistan'

radiorecorder

jetzt mal auf deutsch, da ja eh nur für die hörer deutscher radiosender.
früher habe ich steve mason auf bfbs [british forces broadcasting service] aus dem radio aufgenommen. seine radioshow mit den neusten schallplatten hat mich dann knapp eine woche lang im walkman begleitet, bis halt zur nächsten sendung.

seit lange hatte ich heute morgen nun wieder ein ähnliches gefühl, nachdem mich ein kollege auf den wdr-radiorecorder aufmerksam gemacht hat.

herrliches teil und legal. der wdr bietet als service für meine gebühren ein programm zum download an, mit dem sich alle radiosendung des wdr bei bestehender internetverbindung auf dem heimischen pc aufzeichnen lassen. inclusive programmplan aller 5 wdr radiokanäle, plus support von itunes zum direkten überspielen auf den ipod.
vermutlich aus rechtlichen gründen darf z.B. domian nicht als podcast angeboten werden. bisher hätte ich den gerne morgens in den bahn gehört, statt dessen merrick and ross [and kate ritchie] aus australien. bis jetzt wie gesagt, denn heute morgen konnte ich dem wunderbaren radio-entertainment mit anrufern in der bahn lauschen!
anderer aspekt ist natürlich, dass der wdr zwar sehr viele 'wortbeiträge' [also reportagen] als podcast anbietet, aber für mich spannende unterhaltung mit musik fehlt [wegen der lizenzen für eben die musik]. also kann ich jetzt, klaus fiehe sonntags komplett aufnehmen und habe meinen ersatz für steve mason....

[p.s.: letzter link mit kleinem archiv von vielen vielen tollen radiosendungen]

finally

after some years we've won the rhine marathon [leverkusen - düsseldorf] once more:

from left to right: wolf, rainer, claudia [thanks you very much for perfect coxing! no water in our boat], boris and me

american remake

yesterday the us version of australian comedy 'kath & kim' had it premiere..... and totally failed as i could read in the blogs.

i still have the first two series of this tv-show here on dvd and can remember as i bought them in australia to show everybode the sincere australian humor, besides cnnn.  [chaser non-stop news network that is, it's on abc]

badass!

tour du lac

i'm quite glad that this time we had ne crew to compete in the 160 km rowing regatta tour du lac du geneve.

 

only 5 boots out of 21 particapants suceeded to finish!

the first boats sunk after 30 of the 160km course...

music today

MP3: Elephant Man - No Tikkle

it's a lazy bank holiday today, tag der deutschen einheit. rainy, cold only 9 degrees at 4 pm. so here's what blasting outside my speakers....

benny hill riddim by leftside, elephant man!

thanks to heatwave.co.uk

australians in egypt?

 
2000b.c.?

more than one word:

Egypt 2008 from el pocho on Vimeo.

more to come, especially some words ;)

just 1 word for the last two weeks:

egypt!

aussies get it first?

one of my favorit tunes, wiley's 'wearing my rolex', , was featured in some mixes by the usual garage heads. you can image how astouned i was when i found out that two usual radio jocks from nova in australia put this song into their top 5, each one fo them. and one is a female!

http://listen.grooveshark.com/song/Wearing_My_Rolex/8432264

new mobile?

after my second mobile in a row broke down out of the blue i wonder whether i should switch from my well known sony ericsson [both mobiles fainted without any outer influence] to nokia!

those small thinks should be that resiatent to survive a normal living in my pocket. i don't care about scratches, it just should not give up it's service without any warning!

one of the best movies ever

surf nazis must die!

question:

do i have to worry if the espresso machine is my best friend?

answer from a good friend: not untill it starts to talk to you....

bob is right, off course!

the pics from down under don't actually were taken in australia. but they we're posted by a blog from victoria, australia ;)

 

now to something completely different, music!

one of my preffered musical bands is bran van 3000. they only released 2 albums so far, as i know. one of them is known for the 3rd track: drinking in LA.

the second album is even better, the first song nearly covers the whole talent of the musical collaboration: the only clared sample of curtis mayfield [signed while he was in hospital, the last action he actully took, rest in peace. but it's a nice fact about this great musician, curtis]. the song's named 'astouned' and you already might have heard it.

but here's a funny story : in the posts beneath a video of bran von someone writes: "Dude I love them!!! I love this CD found it in my car!"

i really like the idea of discovering this band / music with an unknown cd you find in your car. maybe it's a used car you bought and find this cd..... totally love it.

old music to start the weekend

while i just bought zoot woman on itunes, i stumbled through the internet for some "old" tunes, which i really enjoyed back in the days [90ies]:

 

age of love - age of love [watch out for stella rmx by jam & spoon]

cherrymoon trax - house of house [ actually bought this at a mokkum / bonzai shop in the netherlands]

jens [mahlstedt] - loops and tings [out on superstition records, 1994] still have the vinyl

pics from down under

that i want to share:

not funny? check the speed!

 

remeber matrix, the first movie?

neo's passport expires on september the eleventh, 2001

stolen from kensington victoria