What Kind of Elitist Are You?

Hahahaha!

I didn't. But I do...

You speak eloquently and have seemingly read every
book ever published. You are a fountain of
endless (sometimes useless) knowledge, and
never fail to impress at a party. What people love: You can answer almost any
question people ask, and have thus been
nicknamed Jeeves. What people hate: You constantly correct their
grammar and insult their paperbacks.

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No more Hootie & The Blowfish!

I'm watching the Oscars. Yes. I confess. Chris Rock is funny. And mostly he was right! I can't laugh enough about the self-referential humour. Did you ever watch Shrek II? Who was the voice for the evil witch? I didn't watch the credits list. But she did sound exactly like one of the moderators standing at the red carpet. Praising the robes, make-up, well-groomed men... Hihi.

But to get back to the topic of this post: Ok., Hootie & The Blowfish wrote a nice song for this movie, which actually fits in very neatly - but do they have to play at the Oscar's? I doubt. And I love to scream out together with Max Cavalera: "No more fucking Hootie & The Blowfish". Man, this was old Sepultura!. Or was it the first Soulfly? Anyway, this is already a looong time ago - and he's still right!

Parallel, listening to: Thine: In Therapy

Total Music Honesty

Well, when I watched over all the BLOGs I subscribed and didn't read from christmas to now, I found this funny MeMe at Shrike's Time Tomblog:

The Playlist Meme

1. Open up the music player on your computer.
2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
3. Hit the "shuffle" command.
4. Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That's right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It's time for total musical honesty. Write it up in your blog or journal and link back to at least a couple of the other sites where you saw this.
5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurances. You don't have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten song with five artists, you can if you'd like.

Well, here it is:
1. Iris Gruttmann - Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil 1,58 min
2. Dissociation - Transilvania 4,47 min
3. The Lighting Seeds - Three Lions 3,42 min
4. Günter der Treckerfahrer - Kölner 2,35 min
5. At The Gates - Legion 3,53 min
6. Atreju - Right Side Of The Bed 3,42 min
7. The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - A Room Without A View 3,29 min
8. Massiv in Mensch feat. Sven Enzelmann - Sunday Bloody Sunday 1,47 min
9. Mother Misery - On The Outside 4,35 min
10. The Gathering - Son (Souvenirs/2metersessions) 5,44 min
11. Thine - Feel 4,14 min

While I listened to them I read: Kerim Pamuk: "Sprich langsam, Türke

Schau der Besten und Hanf im Viehfutter

Am gestrigen Donnerstag fand in Verden an der Aller die Schau der Besten statt. Ich konnte nicht dabei sein, mein Dad konnte nicht dabei sein - aber der gesamte Rest der Family, die bewährte Crew und 5 oder 6 Tiere waren da. Immerhin ist in der Gruppe der Nachzuchten ein erster Platz (und in derselben Gruppe auch der letzte Platz) dabei herausgekommen, und über die Verkaufspreise hat sich auch noch niemand beschwert...

Tagesschau.de beschäftigt sich heute mit einem ganz anderen Thema - dem Hanf im Viehfutter in der Schweiz. Interessanter an der Meldung ist fast, dass es in der Schweiz offensichtlich ohne große Auflagen möglich ist, THC-haltigen Nutzhanf anzubauen...

Now playing: Green Carnation: The Quiet Offspring

Which enemy of the church are you?

Puh - mit dem Ergebnis kann ich leben:

I'm a Philosopher/Scientist!



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Rest in Peace, Mieszko

How can you loose a person you never learned to know? The Tsunami desaster is now more or less exactly 2 month ago. Mieszko Talarczyk has died in it. There are for sure more people who he was friend with, bands he produced and else. But he is very closely connected to one of my all-in-all best evenings in 2004. NASUM played a concert here in Hamburg in a club called "Headbangers Ballroom". The very same evening KREATOR had their listening session for "Enemy Of God" about a kilometer away. Andy Sneap, Sami Yli-Sirniö, Anzo Sadoni, one Swedish guy and me stepped into the Ballroom afterwards. We were really late, we only saw the encore - and many sweating, wet and shiny happy people. Smiling in exhaustion. NASUM themselves were wearing the broadest smile. A precious moment of total innocent happiness. That's what I remember.

Besuch von Dubya

George "Dubya" Bush war da - und bis Donnerstag morgen hatte ich noch gedacht, dass mich das nicht tangiert - Mainz ist weit. Aber die Fernsehprogrammdirektoren haben mir diese Gleichgültigkeit nicht durchgehen lassen. Los ging es kurz nach dem Aufwachen mit dem Anblick der Air Force One - und der Information, dass Geheimdienstinsider sie "Angel" nennen. Bei dem Anblick kam natürlich sofort die Assoziation mit Independence Day vom Vorabend wieder hoch - sehr geschickt ins Unterbewußtsein geschmuggelt, Pro Sieben! Dann durfte ich abends in der Mensa Henri treffen - der sich über 37 ausgefallene Flüge beschwerte. Und dann das: 20 "Extremisten" vom Exil-Amerikaner über den dauergrinsenden Sportlehrer bis zum pickeligen Studenten schreiben BLOG und gehen dafür auf die Straße. Köstlich! Was unterscheidet diese 20 aufrechten Bush-Fans eigentlich von den 20 übrig gebliebenen Montagsdemonstranten in Hamburg auf der Mö? Was unterscheidet sie von den lustigen Anti-Bush-Demonstranten, mit denen sie sich fast geprügelt hätten? Lustige Sätze wie dieser hier: "Ich finde es gut, dass Bush in Amerika gegen Abtreibungen und die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe vorgeht. Dadurch hält er die konservativen Werte hoch." Der häßliche Vogel, der diesen Satz in die Kamera sprechen durfte, wird auch auf absehbare Zeit mit keiner der beiden Tatsachen konfrontiert werden - kann mir weder Weiblein noch Männleinn vorstellen, die den mit ins Bett nehmen würden. Ts, ts, ts...

now playing: The Dwarves "The Dwarves Must Die", Track 3: "Salt Lake City"

Norwegian Black Metal

This morning I read one of possibly the best descriptions of the status of Norwegian Black Metal ever written. The Observer titled In the face of death but despite this lurid headline the article stays to the facts and is written pretty sober and affectionate in the same. Humanity is the devil, hu?

The interviews/portraits of Peter Beste are pretty in the same direction, maybe a bit more compassionate.

What Metal band are you?

I'm sad, depressing and slow...

Oki, at least that's what my co-students in economy would agree to. And as I work on that at the moment, maybe this game is right ;-)

Ahh - and why I took part? Revived BLOG - time for games again!

You Are Doom Metal! You're sad, depressing and slow. Sadly, most people
hate you for that, and that just makes you more
depressed. You're still a great genre and write
beautiful epic music, but you're just too
goddamn depressed. Cheer up man.

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My 2004

Ok. It's long gone, 7 weeks already. But I didn't go for a poll online - and there are things I forgot/didn't mention in my list for Metal-inside...
But maybe it's good that they are not mentioned, and I keep it this way.

Winners and Losers of 2004

Me and some friends have a ranking called Winner/Loser of the month. It's a mixture between personal and biz-related. I can't really recall the monthly status of 2004, but over the year:

Loser of the year: In Flames.
Reasons: The album. Tuska Metal Fest. Rockpalast. The video for "A touch of red". And if I think about it some minutes longer, there will be a lot more.
But but but... they're still one of my favourite bands. Hey mates, and you're already ranked in the winner lists of January and February 2005...

Winner of 2004: ok. I won't name him. But he did some very good jobs in 2004. He helped me out at Nightwish/Sonata Arctica. And he's still funny though. Ask Beatrice Pirok for the name...

Moving twice

Well, I'm moving again... But I don't know my new home by now. So if it happens that you know a neat flat in Hamburg, free since march/april 2005, preferred in St. Georg... ? Ok. But I think this BLOG will be fed with a lot of moving stuff and looking for a place to live during the next weeks. And I have some space at Myspace.com right now, there I will post if I have discovered a decent new band.

During next time this page will focus on personal stuff - Hamburg and Hamburg related, moving and University, making off the Azerbaijan movie, and more personal aspects of interviews, maybe. The Myspace page will be fed with facts (reviews, interviews) and fiction (networking) - and that's it. No prosa. Just slash/dot :-)

Danke an Ludger Volmer...

Das Leben ist herrlich ironisch... Erst wollte ich noch verbliebene Interviews tippen - dann kommt Omid Nouripour spontan auf einen Stopp in Hamburg vorbei - und genauso plötzlich, wie mein Freitag ein Programm hat, ist der angebrochene Freitag abend schon wieder unterbrochen und Ludger Volmer kommt dazwischen. Zeit, dieses Blog mal wiedrzubeleben. Und ein Review schaffe ich auch noch...

Deaf, dumb, blind...

Hello everyone...
Thanx for still reading - this is my 1 month and 11 days late start into the bloggin' 2005... Well, tuesday was the end of term, most of the records, reviews and interviews I delayed from late 2004 are typed by now - time for a re-blog. Another round for non-kept promises, as I didn't fix the bugs this site is still having during the christmas holidays - and I won't fix them during the next days. Still facing 2 more exams. And handsome little notebooks has to visit the "doctor's" as well... But: It's on again. And it will be.