SATYRICON is ... black metal...

Taste is sometimes hard to defend: I always had a strange and kind of antagonistic fascination/dislike on Norwegian Black Metallers Satyricon. Latest after their pathetic Wacken 2005 appearance (yeah, I know, some fans thought different about this concert) I thought they were done.

I even thought less about them when they spread on Blabbermouth about their video to 'K.I.N.G.' "The video has all the ingredients of a good rock and roll video and sets a new metal video standard for good photography and clever editing."
Well, yeah - the editing was quiet clever, but not exceptional. But what really sucks is the cutting. The video is cut slightly off-beat. But only slightly. So I don't think it's intentional.

But... but... in the meantime especially the track K.I.N.G has been in my personal charts several times - and I'm sure it will be one of the most listened-to tracks in 2006 in the end. So judge yourself whether those just uploaded pictures are caricature or hommage.

Sweet praise for Lokum

While we were rushing out of Eminonü - just in time to catch the tram back to the harbour on the other side of the Halic - we were passing by heaven:
Ali Muhiddin Hacı Bekir is making such a good and famous Lokum even the sultans let this company make it for them. We arranged some spare seconds to have a box of Fıstıklı (=pistachio) Lokum. Of course you can try the varieties in the shop. Sweet, sweet heaven! And of course everything was fresh as just made in the month of Ramadan!

What to do in Treviso?

Our recommendation? Stay at the hotel and read a book! Save your money for the cab back to and fro the hotel (taxi's are as expensive as in Germany on the utmost countryside) for dinner. Have a gorgeous dinner somewhere in the inner city.

Ok. Honestly. As we were over-fed with food during the past days, we decided for a rather cheap Chinese restaurant close to the hotel and even saved the money for the cab.

BUT... we could have done it differently, as in Treviso there's a fine metal club even Bobo recommended us, the New Age Club. Maybe their Myspace page is even more informative...