nu denn, Guten Rutsch und Gesundes Neues!

Band of Brothers...

My brother and me, when he and his girlfriend visited me in England this year. We love each other, even when we clashed.

Do they know it's christmas...

Before doing the annoying "last christmas, i gave you my hear" by wham, here's cela:nous, my brother's and his girlfriend's band.

I wish you some very nice festive days!



Fröhliche Weihnachten

Geseende Kerfees
Gëzuar Krishlindjet
Gozhqq Keshmish
I'D Miilad Said
Nabidà
Shenoraavor Nor Dari
Bones Navidaes
Mbung Mbung Krismie
Shuvo Baro Din
Mi wisim yufala eerywan one gutfala Krismas
Nedeleg laouen
Vasel Koleda
Bogem h n mh m
Danistayohihv
Hoesenestotse
Glædelig Jul
Fröhliche Weihnachten
Merry Christmas
Jutdlime pivdluarit
Gajan Kristnaskon
Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
Gledhilig jól
Hyvää Joulua
Zalig Kerstfeest
Joyeux Noël
Bon Nadâl
Noflike Krystdagen
Gilotsavt Krist'es Shobas
Kala Christougenna
Barka da Kirsimatikuma
Mele Kalikimaka
Mo'adim Lesimkha
Okresmesa ombwa
Shubh Naya Baras
Vrolijk Kerstfeest
Selamat Hari Natal
Nollaig Shona Dhuit
Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson homungradon nagwutut
Buon Natale
Shinnen omedeto
Sugeng Natal
Gute Vaynakhtn
Seng Dan Fai Lok
Bon nadal
Noeli Nziza
Isangle Krismen
Bon Natale
Appi Krismes
Sretan Bozic
Seva piroz sahibe
Bon Nadel
Wanikiya tonpi wowiyuskin
Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus
Linksmu Kaledu
Amazalibwa Agesanyu
Schéi Krëschtdeeg
Selamat Hari Natal
Salama' Natal
Kung His Hsin Nien
Nollick ghennal
Kia orana e kia manuia rava
Streken Bozhik
Festusu Natale
Esimano olyaKalunga gwokombandambanda
Krist Yesu Ko Shuva Janma Utsav Ko Upalaxhma Hardik Shuva
God Jul
Ungil Kurismas
Wesolych Swiat
Boas Festas
Sumaj kausay kachun Navidad ch'sisipi
Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi
Bella Festas daz Nadal
Bachtalo krecunu Thaj
Craciun fericit
Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva
Buorit Juovllat
Bonu nadale
Nollaig chridheil
I'Taamomohkatoyiiksistsikomi
God Jul
Schöni Wienacht
Sretam Bozic
Bon Natali
Vesele Vianoce
Vesele bozicne praznike
Feliz Navidad
Krismas Njema Na Heri
Maligayang Pasko
Ia ora i te Noera
Suksan Wan Christmas
Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce
Veseloho Vam Rizdva
Kellemes Karacsonyiunnepeket
Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Nadolig LLawen
Winshuyu sa Svyatkami
Quyanalghii Kuusma
Sinifesela Ukhisimusi Omuhle



And a good start into a new year!

And just another version, after a momentary lapse of reason

yesterday, the evening started with this...


if my french were good i could even watch the other clips. but, anyhow it is, i did what the dog is doing in the song...

oh, i have some wonderful days, compadres...

When do you...

...know you are living too long in one town? when you can give directions to drivers without having to think about it. happened this morning. someone was stranded in colchester's east end but wanted to the west end. i told him to take 'the strand'. and he and his wife were pretty happy, they waved at me when they drove by. nice one.

paracetamol is a nice invention. you are dizzy but no fever. nice.

The other day, i was driving in my car and heard this one.



recently i began to listen to radio. yep, me and radio. i think i wrote something on listening radio here before, that it's almost a nightmare for me, all this top 20 music. mainly electronic, of bands no one will ever hear of again. at least in germany. anyhow. mourning again. as said, i usually hear cds, but had a shift towards bbc suffolk and radio 2.i know, not cool at all. absolutely not cool. leave it there

Black "Colourful" Humour

Made me smile when i finally got it. i love this kind of humour...



besides the fact, that the background is serious tho. not making fun of WWI as such.

Everyone knows it. but nice try to educate your (little, fellow) passengers. i love sitting in between kids tho because they dont take my armrest... ;)

Ha

My questionnaire for my research went online today, to test it. and no big problems so far. exciting!

Did you see the frighten ones

Did you hear the falling bombs
The flames are all long gone
But the pain lingers on
Goodbye blue sky
Goodbye blue sky

or

Snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
Daddy, what'd'ja leave behind for me?!?

What is this? Don't worry, i put away my nuts-o-meter, it was beeping the whole day already. it's a completly german discussion and issue.... dont wanna explain... bored with it.

so? what is it?
If I go insane, please don't put your wires in my brain.
If I were the moon, I'd be cool.

ok, yep. ll see you on the dark side of the moon. pink floyd. there are probably three songs everyone knows. money, another brick in the wall part ii, and wish you were here. i kind of couldnt hear it before, sounded too electronic, dunno know. once i heard the wall while being in a traffic jam in the summer three years ago. bloody hot, so windows down and at some point i heard some strange noises. i thought i had a flat tire or parts were falling off my car (which could be likely...). well, no it was just the wall. anyhow. bla bla bla

recently i listened to them again, but also more in the background. on the run sounded quite nice, i skipped money (because i was bored by it) and forwarded to brain damage. then this one sentence in the lyrics "i'll see you on the dark side of the moon". hey, wait. i listened to this one again and again. and then the others as well. and the whole album. forward to the wall. listening, listening, listening. back to atom heart mother. this was really get great. i listened to music and lyrics, it all made sense. listen to the one below. how you slowly become insane with everyday life. meanwhile the music with its crescendo accumulating in eclipse, the last song on dark side of the moon, closing it. to cut it short, pink floyd is a band plus lyrics. sometimes the music is the main focus, like in on the run where there is hardly any lyrics; sometimes the lyrics and the music goes to the background but serves as the stage. then almost every single letter gets its own personal musical note, and is the better. at the moment i like brain damage, mother, another brick in the wall part i, the great gig in the sky, and goodbye blue sky.



so, i was thinking this the other day. somehow itunes and selective hearing somehow destroy some albums' one piece character. you can hear money and grasp it's understanding but the issue of being disappointment, disillusioned, gets lost (so is it with the lyrics i put here). the same with most live albums, the songs can be played on their own but together you get the full impression and the changes between the songs.

no worries, not becoming monotheistic on pink floyd music. also at the moment NERD, Federico Aubele, Fink, Zykos, ... went out yesterday. lots of fun, magnifico :D

Nuts-o-meter

You wondering why there arent so many posts here? well, i'm currently working on a nuts-o-meter. every time a certain sentence or word is said, which might be just nuts or ridiculous, or generally confused, (so, everything like this post which is only ridiculous) the nuts-o-meter sounds a beep.
And i try to make it small and handy so you can take it with you everywhere you go (always take the weather...). then you could assess your friends nuts-o-ness, your workplaces' (Aussenstelle Julius Kuehn Strasse...), your degree's, basically everything can be assessed everywhere... this will be fun for the whole family and peers. you wouldnt want to miss it!

(my test nuts-o-meter is beeping like hell now...there is a story behind but i spare it, you would have to be german to understand its meaning, and why i.e. motorway or kindergarten are "dangerous" words)

nothing against shrek itself tho. nice eyes, antonio... but i like donkey more. he hums so nicely...


ever heard of corporate sound? came across this and da-da-da-dum is the best. bbc used it during WWII and it stands for v in the morse codes and is the beginning of beethoven's fifth. quite a lot of message in it. and recognisable. mcdonalds the same. one tone is enough and you remember what company it is. really nice one. the music represents the brand.

Evel Knievel is dead.

the average women in the uk gets around 1.4 children (poor .4 kid, how can you survive or even stand?)

saw a burial ceremony weeks ago with lots of bikers following. i guess there is a motorcycle for sale... sorry, being sarcastic and wont come to heaven now. yes!

but im jumping around like a kangaroo (or is it me dancing..?!?) i especially like the fact that british employees could increase their wellbeing by getting separated, divorced or widowed. i have no clue why this is so. but there is always christmas in heaven, even for children sent to scientific experiments... so why wait my fellow workers? demolish your chains, unite, do something useful for your earnings, accidents happen all the time...
Rights are reserved, you know how this goes

apropos christmas:
CANCEL CHRISTMAS!
according to a research institute on electricity, a few electrical lights in each berlin household consumes the same amount of energy like a small village in a year. for ecological reasons i therefore request to cancel christmas until further notice. how much world we could save..!?! even if coca cola claims in ads to be part of a unique christmas experience. they already gave us santa claus, this should be enough...

i would rather prefer minnie ripperton singing jingle bells or the ave maria, she has the voice to it. however, i cant always stand it so i prepare myself with some country music.

BossHoss It's getting hot in here



i mean christmas isnt so bad and even on the tv there are some nice films being shown at the moment. the nuisance is the obvious friede, freude, eierkuchen at the end. or complete nonsense (why im upset, did i expect something else? enlightenment failed, im still singing to the shaun the sheep song) like this one: shrek, on place i-dont-know-which-one out of 100 best family films, gives disney a good beating because its good and not made by disney. and to underline this "the disney characters snowhite and cinderalla are fighting for the bridal bouquet at the end of shrek". hundred years of human narratives, who cares...

and now to something completely different and much more serious
The 9th of november happened which is a particuarlly important day for me as otherwise i wouldnt be here. through a misunderstanding günther schabowski, the 'public relations' secretary and who didnt really know what he was talking about, said the border was opened and all east german citizens could travel into the west. he said something like the following:

journalist: what does this mean, ddr citizens can cross the borders? is it effective from now on?

schabowski: well, wait, dunno. the zk of the ddr has decided that... i dunno, i think its from now on until the final law. i would say so from this sheet of paper. i guess its from now on. but dunno.

that was it. ddr was history. and the future was my oyster.
it would be nice to have the 9th of november as the german holiday even though it signifies bad and good times. the end of the first democratic movement 1848, proclamation of three republics on the same day in 1918, hitler's first coup d'etat in 1923, reichskristallnacht 1938, and 1989. it would have some meaning instead of october the 3rd.
germans democratic history is short but as the guardian put it some time ago, the country that once gave the world the magna charta (and was its workshop) now has the longest detention period for terrorists without any trial. the remainder of the comment is up to your imagination.