Today is simultaneously my birthday and the Lunar New Year, which is cause for some celebration I think. I’ve opted to go ahead and make today the first day of my new year too, which has the extra convenience of letting me restart the year after that nice dry run we had the last three [...]
This post (currently with 5 comments) was created on January 26, 2009 at 22:54 and categorized under China, Life, Random.
Space Invaders made by Neave Games
This post (currently with 3 comments) was created on January 25, 2009 at 4:22 and categorized under Random.
Did anyone in Kreuzberg have their power go out, like I did, today around 13:30? Berlin’s Viking overlords Vattenfall apparently screwed up something along a 110-kilovolt power line this afternoon and took out a swath of the grid from Checkpoint Charlie to Kottbusser Tor. Damn, and I thought Obama was gonna fix all the world’s [...]
This post (currently with 2 comments) was created on January 21, 2009 at 14:56 and categorized under Berlin, Flashback, Kreuzberg, Life, Obama, Random.
This post (currently with no comments) was created on January 20, 2009 at 20:13 and categorized under History, Obama, USA.
Brandon Bethancourt has a story compelling enough—he left sunny New Mexico to spend months in a frigid cabin in the middle of Alaska, making music to stave off frostbite and insanity—to warrant his musical rubric. Then there’s the connection with Zach Condon of Beirut, who helped make 2007’s Dance Party in the Balkans a critical [...]
This post (currently with no comments) was created on January 17, 2009 at 17:45 and categorized under Berlin, Music, Tuna, Video.
This has not been the most productive week up in this piece and that has everything to do with me being struck down since the weekend by some exotic variety of winter flu cold fever thing. I might have picked it up on a train ride to the Czech Republic (some have surmised) or it [...]
This post (currently with no comments) was created on January 14, 2009 at 17:02 and categorized under Communism, Europa, Flashback, History, Life, Travel.
1. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (file under gangstabilly)
2. Times New Viking - Rip It Off (Ohio’s finest) Teen Drama = Tuna {01}
3. Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom (Sweden’s answer to Isis)
4. Ghengis Tron - Board Up the House (cybergrind to enrage your neighbours)
5. TV on the Radio - Dear Science (undeniably [...]
This post (currently with no comments) was created on January 7, 2009 at 17:47 and categorized under Berlin, Flashback, Music, Ohio, Sweden, Tuna.
Bitches in Tokyo by Stars, one of SPIN’s best 20 music videos of ‘08. Wait til the end when the self-possessed manager urges the band to always say that they’re planning to move to Berlin—and then makes them repeat it. Funny. I heard something like that mentioned ironically in another random indie song video earlier [...]
This post (currently with one comment) was created on January 5, 2009 at 2:14 and categorized under Berlin, Music, Video.
Last year was a lot of things, but one dominant theme was that of sudden death—not the NHL kind, the real kind. (Don’t worry. I’ll go positive in my next ‘08 post.) Sure people die all the time, but 2008 seemed dense with deaths of people important to me. Not to be morbid, but, hell, [...]
This post (currently with 2 comments) was created on January 2, 2009 at 15:36 and categorized under Flashback.
Denied snow for the entire Christmas season, Berlin wakes on New Year’s Day covered in a snowy pelt, like clockwork, even if the universe doesn’t really give a damn about our arbitrary 365-day system. Last night was fun: a lamb dinner at the house with friends, a jaunt to the Oberbaumbrücke to merge with a [...]
This post (currently with no comments) was created on January 1, 2009 at 11:42 and categorized under Berlin, Flashback, Life, Music, Television, Tuna.
