"The song was a shlockhouse grinder, completely fatuous. It started out with this fuzz guitar riff they stole off a Johnny Rivers hit that escapes me just now - it was the one just before Secret Agent man - then went into one of the stupidest vocals of all time. It went, let me see, some jive like: "I feel depressed, I feel so bad/Cause you're the ( Read more... )

"How do they sound? Perfect! They can't play a lick! But mainly they got the right attitude, which is all rock'n'roll's ever been about from day one. (I mean, not being able to play is never enough.)...They just whang and blang away while singing in harmonies reminiscent of three Singing Nuns who've been sniffing lighter fluid and their voices are ( Read more... )

( Road Trips )

What a weird an exhausting but productive month nonetheless...

We were supposed to work in Paris but postponed: 1st due to tiredness and 2nd due to minus temperatures (no construction related chemicals work at -5°C...). We were in my hometown for a fortnight coz my dad had his open heart surgery (aortic valve replacement and five - yes five ( Read more... )

Come on, come on
Hit the accelerator, the accelerator

I paid a speeding ticket today. That's not bizarre yet. But I paid a speeding ticket half a year ago as well. Exactly half a year ago. On the 3rd of august 2006 at 3:24 am I got flashed at 111 km/h in a 90 km/h zone and then again on the 3rd of february at 2:24 am driving 113 km/h in another 90 ( Read more... )

2006 was a weird and disrupted year and it went too fast, hence I had to account for it's passing and asked myself - what the fuck happened with it anyhow ?

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I have to thank ilna and freedom_corrupt team action for this tag. Frankly I didn't think I'd be able to come up with as many quirks, as I am really very, very and ordinary and average. Took some time, too, but I managed. So here's the rules:

Start off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their ( Read more... )

The last few weeks have been weird and exhausting but completely actionless. Our sleep is totally f***ed again, that's what you get from years of nightshifts and too many transatlantic trips I guess. We sleep sometimes for 2, for 5 or 12 hours at totally random hours of the day. It really screws up the neuroendocrines..and we watch the Sopranos a ( Read more... )

Miraculously we managed to overcome all inhibitions and went swimming in the sea during the last three days. It's quite warm and sunny for september, the beaches and sea are empty so it's really nice. Admittedly the water's pretty cold, so we never stay for much more than half an hour, but that gives sufficient time to bodyboard-surf a few waves ( Read more... )

The last few days our hometown has been swallowed into a big cloud of fog and humidity. Laundry doesn't dry anymore, there's no horizon visible on the sea and paper documents flying around turn moist spontaneously. Thank god the invaders are leaving and going back to Paris, so the beach slowly turns empty and the streets as ghosttownlike as I ( Read more... )