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Sunday, April 27, 2003 |
 Time for Poetry. I'm still in a Wire mood. Their song Reuters sums up all the madness of the Bush admin:Our own correspondent is sorry to tell
Of an uneasy time that all is not well On the borders there's movement
In the hills there is trouble
Food is short, crime is double Prices have risen since the government fell
Casualties increase as the enemy shell
The climate's unhealthy, flies and rats thrive
And sooner or later the end will arrive This is your correspondent, running out of tape
Gunfire's increasing, looting, burning, rape And remember: this song is from about 1977.
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 Jazz goes to the movies. The German film composer Peter Thomas of Raumpatrouille and Edgar Wallace fame gives one of his rare live performances, together with a screening of one episode of Raumpatrouille, on the 9th of May in Wiesbaden. More infos (in German) are here and here."Unter dem Titel 'Jazz goes to the movies: The music of Peter Thomas' bietet der Hessische Rundfunk Jazzfreunden und Filmliebhabern einen ganz besonderen Leckerbissen: Unter Leitung von Peter Thomas spielt die hr Big Band am Freitag, 9. Mai, in der Caligari-FilmBühne in Wiesbaden und am Samstag, 10. Mai, im Kino Traumstern in Lich jeweils ab 19 Uhr ein Kinokonzert mit den schönsten Evergreens aus Filmen und Serien wie 'Der Frosch mit der Maske', 'Flucht nach Berlin', 'Die seltsame Gräfin', 'Der Hexer', 'Das Wirtshaus von Dartmoor', 'Der unheimliche Mönch', 'Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand', 'Melissa', 'Drei Männer im Schnee', 'Der Alte' und natürlich 'Raumpatrouille'. Die Titel wurden teils eigens für diese beiden Veranstaltungen für die hr Big Band neu arrangiert." Thanks for the URLs, Marc! And by the way - Mark maintains a nicely designed Raumpatrouille website.
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 Orion Update. It's getting worse. Is there a solicitor under my readers? Have a look at the mail I received today:hallo herr zeigermann, die bilder haben wir auch schon nebeneinander gelegt. was die bavaria-juristen nun wissen wollen, ist: wurden hier elemente verwendet, an denen ein fremdes copyright besteht? wenn ja, welche? diese fragen habe ich an sie weiter geleitet mit der bitte um ihre stellungnahme. erst wenn sie uns diesbezüglich aufklären, kann ich die angelegenheit auf den dienstweg bringen. beste grüße - stephan reichenberger Have a look at my original entries here and here.
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 Raw Power. My ears are still ringing. Amazing, how much noise only 4 people are able to generate.I just got back from the Wire concert at the Barbican. They were absolutely fantastic. Pure Punk. "Another day. Another cigarette. From A to B. Again avoiding C, D and E." They played the complete Pink Flag album, the highlight being '1-2-XU' of course, the best Punk Hymn ever pressed onto vinyl. And they played it at least twice as fast as on the album. "Our own correspondent is sorry to tell of an uneasy time that all is not well. On the borders there's movement. In the hills there is trouble. Food is short, crime is double." There were Aerobic videos playing on a big screen in the background. Then a 45 minute break to rearrange the stage, and they played send. Noise, noise, noise. And the band was boxed in, with videos playing on top of them; and their new stuff actually better than the old Pink Flag. After 13 years they just crop up again and produce better music than in the 70s. "Trust me. Believe me. It's all in the art of stopping." I've set up a gallery of pictures here (Hey, they call me Mr Focal Length!). Wow. The Velvet Underground Reunion was fab; Devo were great; the Ramones were noisy - but Wire beats them all. Except the Damned perhaps, back in 1977. Now go to Wire. "The smell of you
That's the lowdown."
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© Copyright 2004 Ralf Zeigermann.
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Wrecked. And another gig to look forward to: 
UK artblog. Here is Bugpowder, a weblog for the UK Small Press and Art Comics community. 
Toyz! 
Dumb. A gallery of the 
