it's sooo satisfying, the sweetness of late vengeance, resp. gratification: i never showed any respect for those arrogant and stupid a&r people whose only skill is to use a phone and accidentally make it onto any guest list in the musical universe (and that's all that matters to them). no, ma'am, i as well used the same dirty terminology, used to think of the same metaphor – and that the music business stinks. the discreet scent of the net gives me back my lost dignity (remember this, hannes? you said it so well). it's becoming clearer and clearer every breath i take.
"german democratic republic joke #3932: 'not everything was bad at that time.' – 'but the highways...'" – does this joke work in english? in german it surely does and i am very gladsome that there is finally a new issue (#27) of salbader ("preach"?), the "canoe of punchlines".
what am i doing here? i am digitally writing down urls together with little notes about them and publishing the result openly. i do this mainly because i am too retarded to handle so-called favorites or bookmarks in a feature-overdosed browser. and because i believe that someone else could be interested in this strange collection of website summaries, too. there are necessary and sufficient conditions why to blog. find out yourself but leave untouched the beauty of numbers.
from the joy in repetition department: "having 10 million hits is not the game plan. having 10 regular readers is a home run" (scribble).
Ain't no jesus, but I'm close to him We talk all the while I'm no jesus but he comforts me We walk side by side On the water we walk religiously On the water we talk seriously – gus gus, "believe"
scanlog: "we figure there are millions of computers out there with scanners that no-one is particularly using ... it is our ongoing mission to get some use out of them, and in the process create a public archive of the strange, normal, extraordinary and plain inexplicable".
i wish one day somebody may take a picture of me like this one.
new york subway instruction page. favorite icons: destroying, manner, tracks... nuyoricans need to be pretty much instructed, don't they!?
thanks hannes for doing the job extracting some still images from the karaoke video. it looks a little bit like we all were in a huge darkroom but this is just an illusion. i think those images could be processed a little bit that at least some things become more visible (but the quality won't get any better)...
definitely stunning is the mp3 recording of the crowd chanting "we are the world".
we're all stars now in the dope freak show: rotten.com. beware, adventurerer, of your scariest expectations – they might get met...
postfestive trauma... it was very nice, indeed. thanks to all the people who have been here. great to see the well-known, very lovely faces again. exciting to meet wonderful new people. and everybody was singing “we are the world” (yes, karaoke. yes, we like cheap feebleminded entertainment). a special thanks to klaus without whom the party would not have been possible.
hannes captured some scenes with his digicam. if i can make it i will put some of the material somewhere on the web.
top right and top left: finally i like my archive... and now i got this wonderful toggle targets button, too!
what it does? well, it toggles the target parameter in every <a> tag in such a way as to either open the refered page in the same or a new window (i have seen this on many weblogs but only remember prolific at the moment...).
heyhey! it's fun to do such kind of tasks and to be so very self-reflecting. duh! internet...
but i do not know what it looks like on a windows machine, yet – please stand by...