i have had some entertaining days close to stuttgart which means close to the edge... i went to the "one man poetry show" of bruder grimm who puts everyday stories into classic poetry (e.g. doing the dishes or preparing breakfast). gorgeous and challenging comedy at bastion, the smallest club i now so far.

afterwards we headed for stuttgart drinking at delilah's, dancing at radio bar and talking at café weiss. stuttgart definitely changed a lot, and i am glad it changed to become better than it was in the 80's (not that it was too new-wavy at that time, hell no. too many bhagwan followers and birkenstock students poisened the place).

yesterday i returned to vienna. my personal y2k "bug" awaited me as yellow, wet walls inside my flat. the bloody construction company was not able to fix the holes in the ceiling one and a half years ago, still water is crawling down behind the wallpapers... smells like an ancient cave here!

but i am in an excellent mood, though. and mark lycette called in the morning pretending to be an officer of the austrian army to call me in for military service. first i was confused (it was way too "morning"), but then i recognized his voice again. it was a long time that i heard him talking. reading his words in e-mails is so different.

mark and his brother john retouched their website with their beautiful works. what was formely html is now flash, what was formerly carbon is now the lycette brothers. well, actually, i was told that mark and john were referred to as the lycette brothers most of the time, anyway.

"let's play like we were brothers" – deutsch-amerikanische freundschaft