A day in November
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imomusThe day begins with blogging, the rabbit sitting patiently at my feet as I tap out a few hundred words about "urban exploration". Baker's patience is rewarded when I bring him back from the Boxhagener Market a straw cat (€3, haggled down from 5), which he proceeds to tear to shreds.
Then Rusty, Hisae and I take the U-bahn out to Dahlem in West Berlin, where my favourite ethnographic museum is located. This is, in fact, my favourite place in Berlin, and my favourite part of it is the Japanese folk art collection, so hard to find (round the back and up some stairs) that it's invariably quite empty. Today the museum is milling with people—there's a Festival of Five Continents, with live music, Asian street food, and showings of Miyazaki films—but still the Japanese folk art section is deserted, as is the ethnomusicography department next door (the reason I've brought Rusty out here — I want him to hear stuff like the amazingly wobbly wax cylinder recordings from Indonesia circa 1908). A couple of people have ventured into the darkened Africa section, though, or into Oceania, with its magnificent pre-historic boat and hut reconstructions. In the evening we go to an event called Secret Garden in an apartment-shaped art gallery in Prenzlauer Berg, where we see a live performance (featuring iBook and tinkling glockenspiel) by some displaced New Yorker called Sandy. Rusty runs into some people from his hometown of Fresno, and there's much slapping of backs.
Update on the album: we now have seven finished songs, of which the last, "Permagasm" is, I think, the best. Titles, in order of completion:
1. Devil Mask, Buddha Mind
2. Enjoyable Friends
3. Moop Bears
4. Bonsai Tree
5. Pleasantness
6. 7000 BC
7. Permagasm
Then Rusty, Hisae and I take the U-bahn out to Dahlem in West Berlin, where my favourite ethnographic museum is located. This is, in fact, my favourite place in Berlin, and my favourite part of it is the Japanese folk art collection, so hard to find (round the back and up some stairs) that it's invariably quite empty. Today the museum is milling with people—there's a Festival of Five Continents, with live music, Asian street food, and showings of Miyazaki films—but still the Japanese folk art section is deserted, as is the ethnomusicography department next door (the reason I've brought Rusty out here — I want him to hear stuff like the amazingly wobbly wax cylinder recordings from Indonesia circa 1908). A couple of people have ventured into the darkened Africa section, though, or into Oceania, with its magnificent pre-historic boat and hut reconstructions. In the evening we go to an event called Secret Garden in an apartment-shaped art gallery in Prenzlauer Berg, where we see a live performance (featuring iBook and tinkling glockenspiel) by some displaced New Yorker called Sandy. Rusty runs into some people from his hometown of Fresno, and there's much slapping of backs.
Update on the album: we now have seven finished songs, of which the last, "Permagasm" is, I think, the best. Titles, in order of completion:
1. Devil Mask, Buddha Mind
2. Enjoyable Friends
3. Moop Bears
4. Bonsai Tree
5. Pleasantness
6. 7000 BC
7. Permagasm
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Date: 2005-11-28 11:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 11:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 11:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 11:48 am (UTC)I'm thinking of asking for my money back.
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Date: 2005-11-28 02:10 pm (UTC)Our favorites were one fellow with the ability to create painful gas in someone and his friend, who could make people orgasm on cue.
DOCTOR DOOM: As soon as I press this button, the world will explode! Now there's nothing you can ARGH! SHIT! I CAN'T...AH, THIS REALLY GODDAMNED HURTS...AND IT TAKES FIVE MINUTES TO OPEN THE ASS-FLAP ON THIS ARMOR...MUST PRESS BUTTON...I...I...ohhhhhhh...yeah, that's Doom's spot right there...mmmmm...
And then you hit him with a giant fuckoff hammer.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 02:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 02:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 02:28 pm (UTC)So...Hitting Must Commence!*
*Hitting Must Commence is registered under the Shitty Band Names Act of 1997
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 02:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 02:56 pm (UTC)what happened to "Dr. Cat"?
the song that you mentioned last week.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 03:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 03:25 pm (UTC)I hope that someday the name and all the fun spills that come with it will be truly mine.
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Date: 2005-11-28 03:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 04:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 05:06 pm (UTC)And Now for Something Completely Different
Date: 2005-11-28 05:22 pm (UTC)The first was of playing with my cousin when we were children.
The second was about my ex-girlfriend vanishing in smoke.
The third was about talking on the telephone with Momus about creating inner happiness through art. Maybe he was actually talking to someone else, because I could actually see him on the phone, a black 1960s model.
Not that any of these worry too much, but they don't make much sense either. Feel free to analyze them for posterity.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 06:05 pm (UTC)That is one cute bunny despite the hugeness.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 06:07 pm (UTC)just throwing that one out there.
Re: And Now for Something Completely Different
Date: 2005-11-28 06:09 pm (UTC)There will be a plague of locusts.
Then the great library of Nineveh will burn to the ground, and there will be lamentation throughout the land.
Then three fat cows will come, and the high priests of Tyre will slaughter them, distributing the meat to all the people of the world.
Then peace will reign on earth for the span of six hours, punctuated only by the sound of light snoring.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-28 07:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-29 12:51 am (UTC)And... awww... Hisae always looks adorable. I hope you're doing well.
:D
RU$TY
Date: 2005-11-29 03:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-29 03:50 am (UTC)can you tell me what breed is it?
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-29 05:45 am (UTC)Re: RU$TY
Date: 2005-11-29 05:58 am (UTC)Re: RU$TY
Date: 2005-11-29 10:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-29 11:16 am (UTC)hmmm... I wonder what a day is like in the life of Topo?!?... especially with the temporary addition of Rusty to the family.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-29 10:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-29 10:08 pm (UTC)Re: And Now for Something Completely Different
Date: 2005-12-14 09:30 am (UTC)