I’ve been a bit quiet for the past 6-7 weeks because I’ve been pouring myself into a new online project,
http://www.singingbassist.com

I had the fortune last Friday of watching one of the videos of the Beatles Anthology. Okay it was in German, but that fact didn’t detract from the great stories and their wonderful songs. Watching normal school-kids metamorphose into masterful performers and song-writers was a treat.
As a chaser I subsequently watched the first [...]

I am finishing up my driving license with about 2-3 lessons per week. Driving is, surprisingly, fun! We go up into the mountains and I get to test the limits of the instructor’s car’s manual transmission (well, not really, but it ends up being this way, as the clutch always seems to emit a [...]

For anyone who’ve experienced them, Asthma Attacks are near-death experiences: time dilates, the tidal wave of panic subsides, and you genuinely believe that your number has been called and that you’re then scheduled to see the big guy.
As a preface, I sometimes wonder whether the following happens to other people: sleeping with eyes open, the [...]

DAVV is my band-room neighbor who plays in the band John Sars. In addition to that, DAVV creates songs from scratch, from alpha to omega, from vocals to keys to drum-lines. In my opinion, “singer-songwriter” is the closest category for DAVV’s music and “singer-songwriter” is still insufficient for the scope which his debut [...]

Whew, am I thrilled to pay taxes in a country which won’t be “BAILING OUT” a car-manufacturer
    - because Switzerland has no car-manufacturers of its own.
I feel downright betrayed when I hear that the U.S. government will not permit any of the major three car-manufacturers to go into bankruptcy.  These enterprises should die a good [...]

Does anyone else think that the US presidential elections are taking too damned long? The more time the democrats have, the more time they’ll have to mess up their campaign. Here’s some thing good from the good folks at onion indirectly about the protracted campaign:

i was wrong about that tuberculosis claim.  it is possible to get tuberculosis in europe.
 the translation of the article’s title, Lebensgefahr durch Tuberkulose steigt - 22 Fälle in der Schweiz in vier Jahren sind Europa-Durchschnitt is roughly,”globalisation of ghetto diseases.  switzerland’s 22 infected in 4 years is europe’s average”

i didn’t get around to remarking on this last night.
although i find his politics questionable, i like sarko’s no-nonsense way of dealing with things.  he’s all about, “kicking ass and taking names”.   its great in this video how he can switch from cheerio baby-kissing hand-shaking statesman to pissed-off taking-care-of-business mafioso and then back to baby-kissing in [...]

One thing i noticed this morning again was that Europeans are not afflicted by a purely American form of Sado-masochism called:
“being a morning person”
In Europe the waking minutes before work are solemn homages to minutes of sleep one could have had.  People just don’t talk during those hours.  Try it yourself, try calling up your buddy the [...]