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BBQ-Worldchampionship Preparation

2006-05-01T01:49:00.000+02:00

Dear Meat-Lover,

we just came back from our secret trainingcamp where we prepared for the World-Championships in BBQ comin this summer. Our One.Man.Team is fit to the fullest
and we are looking forward to bring the wisdom even to the Netherlands or maybe to the French Lowlands.
We are there to bring you only the best in meat business today? What? Huh? Did i hear Argentina? Did somebody mention Kobe? Some ignoble fool even whispered something about US-Hormone-Beef... been there, eaten that!
This is the truth:

Ok... there are voices aloud quoting that the plates could be from Toys`R´Us.... but no... here is the proof... and NO, this is no kiddy.grill... this is the ordinary officcial BBQ-Worldchampioonship Grill...Heros with Steaks, thats what i say!

This stuff is strictly limited and only due to shady contacts in the italian hades tosome internal sources our Schwäbisch Nationalteam was able to get hold of this First-Class Supreme 100% Bistechhi alla Fiorentina...what else could a "Future-World-Champion of BBQ" want?

studio or what?

2006-04-19T13:17:00.000+02:00

heya guys,
to make living with me a little u bit easier and relaxing for my flatmates i stole the key to a studio where i can be found every night tweaking knobs and patching this lovely modular filtermachine..
and somewhere my future-tele will find a place to be rocked, im definately looking forward to that,
because i am my own horde... a so called band-in-a-box... watch out, im working on a remix of the most famous last summers hit "nem tudom".....

Time-out and resurrection

2006-04-17T12:10:00.000+02:00

Finalmente after some months of keeping myself enclosed in the darkness in which even the bloggoshpere-spotlight doesnt help enlighting the drabness of life im back on the spot,
i even started attending university again.. oh my!
So, now back to some good news, first of all: i had my brithday, lounging with sim1 in basel in Jose´s DonPincho Restaurant, listening to an awesome jamsession with Urs Bachthaler on guitar and Adrian Mears and René Mosele on the Trombone, there even was Thomas Bauser who transported his B3 with the huuuuuge Leslie all the way down from Freiburg...and yeah, it was a damn fine Jam, plus Jose´s delicious Tapas and Pinchos just went all the way down with some fresh San Miguel..so no point complaining!
On saturday we went to a Detroit-Party at Dampfzentrale in Bern, there were probably 10 guests, but the location is just the bomb, its an old industrial building and concluding from the interior which is still left it used to be a melting room with a blast-furnace... and anyway...the sound was perfect.

So now i gotta go back to do some work, just wanted to let you guys out there know that im back on the spot, Rotterdam is still within reach and the rest of the flooded flatland will be unsafe in the very near future!

Sincerely yours,
The Oktober Women

who could resist?

2005-12-12T12:57:00.000+01:00

My dear friends,

its my deed and my pleasure to announce one of the most awesome christmas-presents of all time,
well, to be a little more specific, its my present. And i know one could argue about the symbolic means
of christmas presnts at all and the total consumer madness returning end of september on a yearly basis, but anyway..sometimes one has to get presents. And as far as im concerned, nobody gives me presents,
so i bought one for myself. Yes.

I bought a Grand Piano. Well, its a Baby Grand, 1,50m long, not comparable to the one i had in Bécsi ut. in Budapest, but at least it should help me to fill my warm house with even warmer, blue notes.
Its white and beamless, the outside is in a good shape but the complete mechanix need a rework.
Now i totally see the point some of you may raise..." But you dont know how to repair a piano, besides that youre the worst piano player ever, you cant play at all, your music sounds like shit, your nose is ugly...hey, the last one´s not fair..." BUT....

at a price of 12,- CHF which is about 7,8€ or 2000 hungarian forints noone should not consider having a baby grand!

You will be updated, i will post pictures of the project and the first sound it makes.

Ah...and if it doesnt work out the way i want it to...we´ll turn it into the biggest minibar ever!

Sinking unemployment in germany

2005-12-01T10:33:00.000+01:00

helll yeah, its the first day of Miss Merkel as the high chancellor of germany and damn, this chick roxx big time!
You can even see... the unemployment rate in november 2005 was sinking to 4,531 mill which means 25.000 less unemplyoed people than the month before.

so now..think again before blaming her!

(the subject of this article may not express the ideas of the author...)

Keep hoping...Help is arriving soon!

2005-11-16T11:52:00.000+01:00

As reported last week, the Swiss Wappentier, the Biberbär, got captured by an evil islamist fundalist force, formerly known as Yall´a Mh´Aaneh.
Now we have an income saying there is the incredible Army of the Gummibears preparing for a secret counter attack. Our intelligencer was, under the highest threats to his own life, able to tape the preparations for the counter attack.

Have a look here!

The Swiss Wappentier captured by Islamic Terrorists

2005-11-11T01:16:00.000+01:00

its said they torture him and push and press him...

oh my god!

See it here...poor thing! We stand right behind you!

good news!

2005-11-10T20:14:00.000+01:00

so here are some good news from the swizzyland:

since the birdflu is coming to switzerland, according to EVERYBODY around me, turkey and chicken meat got reduced to 25% of the original price.
now every night its meat time again...tell those vegies to fuck off and get the BBQ burning!
Yeeee-Hawwwwwww

busy

2005-10-31T19:53:00.000+01:00

its been a while since the last post, but im really busy those days.
things keep going strange ways, university started again and im still looking
for a job which gives me enough money and some freetime to work on my own projects.
in the last 2 weeks i have been working mostly on the music things...hope to get some stuff finished soon.

last weekend i spent in alps in a nice chalet of a friend, we had some bratwurst out of the cheminée, some cevapcici and lots of beer and stuff, the sun was shining and after it went down i moved over to the sauna to get the relax-lvel to max again...so thats it.

back home

2005-10-04T12:31:00.000+02:00

So, finally after 32 days i took the plane (Thai Airways of course), flew straight outta BKK and am back home in my Switzerland..hmm..my...lets reconsider that.
And guess what? Its raining cats n dogs, the temperature dropped below minus 80 °C or so
(making a complete fool out of me arriving in tshirt, shorts and flipflop at Zurich Airport...ever felt alienated?) and the lady working in the supermarket doesnt even notice me, even if i shop for 200SF which would make me a wealthy man back in Thailand, where a lecturer at the University of Media Art and Design Chiang Mai earns 14.000 ThBaht a month (285 Euro).

But hey, grumpy people not hiding their feelings...thats exactly what i need after more than a month of everlasting sunshine and beeing surrounded by people that always smile, even if you tell them that their parents were brother and sister (Which, however, may come from a nonexistent knowledge of the language the rest of the world calls english, but even this is understandable regarding the Colonial History of most of the countries surrounding Thailand).

So, after the usual Bangkok-shok with all its smell, touts, hustlers and idiots we took the plane to ChiangMai, which lies in the northern territory, beautifully embedded in the green mountains surrounding it. Here the people are muchmore friendly and dont try to cheat you with every word they say. In general...i really could live here for a while.
Here we did a project together with students from the Fine Arts and the Media-Art-Design (!!!) Departement, which was a great opportunity to get involved in everydays life here in northern thailand. As a media art student i couldnt expect too much because the students work much more in a classic way, draw figure studies, make sculptures and so on...but it was fun anyway and i learned quite a lot from the sheer possibility of the cultural exchange.

I also realized that travelling is much more for yourself, not to get to know and understand different cultures. It may sound stoopid (im used to that..=) but i dont think travelling brings you any closer to a foreign culture as ie reading a book about it while you sit at home on the couch would do. There is no way to understand a culture with visiting. I had to think about that all the time because some students taking part in the exchange had the idea of getting to know thai-culture and understand it just to take it as a point of where they start from to do an artwork. I think this is illusionary...you will take some things out of the foreign culture which seem to be different from your own, or the same as back home, then they will be interpreted with a western background, a western thinking and a western cultural understanding. What happens then, and it really happened, is that the topic of the artwork is scratching along the surface of a piece of cloth on which a nice logo saying "Cultural Exchange" is printed, whereelse if you turn the cloth round it says "Understanding is impossible".
Well...thats my point of view.

After leaving ChianMai we took the speedtrain back to BKK, which means travelling with 40km/h...the wild, untouched nature of the rainforest, the ricefields and the lakes full of dangerous animals which could kill everyone of us with just one hit rushing (slowly) by.
Still, i had the feeling of beeing in touch with the wilderness...looking through the window of the train, giving the picture a nice frame like in TV. Am i such a mediated person? Jess....
From BKK we took the train to Chumporn and then the nightboat to Koh Tao, where we were staying for the rest of the holiday.
This island for sure is as close to paradise as Adam and his slutty wife were back then, although i was happy that i didnt have to be there in highseason.
We changed bugalows and resorts to move over to the other side of the island, went snorkelling with blacktip-reefsharks at 6 in the morning, did a snorkelling trip all around the island
making a stopover at an island infront of Koh Tao which es even closer to paradise and we rented a motorcrossbike, with which we had an accident of course. I mean...eh..dont get me wrong...
but it wasnt me who was driving the goddamn thing...but honestly, the mainroad from the left part of the island to the right part shouldnt be called road...i leave the rest for your wonderful imagination.
( a lil hint: imagine riding with a space-shuttle up the Eiger North Face wearing flipflops and sunglasses which make you look halve as cool as Mitch from Baywatch but prevent you from seeing anything..ok?)
But the motorbike was one of the best things anyway...it gave us the possibility to explore the far ends of the island, and indeed, it revealed two of the most beautiful and peaceful spots i ever came to witness.
Here is a picture of it: (the small point swimming in there is me...=)

After 11 days, we left the beautiful island of Koh Tao to head back straight to Bangkok, in a so called VIP-Bus, which means literally translated "Very-Ignorant-Persons".
It was a Hollywood-Massacre...2 minutes after departing the pier the first movie started, of course with 120 decibel, and the last ended right before we arrived in Bkk...
8 hours of movies, most guys in there closed the curtains so the reflexion on the screen is reduced. Anyway...as we were sitting in the upper frontrow with panorama-windows
we saw quite nice things in thailands south.
After arriving in Bkk we went to a guesthouse with a warm shower and a luxurious a/c, and i havent slept so deep in the 30 days before. We spent the last two days with shopping
asian krims-krams and hanging around in some nice cafés and bars...as soon as you leave the impact-zone of Khao San Road there are things to witness as: (really freindly) service,
quality food and drinks, clothes shops selling cool stuff and not just t-shirts with a Chang-Logo or SAME SAME on it and also there are people talking to you not just to make you come with them to their uncle who sells gems or carpets or wtf .

We arrived too early at the airport which gave us the luxurity of 4 seats per person. The flight back then was as pleasant as the flight inbound, with thai-fish and duck with orange-sauce, a glass of white- and then red-wine and then cognac afterwards and a deep sleep lying on 4 seats...oh what a way to end a holiday like this!

ashamed

2005-09-04T06:33:00.000+02:00

what is it that makes me feel ashamed of beeing a tourist in a country full of people so friendly
that one shouldnt even try to understand the patterns of how it works with a western/european background(qm). flying stright to bkk with thai airways...oh boy, cant blame them for their service, gin-tonic after take-off (bombay saphire..not the cheap stuff...), nice menu served in clay and cognac afterwards...wow...anyway..back to beeing a tourist. hotel in khao san road, drunk english guys everywhere, puking in everz corner, bitches and hoes all around me..damn, why not to kill mankind(qm). and whz dont those idiots just go to mallorca and hang emself(qm).
enough of the bad moods...now we took the plane to chiangmai where we stay in a beautiful, paradise-like hotel with a garden kept up-to-date by no less than 3 gardeners...wow. ill be posting pics later on. so. just had breakfast and a coffee and now ill take off to the university where we will present our projects and look for potential partners in crime for a jointvernture-project...i think ill have a hardtime...media arts is here considered to be something like graphic design....anzwaz...ill show the the source and keep it blinkin, beepin and crackin.
and where the fuck is the fuckin questionmark on this keyboard. (qm)

virginity...

2005-08-23T16:27:00.000+02:00

isnt it wonderful?
now that blogs are said to be dying i just had to start my own one...

in this virginity of the first post lies the beauty of everything and nothing, denying each other nevertheless coexistent, a given gift only to be taken once...
by me, right now...gheheheheee.

anybody saw my bitter ballen?

Oberfauler Teering-Leiter aka
the invisible Oktober Women