more photographs later...
Was gibts Neues?
I'm obliged to correct a misstatement from a couple of weeks ago: there is a virulent strain of Greenpeace based here, but I doubt it's linked directly to all of the luxury car burning that has been taking place in Berlin; there is a separate anti-globalization 'gang' according to my rather inept understanding of an article in Die Welt. They are targeting the cars owned by corporations or by the heads of large corporations.
The website (www.brennende-autos.de) keeps track of where all the cars have been burned with a map and a counter.
Angela Merkel drove a VW Golf before she was elected chancellor. Now, I think the Geheimdienst drives her around.
At Kunstwerke* a video called The Nuclear Football documents the arrival and departure of G.B. (I believe it was in 2002 for some ceremony with Schroeder) and all of the surrounding pomp and circumstance. For me, it was remarkable to see the construction of the stageset for the president to be filmed/photographed and then a film of the papparazzi in action. Omnipresent in the background was a guy carrying a black briefcase.
Some people from Rostock have told me in addition to Air Force One, another 747 carries all of the SUVs required to transport the prez, his staff, and the Secret Security. Rostock looks to be a nice town of about 200,000 people on the Baltic Sea in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. You may recall that in 2006 the G8 held a summit there and it provoked a few disturbances.
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I went to a big house party on the outskirts of town last Friday night where they were playing some rather hard techno music. I decline to comment further, though this is supposed to be a music blog.
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Human Tetris, if you haven't already seen it.
*EM's link to 'the difference between sick and evil' below reminded me of another video on view at Kunstwerk at the moment. It's a reenactment of the Milgram Experiment which demonstrated that a majority of people within a hierarchical structure would administer lethal electric shocks to their fellow human beings.
I'm obliged to correct a misstatement from a couple of weeks ago: there is a virulent strain of Greenpeace based here, but I doubt it's linked directly to all of the luxury car burning that has been taking place in Berlin; there is a separate anti-globalization 'gang' according to my rather inept understanding of an article in Die Welt. They are targeting the cars owned by corporations or by the heads of large corporations.
The website (www.brennende-autos.de) keeps track of where all the cars have been burned with a map and a counter.
Angela Merkel drove a VW Golf before she was elected chancellor. Now, I think the Geheimdienst drives her around.
At Kunstwerke* a video called The Nuclear Football documents the arrival and departure of G.B. (I believe it was in 2002 for some ceremony with Schroeder) and all of the surrounding pomp and circumstance. For me, it was remarkable to see the construction of the stageset for the president to be filmed/photographed and then a film of the papparazzi in action. Omnipresent in the background was a guy carrying a black briefcase.
Some people from Rostock have told me in addition to Air Force One, another 747 carries all of the SUVs required to transport the prez, his staff, and the Secret Security. Rostock looks to be a nice town of about 200,000 people on the Baltic Sea in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. You may recall that in 2006 the G8 held a summit there and it provoked a few disturbances.
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I went to a big house party on the outskirts of town last Friday night where they were playing some rather hard techno music. I decline to comment further, though this is supposed to be a music blog.
--
Human Tetris, if you haven't already seen it.
*EM's link to 'the difference between sick and evil' below reminded me of another video on view at Kunstwerk at the moment. It's a reenactment of the Milgram Experiment which demonstrated that a majority of people within a hierarchical structure would administer lethal electric shocks to their fellow human beings.
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I think this will give you some idea of Bush's entourage.
Is that art/rock ship still docked in Rostock? Yes the East was nice until they all left and the West pillaged.
hey anon-
i think you might be referring to the stubnitz. looks like it's in stockholm just now.
Ya, danke, Stubnitz. I would never have remembered that name, but the ship sails daily through my subconscious. As usual, you know all BB.
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