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Sep. 10th, 2012 01:17 amLamps.
Sep. 10th, 2012
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Sep. 10th, 2012 06:31 pmAhhh..just woke up from a most lengthy sleep - and it's a good thing, as I'm starting my four-day, tonight, right after my dreaded one-on, one-off, one-on schedule.
Had a lovely day, yesterday - weather in the seventies. Went to the Fitness Trail with Jess and DJ, again - and afterwards, DJ treated us to ice cream, and a round of mini-golf, which was SUCH a blast; we closed the place. It's not often enough that we all three have a day off at the same time to get together, so it was especially nice. Those two are SO funny - and the combination is unbeatable. Jess kicked our butts, of course. God, I love my kids - they are just amazing people :)
Yes, I ate ice cream.
No, I don't care, because life is too short, and ice cream is too good.
Wow, you guys. I mean, wow. Everything IS on the internet! Look:
http://onlymannequins.com/Pages/Male-Female-Torsos.php
What fun I could have mit these. Now, get yer minds out of the gutter, LOL - I meant art-wise, lol.
Watched, Prometheus, finally - and it was pretty good. Is it wrong that I was sort of hoping that the 'bad guys' would be good? LOVED Michael Fassbender in this. Loved.
peter gabriel concert in.....eleven days!!!!!!!!
ETA: HAHAHAHAHAHAH - I just spoke to the phone/net company in english mixed with a smattering of German in an online chat and reallllllllllly kinda messed mit them...It always helps to confuse your bill collectors (Poor People Tip #621)!
Had a lovely day, yesterday - weather in the seventies. Went to the Fitness Trail with Jess and DJ, again - and afterwards, DJ treated us to ice cream, and a round of mini-golf, which was SUCH a blast; we closed the place. It's not often enough that we all three have a day off at the same time to get together, so it was especially nice. Those two are SO funny - and the combination is unbeatable. Jess kicked our butts, of course. God, I love my kids - they are just amazing people :)
Yes, I ate ice cream.
No, I don't care, because life is too short, and ice cream is too good.
Wow, you guys. I mean, wow. Everything IS on the internet! Look:
http://onlymannequins.com/Pages/Male-Female-Torsos.php
What fun I could have mit these. Now, get yer minds out of the gutter, LOL - I meant art-wise, lol.
Watched, Prometheus, finally - and it was pretty good. Is it wrong that I was sort of hoping that the 'bad guys' would be good? LOVED Michael Fassbender in this. Loved.
peter gabriel concert in.....eleven days!!!!!!!!
ETA: HAHAHAHAHAHAH - I just spoke to the phone/net company in english mixed with a smattering of German in an online chat and reallllllllllly kinda messed mit them...It always helps to confuse your bill collectors (Poor People Tip #621)!
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Sep. 10th, 2012 09:01 pm"Sometimes I can taste the sounds. There are a lot more feelings than just the feeling going through the ears. The whole body can feel the sounds." , Florian Schneider
"Now the tapes have stopped rolling and the computers have been packed up until the next gig, and the Kraftwerk's two percussionists, Wolfgang Flür and Karl Bartos, who play wired pads about the size of Ouija boards instead of standard acoustic drums, have been dispatched to their respective rooms, barred from the interview because their english is not so hot. (I have heard of members of bands playing on the same bills as Kraftwerk approaching these gentlemen with the words "So ya liked blowin' all our roadies...." The Germans smiled and clapped them on the shoulders: "Ja, ja...")" - http://www.technopop-archive.com/interview_97.php
From the same interview:
"I wondered aloud if they would like to see it get to the point of electrodes in the brain so that whatever they thought would come through a loudspeaker.
"Yes", enthused Ralf, "this would be fantastic".
The final solution to the music problem, I suggested.
"No, not the solution. The next step". - I AGREE. YES. WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
Und: ""When the rocket was going to the moon", said Ralf, "I was so emotionally excited.... When I saw this on television, I thought it was one of the best performances I had ever seen". - O, how I ♥ you, Ralf.
"They did not, however, think it was funny when I wound up the interview asking them if they would pose for pix the next morning by the Detroit freeway. "No", said Ralf, emphatically. "We do not pose. We have our own pictures".
Why? "Because", flatly, "we are paranoid".
He was just beginning to explain the ramifications of German paranoia when Florian abruptly stood up, opened the window to let the smoke out, then walked to the door and opened it, explaining with curious polite curtness that "we had also an interview with Rolling Stone, but it was not so long as this one. Now it is time to retire. You must excuse us".
He ushered us into the hall, quietly swung the door shut with a muffled click, and we blinked at each other in mild shock. Still, it was somehow comforting to know that they did, apparently, sleep." - LOL @ Florian, having to shut Ralf up. :)
From here: http://www.technopop-archive.com/interview_106.php
"Synapse: Do you think we will become cybernetic. Cybernetic meaning that there will be an interface between electronics and the physical nature of human beings?
Ralf Hütter: Oh yes.
Synapse: Where do you think that will take us futuristically?
Ralf Hütter: Well, more... maybe more fun. The thing is not to be afraid. I think sometimes people are so afraid. Just scared away and would rather stick to cowboy music."
Also:
"Ralf Hütter: Oh sure, I can watch "Bonanza" if I have nothing else to do. I feel always there are so many things that we should do and have to do that I don't take the time. But there is a very large portion of people that are lazy and they take whatever is on television for given. Once you realize how it's done and what it really means, you come even to the point that you cannot watch it because you get physically sick. It makes me sick.
Florian Schneider: I can't stand American TV.
Ralf Hütter: We never watch TV here or very rarely. It conditions your mind. You do not talk to everybody in the street so why should I listen to everybody on television just because he's on television, it doesn't mean he has anything to say. Just the status of being in the medium does not mean the information has any more value. I'd rather listen to a friend who I meet and who might not to be on television that has something to say to me." - YES. 100%, baybee.
"Now the tapes have stopped rolling and the computers have been packed up until the next gig, and the Kraftwerk's two percussionists, Wolfgang Flür and Karl Bartos, who play wired pads about the size of Ouija boards instead of standard acoustic drums, have been dispatched to their respective rooms, barred from the interview because their english is not so hot. (I have heard of members of bands playing on the same bills as Kraftwerk approaching these gentlemen with the words "So ya liked blowin' all our roadies...." The Germans smiled and clapped them on the shoulders: "Ja, ja...")" - http://www.technopop-archive.com/interview_97.php
From the same interview:
"I wondered aloud if they would like to see it get to the point of electrodes in the brain so that whatever they thought would come through a loudspeaker.
"Yes", enthused Ralf, "this would be fantastic".
The final solution to the music problem, I suggested.
"No, not the solution. The next step". - I AGREE. YES. WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
Und: ""When the rocket was going to the moon", said Ralf, "I was so emotionally excited.... When I saw this on television, I thought it was one of the best performances I had ever seen". - O, how I ♥ you, Ralf.
"They did not, however, think it was funny when I wound up the interview asking them if they would pose for pix the next morning by the Detroit freeway. "No", said Ralf, emphatically. "We do not pose. We have our own pictures".
Why? "Because", flatly, "we are paranoid".
He was just beginning to explain the ramifications of German paranoia when Florian abruptly stood up, opened the window to let the smoke out, then walked to the door and opened it, explaining with curious polite curtness that "we had also an interview with Rolling Stone, but it was not so long as this one. Now it is time to retire. You must excuse us".
He ushered us into the hall, quietly swung the door shut with a muffled click, and we blinked at each other in mild shock. Still, it was somehow comforting to know that they did, apparently, sleep." - LOL @ Florian, having to shut Ralf up. :)
From here: http://www.technopop-archive.com/interview_106.php
"Synapse: Do you think we will become cybernetic. Cybernetic meaning that there will be an interface between electronics and the physical nature of human beings?
Ralf Hütter: Oh yes.
Synapse: Where do you think that will take us futuristically?
Ralf Hütter: Well, more... maybe more fun. The thing is not to be afraid. I think sometimes people are so afraid. Just scared away and would rather stick to cowboy music."
Also:
"Ralf Hütter: Oh sure, I can watch "Bonanza" if I have nothing else to do. I feel always there are so many things that we should do and have to do that I don't take the time. But there is a very large portion of people that are lazy and they take whatever is on television for given. Once you realize how it's done and what it really means, you come even to the point that you cannot watch it because you get physically sick. It makes me sick.
Florian Schneider: I can't stand American TV.
Ralf Hütter: We never watch TV here or very rarely. It conditions your mind. You do not talk to everybody in the street so why should I listen to everybody on television just because he's on television, it doesn't mean he has anything to say. Just the status of being in the medium does not mean the information has any more value. I'd rather listen to a friend who I meet and who might not to be on television that has something to say to me." - YES. 100%, baybee.
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