Tuesday, October 31, 2006

i fought a pinball machine and the machine won



Last week was nothing but rock and or roll.
according to the tradition me and Herr Joh went to both Motorpsycho gigs at Rockefeller, and Ms I joined us for the first.
it was nice and after some thinking we came to that it must have been the 18th or 19 th time we saw them.
the concerts were good, but were they that good? well i guess they were, but after they had to find a new drummer they´re not that tight anymore,
and i miss some of the dynamics that used to be their trademark at least live. at least i missed that in the first gig, but the second one
had more of this, and after opening with an 25min. version of Un Chien déspace it´s both hard and pointless to complain.



Then there was a pinball machine that had to be moved from A to B, only that A was in the first floor, and B, our apartment at the 3.floor.
my neighbour Herr Ted had bought this from a friend and figured that it was a nice thing to have in our living room, (by the table tennis gear...).
oh your god that pinball machine was heavy... but after two staircases it was finally at our door ready to get in be plugged to the wall and enjoyed, but what is this...it´t too big, i doesn´t fit in our door!
we actually had to brake of the top to get it through the door and in to the apartment, and now it´s a sad sight in the hall way....



then i suddenly had a lot of money on my account, and i went shopping for the things that i like the most; books and music.
bought the fist "Sandman" book, i´ve read it but never owned it, then moreNeil Gaiman ; "American Gods". My favorite and only manga series Yukito Kishiro´s "Battle Angel Alita" what a fantastic graphic novel, lots of action. and a Recording of Robert Schumann´s op.2, op.4, and op.6 with the French pianist Eric Le Sage. It´s always fun to hear pieces one have played, at least tried to, played by others.



so after Motorpsycho x2, pinball battle, and shopping i woke up feeling ill on Sunday, but this house is the best place, well second best place to be sick in (nothing beats home with mom buying soda and comic books for her sick son).
The people i live with Herr H.E, Herr BES Ms A and Herr Ted together posses all the DVDs in the world, so i´ve spent the days watching Shameless and Pat and Mat. Crazy just crazy. Shameless is a British drama about a family of six kids and a runaway mom and a nice but useless alcoholic bastard of a dad.
i used to watch Mat and Pat as a kid, they were known as "To gode Naboer" (two good neighbours). these two Czech puppets are always trying to build or fix things with no regards for anything and this always goes wrong, i haven´t laughed like that in years.

no i´m home from work, hoping to be OK till me and Ms A is going to Helsinki,

yours,

Herr W

6 comments:

Espen Nersveen said...

now thats what I call a long post, but a nice one to read anyhow. link my blog instead of my myspace dude, promote my blog. feeling better today? wanna help me clean the apartment later on?
piz

Herr W said...

I´m in,
I´ll see to that the link takes my readers where they should be at least once a day; your blog!

Reeta said...

Have you ever read Douglas Adams' "Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency"? It always comes to my mind when I'm moving. In that book someone have bought a new sofa and when they try to move it into the building it get stuck in staircase. But luckily one of them is a mathematician and he makes some kind of computer program to help them to know which way they should be moving the sofa. Well, after considering the problem the computer says that the whole building must have been built around that sofa, there's no way anyone could have ever got that sofa even into the staircase...

And about Pat and Mat, I really love them!

Herr W said...

oh, i wish i had read that book before i trusted this to go well,
met and pat are so great,
they are both communists and lives in a sovjet block in Bratislava,
they like seeing sports on tv and play old 78rpm records, haha

room217 said...

"He ain't got no distractions
Can't hear those buzzers and bells,
Don't see lights a flashin'
Plays by sense of smell.
Always has a replay,
'n' never tilts at all...
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pin ball."

Herr W said...

no pinball wizardry for us, at least for a while.