The Garden of Discordia

...and then she went Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! because the tribute night to Die Ärzte, a multi-band cover concert, turned out friggin awesome! out of 8 bands, I only really felt one were bad )and they could play, but they totally lacked energy and/or stage presence), it ended with all the bands + some audience + plenty of beer *cough* on the stage of Kulturbrauerei singing Zu Spät and Westerland after a pretty fantastic 4 HOURS of music & jokes by/about/related to my favorites favorite band in the world.

This after a Friday evening spent playing Settlers of Catan and Munchkin until laaate (got home at four-ish. AM.) and a Saturday day which began with a spontaneous visit to IKEA because we totally needed a spagetthi strainer and a lkfmnhj-thingy, which you turn pancackes etc with, for the non-stick pan followed by a equally spontaneous stanidng around watching the inline skating marathon as it passed by our subway station (but we ran home and dumped the IKEA stuff. Since when do they not have paper bags, the bastids?) and that was really nice, sunny, happy people, swoooosh and they'd inlined past.
Alright, the accident we saw because some dumb fuck just couldn't wait or go around so that a poor marathonist rolled into her bike which she saw fit to drag over the marked street just before a new big heap of inliners were coming in - that was less fun, more ohshit!! But the inline person seemed fine and rolled away after someone helped hir up & the stupid woman with a bike got booed out, a soda can thrown after her and an angry lecture from someonein an Official Jacket, so all was well.

AND THEN I went off to spend something like five hours dancing and getting to know some people whom I will meet again at the Abwärts concert and now my feet are falling off, but I am so happy =D

♥ YAY BERLIN ♥ YAY DIE ÄRZTE ♥

Last but not least: YAY ♥ I ♥ WILL ♥ SLEEEEEEEP ♥ UNTIL ♥ SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Today there were a lot of meetings at work. I wasn't in any of them, but this meant I had sole ownership of the office* and thus I played music. Loudly.

I have realized that, while Die Ärzte musically have pretty much only gotten better and better, the sheer freaky squickness of some early songs haven't been trumped for, what, 20 years?

Prime example one is of course Omaboy, a d-i-s-g-u-s-t-i-n-g song. All the more so because Farin Bela manages to sing this squicky theme (about a guy who desires old people. Really old) with such sensuality
There's also Schlaflied, about a monster under the bed. Describes in loving fashion how the kid in bed is eaten, piece by piece... And wonderful (er) things like Madonnas dickdarm (Madonna's Colon) which is less disgusting than plain weird.

Geschwisterliebe (Sibling Love) and Claudia hat 'n Schäferhund (Claudia has a German Shepherd) got them on the index for youth-threatening songs, but strangely enough they don't squick me half as much. Incest and bestiality? Meh, I've been on the internet too long for that to phase me.


*Jag ville skriva "Tronade i ensam majestät på kontoret..." men kom inte på ngn engelsk synonym. Hjälp?