Dirk's Blog Thing

Just got home from work.
Right after work, I didn't head straight home, instead I biked in pretty much the opposite direction, intending to grab something to eat off Subway.
I didn't get a sub though. When I arrived, I was informed that due to inept coworkers, the guy working the drive through didn't have *any* bread available. He'd just put some in the oven, ready in about 45 minutes, and would I like a salad instead ...
Yeah right. I'm hungry dammit, what am I supposed to do with a salad? Catch a rabbit?!

Anyway, left, biked to a petrol station and bought a few croissants. I guess I'll have Nutella Subs then ...

In other news, I just got e-Mail from friendface facebook, someone added me as a friend.
Which is interesting because I don't even remember signing up to facebook, but as it turns out, I do have a profile there. *shurgs*

Yesterday I watched the first episode of Burn Notice. In german. Vox started showing it a few days ago. So far, so good. I like the original better of course, but the dubbing is okay I guess.

Indeed, it is.
I grabbed a drink from the balcony, ( and this is what happened when I opened the bottle ... )

First proper meal this year was Pizza Hut btw.
Yay to that! (:

Also, getting a rental car on new year's day is easier than getting some fresh rolls.

My plan for Thursday was:

food
clean kitchen
wash clothes
clean / fix bike
vacuum
more food

And I managed to do everything. As to my bike, I'd wanted to change to snow tires, which I did. I also wanted to put some oil on the bowden wires to make the gear levers work smoothly (with the winter coming up, it's better to have them oily instead of rusty from my experience) (btw, german speakers: did you know it's actually "Bowdenzug" and not "Bautenzug"? I didn't.). Anyway, one of them was seriously stuck (yeah, rust), and when I finally managed to get it a little loose I found that it's starting to break too. So I decided to get those replaced. I had to change the rear tire and reattach it, and once that was done I biked to the bike shop to get that done (I'm way too lazy to replace those wires myself. Doable, yes, but it'd sure take me hours, and it's such a hassle to set them just right for the levers to work properly). Anyway, I can collect my bike tomorrow in time to get to work with it. (The train drivers are on strike, so I really wouldn' know how to get to work if I hadn't my bike d;) ...

In the evening I ordered chinese food. I'm pretty sure they changed something about the ingredients for the sweet-sour sauce they use. My stomach doesn't disagree with it as much as it used to ...
*shurgs*

I watched some of the Nightwish concert DVD. I like them more with each day. They must be Pink Floyd fans, which makes them even more likeable. Doing a cover of High Hopes live, and playing Phantom of the Opera (whose most prominent musical theme, as we all know, was blatantly stolen from Pink Floyd's Echoes ...). I'm looking forward to seeing them in concert. Of course, with a new singer, it's interesting to see how it'll turn out. Oh, and I'm going to demand my money back if they don't play Ghost Love Score. That's one really awesome song ...

I also watched The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. I liked it a lot. It was fun watching someone discover they can go back in time, and then see what they actually do with this ability ...


What would you do if you could jump back in time?

... That's me. dropping food on the floor mere minutes after washing it ... ^_^

Medium fries from the local McDonald's "restaurant" ...



Why the hell am I posting this?
Because it's a picture of the fries before I started eating. I could've just as well ordered (and paid) small fries ...

Back from the concert, and even though I wasn't quite in the right mood for this kind of music, it was awesome!

( Take a wild guess, 'What (besides the music) does Dirki particularly like about Meat Loaf concerts?' )

NDR2 has more pictures here, but for some reason they're only of the first few minutes of the show.

tmtl, you saw one of his shows a few days ago, right? Did they have video recording equipment there too? Because they were advertising a live DVD today that's supposed to be released october'ish, and they had several video cameras recording the whole thing, and the lights / pyrotechnics / special effects / video screens seemed very elaborate ...

Anyway. Other than two totally stunning female singers, the rest of the concert was a lot of fun too. Songs I recall hearing are Paradise, Hot summer night, I'd do anything, Life is a lemon, Rock and Roll dreams, Out of the frying pan, Objects in the rear view mirror, Mercury Blues, Blind as a Bat, It's all coming back, In the land of the pig, If it ain't broke, Bat out of Hell, Black Betty (cover), and Gimme shelter (Stones cover). I might've forgotten a song or two, most likely from The Monster is Loose, since I've only ever listened to that one once in my life .....

I have to say that some things, like the videos during In the land of the pig, or the giant doll things during If it ain't broke were a little ... well, Floydian imho. I wouldn't go as fas as claiming that they stole from Pink Floyd, but it seems to me that they did get some ideas and inspiration from Floyd performances.

After Paradise, there was a short performance starring Mr Loaf and the female singer. They kinda continued the story depicted in the song, and they had two actors translating what they were saying in english into german for the audience to understand. It was a little absurd, but fortunately no one tried to seriously stay in their role during this performance, and Meat Loaf actually addressed the actor doing his part and telling him what a good job he was doing, and thanking him for it. It was a little weird at first, then funny, and they didn't try to keep it up for too long, so that was okay. I was actually afraid they'd do that during the whole show which would've been ridiculous.

All in all, Meat Loaf played for 2.5 hours, which is a lot imo!
Oh, and he told a little story of one of his early performances in Hamburg, in 1978. Shesh, he must've done Bat out of Hell live back then, when I wasn't even born. Such things always impress me. That song is sooo old, and yet, still so awesome and loved by so many people. And, really, how many such epic songs have we had since then? Some Dire Straits (I'm thinking along the lines of Telegraph Road here), one or two Pink Floyd (Sorrow?), and several other Meat Loaf ones. Am I forgetting anyone?


In related news, I did manage to find Chrischi's work place without the help of the nav system, and I easily found my way back too. Good thing.
I passed several police cars on the autobahn though, which unfortunately meant actually driving within the speed limit for a change ... d;

And in other news, I had McDonald's for breakfast, Pizza Hut for lunch, and Subway for dinner.
And I'm not a fast food junkie.

... 2 Äpfel und eine Paprika.
Und jetzt, bevor ich an 'ner Überdosis Vitamine sterbe, etwas Schokiiiiiii (:

( Beim Mitarbeiter-Gewinnspiel gewonnen ... )

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