And another sunny welcome to my congregation, Hi Emily, Josara, Julia (another apology, 789436792 left), Cord, Daniel, Andrew, Scott, Bill and Jan.
This morning I opened out local newspaper and the main story for this small town was titled "Encounters of the hopping persuation - Kangaroo fools police, train drivers doubt their eyes". Since one week several people have sighted a small kangaroo between Borghorst and Burgsteinfurt. One of the first who saw the kangaroo was a train driver who didn´t tell anyone as he thought he would be declared mad or be supected to have been drunk. Same with a scooter driver who also didn´t report it as he feared the police would have probably not believed him or worse. But since it was eventually reported the first investigations showed that there is no Kangaroo missing within a radius of 100kms, so that´s a bit of a puzzler. When the police arrives after a reported sighting, the Roo is nowhere to be found...The local paper started a competition for the first picture of the Kangaroo so I reckon that the forrest beween Borghorst and Burgsteinfurt will be full of amateur photographs today...
On swine flu, after my ex-girlfriend has survived her swine flu attack, my former flat mate has the swine flu now. Get well soon, from here...The nice thing about it is the laid back way Australia deals with it. Dr Senanayake, an infectious diseases physician at Canberra Hospital, said to "The Australian", that on a conservative estimate, the swine flu would infect 20 per cent of the Australian population, with up to five per cent of the infected then likely to require hospital care." Around 80,000 to 200,000 people in Australia may ultimately be hospitalised for swine influenza ... with around 8000 deaths,'' Dr Senanayake says. The feeling in Australia is "no worries"...and Germany´s media is still paniking...haha
Now for something completly different: after I got so much positive feedback on all the old pictures and stuff I posted yesterday I decided to post some more. As my parent´s old kitchen has been sold and will be picked up next Saturday, we have to move the stuff from the cupboards somewhere else. My father took the oportunity to tidy up the basement and it´s amazing how much old stuff we´ve found there. Yesterday afternoon I found a forgotten heap of old stuff of mine. When I went to Bolivia in 1999 I stored my stuff in my parents basement but it got flooded so much of it was destroyed. But yesterday I found in the back of one of the cupboards the collection of cards, photos, posters and other stuff which decorated the walls of my old room. I thought tha this stuff was also destroyed in the flood so I was quite surprised. I had an amazing time to go through that stuff and I scanned some of it and will publish it for your viewing pleasure.
This is a portrait of me by a polish girl I met while hitchhiking through France. I´m not 100% sure but I think it was in 1994...
One of the three or four pictures existing between 1986 and 1991. This was me in 1989...
Botzi (or Bozzi as my sister claimes)...some dogs are just cool...
The three pictures above were the most awesome discovery in the heap. They were taken on 12.April 1996, the day after I finished my university studies. Marc, Sandra and me (and two other guys) went to an old quarry and had one of the best days ever...I even forgot that there were pictures from that day....
This is another amazing dicovery. This scetches were made by a girl from Lithuania when we were in Amsterdam in 1992. In Feb 1992 we (a group of 30 students) visited Lithuania and in June the Lithuanians paid us a visit. A weekend in Amsterdam was also part of that visit. The scetches show my friend Tom and me on our way through Amsterdam´s red light district. I especially like the 2nd pic...me with guitar viewing the windowshops...lolWell, I also found lots and lots of old flyers. Please bear in mind that we didn´t have the computer technology we have today to make them, so they look amateurish but I still like them!
Haha, the last two flyers have a little story. The yellow one was the "official" flyer for the summer party of Münster´s last squatter house. I guess 15 people lived there and they were of the hippie, vegan, safe-the-whales and women´s lib persuation and they asked us if we would like to play. Well you might think by the way I dressed when I was younger, that I was a hippie but you are wrong. I only dressed like one, I was already the dirty minded and politically uncorrect idiot you know and love...We (Marc and me) had a look at the official flyer and thought that The Holy Chao was a little too small on that one, so we did our own version (the white one). So when we put all the important information on it, we still had some space, so whe put "FREE" "Summer party" "Food & Drink" and "Beautiful women" on the bottom of the flyer...Four day later I got a phone call from the organisators telling me that The Holy Chao can´t play the summer party. When I asked why that was, they explained that they saw our flyer and had a meeting with all the inhabitants and they decided that we were "fascho-chauvinistic dickheads who reduce females on their appearance" and they wouldn´t have someone like that playing their summer party...we had a good laugh and told them that we won´t distribute those fascho-chauvinistic flyers anymore so in the end (and after several more meetings haha hippies) we were allowed to play provided that we won´t make any more chauvinistic comments...
Gig in Berg Fidel in 1997...
Some concert posters...
The posters for our annual Erntedankfest (Harvest party) from 97 to 99. 02.Oct 1999 was The Holy Chao´s very last concert. Well the first Erntedankfest poster was designed by me (and I´m quite bad at that) but from early 1998 we had Martin who was a grafitt artist to do our art work. I really like his posters. For the last concert we had two posters, the lower one was done by Dorit...Well that´s all for today, I hope you liked the pics...have fun, take care and if you have flu: get well soon!
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