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It’s summer, I’m kinda bored so ….

How many songs: 2982

Sort by song title:
First Song: Metallica – -Human
Last Song: Wir sind Helden – Zuhälter

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: Kyuss – Yeah 0:04
Longest Song: Green Carnation – Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness 1:00:00

Sort by artist:
First Artist: 3 Doors Down
Last Artist: Wohlstandskinder

Sort by album:
First Album: Metallica – …and Justice for all
Last Album: Clawfinger – Zeros & Heroes

Top Three Most Played Songs:
1. Caliban – Forsaken Horizon [from Shadow Hearts]
2. Avenged Sevenfold – I won’t see you tonight (Part 1) [from Waking the Fallen]
3. Silbermond – Durch die Nacht [from Verschwende deine Zeit]

Search ….

“sex”, how many songs come up? 35 most of them due to their album title

“death”, how many songs come up? 116

“love”, how many songs come up? 58

I’ve seen this Quiz in a journal entry on last.fm

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To fill the growing summer lump several blogs in my “environment” started to populate their pages with MyWorld66 maps to show how cosmopolitan their lifestyle is.

As I am always ahead of the game I’ve gotten a MyWorld66 map since way back in 2005 (wow!) so maybe now is the best time to show you how cool I am.

BEHOLD!
(in case you’re wondering: red means “visited”, grey means “nope, haven’t been there yet”)

world (very rough estimates in some states in this view):

europe:

usa:

fantastic isn’t it?
…now show me yours 🙂

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Hi!

I’m finally updating this abandoned blog again 😉

After suffering from a severe infection with high fever over 40°C and a rapid recovery (under the heavy influence of antibiotics) to allow me to attend the Novarock (klick the link for my photos) Festival in Nickelsdorf/Austria I can now say that I have slept enough again and reached a state of consciousness that allows me to post again.

Busy weeks lie behind me, first there was this awesome festival in the beautiful surroundings of Nicklelsdorf in the east of Austria. It was about one week of very hard work that sometimes brought us to the edge, but also some marvelous concerts with great bands. Especially Metallica, Tool and the local “heroes” Guadalajara rocked a sum of over 150.000 people in three days.

After I barely survived the backstage party on saturday following the Guns n’ Roses gig, I drove home only to be captured by end-term pressure. After finishing nearly all of my work – well, except the biggest project 😉 – I can now hopefully relax a few days at the swimming pool in my back yard and welcome the summer 🙂

Picture 1-1… ah, yes and then there was the Donauinselfest last weekend, a three day festival in the middle of vienna with free entry, ~30 stages and about 900.000 people per day.
I went there twice (hey, it’s free). Once to see the Bloodhound Gang again after the Novarock, who were too drunk to deliver a proper concert but who cares. The second time I went there to see Silbermond, well actually only their female singer 😉
All in all a pretty good festival as well but my feet hurt now after walking the whole of this little island in the middle of the danube for about two or three times (~6 km one way).

That’s it for now …but stay tuned for some more postings in the near future!

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I stumbled upon a rumor on the net today that says some interesting things about the new TOOL album “10.000 days”. The poster on some progressive rock forum stated that when you play track 3 “Wings For Marie (Pt. 1)” and track 11 “Viginti Tres” after each other and overlay them with track 4 “10.000 days (Pt. 2)” those songs match up to a completely new version.
I have to say I tried it out (using Audacity) and it does indeed sound like it could be composed like that on purpose. What adds some credibility to the rumor is that the running time of track 3 & track 11 add up to exactly 11:13 which is the total running time of track 4. The “new” track does have some really complex harmonies and freaky drumming, though noting seems to sound out of sync or out of tune. A very TOOlish song indeed 🙂

I am still not completely convinced that this was TOOL’s intention, although it is very likely with an outstanding band like this. There have also been rumors about the previous album “Lateralus” that the songs have to be listened to in order of the Fibonacci Sequence or that the lyrics have something to do with that sequence. Neither has been confirmed nor denied by the band itself.

Still TOOL makes very good music … for those who are apt to listen to it with the right amount of attention. And wether there is a “hidden constructed track” on the new album or not, I just can’t wait to see them on this years Novarock Festival it will be awesome!

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