As dA is so kind to give us all a mega super special premium membership for one day ...  

[In my mind I hear a voice very much like David Bowie's singing. "I, I could be premium member and you, you could be my premium member queen, we could be premium memberians - just for one day" ]

Time to say "Hi!" after some years of refreshing silence (for you aswell) from my side:

Hi! And you!

I have commited some new deviations, have learned to make use of folders in my gallery and miss many friends here. Just because I can take a break of some years doesn't mean you are allowed to do the same. But who knows: the evil empires of some of the social networks might collaps sooner or later.

As it has been fun last time I now like to repeat the Shuffe Journal experience. Originally stolen from . This time I took it from myself. Just read and the grab it yourself:

SHUFFLE JOURNAL

Rules
1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn't make sense. NO CHEATING!
4. Don't tag 5 people.
5. With the answers, give your own comments on how it relates to the questions.

HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY?

Nick Barker and the Reptiles - Stairway to Heaven
[from "The Money and The Gun", a CD of STH-Covers in many different styles of music done by crazy Australians grouped around Rolf Harris who had a No1 with his version]
This stairway looks rather rainy to me. Feel more like singing in the rain.

WILL YOU GET FAR IN LIFE?
Marlene Dietrich - Ich hab die ganze Nacht geweint
I wept all night? Because I know I'll suffer from falling in love...?  OK, *NOW* I know.

HOW DO YOUR FRIENDS SEE YOU?

Tom Waits - Yesterday is here
"Today is gray skies tomorrow is tears / you have to wait till yesterday's here"

WILL YOU GET MARRIED?
Eva de Roovere - Fantastig toch!
Now, if it is that good, why not!

WHAT IS YOUR BEST FRIEND'S THEME SONG?
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
Are public busses that fast? But they *can* take you away from here.

WHAT IS THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE?
Bill Ramsey - Der Wind ruft Mary
[Very crude German Version of Jimi Hendrix - The wind cries Mary]
Hhm, perhaps a sad story that sounds good or something like that?

WHAT WAS HIGH SCHOOL LIKE?
David Bowie - Teenage Wildlife
Have I missed something? Apart from the wildlife odours in some changing rooms?

HOW CAN YOU GET AHEAD IN LIFE?
Sepultura - Bela Lugosi's dead
As if biting more or less beautiful women was an option! Or, as Rudy Rucker would say: Not all interpersonal problems can be solved by eating other peoples' brains.

WHAT IS THE BEST THING ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS?
Victoria Williams - Summer of Drugs
Afair the song is about being too young to be a Hippie. While being young is not a virtue per youth is not bad.

WHAT IS IN STORE FOR THIS WEEKEND?
Rob de Nijs - Het werd zomer
[Germans: entspricht Peter Maffay - Und es war Sommer]
Improvised translation: "I was 11 and she was 86. And of lovemaking I don't knew much. She knew everything ..."
Must be a song about Silvio Berlusconi's mother. So I'll go to the beach and look for some dead flesh? But hey: the question didn't say for whom it has to be in store this weekend, what is in store.

TO DESCRIBE YOUR GRANDPARENTS?
Edith Piaf - Non, je ne regrette rien
How could I regret? Without my grandparents I would'nt propbably not even habe been born.  

HOW IS YOUR LIFE GOING?
Focus - Hocus Pocus (live)
Now that you mention it. Yes it feels pretty much that way and if you don't know what I'm talking about go to a popular internet video service and have a look at the video. Guaranteed not time wasted.

WHAT SONG WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
GoGo's - The Whole World lost its'head
So now it is official that I'm the king of the goddamned world!

HOW DOES THE WORLD SEE YOU?
Janka - Wysche Nogi Ot Semli
I was told that means something like: put your feet on the table and be lazy. I'm good at doing precisely that.

HOW DO YOU LIKE LIFE?
Victoria Williams - Can't cry hard enough
Then I won't even start; what I perhapsilly can achieve is to laugh hard enough.

WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRAVEL TO?
Karin Bloemen - Zuid-Afrika
Beware: this looks too easy to be true! And right I am: the song - an older one - is all about the Netherlands! It is a biting satire. KB in the role of a white southafrican praises the Netherlands because there Apartheid does smoothly work and the Dutch can live racism and apply discrimiations which the southafricans would be cruzified for ...
Nevertheless: Holland sounds good to me and Southafrica definitely would be nice.

HOW MUST ONE BEHAVE?
Billie Jo Spears - Blanket on The Ground
Walk in the moonlight and lay the blanket on the ground! I'll second that! Getting a cold or several colds or even pneumonia in winter can be soo lungbreakingly romatic.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR MOST PLEASANT OCCUPATION?
Ministry - Jesus built my Hotrod
"All of a sudden I found myself in love with the world, I saw there is but
one thing I could do was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long."
If you fail to understand that I unfortunately cannot explain.

WHAT DO YOU WISH YOUR NEIGHBOR(S)?
Wonderprick: Priscilla
"I don't like you / I don't need you / I don't fuck you anywayhayhay!"
My admittedly not quite literal interpretation of this songtext is that all my best wishes are for them.

WHAT CAN BE REGARDED AS YOUR MOST PROMINENT VIRTUE?
The Detergents - I can never eat home anymore
[Parody on: The Shangri-Las - I can never go home anymore]
I must have completely run out of virtue - or is it virtuality? -, if a inability to eat home is counted as a virtue. Are the classical old virtues no longer valid? I mean: I *can* tie my shoelaces, I *can* clean my own
behind, I *do* help pushing old people over the street... Doesn't that count anymore?

AND WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?
Janis Joplin - Little Girl Blue
Counting my fingers - what else, what else can I do? And steeling the Belgian poet Herman Brusselmans' words (just paraphrasing from memory) I can mention that counting my fingers I often reach 16 - and then I have just begun; what I mean is: what can I be senselessly drunk sometimes!

WILL YOU HAVE A HAPPY LIFE?
Eva Kurowski and the Tim Isfort Orchestra - Der erste Tag des Sommers
"You ask if I'm sad, but I answer that it's just the songs... I am happy hahaha,
today is the first day of summer"

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS REALLY THINK OF YOU?
Zaz: Ne me quitte pas
[Jacques Brel rules! And Zaz? Don't know how long France has waited for someone singer like her!]
Don't worry! I won't go. If someone has to go, it's better them than me.

DO PEOPLE SECRETLY LUST AFTER YOU?
Mireille Mathieu: Schau mich bitte nicht so an (La vie en rose)
"Du weisst es doch: ich kann nicht widerstehn" ("You know that I can't resist (you)!")
I'll take that for a yes.

HOW CAN I MAKE MYSELF HAPPY
Drs. P: Dodenrit
The song tells of a family travelling to Omsk, which is a beautiful town, but unfortunatelly a little bit too far away. So the father has to give the wolves chasing them some food: his four children, his wife and finally himself.
Sounds like a not so reasonable idea to me.

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE?
Tagtraum - Herr Rossi
Herr Rossi is looking for happyness, so what about me?

WILL YOU EVER HAVE CHILDREN?
Eläkeläiset - Humppamaratooni
That says it all, doesn't it.

WHAT SONG WOULD YOU STRIP TO?
Leo Kottke: Jack gets up
Am wondering if I'd get embarrased if my Jack would get up during striptease.

IF A MAN IN A VAN OFFERED YOU CANDY, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
David Bowie: Watch That Man
Perhaps even devwatch him.

WHAT DOES YOUR MOM THINK OF YOU?
Solveig Slettahjell: Baby's bed is too small
Right she is.

WHAT IS YOUR DEEP DARK SECRET?
Joni Mitchell: Roses Blue
I'll prophecy your death, I won't say when, I won't say when!
What a secret!

WHAT IS YOUR MORTAL ENEMY'S THEME SONG?
Ernst Busch: Der heimliche Aufmarsch
[About the Capitalism preparing to attack the Soviet Union]
That would make me a capitalist???

WHAT IS YOUR PERSONALITY LIKE?
Joni Mitchel: A strange boy
Don't live still with my family.

WHAT SONG WILL BE PLAYED AT YOUR WEDDING?
Killer Barbies: Crazy
OK, better than songs about former lovers - "I hi I hi I will always love you hoo hoo hoo!" - that are regularily played at weddings in Germany.

A big to you all, Joerg