Nothing not said so far; as usual I'm still alive and of course hope you all be doing fine!

Groetjes, Joerg

Hi everyone!

Just my 5 mins online:

Hope you all are all right, doing fine (or better) and have a wonderful [whatever this season should be called your place or here].

I'm healthy, no reason to worry, but too busy to not sorrowmindedly neglect you here at dA. Hope that will change towards end of the year... .

greets & love, Joerg
PS: yes, some new photos and stuff, but the only ones I edited are those of stuff I want to sell ... the huge rest goes into the archives.

"Summertime - an' the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
and I ride through the rain..."

Best interpretation to be listened to by Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding company performed live at Winterland in '69 (or '68, can't remember).

No that is no complain, though I'll be soaking wet in about 10 minutes.
Do you know that feeling of warm summer rain on your skin? Well exactly that. Of course I could wait until it stops raining (the weathermen tell me) for another 8 to 10 days , but I think, I'll get my bicycle home now.

The songs endlessly repeating in my ears:

1) Nighttime at home: David Bowie - My Death
[I should get some Jaques Brel albums and learn more about his work]

2) On the bicycle: Enrico Caruso - Ah! Tout est bien fin!… O Souverain, o Judge, o Pere! (Massenet: Le Cid )

3) In the tub: Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez: Ebben? ... Ne andrò lontana (Catalani: La Wally)

4) On sundays and when feeling sundayish: The Cramps - Human Fly (Bzzzzzz) and The Cramps - I'm the Garbageman

Favorite phrase:

"You chit of a woman!"

I dare not to apply it - for I do not want to argue about spelling and pronunciation with my nose smashed. I found it in Tom Sharpe's "The Throwback" and have ever since been fascinated by this choice of words.

Sorry for my slackness and behindlagness when it comes to dA and making or answering comments, favs etc. So once again: Thank you all! You are welcome, and you more than deserve it should I fav one of your deviations...

A big to you all, Joerg
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_{My galleries:
scraps |||| graveyards and parks |||| industrial |||| nature |||| wallpapers}

Stolen from

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?
"I want your love" - Transvison Vamp
Always true, but on some days I want your money, stars, books etc., too.

WILL YOU GET FAR IN LIFE?
"Three little fishes" - Nat Gonella and his Georgians
Not good, reads that I will get far, way out in the ocean, but only to meet a shark. So, dear fate,let that shark be good looking.

HOW DO YOUR FRIENDS SEE YOU?
"Faraway Voice" - Katie Melua
Phone is always an option, isn't it!

WILL YOU GET MARRIED?
"Recitar! ...Vesti la Giubba" - Enrico Caruso
Wedding dress by Gucci? Spelling problems! Brand pirates?

WHAT IS YOUR BEST FRIEND'S THEME SONG?
"Corcovado" - Astrud and Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz
Gosh! And me always thought he was in mind blankening metal.

WHAT IS THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE?
"London Rain" - Heather Nova
I like the thing about being in bed all day.

WHAT WAS HIGH SCHOOL LIKE?
"Kiss their sons" - Transvision Vamp
Does sound more like a catholic priest seminar in Austria! Anyway: if it was like that, I'm delighted I don't remember details.

HOW CAN YOU GET AHEAD IN LIFE?
"Ich schoss den Teddy" - Herbert Knebel und sein Affentheater
(a German Comedians parody on "I shot the sheriff", here a senior citizen wins a teddy at a parish fair)
So I can aim and do my best, even if I shot the wrong person.

WHAT IS THE BEST THING ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS?
"Walk this world" - Heather Nova
I'm not precisely prejudiced against ghosts, zombies, intergalactical superintelligencies, but it is easier to cope with friends on this planet.

WHAT IS IN STORE FOR THIS WEEKEND?
"Halfway up the Hindu Kush" - Katie Melua
Hey! This is utmost useful! Those fuckheads of the German Bundeswehr have not informed me so far that I have to fight for Germany's freedom in Afghanistan. I won't do any cooking this time! I want an automatic gun and my own a tank or even better my own opium field and lots of days off!

TO DESCRIBE YOUR GRANDPARENTS?
"Sex im Alter" - Herbert Knebel
("Sex in old age")
Rabbits, I tell you! Never tired, always horny! (Poor old Granny "Marie Engel", she did not deserve this comment, would die if she hadn't already.)
[How does this work? I always suspected the shuffle mode to have a not very well hidden intelligence, but I just can't make out the rules ...]

HOW IS YOUR LIFE GOING?
"Auferstanden aus Ruinen" (Hymn of former GDR)
("Revived from ruins and facing the future ...")
The most optimistic answer so far. The worst lies behind me, now just some decades of tyranny and I'll be free and get my "greeting money" and have a common past with personalities like Angela Merkel.

WHAT SONG WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
"Misslungene Kinder"
("Miscarried Children" most cruel satire about how to abase children with unwanted featured or disabilities etc.)
Now? Serves me right! If I hear such wonderful non pc garbage they can also play it at my funeral.

HOW DOES THE WORLD SEE YOU?
Aria from La Wally (Catalani) - Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez (Soprano)
Rather pathetic, but has his qualities.

WILL YOU HAVE A HAPPY LIFE?
"Helden (German Version)" - David Bowie
Yes, hun! We can be heroes, but just for day? Shan't we extend it at least to the night?

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS REALLY THINK OF YOU?
"Spider's Web" - Katie Melua
And if they're entrapped in my net, I'll fumigate them to have food in the winter.

DO PEOPLE SECRETLY LUST AFTER YOU?
"Breakaway" - The Creamers
Their passion is to run away from me, but they can't (because of my Spiderman's Web? I slip deeper and deeper into strange practices).

HOW CAN I MAKE MYSELF HAPPY
"Ball and Chain" - Janis Joplin
Again a bonding motive. Now I'll tie myself to my victims and then complain about it.

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE?
"I cover the waterfront" - John Lee Hooker with Van Morrison
Whatfor? Prevent the US to land at the banks of the 2-10m wide "river" Niers? Should erase that from the player. Besides I'll be in Afghanistan, forgot? Afair there is no water front there.

WILL YOU EVER HAVE CHILDREN?
"The Sweetest Taboo" - Sade
Mom dead, no sisters, no pet or farm animals - so what taboos? Egal! Sweet's not bad and I'll face my taboo if I meet her!

WHAT SONG WOULD YOU STRIP TO?
"One" - Johnny Cash
I am very strange to myself! I rather try that without audience!

IF A MAN IN A VAN OFFERED YOU CANDY, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
"You are the sunshine of my life" - Chokebore
Haha, you give me Candy, but "I'm sleeping with somebody else".

WHAT DOES YOUR MOM THINK OF YOU?
"The Belle of Snodland Town" - Judge Dread
"What a lovely peace of - Assssk her where she came from ..."?
See, already my Grandma has talked to her daughter in law in heaven and now I get my pay for the "rabbits" above.

WHAT IS YOUR DEEP DARK SECRET?
"Sado sluts on smack" - Sado Sluts on Smack
Someone will pay if I get arrested because of this journal thingy! Great song though!

WHAT IS YOUR MORTAL ENEMY'S THEME SONG?
"Maria Se Llama" - El Vez
Good taste of music that idiot has. Perhaps I should one day meet him.

WHAT IS YOUR PERSONALITY LIKE?
"Konrad Adenauer und die UFOs" - Fleischlego
Now strange turns into weird. I like that! "Konrad Adenauer first believes to meet holy Sebastian, ... unknown genitals fly like foreign galaxies around his brain ..."

WHAT SONG WILL BE PLAYED AT YOUR WEDDING?
"Zeg maar niets meer" - Andre Hazes
(Dutch "You don't own me" cover, translates "Now shut up")
I just hope that this will be played for her and not for me! >;->

What a lovely waste of time that has been. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I've.

Have a nice day, Joerg
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_{My galleries:
scraps 1-24 |||| scraps 25-48 |||| scraps 49-72
graveyards and parks |||| industrial |||| nature |||| wallpapers}

Looking forward to them all - and some more that I have saved for "later".

Update one day later:
- have seen all of some of my friends galleries , some galleries in parts and some are still completely saved for later (talking about the stuff of the last 3-4 weeks)
- still tons of journals to read
- still tons of thanks to express and
- still comments and notes to answer
Hopefully next week, though I might be have some time tomorrow, too.

Have a nice day, Joerg
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_{My galleries:
scraps 1-24 |||| scraps 25-48 |||| scraps 49-71
graveyards and parks |||| industrial |||| nature |||| wallpapers}