Dienstag, 14. März 2006
Sound And Electricity
So here's some insight into my weekend. First: It started late, I left work at 8.30pm. Yeah, somehow I am proud, although it's not really about the overtime but more about my worries that I feel lazy sometimes starting my day reading German newspapers for half an hours. So after all it might be more accurat to relate to it as being relived. Well, it had a very lazy Friday afterwards, not really worth mentioning. Stayed in our Newtown mansion, all by myself as my housemates took the day off and went camping to Cattai again (I wish I had written about that adventure, so that I could link it here). I made some progess in my new book, Kundera's Ignorance. Tough stuff.
The stupidest thing after such a Friday night could be waking up hung over on Saturday. What the heck did I do wrong? Not enough party maybe? It took me some time to get started, did some sports, tried some web things (don't wanna mention it) and got stuck to a computer game, something that didn't happen to me in a long time. But somehow it was a tribute to one of my all time favourite games, Master of Orion II. The new one is very similar which one could find pretty dogdy, but I think it's great having a very cool version of that masterpiece, one that comes with 3D graphics and heaps of features I'll probably never discover completely. I am talking about Glactic Civilizations 2. It's great fun, at least for the first couple of hours, I didn't find time again so far. And it's also worthwhile checking out the game's website, for the developers have some intersting opinions on copy protection, multiplayer modes and their business in general.
Later I managed to kick my lazy ass and met up with Thomas as NICTA, not to work, but to store the bikes and catch a train to Parramatte, where the good old Damian deserved some company while is wife was looking after some young scouts. In return he served us some nice mexican flavoured dinner. Afterwards we had some drinks and played games, rounding it all up with Carcassone. Damian told us, that it was great having Germans to do that. He just needs to propose one of the (back home) well known board games and everybody just says, that he knows it already. If not the working thing, maybe that made ma proud. We finished some time after midnight and found out that the last train was about to leave in 20mins. So we had to make a quick decision, we agreed on trying to catch it, which would imply running some of the way to the station. This was one of these weird situation that would be great, if it would work out, but that would devastate you completely if you put in some effort and miss it in the end. So we tried to be on the safe side and had a good endurance test which got the attention of some people driving by. At least they were kind enough to cheer a bit. The train was supposed to leave at 12.43pm and we arrived five minutes earlier. Maybe we could have walked at some stage, but then there still is this gamble thing. Could have been bad, as the train left to mins too early! Back at Redfern there were the bikes waiting to complete the night triathlon (run, train ride, bike ride). I fell into bed around 2:30am.
Sunday was pretty relaxed again. Got up early, but spent most of my time reading newpapers, my book and finalising web reading list. Feel very up to date now. The plan was to have dinner with Thomas an Mani and his new place in Redfern. According to him it's pretty good and so was my impression. No problems with that suburb there. There are even rumors Sydney Lord Mayor would be living in that street as well. He created a very nice veggie quiche and I had another nice dinner. I skipped the wine for I was still suffering from Sunday's heat wave, my run in the afternoon had cost me a lot of energy. Can't imagine it's deep winter in Germany! Afterwards we went to a very cool place, the Performance Space. It was Mani's idea, she knew that place from "not recently" and had checked out their events for something intersting. The show that night was called Sound + Electricity, and after the somewhat boring support act we enjoyed a very intersting concert by a German (I guess) called Carsten Nicolai: "a brew of ultra-minimalist techno, fractured beats, buzzes, clicks, chimes and blips which sound like some kind of hypnotic meditation on the limits of technology as well as a challenge to the conventions of music and art (...)". All this was underlined by a projection of lines and squares cheaply mirrored on two screens. Might have been a winamp plugin. Nonetheless I got entertained by this for nearly one and a half hours, relaxing and spacing out, finding the ease to think about things.
Later I managed to kick my lazy ass and met up with Thomas as NICTA, not to work, but to store the bikes and catch a train to Parramatte, where the good old Damian deserved some company while is wife was looking after some young scouts. In return he served us some nice mexican flavoured dinner. Afterwards we had some drinks and played games, rounding it all up with Carcassone. Damian told us, that it was great having Germans to do that. He just needs to propose one of the (back home) well known board games and everybody just says, that he knows it already. If not the working thing, maybe that made ma proud. We finished some time after midnight and found out that the last train was about to leave in 20mins. So we had to make a quick decision, we agreed on trying to catch it, which would imply running some of the way to the station. This was one of these weird situation that would be great, if it would work out, but that would devastate you completely if you put in some effort and miss it in the end. So we tried to be on the safe side and had a good endurance test which got the attention of some people driving by. At least they were kind enough to cheer a bit. The train was supposed to leave at 12.43pm and we arrived five minutes earlier. Maybe we could have walked at some stage, but then there still is this gamble thing. Could have been bad, as the train left to mins too early! Back at Redfern there were the bikes waiting to complete the night triathlon (run, train ride, bike ride). I fell into bed around 2:30am.
Sunday was pretty relaxed again. Got up early, but spent most of my time reading newpapers, my book and finalising web reading list. Feel very up to date now. The plan was to have dinner with Thomas an Mani and his new place in Redfern. According to him it's pretty good and so was my impression. No problems with that suburb there. There are even rumors Sydney Lord Mayor would be living in that street as well. He created a very nice veggie quiche and I had another nice dinner. I skipped the wine for I was still suffering from Sunday's heat wave, my run in the afternoon had cost me a lot of energy. Can't imagine it's deep winter in Germany! Afterwards we went to a very cool place, the Performance Space. It was Mani's idea, she knew that place from "not recently" and had checked out their events for something intersting. The show that night was called Sound + Electricity, and after the somewhat boring support act we enjoyed a very intersting concert by a German (I guess) called Carsten Nicolai: "a brew of ultra-minimalist techno, fractured beats, buzzes, clicks, chimes and blips which sound like some kind of hypnotic meditation on the limits of technology as well as a challenge to the conventions of music and art (...)". All this was underlined by a projection of lines and squares cheaply mirrored on two screens. Might have been a winamp plugin. Nonetheless I got entertained by this for nearly one and a half hours, relaxing and spacing out, finding the ease to think about things.
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