#damn those Germans make good bier

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There may or may not have been 1/2 liters of a 7.5% Maibock tonight, because The Wife™️ was craving a burger* & fries. I did my best to limit it to 3, and a pint of their “May The Schwartz Be With You” Schwarzbier.

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Die Ärzte - Hell (Live Reaction)

LET’S FUCKING GO!

1. E.V.J.M.F

Lol this sounds like a rap song???

Step aside Capital Bra

2. Plan B

THIS SLAPS

They better have a real rooser on stage when they play this. Played by Rod of course cause the man can literally play the broom, I bet he can play the rooster too.

3. Achtung: Bielefeld

Farin 1995: I’m so bored and I hate it. Bela 2020: Being bored is great!

Bela in 2012: I can’t get out of bed cause I’m watching Netflix, help. Bela in 2020: This is fine.

That Aleppo line, damn Bela, back at it again with the social commentary

4. Warum spricht niemand über Gitarristen?

Farin is right, we definitely have to talk about guitarists more. And drummers. And bassists.

Farin really nailed this self-deprecating humor thing. Just like on “Männer haben kein Gehirn: “And that’s why there are mostly stories about Bela in this book, because stories about me are mostly ‘And then Farin went to sleep while Bela payed 35.000 DM at the bar for drinks.’

5. Morgens Pauken

The first single, we already knew that but it still slaps.

6. Das letzte Lied des Sommers

Sounds like it could become a single that’ll be played on the radio all the time

Yes, Farin, we know you love traveling it’s literally in your name

7. Clown aus dem Hospiz

Thees Uhlmann also has a song about this topic, called “Menschen ohne Angst wissen nicht wie man singt”

8. Ich, am Strand

What kind of genre is this? Reggae-Dancehall-Something?

Yes Farin, we know you love the beach and the sea, you literally sang about it two songs ago

allkajdljskd love how it starts all “I’m so happy” and then it’s suddenly “I’m homeless and dying”.

9. True Romance

The second single, also still slaps

Die Ärzte be like “What if we made a Disco song?”

People in ~20-30 years be like “Who the fuck is Alexa?”

10. Einmal ein Bier

Bela/Beer is my new OTP

Only Die Ärzte could make a song about a man turning into beer

11. Wer verliert, hat schon verloren

That guitar solo oh my God, I think I ascended

12. Polyester

Instant Love!!!!

ARE YOU KIDDING ME ROD I LOVE THE SMITHS

Petition for Rod to make a solo album in this style cause I WANT MORE

Petition for Rod to replace Morrissey. The world has evolved past the need for Morrissey.

That makes two of my idols telling me plastic pollution sucks

I’M GONNA WRAP MYSELF UP IN THIS SONG CAUSE IT’S SO GOOD!

13. Fexxo Cigol

THAT DIE ÄRZTE WG REFERENCE

This sounds like it could be on one of Bela’s solo albums, especially Bingo

“Wenn das Raumschiff kommt werde ich in der ersten Reihe stehen” What a mood

Bela getting off in the liner notes about how he wanted to use another word but it didn’t fit

ADRENOCHOME. Xavier Naidoo wants to know your location.

14. Liebe gegen Rechts

BANJO BANJO BANJO BANJO

Die Ärzte be like “What if made a country song about Nazis?”

DID FARIN JUST SAY TRANS RIGHTS?

Banjo, a song about nazis and trans rights all in one song. Other bands could never

Please don’t deadname your girlfriend Farin

THIS IS STUCK IN MY EAR NOW THAT FUCKING BANJO

15. Alle auf Brille

Fielmann should defo use the intro of this in their commercials

Die Ärzte be like: “What if we made an Oi-Song?”

BELA SINGING HURENSOHN! I’m here for Bela screaming Hurensohn live!

“Die Versicherung zahlte”. Stop telling lies Bela, German public healthcare will only pay if you have more than 6 dioptres or if you’re a kid. Source: I’m literally wearing glasses.

16. Thor

Chris Hemsworth stole my body. Just a normal Die Ärzte song.

Someone please send this to Chris Hemsworth

17. Leben vor dem Tod

Oh no here it comes, the song Bela said made him cry.

WHAT IF I CRIED RIGHT NOW?

WHO’S CUTTING ONIONS HERE?

FARIN YOU ABSOLUTE BASTARD

NO NOT STRINGS DON’T MAKE THIS EVEN SADDER

The lyrics could be straight from a Wolfsheim/Peter Heppner song

Please play this at my funeral, thanks

This goes into my “The Most Beautiful Songs In The World” Playlist

HELLO 911 I AM FEELING AN EMOTION

18. Woodburger

That’s their third song about gay sex, what even is this band?

Die Ärzte be like Be Gay, Do Crimes

The chorus is just them repeating the word gay???

Die Ärzte, probably the gayest straight band in the world

Gay sex against Nazis. They really said that, I can’t believe it, I’m...

Other thoughts:

I really like the transitions between the songs

Rod looks so adorable and happy on all of those pics in the booklet, he’s like “Yay, I’m with my friends and we’re making music”. 11/10, the goodest boy, must be protected at all costs.

The sound is great

(Not about the album in general) I love vinyl but the amount of dust that always gets on them is aarrggh. Luckily, my turntable is very forgiving.

This is the first 180g vinyl I own and you can tell because it’s a bit heavier than your average vinyl

Love how the genre tag in the MP3 download is just “die ärzte” and it’s not even wrong, like how else would you tag this album?

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Leipzig, Germany - September 9, 2019

The rain that was supposed to come in Berlin came when I left for Leipzig. I guess I can’t complain because if I was to chose when it would happen it would happen here.

So here I am laid up in my Airbnb room unsure if I can download movies I already own because downloading movies is illegal in Germany but I do not know what the rules are with stream in gif that is the same as downloading here. This is something I will ask my host tomorrow on top of why she needs my passport number.

Not going to complain though I need a day to just lay on th bed which I am doing now, I may as well finish my Berlin story and conclude it with the short of rainy day I have had in Leipzig.

So Sunday was my last technical day in Berlin and it began with me nearly getting run down by a cyclist. Technically it was my fault, see in Germany bike paths run either on the street or on the sidewalk via red pavement or something to signify its their lane. I had just crossed the street and got on th other side. I realized I was in the bike lane and decided to move off when a cyclist nearly barrels into me. Thankfully he wasn’t going to fast and only ran over my foot. No injuries not harm but it was a wake up call that day. Only museum I went to was the spy museum which wound up being a bit of a waste of my time. It could have been more worth it if I had my girlfriend with me because there were lots of games and photo opportunities but being a solo act I didn’t want to ask anyone to let me do my James Bond pose or hold my shit while I walked through lasers in a lazer trap game. It is a museum more for kids than for adults honestly.

After that Missy invite me to join her and her daughter going to th Reschtag or the German Parliament. I said. Yes but when I got ther I could not locate them. After two hours of walking around there I left only to find out they were there too and we missed each other.

I decided to end my time in Berlin by trying to have Berlin craft beer. My first stop was a place called the Lemke Brewery. Basically Berlin’s touristy craft brew pub but despite that the burger and the beers I had were excellent. There was hope yet it seemed. I decided to go to th next closest brewery I could find which was apparently The Clown Hostel Brewery but for some odd reason it was closed when I got there despite music going on behind closed doors. Given it was getting late and I didn’t want to stay out let and get truly shit faced I decided since I d isn’t get to hang out with my hosts instead I should buy some liquor for them and hang with them tonight.

By the time I got to my station I decided to take a walk to find a worth while liquor store when I discovered a brewpub that was around where I was staying all along, a nerd one at that. It made me feel pretty stupid honestly but that is common now. Berlin came up again for me offering more craft beer than I have had since I had left. The Castle’s beer wasn’t to scream home about but it was ok.

By the time I got home everyone was asleep so I followed suit.

I am torn with Berlin, I don’t know if I need to come back anytime soon even though this visit I accomplished little in seeing everything and experiencing what I wanted to out of it but th thing is I am a different person now than I was back when I was there last. Last time I was there I wanted to party, I wanted to get laid and find something worth while. Now I just wanted craft beer, statues to Jayne hat and to get the gist of the city. Both times I feel like I utterly failed but either way I feel like I am done with Berlin. It is a party city as well as a tourist trap, neither interest me at this point in my life. I have spent enough time in that place.

Look why don’t we just give Berlin CC for their transit and things to do because Berlin has both in spades. I do not know if there is another city I have encountered where the options are so much it can be dizzying at times. Transit is such in Berlin to where I am shocked that people outside of taxis still drive in Berlin, I mean why even bother? While the transit system requires some time to figure out but once you can wrap your head around it you will soon realize there are few places one cannot access through transit either by bus, tram, bike or train here. As for things to do I feel like one week would be enough tog eat through all the museums, all the partying one could have and all the landmarks this city has, this city just has so much for so many different kinds of people that again it is hard not give them a full grade.

Food is a iffy one because they have their own dishy like thing in the aberliner which is basically just curried sausage on stuff, almost no better than poutine. With that said I found just about every style of food out there here. I didn’t try all of them or most of them but I know there are there. That is enough for 2/3 C on the Corey scale.

The vibe was for the most part good, people here are used to tourists so they dealt with me and were fine with me but I didn’t get the friendliness here like I did last time. I think people are just tired of so many tourists at this point so I can’t blame them but either 2/3 C would be fair too. This city welcomes tourists as its its main bread w inner I would imagine but I feel as though the city would prefer something else at times.

Lastly is beer, you know I have tried to the Berliner Wiesse and the Pilsner that this city holds as I am and neither I could care for. That being said the craft beer scene is growing in this city and stronger than anywhere I have been yet. Some places make good stuff, others not so much but Germany makes the best beer in the world pound for pound so I think they will figure out sometime soon. The quality is there I just don’t think the got the other stuff yet. So I will this 2/3 as well to make easier for me to add up and because this city has a strong beer culture that matches up with hthe options if gives.

That leaves Berlin with CCCC1/3 on the Corey Scale which seems more than fair for Berlin.

Which leads me to to today, I arrived in Leipzig to rain, lots of it. Think the one who runs this Airbnb wasn’t going to be here to greet me I took a chance and checked in early using th kid’s she hid away in a lock box on the premesis. It is nice to have my own private room, private bed and not have to worry about curtousy though I still need to show it since I am staying with the host but the different between her and the others is I am paying for my room.

After putting my shit away I decided to put on my rain gear for the first time ever. I bought this rain gear more than 10 years ago but never ore it till now. I got many strange looks but I didn’t care, I was dry while most were soaked. Well I was dry outside of my side pouch which I hope drys for tomorrow.

Leipzig is not as big as Berlin obviously, smaller than Düsseldorf as well but not by much. It is probably the most modern looking of places I have been to. I mean it still has its historical looking buildings but for the most part it feels very modern, clean and almost posh in a way like it is ready for tourists if they come but they are not quite ready yet. It is shame the rain is ruining my chances to see what his city can do but better here than in the last places. It won’t ruin my time here though because I came here knowing full well what I wanted to do before I got here. Why Leipzig?

It’s easy beer was the reason, as if you were not surprised. When I returned from Europe 5 years ago I wanted to try more of the German beer I had a taste of but I did not know where to start. The craft beer industry didn’t super nova just yet but it was growing. What I did find out was a place called Driftwood Brewery did make alt-bier and they were the ones doing so so I had to try it. Looking back and drinking alt-bier again Driftwood did get it fairly accurate but they also had another kind of German beer I didn’t try, it was called Gose. Gose is basically a salt wheat beer though I feel like it resembles sour beers more than it resembles wheat beers but I will leave you to decide that. I had the Gose and I enjoyed it so when I found out that it came from Leipzig I immediately put the city on my list of places I wanted to go so I would have a Gose from its source because if Vancouver can make it good it must be awesome in its home country.

When I locked down Leipzig as a place I would be seeing I looked for things to do to find out the city was a hotbed for classical music. While you won’t find me playing classical music much on my iPad or iPhone I have always had a interest in classical music. I have often played it when I require concentration I or relaxation, usually when doing homework or when I am doing my hockey draft. I am not going to act like I know anything about classical music I just know I like Beethoven, Chopin and Bach which is like saying I like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie, you are not like to find many who will say they hate those composers.

I did try to make the best of the day, I did accomplish finding one record store yet like most record stores I have found only really sell used records, I got the tourist nick knacks and I found a cheap thing to eat in two bags of bread rolls for less than two bucks. I know I should find something more nutritious than that but when the dollar for your country sucks and your winding down on the budget you have for your trip you need to cut costs some where and 0.75 euro for a bag of bread rolls to me suits me find for food so I will get two of them. I will try and treat myself more but even eating wraps and having decent food is so damn costly here I don’t know how people get by here I mean 1.30 euro for a black pen, a black fucking pen! That is around two bucks here and back home I am sure I can get a whole set for 5-10 if I tried.

So here I am finishing off this blog drinking Hefeweizen beers I couldn’t have in Canada and loving it. I wish I could get this particular hefe brand in Canada but the closest I could maybe get it is in the USA. It’s too late to do anything here as stuff is closed, I am too tired and everything I got is soaked plus I need to sleep. The rest of the night I think is going to be spent plotting how I can Jayne hat everything in the next two days and get taste of true German Gose beer. But mainly I just want to sleep in, just want to actually relax and rest for once as I have been walking none stop outside of sleep for the past week and half. It’s time for relaxation and I am hoping this quiet ton of Leipzig can give it to me.

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