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überklebt

#überklebt Bei der Landtagswahl in #Sachsen sind Wahlfälschungen zugunsten einer rechtsextremen Splitterpartei entdeckt worden.

„Wahlfälschung war bislang eher ein Thema für Jurastudenten. Anhand der einschlägigen Paragrafen lassen sich viele Delikte abfragen, denn es gibt natürlich große Berührungspunkte zu Urkundenfälschung, Falschbeurkundung undsoweiterundsofort. Gerichtsurteile gibt es eher wenige. Das ändert sich jetzt möglicherweise. Bei der Wahl in Sachsen sollen viele Stimmzettel zu Gunsten der Freien Sachsen…

[germanpostwarmodern]

Church St Petrus (1965-66) in Quakenbrück, Germany, by Werner Johannsen

[goodbysunball]

Best of 2022

Here it is: my yearly summation of the small labels working through rising costs and punishing manufacturing delays, the artists making music unafraid of chance, and the freaks supporting all of it in spite of the daily consequences of a ruling class increasingly detached from reality. Lots more that deserve accolades from more prestigious publications, and I'm sure they'll get 'em, but these are records that were inseparable from certain points of my year, including now. Yeah, they were all kinda my favorite at one point, and could be again tomorrow, but Kilynn Lunsford is #1 for a reason. Glad to be back at shows, however sparingly, experiencing all the awkward camaraderie and room-silencing/room-flattening performances that come with them. It all feels more necessary than ever. Up and up in a world of lava. Happy New Year, everyone.

LP

Kilynn Lunsford, Custodians of Human Succession (ever/never)

Joe Colley, Deformation of Tone (Total Black)

Kitchen's Floor, None of That (Petty Bunco)

Thomas Bush, Preludes (Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox)

Hissing, Hypervirulence Architecture (Profound Lore)

Tim Goss, Afterfly (Penultimate Press)

Carla dal Forno, Come Around (Kallista)

Rose Mercie, ¿Kieres Agua? (Celluloid Lunch/Jelodanti)

Incipientium, Belastning (Förlag För Fri Musik)

Siobhan, Body Double (Nostilevo)

7"/12"/Cassette/CD

The Body & OAA, Enemy of Love CS (Thrill Jockey)

Brain Tourniquet, s/t 7" (Iron Lung)

CIA Debutante, "The Punch" b/w "The Garden" 7" (Digital Regress)

Cube, Proof of Bells CD (H&S Ranch)

Darksmith, Imposter CD (Throne Heap)

Gaoled, Bestial Hardcore 7" flexi (Iron Lung)

Greymouth, Twilight Furl 7" (Kashual Plastik)

Horrendous 3D, s/t 7" (Black Water)

Incipientium, Inhuman CS (Kashual Plastik)

Primitive Man, Insurmountable 12" (Closed Casket Activities)

RRR Band, s/t CS (Petty Bunco)

Sprite, Epic Sundry CS (Tropical Cancer Rort)

Stomachache, Hiss Noise Whir CD (Lagniappe Exposure)

R.I.P. Young Slo-Be

Rap

42 Dugg & EST Gee, “Thump Shit”

BandGang Lonnie Bands, Scorpion Eyes (Anti Media/TF Entertainment)

Denzel Curry feat. Key Glock, “Walkin (Remix)”

Earl Sweatshirt, SICK! (Tan Cressida)

Lil Durk & Gucci Mane, “Rumors”

Maz G x GuttaFoe, “Win Some, Lose Some” - what is going on in Milwaukee

Starlito & Troy Money, Cheap Phones & Turkey Bags (Grind Hard)

Billy Woods, Aethiopes (Backwoodz Studioz)

Young Slo-Be, Southeast (KoldGreedy / Thizzler on the Roof)

Z Money, Back 2 the Blender (self-released) - thx @raygarraty

Pictured: Angels of Mons

Live shows

The Body at 529, Atlanta, GA (May 17)

Primitive Man, Mortiferum, Jarhead Fertilizer, Body Void & Elizabeth Color Wheel at The EARL, Atlanta, GA (May 20)

Brain Tourniquet, Excavate & Thirdface at DRKMTTR, Nashville, TN (July 16)

Reeking Aura at the Brickyard, Knoxville, TN (November 11)

Bitchin Bajas, Maspeth & Angels of Mons at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN (December 11)

Five songs that made my daughter dance every time they hit the deck

Bitchin Bajas, "Quakenbrück" from Bajascillators

Can, "Halleluhwah" from Tago Mago

Rose Mercie, "Cats and Dogs" from ¿Kieres Agua?

Träden, "När lingonen mognar (Lingonberries Forever)" from Träden

YL Hooi, "W/O Love" from Untitled

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

To the other side of the sky. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

Intro ++ Keith Jarrett – Spirits 6 ++ Aqueduct Ensemble – Borrowed Sax Test ++ Rich Ruth – Taken Back ++ Ezra Feinberg – Ovation ++ Kim Åge Furuhaug – Astogjol ++ Nico Georis – Hot Slots (excerpt) ++ Joys Union Group Cloud Paint ++ Bichin Bajas – Quakenbrück (Version) ++ Lena Platonos – Bloody Shadows From Afar ++ Joel Vandroogenbroeck – Fairy Tale ++ Mark Isham – Raffles In Rio ++ Michael Garrison – To The Other End Of The Sky ++ Harmonia & Brian Eno – Welcome ++ Ashra – Oasis ++ Gaussian Curve – Talk To The Church ++ Between – Devotion ++ Saskia – You Left Your Soul Behind ++ Absent Music – Le Rêve De CJ ++ The Durutti Column – Otis ++ Deux Filles – Drinking At A Stream ++ Brian Eno, Möbius, Roedelius – The Belldog ++ Radiohead – Daydreaming ++ Vincent Gallo – I Wrote This Song For The Girl Paris Hilton ++ Chet Baker – The Touch Of Your Lips ++ Sybylle Baier – Softly ++ Brian Eno – By This River ++ Roberto Musci – Claudia, Wilhelm R And Me ++ CAN – Oscura Primavera ++ Amon Düül II – Wie Der Wind Ende Einer Strasse Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support via our Patreon page. 

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Isaiah Hartenstein is everything Knicks need (and more): How Nikola Jokic's former backup became indispensable

In the small north German town of Quakenbrück, a 14-year-old Isaiah Hartenstein chafed at his coach’s instructions. He was one of the country’s best players in his age group, and, for a portion of each game, he was flat-out forbidden from scoring. “It was the third quarters,” Hartenstein said. “Like, ‘You’re only allowed to pass the ball now.'” Hartenstein grew up playing on the perimeter, so he…

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Quark & Klink

Quark & Klink - Neues von unseren Straßenschildexperten

Schon mancherlei gab es von unseren öffentlich-besoldeten Beschilderungsexperten zu lesen: Emsbühren, Barwinkel, Haus des Handwerk‘s, Reitstation, Jnnenstadt. Jetzt gibt es Quark & Klink, also etwas ganz Neues auf unseren Wegweisern… Immerhin haben die Experten bei dem Aufdruck Hedon-Klink die Vokale nicht durcheinander gebracht.

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[keuchend-flau]

ein Dichter aus Quakenbrück hat mit der Lyrik kein Glück: »An meinen Sonetten ist nichts mehr zu retten – ich versuch's mal mit Limerick«

[fabiansteinhauer]

1841/ 1900

1830 eröffnet die Bahn zwischen Liverpool und Manchester. Nur acht Jahre später eröffnet die DEE eine Stecke von Düsseldorf bis Erkrath, die 1841 bis Elberfeld verlängert wird.

Ururgroßvater Hermann Brandi wurde 1837 in Quakenbrück geboren. In seiner Chronik schreibt er, seine Generation habe die "merkwürdigsten Übergänge in der Kulturentwicklung erlebt". Sein Leben habe in dem engherzigen, ärmlichen, sentimentalen Biedermeier begonnen, in dem man nur aus der Ferne davon gehört hätte, dass es jetzt Dampfwagen und Dampfmaschinen geben würde. Sein Vater habe ihm 1847 während einer ersten Reise in so eine Ferne, beim Anblick des fremdartigen Bahnhofs (er sah die Eröffnung im Hamm) gesagt, das habe keine große Bedeutung, zu kostspielig sei das.

Quakenbrück, wo die Familie immer noch wohnte, hatte damals, ich zitiere: "nach zwei Richtungen besteinte Straßen", das war der Fortschritt. Man kam am Tag 50-60 Kilometer weit, wenn man denn Post- oder Mietskutschen nahm, die aber so teuer waren, dass nur wenige sich das leisten konnten. Wenn ein Ehepaar Hochzeitsreise machte, dann vielleicht an den Rhein, aber dann waren sie wohlhabend. Reisende Handswerkburschen lernten etwas von der Welt kennen, der Rest lernte die kleinen Details am Ort, etwa wo man welchen Kieselstein findet, wo welche Pilze wachsen und welcher Hund welchen Tick hat. Zuerst hörte man also von der Erfindung der Bahn beim Schuhmacher und beim Tischer, die hatten wirklich eine Eisenbahn gesehen, als sie noch unstetig unterwegs waren

Den ungeheuren Fortschritt, den sieht er schließlich darin, dass man zu seiner Lebzeit angefangen hatte, während der Operationen Betäubungsmittel zu verwenden. Hermann Brandis kurze Geschichte des Fortschritts eröffnet die Chronik, das ist eine Geschichte der Technik, Kulturgeschichte ist dort Technikgeschichte, nicht Kunst- oder Literaturgeschichte, und sie kulminiert wie mit einer Pointe in einer Geschichte der Anästhesie. Nicht schlecht! Gut! Der war kein Ingenieur, wie man erst glauben kann, wenn man seine Perspektive auf die Technik bemerkt. Der war wohl immer noch Römer, nicht nur, weil er Fortschritt mit Anästhesie assoziierte.

Immerhin: als man 1929 die römische Frage löste und das erste Mal seit Pippin einen neuen römischen Staat in Rom gründete, schließt man ihn an die Eisenbahn an, der Vatikan soll nicht nur Staat sein, er soll auch einen kleinen Bahnhof bekommen.

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Bitchin Bajas — Bajascillators (Drag City)

Bajascillators by Bitchin Bajas

Though gorgeous, Bajascillators isn’t the easiest record to write about. It plops you down in an edgeless, non-verbal now, which is fine as a listening experience, but extraordinarily hard to narrate. Intricate patterns of tonal percussion interact in complicated ways, with multiple motifs intersecting like complex machinery but never exactly progressing. “Amorpha” sounds like a waterfall, if the water was made entirely of chimes and bells, and it is best to let it wash over you. Sure, you could note how the bass is the disc’s most earthly element, nodding up though a gamelan-ish mesh like a slow beast, or you could tell yourself that the abstract, unbeat-like cymbal work that Mike Reed contributes is an essential part of it, and neither of these ideas would be wrong. But really, anything you could say would be beside the point. This music lives in a place that theory and criticism can’t really touch. It moves all the time, in precise, luminous increments, and yet stays as still as eternity or Kansas when you’re driving end to end.

This is Bitchin Bajas’ first proper, non-collaborative album in a while, though they dropped an illuminating batch of Sun Ra covers last year and have joined up, ad hoc, with Bonnie Prince Billy, Oliva Wyatt and Natural Information Society in the interim. It is being released on cassette, on LP and as a pair of 12” EPs, one track per side. There’s something appealing about this, though it does mean you’d have to get up to flip the record every 10 to 15 minutes. Perhaps listening that way would make it easier to distinguish these cuts, which blur a bit, or maybe just cohere into a whole, if you listen to the album straight through.

There are subtle differences. “Geomancy” adds a quiet thread of organ melody to its bright automation of cymbals and musical bells, turning sparer, softer and more contemplative than the opening cut. “World B. Free” shimmers with otherworldly synth washes, building tones that glitter and change hue like an aurora borealis. Rhythms are subtler, less the whole point and more a glitchy scratchy element of the sound. A flute and clarinet dart at each other, and the keyboards take on a bouncy, playful air. Later, cymbals rattle and stir, while the woodwinds move in faster, wilder arcs. “Quakenbrück” layers the same rhythmic complexity as “Amorpha,” though the tones come from keyboards, rather than percussion instruments.

Taken together, Bajascillators feels like an extended mindful meditation. It quiets the chatter that clutters your head and asks you to consider this note, that sound, this arc of repeated melody, without worrying too much about where it came from or where it’s going. It’s a nice way to spend three-quarters of an hour, even if you don’t have much to say about it afterwards.

Jennifer Kelly

[uncivilengineering]

What Kind of Two Years Has it Been

At the end of an experience, and therefore a blog, I usually write a reflection on the experience. The Master's programme ended six years ago and due to life and procrastination and other excuses, I'm finishing this blog only now. But this delay has its advantages, because I know how the story ends and I can tell you what happened to the characters. So maybe, for the first time, this is truly an epilogue.

The journey to this program started in 2012. I was living in Germany and working as a consultant. I always knew I wanted to work first before continuing with any kind of education, because toward the end of undergrad, I had classes with grad students and the ones who had work experience before going back to school seemed to bring more to the experience from applying what they learned from the real world. As I researched Master's programmes, I focused my search in Europe because I was still paying off the loans for my Bachelor's degree. I Googled another program when the MIND programme turned up in the results. After a process of applying, obtaining references, phone interviews and traveling to Munich from Stuttgart to take the GRE in Germany (really), even though this is Europe, the choice came down to Humboldt University in Berlin, with a scholarship from the DAAD, and the MIND programme, with a scholarship from the European Commission. (Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland takes a close third because I had a really, really pleasant scholarship interview with a very pleasant young man and sometimes I think about how my life might be different if I went there and studied Innovation Management instead.)

I'm sure there was a long decision process and I'm sure I spent a lot of time thinking about it, like most decisions. This all took place eight years ago and I cannot remember the salient details. But I can imagine that I felt like it was time to leave Germany, even though I love (LOVE) Berlin, and the appeal of having an adventure in two countries (I didn't yet know that Asia was on the table) was great. So I gave notice at the consulting firm, said goodbye to my friends in Stuttgart, (wrapped up my last performances as a roller skating Greek muse in the local military base's production of Xanadu - that's real) and moved to Sweden.

In the two years that ensued, I met the best people, took wild risks, had the best time, made my dreams come true and had the adventure I sought. I lived.

I lived in Sweden for a year and was inspired by their example of how to treat guests in your country. I had a job interview in a sauna in the winter and learned what gender equality in society might actually look like. After an application process, I had the opportunity to spend a semester in Thailand. In Thailand I learned how to get from the university to town (Bangkok) and back again. I hosted a cultural show that lasted for eight (or more?) hours. I felt closer to my mom than I had ever understood before. C pointed out that after the midterm exams, I have sat for exams on three continents. I celebrated my birthday at a German brewery in Bangkok. I saw Angkor Wat after the semester ended. I went to all the Disneylands in the world (at the time...back then, there were only 11 parks). I didn't stay long in Austria, but I was there long enough to experience a Buschenschank and run into visa problems. I also saw Carousel and Cabaret in German, and puzzled as to why it was an hour longer than Cabaret in English, which I saw soon after on Broadway. In Glendale I lived in a conference room turned into an ad hoc intern bullpen for four and a half months writing my thesis. I saw things I had been nearby my entire life but never dreamed of seeing in reality.

Blogs are cheesy and navel-gazey but I am glad I did it. I am glad that this and the Germany Part I blogs exist. Sometimes I will look at an old post because someone asked for a travel recommendation (for example), and I will discover something that I forgot. I didn't remember that I was contacted by Swedish public radio to talk about the 2012 United States election. I forgot I had this conversation at NASA JPL about living in Germany. So what's the moral of this paragraph? If you can't blog, at least journal. You think you will remember the exciting things that happen in your day to day life but the truth is, you won't. I am proof!

What happened to everyone? Some stayed in Europe. Some went home. Some went home in Europe. Some got married. Some had babies. Some moved to Amsterdam. Many stayed in Sweden. When I left C, she wanted to stay in Italy. She has since worked her way up to an awesome job at a major company and had a baby! A has moved and is engaged to be married! I was happy to attend C's wedding in Ankara in 2015. I was happy to attend Z's wedding in Czechia last year, and to see my friends again at both.

What happened to me? I accepted an internship in Florida where I spent about five years (and made a bunch of new friends and had a bunch of good times) before moving back to the country where I left when this all started. To be honest, I never expected to be back. Not in this country. In 2017, I was fortunate to attend my class reunion in Leiden; it was also the celebration of the closing of the program. They invited all alumni back to watch the last class graudate. I met the newest generations of the program and saw a lot of old friends. It was just like old times. I came to the first afternoon of the organized program. I thought we would observe the new kids doing their work. No. We kicked off with a case exercise and divided into groups to discuss and then present our results. Our groups consisted of current students, alumni, professors and mentors. In Europe, we are all equal. It was just like old times.

The rest of the program consisted of lectures, discussions and watching the final presentations of the graduating class. Before I left for this trip, I joked that my master programme was ending because it lost funding (truth) from the European Commission because of Brexit (also true but I didn't realize it until I got there and they confirmed that Brexit was one of the factors that cut funding to the programme). There was a party the final evening. In the way that we do. I remember telling all my friends that it would be a very long time before I will see them again. I couldn't foresee an immediate excuse to get to Europe and hang out with them. The day I returned to work in Florida from the trip, I received an email about joining a project that is based in Germany. If I chose to accept this mission, I would have to move to Germany for a period of time. What.

I learned later that, basically, someone found out that I know German. (I promise that I have other skills.) When I was in high school, if you told me I was going to move to Germany, I would have said that you're crazy. I was just this nerd who went to Space Camp and really liked The West Wing and Saturday Night Live. If you told me I was going to move to Germany twice, I would have said, "Then why did I spend all this time learning Spanish?" (among other questions) I know that's true, because I did ask myself that in the first two months of intensive language school in 2010. But the truth is, Germany made things happen for me. When I talk to young people who (for some reason) ask for my advice, in addition to telling them to "follow your dreams," I also tell them the story of how moving to Germany (the first time) changed my life. (And then I tell them why so they know I'm not exaggerating.)

I couldn't refuse. I'm back in Germany. I'm working on getting better at German.

I should have seen this coming. The fall I moved to Sweden in 2012, I came back to Germany to celebrate Thanksgiving. During my Swedish spring, the squad from Germany came to visit Sweden and I put in my tea and hairspray requests (from dm, of course). After my thesis defense in 2014, my first destination was Nuremberg to see E, then on to Quakenbrück to wait with C who was finishing her defense. I attended S's wedding in Leipzig in 2015. I went to Oktoberfest in Munich in 2016. The point is, I cannot stay away from Germany. This is evident and not a surprise.

So far, I have been fortunate that this opportunity has allowed me to meet up with so many friends. A and M are in Amsterdam and have introduced me to Y and T, who are also in the MIND network. S is back in Oslo from Thailand. A is in London. S has moved from Stuttgart to Berlin. A and P and B and K and E are in New York. I still cite the meal in Haarlem (note that's Haarlem in the Netherlands, not Harlem, but I can see why you might be confused because I just mentioned New York) as the best I've ever had and J told me that the restaurant has received a Michelin star since 2014 when we were there so now it's overpriced and overrated. So funny! At Z's wedding in Czechia last year I was happy to reconnect with A, B and M. Everyone else, I'm coming for you! (And I mean that in the creepy way!)

What's going to happen next? Let's find out! Thank you for reading and joining the adventure.

Good night, have a pleasant tomorrow and see you in the future!

Lauren