ANIMAL KINGDOM

ANIMAL KINGDOM

This is the cat at Generation Records in New York. Damn, I really wanted to buy that THE RUTS 7"!!!

RUHM UND EHRE DER ROTEN ARMEE!

RUHM UND EHRE DER ROTEN ARMEE!

Today, while in Berlin I paid tribute to the liberators of the city. Since there was a lot of snow it added to the somewhat "Russian" atmosphere. By the way, they should serve Vodka there. Too bad the maintenance of that memorial is now in the hands of the German government.


And while we are on the subject, I recently found this on Youtube:



The footage from Madison Square Garden in that video is from a gathering of the German American Bund, an interesting organisation that I was not aware of until recently. Find our more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund.

VINYL ABUSE - IN THE USA

VINYL ABUSE - IN THE USA

On a recent trip to New York I found several cases of vinyl abuse. I don't know what urges people to turn records into clocks to hang on the wall, ashtrays and fruit bowls.
These victims were found on the Brooklyn flea market. New York does not seem to have a big flea market culture but they sure like to mess around with those records.


Since I am a big fan of 7" vinyl the next example was even worse to see. This was in the museum store of the Brooklyn museum. This exhibit must have taken a long time to complete as you had to piece the singles together around the mirror. This leaves little space for the actual mirrow and makes it pretty useless. Like the mirror is just a cheap excuse to mess around with the dead records.