2009-12-28

support von exsila

(german posting, exsila doesn't exist in other countries, as i know)

manchmal versteh ich die ganze welt nicht mehr. eigentlich bin ich grosser fan von exsila.ch und allermeistens funktioniert das ganze bestens.

was exsila ist: exsila, tauschen statt kaufen, mit dvd/cd/büchern......
und das ist ne supersache, eigentlich.


leider wurde mir jetzt schon zum zweiten mal kein mail zugestellt, dass ich eine cd/dvd versenden soll.
die mahnung, dass ich doch endlich vorwärts machen soll, jedoch schon. ho ho ho...

kann ja passieren, dafür gibts ja das support-formular, das ich auch gewissenhaft ausgefüllt habe:

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Deine Anfrage:

hallöle miteinander. nun schon das zweite mal hab ich kein mail bekommen mit der versandaufforderung. witzigerweise nun die mahnung.
und nein, ist nicht im spamfiltergelandet.
möchte ja jeweils raschmöglichst versenden, aber so geht das leider schlecht.
any ideas?
merci viumou
helmut
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ist doch klar was ich meinte, oder etwa nicht? schreib ich so unverständliches zeuchs?
naja.... jedenfalls war ich doch mal positiv überrascht, dass bereits heute eine reaktion des supports (hüstel) erfolgte. ich rechnete mit nächster woche und hätte das auch verstanden.
nun denn, langer rede kurzer sinn, hier die antwort:

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Hallo mpffffhhhh

Besten Dank für deine Anfrage. Wir haben unser System geprüft und konnten leider den beschriebenen Fehler nicht finden. Vielleicht liegt das Problem bei deinem Browser. Bitte probiere es an einem anderen Computer nochmals. Falls es immer noch nicht klappt, melde dich bitte wieder bei uns.

Viel Spass beim Tauschen!

Dein Exsila-Team
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hallo? HALLO? was hat denn das mit meinem browser zu tun?
ich hab ja bereits geschrieben, dass nix im spamfilter ist (aber sehrwahrscheinlich würde das der nächste tipp sein).

nun denn, ich hab ne nette antwort getippselt, aber logischerweise geht das nicht, da muss mensch wieder über das support-formular auf exsila.ch gehen.

werd ich als seriöser mensch tun, aber mit dem link zu meinem posting, vielleicht wird das ja gelesen, mein blog wird ja von tausenden gelesen (und die unzähligen auf facebook sind da noch nicht dazugezählt.

genug gejammert.
veröffentlichen das posting, jetzt!

und leute, seid froh, wenn ihr nix vom support braucht. alles maschinelle scheint bestens zu funktionieren, das menschliche leider nicht.
btw.. es wird euch nicht überraschen, dass ich bereits im juni 2008 ähnliche erfahrungen mit dem exsila-support machte, aber hier geh ich nicht mehr näher darauf ein.


rantover....

2009-12-25

weihnachten heute - eine aktualisierte weihnachtsgeschichte

hab ich im jährlichen weihnachtsbrief von roger erhalten. vielen dank. diese geschichte möchte ich den unzähligen lesern hier nicht vorenthalten ;-)

Säugling in Stall gefunden – Polizei und Jugendamt ermitteln, Schreiner aus Nazareth und unmündige Mutter vorläufig festgenommen.

BETHLEHEM, JUDÄA – In den frühen Morgenstunden wurden die Behörden von einem besorgten Bürger alarmiert. Er hatte eine junge Familie entdeckt, die in einem Stall haust. Bei Ankunft fanden die Beamten des Sozialdienstes, die durch Polizeibeamte unterstützt wurden, einen Säugling, der von seiner erst 14-jährigen Mutter, einer gewissen Maria H. aus Nazareth, in Stoffstreifen gewickelt in eine Futterkrippe gelegt worden war.

Bei der Festnahme von Mutter und Kind versuchte ein Mann, der später als Joseph H., ebenfalls aus Nazareth identifiziert wurde, die Sozialarbeiter abzuhalten. Joseph, unterstützt von anwesenden Hirten, sowie drei unidentifizierten Ausländern, wollte die Mitnahme des Kindes unterbinden, wurde aber von der Polizei daran gehindert.

Festgenommen wurden auch die drei Ausländer, die sich als "weise Männer" eines östlichen Landes bezeichneten. Sowohl das Innenministerium als auch der Zoll sind auf der Suche nach Hinweisen über die Herkunft dieser drei Männer, die sich anscheinend illegal im Land aufhalten. Ein Sprecher der Polizei teilte mit, dass sie keinerlei Identifikation bei sich trugen, aber in Besitz von Gold, sowie von einigen möglicherweise verbotenen Substanzen waren. Sie widersetzten sich der Festnahme und behaupteten, Gott habe ihnen angetragen, sofort nach Hause zu gehen und jeden Kontakt mit offiziellen Stellen zu vermeiden. Die mitgeführten Chemikalien wurden zur weiteren Untersuchung in das Kriminallabor geschickt.

Der Aufenthaltsort des Säuglings wird bis auf weiteres nicht bekannt gegeben. Eine schnelle Klärung des ganzen Falls scheint sehr zweifelhaft. Auf Rückfragen teilte eine Mitarbeiterin des Sozialamts mit: "Der Vater ist mittleren Alters und die Mutter ist definitiv noch nicht volljährig. Wir prüfen gerade mit den Behörden in Nazareth, in welcher Beziehung die beiden zueinander stehen."

Maria ist im Kreiskrankenhaus in Bethlehem zur medizinischen und psychiatrischen Untersuchungen. Sie kann mit einer Anklage rechnen. Weil sie behauptet, sie wäre noch Jungfrau und der Säugling stamme von Gott, wird ihr geistiger Zustand näher unter die Lupe genommen.

In einer offiziellen Mitteilung des Leiters der Psychiatrie steht: "Mir steht nicht zu, den Leuten zu sagen, was sie glauben sollen, aber wenn dieser Glaube dazu führt, dass – wie in diesem Fall – ein Neugeborenes gefährdet wird, muss man diese Leute als gefährlich einstufen. Die Tatsache, dass Drogen, die vermutlich von den anwesenden Ausländern verteilt wurden, vor Ort waren, trägt nicht dazu bei, Vertrauen zu erwecken. Ich bin mir jedoch sicher, dass alle Beteiligten mit der nötigen Behandlung in ein paar Jahren wieder normale Mitglieder unserer Gesellschaft werden können."

Zu guter Letzt erreicht uns noch diese Info: Die anwesenden Hirten behaupteten übereinstimmend, dass ihnen ein großer Mann in einem weißen Nachthemd mit Flügeln (!) auf dem Rücken befohlen hätte, den Stall aufzusuchen und das Neugeborene zu seinem Geburtstag hoch leben zu lassen. Dazu meinte ein Sprecher der Drogenfahndung: "Das ist so ziemlich die dümmste Ausrede vollgekiffter Junkies, die ich je gehört habe."

2009-10-09

CELEBRATION: A RETARDATION

imho a very interesting read. why am i not wondering?


CELEBRATION: A RETARDATION: "

So, Mr. Brainwash gives us brilliant artwork which coincides with an equally stunning promotional campaign, so of course Warner Bros. botches the audio portion. I’m particularly sensitive to this right now given the quality, care and accuracy that went into the recently re-released Beatles catalog.


26 years in, is no one going to step up to preserve Madonna’s recorded legacy?


Lest the tone of this come across as entirely negative (it’s really more underwhelmed than anything), this is to serve as final confirmation of what you’re getting when you buy the new collection. All of the truly iconic songs are here, though many major hits have been omitted. And that’s okay considering –impressively– it would require double the amount of discs to include all of Madonna’s hits in one package.


Here is what is included on Celebration.


There are 16 previously released songs featured in their full-length, original album versions.



  • BURNING UP

  • HOLIDAY

  • MATERIAL GIRL

  • INTO THE GROOVE

  • LIVE TO TELL

  • PAPA DON’T PREACH

  • LA ISLA BONITA

  • WHO’S THAT GIRL

  • LIKE A PRAYER

  • JUSTIFY MY LOVE

  • TAKE A BOW

  • FROZEN

  • BEAUTIFUL STRANGER

  • MUSIC - MASTERING ERROR: multiple digital pops and clicks that are not part of the original recording can be heard throughout this song.

  • DIE ANOTHER DAY - MASTERING ERROR: Track fades up late due to the incorrectly placed track index on the American Life album. This is ridiculous. The unaffected album version appears on both the US Promo CD single and the Die Another Day film soundtrack, all Warner Bros. releases.

  • HOLLYWOOD - MASTERING ERROR: Track starts abruptly and end of “American Life”’s fade out is audible.


Of these, ten were released as singles in versions that differ from these LP mixes. I would have much preferred the inclusion of the difficult to obtain single mixes, but I’m in therapy and have mostly moved on. Mostly.


Fortunately, five tracks do appear in their official single versions.



  • SECRET (Edit)

  • RAY OF LIGHT (Edit)

  • SORRY (Single Edit)

  • 4 MINUTES (Edit)

  • MILES AWAY (Radio Edit)


…and one more is a rarity from a US promo CD:



  • HUNG UP ([Unblended] Album Version)


Next up, there are five remixes lifted directly from The Immaculate Collection.



  • BORDERLINE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)

  • LIKE A VIRGIN (1990) (Q Sound Mix)

  • CRAZY FOR YOU (1990) (Q Sound Mix)

  • OPEN YOUR HEART (1990) (Q Sound Mix)

  • VOGUE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)


And now we pause to ask ourselves why.


The remaining nine tracks are unique to the collection. The first two are new recordings.



  • CELEBRATION



  • REVOLVER


One appears to be a from-the-vault rarity, likely included by mistake.



  • LUCKY STAR – ALTERNATIVE Q SOUND MIX

  • Virtually identical to the version heard on The Immaculate Collection, though there is noticeably more reverb on the “ee-yeah“’s at the foot of each chorus. The music leading into the first verse is different (on TIC is was edited to match the original 7″ version, on here it is not.) The most obvious difference is right at the fade, instead of the chorus it edits to a set of adlibs heard on longer versions of the song, but not heard on the Q Sound version. Odd, but inoffensive as it seems to be a genuine unreleased variation.


As for the rest, quality control has reached an all time low:



  • EVERYBODY – FAKE EDIT

  • This uses the full length, original 12″ version as its starting point (as did the official 7″ single version), but is structured differently. While the overall idea for this edit wasn’t horrendous, whoever was placed in charge of actually executing the edits needs to be tortured. Slowly… painfully.



  • DRESS YOU UP – FUCKED UP INTRO

  • What the hell happened here? This isn’t a mix variation so much as a mastering error… the album version started late with severe tape pinch/phasing issues right at the top. Of the four beats on the intro, all but the fourth are missing.



  • EXPRESS YOURSELF – FAKE FUCKING FUCK.

  • The most offensive. In a failed attempt to kindofsortof recreate the video version, they have taken the complete intro straight off of the Local Mix, “zipper” included. The actual, official video version starts at the percussion and is specially mixed to have echo on the line “Do you believe in love…” which is dry on the Local Mix and therefore not present here. This new monstrosity then incorrectly cuts to the 7″ Remix/Edit version and then again where they have BUTCHERED the song right at the bridge. A bad edit jumps the track from the end of the chorus to the repeat of the bridge which kills the structure of the track. This version is unlistenable.


:hotmess:



  • CHERISH – FAKE EDIT

  • The original album version cut to the length of the super-short Immaculate Collection version. AMATEUR doesn’t begin to describe how bad these edits have been executed. Poor edits result in creating entirely new lyrics! How about this chestnut… “Can’t get away, I won’t let to” ?! They render all prior complaints about bad edits on Madonna’s releases void. Again, unlistenable. In the cases of “Express Yourself” and “Cherish,” why not just use the fucking Q Sound remixes?! They’re the exact same length as the fake edits and it’s not like there aren’t 6 others from that release present here.



  • EROTICA – FAKE Radio Edit

  • The edit points are around the same places as the OFFICIAL radio edit, but are poorly executed. The worst is around 3:30… they cut a beat late making for one of the sloppiest moments on this royalfuckupofacompilation. I don’t understand why this needed to be recreated as the official edit appears on countless singles and 2001’s GHV2 compilation. Oh. And the “surface noise” on the end of “Erotica” overlaps the beginning of “Justify My Love”.



  • DON’T TELL ME – FAKE Radio Edit

  • The least offensive/noticeable fake edit, but incorrect nonetheless. The true radio edit was a unique mix for the very last second that does not feature the “whimsical strings” tag. For Celebration, they have chopped off the end, but the first millisecond of this tag is audible.


Regarding the mastering: It sounds as though noise reduction was used to remove “tape hiss” which is unnecessary on most recordings post 1980. This process kills part of the high end of recordings. In addition, the entire album has a smear of bass over it. I really wanted to like it, but it sounds like a cheap “bass boost” EQ effect was applied to the songs, not proper remastering.


I had accepted the slightly shoddy sequencing, several major omissions and overall lack of consistency and attention to detail with the mixes chosen for this release. I love the look of the entire project, but I cannot understand the use of newly created, butchered versions of songs.


Posted in Celebration, Madonna Tagged: CELEBRATION: A RETARDATION
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2009-09-23

The Lotusflow3r.com deception

found on catetos blog and found it worth to spread here also:

The Lotusflow3r.com deception: "
(Disclaimer: I have never been member of any Prince official website).

Just a few years ago, Prince received an award for being one of the pioneer musicians in using the internet to promote and distribute their work, and I think it was rightly awarded. He's been using the net since the late 90s, and if we look at the meaning of 'pioneer', he was one of those, indeed. Now, the success of his subsequent websites has been diverse to say the least.

The initial efforts (www.thedawn.com and www.love4oneanother.com) were warmly received by fans, until the controversial story of love4oneanother.com (where Prince tried to unite all other fansites with his own one, in a move which proved to be more another hint of overcontrolling attitudes than anything else). But that was then, and I'm not going to digg into old dirt.

www.npgmusicclub.com proved to be more effective, and while it lasted, it provided a significant amount of unreleased Prince music, besides giving possibilities to fans to buy privileged tickets for live shows. I wouldn't go as far as to say that subscribers were completely happy about it, but at least it had interesting content. However, it ended in 2006 for reasons unexplained to date.

Then it was time for www.3121.com, where the big change is that music was severely lacking (with only a few exceptions). The regular releases of the NPGMC were missing, and it seemed an halfhearted effort to get online presence, after the disappearance of npgmc.com.

Then it was the time for www.lotusflow3r.com, launched early in 2009. The initial hype, and the apparently professional design of the site, convinced some fans (including yours truly) that this time, Prince was leading a serious effort to fully take profit of the many possibilities offered by internet in 2009. There were supposed to be loads of exclusive content, tickets for fans, and countless other items, with the headline of 'An entirely new galaxy awaits'. Amognth the icings on the cake, there was also an exclusive t-shirt for initial subscribers. All of that costed 'only' $77.

Now here we are, in late September 2009. Almost nothing from the many announced contents in Lotusflow3r.com have been provided: besides the three official albums of the Lotus flow3r release, only a handful of videos/songs, pretty much no news whatsoever regarding the activity in the world of Prince, and besides, some subscribers continue reporting that they have not received their exclusive t-shirt thus far. All of this, among the wide disappointment of Lotusflow3r.com subscribers, who are seeing very little matter to compensate for their hard-earned $ 77.

Worse of all, Prince has been using an external webpage, www.drfunkenberry.com, as a semi-official outlet to provide hints, news and sometimes even songs or snippets of songs to fans, as he did yesterday with a rehearsal take of Why you wanna treat me so bad. All of this content should, obviously, be first posted at the official site, Lotusflow3r.com, even if later it could be distributed to other fansites. But consistently, Prince continued ignoring his own official, much hyped website, to keep on feeding a blog devoted in great part to celebrities gossip.

It is hardly surprising that subscribers of the official site feel disappointed: they believed the initial claims from Prince's environment about the interest of the new site. However, they have only seen a brilliant framework, developped with the last technologies but virtually devoid of anything of interest, and the holy grail (aka the old, unrleased classic recordings of Prince which make the rounds in the net in unofficial fan compilations) keep being locked in the vault.

Now, what are the reasons for this illogic behaviour (ye, I know it is foolish to look for logic in princeland)? It is really difficult to understand: in this case, there was clearly a significant effort in the deployment of lotusflow3r.com and apparently, a good team of web developpers had been signed. So, why to put such a shining envelope, and then provide nothing to fulfill fans expectations??

Maybe it is due to the classic 'sudden-lack-of-interest' from Prince: he's been known to loss interest on any new project, as soon as he is done with it. Right at the time his public is waiting for promotional efforts to push it, he's already engaged in the next project. This is always a bad move in the world of music, but in the current situation, where even first level acts struggle to get media attention, it is even worse. Now, sending notes to every press/news agency to let them know about a 'new galaxy awaiting' website, then letting it abandoned for months and months, it is close to stupidity, in strictly marketing terms.

Maybe it is due to receiving an underwhelming response from fans. Although I have seen no figures on the number of subscribers, maybe Prince expected much more, and when he saw the lack of interest, decided to let it go without further explanations.

Maybe it is due to the lack of a professional management & promotional team around Prince. Since his much discussed departure from WB in the mid 90s, Prince has been pretty much playing his own game with only temporal contracts with labels or enterprises to book tours. Curiously enough, the official reason for leaving WB is that he was not allowed to release as much music as he wanted; and then one wonders why did he release so little, by comparison, in his independent years. Curiously enough also, the big successes in the last years were marked by the presence of AEG and all their heavy promotional weight, first in the Musicology tour, then in the 21 nights in London. But it is becoming obvious that, when Prince is left to his own devices, the marketing & promotion drop to miserable levels, including often flops as announcements of shows in arenas which are cancelled in dates very closed to the supposed actual performance (Dublin anybody?).

Or maybe it is simply due to a lack of focus in Prince, possibly related to personal matters that I won't discuss.

Regardless of the actual reasons, the Lotusflow3r deception is being loudly heard in the community of hardcore fans of Prince music. Prince, or someone close to him, should take notice and react. Hardcore fans are not for granted, and their money is even less for granted. When you keep on disappointing them again and again, maybe a significant amount could decide to definitely stop wasting money on much hyped, new Prince websites, whatever future ones are created.
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2009-07-21

montreux 2009

i will not write a such detailled report as 2 years ago. i decided that i don't have 200.-- sfr to spend for a artist, even if its prince. thats just out of my budget. but a wonder... i was invited my marco (thanks again and again, my friend!) for the 2nd show, so i only had to buy (thanks to elvis!!) a 2nd ticket for my beloved woman and hey, 200.-- sfr for 2 persons are ok.

marco and frank picked me up. they had to wait, because i just was taking a shower ;-)
after few espressi we drove away and met our friends of the orange-board at grauholz. driving with 5 cars to montreux, holla....
i think i was the only one who was only attending the 2nd show. all my international friends were on both concerts, so the meetup was short, but nice! i love you all.

i had plenty of time to enjoy the feeling of montreux, always special, also after 30 years of visiting this beautiful festival. i had fun and fun and fun :-)

later my wife arrived too and we enjoyed the place together for a while.

the concert...
as i never liked to be in the 1st row, i decided to be at the back. a lot of place and good sound and luckyli the screens were on, so it was fantastic. sound was great, as mostly in montreux (not always! i remember black crowes some years ago).
i was impressed by john blackwell who is da bomb!
renato is always wow
prince was amazing. he flirted with the cams (so we are waiting for the dvd!), maybe too much with the cams and not with the fans.
stratus, peach, spanish castle magic, all the critics... are my favorites.

i hoped that the show was during longer, but it was ok.
i also have still to say, 195.-- sfr are really too much for a concert. but that seems to be normal for such a superstar.

anyway, i loved it, and i think it was the last time that i was able to see him live. so thanks again to all friends, it was nice to meet you.

h.

2009-06-07

princevault.com


PrinceVault.com - The unofficial Prince encyclopedia

Since the loss of Housequake.com and it's hugely respected Prince Resource Guide, the internet has been lacking an accurate and comprehensive website with detailed information relating to the recording and live performance history of Prince.

Today we're proud to unveil to the fan community PrinceVault.com

Over the past few months the site has been under development by a team of dedicated and well respected Prince enthusiasts and experts. It's contributors (which include former members of Housequake.com and Uptown publications) have between them an almost unrivalled knowledge of all things paisley and have a dedication to bringing you factual information on Prince's recordings, live performances, and many other areas associated with his work and legacy.

Because of the enormity and detailed nature of the task, the site is in a constant state of being updated, but we've worked hard to make sure all the essential information is there for you now while we continue to add yet more in-depth information on a daily basis.

We hope you'll find the site an indispensable guide, and that whenever you need an answer to one of those tricky and obscure Prince related questions, you'll visit PrinceVault.com

Regards,
The PrinceVault Team

http://www.princevault.com/index.php/Main_Page

2009-05-07

gesundes haus für patienten

leute, ich bekomme vögel. die ignoranz gewisser verwaltungen scheint unendlich zu sein. vor einem monat wurde ich darüber informiert, dass nun die verwaltung doch noch einen brief geschickt haben soll.

der aschenbecher soll anscheinend weg, wow!

heute morgen bin ich wieder dort gewesen und ich sag euch was. der aschenbecher ist immer noch dort.

himmelherrgottnocheinmal...... langsam rege ich mich wirklich auf.

2009-03-05

ich bin zwar raucher, aber....

hier in burgdorf werde ich durch raucher, respektive deren entsorgungsbehälter, belästigt.

 
hier ist ein haus, das doch hauptsächlich von ärzten "bewohnt" wird. gut, denkt mensch doch, ärzte, die sollten doch auf gesundheit achten.
ha, grosser irrtum, offenbar ist es nicht möglich, dass hier die verwaltung oder der inhaber gewisse regeln schaffen, die sinnvoll oder logisch sind.

 
cool, wenn du vor dem eingang stehst, springt dir zuallererst ein riesenaschenbecher entgegen, der doch recht voll ist (foto entstand 8.40 morgens).  nach dem eintreten siehts so aus:

 
geit's no? hallo? in welchem film sind wir denn hier überhaupt. dass ich nicht gekotzt habe, ist als kleines wunder zu bezeichnen, kalter, abgestandener rauch im eingangsbereich mehrerer arztpraxen, ich liebe sowas.
wie im titel erwähnt, ich bin ein bekennender raucher, aber was zuviel ist, ist doch zuviel. für mich ist immer noch der nichtraucher derjenige, auf welchen rücksicht genommen werden sollte. und nicht umgekehrt, wie es hier zu sein scheint.
übrigens ist dieser riesenascher nicht seit langer zeit dort, offenbar war es "früher" möglich, dieses problem anders zu lösen. und mehr schreib ich jetzt nicht mehr, sonst rege ich mich nur noch mehr auf....

2009-02-20

schneemann ;-)

anfangs dieses jahr war an der aebikreuzung bei uns in burgdorf plötzlich ein wunderbarer schneemann im kreisel!

leider nicht lange, einige waren da wohl betupft ;-)

 
ich fands witzig!

pausenplatz und offenes fenster teil 2

ha! irgendwie ist das ja kaum möglich, aber als ich letzten sonntag wieder an diesem kindergarten vorbeikam, was sehen da meine augen?
genau, das fenster ist geschlossen! unglaublich, wahnsinn!
 
zwar geschlossen, aber das katzentöri ist komplett offen. irgendwie beruhigt mich das doch ;-)
muss ein unglaublicher zufall sein, ich nehme nicht an, dass dieses blog überhaupt gelesen wird.

2009-02-14

pausenplatz und offenes fenster


sonntag für sonntag besuche ich meine mutter und allermeistens laufe ich vom bahnhof süd der bahnlinie entlang richtung lengnau.

seit ewigkeiten sehe ich, wie das fenster am kindergarten ruffini offen ist. sommer wie winter. im sommer ist mir das ja egal, aber wie das energietechnisch für das haus im winter aussieht, das frage ich mich jede woche.
als privatperson lerne ich, dass kurzes kräftiges lüften ideal und schlau ist, und dass das fensteroffenlassen ganz böse ist. diesem kindergarten scheint das egal zu sein. da ist noch ein katzenfenster eingebaut, eventuell ist das ganze ja für die katze?

hallo? in welchem jahr befinden wir uns?

ach.. auf dem schild steht auch noch, dass hier der pausenplatz ist. oh mann.... wenn dort je ein kind gespielt hat.

das geht mir seit ewigen zeiten nicht aus dem kopf, irgendwann mal wusste ich, das muss ich bloggen.
was hiermit geschehen ist.
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2009-02-04

Thanks Aaaron!

Thanks Aaron!

The purpose of this is only to express the gratitude of we, who called ourselves "quakers" in homage of a great website called Housequake.com.

Since unfortunately we can not post at that website anymore, I thought it could be a good time to post in acknowledgement and gratitude to Aaron, the founder and owner of Housequake. He has made a labour of love during almost 12 years which led to a world class website, as someone called it; a place for interaction, friendship and intelligent discussion. A place where you could speak about your favourite music, and about any other thing, within the respect, and with a quality in the content rarely seen in forums. And also a place with loads of reference information regarding a certain musician and his music.

And all this work was done purely for the love of the music of a certain musician.

Housequake is already being greatly missed. May this humble blog serve to say a huge

THANK YOU AARON!

thanks to cateto, copy/pasted from catetos blog

i would co-sign 100%