DANIEL BENJAMIN Young, talented and unsuccessful… The story of an artist who grew up in the wrong decade (maybe) and in the wrong country (definitely). After playing 450 concerts in 15 countries, recording over 150 songs and selling thousands of e.p.s and records without help from managers or record companies there´s one question jumping through Daniel Benjamin´s career: what is the measure of success? From finally having an own drumset in the 80´s, the first punk rock band with 14, own songs, promoting his own live shows, self – releasing recordings made at home until being able to make a living from his own creativity, Daniel Benjamin has scored a lot of goals that most modern „pop stars“ haven´t achieved yet. But still there are no cover stories in magazines or video clips on MTV, no sold out arena gigs and gold records. Everyone who listened carefully could imagine Daniel Benjamin there and he himself would be glad to be the next big thing. His melodies could be little anchors in the heads of millions, his sound can catch the masses and his aura could make him a new icon. But who is gonna bring him there? Where A & R you? Does Daniel Benjamin need Freiheit from D.I.Y.heit?

via the crappy & ugly myspace

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“Outstanding. I’ve spent a month picking up good vibrations. The international fan-tribes have been colourful and genial, the vast majority of Germans have been extremely enthusiastic, welcoming and helpful, and, apart from when England played Portugual, I’ve seen none of the drunken aggression of the kind that blights English town centres at night, let alone when England are playing. The Fan Fests were very successful, the cities feel safe. Oh, and the weather’s been great. Sunny and hot for almost the entire month.” [1]

In forefront of the worldcup nobody could imagine how germans would live out their corrupted national pride. There had been some bad racists attacks some weeks before the event. Hense a website was put up in five languages on how to prevent such an attack. But instead of racist attacks the country was overflowed by a mature patriotism together with - from a german poin of view - overwhelming friendlyness leaving no gap for racist attacks.

“I’ve marvelled at how you do it: patriotic but not jingoistic, boisterous but not threatening, fervent but not aggressive. You hosted a party and made everybody welcome, shedding your self-consciousness as the days wore on.”[2]

So all I can say is thank you for beeing our guests and welcome again.

I always thought that there must be such tools on the web, a map of all places you ever visited, but I never took the time to search. Found this just by chance. Create a worldmap with all countries that you’ve visited.

First, here, read tha dim rulz.

1. I am a TCK and am not quite sure what to say where my home is. I feel weird - and I love weird, crazy, crackbrained people. I am scared by the ordinary, sometimes of myself. Is a tagg-response ordinary? Hm, scary.

2. ok, first, I love this place. (The link is a Google Placemark. You need GoogleEarth and a swift web-access to open it). The place needs tusker and nyama choma.

this photo covers approx. three facts. please guess!

3. EEh. Me, I’m fongot this one.

4. I love music from “The Prayer Chain“, a band that split up I guess 1995. I am able to give very wired explanations (the whole night through) why their music gets better with every hearing. 58 bought the CD sometime 1994 by mailorder from Germany. We both didn’t like their music at first. Finally he convinced me to give him an other (crappy) CD I had bought in excange to “Shawl”. The only album that I miss today is their first, called “the neverland sessions”. I just can’t afford it. Only once in a decade some moron sells it on ebay - and all the other idiots pay more than 100 USD to get it *argh*.

Btw. have you ever wondered about 58’s domain fiftyeight.net?

5. I love piki-pikis and old cars and store a buch of them in my backyard to be repaired. The IT-stuff I do gets in conflict with that love. (I’m actually waiting for JKE to come and repair them for me ;-))

6. I love to travel, but either I have time and no money, or I have a job & money but no more time. In both cases go back to 1.

Yeah, and over all this weird stuff I feel comforted and at rest beeing a child in the hands of a loving god concearned about me. Well, I just had to add this ;-).
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JKE, you are taggedback, 58 you are doubletagged. I want to tacker fred & pilgrim. I pass a “Stöckchen” to Tom and Alex. I wonder why the mzungu on the other side hash not been tagged (maybe because he is a hard-blogging-businessman?) and I want to remind Astrid that she has been tagged by the taggedback. And what are the rules?

Subject: looking for someoe?

Hire,
i am here sitting in the internet caffe. Found your email and dec!ided to write. I miaght be coming to your place in 14 days, !
so I decided to ema!il you. May be we c!an meet? I am 25 y!.o.
girl. I have a picture if you want. No need to reply herea as this is not my email. Write me at nxjoa@mailforfreedom.com

Sounds quite friendly, well some spelling is wrong, but anyway. Who wouldn’t want so meet a cute 25yr old girl?

Reply, and immediatly increase the worth of your emailadress. Prove that you read your mail, provide them with your actual adress (since the email you received might have come to an other account that you forwarded to your primary adress), supply them with your footer including your real name and maybe even more adress details. What an enhancement, you will receive personalized SPAM in future!

[…] The thrilling atmosphere of exciting matches, dream passes and bad passes, tears of joy and tears of sorrow, cultural highlights outside the stadiums and events around the Cup matches. The world will be our guest here in Germany – a huge challenge for Christians from different churches and fellowships. To address this new challenge, a network of co-workers from churches and fellowships and Christian organisations, as well as from national and international Christian sports ministries has been created.

I case you are arround, you are very welcome to the citychapel in Stuttgart. Our Location is a “kickoff:Base”. All matches are projected on our large screen and we have lots of action, bands, snacks and beverages arround for you. We are thrilled to have people from all over the globe here in germany, karibu sana!

(In case I forgot some Trademark-signs for FIFA - here they are: ^{TM TM TM TM TM})

His new album Youth is out since March and I just had to buy it. He also performed some Songs together with POD on their new album Testify.

• Have a look at the new video “King without a Crown“.
• Download some Songs of recent Matisyahu Shows

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In that place between wakefulness and dreams, I found myself in the room. There were no distinguishing features save for the one wall covered with small index-card files. They were like the ones in libraries that list titles by author or subject in alphabetical order. But these files, which stretched from floor to ceiling and seemingly endlessly in either direction, had very different headings. As I drew near the wall of files, the first to catch my attention was one that read “Girls I Have Liked.� I opened it and began flipping through the cards. I quickly shut it, shocked to realize that I recognized the names written on each one.

And then without being told, I knew exactly where I was. This lifeless room with its small files was a crude catalog system for my life. Here were written the actions of my every moment, big and small, in a detail my memory couldn’t match.

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