Looking through some old stuff I found this photo I took about eight years ago in Berlin:
Real Life-Instructions (Jan 2001), originally uploaded by Peder with a D.
It reads:
REAL LIFE … Instructions
You should / not
- Burn your passport
- Destroy geography
- Accept statelessness
- Reject citizenship
- Jump national borders
- Abolish nations
- Ignore continents
- Dissolve cities
- Abandon republics
- Separate yourself !
I assume it’s a list of things not do do, or maybe it’s being ironic with the whole “should / not” thing. Do I have a choice? Also, notice it’s right outside a bus stop, imagine reading that everyday you head into work. Heavy.
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In random unrelated news, I was talking to my buddy last night as we were listening to the new Kings of Leon album. I like it, but he says he misses the more guitar-centric riffs of they’re first albums. “This album is a lot more polished than their previous efforts,” I offered. “More singer-centric.” He agreed, but like many indie rock purists, claimed the polished sound wasn’t what he wanted to hear. Then, when the chorus started to hit on “Use Somebody” I had to pause and kind of laugh, “I guess the guitar build up is pretty cliched by this point,” I said. “Yeah,” he says, “it really hit it’s peak with ‘Sister Christian.'”
That was the song I was listening to when writing this post. “We’re lucky to bring them back, and please welcome right now, Night Ranger, with their new single … all right!”
Peder with a D 