The forthcoming album from Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero, is being promoted ahead of time by a fairly complex alternate reality game that describes a world in the near future wrecked by terrorist attacks and overbearing responses by the West in response. It talks of drugged water supplies, Orwellian surveillance, banned books and music and [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Trying to photograph Munich
05Mar07Bless the lady at reception here. I knew her weakness, she spoke English! I can take my thirst no longer and storm down two flights of stairs and into the reception-cum-lounge. “GUTEN ABEND!” I proclaim in my usual overenthusiastic way. I segue immediately into English. “Do you know where I can get a beer?” I [...]
The bagel post
04Mar07There are two maps drawn in pen in my pocketbook. One leads to a store where I need to pick up my tickets for tonight’s concert and the other leads to the Georg Elser Halle, where the gig is being held. My spatial needs satisfied, I head out to find my tickets, some food and [...]
On the hunt for beer in Munich
03Mar07I went out in Munich tonight in search of a drink. It turned out to be a little harder than I thought. I had some image of these key German cities as immense clusters of cool little Bierkellers full of people willing to have a good knees-up and a pint, all of the above just [...]
Hotel room blogging
02Mar07I have to make this quick. You see, I’m in a hotel room in Munich writing on my laptop and I seem to have left the charger in Britain. I have four hours of battery life to spread out over four days unless I can, with some small hope, find a shop in this city [...]
