Independence Day Festival

This is the place where we are throwing our Independence Day Festival. It is an old brewery in Neukolln (East Berlin). July 4th in Germany gonna be dope, ya'll.





From the roof of the brewery. Magic I tell ya.

Munich/Hamburg/Berlin

This statue is the Bavaria. It is really intense to view from below. You can go up in it, but I didn't do that. Don't know why, just didn't.




This is the Rathaus in Munich. The word RATHAUS means Mayor's House. Therefore in Germany, the mayors are rats... Funny how that works.






Please to be noticing the donkey playing the harp. WTF? The unicorn also happens to be on this house.There is also a statue of a kid riding a fish, sorta like Nathan in the pic a few up...






Simon, the guy on the bass, runs Lingg House. This is the gypsy band he plays with. They are really good.



This is Nachtmann. He is playing with sticks that have a bunch of sticks taped to the end. It was pretty cool. They played with us on Friday here in Berlin.



So in Hamburg there is a place called the Hafenklang. In the upstairs, there is a ping pong table that people walk around in a circle and try to hit the ball while the DJ plays really great punk rock. Good times.



Alright ya'll, eat a bag. Love you.

Toni´s Birthday e Munich Party

On Saturday we had an "unbirthday" party for Toni. Seems she thought all year that she was 38, but in reality she was only 37. Mental health is a draggggggggg. Anyway, we got a few bottles of prosecco and juiced some fresh oranges and hung around in the yard all day. It was nice. Real nice.







Toni made an experimental buttermilk cake that was pretty incredible. Apparently Nolan thought it was good too.

On Sunday I came back up here to Munich to stay at Lingg House for a few days before heading up to Berlin.





We made polenta with veggies. Them shits was good.



The Express Brass Band was practicing in the studio. This place has a really awesome vibe. The band members are amazing people and truly incredible musicians.




Timo flipped 4 polenta pancakes at once, without a mishap. BRILLIANT!



This man with the megaphone is Etienne from Camaroon. He has been here in Munich for like 10 years. He raps in french and plays the drums at the same time. If you get sick watching this video, its Brandon´s fault. He decided it was cool to jump around while shooting. Silly boy.

Tschuss!

MICROMONDO

OK, so apparently Gabriel got the message that I wanted you all to see the videos that happened from the MicroMondo project he did. If you've forgotten already, just scroll down a couple posts...

Here's the website. Check out the videos.

He wants to do this in other places, if you are interested in doing it in whatever city you live in, get at me, or him.

I really love this one-

Summertime Mix

With my excess time, I decided to put together a mix of songs that I have been listening to lately. Some of these songs are old, some are new, all are fantastic. Its only up for 7 days so get it while you can.

Part one

Part two

Oh and I know one of the songs didn't make it. Not sure why, but High Places wouldn't compress... So instead of 27, there are only 26 songs.

Loves!

UPDATE- If this has a problem, let me know- kenconsumer @ gmail.com, I saw that there are already 65 downloads as of Tuesday night and they only allow 100, so if it don't work, email me and I'll repost. CIAO!

No More Prisons

In America, we face over population in our prisons for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that we do not actually rehabilitate our prisoners, we just perpetuate the idea of being in prison as a safer place for habitual prisoners... The Netherlands with their lax drug laws and insistence on education and reformation have obviously been doing something right-

http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2246821.ece/Netherlands_to_close_prisons_for_lack_of_criminals

Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals

Published: 19 May 2009 16:31 | Changed: 20 May 2009 15:35

By our news desk

The Dutch justice ministry has announced it will close eight prisons and cut 1,200 jobs in the prison system. A decline in crime has left many cells empty.

During the 1990s the Netherlands faced a shortage of prison cells, but a decline in crime has since led to overcapacity in the prison system. The country now has capacity for 14,000 prisoners but only 12,000 detainees.

Deputy justice minister Nebahat Albayrak announced on Tuesday that eight prisons will be closed, resulting in the loss of 1,200 jobs. Natural redundancy and other measures should prevent any forced lay-offs, the minister said.

The overcapacity is a result of the declining crime rate, which the ministry's research department expects to continue for some time.

Belgian prisoners

Some reprieve might come from a deal with Belgium, which is facing overpopulation in its prisons. The two countries are working out an agreement to house Belgian prisoners in Dutch prisons. Some five-hundred Belgian prisoners could be transferred to the Tilburg prison by 2010.

The Netherlands would get 30 million euros in the deal, and it will allow the closing of the prisons in Rotterdam and Veenhuizen to be postponed until 2012.

Festivals

As of this moment, Terrible Eagle will be playing 3 festivals this summer-

July 31 @ klangtherapie
Aug 14-16 @ Dockville
Aug 28 @ Rospi in Liberta

If you are around Germany or Italy then, come hang out.