geir jenssen (aka biosphere)最近一封信里说他的作品microgravity被pet shop boys选入他们为back to mine做的dj set。microgravity十周年，而psb一晃20年了。chris和neil一人分一张，只放自己的心水，真正back to mine，而不是back to psb。chris在检讨内容反映人性和社会，neil则给深夜聆听多添了一处选择。网上介绍参差，某德国搏客页面内容最干净有条理。亚马逊德国站上已有很多口水评论，而美国站仍是一片空白。这个周末净一片electro pop的天下。

整个五月天气阴郁低迷得像德国政局，一场冷雨后，六月第一天换来的是阳光普照，我遇上了一年来科隆最好的季节。和博士的相聚总是短暂而珍贵，两年前偏缝他去柏林开会，在科隆的两天只好骑着他的自行车遍走大街小巷。而这回我只有20个小时，连睡觉和做梦时间都计在内。这个博士是本“行走字典”，任何小事物他都能旁征博引，让大脑不断顿悟生活妙处的同时还要连轴转来回应他的观点。去的都是他最喜欢的地儿：科隆音乐学院，metronom爵士酒吧，科隆东方艺术博物馆和路德维希博物馆。科隆音乐学院的音乐厅里爵士钢琴系和贝司系的同学在演奏自己的作品，很ECM的感觉。一女生弹一把黄灿灿的电吉他像足了terje rypdal。作曲和演奏颇具水准，就像柏林汤姆说的在意大利街头小店的批萨都比德国大馆子里的好吃。前排一女孩还带了两盆绿叶植物，估计是刚从超市或花房赶来的。博士说那两盆是西红柿，可以拿来砸台上差劲的演奏者。 中场休息时，女孩回头抛来媚眼，问博士是否愿意为她暂时看管那两盆西红柿。博士回了一串德语，“如果让我看管，我会把它吃掉。”

离开科隆时怀里揣着新一期写威尼斯双年展的art杂志和博士最喜欢的来自科隆的爵士音乐杂志jazzthing。回家和字典一起慢慢煲吧。

鉴于博士开始喜欢julia fordham，并只有她近期的作品，于是推荐我最喜欢的happy ever after和porcelain。毕竟她是我在高中时的女神。贴上福咸女士近期的一则重新灌录happy ever after的消息及歌词。我知道博士会来这里逛的。

FORDHAM RE-RECORDS HAPPY EVER AFTER FOR TSUNAMI VICTIMS  
 
Pregnant British singer JULIA FORDHAM has re-recorded her 1988 hit HAPPY EVER AFTER with a children's choir to raise funds for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami. The LOVE MOVES (IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS) hitmaker teamed up with an old school pal, who is now a teacher, to rework her original lyrics for the charity single. She says, "The former African chant (on the record) is translated into spine-tingling Malaysian/Indonesian, which the children recorded at a local studio. "I cried like a baby when I first heard the kids singing the new middle section." The kids on the record are those taught by Fordham's old friend, CAROLINE JAMES. All proceeds from sales of the record will go directly towards rebuilding the Panchayat (corr) Elementary Union School in the Tamil Nadu region of southern India. The building and village was totally destroyed by the tsunami on 26 December (04), and 13 pupils were killed. The new CD also features new tracks the California-based singer recorded with Indian Bollywood star AADESH SHRIVASTAVA (corr).

Lyrics:

Happy Ever After

Don't ask me why I'm running out of laughter
There's tears in these eyes, not happy ever after
And I thought it was plain to see
And I thought the whole world could be
And I thought we'd be happy ever after.

You could say that I'm living in a pipe dream
It's just looking back, things are never what they seem
And I hope I can safely say
And I hope most things go my way
And I hope they'll be happy ever after.

Down in Southern Africa no happy ever after
Not now, but soon forever
While they're sitting comfortably
In that white winter city
How can we be happy ever after?

Um by yay
Est ce le South Africa

So don't ask me why I'm running out of laughter
There's tears in these eyes, not happy ever after.
And I thought it was plain to see
And I thought that maybe you and me
And I thought we'd be happy ever after.

Um by yay
Um by yay
Um by yay
Est ce le South Africa

去Staalplaat唱片店的路上又碰到罗马记者Roberto。唱片店门口的台阶上，Staalplaat老板Carsten三岁的女儿正在吃她的草莓。“瞻仰”了位于前东德Alexander Platz附近的人民剧院Volksbuehne，站在门口地面上听到的却是地下U2线地铁离站呼啸而去的声音，留下剧院屏风般的立面和门口那尊“行走的轮子”铸铁雕塑。回头去S-Bahn的路上被马路对面路过的一辆Wagon叫住，居然是Thomas他们仨，于是顺理成章地上了车前往Maria am Ufer。车里正热播德甲，一个典型的德式周六。晚上在Maria的临江露台上看到80年代avant garde前辈Jim Thirlwell，还有~scape的Andrew Pekler。流星雨先生签的第一支西伯利亚组合克服了签证困难终于来到现场，成员Anton说他们在西伯利亚已经算很实验的了。现场多人捧场，某男留的居然是《异型》里异型头骨形状的发型。三角架没怎么用，倒成了随身累赘。

Harald Schmidt 的late night show，德国版的大卫牙擦苏，调侃着 oui are family。一个晚上被塞满，不是在两个现场串场兼拍照，就是在访谈中。整理照片时发现to rococo rot的robert lippok几次浮现，把他给漏了。倒是认出两年前在照片中出现过的de:bug的“马克思”大胡子编辑，不过他怎么都想不起来了。天亮得很早，感觉柏林离挪威很近，激动地看到两只大白天鹅在外面的Spree河里笨重费劲地扑楞着翅膀起飞。