Bundesliga 08/09 Day 6: That’s Entertainment

• Borussia Dortmund – VfB Stuttgart 3:0
• Hertha BSC Berlin – Energie Cottbus 0:1
• Werder Bremen – 1899 Hoffenheim 5:4
• VfL Bochum – Bayer Leverkusen 2:3
• Hamburger SV – Borussia Mönchengladbach 1:0
• Hannover 96 – Bayern München 1:0
• 1.FC Köln – Schalke 04 1:0
• Eintracht Frankfurt – Arminia Bielefeld 1:1
  
• Karlsruher SC – VfL Wolfsburg 2:1
  

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MLB Season Finish: All boils down to the last game

What’s happening right now in the Majors must be better than anything what the schedule planers or the commissioner have imagined before the start of the season. Although the Phillies clinched the NL East division title yesterday there are still two playoff spots up for grabs and it seems that this will be a very close affair right until the end. This really reminds me of what’s happening in the German Bundesliga at the end of each season  with the European cup qualification or the relegation. But there we only have 34 days and games and in baseball it’s 162. To think that it all boils down to the last game of the season is really exciting. How frustrated does it have to be for the players of the losing teams?

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Next year again? Hanshin wastes a huge lead

I believe the last time I wrote something about Japanese baseball during August Hanshin Tigers (阪神タイガース) were firmly in first place of the Central League with a double digit lead. Now, it turns out the wasted it completely and only hang on to their division clinching top of the table by a mere 1.0 game in front of their archrivals, the Yomiuri Giants (読売ジャイアンツ). I don’t really know what happened as I didn’t have the chance to watch the games or follow the action in the numerous blogs covering the team’s actions in English but it seems that they were at their peak to early. I really hope they make it and win the division because I believe that this might increase their chances on winning the second stage of the climax series.

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Kingdom, AYS, Feeding Time @ Lamäng, Cologne

One great thing about going to punk and hardcore shows is that you’ll never know in which venue you are going to end up. I have seen shows at the strangest places in and outside of buildings. So it wasn’t really a surprise to find out that this show was taking place at the German equivalent of a bowling alley. There’s a slight difference from what’s known to the world as bowling though as “Kegeln” has 10 9 pins and the ball has no holes to grip it. German “Kegelbahnen” (bowling alleys) are usually infamous for their visitors as this is one of the most conservative sports in Germany. The players are rather blue collar type of people with a very low class humour and a great thirst for beer which is why a lot of Kegel-games deal with how much someone has to drink when he loses the game. So this was the setting for yet another great show set up by the guys and girls of Hit & Run.

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Bundesliga 08/09 Day 5: Bayern sink, Leverkusen shines

• Bayer Leverkusen – Hannover 96 4:0
  
• Bayern München – Werder Bremen 2:5
  
• Arminia Bielefeld – 1.FC Köln 2:0
  
• Borussia Mönchengladbach – Hertha BSC Berlin 0:1
  
• Schalke 04 – Eintracht Frankfurt 1:0
  
• Energie Cottbus – VfL Bochum 1:1
  
• VfL Wolfsburg – Hamburger SV
• 1899 Hoffenheim – Borussia Dortmund
• VfB Stuttgart – Karlsruher SC

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A Day At The Record Store (V)

I found a new job last week so after three months of unemployment and tight budgets I was finally ready to splash out some money on records to congratulate myself. I hadn’t been to the record store in quite some time so I had a lot to catch up to, although I wasn’t really following who released what over the past half year. This is what I found today.

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Bundesliga 08/09 Day 4: This used to be our playground…

• Borussia Dortmund – Schalke 04 3:3
• 1.FC Köln – Bayern München 0:3
• Werder Bremen – Energie Cottbus 3:0
• Hertha BSC Berlin – VfL Wolfsburg 2:2
  
• 1899 Hoffenheim – VfB Stuttgart 0:0
• Hamburger SV – Bayer Leverkusen 3:2
• Eintracht Frankfurt – Karlsruher SC ppd
  
• VfL Bochum – Arminia Bielefeld 2:0
  
• Hannover 96 – Borussia Mönchengladbach 5:1

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A Weekend In Düsseldorf: amodestproposal record new songs

We had this planned rather spontaneously since the guy where we want to record four new songs was closing his recording studio by the end of October. So we took the chance to give it a try with such a short time in advance. See, our main problem as a band is that we are very slow in recording songs. God knows why, but we set a timetable each time we recorded a record and each time we failed to keep it and we had to add extra days to finish off the whole thing. So two days for four songs seemed to look as if they were enough, but you’ll never know.

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An interesting (but old) look at Ska in Japan

I am always fascinated about how music crosses boundaries and how difft styles of music are percieved and transformed in different countries. Of course there are certain styles and genres that just don’t seem to transfer well into another culture. Just think of this horrible German style of pop techno, widely known as “Ballermann Schlager”, a type of music played at the infamous bars and discos all around the Spanish island of Mallorca invaded by German tourists. think of American country music which has some bands in other countries, but that just looks like a very bad rip off, especially over here.

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Bundesliga 08/09 Day 3: Football’s not important…

• Karlsruher SC – 1.FC Köln 0:2
• Bayer Leverkusen – 1899 Hoffenheim 5:2
• Arminia Bielefeld – Hamburger SV 2:4
• Borussia Mönchengladbach – Werder Bremen 3:2
• Energie Cottbus – Borussia Dortmund 0:1
• Schalke 04 – VfL Bochum 1:0
• VfL Wolfsburg – Eintracht Frankfurt 2:2
• Bayern München – Hertha BSC Berlin 4:1
  
• VfB Stuttgart – Hannover 96 2:0
  

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