science fiction, franz ferdinand, and east german middlemen
what changes once you are 30:
- friends publish their work in "nature". interestingly, it's not my biology friends who do so, but my brother in law, who is a writer. ben's story "falling" can be found here. to be honest, "falling" is a bit too science fictiony for my taste, but I really, really recommend having a read of "the orange". it's my favorite of his short stories and it's now featured on jennifer's refrigerator
- you get email from "epic records", telling you that tori bootlegs can now be ordered online and paid by credit card. gone are the times when I had to send deutschmarks to my east german middleman (a total nerd named frank who used to send me love letters together with my orders) to get one of those colorful, russian flexy discs (rectangular, 1-mm-thin vinyl which immediately destroys your record player. on a lucky day, you could actually tell who was playing on it)
- your favorite bands are featured in your daily newspaper. ten years ago, max kueng's latest article on "franz ferdinand" would have made me stop listening to them. but in times where your former flatmates are BaZ correspondents of the german elections and your erstwhile workmates are "10 vor 10", "tagesschau", and "sport aktuell" presenters, it's just a matter of fact that music journalists are probably your age and have a similar taste. get real.
