"93) Prove your tolerance by listening through a whole record of My Chemical Romance without commiting suicide"
I'm writing this as I'm sitting in the back row of Nastefan's car on our way back from Hungary to STP, the "final act" of the Rika+Everton Germany tour I attended as some sort of roadie which kept us busy for the last ten days. Us, that's (me with) Stefan, Fresh, Lizard, Josef, Mihci, "Is des dei Lebensmotto?", Donkey Breeder and Richard playing some of the hardest rocking emo music no one has ever heard. 10 days spent on the road in an Hungarian van (listening to the best music ever made), Lenny's flat in Berlin and cool squats.
To sum things up a little, here's some stuff I learned from these 10 days:
electric flyswatters are best alienated used to electrize the stressful Vrtn drummer; a XXXXL hoodie is an investment for life and provides you with more cuddliness than a human being ever will; walking all night through Berlin [a rough reconstruction with Google Earth tells me something around 30 kilometres] will lead to sleeping in on a bench of an airport hallucinating you see and hear friends talking; cuddling with Richard will let you sleep in immediately and tight enough to miss "Exxxtreeeme"; getting lost in Schweinfurt makes sense in that respect that you will find yourself in a Russian store buying food you can't read and checking by at the nearby Dollybuster store to acquire fake nipples (Orion aren't selling them anymore.); stores at US army bases are a great way to fill empty spaces in the tour bus with cans of Mountain Dew and stuff and last and least you simply won't think about suicide while (forced) listening to a record of My Chemical Romance when you're hanging out with 8 lovely musicians, or even better: friends, in a Christian concert location, playing Worms (Aah... the 90ies...) and giving a shit about what's going on in the rest of (one's/) the world right now.
πs: "Danke für die Tour, Nasch" (without any sarcastic undertone) and putting so much effort and time into it. You're far from gschissn.
ππs: Of course, thanks to all the dudes of RikH' and EvH'ton for making this last 10 days pretty worthwhile and probably the best road trip through Germany a Gogo could wish for.
πππs: To all of you interested in further footage check my photoblawg uhm soon or so.
