3000 kilometres later...

"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.

I can barely play this thing.

"44) Be on stage once"

I kinda like did that now. Thanks to my dearest, absolutely lovely friends that are Destroy, Munich who didn't care that I only accidentally know how to hold a guitar (if not necessarily how to play one) and that I have absolutely no experience in live playing or whatever. I didn't even rehearse with them before the one and a half songs I played as second guitarist last friday.

So, my apologies go out to everyone who had to witness this... thing... and big big thanks to Destroy, Munich and Tinty for being that friggin' unbelievable and supportive with that point.

Licking and strange places equals even more fun.

"33) Lick off a tourist attraction that is touched by some thousand people per day"

Again, a point that was completed before it end up on the list. Since some people may consider this as cheating I can ensure you that these are the only ones in a hundred.
One month has passed since Milano and I haven't been abroad for three weeks. Even better then that Sonja and Flo provided me with the opportunity to go with them to Prague for the weekend to visit Bine. We walked through various parts of the city and - like every tourist - eventually passed by Charles Bridge. And I've been there already once and don't get it. It's just a big bridge with around 100.000 people [slightly exaggerated numbers due my dislike of big crowds] on it, street musicians and a couple of statues and statuaries. And one of them (aehrr.. one statue, not one statuary) is touched by everyone walking by in order to bring them luck, infections and whatnot. The curious me now was interested if people would still touch it if someone would lick it off... and yeah, they did. Statue, by the way, tasted terrible and I would had have a metallic taste for the next couple of hours. Never eating there again.