Tuesday, March 28, 2006
To bear arms.
Okay. So Medha sucks at blogging but apart from that, he’s just the nicest and funniest guy you can imagine. And he did the second coolest thing that happened to me last weekend. (It would have been the coolest if he hadn’t just used exactly this weekend which was like the best in a year for reasons not explained here.) Anyway. Now I have this ultra (I know Till’s reaction will be “Ultra!”) great Commodore C= logo wristband Medha collected at the CeBit IT fair. And he just gave it to me. Woo! What else could I be wearing while typing on and making noise with my trusty old C 64?
Just one month until the new Prophet64 C 64 sound module is out. And I’m on the preorder list.
April will be great. For many reasons.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Italian organs are teh rock.
I bought myself a little birthday present. Okay, it was not planned and not expensive, but I found this Italian “Tiger” organ by manufacturer EKO on a local flea market while I visited my parents. I don’t know if I’ll keep it, but I just had to get it for 25 Euros. The organ itself and the original stand fit nicely into the original brown carrying bag. The serial number sticker states that it was build in October 1970. Not visible on the picture is the huge aluminium “TIGER” logo on the rear of the organ (facing the audience).
There were lots of dead bugs and dust inside, but after cleaning most of the contacts the organ now works almost flawlessly. The f’ key sometimes does not come back up all the way after being pressed and the g” and gis” keys still crackle a little with dirty contacts, but that will be fixed soon.
(In related news; I’m back in Berlin, the button machine works nicely, the russian b/w super 8 film stock has arrived and if you’re free on saturday, please come to my birthday party.)
