Right song, wrong verse

Or was it vice verse-a? Damn, this guy really must have a drug problem. Pete Doherty outraged a German crowd and got booed off the stage by singing the not-quite-verboten-but-might-as-well-be first verse of the Deutschlandlied (you know, Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, blah, blah, blah) at something called the On3 Music Festival in Munich.

This guy was definitely on more than 3 too. And although this is a bad thing and all I guess (the singing part, not so much the booing), to add insult to injury (I mean to insult), word is also out that straight and sober and REAL musician-entertainer-type Heino HIMSELF just lost a big court case and will now have to shell out some 3.6 million euros for a concert tour he had to cancel due to illness, and not the mental kind type. There’s no justice in this world I tell you.

Die erste Strophe des Liedes war von den Nationalsozialisten zur faschistischen Propaganda missbraucht worden und wird heute nicht mehr gesungen. Allerdings ist sie auch nicht offiziell verboten. Die dritte Strophe bildet heute die deutsche Nationalhymne (“Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit”).

You ain’t nothin’ but a Schmierfink

Come on, you know you are, deep down inside. You’re a wanna-be scrawler, scribbler, graffiti artist, I mean. It’s just that you’re way too polite or law abiding or inhibited or whatever. So here’s your big chance. I think.

The Berlin Twitter Wall, online now, actually encourages people to schmier all they want. It has something to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall that took place way, way long ago on Nov. 9, 1989. I think.

“No one has the intention of constructing a Twitterwall,”