GPOYRT.*
*Gratuitous Picture of Your Ride Tuesday.
Young Austrianite
Jan 06
…which was this. Note: Music Choice was limited to Austrian Radio - which was Austrian Music, Mozart, and then a pop station on which we heard Eric Carmen, Peter Bjorn and John, “Beat it,” and maybe three or four other decent songs - and I don’t think we’re really supposed to be listening to music but aw fuckit you’re only Ice Driving once, right? They fucking LOVE Eric Carmen here.
Anyway: what you’re seeing is Evasive Response Driving. The light that goes on is an obstacle, we don’t know which light’s going to go on. We’re driving about 58 KPH/36 MPH; once we see the light go on, we slam on the breaks and carefully slide the car out of the way of the obstacle, and correct into the turn. The special computer at the end of the video measures our speed going into the exercise, and our reaction time. And this was only the second most fun thing we did today.
Jan 05
MY FIRST JUNKET HOTEL ROOM WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY FOSTER KAMER. EDITED BY FOSTER KAMER. STARRING FOSTER KAMER AS FOSTER KAMER THE JUNKET WRITER AND AUSTRIA AS THE PLACE HITLER WAS BORN. PRODUCED BY FOSTER KAMER. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: AUDI.
Axel Fischer’s “Amsterdam”
as interpreted by Google Translate:
Dream Amsterdam
The hope was that
Alone in a strange city
But in Amsterdam
Dream Amsterdam
The hope was
Alone in a strange city
But in Amsterdam
Tonight I say, it was once
Tales of fear and anguish
Elves, fairies and good prince
goods for us
Hold me, you’ve often said
How, I ask you then?
Love has totally failed
In Amsterdam
Amsterdam Come, we go to Amsterdam
I know that nothing can happen to us
You and I, we are still in control
We long sat on the sinking ship
“Stay, I’ve never said
How, you asked me then?
Love has totally failed
In Amsterdam Amsterdam
Etc.
From: Foster Kamer
Sent: Tue 1/5/2010 5:34 PM
To: Chris
Cc: Willa
Subject: RE: ice driver
Hello from Austria. I’m exhausted. I’ll put something up in EE. Should I do one post or break it up into two? Just got on the internets after having to seek out an adapter in KAPRUN and buying WiFi, which is where we are. Everyone is speaking German on the TV, I don’t get it. Trenchant Observation: “Schnitzel” is just a fancy word for “Chicken Cutlet” which you can pretty much get on every bodega, but they’re OBSESSED with it here. Also, I walked around to seek out some local scenes and I came across a bar called APRES, appropriately, slammed with people at 6PM, disco lights raging, many young, all screaming along to this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnosfFie3zk
Not even joking. I had a beer (bier?) there and left. Also, guys wear T-Shirts tucked in here. What’s with that? I thought only retarded kids did that.
Over and out,
-f.
