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Crazy Germans

Brad Feld wrote about his trip to Europe about a month ago.  He was in Munich for some time, and he mentioned some “wackadoodle surfers practicing in the small river under a bridge with a water pipe”.  Well, Erin and I were in Munich last October on our honeymoon, and I’m pretty sure we saw the same guys surfing near the English Garden, check it out:

surfers

Imagine just to the left of this picture a large concrete pipe that the water is coming out from, it looks very weird to see this in the middle of the city. These guys stay in the exact same spot while they surf side to side on that one wave.  The other guys standing on the side are next in line to surf after this guy falls.  He’ll float downstream a bit and then get back in line, its pretty funny to watch.  We saw this towards the end of our Mike’s Bike Tour of Munich, which I highly recommend.

Good new music

For the past 2 weeks or so, all I’ve been listening to in the car is the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album, Stadium Arcadium. This album is effing good, and its a double disc, so its twice the fun.  Theres a good mix of music on the album, some rock, some rap, slow, fast, its very diverse and its awesome. There are 14 tracks on each disc, heres a list of the “good” songs from each disc.

Disc 1:

  • Track 1 - Dani California
  • Track 2 - Snow (Hey Oh)
  • Track 3 - Charlie
  • Track 6 - She’s Only 18
  • Track 7 - Slow Cheetah
  • Track 8 - Torture Me
  • Track 9 - Strip My Mind
  • Track 10 - Especially in Michigan
  • Track 11 - Warlocks
  • Track 12 - C’mon Girl
  • Track 13 - Wet Sand

Disc 2:

  • Track 1 - Desecration Smile
  • Track 2 - Tell Me Baby
  • Track 3 - Hard to Concentrate
  • Track 5 - She Looks to Me
  • Track 8 - Make You Feel Better
  • Track 10 - So Much I
  • Track 11 - Storm in a Teacup
  • Track 12 - We Believe
  • Track 13 -  Turn it Again

Sadly, I can’t think of any other new music that I’ve come across lately that I like…………