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so, now me and my wife have tickets to the Sisters' Berlin gig and we were very happy if we met any other Heartlanders there.
but how could our good mates recognize us?
just look at those pictures:

http://www.eki.ee/kodud/fs/pikkrong_1.htm
http://www.eki.ee/kodud/fs/pikkrong_2.htm

( :wink: but please don't tell her that i showed the last one - taken in M'era Luna last year - she thinks it's a very bad photo but i havn't any better :( )
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and if somebody needs suggestions about hostels in Berlin... well, i'm not the best man to give it - i can only give the link to this one where we booked a room for two:

http://www.gaestehaus-berlin.de/
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the only hotel i know in berlin is the Ibis ostbahnof (not sure if i spelt that right :oops: ) i was there in november and we [noisy brits that were there to see the cure] took that place over. it's a bit pricey, but close to a station.
try going to http://www.ibishotel.com/ibis/ and typing in "berlin"

bah. wish i was going to berlin :(
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Oh my god, Von's long lost twin brother is here :von:
And i am now officially in love with your wife :wink:
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Cool, Pikkrong standing by a pikk rong ;)
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zigeunerweisen wrote:
And i am now officially in love with your wife :wink:
what i have to say - should i be :evil: ?
no, my answer is:

"you are not the only one in this point" :D
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zigeunerweisen wrote:
Oh my god, Von's long lost twin brother is here :von:
no, i think i'm taller than him.
from the other hand - don't want to compare myself with him...
it could make me very depressive...
the voice, you know...
and everything else.
actually i saw his twin brother in M'era Luna last year.
he was 100 % copy.
i couldn't stop myself and asked where he was from.
he kindly answered that he was from Rome, Italy.
maybe he is somebody among us?
hey, Ribbons75, was it you? :wink:
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Cool, Pikkrong standing by a pikk rong ;)
you got the point 8)
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well, actually i didn't want to say in a Beavis & Butthead way: look at me, höhöhö, look at me!
neither: look at my wife, höhöhöh!
i just wander will anybody from Heartland also "take Berlin" in April? :wink:
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pikkrong wrote:well, actually i didn't want to say in a Beavis & Butthead way: look at me, höhöhö, look at me!
neither: look at my wife, höhöhöh!
i just wander will anybody from Heartland also "take Berlin" in April? :wink:
Well, maybe if The Chameleons play at the same time (just to save some money) :D
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OMG, pikkrong, your wife is *gorgeous*!!! :D

...and yeah, you DO look quite a bit like ol' Von. Weird... ;)
I left my heart in Ballycastle... :cry: :cry: :cry:
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SINsister wrote:OMG, pikkrong, your wife is *gorgeous*!!! :D
thanks 8)
about myself - meanwhile i used to bleach my hair :)
i stopped it because i couldn't stand this bleached guy in the mirror every morning.
think, male Heartlanders understand me.
i like very much music by Marc Almond and books by Oscar Wilde but i don't want to see in my mirror a man looking like those :wink:
but with shades everything was OK.
one of my friends and his wife who visited Germany last year and looked at Sisters' bootlegs there and saw photos of bleached Von for the first time, joked:
"why should we buy a bootleg of our friend so far from home?"
(the bad thing was that they really didn't buy anything from those bootlegs :cry: because they are rather fans of dark ambient, dark folk etc.)
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exactly 2 weeks... or even less.
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pikkrong wrote:exactly 2 weeks... or even less.
Is it you on that piccy?
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rian wrote:
Is it you on that piccy?
do you mean my avatar?
yesss :wink:
or those:
http://www.eki.ee/kodud/fs/pikkrong_1.htm
http://www.eki.ee/kodud/fs/pikkrong_2.htm
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the answer is the same.
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exactly 10 days have left.
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next Saturday I'll be already in a bus on my 25-hours-trip to Berlin. yeah...
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pikkrong wrote:next Saturday I'll be already in a bus on my 25-hours-trip to Berlin. yeah...
25 hours! I'd go insane! don't forget to take a book, dude
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pikkrong wrote:next Saturday I'll be already in a bus on my 25-hours-trip to Berlin. yeah...
25 hours! I'd go insane! don't forget to take a book, dude
eee... which book do you mean :?:
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less than 3 days to the show.
exactly 32 hours to my bus trip.
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So, my good friends, tomorrow morning I'll be on my way.
Can't visit Heartland or read my e-mails before Tuesday night.
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maybe this is my last post this week.
my very best wishes to you, mates 8) 8) 8)
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Yeah, have a great trip! :D :D :D
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Well, I still decided to write a couple of words about Berlin.
Apologize to them who have already read my so-called review in Dominion list
and also appologize for putting it first to this list not to our cosy Heartland. I just had to read or delete all 120 messages from my mailbox - that's why I had to open my mailbox at first.
Actually tonight I took a look here without logging in (because in this case I couldn't see later which messages are unread and I was too tired to read all new ones).

Well, the trip to Berlin was really awful - instead of 26 hours (not 25 as I said before) we were on the way 30 hours. Mostly because of the Polish-German border... :evil:
And the weather in Berlin wasn't friendly at all.
But everything else was just great.
I mean the live but not only this.
I havn't been so close to the stage on Sisters gig before.
I was in the first row (to be more exact - I wasn't in the middle but straight next to this place were Starling used to stand almost all the time and the other 2 - also Von - appeared quite a lot).
Sulpher was better than I dared to hope.
Maybe it's not the best comparison but it remained me Nine Inch Nails (their harded tunes), Rosetta Stone (in their more electronic albums) and so on.
Aggressive and emotional.
But I think a Sisters support band should not insult Sisters fans :evil:
Sisters were great - sounds banal? But what can I say if I felt so? :)
I think "Slept" isn't bad at all and I was really impressed when they made the acoustic version of "I Was Wrong".
To be true I have never been a fan of all kind of unplugged lives - on the contrary.
But this was really impressive 8)
Also the new version of "Lucretia" 8)
The gig was so suggestive that my wife told me before that meanwhile she worried about me - she stood a couple of steps farther and it seemed to her sometimes I would lost my mind :lol:
Yes, both times before encores I clapped and behaved like mad because it seemed to me people didn't act active enough to bring them back.
Now I think it wasn't so and people really wasn't passive.
Maybe it was me who was so upset by this show :oops:
And now - the fashion news.
As you may already know - Von is almost bald and he wore his "Chicago Police" jacket and "People's Republic Of West Yorkshire" shirt. If my memory serves me well, it was a green one.
He spoke less than in Hildesheim last summer but it doesn't mean he was passive or something.
Well, so much about the gig.
As I told, weather was nasty (cold and windy and a little snow) but everything else was nice.
My hostel was quite near to Columbiahalle (only 2 stops by undrground) - so it was in the middle of the city but to my great surprise somebody bred ducks and geese behind the window :)
But the best surprise was an exhibition of Kazimir Malevich we discovered absolutely accidentally in Deutshe Guggenheim 8)
Before leaving Berlin we took a look into a book&CD shop and I couldn't stop myself and bought the "Thank You" tribute to Sisters.
Well, I think it has been discussed here already.
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8) :D Thanks for that, now I really can't wait to see them in Leeds!
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