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Cake day: October 21st, 2023

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  • Munich central train station toilet had donations when I was there in 2012. Money went to charity. It was so clean though that I sat in the cubicle longer than usual before heading out into the hustle and bustle of the streets.

    But public and restaurant toilets in general were cleaner in Germany. It was not unusual to see a toilet brush in the cubicle for you to clean your own shit up. Much more civilised than Australia.

    I also didn’t see out of control drunks on Saturday nights like we get in Australia, despite alcohol being really cheap and available from your corner store where you buy milk and bread. They would often have a couple of seats outside the store for you to chill and drink.





  • I didn’t like the music on commercial radio so I would listen to community radio which would either forget to back announce or would play such long brackets that I would lose count so I would call the DJ to ask about that special song. Then to buy the song…

    I had to catch a train from the suburbs into a city import record store. Often they would not have what I wanted so I would put down a deposit for a vinyl record which would be ordered from overseas then I would return a week or two later to pick it up.

    It was expensive so whenever a friend had a birthday I would buy a record we mutually wanted but make a cassette copy for myself first.

    For the first listen-through I would set aside an hour, undisturbed, liner notes in hand, getting up half way to turn the album over.

    Am still into obscure music so…

    Now I pirate-download music to play on a net radio station I run with overseas friends where we also play ambient electronic music we make over the Internet with laptops.

    I would rather get together to jam with musicians in real life but now that technology lets musicians make music on their own they don’t bother collaborating, and besides, too few local people my age have time to get together in person to make music just for fun.