My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

Event of the Day:

24th July 1938

Instant Coffee was invented

 

 

I can remember drinking quite a bit of instant coffee when I lived in Britain. Horrible stuff, when I was on holiday in England last month I had a cappuccino in a restaurant and it was made from instant coffee: How low can you go? Yuck:-((

Birthday of the Day:

24th July 1969

Jennifer Lopez

 

 

Hasn't she got a sexy backside? I quite like watching her acting. I enjoyed watching the film "Monster-in-Law" ("Schwiegermonster") in which she co-stared with Jane Fonda; there were a few other films I saw in which she played that I enjoyed, but my mind is like a sieve, they're gone.

Died on this Day:

24th July 1960

 

Hans Albers

 

 

The great actor and singer from Hamburg, Germany. His most known song was "Auf der Reeperbahn Nachts um halb eins" from the film "Grosse Freiheit Nummer 7" produced in 1944 during the Nazi regime; the film was first released in 1945 by the British occupational regime.

 

24th July 1980

 

Peter Sellers

 

 

Next to Spike Milligan the best comedian that Britain produced. In the fifties they performed together in the legendary Goon Show. Later he stared as Inspector Clouseau in the film series The Pink Panther.

 

Thoughts:

 

Forty-three years ago today was a Saturday, I had the weekend off from work. At the time I worked for Plessey Telecommunications as a wireman. This weekend was special, my girlfriend Eileen was away on holiday with her parents, and I had a ticket for the Tupholme Folk Festival in Bardney near Lincoln. The ticket for the one day festival cost £2-00p., what a price. Go to a concert today, I am next month, a minor act, and the tickets were on sale for EUR 38,50 that's £30 for a two hour concert. The times they are a changing!

 

In Bardney that day 43 years ago the sun was shining, the atmosphere was peaceful and calm and the music phenomenal. There were three highlights which I remember:

Buffy St. Marie, a Cree Indian she sang so beautifully; if my memory serves me right she had a very husky voice and her songs were stories. Listen to the song Soldier Blue

 

The next highlight was the late coming group The Byrds. They started with an acoustic song (the whole festival was under the motto acoustic folk music); after that as an intro, they said something like "And this is what you wanted to hear" and exchanged their acoustic instruments for  electric. The crowd went wild but they abided by the motto and went back to playing unplugged.

 

Most amazing was the performance of James Taylor. He was so cool and sang the crowd nearly into sleep, I've never seen so many people laid-back singing along with the songs. It was indescribable!

 

One more thing, if anyone who is reading was at the festival: Do you remember the Meeting Tree? I don't know why, but when I think of the festival the big oak tree at the end of the field always comes to my mind. Wasn't that a great festival? It was the best I have ever been to.

The link down below it to an internet thread that is still going; the oldies like me can put down their thoughts concerning the festival. Look it up, you'll se that I'm not the only one who enjoyed the day!

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=82227#1505450

 

Niebüll Vicarage

The windows are original double windows

Another small mishap

 

 

Was that interesting today?

It was for me, it brought back memories from my youth!

My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Picture of the Day:

 

Hazelnuts

 

 

Event of the Day:

 

 

23rd July 1966

 

 

Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"

 

Birthday of the Day:

23rd July 1938

Götz George

German actor  best known for his roll as Chief Inspector Schimanski from Duisburg in the German Tatort series.

 

 

 

Died on this Day:

 

23rd July 2011

 

The beautiful Amy Winehouse joined the infamous 27 club.

 

She died of alcoholic poisoning

What a waste!!

 

 

 Thoughts:

Yesterday I was asked about the photo of the wall painting / etching or you could say chiseling. I did a little research and came up with tons of information. to begin with the artist was Alexandre Farto aka Vihls.
Vihls and his team made four pictures in Berlin for the Levi's Jeans "Go Forth" campaign. The motives were chosen to show the optimism and pioneer spirit of the youth of today. The photo that I published was of a karaoke pioneer in Berlin, Joe Hatchiban. He went into parks with his battery operated karaoke machine and rocked the people there.

http://www.artschoolvets.com/news/2011/07/14/levis-go-forth-kampagne-in-berlin/

During our stroll through Leck on Sunday I took some photos of doors, I hope you find them interesting

 

 

 

That's it for today.

See you all tomorrow, have a nice day!

My Daily Banana

 

Photo of the Day:

 

This is a wall painting / etching I saw in Berlin last year

Doesn't it look good?

The paint and plaster is etched away through to the bricks

 

 

Event of the Day:

22nd July 2011

Anders Behring Breivik caused a Bomb explosion in the Oslo parliamentary quarter; two hours later he turned up on the island of Utøya where he massacred 77 youths.

Birthday of the Day:

22nd July 1947

Don Henley
 

the drummer of the Eagles he was the lead vocalist on many of the Eagles hit recordings such as Desperado, One of these Nights and Hotel California

22nd July 1948

Otto Waalkes
 

The East Friesian comedian, half an hour of his humour is palatable, but no longer (he's as good as Monty Python, the main difference is he's alone on stage and he does Kraut humour)

When I drove a taxi on Sylt, back in the early nineties, I had him as a guest. That was interesting, we had a long talk, in English while I drove him to an early game of tennis. I can't remember what we talked about or if he gave me a tip, but I remember we had a good conversation.

Died on this Day:

22nd July 1992

Wayne McLaren aka Mr Malboro Man
 

He died of lung cancer at 51, what a horrible way to die.

Don't smoke it's addictive and look at all the people it has slaughtered.

 

Thoughts:

My Daily Banana 
has hit the ton. Today is my 100th publication! Who would have thought I would keep going so long? Me in the least!!
Has anyone other than me read all my posts? If yes, then well done and thank you.

Without you people out there I wouldn't have lasted this long, it's not that it is hard work or that I can't think of anything to write about; sometimes I have to steal the time from some other important or not important activity. If I think about it though; there's always time to be found somehow; like now I could be working, racking in the dollars, but instead what am I doing? Blogging! I don't earn money with it, but I can say I've brought our family and friends closer together

If I look into the statistics of the blog; until today 2745 people have visited my blog: And where they all come from, amazing: Chile, Russia, Ukraine, France, India, United States and United Kingdom have both gone over the 400 mark, Australia 250 and Germany 1350. That means I have had an average of just under thirty visitors a day! Thanks!

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My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Photo of the Day:

 

 

 

 

Event of the Day:

 

21st July 1969

 

Niel Armstrong is the firstman to step on the Moon

 

At 02:50 am GMT he stepped onto the Moon and said "One small step for man and one giant leap for mankind!"

 

 

Birthday of the Day:

 

 

21st July 1948

 

Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam
 

 

I loved his music when he called himself Cat Stevens; my girlfriend at the time Eileen also and my daughters love his album Tea for the Tillerman. His first hit recording came out in 1966 "I Love My Dog"; a catchy tune; it reached #28 in the British charts

 

 

Died on this Day:

 

21st July 1796

 

Robert Burns

 

A Scottish poet he died at thirty-seven. His best known poem is "Auld Lang Syne" (a version sung by Rod Stewart)

 

 

Thoughts:

 

Today we went to Leck and had a stroll around the village. It's much nicer than I thought; usually I only drive through the village to and from work. It has quiet roads with quaint thatched roof houses and well-built gentry houses.  I could imagine living in those areas otherwise it is quite a dump.

Thirty years ago, before perestroika, the village boasted two air-force camps and a few thousand soldiers; today there is only one regiment of soldiers and they don't come into or live in Leck like in the past. In the eighties they even had a strip joint, I remember going in there with Heike and her sister. What a dive; that was a once only visit.

 

The roof will not hold much longer.

Leck Hüs
the renovation was funded by the European Union

Someone is paying out a heap of money refurbishing this house

The Tax office

This is not a door, it's an entrance

Isn't this a good piece of ninteenth century architecture?

The vicars house and parish office

A couple of mishaps