We have just arrived in Poland. Some of us had a rough night because of the Polish roads, which are old and uneven, making for a very bumpy ride. But I slept like a baby. My feeling ill made me drowsy, I have a cold and my head feels like it is full of gas! Because of it I’m suffering from a mild hearing loss (no, it is not because I listened to Marilyn Manson - I had ear plugs then) and I really should stay in bed today.
Some of the others on the coach are also feeling under the weather. Lets hope it won’t mar our performance tomorrow.
PS: I visited the Memorial Church in Berlin yesterday. I have never witnessed a war and this felt like actually seeing what war really means. It was atrocious. Almost all the church was blown away in WW2, just the tower is left.
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June 30th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Hope you and everyone feel better! As for Marylin Manson I’m not surprised he used classical for his intro he’s all about image, atmosphere, and mystique so anything that helps that mood he’s all for, he usually gives me a good chuckle (many crazy rumors a few years back). Thank you for posting about the Church, while Volta has been called a more politicized than usual Björk its based on the fact that war and the forces and emotions that drive it usually leave deep wounds that help no one. We all want respect, kindness, and love places like the Church in Berlin remind us of that. Give everyone on tour the best from the fans and me.
*Feel Better*
~jordan
June 30th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Hope, you’ll feel better by tomorrow (and the others too).
Hope also, that someday you’ll return to Berlin or any other German city for a real gig!
June 30th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
hmmmm, headcold, not a stomach ache….. not sure if the vodka will do the trick, but if anyone would know it would be the Polish people.
* starts pouring vodka shots for all, just in case.
Salut!
*pours one for myself, just because =D
July 1st, 2007 at 11:26 am
it`s PoLand not PoLLand
July 1st, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Thanks dude! We spell it that way in Icelandic.
Already sorted now!
July 1st, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Hope you’re feeling better……simmered ginger and lemon and water and a little sugar or honey can be really soothing…my friend adds whiskey to that but that never worked out really well for me. Are there more ruins in Belin that are preserved as war memorials? I saw the unrepaired buildings in Lebanon after the end of the civil war looming up on a rainy day like a melting world that looked beautiful…only when I saw the freshly bombed out buildings near my grandmothers house that had exposed living rooms and bedrooms with mattresses and frames spilling to the outside did I really feel something of the horror.
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:23 am
If one really wants to see the atrocities of WW2 one should visit the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp)
and to remember that this camp was run by German Nazis when the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church stood without a scratch in the capital of the Nazi Third Reich.
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:06 am
I’ll go there some day… if I have the stomach.
July 7th, 2007 at 9:53 am
hey Jónas, i read in the newspapers that it has been proven that taking Echinacea at the first symptoms of a cold really DOES increase the rate of success in deflecting the virus. probably too late for now, but next time you start feeling under the weather (or if anyone else in the team does) that’s a tip to at least consider
here are some links to more credible sources if you wanna read up on it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6231190.stm
“Taking the herbal remedy echinacea can more than halve the risk of catching a common cold”
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=26849
“The research which looked at 14 different studies on the anti-cold properties of Echinacea, found that taking the product decreased the overall risk of catching a cold by 58% and the duration of the colds was reduced by an average of 1.4 days.”
all the warmest wellwishes
lina / bjork.com