Munich, Germany

the ride out of Salzburg by train was beautiful.


hello Munich.





we got hooked up so proper. before leaving for Europe, i asked my friend Ryan for his oversea contacts. he toured recently in Europe with his band Delay and went to all sorts of great places and met awesome kids. one of these kids, Clemens, has been super kind to us and we've been staying at a ''cultrual center'' in Munich called Kafe Kult.


this place is funded by the local government. so, the people involved in Kafe Kult, which has been around for many years (i think at least a decade), were given this building and they don't pay rent and nobody gives them a hard time about throwing shows or anything, really. the building is in a block of old military barracks that the government no longer had any use for so they designated them for cultural purposes. within the nearby vicinity of Kafe Kult is a sqaure dancing society and some kind of lederhosen club. the government hands over these buildings to different orginzations and then is able to say that they participate in maintaing and advancing cultural programs and they don't really get any further involved than that.

kind of like a D.I.Y. daydream. heres one of the stages.


and another bigger room, for large shows


yo todd...





one of the older guys that is like the housekeeper or maintainer of space, Herbert, has been around since way back and has a practice space/musuem in one of the rooms. he's a collector of unique junk, finding most of his items either at old abadoned homes or from the river (seriously, he had three old rifles that he fished out). his display was impressive. we also got to "jam" with him, which was rad. his drumset had super old, cow hide heads on the floor tom and bassdrum.




we've been fortunate enough to have Clemens to hang out with during our time in Munich.


the first day we went to Englisher Garten, Europe's largest metroplication public park. This place is bigger than Central Park and has rapid's flowing throughout them. They are fast! You jump in and the water just takes you. You zip around corners and under foot bridges.

super fun and dangerous. I guess someone dies every year.

they also have urban surfing right where the rapids come out. so rad to see in the middle of an city. surfing is awesome.





the next stop was Olympia Park, a site built for the 1972 Olympics.




this looks like a golf course but it's actually a perfectly manicured park for recreation.



subway pillars.



we also went to see the new Quentin Tarantino movie "Inglorious Bastards". Dward and I were a little worried that the film would be overdubbed in German and we wouldn't be able to understand anything. This wasn't the case but most of the movie was still totally foreign to us. There's a lot of French and German dialouge in this movie. When you see the movie in Munich, Germany, the French is translated into German and the German doesn't get translated at all. Oh well, we got the jist of it.

these pictures are for Melissa Haviland.