{"id":422,"date":"2006-11-22T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=422"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:27:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:27:52","slug":"a-quarter-of-a-million-people-sitting-at-home-watching-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/11\/a-quarter-of-a-million-people-sitting-at-home-watching-tv.html","title":{"rendered":"A quarter of a million people sitting at home watching TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/cookylamoo\/303738212\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/raum02a.jpg\" title=\"Look! If you squint you can see Jeremy Bentham winking at you!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve added a few more photos to the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/groups\/66674455@N00\/pool\/\">Looking at People Looking at Art<\/a> group on Flickr.  These are from the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raum2810.de\/\">Raum 2810<\/a>, a new art space in Bonn, which opened with an exhibition and collaborative performance by Michael Graeve and Christoph Dahlhausen.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was over there for a weekend, to catch up with an old friend.  The girlfriend is still thanking me for making her spend the weekend at an abandoned factory in a dormitory suburb on the outskirts of a dull, provincial town in one of the drabber corners of Germany.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actually, the exhibition and opening were very pleasant; the people were friendly and invited us to stay on afterward for an enormous buffet and copious amounts of Australian shiraz cabernet.  All very good, even though one of the dishes was a salad of onion rings and pineapple chunks in mustard sauce.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The old city centre of Bonn was bustling with crowds on Saturday, particularly with crowds of drunk people in silly costumes: it was the first day of Karneval. Yes, this part of the Rhineland starts its pre-lenten festivities in November.  But then at night, and on Sunday, the city is deserted: it&#8217;s quite a job just finding somewhere to grab a coffee.  After 10pm it&#8217;s possible to walk through the central streets utterly alone.  It was uncannily like being back in Adelaide on a Saturday afternoon.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The girlfriend tried to amuse herself by photographing everything in town with the name &#8220;Beethoven&#8221; arbitrarily plastered over it, but her camera only had a 512 MB memory card.  Nothing was named Schumann, despite both Robert and Clara being buried there, having lived at Endenich, which is now a suburb.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even the toilets in the bars were hung with posters advertising the next piano recital at the Beethoven Konzerthaus, along with ads for <a href=\"http:\/\/sarsaparillablog.net\/?p=345\">Vicky Leandros&#8217;<\/a> christmas concert.  Sadly, I think I&#8217;ll have to miss that.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/bonnloo01.jpg\" title=\"Also coming to Bonn, Fish and most of Level 42.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added a few more photos to the Looking at People Looking at Art group on Flickr. These are from the launch of Raum 2810, a new art space in Bonn, which opened with an exhibition and collaborative performance by Michael Graeve and Christoph Dahlhausen. I was over there for a weekend, to catch up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}