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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Favorite Songs of All Time: Celebrated Summer by Hüsker Dü

From New Day Rising (1985), comes this incredible song by the fabled Minneapolis trio Hüsker Dü:

Love and hate was in the air, like pollen from a flower
Somewhere in April time, they add another hour

I guess I'd better think up a way to spend my time
Just when I'm ready to sit inside, it's summer time
Should I go fishing or get a friend to hang around
It's back to summer, back to basics, hang around

Getting drunk out on the beach, or playing in a band
And getting out of school meant getting out of hand

Was this your celebrated summer? Was that your celebrated summer?

Then the sun disintegrates between a wall of clouds
I summer where I winter at, and no one is allowed there

Do you remember when the first snowfall fell
When summer barely had a snowball's chance in Hell

Monday, September 5, 2011

Down On The Street - Stuttgart Edition

NSU Prinz TTS, as seen in front of the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart (full M-B Museum post forthcoming).

There's not a spec of Mercedes-Benz DNA in this mighty mini, but it's quite cool anyway.

With a rear-mounted, air-cooled 4-cylinder powerplant (and VW ownership post-1968), it would be better-placed in front of the Audi Museum, two hours away in Ingolstadt.

It certainly would have been cool to have watched this thing zip down the straße.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Car Nerd Heaven - MeilenWerk, Stuttgart

Located in a series of re-purposed airplane hangers is Stuttgart's MeilenWerk.

A very cool space that includes facilities for classic and exotic car sellers, auto storage, exotic repair and the V8 Hotel.

Even the parking lot has many interesting vehicles: