“Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!” -Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., American Broadway Producer/Impresario

Music is widely considered a form of art but as a casual, non-musically or artistically talented person I don’t have a finely tuned taste to what makes art and music “good” in a general sense and so I can only describe when music and art make me feel something special. That is where Public Service Broadcasting comes in. Public Service Broadcasting is a 3-man band from London, England who in a word can only be described as unique. Last night I took a late evening train to Hamburg and a midnight train back home to finally see them in concert and I wasn’t sure what to expect but that I got was an hour and forty-five-minute long show of music and art combined.

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“I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief because there will be so much to look forward to.” -Donnie Darko, Main Character, Donnie Darko

We are all being piled in these massive rockets that were scattered across the majority of countries. We were all moving to Mars. There is a massive planetoid object that the incredibly secret, high-level governmental organizations knew about on its way towards Earth. We were told that they are sorry they hid this from us but it was originally discovered 4 years ago and it was kept completely off the record but the largest governments of the World have been working together to get humans off the planet. The main organizations(countries) working towards this were NASA(United States), ROSCOSMOS(Russia), ESA(European Coalition), CNSA(China), ISRO(India) and JAXA(Japan). These countries did the physical work but almost all of the countries around the world offered whatever help they could reasonably provide.

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“Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don’t have any kids yourself.” -Count Olaf, Primary Antagonist, A Series of Unfortunate Events

This is a constrained writing prompt but I won’t put it in my “series” of constrained writing as this post will be entirely made of this one prompt. I hope you enjoy as it was really fun to do.

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“Goodbye, kid. Hurry back.” -Humphrey Bogart, American Actor

Today I spent the majority of the day exploring Bremen, it was raining a bit and was a bit cold. I hunted for winter jackets, lights and just tried to enjoy the sights. However, finally after exploring from about 9:00 to 14:00 until I finally accidentally wandered into the Bremen City Library (Stadtbibliothek Bremen) and that’s where my adventure truly began.

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“It is time for a new direction…” -Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet/Russian Filmmaker

I am currently writing this realtively short post from my new apartment bedroom. I love it, the area is nice and the city is fantastic. There is a really nice, historic downtown area that is truly beautiful and nice to spend time around.

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