We drank too much coffee

by Alex Hetherington, 19 Feb 2008

Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk was once hospitalized due an excess of caffeine; apparently the members of the band spend their mornings at their Kling Klang Studios in Frankfurt drinking really strong coffee then hitting their sequencers, keyboards and digital technologies: man-machine-espresso. On the other side of the world David Lynch also has a major caffeine habit sending himself into a frenzy before writing his screenplays. If you’ve seen Lost Highway or Inland Empire I‘m sure this will make a lot of sense. Even if the films –as wonderful as they are – don’t. Janie and I are Ralf Hutter and David Lynch today and we have an excuse: the Village Voice newspaper/magazine arrived, all 1000 copies and today we folded the lot for distribution around the apartment buildings. It’s stuffing envelopes time, interspersed with refills of the black stuff. The newspaper looks quite good but to be honest if I see another copy of it during my lifetime it’ll be too soon. I will feel different with Edition #2 I think. But no more coffee. Ever. I shall now be up all night listening to Autobahn and Computer World watching Inland Empire and the Lost Highway simultaneously.

Anyway the residents have the publication and I hope it generates some interesting materials. Please stand by.

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