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140104 Not Taste

A button on the first floor of the UKE.

‘Not Taste’ was just another one of these anglicism, at first sight today. On a second sigh, or thought, however, I realized that this phrase actually referred to the button you press in case of emergency, when you are in “Not”. And ‘taste’ (food) did not have anything at all to to with ‘Taste’ I had passed by this button, went back to it to double check it, and almost gave in to the temptation to press it. Never in my life have I felt more like pressing the Not Taste.

Pádraig today continued to get better. Less drugs, less oxygenation, less mechanical interference. They took out one of the drains in his lung altogether. They will block off the other drainage tomorrow to see how well he’ll tolerates it. The physios were back in action and sat him up on the edge of his bed in the morning. They are talking about possible dates for a move back to Eilbek and the Schön-Klinik. All good.

The German Duo Rosenstolz have a song similar to the one from Kodaline, Brand New Day, that was mentioned on a comment earlier today:

Zieh mich tief zu Dir ins Wasser, hauch mir Leben ins Gesicht
keine Lust nur Luft zu atmen und ohne Dich da geht es nicht
Und jetzt stehn wir vor dem Abgrund woll’n den Boden nicht mehr spür’n
nur ein Schritt nach vorn zum Leben,egal wie es passiert

Perlentaucher – nimm mich mit auf Deine Reise
Perlentaucher – ganz egal wie tief
und wenn wir keine Luft mehr kriegen,
wenn die Wellen uns besiegen,
weiß ich doch wir hab’n die Perlen uns verdient

Whatever happens, er hat die Perlen sich verdient.

Today’s German Music Tip
Rosenstolz, Perlentaucher (1998). – AnNa R. and Peter Plate, alias Rosenstolz, were one of Pádraig’s favourite German bands in the late 90s and early 00’s. ‘Perlentaucher’ is one of their best known songs.
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Perlentaucher
Not Taste
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