This weekend is the Great Train Expo in Ft Worth at the Ft Worth Convention Center. General admission is $7 for adults, brats are free. Kenneth, Billy, Matthew, and I will be there playing trains with Tex-N-Rail. I just finished a rope barrier for the event, I’ll post a how-to on that next week. You can find us by looking for the orange & black striped rope barrier. Be sure to stop and say “hi” to The GreenEgg while you’re there!

I got into trouble with my wife after I cooked dinner the other night. I don’t know why. Here’s the photos of our sweet & sour chicken dinner…

Reader Andy was willing to submit a much better translation for the song “Alles Neu” than the one BabelFish provided…

I burn my studio, sniff the ashes like cocaine.
I strike dead my gold fish, bury it in the yard.
I blow up my apartment, let go of everything I have.
My old life tastes like hard-bitten toast,
roast myself a splendid steak, peter cooks finest meat now.
I am the update, Peter Fox 1.1.
I want to shake it (go dancing), party, but my pond is too small.
I grow a new row of teeth as with a white shark.
Waxed, doped, polished new teeth.
I’m euphoric, and I have expensive plans.
I buy construction machines, excavators and road-rollers and cranes.
Jump at Berlin, press the siren.
I build beautiful towers of (audio-) speakers.
Basses massage your souls.
I am the wrecking ball of the g-g-g-German scene.

Hey, everything shines, so beautifully new.
Hey, if you don’t like it, make (it) new. (renew it)
The world is covered in dust, but i want to see where things are heading.
Climb the mountain of dirt, because at the top there’s a fresh wind.
Hey, everything shines, so beautifully new.

I’m tired of my old stuff, leave it rotting in a bag,
mothball the clothes and go shopping naked.
I’m completely renovated, girls have something to look at.
in good health, hard bodied, world champion in chess and boxing.
Only talk straight, give me a yes or a no.
Finished with falderal (nonsense), i stop fooling around.
If i should ever smoke weed again, i’ll smash an axe into my leg.
Don’t ever want to lie again, want to mean every sentence like i say it.
My head explodes, everything has to change.
I look for the button, meet the powerful men.
Force the country into happiness, buy banks and networks.
Everyone goes crazy, trembling sheep and lambs.
I look better than Bono, and i’m a man of the people (average guy ?)
Ready to save the world, though that might be a little too ambitious.

Hey, everything shines, so beautifully new.
Hey, if you don’t like it, make (it) new.
The air is used up here, it’s hard for me to breathe.
Bye bye, i got to get out of here, the walls are getting closer.
The world is covered in dust, but i want to see where things are heading.
Climb the mountain of dirt, because at the top there’s a fresh wind.
Hey, everything shines, so beautifully new.

Today’s video comes from that strange trip you take when you start clicking on related links… It all started with my post about Alles Neu, which has a related link on Youtube of “Marry Me“, featuring Peter Fox,” which is pretty funny, and that had a link to “Mercedes Benz” which, while it’s not really my style at all, does have a guy dressed up as Optimus Prime (I think, never was really into Transformers) in it, which gives it some geek cred.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbMrIiTfZYk]

YouTube says I can’t embed this one, so click the linky to view it.

I’ve got to get back in the swing of posting, that was quite the break I took. We return with a song by German artist Peter Fox, Alles Neu. I loved the driving string rhythm and the monkeys. Of course, I can’t understand a word he says, since I don’t sprechen sie Duetsches. I did, however manage to locate the German lyrics and shoved them through BabelFish, which gave some interesting results (including the slang that it couldn’t translate)… I’ll present the terrible translation on Friday.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdtLCfEcPL4]

I think we’re almost done here…

We’re working our way through the videos used in the new Weezer video – Pork and Beans. This time we’ll look at Ryan vs Dorkman – a battle royale between two special effects animators. The follow up is great as well.

Pork and Beans
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI]

Ryan vs Dorkman
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NE5elL30w4]

RvD2: Ryan vs Dorkman 2
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-is63goeBgc]

We’re working our way through the videos used in the new Weezer video – Pork and Beans. This time we’ll look at Chris Crocker – the crying Britney Spears fan. Language warning on this one.

Pork and Beans
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI]

Chris Crocker
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWSjUe0FyxQ]

We’re working our way through the videos used in the new Weezer video – Pork and Beans. This time we’ll look at Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 as she tries to answer a question…

Pork and Beans
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI]

Miss Teen South Carolina 2007
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdhMSEqhfg]

We’re working our way through the videos used in the new Weezer video – Pork and Beans. This time we’ll look at Daft Hands. Daft Punk’s song – “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” inspired many videos, including the Daft Girls. This one starts slow, since there’s nothing in the first minute or so of the song.

Pork and Beans
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI]

Daft Hands – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq--Nw]

We’re working our way through the videos used in the new Weezer video – Pork and Beans. This time we’ll look at the Daft Dancers – who started with a Daft Punk song and then did a Weezer promo. Here’s both.

Pork and Beans
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI]

Daft Punk – Harder Bodies Faster Stronger
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cva_sGN_0VA]

Daft Dancers Doin’ Weezer
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16cFXw5vkFg]