| 13.12.2009 |
|
||||||||
| So it’s 7PM, Friday evening, I’m thinking about having a quiet night, getting some sleep before an early-morning sports shift. The phone rings. My mate Magnus. “Do we want to put ourselves through this?” “Of course.” An hour later, I’m in Bar 11, waiting for last-placed Hertha to get hammered by Leverkusen. Only, the funny thing is: we don’t. In fact, we play pretty well, go up early on a nifty goal in the 8th minute. We hold that lead for over an hour. Victory is in sight. Something must be wrong here. This is Hertha, this is 2009. We never win. My mate Lars bets me 5 euros that the misery is finally over. I take the bet. Leverkusen score out of nowhere. Then go ahead in the 90th minute on a ridiculous deflection. Lars pays up. Hertha score a last minute equalizer. So close to a win and yet so far away. The regulars in the bar don’t know whether to be glad, sad, mad or indifferent. I make my way back home through a frigid Berlin winter night, thinking: If this nightmare were a film, what would be on the soundtrack. I came up with the following. Radiohead - Let Down Cheap Trick – Auf Wiedersehen Built to Spill – Things Fall Apart Hüsker Dü – Everything Falls Apart RL Burnside – It’s Bad, You Know Belle and Sebastian – Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying Johnny Cash – Hurt Guided By Voices – Game of Pricks Bob Dylan – Desolation Row Ween – Help Me Scrape the Mucus Off My Brain dEUS – Worst Case Scenario Herman Dune – So Not What I Wanted Elliott Smith – A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to be Free Motörhead – Ace of Spades The thematic leitmotif here is pretty obvious, I think, but this list might raise two questions. Springsteen’s “I’m Going Down” isn’t on it because I can’t stand Springsteen. And Ace of Spades is because every soundtrack or mixed tape, in my opinion, should end with Ace of Spades. Plus, if Hertha had Lemmy as a central defender, there’s no way we’d be where we are in know – almost at the halfway point of a season in hell. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
