Michael Last month, I announced that I would review the new album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This band hails from Los Angeles and, for me, epitomizes California. Not the death penalty California or the white suburban double-garage California, but the California of chaotic cities like Los Angeles or San Francisco, where there are still crazy people like the Red Hot Chili Peppers who don't care about anything and exude new ideas. According to my favorite show "Behind the Music," their bassist "Flea" once hammered on his bass at a concert until he had a hole in his thumb! And from the series "Behind the Perl," I confide in you today that under the (almost exclusive) influence of the album "Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik," I wrote "Effective Programming with Perl5" back then, a long, long time ago. Now it's out!
But, to my amazement, the record was number one on the German charts, and even the Bild newspaper, which I regularly read online to Angelika's dismay, had reviewed it! However, I have one more thing to add, which you probably won't learn from German media: "On Mercury," the 13th song on the record, has Mexican influences. Mexican folk music is quite comparable to German Oompah (beer tent) music and is as much a part of California as döner is to Bavaria. In the "Mission" district of San Francisco, you often see Mexican street gang cars (by the way, they prefer souped-up Acura Integras like our unsouped-up PERL MAN) cruising by, with Oompah music blaring and cool characters hanging their elbows out the window. The circle closes.
Greetings from the West!
Angelika and Michael