'Happy Holidays from Depeche Mode'

Depeche Mode's official Christmas postcard for 2013. Do I even have to say anything at all? I think not :'D

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I wrote to Benjamin Ebel about a week ago suggesting him to reuse this concept for Tokio Hotel, but I think he was too busy searching the whole internet in hopes to find the hipsterest Christmas greeting available (PS. mission accomplished) to listen to my selfless advice, so, in the end, he just wrote a standard three-sentence 'Merry Christmas' message in their name... without even photoshopping a picture to go with it! Ah... what happened to the good old days, when we got a brand new Photoshop creation EVERY DAY? Gone! They're gone - just like Neon Dogs' future. 

The poor guy(s) overworked themselves to death in the first half of 2013, but there's no problem, because, once again, I've generously volunteered to do the work for them. So, here's my Tokio Hotel Christmas postcard for 2013, 100% free from Photoshop - just like Benjamin Ebel likes it! ;)

Now that's what I call Christmas Spirit! :D

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PS. Christmas Eve wasn't as bad as I expected... pretty much as always. Thanks to the good old music in my Christmas playlist for helping me get through yet another Christmas dinner. And the good thing is now I can go stress-free for almost a week. No planning; no cleaning - just the usual stuff... 

...or perhaps not?

Ich bin ein Schwarzkopf

My new Schwarzkopf shampoo is really... schwarz LOL

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And, meanwhile, I'm busy rehearsing Schwarz - the Tokio Hotel song -, still trying to figure out how to adapt it for a one-guitar acoustic performance... and learning to play TH songs usually ends up being Hell on Earth, because there are very few decent guitar tabs available (if at all). That's probably because most TH fans don't know a lot about guitar tabs, and the people who DO know a lot about guitar tabs don't waste their time studying Tokio Hotel songs. 

Most times, it's impossible to even find out in which tuning the song is actually played, and every tab you see says a different thing, so, in the end, you just have to figure it of by ear... and Tokio Hotel DO love some tricky tunings, which usually makes it a pretty tough job. Not bad for a band that is not even supposed to write its own music, right?

In the end, I usually just redo the whole thing my way to fit my general idea of what the song sounds like. And that's pretty much what I'm trying to do with Schwarz.

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I'm dressed in black, playing black songs. Everything around me looks black, but not so black anymore. Perhaps there is no way we can get out of this darkness... but we can still try to rule inside it.

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Der blick zurück ist schwarz

Und vor uns liegt die Nacht

Es gibt kein Zurück

Zum Glück

Zum Glück

Kein Zurück... 

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...and I'm back in black ;)