{"id":1151,"date":"2015-05-15T17:40:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2015-05-15T17:40:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:40:44","slug":"money-for-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"Money for mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In diesen Stunden findet in Gedern das ITV, das “Internationale Teleskoptreffen Vogelsberg”<\/a> statt. Viele hundert Hobbyastronomen treffen sich dort, um das Hobby gemeinsam auszuleben. In diesem Jahr wird das Album “Brothers in Arms” der Dire Straits 30 Jahre alt. Beide Anl\u00e4sse zusammen ergeben einen guten Grund, an dieser Stelle mal meinen alternativen Songtext zu “Money for nothing” zu ver\u00f6ffentlichen.<\/p>\n

Geschrieben habe ich den Text bereits 1999, schon damals hatte das Lied einige Jahr auf dem Buckel. Vor kurzem habe ich den Bassisten der Dire Straits mit einer sehr guten Band live in Hamburg erleben d\u00fcrfen – und da rockte Money for nothing richtig gut die Bude \ud83d\ude42 Wenn ich mir die Gitarre f\u00fcr das Lied umschnalle, klingt das so<\/a>. Genug der Vorrede, hier kommt der Text:<\/p>\n

Intro: I want my, I want my ITV<\/p>\n

Well look at them stars, now, that’s the way we do it.
\nWe take the Telescope to that dark site
\nSet it up on a football field
\nand get ready for a lo-hong night.<\/p>\n

You may think, that ain’t a hobby,
\nwe’re crazy as a crazy one can be.
\nYou might be right and we’re weird
\nbut you’re word doesn’t bother me<\/p>\n

Ref:
\nWe’ve got to install equatorial mountings, autoguiders and CCD
\nWe’ve got to move these heavy tripods
\nWe’ve got to move’em to the ITV<\/p>\n

See that buddy with the tent and the Pickup ?
\nYeah buddy, that’s his own scope
\nHe goes for galaxies and faint fuzzies,
\na starlightjunkie, that’s his dope.<\/p>\n

Ref<\/p>\n

I should’ve learned how to sell them (these) mirrors
\nI should’ve learned, to sell things fine!
\nLook at that girl staring through that telescope
\nIf I was the dealer, I could make her mine!<\/p>\n

And he’s up there, what’s that ? A Meade-Motor ?
\nWaking up the neighborhood while it works ?
\nThis big refractor or this little Newton,
\nI’m sure people think, we’re jerks.<\/p>\n

Ref<\/p>\n

Well, look at them stars, now, that’s the way we do it.
\nWe’re meeting at the ITV
\nclear skies and many friends and we want
\nMoney for mirrors and the stars for free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In diesen Stunden findet in Gedern das ITV, das “Internationale Teleskoptreffen Vogelsberg” statt. Viele hundert Hobbyastronomen treffen sich dort, um das Hobby gemeinsam auszuleben. In diesem Jahr wird das Album “Brothers in Arms” der Dire Straits 30 Jahre alt. Beide … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[1,8,10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asterythms.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}