{"id":1490,"date":"2012-07-26T15:37:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T22:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jett.in\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2012-07-26T15:37:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T22:37:41","slug":"nena-windfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2012\/07\/nena-windfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Nena Windfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

it just goes to show that you never know when luck is working overtime for you.<\/p>\n

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look what i found in my old CD collection!<\/p><\/div>\n

ever since hearing 99 luftballons<\/a> for the first time as a kid on KROQ<\/a> i’ve wanted to see nena<\/a> live. i discovered her german songs in late high school or early college, and she made her comeback<\/a> right at the time i was leaving for germany so i became familiar with her new songs as well. why i never made it a point to go to a concert of hers while i was living there, i’ll never know, but here’s my chance to make up for it. i was getting excited for\u00a0the big kettcar<\/a>\/grand hotel van cleef<\/a> concert next month that i’ll be going to hamburg for, and i decided to check out nena’s website to see if she was (by any chance) going to be putting on a show around the same time.<\/p>\n

SURPRISE!<\/p>\n

YES! and the best parts: it’s only 2 hours away from hamburg\u00a0and\u00a0it’s free<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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it is, apparently, going to be held on the grounds of a brewery<\/a>\u00a0celebrating its 135th anniversary<\/a> in the middle of nowhere, northeast germany<\/a>. car<\/a> is rented, hotel<\/a> (next town over, since the one and only in l\u00fcbz is full due to the anniversary celebrations) is booked. YAY!<\/p>\n

i am, however, a bit intimidated: 1) this is the hinterlands (a friend from berlin calls this part of the country “uncharted territory”), 2) there will likely be lots of drunk beer-lovers (and i don’t drink), 3) i will have just stepped off a plane from newark 12 hours before the concert starts, and 4) i’ll likely stick out like a sore thumb. but what can you do? with such a confluence of things in my favor \u00a0i have no choice! my german concert bucket list will be completely checked off! (nena and kettcar in a month, and virginia jetzt back in 2010<\/a>)<\/p>\n

that will be one crazy weekend. my plan:<\/p>\n