I'm on a train from Leipzig East Germany to Leuven Belgium. Last show of the tour. I'm sitting in first class even though my ticket is second class. Will just play the dumb American when confronted. Maybe pay to stay.

I’m on my way to a squat to show the film. A squat called "God's Squat" (a play on words in Flemish--the owner has some religious-sounding last name).

Christoff in Lepizig. he's hella cool.

audience in magdaberg

what da fuck? the milk of nazis perhaps?

toilet (or a still, i forget) in a squat. or

Anton, promoter in Leuven, Belgium. very cool dude.

lars. i love this guy.

promoter in magdaberg who did the cool poster.

13-year-old punker girl at Zoro squat. she asked me "what does DIY stand for "?

the crying kitty. breaks my heart.

crusties at zoro squat.

hiding kitty in Belgium

meows!

I'm very tired. I just did 16 nights in 16 cities with no break. Then had a restful day in Leipzig. Made two new friends who I really dug a lot, Roberto and Ines. It was nice.

The last German show was at a crusty punker squat called "Zoro". Had a good show…It was like 80 crusty punkers in a small room. Kinda smelled though. If you don't know what a crusty is, it's a squatter punk who chooses not to bathe even when they have a chance. It's a social statement, I guess. Yikes! There were two bands after, both that abrasive dog-cage rock. I left.

The punkers were all really sweet though, and cooked a good meal. Definitely the best food that I've ever had in an abandoned building. And the interior decorating in the place were amazing. They'd welded old chunks of metal and machines and gears and everything everywhere to form doors, walls, ornamentation, etc. I considered it a statement--repurpousing the artifacts of industry into art to decorate an anti-capatilist home.

There was a Spanish band playing, and we did something cool. Showed the film with the Spanish subtitles for the first ten minutes for them, and then switched over to German (you can do that on a DVD player without stopping it. It was cool.). I explained to the audience before we started that we were going to do that. Punk rock

I'm leaving Germany right now. I've been on tour for six weeks, but in Germany for almost a month of that. I'll miss this place. But I'll be glad tomorrow to be back in England. My brain is tired from hearing so much non-English.

Song of the moment: "Dancing In The Lesbian Bar" by Jonathan Richman.

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