My new place @ 475 S Adams road at Bowers, MI 48009

Apartment for 3 month stay: done. Check it out from the sky here: 475 S Adams road at Bowers, MI 48009

Ellen Allien comes around - bpitchcontrol

Ms Allien seems to follow me around - bpitchcontrol:

MAR 16, 2006 CANADA MONTREAL PARKING
MAR 17, 2006USA CHICAGO SMART BAR
MAR 18, 2006USA NEW YORK AVALON

...will be on my way to Chicago March 17th.

NYC303 Shopping Guide

...nearly missed to post this. here's list of mandatory shopping & eating if you ever hit NYC's energy-loaded SOHO.

brooklynindustries - best urban-style bags and clothing.
triple five soul - the aim of design is to define space.

spring street natural restaurant - breakfast! morning sun.
nyonya - malaysian cuisine, taste-price-ratio = unbeatable, very nice staff.

marriott's hotel view bar - spinning up high (360° moving restaurant) between skyscrapers surrounding times square.

recommended city walking: go walk brooklyn bridge early. take subway to ferries, get on the boat for the statue, stay on the boat until ellis island: see the path of immigration to the usa. take the ferry back, walk wall street and see ground zero.

Fuse-In Festival Detroit, Michigan, May 2006

Fuse-In - Detroit's one and only electronic music festival will take place May 28-30th 2006.

Very good sites for Detroit sound fanatics are Nefarious.net, DetroitClubScene.com and Detroitluv.com.

Detroit, Michigan - Wikipedia

Here you will find some interesting facts about the city that I will live in for the next 3 months: Detroit, Michigan - Wikipedia
I really like the satellite image shot from NASA's Landsat. Check out the great blue color of the lakes and the perfect grid of streets!

Monday was a holiday (Martin Luther King's Day) here. Had an early phoneconference to attend for work and then checked out some more corporate housing options around Royal Oak and Crooks Road area. Looks like I'll go with the place I saw first already last week, which is very close to downtown Birmingham.

Monday nite nothing special, besides talking to my colleague in Indonesia (which is always fun) and preparing for the week, happened.

My flight back to Stuttgart (A319) leaves this Friday afternoon around 4pm.

Gateway Computers - New Convertible Notebook / Laptop / Tablet PC

Gateway Computers - New Convertible Notebook / Laptop / Tablet PC - noticed this one during the many tv ads, seems to be good.

Pleix films

Pleix films - fantastic animations

The Fresh Corporation

The Fresh Corporation - fresh detroit parties

saturday at naias.com - the north american international auto show

met with my colleague t. at oakland mall's border's bookstore and left my pt cruiser from avis there. him, his friend r. and me drove downtown detroit and parked at the greektown casinos parking structure, took the people mover to the cubu building and entered the naias. the size of that show is impressive - unfortunately i can't compare it to frankfurt's iaa, as i've never been there, but it's surely XL.

the best and most innovative car's in my opinion were:

• Jaguar's XK
• Chrysler's new Imperial concept and Dodge Challenger
• Volkswagen's Touareg "Stanley" that won the DARPA Grand Challenge recently

after 5 hours of walking through 95% of the shows presentations, we had a nice dinner at Niki's Pizza & Greek Favorites. getting back to the hotel around 10:30 pm i was not able to find enough energy around to go back downtown and hit the corktown tavern :(

now it's time to cruise the city for more potential apartments.

the punisher @ corktown tavern

first night out with my colleague "d" (name shortened to protect the witness) was very cool (weather was heavy rain that turned into snow later): dinner at the mongolian barbeque, cruising woodward avenue (birmingham, royal oak, ferndale), pit-stop at the post bar, looking for oslo in "a not so nice neighbourhood" - error: not found, up woodward to pontiac where we entered a club called "tiki bob's pontiac", which is right next to "tonic".

tonight miss michelle herrman (age 25), who calls herself the punisher, will be downtown detroit @ the corktown tavern. i think i haven't heard her playing live before, but her alias is a well known name around the globe. her style is yet unknown to me, but surprises are always nice :)

before driving down i-75 tonight we'll check out all the latest in car design and technology at the north american international auto show this afternoon.

drive safely and happy weekend.

troy pierce @ oslo

OSLO is the place that has Troy Pierce spinning some minimalistic tunes tonight - friday 13th. i heard it's a good sushi restaurant for dinner, but after that it's turned into a nice bar with a downstairs dancefloor + dj.

let's see how my first night out in the city of electronic music goes...

PS: please read this DetroitMetro article online if you want to know more about the city's influence to the history of electronic music.

first entry on the all new detroit303 blog

hello to everyone, who found this blog by coincidence or by clicking on a link i sent out. most of the following posts will cover what happens between january's friday 13th and early may 2006 - my time in detroit, michigan, usa - including work life, apartment search, restaurants, music and nightlife. stay tuned for real content to be created soon.

happy new year 2006 to all of you - may all your possible or impossible dreams come true.

to start with a quick recommendation for fantastic steak, seafood, salads and wine go to "the palm restaurant" @ 5600 crooks road · troy, mi 48098
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