Let Me See If I Can Not Mess This Up... I Have An Important Addition...

Let me see if I can not mess this up... I have an important addition...

CHRISTIAN LORENZ is amazing!

Definitely not trying for embarrassment, but 😂, 💡, ☀️ and 💕 for the fanfic asks?

Thanks! 🌼

-themarten

Yes! Thanks @themarten!

😂 What’s the funniest comment someone has left on a fic of yours?

Ha, one that cracked me up a while ago was @tinnike describing Paul in Sex on the Beach as a “producer” of an encounter, he would be.

💡 What’s the weirdest thing you’ve been inspired by? 

I might be inspired by very conventional, non-weird things. Band stories, cool pictures, songs... I guess I have a scene that ended up being inspired way more closely than I had initially intended by Lou Reed’s Romeo Had Juliette.

☀️ Has anyone ever left you a comment that made your day? What did it say? 

I have loved every comment I’ve ever gotten, and I am so grateful to the wonderful people who write them. 

💕 What is the WIP that you are most excited about? 

Maybe the Room of Broken Hearts (that’s not its actual title, but it’s more descriptive than its actual title. Hmm.)

Thank you for showing me Wolgas, that does indeed sound like a kingly trip.

Flake's podcast - König und Königin (King and Queen)

Published 2020-12-09, i can't find if i did a post on it at the time, but it's possible i didn't (I'm giving tumblr the benefit of the doubt here), so here it is, before it dissappears from the Radio Eins webpage.

I think the podcasts are regularly reposted though, every 2nd tuesday there is a new Flake podcast, but every 4th tuesday they re-publish an older one, so with a bit of luck we'll get another listen somewhere in the future 🌹

radioeins.de

FLAKE. Des Tastenfickers Podcast.

Flake ist der „Tastenficker“ von Rammstein und Autor von Bestellern. Seine Kenntnis ungewöhnlicher Musiktitel ist grenzenlos; seine Themen u

Not that many anecdotes in this one, mainly Flake playing music an musing on bandnames and songs etc (which, now we know that Richard listens to Flake's podcasts, i'm pretty sure he'll give Flake a call afterwards to correct some facts 😁 like on the band King, named after singer Paul King, which Flake it seems thinks is a bit pretentious to call yourself 'king', but in this case it's actually the guy's name 🍀).

But there is a little gem starting about 1h31, when Flake announces the next song is one that is only known to 4 people in the world, and he is one of them, it is called 'Der König' (The king)

Flake basically spend his entire time playing music, in official bands, but also getting together with other friends and just playing for the fun of it. When there weren't concerts to play, they would just take their instruments, drive somewhere and play. This time there were 4 of them: André Greiner-Pol (singer and guitarist of Freygang, he was forbidden to play by the state at the time, so he was bored), Alexander Kriening (by that time former drummer of Feeling B, because he didn't want to commit to one particular band), Flake, and a technician (who by the way is still sound technician for Rammstein).

The 4 of them drove to a house in the village Oderbruch (very near the polish border), without any plan, just taking along their gear. The first day they spent putting together all their equipment, second day they played a bunch of songs, and the third day they played everything on cassette-tape, so they could have their friends listen to it. And between playing they went on walks to the village (to buy milk and cheese), Flake got to drive the car, he didn't have a license yet, but André let him drive his 'Wolga' car. It made Flake feel like a king, he just did what was fun to do, the weather was nice, they were great friends and had loads to talk about.

Life was really okay for Flake 😍

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Some photos for illustration

André Greiner-Pol

Alexander Kriening and Flake

André and his car, not sure if this is the same as in the story, but these are the kind of cars they used.

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More 'takes' on Flake's podcasts

😜 🤡✏️ fanfic ask!

😜 Describe a current WIP without using character names. (Points if your followers guess who the fic is for.)

Just one scene - At a party where neither are drinking, CharA makes an effort to cook, but CharB takes over and CharA flirts with them and both have a nice time.

🤡 What’s the dumbest thing you’ve written?

I mean, Richard drawing on Flake's butt was pretty dumb :D

✏️ What is your fave fic from another writer?

We're going to be here all day if I have to pick just one, but a few lesser-known favorites are last of the gang to bleed out, My Girl., and Switch and Swap.

Agreed, that sounds like Paul to me.

Rammstein and Depeche Mode 2001

On press conference in Tallinn 2001 Paul and Flake were asked following: 

  You’ve made a cover of Depeche Modes song “Stripped”, How do you feel about this band?

When we made this cover, we didn’t know them. We were asked to cover a song for the Depeche Mode tribute record. We’ve met them a few times, but we don’t know them very well. Their singer doesn’t drink anymore, goes to bed immediately after the concert. And with Martin Gore, we don’t know if he likes men or women.

It does not say here who answered this but to my ears it sounds a lot like Paul, because he like to bring the gay topic into interviews. But then it also kind of sounds like Flake … 

This picture is taken at award show in Germany. Fanboy Richard does not even try to hide that he would like to eat Martin alive. And look how well both frontmen are side by side.