“In one week, we handle all the permutations until somebody gets a broken heart. It is already my fault [she takes it for Thomas], so lets work with heart forward.” —Ha to Shoegazer
Chronology
First weekend, early 1993,
Rammstein splits the difference with Ha on what is “stone” — she begs for some?
Shoegazer describes “Richard's pickups” to Ha.
Ha demo-sings to Shoegazer, makes fun of Lead Guitar, separates the difference between Hard Rock Led Zepplin (voice) and Metal guitar (Ozzy, Black Sabbath) — Metal is moderate tempo for the singer, so “Till must enunciate!” A massive transfer of the Musica concept is about to occur. Eventually it would take up 33 singles by Rammstein (since 1995) at a rate of almost one each year (since band's formation to last single in 2022), up to the boxed set release on vinyl in Germany on November 14, 2025.
Jason stops by Ha's house, they get to work on the Rumble sound of Ha's Punk pickups. Jason returns to his ally Gretsch. Ha plucks the French name Duplantier off the top of her head while discussing farming. Two endorsements are about to occur at the same time, one in Germany and one in France. Ha sneaks in the Brits for Gretsch, not expecting manufacturing capacity for a prototype guitar (later made in China). For the first time, Ha's folios are disheveled with her inclusion of dance and choreography, which Jason likes and endorses but vetoes anyway in favor of Rgo direct employment. Ha's dancing is not to be shared; she jokes about paired ballroom dancing (she is the best Rave dancer in DC) with Jason the Human Discoball. Jason would soon connect to China out of his business acumen for constant development.
Tuesday,
Rammstein muddles the difference on a Venn of Jew or German — to two Catholic teen femmes, but the band never meets Ha. Shoegazer reports Till and Richard drink heavily. Art is the only distraction from self-destruction, not piety, a challenge for artHausDC.
Goodies for the band. Ha is extravagant. Oh well, they can wait 30 years for the Old Men Deluxe Rgo edition. They get Shoegazer's artHaus Adequate Proletariat edition, but no custom Vic Firth Rgo-designed tribal drumsticks for Flake (sorry, Schneider).
Advocating for artHaus, Shoegazer temps Rammstein into art by way of grand music, sneaks in state stoic morality, something less miserable or oppressive. Rammstein disagrees.
Jason was not sure about the tension between Richard ZK and Ha. She was miserable through the exercise. He wanted to test whether immigration was different from emigration after he found out Ha was neither on loan to the USA nor arrived voluntarily. She objected to his testing on Richard ZK. Why he picked on him, Ha does not know. She took the test of reversal and empathy and drew the logo and lettering set on graph paper, using a Greek Sigma to break the Star of David. Then she vetoed her own work. Jason overturned to finish the letterings set and kept the work to pass it on to Rammstein. There are alternatives in the set for 4, 7, R, Z, E, K, S, an alpha and a theta. Emigrate ➚ is Richard's side project.
Wednesday,
Shoegazer makes a quick pitstop at Ha's house. It's fun to know Till's lips are not sexier than Ha's. Is there still demand for imagination?
Ha clarifies Musica to Rammstein via Shoegazer, who choose to split from the high society side of the Opera again. Conservative Shoegazer is sympathetic to artHausDC but has to skip out of controversy between nations.
After Shoegazer leaves, Ha writes “Temple Prayer” thin toilet paper poem on really thin paper, for Till and Richard. The content has nothing to do with toilet, something about outside the day is dawning, a priest is the “voice” of the poem.
Shoegazer is with Rammstein in DC, panics that the military is connecting to Berlin on the expensive phone. She orders a soldier from Arlington to take a walk to them in DC. She takes notes of what the manager needs so she can relay to Ha.
Friday,
Temple is re-spelled Tempel, dunno if that's German prayer. Shoegazer gets music lesson on New Wave and Industrial from Ha. Takes poem to give to Rammstein.
A Jason and Ha collaboration, on how to represent six persons of a band. Jason was developing his Tree of Life motif that would later catch on all around the globe. Ha chose to speak about the weather they might have in February, a guided meditation for him in winter. He thought the idea was harshly beautiful. Finally materialized exactly as he agreed, fully formed into artwork for Rammstein's redux single (Nov 1997) of Kraftwerk's “Das Modell”: Jason would turn nineteen years old the month after Rammstein's announcement. Ha's military silliness in 1993 toward happy-go-lucky artHaus snowbunnies: “If they want art, they get exercise in winter. They will point their camera away from their footprints and see the trees before they reach the grove...”.
Saturday, early 1993,
Rammstein splits the difference with Shoegazer on what is Goth (Rammstein, according to Shoegazer) and what is Industrial (Shoegazer, according to Rammstein), they jam together at a hotel in DC.
Jason reports on Duplantier, a family of farmers in France. He assembles a Metal music folio for the band, codename Godzilla. He switches to his Revolution Straps, fills in designs with “anomolies”: Bigfoot, aliens, skips Loch Ness and the Kraken, holds off on dragons.
Sunday,
Shoegazer's parents have brunch in DC.
Web 4K music video (May 1998), a re-release for their first major single. German robots enter a French masquerade. With their lazer red eyes they spy... it's that darn red dress again! Rammstein's “Du riechst so gut” (You smell so good), from their debut studio album
Herzeleid (1995). The notorious bowties that Ha took off her own slim, anti-poofy red wedding dress, is a running joke ever since the photo session of Gibson's 100th birthday guitar for B.B. King. Red dress reappears at the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony with Gojira (Rgo magazine 2026 Feb 12, Vol. 1, No. 5). It's Goth, it's Industrial, it's not Punk. The lady has tuberculosis.
Second week, early 1993,
Richard ZK solves the mystery of DC's 7Drum, who are part of the Jewish folks in DC. Brevetted Attorney ZK leaves the pickups quandry to Goth Chick Ha, a gal he never met. Rammstein leaves DC.
Jason revives the Goth Chick Perfume Stash Guitar dead folio. artHaus assigns him to develop merchandise for Rammstein. He chooses to start with Ha's Yves Saint Laurent Paris scent eau de toilette. He discusses the assignment he gave artHausDC, an archivable folio signature with a special “librarian cat” Revolution strap for Ha. Could be a dead guitar is the right bookmark for the Rammstein folio; Shoegazer calls the motivation an anchor.
A history and language tutorial on accounting, farming, and writing systems for Jason. He settles on “Babylonian wheat” runes as the closest to Celtic runes. Rather than bone oracles or glyphs, he sticks to Roman Latin alphabet and creates a character set for his alphabet of Rammstein lettering. He adds a needle or sharp stylus, or the sliced end of an ink dip pen, for different reasons.
cheese factory, Emigrate ___
Ha develops chess set ensemble Year2 guitars and mandolin for Jason or Rammstein, or for Punk or Progressive; Jason rejects. Ha develops Rumble humbuckers set, Jason separates out one set only for Gretsch (released on 2025 Abbey Road Studiomatic RS201 guitar) rather than 2+1 ensemble two guitars and bass.
Ha provides for Rammstein's manager. Jason signs one perfume for the scent collection he designs, to make fun of the agreement for Rammstein to record in a French studio. Ha is not wondering why service people cannot live on salary but have to vend nick-knacks on the side. Isn't it too much to wonder?
The Germans who do not sell cologne. The only perfume Ha wears is Yves Saint Laurent “Paris”. “Paris for him” was created by Ha, with the “Steel elixir” mist spray created by Jason; she objected but he overruled. The “Kokaine Intense” was the series signature by Jason in red packaging to match Ha's EinRouge Fender guitar, in 75 mL to represent her birth year 1975. All the other scents are in 100 mL bottles. All the scents available from the Rammstein Shop were created by Jason, Ha, and Shoegazer in late January 1993.
Wednesday-Friday,
The case of Seven Drums Children's Marching Band vs. 7DrumCity splits into four parts. The clubhouse “DC artHaus” is opened by marching band formation serenading, joined by federal agents, teachers and students, Habitat for Humanity missionaries, Pentagon military volunteers. Donations of acoustic instruments and five hand drums for Ha's Opera acapella chant “Pulse Restriction”. artHausDC uses Ha's Treasury escrow token with permission, a government gold coin worth approximately $450 at the time with significant mint year for Pentagon, one of ten different coordinated escrow mechanisms used for the clubhouse to become a U.S. federal asset.
artHaus pick through Thomas's copy of Ha's Opera Ein Musica. artHausDC prepares to stockpile supplies for Ha's rev2Rgo art employment program at their new clubhouse on North Capitol NW. Jason tries to get excited about the Opera, but he and Thomas had already shelved it for Year2. By Rammstein's 33rd single “Adieu” (2022, main artwork choreography by Jason and Ha, title by Ha), the Opera is coming to Rammstein.
Jason borrows one-week term dollars from Rgo for his own merchandise company, Revolution Straps. Ha forces him to do accounting of Commander Salamander storefront in Georgetown, DC, he ignores fuel and utilities problem. British Petroleum is the only answer, and Ha has to sign on funding J Rgo; he has to start paying when he turns twenty-two (2001). Ha pays BP through Jack (Jason's father) until she is twenty-one (1993-1996). Jack and Thomas pay in between (1997-1999). Government refuses to expand Rgo's purview in petroleum. Jack reforms administrative taxation expenditure, transferring bogus work credit expenditure into savings and sets aside government reserve petroleum stockpile for military only, prioritizing Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Navy is unhappy.
2009, one month of music and design,
That starfield background at Rammstein's website? artHaus reconnects with Ha through rgoDark. They design Rammstein's website together, Ha giving instructions, via online chat relay, for every graphic element: fonts, wallpaper, navigation menu, layout, site content sections. It's fun to have artHaus bossing Ha around again.
Ha is tuckered out but picks up Reverb.Com.
Ha writes her first Rgo written order and has to go through the State Department (expired in 2025), which means Ha is in the Army for 4 more years for NATO, to 2014 instead of 2012. The bill to Rgo spills over into the B's, billions of dollars (USA section expires 2030). Aaah, just like it was yesterday for Rammstein.
U.S. State dept uses rgoDark to connect French maestro to Ha for the International Olympics Committee (IOC), an expensive phone she had never been on before. Ha works online for two weeks, defies French maestro and does not drink wine. She writes some poetry for him and arranges music with him that 15 years later wins Olympia 2024 for Gojira; Ha had never seen Rammstein's video remake of Depeche Mode's “Stripped” (1998).
How to pay for Q Rgo 1993 asymmetric Kwayzaar ESP RZK-I guitar?
Ha took several years to do silent step cadences onfoot alone without any technology across several counties and states to personally vouch for the 2009 $billion-dollar big Order that would pay for the Burnt variant of Richard's guitar. The U.S. still worked closely with NATO right before its attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, the 21st anniversary of her last school day at Fort Huachuca, Arizona in 2005. Mission half-arsed! Rammstein pulled through and fully accomplished the special order offer (codename Stadia for Rammstein, to artistically balance with Olympia for Gojira) discussed with the Rammstein liaison, rallying six million music lovers through their five-year Stadium Tour at a riper old age in 2019-2024. France and Germany cross the finish line at the same time!
rammArt squeezes the Gibson Les Paul for Paul Landers' Signature guutar out of Ha. She insists the price means it will be the Standard, not the Supreme that Rgo did for Gibson in the 1990s. Standard means Rgo Satin and Goth Rammstein black. rammArt is fascinated by Ha's previous work for Gretsch and ESP: sparkle! She asks about Till and whether he is certified for hand-held Independence Day sparkles fireworks. Silvery and black with the occasional military green are the only colors she offers, no 1970s Rock sunburst.
Ha discusses a special order with Rammstein's liaison. They discuss pension for upper-class meritocracy of Germany. The financing is feasible but the fulfillment pushes out to the same time as x-th Olympiad (happened to be Japan-France under concertmaster Victor Le Masne for torch transfer 2020-2024). She takes a break and clarifies the first “matchstick” Rammstein logo, from the 1993 guided meditation with Jason, to a 3D model engineer-artisan for Richard's ESP guitar (RZK-600 and RZK-I), a drawing from years before, even though she never expected it to be printed on the guitar. A IsThisWhatYouMean moment. Her clarification helps Dirk Rudolph polish Rammstein's logo series.
Ha forgot about Rammstein in her 20s. The liaison is unhappy one guitar is not enough for Rammstein, but Ha has to study the Reverb catalog and conduct a security audit before financing.
Rammstein liaison and Ha reach a compromise. Ha is uninspired and downgrades one of her Year2 G.I. series guitar Q+J 1993 designs. She does not open a federal investigation, saving money in budget, fixes her financing problem of $50,000 for two guitars. Ha commits her “muddy rust wires” guitar to ESP (RZK-III Burnt), making fun of Internet CyberCom StarWars SpaceForce A.I. museum she had already been to located at Fort Huachuca, an old tradition bungling a young institution wannabe. She jokes with the liaison about School of Dü Klaw.
Ha improves or invents Dolby Atmos, Rammfire, Sustainiac bilateral no-chatter noise cancelling, __.
rgoDark wants music, too. They demand Ha does something about their proposed song that would become “Ramm4”. “Everything you need not for Rammstein... is your [other] song”. A logic problem between Germany and France emerge... and breaks her jaw and cracks all her teeth in 20 seconds with A.I. She cannot sing for another ten years. She leaves Nashville for a long, long walk, Ha and her shadow, exceeding whether identical twin brothers “would walk 500 miles” (“I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)”, by The Proclaimers, 1988).
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