Last Summer Days

So I'm back from holidays in Italy, tomorrow my working routine starts again. Probably I'm going to post pictures of my fine summer here, probably not...

Interesting days will yet not end, as Ars Electronica Festival is going to take place in my lovely city. This year's motto is - for me, as a graduated law student - of considerable interest: The Limits of Intellectual Property. The Festival-Homepage says:

'Under the banner of “A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY – The Limits of Intellectual Property” the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival aims to co-author the preamble to a new knowledge-based society. What’s at stake: the interplay of freedom of information and copyright protection, big profit-making opportunities and the vision of an open knowledge-based society. And this is also a matter of practical, workable regulations governing this new reality, rules whose formulation ought not to be left up to lawyers and MBAs alone.

Check out the site!

Kroch revisited

For my Austrian + Hungarian readers:

Bombääää!!!!

Rossija rocks

A proof for the hipness of this blog: Radio FM4 has been airing Lykke Li's 'Little bit' since a bit more than a week, titeling her as the new big thing from Sweden. Ahem. First mentioned on this blog in this story. Watch out for the date.

So much to self-praise. Now to socialism in actual practice. A friend of mine, who is at the moment living in beautiful Soviet Union Russia, sent me this nice little video.



I wouldn't be surprised, if this shiny little song became popular among hipsters and indie-ists in, say, three or four months.

/tovarishch uljanov

Some lovely music

Here's some stuff I currently like listening to:

Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
M83 - Graveyard Girl
Kettcard - Graceland
Ladytron - Ghost

so looking forward to tomorrow. end: loneliness.

Not nerdy, but definitely not hip.

Those dancing days

A long period without posting finally has come to an end. Seems as if this blog has its downs from time to time. Only too human, isn't it?

I caught two nice tunes on the radio today and I cannot hold me back posting them here. The first is a rather new one, done by a Swedish (what else?) band with the indeed nice name 'Those dancing days'. Watch the video (watch out for those indie-boys - hilarious!), listen to the sound-file and enjoy.

Run Run


Those dancing days - Those dancing days

The second song is a classic. I spotted it today in the morning on Radio FM4 in the nicest company possible. So happy.

France Gall - Le coeur qui jazze

A+
b.

Austria vs. Germany

We are slowly recovering from Monday's defeat in European Championships against Germany. No time for complaining, our national team lost against the stronger team, no discussions.

However, we took retaliation on another field - yet a more intellectual one: Austrian writer Josef Winkler will be awarded the Georg-Büchner-Award, the most important litterary prize for literature of German tongue.

Nice, nice.