New hot stuff

The Helio Sequence - Keep your eyes ahead
White Williams - New Violence
Duffy - Mercy
Sons and Daughters - Darling
Dusty Rhodes and the River Band - Dear Honey

Urkburk.

A dark desire

Just came back from Budapest, spent a weekend there to see some nice people. As (almost) always I went there by train, used the time on it to read a bit. Well, this time it wasn't only a bit, I rather rushed through one I bought myself a couple of weeks ago. The title is 'Zephyr', and it matches the content perfectly: Zephyros was a wind god in Greek mythology, to be exactly: the god that brought the West wind. He also was a rather jealous guy, but read more here.

Main character is Gilles, a scriptwriter who wants to tell the story of a drama, he read about in the newspaper: le drame de Marie Trintignant et Bertrand Cantat, a story of total love and alike jealousy. Together with his big love Cathy he, Gilles, goes to the South of France to seek inspiration. There, he writes and drinks. Reality and fiction are more and more melting. Is he a murderer as well?

The story is incredibly fast, events rush by, from one perspective to another, one cut in the story follows the other. The storyline changes so fast that sometimes you cannot distinguish wether Gilles is talking about the Cantat-Trintignant case or his own 'reality'. A tempo perfect for a train ride.

Not the best book I read so far this year, yet perfect for the occasion. Additionally, some of the sentences the author, Albert Ostermaier, formed are of a beauty and a trueness you seldom find.

Side note - did some research on the above mentioned drama. I do not believe in coincidences any more: The girl Cantat left behind for Trintingant is from Hungary.

Peter goes Web 2.0 : )

My good friend Peter now runs a blog as well. Nice!

Check it out: http://bucspe.blogspot.com/

Spring has officially sprung

The sun crossed the equator today.

Congratulations.

Final Fantasy vs Wiener Stadtwerke

My friends of dcntrl lately published a story on plagiarism, what reminded me that I've wanted to do the same since a couple of weeks. So here we go.

Vienna's public service company 'Stadtwerke' commissioned advertising agency Publicis to create a really cool and nice TV-spot. The outcome is, in fact, very good, not to say: gorgeous. But have look on your own.



But now compare with that one:



Something SOUNDS similar, no? Publicis never commented on the case, Viennese Stadtwerke finally agreed (better: had to agree?) to support a mini-festival tour of Final Fantasy and some other bands. I love justice.

Final Fantasy - This is the dream of Win and Regine

I love useless knowledge!

Nothing can go faster than light, people are told when phantasizing about Star Trek. Yet yesterday I learned that in a veryveryveryveryvery.... early phase the universe itself expanded faster than light.

That is SO cool.



David Bowie - Space Oddity
The Strike Boys feat. c. dunbar - Outer space
Tahiti 80 - A love from outer space

Only littler later another big success - i discovered this cute little song:

The Mae Shi - Run to your grave

Live long and prosper!

Sweden vs. France II

In the story below I posted two songs, one done by a French girl, the other by a Suèdoise. Well, recently I was listening to FM4 and I caught these two GREAT songs. By coincidence, one is from French band The Teenagers, second from late Swedish Monica Zetterlund. The Teenagers I knew before for, ahm, dirty little video. Somehow I lost them out of sight, but now they reappeard on my radar, in a way, with that nice little song.

Saying little - The Teenager's song is yet NOTHING against the grandezza of Zetterlund's 'I New York'. Listen and thank the Big Rock and Roller upstairs for inventing music.



The Teenagers - Feeling Better
Monica Zetterlund - I New York

[Sorry, I'm too uninspired for a title today]

(Pop)Music is, as a matter of fact, dominated by men. This is also valid for the oh-so-sophisticated indie/alternative-scene. Indeed, espacially the latter mentioned seems to be a male issue, as already discussed here. Also here, on this site, shame on me, music produced and/or interpreted by women (I intentionally don't say 'girls') is largely underrepresentated. I promise, i try my best to give this a change.

Alors, here are two songs I fancy a lot at the moment. First one is done by French SoKo, second one by Swedish Lykke Li. Thumbs up!!!



Soko - I'll kill her



Lykke Li - Little bit