L'Europe, comme elle marche

Jean-Pierre explains the European Union.
(Picture taken in Brussels, Committee of the Regions, 17.02.2004)

Phosphorescent!

Everybody has to listen to Phosphorescent. No excuses.



What a shame that I missed that greatgreat music last year...would have definitely been among my Top 5 back then. Anyway, in 2008 it is consequently my favourite so far.

BUT. As it is spring and the weather here in L-City is so splendid, and the beer gardens are open and the ladies look more amazing than ever before, it is time for some, let's say, happy-go-lucky music. Hence I don't post a song by Phosphorescent, but by another band from Brooklyn, New York City, capital of the world. You shouldn't miss them either. This is MGMT. Disco, here I come ; )

MGMT - Electric Feel

The new trend in Austria: Krocha

'Krocha' (austrian dialect-word, english equvivalent: to crush; from: in die Disco krochen - to crush into a disco) has established itself as a new part of youth culture. Mainly unpolitical, party-centric people speak their own language, listen to their own music, dress in their own way. Doesn't make it a lot different from, say, Grunge back in the early nineties. During the last 2 months 'Krocha' made it into the the pages of every serious newspaper (ehhh, there aren't many in Austria...) and into state television news.



I would like to be part of a youth culture.
Tocotronic, 1995.

Love will...

...tear us apart, someone sang once wisely. Same it does with hearts, same it does with souls.


There are hundred-thousands of love songs (remember Nick Hornby's 'High Fidelity'!), and thousands of them may be great ones, but this one might be one of the five greatest:

M. Ward - Pale blue eyes (Velvet Underground cover)

The soul is torn apart, the heart is torn apart.