Control

uh-oh, Ian Curtis is becoming a movie theme (title: Control; rather unknown Sam Riley as Curtis, Oscar-nominated Samantha Morton as his wife Deborah and german beauty Alexandra Maria Lara as lover Annik Honoré)...i'm scared, really scared. Let's hope the best.

Ich hab mit Tocotronic Bier getrunken!

So finally i have a couple (well, two) days off from work, and what do i do? Relax? No way! Sonja invited me over to her birthday-party which was really cool and nice. So good to see some old fellow friends! Of course we sat until the early morning, that clearly indicates the quality of the evening.

As soon as i came to powers again i went to Frequency Festival to meet two friends from France. The first day was blessed with bright sunshine, the nice people from Vienna i got to know and, above all, two amazing shows of '...Trail of Dead' and 'Tocotronic'. Both didn't play very, say, 'festival-like', but that was indeed what made the concerts so good. Trail of Dead played main stage, but only a handfull of people were there, still, they did so great! During the show suddenly the bassist of Tocotronic appeared among the people, what made the girls freak out a bit ; )
But as Frequency is close to Salzburg there was no way that the weather could stay that beautiful: Since thursday it was raining quite heavily, which robbed the festival of its relaxed mood. Nonetheless, the Interpol show was a highlight, an amazing one in fact!

Tour d'empire

The last two weekends led me into the beautiful east respectively two cities which were once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Zagreb and Budapest. While the first is ok, but in the end not so likely to become one of my favourites, the latter has meanwhile become one of the cities i like best in Europe (except for Vienna...uh, dammit, do i feel some kind of patriotism here?!?!). Still, i discovered that i like this central European kind of cities quite a lot. Probably the smell of Habsburg, who knows?

Of course Peter was there as well and as always we had a fantastic time. And Peter - my greatest respect to you: I know hardly anyone who knows his/her city so good as you do!!! Very nice indeed was also to meet my fellow friend Joaquin again, which took place down in Zagreb. It is so nice to see that the promise 'To see each other again' seems really to be working. Oh, how i like this idea of Erasmus, how great it is.

What else, what else? Yeah, Sziget festival of course, a rather muddy yet magnifique festival. Went there with Verena and Simone, two friends from Linz. Those girls really know how to survive (and camp) in a nasty neighborhood:

But Peter and me do also:

Tomorrow birthday party, nice, nice, wednesday maybe Frequency-Festival, let's see...
Greetz from L-City,
Bernie

Congratulations!

My sister Karin had her very last university exam today. Not only that she did amazingly good, no, from now on she is also a Doctor of the Law. Yoyoyo! i'm so incredibly proud!!!!

Gangstatown Linz

Weeee, i live in a city of the third world!!!!!

http://wikitravel.org/en/Linz sayz: 'While Linz does indeed have a sizable "Altstadt" (old town) it may be disappointing to those tourists familiar with the charm of Graz or Salzburg. The old city has not been cared for by the local government and shows severe signs of decay. Linz is primarily a student and industrial town and while not particularly beautiful, is more representative of a "real" Austrian city vs. the almost fairy tale like quality of Salzburg.'

Linz, old town?

Linz, old town?

Lil' z. feat. E! You Erschwendner

There they go...

...all within days. Imagine they movie they will now do together. A monument.

Of Montreal - The past is a grotesque animal

Is it only my weird mind or does Bergman look on this very picture like another, errr, revolutionary?

Weird band names, part I

As already announced, i will do a little series on weird band names. However i will only feature bands and artists to whom i feel somehow attracted. So here we go. Today:

'The Strange Death of Liberal England'

Come from: Portsmouth, England.

Named themselves: after a book written by George Dangerfield (WHAT a name!) dealing with the decline of British liberals before WW I.

Sound: luckily not like the 110th edition of Franz Ferdinand & Co. Rather like a European Version of Arcade Fire. Or Mogwai. Both not too bad.

Latest album: 'Forward March' (ironically subtitled with 'Traditional marching songs to learn and play')

They are: incredibly young yet good looking.

Specials: Don't talk to their audience. The hold up sheets with slogans written on them instead. Oh, how 'indie', no?

Web: http://www.myspace.com/tsdole

The Strange Death of Liberal England - Summer Gave Us Sweets But Autumn Wrought Division

Next to come: 'Portugal. The man.'