Nice sunday. My family and me went to have lunch at an Italian restaurant run by Jean-Pierre from Sarlat, my favourite French cook. Had salmon and scampi, yummie.
Afterwards beer and newspaper in Café Stern in downtown Linz.
I have a formidable song for the day, heard on FM4 this morning while driving home, only moderately speeding. It is a cover-version of one of my all time favourite songs by The Charlatans, done by Mark Ronson feat. some kind of an English Chansonier/Singer-Songwriter and former member of highly influential old-schoolers Take That. Please don't stone me to death. Here is Mark Ronson feat. Robert Williams - The Only One I Know
Obviously I haven't been posting too much during the last two or three weeks. Reason: There is simply nothing going on. Additionally i hardly ever have my camera with me. And stories without pictures are boring (according to advanced media theories). So, here is the obligatory picture: It shows Steff in Vienna, where him, his girlfriend Evi and me met for having a pleasant night going out. And no, we were NOT wasted. Just tired.
So nothing else to report, but wait, probably there is: I got tickets for 'Control', Anton Corbijn's Joy Division-movie, presented at the Vienna Film Festival 'Viennale' for the first time in Austria. Weeee!!! And finally I am going to Sweden in December. Yesyesyes!
Hello everyone. Well, the new album is finished, and it's coming out in 10 days; We've called it In Rainbows. Love from us all. Jonny
Radiohead goes new ways in distributing the record (find here), and no, i not find it cool. But anyway, decision taken, i will follow. Hey, it's Radiohead.
I can already imagine J. Greenwood packing the stuff into boxes. Selway seals the packets. Yorke writes the adresses onto them (bonus! -> free autograph). C. Greenwood buys the stamps. O'Brien brings them to the post office. And Ma' Greenwood is responsible for ordering, complaints and making coffee.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'To live is the best way to die' said the girl from California i met yesterday night at Café Roter Krebs. How right she is.
A tragedy and a shame that i rediscovered St. Thomas not before the dinner party at my place earlier this year.
It has been raining for almost 24 hours now. Without any pause. The first austrian cities are starting to sink. Bah. I want sun. Now. I demand a nice and proper autumn, moderate temperatures and decent sunshine. Everyone supporting this 'Sun now!' petition sign this post with a 'Yeah!'.
However, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. There will always be The Beatles. There will always be Belle & Sebastian. Here is 'Here comes the sun'. Done by Belle & Sebastian.
I never knew that sober sunday afternoons are even more boring than hung over ones. But ok, on Friday and Saturday i spent a great time out partying and talking and watching movies...can there be any better?
So, what to do on a boring, not even sunny Sunday après-midi? Exactly - it's music, what else. I just learned that José Gonzáles is to release an new album later this year, the first two outtakes sound really promising.
José González - Down the line [linx not working at the moment, gonna fix that] José González - Killing for love [linx not working at the moment, gonna fix that]
Moreover, THE big surprise of 2006, Zach Condon - the whiz kid behind 'Beirut', is going to release a successor to his monolithic 'Gulag Orkestar'. There are rumours that 'The Flying Club Cup' will be even bigger. We will know more in two weeks, here are some teasers.
Finally, i found this cute cover-version of Primal Screams' classic 'Higher than the Sun', performed by this years Mercury-nominees Bat for Lashes, Fionn Regan and Maps (the latter ones being my favourites, but that's a different story worth).
Yes, and we have a new club in the city! And it is not Remembar-style!!! Named after Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi classic 'Solaris', it seems to be quite promising. Hope that i can upload some pictures sooner or later. Check out its webpage.
I encourage all you lovely people to go out and buy records. That's why I post music here - it's because I want you to hear the songs that are making my day, and want you to support my favourite acts so that they can keep making music (and don't have to go back to waiting tables). If you like it, buy it - don't let the artists go hungry! Let me know if you're a copyright holder who's pissed at me for posting a song - I'll remove it ASAP!
