Stress

Everybody's darling Justice freshly released the video to their song 'Stress'. They could also have titled it 'Hate'. The video is - to my eyes - so disgusting, that I'm not willing to post it on this site. Basically it is about a youth gang from one of these infamous Parisian suburbs ('banlieus') which riots through the streets of the French capital. It is kept in cool colours which makes the uncommented violence shown there even more unbearable.

I was shocked when I watched it for the very first time on Friday, but even more shocked, when I discovered the feelings it evoked in me: hatred, aggression, but also helplessnes. The most disgusting feelings I know, basically.

When my good friend Eranium and me watched it yesterday night, both of us dicovered another side of the video: As the members of the gang are mostly black or of Arab origin, it also transports a sentiment of latent racism.

Terrible sidenote: As the jackets the ghetto kids look so cool, I'm pretty sure, that they'll be soon available for purchase all over Europe.

Disgusting².

Es wird scho wida!

Found that tag lately on a pedestrian bridge over one of the most crowded roads in Linz. It is written in Austrian dialect and says: 'It will get better'. The sentence expresses a very Austrian style of thinking, which I, in a weird way, appreciate.

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.

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.