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Did you mean…?

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:57:00 +0000

While searching for some fine Tim Burton music on Spotify today, I entered ‘Batman returns’ in the search box. While I found what I was looking for (namely this), Spotify asked if I didn’t actually mean ‘boatman return’… Uhm - no?

The favs!

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:58:49 +0000

Hello there guys. I’ve been planning this post for at least 5 years…. Or maybe 3 months… Just a long time… And finally got the motivation to write it. So here goes a brief list of my all time favorite music videos! (in alphabetical order). There are undoubtedly many other music videos that are fantastic, but I believe these ones are all masterpieces, and hence I put them in my awesome list. (I just hope all the videos are available in your country )

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

Directed by Chris Cunningham with a great 4 minutes intro, some hot bitches and great dancing! No, the fuck you didn’t talk about my hair!

Björk - Bachelorette

Directed by the God of music videos himself - Michel Gondry. Although most of Björk’s videos are great, this is definitely the best one! Enjoy!

Blur - Coffee & TV

Awww - the cutest thing in the world! At 2:36 it’s the best dancing scene in a music video of all times!

Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar

Again Gondry. It was really tough to pick a video of the Chemical Brothers, because pretty much every fucking video of theirs rocks big times! Each one is special in some way! But no other video can beat this one. Which is also the only Chemical Brothers video I can think of, in which you cannot see the two guys. Or at least I haven’s spotted them so far. If someone does - please do inform me! Oh - and if you think “Well that’s just the view from a train…” (which is what I thought the first time I saw it), watch it again!

Daft Punk - Da Funk

This time it’s Spike Jonez and the story of Charles. Again a tough decision between this one and Around the World.

Gnarls Barkley - Who’s Gonna Save My Soul

Beyond doubt, the best music video released in the past few years. Directed by Chris Milk. “Well maybe I can keep it for a little while, use if for small things, like when I had a really shitty day, or I need someone to talk to or if I need someone to move something really heavy…” - priceless!

Goldfrapp - Lovely Head

Again most Goldfrapp videos are somehow remarkable, but I personally love this one! It is obviously pretty low budget, it’s so confusing and you get a good impression of what a excentric person Alison is! You have to love it! Directed by Wolfgang Tillmans.

Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World

For all you Kylie fans out there It’s again Michel Gondry with one of the best single shot videos of all times (shot in Paris - yay).

The Maccabees - Toothpaste Kisses

Again a one shot clip. It’s probably not as good as the rest of the above mentioned, but I still like it If you listen close, at the end you can hear the people starting clapping, when the guy and the girl leave the pub (Water Rats pub in Kings Cross, London).

Roisin Murphy - Overpowered

Again somebody quite excentric, which is capture quite well by the video.

Royksøpp - Eple

Here were go again - almost all of Röyksopp’s videos are amazing, but for some reason, I chose this one. But be sure to check the rest as well (Only This Moment, What Else Is There, Remind me, etc) And OMG - I just watched Poor Leno - how awesome is that! Poor, poor Leno!

Vitalic - Poney Part I

A great video about birds. (Best moment - 1:43)!!

Wow - you made it to the end of that huge post. Nice one! You deserve a treat

Monkey business

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:06:37 +0000

Hey guys, how is it going?

I just got mail from France - the Arctic Monkeys tickets! Yay! Petia and I are going to their concert on November 5th in Paris. According to the info I got now, luckily I’ve got no lectures in this week! So chances are good, I’ll be going. Two days ago I also got the songbooks for both their albums (as I intend to learn play the guitar - whoohoo!). Let’s see how long it will take, until I can play anything…

Less then 3

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:06:22 +0000

Long time no read… or write… Anyway - I’ve been quite busy in the past few months, hence the enormous amount of posts on here So here we go: an ordinary post reflecting what’s happened lately. However, I can’t be bothered with a chronological order, sorry

My Wii got stolen. It was at my office while I went for a week of snowboarding in Bulgaria with Roman, Lora and Alex (boy, that was fun!!!). All they’ve left was the guitar hero controllers (probably because of their size). I didn’t buy another one, but Oli and Alma lent me theirs for the time all the folks from Bulgaria were here visiting me (which was again an amazing time).Which I’m really glad they did, as Ivan and I fucking rocked most songs Meanwhile Alex had moved to Karlsruhe for his new job and most of the weekends he spends here, sleeping on his amazing inflatable mattress, which I bought just for him. (Amazing like in “after sleeping on it one night, my neck was killing me for 3 or 4 days…”).

As 09.09.09 is getting closer, I slowly start feeling slightly excited about moving to Edinburgh. I still have to find a flat or something… But I’m sure things will sort out in time However we’ve still got no plans for summer holiday and I doubt that we’ll manage anything decent this year.

My music taste has shifted quite suddenly by approximately 78° yet again. Three months ago one online music shop sold each album for as cheap as 5€ so I bought like 10 albums of different bands and genres. While being known for fancying all kind of electronic music (Daft Punk, Amon Tobin, Vitalic, House in general, etc), I really got into bands like Muse and Mando Diao. Some days ago I found a new TV channel - MTV HD. I think it’s British and in contrast to all the German music channels, it’s program does not consist almost entirely of ads for ring tones and stupid shows like “Rock of love 2″. And after watching Brianstorm

two days ago, I’m now stuck with Arctic Monkeys. Today I got the last album along with a DVD of theirs *yay*. My train trip to Karlsruhe in half an hour will be quite fun after all

Meanwhile I also turned 25 and I’m switching to a Mac. I wonder how that will work out Well… I can’t think of anything else that could be of interest to anyone out there and I have to catch the train anyway.

See you later, innovator

Chlorojusticia

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:21:27 +0000

Make a choice. Make the green choice!

Look, we’re terribly sorry…

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:06:52 +0000

Recently I discovered that a great part of a Eddie Izzard show was missing on YouTube, so I had to do something immediately!

Bad news

admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:43:32 +0000

Long time no read, guys. I cannot really say I was busy lately. Everything has been the same, except that got quite into snowboarding. However, judging from the title, you probably can guess that the post wont be as “happy” as most of the posts here, so you are welcome to skip reading it, if you’re not in the right mood
Yesterday in the evening I got the news that my father has passed away. We weren’t really in contact - last time I saw him was 2 years ago. But nevertheless I was really shocked. Especially since so far in my life I have been fortunate enough not to loose some close family member or friend. The most common sentence I get to hear is “he is in a better place now”, which is indeed a bit comforting. Especially knowing how his life has been for the past 10 years or so. But still it’s quite an oppressive feeling to know I won’t get another opportunity to talk to him or write him a letter or visit him again.
The funeral was today, so I was not able to be there. But my mother went (as probably most of you don’t know - my parents got divorced shortly after I was born and did not stay in touch). And seems like it was really good, as there were so many of his friends and family there (from what I know, lot’s of them did not spend much of their time with him either in the past years). And after the funeral they all gathered in a restaurant and talked about old stories and remembered good times with him. Indeed a great way to say goodbye…

What an explosion!

admin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:48:02 +0000

A few hours ago I landed in Frankfurt. That was the end of my one week Bulgaria holiday And it was really a great time, despite some unfortunate ongoings - the lack of gas and heating and as a result me getting sick. But anyway - Sofia still kicks ass in many other regards. I’m truly amazed how I managed to “switch my thinking”, completely forgetting about any (negative and annoying) issues and tasks that wait for me here in Germany.

The climax of my stay was definitely the last evening. Unfortunately not the entire lot could join us partying in ALC₂OH₅OL. Yet other undesired persons again managed to join uninvited (but after their pancakes the other day, I start to get used to them ^^). What a great evening it was!

Shoes

admin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:45:24 +0000

Hey everybody! I hope you had a great, enjoyable Christmas time. Most of you probably are waiting for my yearly post, introducing my presents ( from the left to the right ), but unfortunately I have bad news for you: I did not make a photo, so… This year we’ll have to skip this great tradition ^^ But I got shoes… and a coat.. and a scarf and a t-shirt and other stuff as well

How did you spent this great time of year? Did you have any GTA-like adventures, where your were rushing through the streets, hitting cars, getting your windows smashed by angry drivers? No? ^^

Shuffle

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:34:16 +0000

Approximately six weeks ago I hit the “Shuffle Songs” option on my iPod (which would play all songs on the iPod in a random order, for those who don’t know). It was a though time, but just now, I reached song 3835, i.e. the last one - Solarium, by Boards of Canada. What a historical moment! Yay for me!