Escape.

Happiness is...

[from]

All Your Friend Are Smiling.

The next time when it's one of those days and you're feeling completely down and out, go listen to the Loch Lomond EP "Trumpets for Paper Children" you downloaded here and let the tunes pull you out of the dirt.

Loch Lomond - "All Your Friends Are Smiling" from HUSH Records on Vimeo.

Life Is Good - Everyone Just Overreacts.

(from PostSecrets)

Might just be true.

Happy Easter and good luck for the new summer term - or whatever this season has in store for you.

Sound for Another Day.

I discovered a fantastic music group via this good sxsw mixtape from Rote Raupe: Balmorhae. The last.fm community tagged them as "post-rock (so post-rock that I hesitate to use the word band), "ambient" and "acoustic" and refers to Olafur Arnalds and Gregor Samsa. Sometimes I think to hear a bit of Sigur Ros as well, though sans the Icelandic and more acoustic. For the lack of a better term I'd tag them as "simply amazing". (Or maybe that is the most apropriate term.) Do yourself a favor, get their "San Solomon" track here, check them out at last.fm, watch this video of a performance of "Night in the Draw" - and put on your headphones.

KEXP live @ SXSW: Balmorhea - Night In The Draw from KEXP RADIO on Vimeo

More beauty.

Clarity & Chaos Mixtape I

clarity & chaos, quiet & loud, new & old, hip & uncool.
I enjoy 'em all and most of 'em make me feel better.
Might be the same for you, might not.
Comment, share, enjoy.

01 Statistics - Another Day
02 The Notwist - Good Lies
03 Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I'm Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings (Daytrotter)
04 Cursive - From the Hips
05 The Indelicates - The Recession Song*
06 The Thermals - Now We Can See
07 The Joy Formidable - Austere
08 Loney, Dear - Ignorant Boy, Beautiful Girl
09 Parenthetical Girls - Here's to Forgetting*
10 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Everything With You
11 The Acorn - Crooked Legs*
12 Tara Jane O'Neil - Drowning*
13 ClickClickDecker - Dialog mit dem Tölpel*
14 Ich, Alexander - Heute an morgen denken und gestern vermissen*
15 Emmy the Great - MIA*
16 From Monument To Masses - The Noise Thereafter
17 Adorno - Meaning*

(Some of the links (*) are direct downloads, some of them not. Let me know if there is a problem with a link.)

Where the Wild Things Are

Yeah, that charming (children's) book is coming out as a movie soon. Directed by Spike Jonze, screenplay by Jonze and Dave Eggers - so it might actually be a good adaptation. (Unlike Vorstadtkrokodile, which I read and liked as a book in school, but which I don't even recognize in the movie trailer).

Anyway, Where the Wild Things Are might just be amazing. Check out the trailer:


[via videogum ]

No Career No Hope No Fun No Fashion!

Last year they waited for Pete Doherty to die, now The Indelicates released a Recession Song - for fun! And for free! Now that's zeitgeist. It's so zeitgeisty, it's even a fashion ad:

Sometimes, All You Need Is A High-Five

...and to share it with a thousand other people.

For What It's Worth.

Walking from the bus stop to my flat today I had a lot of stuff on my mind I suddenly wanted to share with the world / the net. About modern life, high expectations, new attempts at poetry, student life.

Real genius insights. Though pretty depressing.

So screw that.

Enjoy Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie instead.



Cope with Thursday, fall in love with Friday.

Can't Block This Popup.*

So, finals time is coming up again. When I need a break from my cultural studies fix at the English dept. library, I head over to the great Team Love library. Recent great discovery: Popup from Glasgow. Their indie rock, constantly shifting between pop bliss and chaos, satisfies both the rhythm obedient and emotional I.
And there's a nice video as well. Enjoy:

This saved my (mon)day.



*Yeah, I know, it's bad-word-play-day.

empty and cold with no one to hold

So, is everybody's Monday morning as shitty as mine?

Lo, behold - there is a remedy. Head over to Karo and check out the new great video to her beautiful song "The Sailor".
Reset your week and give it another try.