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Clickclickdecker, Mario Adorf and the Forest

Clickclickdecker released a video for one of my favorite tunes of this spring - Dialog mit dem Tölpel - today. I had completely different images in my mind when I listened to it, but the video's pretty good. And features a wonderful Mario-Adorf-as-woodsman character.

ClickClickDecker - Dialog mit dem Tölpel from Hick Pix Bewegtbildproduktion on Vimeo.

Escape.

Obama is Cliff Huxtable.

Once again proving that they offer the most precise commentary on US politics, Wyatt Cenac convincingly argues that Barack Obama = Cliff Huxtable of The Bill Cosby Show.

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Ruins of a Term Paper

Happiness is...

[from]

Quick Thought ... on Nostalgia, Memory and Media.

Sometimes my memory works in mysterious ways. These days I often stumble upon things and feel a certain warm feeling of nostalgia coming up. Often these things are connected to (perceived) fond childhood memories. Often they are connected to moments that appear to be part of the past, but I can't immediately sort out just how old these moments are. I just read Mortiz' post on Sockenblog. He recently rediscovered a clip from the movie Mulan. He still had that movie on tape. Yeah, on VHS.

That is a method to determine just how old a memory is, in what part and phase of my life I first discovered this band/song/book/poem/film - I sort them by two categories: storage device and the way I had to wait to get hold of the next release/episode/rerun. If I can remember first discovering it via computer - let alone the infamous web 2.0 - it's probably not that old. And as much as I love my recent discoveries, recent favorites and the new technology - somehow having to wait 'til next Saturday to see another episode, to tape it on VHS or to waittto buy the new CD without ever hearing a single track of the record before or to wait to have a reason to go out and celebrate and have a beer with friends - somehow that forced process made those moments even more precious, the memory of them even more nostalgic. The input more important.

Maybe the longing for slower, more concious moments is the reason for these nostalgic moments.

"Other Beatnik Intellectuals Thugs" and the Way to Punk

Jeffrey Lewis takes us on a wild 8 min. anti folk ride through the history of punk.



Via Monarchie & Alltag

Those 7 Words.

Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the F.C.C.'s shift to a harder line on "indecency" on the air. Thought I might "celebrate" this important decision on such a pressing issue these days with presenting you the "Yes We Can - The George Carlin Remix" by Jay Smooth. It feature's all those bad, bad words, based on George Carlin's "7 dirty words" routine (and it's probably NSFW)
Enjoy.

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.

I Might Shed a Tear.

Karo is coming to Freiburg's White Rabbit on Sunday, May 3rd. And it'll be more than just amazing, I bet.



Schöftland will perform as well.
Be there or be square!

Possibly the Most Mind Numbing Groove Ever.

Ralph Wiggum - "Ente (jungle RMX)




Okay, this might be even worse. Via nercore et. al.
Have a good start of the week - and always remember:

Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente Ente

Jay Smooth on Beauty Pageants

..and the truth about Perez Hilton & Miss California, the future and marriage.
Brilliant.



Via.

Mariokart vs. Kettcar

This is what it would sound like if I was making music at the moment. Adolar's smasher Mariokart vs. Kettcar, full of childhood nostalgia, peer pressure, odd attempts to be different and passion.



Download the song here
Check out their 7" EP Planet Rapidia.

Ein ♥ für Blogs.

note: This one's in German, since it's a German topic and it really wouldn't make much sense to do it in English. This might happen from time to time. This is, afterall, a more or less bilingual blog.

Heute ist der von stylespion ausgerufene "Ein ♥ für Blogs." Tag. Ein Tag, an dem die Digitale Boheme und sonstige Blogger und Web 2.0 Opfer (your truly) seo Schmarrn mal seo Schmarrn sein lassen und sich wieder ohne Hilfsmittelchen vernetzen. Durch simple Empfehlung. Like in the good ol' days, als Leute noch Blogrolls hatten.

Unter anderem habe ich heute meine Blogroll verändert/ausgebaut. Dennoch sei aber an dieser stelle auf 5 deutschsprachige Blogs verwiesen, die mir schon manchen Anstoß für ein postig hier oder bei Twitter geliefert haben. Oder mir auch nur einfach eine Welt eröffnen, die woanders und anders ist als meine, mir aber gleichzeitig zeigen, dass meine Scheibe Welt gar nicht so anders ist. Sie ist nur nich geografisch definiert oder hier in der Stadt der Fahrradfahrer verankert.

Et voila:

Texte auf Cornflakespackungen
Acht Milliarden
Karo erklärt die Welt (und scheitert)

und

Coffee and TV. Wobei dieser blog, ähnlich wie Stefan Niggemeier's, wohl nich unter "unbekannt" läuft. Er sei dennoch empfohlen.

Good Ol' Copyboy

US Economy Saved - Recall of all US Dollar Notes

Ah, the Onion again.


Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars

Teabag Update

Rachel Maddow (and Ana Marie Cox) on the - hehe - teabagging in the conservative movement.

Ólafur Arnalds - 'Found Songs'

Fantastic Icelandic artist Ólafur Arnalds - who I mentioned in the Balmorhae post - is releasing a song a day for 7 days for free:

'The songs will be different from what's on my albums, they will be short, mostly just made up from piano. Something to keep me going. Feel free to send me hatemail if I miss out a day!'

Found Songs (via itstoolong)

Ah! History, 'Tis A Tricky Thing.

In a class on the Sixties I took last term we saw a video showing a student protest - in a Fox News frame, oddly enough. I guess this particular YouTube video wanted to show how Fox News would've portayed it. Most of the class did not notice that it had to be a "fake" video - Fox first aired in 1986, Fox News in Oct. 1996. Yet it seems like we often take a media institution as granted that we tend to 'forget' that it hasn't been around all that long.

Seems to be true not only for people engaged in a discussion in a 8 a.m. class but also for anchors on the very network:

[Fox News anchor and commentator] Neil Cavuto claims Fox News is covering teabaggers* in same fair and balanced way it covered the Million Man March in 1995

Teabaggers in this case refers to conservatives protesting the Obama administrations every step, trying to link with the Boston tea party.

Yeah, well.