Stop War

Stefan Benchoam: "Protest piece done in Bloomington, Indiana, amidst the War in Iraq, 2005"

via rebel:art

Fill the Fort.

Saturday, 4/4/09 @ Club Action
Knulp
Union Hills
The Canvas Divine

Will be different, possibly amazing.
See you there.

Blitzkredit Bop

Muff Potter debut the video for their new single Blitzkredit Bop from their new record Gute Aussicht today. And like the song, I don't instantly like the video. It's alright and Muff Potter is one of my favorite bands (one of maybe 3 bands I'm a "fan" of) but I feel like this time they just took the wordplay and the imagery too far (or not far enough), it got a bit too... obvious and therefore boring. But after a couple of spins I'm starting to like the song (especially the music, still not so much the lyrics - a muff potter first for me) So I'll give the video another shot (or two, or three..)

muff potter - blitzkredit bop - video

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.)

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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:


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Hanky, sir?

Genius idea. Plus - if there still are people willing to pay 100 bucks to have the demise of their stock market portfolio embroidered on a handkerchief, things can't be that bad.. yet.

via merely thinking and swissmiss

Coy Copyboy and the greatest minds.

Blast from the Past - Goodybe Pale

Sadly Pale, one of the bands that ruled my teenage years, decided to call it quits after 15 years in "teenage heaven". Their "Goodbye Trouble" definitely belongs on my mental Teenage Soundtrack and picked me up from the floor more than once.

I finally got to see them live during their tour for their latest record in March 2007 - and it was just as cool as I had hoped it to be as a teen. Heck, they even made the Goo Goo Doll's Iris sound good, heart-wrenching - and nice.
Pale were such a great combination of cool and nice. Well, the people probably still are.

What God Really Hates

A really witty protest against the Westboro Baptist Church's hate.
Via Urban Prankster

The First 100

The Onion "tracks" President Obama's first 100 days in, well, The Onion style.

DAY 16: Obama's "First 100 Days Dilbert Desk Calendar" still on day five.
DAY 14: Taco Tuesday
DAY 13: President Obama meets with Vermont governor Jim Douglas and is saddened to find that he is not the creator of Garfield.

via the still great marbury

Can You Feel the Four Chords of Standardization.

Pop just need one chord more than punk. The Axis of Awesome's 5 min. trip through pop history. Seamless standardization. Enjoy.



Via Bettmenschblog and Achtmilliarden.

It Never Rains in Southern Germany.

Okay, that's definitely not true. However, Freiburg, my new "home", is supposed to be the sunniest town in Germany. Over the last couple of months I realized what a relative term that is.
To document just how sunny Freiburg really is, I set up a new blog project called "Deutschlands sonnigster Hinterhof" featuring a daily photo of, well, the backyard I see from my room's window. Or rather the area behind that.
Doesn't look too bad today - looks like spring is coming. And even my part of town looks kinda pretty in sunshine.