The older I get, the more I dislike Christmas. Seems like I lost my “emotional bond” to this over-commercialized orgy of hypocrisy during the last 7 years or so. We are enchanted by this magic contemplation, whilst ignoring all the misery happening around us, but let’s be nice to each other, even just for the …
Monthly Archives: December 2011
PRE-CHRISTMAS with the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
So, as I don’t want to rank behind as far as the boasting with early Christmas presents is concerned, I proudly present to you my new flatmate. She’s already an older lady but still as fit as a fiddle. Her name is Sansui FR-5800 and my dad bought her in the mid-1970s. Now junior has …
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Kraton – Ker
There is one typical excuse Luxembourgish people use to explain our bad football results. This sentence always refers to the amplitude of the country. When our national team loses 5:0 against Timbuktu again, the media just as the inhabitants note that the result is not that bad if you consider that Luxembourg is such a …
Pre-Christmas
I really don’t like the whole Christmas stuff but I am always very happy about some really cool presents and that’s what I got. First of all Eric gave me these 2 posters: I simply love the Ilsa, She wolf of the SS Artwork. No I am not a Nazi and I don’t care about …
The end of CDs – a personal commentary
Rumours are being spread for months now, you may have heard of it: the major labels are planning to give up selling mediums like CDs or Vinyl LPs in the near future. So-called insiders guess that the music album as we have known it until today will have disappeared within the next 2-5 years, except …
Mr. Oizo – Stade 2
First off, if you’re into “cheap” electronic music and think David Guetta is an angel sent from heaven, you should not read any further. Just go to McDonalds and enjoy your Happy Meal as it is easily digestible. Thank you. Quentin Dupieux a.k.a. Mr. Oizo did it again. He released another banger of a record …
RIP Chuck Schuldiner
I am not a big fan of Death Metal and I am that kind of guy who never knows what to say when someone is feeling bad or died. Chuck Schuldiner died 10 years ago today and with him did the only Death Metal band I really enjoy listening to. I never knew this guy …
Kirby’s Adventure
Every single one of us has got his ultimate favorite videogame. When I talk to my friends about their favorite game, classics like Mario Kart, Rock’n Roll Racing, Mega Man or Zelda come up. Given the fact that I never owned a Super Nintendo as my parents knew that this would worsen my mental labilities, …
Immigrant Song – Karen O with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Trent Reznor joined forces with Atticus Ross and Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontlady Karen O to record a cover of Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song. The song will be part of the official soundtrack (created by Reznor) for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The heavy industrial beat keeps pushing and Karen O’s singing reflects the psychedelicoriginal …
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Turbowolf – Turbowolf
Beelzebub’s newest breeds call themselves Turbowolf. Striking riffs, powerful lyrics, wolves on fire, the turbo is loaded right from the start. The fact that sometimes you get the suspicion to have heard all this once before in the past doesn’t dampen the mood. Young Alice Cooper welcomes you on the journey through the river Styx. …