"lost but not stranded yet"....kinda fits at the moment hehe






this kinda fits as well...

Ok, I'm going nuts hahaha

Failure...

I still very well remember writing this post a few months ago. Evaluating all the things that happened since then and looking at my mental and physical condition right now, I have to admit that I failed. Overcoming this barriers that are so deeply rooted in my personality (apparently) seems harder than I thought...

Josef Hader...I salute you!

I just love this guy. So incredibly funny! German/Austrian language skills required ;)

I don't know what to say...

I have a list of 31 movies I have to watch until end of january (see one of the previous posts). Well, instead of locking myself into my room and "work" through the list, I spend more or less the whole day again in different AIESEC offices in Switzerland and in the train. Finally back home and working again on some AIESEC stuff, I got my daily midnight snack and started zapping on TV with the intention of just watching one or two video-clips and then go to bed...so far so good.

But then, I landed on ORF2. I saw beautiful cinematography, amazing pictures of an estonian city in the post-sovjet union time and a great score. "hm...looks interesting, what could that be?". Well, it ended up to be one of the most intense movie-experiences I ever had! The movie is called "Lilja 4-ever" by the swedish director Lukas Moodysson. The story was about a 16 year old girl who was abandoned by her parents who were off to the states looking for a better life. After falsly accused of being a prostitute by her "so called" best friend, her classmates from school turn against her and she eventually ended up as the prostitute. Her only friend is a 11 year old boy who regularly gets beaten by his father. One day, she meets a handsome, charming stranger in the club where she used to be waiting for potential clients. He promised to get her out of this misery by taking her to Sweden. Blinded by the outlook of a better future and by love, she agrees on going with him but instead of happiness, she finds hell as a slave of an eastern-european sex mafia...

Again, this was one of the most powerful and touching movies I've ever seen. It's on the same level as "Requiem for a Dream" or "City of God". It's one of those movies that doesn't get out of your head, no matter how hard you try and the fact that the whole issue the movie is dealing with is very present and common even in Switzerland makes the whole thing even worse.

I'm so moved right now, I guess I won't be able to sleep at all...

just found something absolutely amazing:

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun


I love those moments when I put an album into the player without having the slightest idea of what it might sound like and then be totally blown away. It happend when I heard Devin Townsend's Terria for the first time, or Kayo Dot's Choirs of the Eye, or Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Of Natural History, or Neutral Milk Hotel's Aeroplane Over The Sea. The list could go on. However, this was not just novelty excitement. The excitement held on...for years.

What I value most in music is uniqueness. I admire artist that created their own sound, outside of any genre. There are great albums out there that sound like nothing else in the world. There are also albums that move inbetween the boundaries of a specific genre such as Singer-Songwriter, several sub-genres of Metal/Rock/Pop etc, but within the limitation, they have certain qualities that make them step out of the crowd, such as Neil Young, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Isis, John Coltrane, Faith No More, etc. I value those artists almost equally ;)

That said, Vision Creation Newsun by the japanese band Boredoms is definitely one of the first kind. I got it after reading some reviews by people whose musical judgement I highly value (this is how I discovered most of the music in my collection). In those reviews, I've read statements like:

"One way to look at the Boredoms is as the Andy Kaufman of rock. Through meticulous study, they have completely mastered the architecture of the transcendent rock jam. But instead of celebrating their achievements, they choose to undercut their monuments to riffology in service of the first commandment of Dadaism: Thou Shalt Fuck With People's Heads."

"Adjectives: repetitive, glorious, paganistic, sun-glazed, heavenly, thunderous, gorgeous."

"the best modern psychedelic krautrock drum circle album in existence"

That's what grabbed my attention. One of my principles when it comes to music is: "There's nothing better than a proper mindfuck". A great album, besides being unique, has to leave you with a feeling of "what the hell just happend" after the listening experience. And that's excactly what happend here. This album is like a drug-induced drum-circle extravaganza mixed with the sheer beauty of great post-rock and ambient works. Imagine driving at 100 miles per hour and then sticking your head out of the window. The sheer amount of air that gets smashed into your faces makes it hard to even breath. But then, a traffic light, you slow down, you almost stand still, and then the light turns green again and you accelerate using the full power of your 500 PS engine.

This album will seriously challenge your understanding of what music is. Even after repeated listens, I can still only use metaphors to describe what is going on here. Well, I think it's best if you experience it yourself. Turn up the volume of your loudspeakers and start the video (a short version of the glorious title track)

Probably my favorite music-video ever