Perhaps half of the blog contains music recommendations but this time the band is really a pearl - Choir of Young Believers. I put them already in my favourites of 2007 (I got to know them at the end of last year). If you have not heard of them until now, I strongly recommend to listen to them.
If you want to know why your imagination is sometimes going wild and why the US-government has to nuke our imagination, then watch the "imaginationland" trilogy of South Park (Season 11 - Episode 10-12)!
Sigur Rós have released a new record and they will be on tour in Germany in August. The concert in Berlin will provide seating. Because I am travelling on this day, I will go to see them in Dresden. However, their concert in Dresden will not provide seating. That is a pity because I really prefer to sit...
...by the way, you should not wait to long to get a ticket, I assume there are not many left.
"Kein Mann war vollständiger dem Untergang geweiht als der,
der seine ganze Zufriedenheit daraus bezog,
einen guten Eindruck auf eine ganz bestimmte Frau zu machen."
(Neal Stephenson - "Quicksilver", Seite 482)
I take a fancy to a lot of music and by now I know enough bands that I like and that have an impact on my moneybag with their regular new records such that I do not follow music reviews or fanzines anymore in order to find new interesting bands. But yesterday I encountered a strange unknown band! Yesterday evening around 10pm, it was getting darker and darker, we were at a small lake in an old open pit area and listened to Soundgarden on Radio Fritz when they played the song Sweet Love for Planet Earth from Fuck Buttons.
Tonight I went to the cinema. I watched "Mein Bruder ist ein Einzelkind" (Mio fratello è un figlio unico) - a really good movie about the political situation and especially the relationship of two brothers in Southern Italy around the sixties. Because everyone else watched the football game between Germany and Austria I was the only one in the whole auditorium!