A personal recount of a life within Berlin, Venice and the EU

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Let´s relocate Vijay Iver´s gig from the Passionkirche to somewhere else 1


Dear Vijay,
dear Management of Vijay,
I was delighted to bliss by assisting to your second set on April 28th this year and I am so looking forward to seeing you again live. I am a fan of yours since 2010 and I love your work and your way of presenting it around the globe.

I understand that you plan a concert in Berlin, my city, next February. My immense excitement left place to discourage when I realized the gig is organized in the Passionkirche, a church in Kreuzberg, West Berlin.
Though charming the idea of having a concert in a Berliner church might be, let me underline that the sound in there is bad-to-crap, on the average. If maybe bearable for a choir or organ music, I am not sure that the venue would in any way be right your music.
I would really appreciate if you, by means of your management or whoever is in charge, could consider a more adequate location, as Berlin is full of venues which would better suit your amazing talent and your excited fans, as I consider myself.

With regards

Julia Stone in Postbahnhof

A friend invited me to Julia Stone´s gig in Berlin last Thursday.
Another friend was supposed to come and when asking me what I thought of the concert, she received my email with the following reply, which may sound a bit harsh, though I did like the concert, a bit.

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"Sparks of fine pop music condensed in a landscape of cheesy songs, with the structure of music lesson-week 2, paired with the lyrics a 12 years old with evident psychological and intellectual imbalances would write, if only she had had unfulfilling teenager sex, as apparently is the case for the poor Julia...
The lights were good.

I enjoyed it anyway, not least since our (friend) does like her a lot.
You would have liked a bit too, I guess. Too bad you did not come.

Let me only say that I sometimes believe English speaking artists are allowed to sing about the most irrelevant and superficial stuff of the world and it is fine because it does sound much better than in other language...
Lucky them
That is probably also why the real Tina Dico is such a hit in the English landscape of pop music at its best....(infinite points)...

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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Farmor på dansk

Slikke Rikke, Slikke Rikke, 
hun skal altid tigge.
Må jeg få, må jeg få?
Slikke Rikke, du må gå.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Special offer

I cant get out of my mind the thought that yesterday I could have booked a round trip Berlin-Thessaloniki for December for 60 bucks all inclusive

The "Recently Added" Itunes Playlist of mine

Beth Orton complete discography
Flaming Lips complete discography (but Embryonic and that other one from 2006)
Matthew Dear from 2009
Dinosaur Jr latest cover album of his own songs
Two Door Cinema Club
Band of Horses´ Mirage Rock
Block Party´s Four


....too much of the same and few very exciting albums, I know.

Tonight it could have been either Tame Impala or Liars live and I picked the latter.

I would like to get wasted one of these days.

Monday, October 08, 2012

Friday, October 05, 2012

Kind request

Whoever has stuff by John Cale from the sixties, please share it on Dropbox or Minus.
Thank you.

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Spooky Stuff I Like to Do Lately

Use anybody´s toothbrush
Walk on dark staircases at night
Swim in the darkness
Listen to OM or Swans very loud
Talk alternatively three different languages with myself