Hej everybody :)
Just a short post - short in terms of words ;) Since I really enjoyed this warm, sunny day I figured that I share my favourite summer tracks here... I won't upload them (the law, yaddayaddayadda), but I will link to some youtube clips...and if you like the song, I guess you know where to get it (legally, of course...)
So, let's start with...
The Ting Tings - That's not my name
such a groovy song...I like it! *sing*
(I know they have a new song by now...)
Martha Wainwright - You cheated me
Rufus' sister :) I like the song and it's perfect for relaxed, warm summer evenings.
Sam Sparro - Black and Gold
I posted this song yesterday..so here's a live version. He really has a good voice :) (and looks cute)
Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook
Contains nudity ;) Anyway, their new single...reminds me a bit of "Animal Collective" (see, for example, the shortbus soundtrack) but a good song anyway...
Hercules and Love Affair - You Belong
A very groovy club song for sweaty summer days :) With Antony Hegarty (Antony and the Johnsons) and Nomi on vocals :)
Scissor Sisters - Get it, Get it
A classic ;) from their first album and it always reminds me of the great summer in 2004.. I couldn't find a proper video of this song :( just this "Queer as Folk Fanvideo", sorry for that... Close your eyes if you don't like what you see
click here
That's it for now...
have a nice, hot summer night :)
manuel
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
21st century life
After more than one week of silence...a new posting, finally :)
Well, Hong flew back to Sweden - on friday (one
week ago) we drove to Vienna and I showed him Austria's beautiful capital city. He seemed to enjoy it but in the end he said, that he would prefer living in Vorarlberg - he really loved the mountains and "my valley" ;)
And I must say that I realized how beautiful Austria is...I guess I never really thought about it before going to Sweden for such a long time. On the train to Vienna I saw the beautiful landscape and I thought that Austria IS really nice...but well, other parts of the planet are really nice too..and I want to see as many of them as possible ;)
Anyway, during the EuroCup Vienna is just half as nice as usual...to many places are destroyed by stupid Footballcommercials and stuff like that :( (see the picture)
Anyway, after coming back from Vienna on Monday evening, I drove to Munich on tuesday..just to have a look at one Apartement, it was a very short trip to Munich. I arrived there at 12.30, grabbed something to eat and went straight to the apartment. Then I went back to the station, ran into a cd shop and bought 2 cds (I had withdrawal syndromes...) and then I caught the train back to Austria.
When I came back home around 9 o'clock p.m, I met a good friend of mine who had her birthday party. We drove to a billiard pub with some other friends and played tabletop football (well, I watched) and Air Hockey (I LOVE IT!). However, I was so tired that I was glad when we finally drove back home...
And the good news - I got the room in Munich...It's a shared apartment and I have my own beautiful big room there :) It's empty but I'm kind of looking forward to buy cheap Ikea stuff for it ;)
So, well..that's it for now. I realized that this was a very boring post...sorry for that. I will try to make the next one more exciting...
Pictures from the "Austra Trip" with Hong :)
Before I say goodbye - listen to this song. Sam Sparro, my "hero" of the moment ;) Very catchy, a good voice and a groovy beat...I'm addicted to the album right now.
Well, Hong flew back to Sweden - on friday (one
week ago) we drove to Vienna and I showed him Austria's beautiful capital city. He seemed to enjoy it but in the end he said, that he would prefer living in Vorarlberg - he really loved the mountains and "my valley" ;)And I must say that I realized how beautiful Austria is...I guess I never really thought about it before going to Sweden for such a long time. On the train to Vienna I saw the beautiful landscape and I thought that Austria IS really nice...but well, other parts of the planet are really nice too..and I want to see as many of them as possible ;)
Anyway, during the EuroCup Vienna is just half as nice as usual...to many places are destroyed by stupid Footballcommercials and stuff like that :( (see the picture)
Anyway, after coming back from Vienna on Monday evening, I drove to Munich on tuesday..just to have a look at one Apartement, it was a very short trip to Munich. I arrived there at 12.30, grabbed something to eat and went straight to the apartment. Then I went back to the station, ran into a cd shop and bought 2 cds (I had withdrawal syndromes...) and then I caught the train back to Austria.
When I came back home around 9 o'clock p.m, I met a good friend of mine who had her birthday party. We drove to a billiard pub with some other friends and played tabletop football (well, I watched) and Air Hockey (I LOVE IT!). However, I was so tired that I was glad when we finally drove back home...
And the good news - I got the room in Munich...It's a shared apartment and I have my own beautiful big room there :) It's empty but I'm kind of looking forward to buy cheap Ikea stuff for it ;)
So, well..that's it for now. I realized that this was a very boring post...sorry for that. I will try to make the next one more exciting...
Pictures from the "Austra Trip" with Hong :)
Before I say goodbye - listen to this song. Sam Sparro, my "hero" of the moment ;) Very catchy, a good voice and a groovy beat...I'm addicted to the album right now.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Back from Sweden..erm...Innsbruck
Hej everybody!
Yesterday I was in Innsbruck to watch the game Sweden vs. Russia (not in the Stadium...just in the fanzones) and boy, there were a lot of Swedes :)
I guess I never saw that many swedish people - not even in Sweden. The whole city center of Innsbruck was yellow and blue and around 6 o'clock all Swedes met to march to the stadium together - it was amazing, the streets were packed with swedish people and sweden fans. Blue and yellow, wherever I looked.
Afterwards we went to the Berg Isel Ski Jump - and of course most people there were swedish..the front rows were occupied by russian fans, but they were in the minority, by far. ;)
Anyway, in the end Russia won. I guess the saying "He who laughs last laughs best" is true when it comes down to it...
However, it was a great day and Hong, my chinese friend, enjoyed it a lot. And it was really nice to meet Elizabeth again :)
So, that's it for now...tomorrow we will head to Vienna, so the next entry will come on monday or tuesday :)
Pictures from Innsbruck
Yesterday I was in Innsbruck to watch the game Sweden vs. Russia (not in the Stadium...just in the fanzones) and boy, there were a lot of Swedes :)
I guess I never saw that many swedish people - not even in Sweden. The whole city center of Innsbruck was yellow and blue and around 6 o'clock all Swedes met to march to the stadium together - it was amazing, the streets were packed with swedish people and sweden fans. Blue and yellow, wherever I looked.
Afterwards we went to the Berg Isel Ski Jump - and of course most people there were swedish..the front rows were occupied by russian fans, but they were in the minority, by far. ;)
Anyway, in the end Russia won. I guess the saying "He who laughs last laughs best" is true when it comes down to it...
However, it was a great day and Hong, my chinese friend, enjoyed it a lot. And it was really nice to meet Elizabeth again :)
So, that's it for now...tomorrow we will head to Vienna, so the next entry will come on monday or tuesday :)
Pictures from Innsbruck
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Day 01
..of the new Blog ;)
Well, I worked on the layout a bit...the headpicture IS NOT finished, there are some things I want to improve...but for now it's ok, I guess.
So, let's start blogging, shall we?
It's funny, because I didn't plan to write something...well, I wanted to, but when I checked the time I thought that it's too late and that I'm not in the mood for wirting anymore - so I switched on the TV and realized that I'm not used to austrian/german TV anymore...all this dubbing! In Sweden I've got so used to watching everything in the original language...and hearing Homer Simpson speaking German feels weird after so many months...so I switched the TV off and decided to blogg.
Dubbing is bad...so many jokes get lost, when you have to translate something. I realized that, when I was in Sweden. I was so used to watching all the series and movies in german, except on DVD - but watching all the "daily shows" like The Simpsons in english felt so much better. The jokes seemed to be funnier, the voices better - and you improve your english ;) It's weird that german TV dubbs everything...of course, it's understandable but I wonder what would happen, if a TV station decided to show everything in the original language - with subtitles, of course...
Anyway, the positive aspects of dubbing are the voices. I admit, I am a huge fan of Daniela Hoffman - Julia Robert's german voice ;) Her voice is so much warmer and more sympathetic than Julias voice ;) And well, I guess I don't have to mention all the famous voices, like Bruce Willis' or Sarah Jessica Parker's germans voice ;)
Anyway, tomorrow I will go to Innsbruck to meet Hong (a chinese friend from Karlstad) and Elisabeth (a fellow-Austrian who was also in Karlstad) - I'm really looking forward to that, but I hope the weather will be nice... I'm going to meet Hong in Innsbruck, than we have breakfast/coffee with a friend (who I haven't met in ages...so I'm really excited about that). Afterwards we will meet Elisabeth and in the evening we go to the Berg Isel ski jump to watch the football match Sweden vs. Russia...and of course we support Sweden :P
This means - no posting tomorrow, but hopefully some nice pics in the next post ;)
So, that's it so far...I will end this post with a video of Ólafur Arnalds, since a good "online-friend" was at his concert yesterday and this got me in the mood to dug out his cd and listen to it...enjoy this beautiful piece of art :)
Well, I worked on the layout a bit...the headpicture IS NOT finished, there are some things I want to improve...but for now it's ok, I guess.
So, let's start blogging, shall we?
It's funny, because I didn't plan to write something...well, I wanted to, but when I checked the time I thought that it's too late and that I'm not in the mood for wirting anymore - so I switched on the TV and realized that I'm not used to austrian/german TV anymore...all this dubbing! In Sweden I've got so used to watching everything in the original language...and hearing Homer Simpson speaking German feels weird after so many months...so I switched the TV off and decided to blogg.
Dubbing is bad...so many jokes get lost, when you have to translate something. I realized that, when I was in Sweden. I was so used to watching all the series and movies in german, except on DVD - but watching all the "daily shows" like The Simpsons in english felt so much better. The jokes seemed to be funnier, the voices better - and you improve your english ;) It's weird that german TV dubbs everything...of course, it's understandable but I wonder what would happen, if a TV station decided to show everything in the original language - with subtitles, of course...
Anyway, the positive aspects of dubbing are the voices. I admit, I am a huge fan of Daniela Hoffman - Julia Robert's german voice ;) Her voice is so much warmer and more sympathetic than Julias voice ;) And well, I guess I don't have to mention all the famous voices, like Bruce Willis' or Sarah Jessica Parker's germans voice ;)
Anyway, tomorrow I will go to Innsbruck to meet Hong (a chinese friend from Karlstad) and Elisabeth (a fellow-Austrian who was also in Karlstad) - I'm really looking forward to that, but I hope the weather will be nice... I'm going to meet Hong in Innsbruck, than we have breakfast/coffee with a friend (who I haven't met in ages...so I'm really excited about that). Afterwards we will meet Elisabeth and in the evening we go to the Berg Isel ski jump to watch the football match Sweden vs. Russia...and of course we support Sweden :P
This means - no posting tomorrow, but hopefully some nice pics in the next post ;)
So, that's it so far...I will end this post with a video of Ólafur Arnalds, since a good "online-friend" was at his concert yesterday and this got me in the mood to dug out his cd and listen to it...enjoy this beautiful piece of art :)
Monday, June 16, 2008
Chocolate milk...
...the thing that inspired me to this Blogtitle. I was drinking hot chocolate milk and had to think of Rufus Wainwright's song "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" and in my head I was singing the lyrics...and the line "Playing with prodigal sons, takes a lot of sentimental valiums" was stuck in my head. Sentimental Valiums - I like that phrase. But I don't say that sentimental valiums are good but sometimes we need them, sometimes we want to numb our feelings with sentimental valiums...
Anyway, before this first post gets too philosophical and weird, let's start with some real stuff.
Well, not now. ;)
As you can see, this blog is a total mess at the moment - ugly design, no graphics, boring and horrible to look at (ugh, that green!) but I will try to change that soon.
Because I've aready wrote around 5 pages today I'm not feeling like writing anymore, so the first real entry will come tomorrow.
Thanks for reading.
Manuel
Anyway, before this first post gets too philosophical and weird, let's start with some real stuff.
Well, not now. ;)
As you can see, this blog is a total mess at the moment - ugly design, no graphics, boring and horrible to look at (ugh, that green!) but I will try to change that soon.
Because I've aready wrote around 5 pages today I'm not feeling like writing anymore, so the first real entry will come tomorrow.
Thanks for reading.
Manuel
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