uploaded by martin and werner who i know are totally full by that delicious abomination right now :)

but I have managed to see Kettcar on friday, who were just about as awesome as I had expected them to be. unfortunately, I didn’t like the supporting act Kreisky at all. great concert from Kettcar, just about perfect.

I was there with Markus from graz who said that I should check out Tomte as well the following day because they are “better than Kettcar”.

they are not. at least in my oppinion. I enjoyed Kettcar way more. and it was quite a journey to get a Tomte ticket in the end because the show was sold out. luckily, there’s last.fm :)

what was surprising was that I ended up enjoying the supporting act Novillero a lot. so after the concert was over I purchased both Novillero cds and I’m listening to them right now. good choice, they are pretty cool. also I found out that they are from Winnipeg, Canada. does that ring a bell? my favourite band, The Weakerthans, is also from Winnipeg. how awesome.

photo (c) by Bryan Bruchman

check them out for yourself:

thanks guys, saved my evening, because Tomte didn’t really do it for me :)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novillero
• http://www.novillero.net/
• http://www.myspace.com/novillero

i’ll open up with Coheed and Cambria, who I already saw live this year and they were amazing.

What Wikipedia has to say:

Coheed and Cambria is an American rock band formed in New York.^[1] The band has been active since 1995, although they did not go by the name Coheed and Cambria until 2001, when Nate Kelley left the band. Before this they were known as Shabűtie.

Coheed and Cambria’s albums are concept albums, revealing the plot of a science fiction storyline called The Amory Wars, written by lead singer Claudio Sanchez. To date, the band has released four studio albums, two live albums, and various special-edition releases, with their latest release being Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow in 2007.

Where you’ll find them online:

• http://www.coheedandcambria.com/
• http://www.last.fm/music/Coheed+and+Cambria
• http://www.myspace.com/coheedandcambria

And here, the real take 5 part: listen to it and decide if you like it. if you like it, give them another shot with other videos linked below. if not, you’ve only wasted 5 minutes that you wouldn’t have spent any better otherwise.

opening up with:
Coheed and Cambria - Devil in Jersey City

i would have opened with “A Favor House Atlantic”, but embedding on the other videos has been disabled.

more Coheed and Cambria stuff on youtube:

• A Favor House Atlantic
• Feathers
• Welcome Home
• The Running Free
• Blood Red Summer

so, what are your recommendations?

the business cards (made by the great artist andi from innsbruck) where the only thing remotely accurate to american psycho. and i can’t even say i was dressed up as dexter, because the shirt and tie would be too much.

either way, a bunch of fun :)

last three pics (c) by markus “frank west” ortner

full sylt photo set at flickr.

in addition:

original:

Die Ärzte - Westerland - MyVideo

fuck me :o

(yes i was too late to buy tickets in the standing area, but obviously it was totally worth it :)

great concert, love to see them again :)

here’s what happened: recently I had to work in Salzburg and had some co-workers with me. we were four people driving to Salzburg. in the morning, one of my co-workers drove to Salzburg and I myself drove back on the way home. as usual, driver picks the music and since I use the pool-car a lot, I have a few CDs in there and picked “State Radio - Year Of The Crow”. i don’t remember the correct quote, but my youngest co-worker (19) said something about the music, something like if there is anything else we could listen to. by the way, it was not very loud so we could talk as well.

then a co-worker asked her: “what kind of music do you like?”

and she said… wait for it, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait for it…

“well, i like everything”

UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHRRRGGGG!!!!!!

and basically, what is the correct response?
“well, then why should I change the music then?”

seriously, makes. me. mad. therefore my reaction wasn’t very nice. usually i’m much nicer, but “i like everything” basically means, that your musical horizon is limited. very, very, very limited. like only-one-radiostation-limited. ö3-limited. if only someone would think about this sentence, he/she would notice how fucked-up that quote i and that it only means that you didn’t think of the music that you don’t listen to because…. you don’t want to. there is a lot of music i don’t like or don’t want to listen to, but i know it’s there.

to hell with the most obvious choices like techno or folk, there are some kinds of music one couldn’t even imagine. for example, my brother once played pitbull grindcore to me. the recorded barks of pitbulls together with the usual instruments. take a look at “Caninus” - “Vocals are executed by two pit bull terriers. Both were rescued days before euthanization from refuges. Caninus - all strict vegans. It has come time really to allow the animals to have their say.” Hear/see them on last.fm :D

Also, there is “Hatebeak“ - Face-crushing guitars, head-pounding drums, bass so low you’ll vacate your bowels, and vocals so scorching, so extreme they simply can’t be human! They’re not. This death metal outfit with a parrot for a singer makes trashes the pathetic birdfeeder you call the metal underground”. see them on last.fm :D

But why go to such extreme measures? For sure you find easier examples much faster (“Metallica? ewwww gross!!!”) for the average “I like everything”-person, because it’s pretty obvious that there is not a snowball’s chance in hell someone likes everything. take classics like Bach or Mozart for example as well… and for that reason I’m thinking of doing a small compilation to play to people when I hear the famous “i like everything” sentence. I’ll call it “some things you just don’t know yet”. But then again, i’m probably a freak.

… or maybe i just like music that much.

the answer is somewhere in between.

but i ask you:
what do you think, why would someone say he/she likes everything?

a customer said, that there was a problem with the delivery of an e-mail and that she got an error message (probably from the MAILER-DAEMON), so i asked her to forward that mail (she didn’t think of that before, nor did she tell me the recipient e-mail so I could check the logs on my own).

what i got was

• an e-mail with “here you go”
• the e-mail had an attachement
• the attachement was a pdf file
• the pdf file was the scan of the mail
• the scan was a OCR scan as well, so i could copy/paste*

uhm. works for me… but hey…. why not use the “forward” button in your mail-client? :)

reminds me of the times (yes, happened more than once!) when I asked for the screenshot of an error message and got either a scanned print OR a snapshot from a digital camera when someone made a picture of the screen. once someone used the flash for the photo and I couldn’t see the error message because of the reflection.

fun times, fun times.

* copy/paste was useless by the way since the print that has been scanned was scanned a little distorted so there was no use for that :)