kyla - do you mind

I've been searching for this track for a couple of time now. it will be released as a major release this year..... but.....

heatwave has already done a reggea refix

facebook of any use?

for the start of 2009 facebook welcomed me with the favorite videos shared through their network. astonishingly no1 was

M.I.A. - paper planes

interesting to me because i allways thought that M.I.A. was more like an underground things. allthough the video was shot in new york the band off course is british. the official version is censored in the US. the original vid has the gunshots.... here's the comment from maya

 

by the way the song itself is excellent and will appear on the soundtrack of an upcoming major movie release 'slumdog millionaire'. the dfa remix made it to stadium song for the st. louis cardinals..... funny story 

the remix by adrock of the beastie boys is sick.

if you like the older releases of M.I.A. like 'jimmy' or 'boy'  you should check buraka som sistema

hd v dvd?

some made a comparision between screencaps of the movie "pulp fiction", one of my favorites.

the sources are a dvd and hd. the differences are hughe, but I feel disapointed by the way the high definition looks. the movie losts some of it's magic to me...

compare for yourself:

screenshot comparision

movie update

george a. romero is filming a sequel of his XXXXXXXXX of the dead series.

title might be: ... of the dead [set on an island]

peter noster has the trailer for the flic.

kollegen-talk

wenn hr. jingler seinen weihnachts-neujahresrückblick nach ettlicher zeit der ruhe ausfüllt, stelle ich doch fest, dass wir zumindest musikalisch einiges gemein haben:

bei dem konzert kann ich naturgemäß nicht mithalten, mit dem album gehe ich dacord, polarkreis 18 mit "rainerlein, rainerlein" nerven gehörig und the clash lief bei mir schon zum jahreswechsel 2007/2008.....

naja, kid rock..... halt kid rock, hat der immer noch diesen kleinen kerl mit auf der bühen, wie damals bei den simpsons?

and don't haha

as the year ends, the german hacker group chaos computer club shows its capabilties:
the websites of german right wing white nacionalist party, NPD, show some funny pictures.


more at heise

late christmas greetings

and as every year we went on rowing for the morning of christmas eve. a bit hung over and freezing but still ok:

[from left to right: meike coxing, jan, yvonne, me and boris]

paleface feat kyla

i've been looking for this song since i heard it for the first time. seems to be a big hit in the uk [place no2 in the 100 year chart of 2008 by fact magazine].... but unfortunately there is no opportunity to buy this track at itunes or beatport. mysterious!

rocko schamoni

very entertaining, indeed!
lots of laughter, sheer joy as he read from all three of his books.

[pic by rocko schamoni]

oi!

for those fans of hardcore breakbeat [back in the days]:

knite force has opened it's entire backcatalogue for free [including artwork and 320kbps mp3 files].

big up!

via scheckkartenpunk

the internet isn't better

today i went out at 8 am, rainy and cold, to buy some tickets for chirstmas concert of the germand die toten hosen, christmas 2009 by the way.

sale started today at 10 am, only local shops like the counter of the local soccer team [fortuna düsseldorf], a brewery downtown [uerige] and at the soccer game that day. all opened at 10 am, we waited 90min with freezing feet to get the tickets but the job was done.

roumers were spread that the internet ticket sale started at 8 am, which would have meant no waiting in the cold/rain. but what do i see?

never seen before

ok, it's a typical german sunday winter morning, around 0 degrees, something between rain and snow. nothing as an excuse not to do any sports.

but do you have to do your running with an open umbrella in hand?

sydney as you might never have seen it before

a stop motion film by keith loutit, looks amazingly like it was all made up by modells:

The North Wind Blew South from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

low budget video clips

here is someone offering his abilities to make low budget music videos. allthough i doubt that the original would have cost much more i like the unofficial better than the original version:

update

at least germany`s foreign minister, frank-walter steinmeier, is able to tell us the exact name of the indian city:

"...the attacks in mumbai, the former bombay...."

to the german media:

could someone please notice that it`s MUMBAI instead of Bombay [as the old name of bombay referres to the portugese  occupation].

Astonishingly only the public service tv-station use the old name...

 

similarities

yesterday at the cinema [vicky christina barcelona, directed by woody allen, with scarlet johannsson, penelope cruz and javier bardem] i noticed a slight similarity between javier bardem and a friend of mine from barcelona: nacho!

scrambel this anagram

the magazine for the sueddeutsche zeitung has a funny collumn:
gemischtes doppel

today it was

osama bin laden - obama sin laden
[picture of him]- [white house]

thank god

the banggang-djs are back again ;) and they great with the following picture:

easy like friday morning....

friday morning, 7:14 AM, at the train to work:
a group of women gathering around 2 bottles of sweet smelling sparkling wine, exactly what i do not need at this time of the week/day.....

every year

after the first circuit-training for the season you have slight muscle ache the next morning. but nothing beats the feeling that you want to sing buju bantons - champion:
walk like a champion, talk like a champion.


only your attitude changes to 'in your face' because you feel invincible.

skate for peace / afghanistan

german newspaper 'die sueddeutsche zeitung' reports about an australian skateboarding tourist who started a skatecamp for children in kabul. it's frequented also by girls, quite uncommon for that regio. now he is looking for gifts.... there are only 9 boards/decks right now.

german skateshop titus supports this great idea for a cupple of months with 'skateistan'

radiorecorder

jetzt mal auf deutsch, da ja eh nur für die hörer deutscher radiosender.
früher habe ich steve mason auf bfbs [british forces broadcasting service] aus dem radio aufgenommen. seine radioshow mit den neusten schallplatten hat mich dann knapp eine woche lang im walkman begleitet, bis halt zur nächsten sendung.

seit lange hatte ich heute morgen nun wieder ein ähnliches gefühl, nachdem mich ein kollege auf den wdr-radiorecorder aufmerksam gemacht hat.

herrliches teil und legal. der wdr bietet als service für meine gebühren ein programm zum download an, mit dem sich alle radiosendung des wdr bei bestehender internetverbindung auf dem heimischen pc aufzeichnen lassen. inclusive programmplan aller 5 wdr radiokanäle, plus support von itunes zum direkten überspielen auf den ipod.
vermutlich aus rechtlichen gründen darf z.B. domian nicht als podcast angeboten werden. bisher hätte ich den gerne morgens in den bahn gehört, statt dessen merrick and ross [and kate ritchie] aus australien. bis jetzt wie gesagt, denn heute morgen konnte ich dem wunderbaren radio-entertainment mit anrufern in der bahn lauschen!
anderer aspekt ist natürlich, dass der wdr zwar sehr viele 'wortbeiträge' [also reportagen] als podcast anbietet, aber für mich spannende unterhaltung mit musik fehlt [wegen der lizenzen für eben die musik]. also kann ich jetzt, klaus fiehe sonntags komplett aufnehmen und habe meinen ersatz für steve mason....

[p.s.: letzter link mit kleinem archiv von vielen vielen tollen radiosendungen]

finally

after some years we've won the rhine marathon [leverkusen - düsseldorf] once more:

from left to right: wolf, rainer, claudia [thanks you very much for perfect coxing! no water in our boat], boris and me

american remake

yesterday the us version of australian comedy 'kath & kim' had it premiere..... and totally failed as i could read in the blogs.

i still have the first two series of this tv-show here on dvd and can remember as i bought them in australia to show everybode the sincere australian humor, besides cnnn.  [chaser non-stop news network that is, it's on abc]

badass!

tour du lac

i'm quite glad that this time we had ne crew to compete in the 160 km rowing regatta tour du lac du geneve.

 

only 5 boots out of 21 particapants suceeded to finish!

the first boats sunk after 30 of the 160km course...

music today

MP3: Elephant Man - No Tikkle

it's a lazy bank holiday today, tag der deutschen einheit. rainy, cold only 9 degrees at 4 pm. so here's what blasting outside my speakers....

benny hill riddim by leftside, elephant man!

thanks to heatwave.co.uk

australians in egypt?

 
2000b.c.?

more than one word:

Egypt 2008 from el pocho on Vimeo.

more to come, especially some words ;)