UNBOUND LOVE
1 year ago
30 August, 2009
21 August, 2009
It's a Mad World
Gary Jules' fantastic cover version...very touching!
The original by Tears For Fears - a fab 80s track:
The original by Tears For Fears - a fab 80s track:
13 August, 2009
Hard-Fi's Stars of CCTV...
...is another great album that Phil had on his iTunes compilations. Very interesting mix of funk, rock and electronic sounds with interesting vocal and melody themes!! And I L-O-V-E the album cover!! Simplicity rules!!! God, and I love the bass lines on 'Cash Machine', and the beat of 'Middle Eastern Holiday'...just listening to it now :D
Sailing towards the stars...
Just discovered some great music from Starsailor's great album 'Silence is Easy' which was somewhere on Phil's great music archive. I instantly put it onto my iTouch and just love listening to this very distinct sound and voice!!
The voice of James Walsh reminds me a bit of that of Suede's Brett Lewis Anderson. It is like Walsh is begging to be heard, and he is heard! Their hymn 'Silence is Easy' is such a catchy tune but not in a ladeeduudeeduu way but in a way where you want to listen to what the words are!
The voice of James Walsh reminds me a bit of that of Suede's Brett Lewis Anderson. It is like Walsh is begging to be heard, and he is heard! Their hymn 'Silence is Easy' is such a catchy tune but not in a ladeeduudeeduu way but in a way where you want to listen to what the words are!
Re-discovering minidisk
This thing called MD-player or MD-walkman has always been highly underrated.
I bought it when Mp3 portables could only store a total of 50MB/20-30 songs, i.e. when Mp3 was "Scheisse" :-D Those devices called Discman/portable CD-players were shite too, in terms of me not being able to listen to music when going out for a run or riding on a bus. With these blimming things there was no such thing as a shock absorbing mechanism, hence it seemed reasonable to buy an MD walkman. Now during times of iPod touch it already seems outdated, but I think it still has a legitimate position in the world of high-end gadgets. I re-discovered this wonderful thing (a Sharp MD-MT180, and the Sony MZ-R700 Walkman, which a friend of mine just gave me for free) in one of my drawers. Of course it is a bit of a hassle to record tracks the old fashioned way, even worse so...one needs to stop in between songs so that the device is not recording 30 songs in ONE track. You still want to be able to skip a song or play the list at random! BUT, if you want a digital device, that is robust and yet has the nostalgic element of EXCHANGING the song units (=Minidisks), like you did with tapes, then you HAVE to love MD portables. Plus, I payed a bloody € 140,- for that thing, so I better make the most of it :D !!!
P.S.: The good thing about the Sony MZ-R700 is, that it is running with normal batteries rather than a re-chargeable battery as my Sharp one does. The Sharp doesn't run for very long anymore, but it is a better-featured device to make recordings (e.g. you can set the recording volume level :). Good to have em both ^-^
SHARP MD-MT180:
SONY MZ-R700:
I bought it when Mp3 portables could only store a total of 50MB/20-30 songs, i.e. when Mp3 was "Scheisse" :-D Those devices called Discman/portable CD-players were shite too, in terms of me not being able to listen to music when going out for a run or riding on a bus. With these blimming things there was no such thing as a shock absorbing mechanism, hence it seemed reasonable to buy an MD walkman. Now during times of iPod touch it already seems outdated, but I think it still has a legitimate position in the world of high-end gadgets. I re-discovered this wonderful thing (a Sharp MD-MT180, and the Sony MZ-R700 Walkman, which a friend of mine just gave me for free) in one of my drawers. Of course it is a bit of a hassle to record tracks the old fashioned way, even worse so...one needs to stop in between songs so that the device is not recording 30 songs in ONE track. You still want to be able to skip a song or play the list at random! BUT, if you want a digital device, that is robust and yet has the nostalgic element of EXCHANGING the song units (=Minidisks), like you did with tapes, then you HAVE to love MD portables. Plus, I payed a bloody € 140,- for that thing, so I better make the most of it :D !!!
P.S.: The good thing about the Sony MZ-R700 is, that it is running with normal batteries rather than a re-chargeable battery as my Sharp one does. The Sharp doesn't run for very long anymore, but it is a better-featured device to make recordings (e.g. you can set the recording volume level :). Good to have em both ^-^
SHARP MD-MT180:
SONY MZ-R700:
09 August, 2009
Films I watched recently
I recently traveled to Hanover to visit my best and closest mate from Britain. We decided to spend the rest of the evening watching a few DVDs, so we went to his favourite DVD shop t rent 2 films. Luckily I got to choose, otherwise I may have had been doomed to watch Harry Potter. J. is an ardent Harry Potter fan, no wonder being from near York o_O. He even called me a freak, a nutter for not being as fanatic about it as he is...
Anyway, the first film I chose was one I never had heared of before. It is called 'The Man from Earth'. J. looked at the DVD cover and went "That looks like a rubbish film." But I was insistent muharrharrharr!! When the film began I felt like I had to apologise to him, as it turned out to be a chitchat film, with ONE location and a group of actors..well...acting!
Of course it was exactly that, but the topic, the theme left the both of us too excited to not finish watching it! The dialogues and the acting was so good, plus the whole idea of a man having lived for 14,000 years!! Brilliant...plus the main actor was H-O-T ;-)
The second I got to choose was 'In Bruges' with Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes. Right, neither me nor J. are big fan of Colin, but the story was great fun as well as quite tragic! Watch thyselves...
Anyway, the first film I chose was one I never had heared of before. It is called 'The Man from Earth'. J. looked at the DVD cover and went "That looks like a rubbish film." But I was insistent muharrharrharr!! When the film began I felt like I had to apologise to him, as it turned out to be a chitchat film, with ONE location and a group of actors..well...acting!
Of course it was exactly that, but the topic, the theme left the both of us too excited to not finish watching it! The dialogues and the acting was so good, plus the whole idea of a man having lived for 14,000 years!! Brilliant...plus the main actor was H-O-T ;-)
The second I got to choose was 'In Bruges' with Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes. Right, neither me nor J. are big fan of Colin, but the story was great fun as well as quite tragic! Watch thyselves...
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