Big mouth strikes again

Dear bloggies, I'm back from the dead. You know that place, it is next to Ozon his not so special chocolate factory.

I will please you with usual enigmatic guidance in your ever struggle against boredom, depression and dance-routines.

I promised Hanne a story.

I lied.

Get use to it, to hell with poverty we'll get drunk on cheap wine. You should even be happy that I revitalised this charachter of pure arrogance and doubt. The things I do for you mr. Vandereycken. No I don't even care .


I lied.

Hello,

you might not remember dear bloggies, but I, Randy Warhol, is almost calling it a day.

Please send the flowers to the milkman.


Just a few more days.

make governments history!

2 out of 5 Americans believe Muslims should carry special I.D.


Almost four in ten, 39%, advocate that Muslims here should carry special I.D. That same number admit that they do hold some “prejudice” against Muslims. Forty-four percent say their religious views are too “extreme.”

In every case, Americans who actually know any Muslims are more sympathethic.

from
jdallen

Doesn't that remind you of the time when a little Adolf came up with this idea: Yellow Badge. Second remark is that the precentage of Americans agreeing with this idea is higher than Germans voted for Hitler.

Second thing I want to point your attention at

The Anarchist Cookbook is being banned. For those among you who don't really know what the book is about. It is about making your own Molotov and your own pair of home made bombs. It is also about giving you knowledge and there for the freedom to do what you want and to express you how you want. So hurry and go their site and get all the information (I don't know how long it is going to avaible anymore) you always or never wanted concerning BOMBS, HACKING TOOLS, DRUGS.

Now on the critical note and to somewhat temper your emotions. I do condemn all violence used against civilians or any actions not directly opposed to totalitarian regimes or any form of actions that Kant would disagree with (meaning don't do any form of actions that you don't want all society doing), but what you do with it is up to you. So here you are. (It is the most recent version of it the 2000 one and beware this is only the DIY part)

ANARCHY COOKBOOK
Post Scriptum: this just
Next up is some recent news:

Chance for Truce in Lebanon - Isreal conflict?


Now this is based on resolution 1701 voted by the UN Security Council. Now if you look closely to this resolution, you can easily see where the US won the diplomatic battle (that was going on for over 3 weeks) for their ally Isreal.
The most shocking one example is the fact that Isreal may continue it's brutal attack on Lebanon as long as it is out of defensive reason. So it didn't take Olmert and Co long to continue their attack. Because isn't the best defense an offense? No, the best defense is peace. But thanks to man who wants to compete with the Gestapo for massmurder an end isn't insight anymore. Now he is even using the same old technique as Hitler did when he burned down the reichstag. Or don't you remember the time the former prime minster of Spain tried to blame the Basques of the terror attack on the 11/03. Wierd that Dick Leurdyck, terrorist-specialist, who doesn't even see a link between the attacks and the Al Quadea network.

Now that I'm on the subject of the so-called attacks I want to point your attention to a few things I've noticed. Let's start of with the arrest of the so-called terrorist only after a few days after the arrests a few houses are being guarded by policemen. Secondly, no one has seen (or no eye witnees) are avaible of the arrests hard to believe (because I don't believe a suicide terrorist would give in without a fight).
Secondly there couldn't have been a better time for British and American autorities to arrest a whole bundle of terrorists then now. Bush is stuck in many battles (Iraq, Afghanistan and even at his home front his policy is leading to a down fall in his popularity.) where he needs to escape from. Blair, on the other hand, needed this break because after already a few raids in locations across the UK where nothing was found.
The only thing what really went quick was resolution 1701 just a day after arrests and wierdly it was pretty an American made resolution.

Now before the put a lock on me.
I'm out.

More Strokes In Amsterdam

All videos in Amsterdam like described in the previous post:

The Strokes video Amsterdam, 12-51

The Strokes Live in Amsterdam at the Heineken Music Hall - Someday

The Strokes Live in Amsterdam at the Heineken Music Hall - Last Night

P.S.
The quality of the video isn't so great, but the sound is "fine".

EDIT: Woops I found some more videos of the strokes of the same night:

New York City Cops



And here is Take it or leave it also from the same show

Hard to be a blogger, easy to be you!

Mood: Tired
Songs: Moldy Peaches(Lucky Number Nine, Anyone Else But You)/Adam Green (Hard to be a girl)/ Tom Vek (Phones Remix of Ain't Saying My Goodbye's)/ Strokes (Hawaii Aloha)

South
Adam Green
The Strokes

Amsterdam 11-07-2006

South (influences Coldplay, Talking Heads, Radiohead)

This British band is already around for more than 6 years, some of their songs appeared on the O.C. But if you're a warm-up to the strokes so many years later, you could guess that your carreer is at a dead end, especially if your lead-singer is looking like Chris Martin before Coldplay unleashed Yellow to the world. He also told us that Syd Barret died in his sleep last night. I think that is the thing I'm going to remember from their set, because they played nine songs were they're were only two really worth, listing again.
South-Paint the Silence

Adam Green (influences Jacques Brel, Nat King Cole, Moldy Peaches (he was in it!)

Did you know that Adam Green's grandmother was a fiancé of Franz Kafka? Did you know I still miss the Moldy Peaches? Perhaps you do. But we surely have to remember that is that he always give cabaret-styled preformances. He's always balancing between Beck and Frank Sinatra, but than a very good looking Sinatra. He's got his bag full of hits. "Jessica [Simpson]" is one of the most sneering ballads I know and Emily is a rythm changing swinging song, but his last song, "Baby's Going to be Alright" was right on the spot and he even made the biggest strokes fans dance. But then again if you got a boogey-master as Adam Green, you just have to move your body.

Adam Green Jessica Simpson

The Strokes (Velvet Underground, Television, (see First Impression Of Earth) Guns'n'Roses)

You can't argue with the fact, that only a few bands can be responsable for making a soundtrack to your life. I can still remember the day I first hold the Modern Age EP in my hands. I know what "Someday" means to me, I know where I was and what I was doing when I first saw the video of "Last Night", (thank ... they played both of these songs live). The Strokes are band who opened the eyes for many fans and cleared the path for everyone from the Hives to Bloc Party over The Kooks and Arctic Monkeys.
Their first album struck the planet like a bomb, for their second one they did Ramones-Style (same genre of songs, same sound of songs), but it was alright. And then... And then... came the somewhat disapointing third one. Few good songs, but overal just not enough. They tried to hard to be different, but got a bit lost while making it.



Anyway I still was about as excited as a little kid going to Disney UNIVERSE World thing. But before they started a few things struck me, which can be balled in the quote "not since the nazi's, did a system got us look all the same". The dress-code was converse-allstar, jeans (little crack in them couldn't do you no harm), t-shirt straight from H&M (striped!) or funny logo or old band t-shirt(think Joy Division or Stooges) and shared a common sense of I'mcoolerthanthou, I loved it.
Anyway the strokes dropped a bomb in the Heineken Hall when they started off with "Juicebox". I was really flying from one side to the other, so I could see that Nikolai was growing a little beard. Next up was Modern Age which only made the crowd more in a weird extase.
The Strokes tried to keep this rythm up during the most part of their 58 minute set, where in Julian smiled and tried something else than his very famous where are my contact-lenses look, Nick Valensi was skinnier than ever and Albert Jr. Hammond who just nodded with his big afro in his always sharp suits. It was a great set, where their small flaws became part of perfection. Only one song really bugged me, "You can ask me Anything", when Nick Valensi played piano and Julian tried to do it Pogues-style. It is just not working. They ended this part with Reptilia where Nick Valensi missed a few notes and looked a bit scared to Albert who just smiled back. I knew this couldn't be the end of the set, because since the "infamous" $2 bill concert, every strokes fan they have to finish with Take it or Leave it.
After this sizzling set they came back with New York City Cops, Hawaii Aloha (B-side to Juicebox) and Take it or Leave It.
Conclusion: I was very sceptical about the new songs, but they sounded good live, but their still miles away from songs like "Last Night" or "The End Has No End". I still love you dear strokes and I think I will always do that.

The Strokes Trying Your Luck



Dour Festival
only the good stuff!

Eagle*seagull needs a rematch, they sounded alright but their set bored me a bit.

Miss John Soda (see An Pierlé, Division of Laura Lee)

These German cool cats are band formed by members of The Notwist and Couch. They're on the Morr label (coolio see Styrofoam and Mùm). They make lovely pop-songs with a catch to it and where the first band of the day (already seen Hitch and E*S) to catch my attention. I only vaguely knew their hit Number One , wich is song (technically) made around the number 3 (verses, riffs's and etc.) but in a 4/4 standard. I liked their set also because they also were the first band who could get the more than their 4 fans on their feet. Due you have to bear in mind that the dour crowd is by far the worst crowd you could play to in the afternoon on a festival.

Les Georges Leningrads (influences DNA and all other obscure bands from the early eighties )
They are like the YYY's meets Spanish wrestlers meets German Porn. Never knew what that sounded or looked like well really just go to one of their shows. They first caught my attention when I got a Post-Punk compilation from Rough Trade, but forgot them for a while, just to pick them up again when I saw they were labelmates of the Unicorns (later more). I fairly enjoyed the concert where they were flirting on the border of Kitsch and art (see that first one has a capital and latter don't). Supadoopa was their best live track and made a Marrissa (O.C.) lookalike/ press photographer dance so hard that she bounced against all other members of the press. YAY for that, for them and for ghosts and ghouls.

Islands (sounds like the UNICORNS ha!)

Nick Neil Diamonds was in a little band called the Unicorns, he lost Alden Penner, his old school buddy, to soundtrack-writing and he lost his J'aime Tombeur on the road. But he got help from his all multicultural band and his songs are made with a little help some people from Arcade Fire. Which struck me because sometimes when I was watching I had the vision that they looked like a poor man's Arcade Fire. Irony of course because the Arcade Fire used to open for the Unicorns (now Islands) and got their moves from them. Anyway, that is a pointless discussion. I don't really know how much I should like the show, I heard a couple of new songs and the "hits" Ruff Gem, Snowman and Don't Call Me Withney, Bobby. When he finally got to Swans (his last song) the band got it together and made an alright set out of it. I think I have to see them again live to make final call on this one, because I'm having a feeling it could flip both ways now.


Rough Gem

Total Conclusion:
Festivals aren't my thing anymore, I'm also lacking a good amount of sleep which make me a groggy. Anyway thank you D.V. for the picture and S.M. for other support.


Over And Out
R.W.

Hard to be a blogger, easy to be you!

Owk I haven't blogged lately but here we go.


South
Adam Green
The Strokes

Amsterdam 11-07-2006



You can't argue with the fact, that only a few bands can be responsable for making a soundtrack to your life. I can still remember the day I first hold the Modern Age EP in my hands. The Strokes were

Bang Bang

Let's start of with some good news.

The Icarus Project is BANG BANG .... DEAD. Yes all you metalheads and other musichaters are allowed to call this your official field day. Due to the fact that we would all like to kill each other for various reasons(too few rehearsals, bad group-vibe, etc.), we agreed to settle this thing like childern playing to be adults and called the project off.
We will not engage ourselves in any last concert nor will our cd be released through V2. Anyway we're not complete assholes and would like to mention the fact that we release the songs for free, so non-commercial hook attached, and we'll be floating through the cyberspace anytime soon.


Second headline:

Sorry, but after enough sneeky smoking behind closed doors, I've yet again decided to drop that aswell. Anyway there is a list were you, yes YOU, can sign and if you, yes you, sign, you might well have done a very lucrative job, because it means you can ask me whatever you want.

Third headline and most important of them all:
Yesterday was the birthday of the only person I will not drop. So drums...
Picture...
SALAHMOES...