The first time I listened to Sophia I thought but I bloody know this voice. I liked it without being able to say where I had heard it before. Recently I read a review where Robin Proper-Sheppard's voice was compared to Mick Jagger's. First I thought no way. I just got People Are Like Seasons in the mail and I am listening to it on repeat now. And it is true. The more the CD advances the more I hear Mick Jagger and this really bothers me. It takes away something. It's not that I hate Mick Jagger but I don't want him to sound like singing these fragile beautiful songs. Because it doesn't fit somehow.

by among others The Balanescu Quartet, Rammstein, Big Black, Ride and Belle & Sebastian at Sleeve Notes: Talvez. Chris Whitley's take on the European release of Dirt Floor is sadly missing.

I doubt that there will be many updates here in the coming weeks. There is a lot of work to do and I am in one of these internet weariness phases.

A book I have just started which I am enjoying a lot: Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of Older Women from 1965. It makes very easy and entertaining reading in the train to work. I am pretty much at the beginning. The autobiographical hero who is twelve or thirteen hasn't lost his virginity yet. But he has been very close already. Additionally he is arranging the rendez-vous of American soldiers with Austrian women who are in need of money...

has a livejournal now. Yesterday's entry is on Adam Green (ex-Moldy Peaches). I heard some songs of his album a couple of days ago. Excellent songwriter stuff. I found him quite charming too in the radio interview.

P.S. Another livejournal by a musician: Kimya Dawson Loves You

Julia 2004. Great cover. Or sample. Or whatever.

P.S. Marcello Carlin is more explicit on this version in his review of DJ Dangermouse's Grey Album:

Wired 9.12: Take The AQ Test. I scored 27 again. Rediscovered at ILM.

So langsam habe ich die Faxen dicke mit denen. 2/3 der CDs, die ich da bestelle, scheinen nicht vorrätig. Außerdem kosten neue CDs jetzt 17,99 €. Und selbst CDs, die ich mal bestellt habe und die innerhalb von sechs oder mehr Wochen nicht geliefert werden konnten, sind weiterhin in der Datenbank. Ich bestell jetzt wieder bei Glitterhouse, die sind zwar auch nicht besonders schnell, aber nett und besorgen fast alles, was auf ihrer Seite steht. Und sind meistens auch noch so ca. eine Mark billiger. Bestellungen ab 50 € sind übrigens auch portofrei seit neuestem.

it happens more and more often. i look for something on the web. for an answer to a question and one of the first results is my weblog. it feels like being a very helpless god.