My best friend is in hospital right now and shares a bedroom with two guys. Both of them snore. One has a very regular, hardly annoying snore, the other one often bursts out snuffling and makes it very hard for my friend to sleep. This bloke told my friend that he knew that he was snoring a little bit. But that he had never met anybody like the third guy who would snort like a pig and turn his nights into nightmares. My friend couldn't hold back from laughing so much that it was hurting.

Die Hinternet-Rezension von Tom Liwas Evolution Blues fängt so gut an, dass man sie eigentlich gar nicht mehr weiterlesen möchte, es kann fast nur noch bergab gehen (was es dann aber doch nicht tut):

Translation:

The beginning of the Hinternet review of Tom Liwa's Evolution Blues is so fabulous that you don't want to continue reading as it can only go down-hill (which it doesn't actually):

Self-pity alarm!

Move With Me (shortly followed by Somedays and Red Paint) has always been my favourite song (yes I am such a simple mind) by Neneh Cherry and I have been always hoping to find the woman who would say to me:

I am seriously beginning to doubt if this woman exists outside of my brain.

No idea, really but I liked the thread on ILM called Random A-Z where you make a selection of all the music you own and condense it by accidentally choosing one album per first letter of the artist. My result obtained by Excel random function applied to the Access database with almost 2,400 items (CDs, records, tapes etc.) with lots of embarrassing stuff but some goodies too:

• anyone's daughter - piktors verwandlungen
• buffalo springfield - on the way home
• chopin - sonate nr. 3 h-moll (harasiewicz)
• daf - alles ist gut
• eleventh dream day - lived to tell
• friends of dean martinez - wichita lineman
• jan garbarek - eventyr
• mick harvey - intoxicated man
• incredible string band - the 5000 spirits
• keith jarrett - always let me go
• bb king - king of the blues 1966-69
• low - trust
• moby grape - live grape
• friedrich nietzsche - kompositionen
• oregon - always, never and forever
• pavement - brighten the corners
• q: nothing!
• reverend horton heat - lucky
• michelle shocked - the texas campfire tapes
• troggs - greatest hits
• ub40 - present arms in dub
• stevie ray vaughan - soul to soul
• chris whitley - dirt floor
• xtc - drums and wires
• neil young - decade
• frank zappa - jazz from hell

I Love Music thread of the day: Filing your music alphabetically - C/D?

Of course I do it for practical reasons and of course I liked the crazy idea of ordering the CDs by colour.

I just ordered from Amazon:

• Neneh Cherry - Homebrew
• Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth
• Sven Regener - Herr Lehmann (book in German)

and from Glitterhouse:

• American Music Club - California
• Band of Blacky Ranchette - Still Lookin' Good to Me
• Dirty Three - Dirty Three
• Flowerpornoes - Ich & Ich
• Go-Betweens - Spring Hill Fair (2 CD reissue)
• Tom Liwa & Florian Glässing - Lopnor
• Okkervil River - Don't Fall in Love with Everyone
• Thin White Rope - Sack Full of Silver
• Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland

As usual I am a litte late on this, I suppose. Mark Kozelek, mastermind of thee one and only sadcore band, the Red House Painters has a new band called Sun Kil Moon and their album Ghosts of the Great Highway which is due for release Nov. 4th on Jetset in the US is already circulating in cyberspace. According to this review it is a return to form after the slightly disappointing Old Ramon.

Mark apparently gets obsessed with boxers dying in the ring on the new album. The song Duk Koo Kim is about this Korean lightweight champion who died after a fierce fight with Ray Mancini in 1982. It was already released with a live and a studio version on a sold-out 10'' by Vinyl Films a while ago. If you are really desperate to listen to this heart-breaking song in the vein of the early RHP you can subscribe to the Yahoo! Group mistress and search the archive for "ftp server" and read the first couple of result posts. Afterwards you should of course buy the 10'' as soon as it becomes available again...

P.S. There is a longish interview with Mark Kozelek plus review of the new album over at Splendidzine with three songs from the new album in audio stream: Gentle Moon, Pancho Villa and Salvador Sanchez.

is a river close to St. Petersburg and the name of a band of school friends from New Hampshire who relocated to Austin, TX. Sean was the first to bring them to my attention but somehow I didn't connect immediately to their brand of opulent melodramatic sadcore alt-country somewhere in between the Palace Brothers, Mark Eitzel and Sparklehorse. When I listened to the four songs from their second album Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See which can be streamed here at Euroranch the singer sounded in places like a fusion of Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Daniel Johnston to me. Will Sheff, the singer, lets himself go completely and switches into a pretty irritating almost shrieking falsetto in Kansas City. And then I was in for a coincidental surprise on the last track Happy Hearts. It is a duet with Daniel Johnston himself. Is there anything more moving in the world than the mentally disordered Daniel Johnston singing in his children's voice

Later I found out that Okkervil River had played in the Dreikönigskeller in Frankfurt last Sunday. Oh God what a loser am I? In any case there is a new album out called Down the River of Golden Dreams which can also be partly streamed at the Euroranch link above and which didn't click with me yet but last year's record is definitely on top of my wishlist now.

I'll end this post with a small anecdote of their concert in Vienna last night. Again it is from Euroranch (German translated by me):

I started a thread on Saturday at I Love Music on a personal subject and it is still thriving:

What was the last song you wept to?

I guess it is about time to give up blogging when you don't know anymore what's more embarrassing, the look into the mirror or the look into your weblog.