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  • Swoon
    Swoon
    by Silversun Pickups
  • Octahedron
    Octahedron
    by The Mars Volta
  • Amputechture
    Amputechture
    by The Mars Volta
  • Frances the Mute
    Frances the Mute
    by The Mars Volta
  • De-Loused in the Comatorium
    De-Loused in the Comatorium
    by The Mars Volta
  • The Back Room
    The Back Room
    by Editors
  • An End Has a Start
    An End Has a Start
    by Editors
  • Northline: A Novel (P.S.)
    Northline: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Willy Vlautin
  • The Motel Life: A Novel (P.S.)
    The Motel Life: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Willy Vlautin
  • Thirteen Cities
    Thirteen Cities
    by Richmond Fontaine
  • Obliteration by Time
    Obliteration by Time
    by Richmond Fontaine

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Tuesday
09Feb2010

Another Great Willy

Richmond Fountaine Clip

"The Ghost I Became" clip by the Richmond Fountaine is another Willy Vlautin stunner. I just love the complicated simplicity and shallow depth.

Just like life itself.

Sunday
17Jan2010

An Ending?

Aston Martin Vantage V12

Jeremy Clarksen of BBC's Top Gear is in pain - so is everyone who ever fell in love with technology that might vanish for good for so many reasons.

I have a special feeling for this part of this Epsiode of Top Gear's Season 13. As Jeremy takes out the Aston Martin Vantage V12 or Baby Aston, fitted with a V12, Brian Eno's tune "An Ending" serves a sad and disturbing undertone in reflection of an ending of an era whereas mankind prepares to stop putting dreams into technology as it seems for so many reasons.

Watching this show with my son (12) the other day (and he's a true automotive maniac) he was sitting silently next to me on the sofa. A bit too quiet for my taste. Midway through the segment I felt him shaking with tears and shortly after he broke down crying his soul out, the little fellow.

Silently he asked me whether I believe that beauty like the Baby Aston would disappear any time soon. Trying to comfort him I responded: "as long as there are boys in this world, devestated by such potential loss, it will be exactly fellows like you who won't allow it!". He wants to become a test driver now.

Being a Junior in a bi-lingual class of a Gymnasium in Germany's South (Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, Maybach, Audio reside all there); with an English spoken technology track from next year, is a first good step I reckon, for him to transform his tears of sadness into streams of sweat to become one of the rescuers of such stunning technology, have a look:

Tuesday
12Jan2010

Richmond Fontaine

Making it Black

Y'all know how much I admire Willy Vlautin. Found another clip at Youtube by the Richmond Fontaine written by Willy while the camera seems to be an impression of an ordinary day. Only with the unmistaken romantic normalcy as dictated by Vlautins vision of the small people's live.

There is nothing staged about this clip, nothing artificial about Vlautin's lyrics that reflect on seemingly simple but truly deep felt emotions expressed through a smooth collage of pictures on a tired morning.

Coming home 3am in the morning, nursing the last beer from the fridge before hitting the sack after a busy night, meeting your lover or spouse in the kitchen to reflect on the most basic of all feelings in a relationship: "God I'm glad you're here - right now - like that"...

Doesn't get any simpler than that, or deeper and honest... Gotta love Vlautin for that!