breaking the 4th wall - 1st wall

tonight I had myself some fun

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:27:06 +0200

It was the hot, sweaty, girls fainting around me, brass section climbing onto the bar, gay guys making out in front of me and a sweeeeet "Build Me Up, Buttercup" cover version kind of fun.

Thanks, Jason.

all time fave songs no.1 - Finlandia

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:39:34 +0200

And people seriously still ask me why I like these guys so much;).

This isn't the best Finlandia version there is, mind you, check out the Watershed DVD for a version with Caroline Aiken as one of the additional vocalists.

There'll be more "all time faves" entries in the future whenever I find good youtube recordings of them.

There just aren't enough Wookies ...

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:04:04 +0200

in music videos nowadays. Which is why I'm featuring this Wookie-friendly video.
It's also a nice song. Quite poppy and upbeat and I couldn't even detect any suicidal tendencies in this one! But even I need some variety in my music library, n'est ce pas?

Alchemy

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:01:10 +0200

So, this is my second Philip Sayce plug on here. This song, "Alchemy", is from his solo album "Peace Machine".

Sometimes I get scared...

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:54:32 +0200

thinking of all the music that is out there that I haven't listened to yet and that could make some moments of my life so much better.

Like Chris Pureka's "Everything Is Free" is doing for me since I found it last night. There just is no purer beauty than that of a beautiful piece of music. Period. Well, maybe the soul of the artist who created it but that's not necessarily a given.

Listen to it for free on LastFM:
Everything Is Free

Or get the album Dryland from Amazon:
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love and only love

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:53:15 +0200

"You can tell I can't tune, when you listen to me play."
- Neil Young, Hamburg, August 13th

Who cares if he can actually tune his guitar or needs his guit tech for it... he still rocked majorly tonight.

What on earth do you do after you've been to a Neil Young show? Seems to me it's very, very hard to top.
You feel somewhere between

- wanting to blow your brains out because if there's a time to do it, it's on a high like this, since anything that comes after can really just be a disappointment, right?

- and feeling all charged to change the world and rock for love, our planet and peace.

cnn features Amy Ray...

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:25:54 +0200

Hm, this is kind of surreal but good, I guess...

There's the Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls: blending her voice with singing partner Emily Saliers on songs such as "Closer to Fine" and "Galileo" and writing songs that tap into the duo's shared folk-oriented touchstones.

Amy Ray says playing with some musician friends brought out songs that "felt very different from the Indigo Girls."

Then there's Amy Ray the solo artist, letting out her inner Joe Strummer and Paul Westerberg.

The two aren't mutually exclusive, of course.

"Emily and I are frustrated sometimes with any kind of box," Ray says during an interview at her manager's office near downtown Atlanta, "because we want to experiment musically, and we do a lot of electric stuff. ... But the reality is that we are a folk band."

However, Ray adds, her influences include artists who have come out of a punk mindset such as the Clash, the Replacements, the Pretenders and Patti Smith. "At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies -- a band I ended up playing with a lot -- and it just brought out this thing in me ... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls," she says.

Which explains the appearance of "Didn't It Feel Kinder" (Daemon), Ray's third solo album.

For the whole article follow this link:
Another Side of Amy Ray @ Cnn.com

birds of a feather

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:42:04 +0200

I plugged Amy Ray's kyte channel here before but since there's a new song (release date of her new album was yesterday after all) that just blew me away (as per usual with what this woman does especially when it's solo, acoustic and a ballad) I'm plugging it again:

Unfortunately, due to my excessive X-Files movie watching ;), I currently don't have the spare money to buy the new album, argh!

Der will doch nur spielen

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:56:21 +0200

und ist ein ganz, ganz Lieber, der Christian Troitzsch.

Man beachte: ich plugge hier deutschsprachige Mucke. Ganz, ganz hoher Seltenheitswert. Aber, was gut ist, ist gut.
Und diesem deutschsprachigen Singer-Songwriter Exemplar wünsche ich alles Gute mit seiner Karriere. Da geht was! Wenn nicht, wär das ein Grund mehr zum Auswandern.

Songtext-Mix: die Top 5 der Woche

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:37:44 +0200

1. UNKLE - Broken
2. John Mayer - Belief (live)
3. John Mayer - Why Georgia (live)
4. Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel
5. Eurythmics - When Tomorrow Comes

Und die kombinierten Lyrics aus diesen Songs sagten mir diese Woche Folgendes:

When I think that I’m alone
Feeling very small underneath the universe.
From emptiness to everything.
My senses dislocating.
Miles adrift, inches away.

Am I living it right???

Wer mag, kann das als Stöckchen betrachten.

music saved the day II

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:30:55 +0200

If anyone doesn't know, that's Michelle Malone supporting IG there:
www.michellemalone.com

when the universe closes a door...

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:19:02 +0200

it opens a window for you to jump out of . Well, no... what I was gonna say was that while the Indigo Girls dvd is probably off, due to their being dropped by Hollywood Records, there is now an Amy Ray solo dvd in the works. Yay.

And here's even an Amy Ray channel on kyte for your viewing pleasure.

Philip Sayce

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:18:37 +0200

Some tasty, goosebumps-inducing electric guitar soli coming your way here. Courtesy of Philip Sayce, who's really been a huge breath of fresh air for Melissa Etheridge's live act. After my last Etheridge show I raved about him to everybody I knew.

Also... I just realized, I really must have been busy for a while now... I actually missed a new Melissa Etheridge album.

wanna pet my dog?

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:20:27 +0200

screencap from the "John Mayer - Where the Light is" DVD

drag me over the rainbow

nospam@example.com (Kat) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:18:47 +0200

So much for saving money... but this is one of the things on my "must do before jumping off the edge of the world into complete obvlivion" list. I guess it's now certain that I have to skip Ms Joan "my concert ticket cost almosts as much as Mr Young's" Baez's gig, tho, although the company on this one would have been superb. Can't have both, tho, and Neil is just a little bit closer to the music that I'd play and write myself, if I was any good and company-wise I'll have a ghost or two with me on this one.

"Be on my side, I'll be on your side.

It's so hard for me staying here all alone

When you could be taking me for a ride."

seen @ Kartenhaus.de