Thu 10 Jul – Dufus

Folk/Antifolk-time in the neat “Schokoladen”! Basically I just went there to see Dufus one more time… but the supporting act Amy Rude was a pleasant surprise. She and her band played Country Folk with a bit of a sad flavour. All of her songs were very catchy and had an inviting sound, and there wasn't a single one of them that I disliked. Really soothing, goodnight-kissing feelgood stuff.

Spending time watching her band was quite funny, though. While the bassist constantly looked like he had to carry the weight of the entire world (maybe even…

Even though I probably better shouldn't have done it, I invested some of my Christmas-money in a couple of LPs instead of putting it aside for moving to another flat and everything that is potentially connected to it. But what the heck, everybody needs some impractical luxury every once in a while in his life, n'est-ce pas?

Anyway, I added the following things to my record-collection:

Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth

I was quite surprised even finding that one at all, since I never stumbled over his albums in a second hand-shop before. And it only was 4€! Whee!…

Whoops! Seems like I broke The Wall Of 50.000 Plays after all. (and if I hadn't reset my status about 1 and 1/2 year ago, it would have been 75.000something by now)

Anyway, the track in question apparently is Seeland by Neu!. Hm. Nice. Could think of a worse track to be honored with this number.

A mere few weeks after that "In Rainbows"-stunt by Radiohead, there's another "digital only"-album around the corner. And again you may choose whether you want to pay for it or not. It's "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust" (ha-ha) by Saul Williams, produced by Trent Reznor (which is, to speak the truth, the only reason why I actually came to learn of it). Even though I've never heard of Saul before and Hip Hop is not my most favorite genre in music (although I don't have anything against it, either), I paid the 5$ for it, because…