little surfer

This weeks music comes from Plaids. A band that I saw play live twice, they were amazing and this record has a great energy. The melodies hit. It seamlessly moves from song to song. I like it a lot.

Dragons Eat Everything

Paula talked to Laura Lee of Laura Lee & the Jettes about their upcoming record. I mostly remember Laura Lee from her time with Gurr, an excellent band.

And on the show Claire Roy visited us for a talk about the band Berliner Doom. Excellent tunes. The interview will be a podcast soon!

A Matter of Entertainment

• here is a short documentary about a bunch of DIY spaces in Berlin and Leipzig. One of them is right around the corner from the school I work at. Reminds me to spend my money more wisely.
• I fell into quite the deep hole on Friday night, looking at old ALEX productions that I was a part of and this caught my eye again. A beautiful shot music video.
• a new Van Holzen record is on the way and it is a good one!
• I have been reading the new Charlie Jane Anders book. It is great. But I seem to not be able to brave upcoming doom at the moment. I don't quite know what it is. The story is about a person who can do magic of a kind teaching her mom and then there is so many ways this can go wrong that I stop reading. Which is not fair to the book. I have no idea where it will go. I just tense up and put my eReader down. I is called “Lessons ind Magic and Disaster” after all.

A thought: Comics in Bags

I have been haunted by thoughts about space left on my shelves, by time spent on whatever and by money stuff. Just now a friend sent me a text about her being at the flea market. And I am sitting at home looking at my screen and doing nothing really. Which is fine. I need to remember that. But it does not quite feel fine.

I am looking at my money spread sheet and at my actual bank balance and they don't match. It makes me anxcious. Like I missed something. I am fine, things are going to be fine. I just find myself worrying about spending too much for this and not enough for that. About buying too many things. How does my partner not spend money on anything (not true, it just feels like that), how did I end up with so many phyiscal hobbies? Do I really need all those short boxes full of comics? What is need then? How do I balance an interest in supporting local business and comics that I like with not having more stuff?

So often I find myself living through others. Be it their vlogs or their tales. Their messages from flea markets or tales of holidays. I had a great summer and did so many great things and I am just afraid of falling right back into my old ruts and ways where I just sit at my desk all day doing nothing of any substance while thinking of maybe doing things but having no drive to actually do anything about it. Wallowing you see. But I have heard that writing stuff out is supposed to be good for you. So here we are.

What am I going to do with my comics though?

I need to see them play again. Did so once I believe and it was great. They have changed so much and are still the same band. This here is a great record!

Maybe there will be four. I listen to music with MusicBee and it will throw in a mix of shuffled songs after an album has run through. It is a great way for me to reconnect to music I have not heard in ages and to just get to know the tons of music I rarely listen to. So here are four songs that came up yesterday that I really liked.

Mutiny on the Bounty were a pretty neat mathy post rock group from Luxembourg. I got to interview them once ages ago at Reeperbahn Festival. And while looking them up right now I see that they released a split in 2023. So not dead?

Den Sorte Skole are a duo from Copenhagen. They create sample based tunes and they slap. This one is from a record called Indians & Cowboys and you can get it for Pay What You Want on bandcamp.

The Sonder Bombs are from Cleveland, Ohio. This record is called Clothbound and it came up and I really enjoyed this song. Heavy variations and a certain emo (?) sound, that I really like.

Sometimes you just need a really good cover song. And Bandit delivers. The record is called Of Life, pwyw on bandcamp and just a really good one of those. Really nice voice, good tunes, something to sink into. Really good cover art as well. This particular music shuffle came after listening to this record.