I am definitely not one of them.

Nevertheless I do like my folk music, and today I did some digging around on the net to find some new bands. Since I like TNT a lot – who unfortunately split up some time ago – it seemed to be a good idea to have a listen to their new projects. And voilà, Pierrick Brisset went and gave us Goat System – 3  bagpipers whose  influences include Björk, Daft Punk, Massive Attack, Prodigy and Iron Maiden: how cool is that.
Alexis Vacher and his hurdy-gurdy just rock (yes, I am a sucker for electroacustic hurdy-gurdy).

Besides, I am still waiting for a CD from La bête noire.

Goat System – i9

Ok, work week: done (we won’t talk about the paper I’ll read until Monday).

Buying birthday presents for several people: done. – I  never noticed how pretty many childrens’ books are, and very nearly bought Einer by Christine Nöstlinger for myself (illustrations by Janosch! And: it’s recommended for children from age 8, but in truth it’s an adult book in disguise).
The other persons celebrating are: my mum, whom I sent some presents earlier, and Melwen and Cohen (will be attending party tomorrow of course).

What else – yes, there is a travel to be planned since Laura and Mark will get married in July *whee*

Some movies I’d like to go see: Das weiße Band, Schwarz auf Weiß (G. Wallraff being black in Germany) and Alice in Wonderland (in 3D, by Tim Burton, featuring H.Bonham-Carter and J. Depp).

Meh – it’s cold (flat needs some time to warm up for the weekend) and I’m living off leftovers. Also I’m wondering where I’ll spend the remaining holidays this year, and I’m half-giggling over the latest xkcd.

And it has to be said from time to time: I’m happy to have so many friends. It would be lonely without you.

Wolfsheim – Kein Zurück

Via Ella and Msr. Unplug:  In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon.

I on the other hand have go to now and  be creative at work.

Trio Maman – La nonchalante

“You can try, but you’ll never catch me.”

Sheldon is extra special. *wiping up tears of laughter*

Murray Head – One night in Bangkok

From Amanda F. Palmer’s blog (to be viewed with complementary picture):

“i convinced neil gaiman, who is actually quite a good musician but doesn’t tell anybody, to play the chainsaw on “missed me”.
he was fantastic. here he is, sporting his instrument. he was a right bastard about the tuning (he’d wanted a european chainsaw tuned to the key of G, this was an american chainsaw tuned to the key of DESTROY)”

As Mr. Unplug just mentioned: “It looks like those two are in tune (aka having fun together).”

All the more reason to go play pipes in the key of D(ESTROY) :)

(later, at 2330)

Just returned to home base, after two hours of practicing French dance music (with moderate success), and then attending the concert at the Arena – AFP glorious as always, playing for about 3 hours.

Ah. Me is very happy.

Eels – Beautiful Freak