This is the end of my longest non-blogging period so far. I have a good excuse for the latter: last thursday I have arrived back home to Slovenia and I have a lot of catching up to do. I feel that the non-blogging trend might continue for a while.

I am not capable of writting posts with any added value right now. My current top 5 songs is the best that I can do:
1.) The View – Wasted Little DJ’s
2.) The Libertines – Ha Ha wall
3.) Shitdisco – OK
4.) Young Love – Discotech
5.) The Gossip – Jealous girl (New Young Pony Club remix)

Less blog, more rock!

When my friend told me this weekend that I just bought a sixpack of wifebeaters, a big questionmark displayed above my head. Later he explained that “wife beater” is sleng for the belgium beer brand, Stella Artois. Lovely brand image.

From the urban dictionary:
“Pass me another wife beater, man.”
“Coming down the pub for a couple of wife beaters, mate?”

P.S.: “Wife beater” is also the kind of sleeveless shirt Edward Norton is wearing on this picture (I was trying to find Ike Turner wearing it – without luck, though).

J – E – R – N – E – J

I have just booked a plane ticket from Maribor to London instead of the other way around. I wasted 46.48 EUR of perfectly good crack money with one single click.

HOW CAN I BE SUCH A TOOL??????????!!!

I was returning from West End yesterday (I had to pick up some sneakers for my grandma ), when my brains processed a peculiar information from a HMV poster on Oxford Street: Justice performing tonight at six.

Justice?! Wiiii. At HMV? Em…ok. Justice, the most influential french electronic duo since Daft Punk, is certainly big, but HMV?! Only in UK!

Since it was already half to six I decided to wait. The long cues of kids waiting for autographs did not put me off this time, as I missed them too many times. I have already gone through all Pop/Rock albums starting with I and J (I was standing next to that shelf), as Justice walked on. The crowd went bananas.

Despite the commercial character of the event I must say that I was pretty thrilled about the whole thing. It is really interesting how the media in the UK manages to hype up and push into mainstream acts like that. In Slovenia it would be hard for them to get a gig in a venue with capacity higher than 300.

Et Justice pour tous!

P.S.: I also spotted Ed Banger label boss Pedro Winter aka Busy P. He is tall .

Nobody in the UK gets as much publicity as Pete Doherty. It is usually a bad one, though. He is “the messed up rock star dating Kate Moss” with words like crackhead and druggie commonly used in the same sentence as his name.

To be honest, I was never that much into his music. I liked few Babyshambles songs and that was it. Still, as the laidback electronic melancholy of Hot Chip, which I was coining for the last few weeks, lost its feel, I had to find something more appropriate to my current state.

The salvation came in the form of The Libertines – a sensitive wittiness mixed with bitterness and motorized by proper rock ‘n’ roll hooks that get better with every listening. (Why do I sound like a geeky music journalist?)

If you ask me, this guy’s capacity is really underrated. For Pete’s sake, the meaning of his drug addiction pales into insignificance when compared to his songwriting talents. Who cares if he is drugged up, if he can (could?) write stuff like that.

And to the man who would be king,
I would say only one thing…

…mais t’ai-je déjà conu?

Here is something that popped into my head while reading “The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail” by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. At first I thought I would extend the letter “I” into a cross (something like that), but that would miss the purpose of religion, I guess. Not to mention the fact that my name would probaby vanish from my grandmothers will.

Durrr is – according to urban dictionary – “the sound a mentally challenged person (retard) makes”. It is also a club night that takes place every monday at The End club. Durrr is the follower of Trash, a club night ran by Erol Alkan from 1997 to 2007. The notorious club night, which was perversely scheduled on mondays, was the host to variety of DJs as well as plenty of unannounced “non-electronic” musicians – ranging from Bloc Party to Scissor Sisters and Arctic Monkeys.

Erol has been one of my favourite DJs for a while now and yesterday I finally got to hear him. I must say that the tall guy with geeky looking glasses really blew me away. Despite the fact that I spent enormous amounts of time searching through the web as well as record shops, I wasn’t able to recognize a single tune he played (with the exception of The Pixies – Where is my mind – yes, he played the original). Crazy!

Apart from the his musical selection, which varies from forgotten indie tunes to noizy electro tracks, I must say that he is also very unpredictable with his mixing. The guy, whose monikers include Kurtis Rush (the real name of Take That’s Gary Barlow), doesn’t mind mixing up a proper 4/4 club track with a quirky 70ies tune. And it works! Way to go, Erole! DURRRRRR!

Here we go:
1.) Arcade Fire – Intervention
2.) Jamie T – Back in the game
3.) Hot Chip – Look after me
4.) Hot Chip – The warning
5.) Kavinsky – Testarossa Autodrive (SebastiAn remix)
6.) The Sounds – Tony the beat
7.) Hot Chip – Boy from school (acoustic)
8.) Wolfmother – Colossal
9.) LCD Soundsystem – North American scum
10.) Justin Timberlake – My love (Diplo remix)
11.) Junior Boys – In the morning
12.) DJ Mehdi – Signatune (Thomas Bangalter remix)
13.) The Teenagers – Homecoming
14.) Antony and the Johnsons – Soft black stars (Current 93 cover)
15.) Morrissey – I just want to see the boy happy
16.) Fratellis – Henreitta
17.) Nelly Furtado – Maneater
18.) The Killers – Bones (Tiga remix)
19.) The Gossip – Listen up! (MSTRKRFT relick)
20.) The Libertines – Ha Ha Wall (Kissy Sell Out bootleg)

Here are also five most played DJ sets that found their way onto my iTunes:
1.) Erol Alkan @ And Did We Mention Our Disco?, 23.4.2004
2.) Riot in Belgium, Studio Mix 2007
3.) Boys Noize, In-the-mix (N-joy), 3-10-2006
4.) Headman @ And Did We Mention Our Disco?, 20.2.2006
5.) MSTRKRFT @ Pukkelpop 2006

I really wish I could be in Slovenia last weekend. Quite few things happened back home. Magdalena took place in Maribor (more about that follows), Springseven happened in Gradz (Austria), Križanke were for the very first time blown up by electronic music, but most importantly Puh’s brigde across Drava river in Ptuj got opened. This is the bridge that was responsible for quite few sleepless nights of my father, who designed and constructed it.

Despite the variety of bridges and viaducts inside and outside the country he did so far, I somehow felt that this one was really special to him. Since Ptuj, the oldest and one of most beautiful slovenian cities, is located only 20 minutes from my home town, he would drive there almost every day to check on it. He took precaution in every little detail (as he always does) and I am really sorry I couldn’t be there on Friday. Few other pictures of the extradosed bridge that was enthusiastically proclaimed as “the most beautiful bridge in Europe” by the media can be seen here, here and here. I have every right to be proud.

Another thing. Today the blog evaluation period ended. You don’t know what I am talking about? The reason for me to start writing this blog was the fact that writing a blog makes up for 30% of my grade for the module called Advertising and Sales Promotions and should tackle issues concerning – well – advertising and sales promotion. Still, as you can see I have not discussed sales promotion in a single post. This is not because I think they are irrelevant or useless. To be honest, I spent quite some time scanning shops and the web, but I just couldn’t find any that would be truly impressive or at least interesting and I didn’t want to discuss the matter just for the sake of discussing it.

So writing this blog is no longer obligatory… Alright! I can finally stop pretending that I am interested in advertising and start concentrating on things that truly matter.

Just kidding Still, I think that the focus of the blog will be slightly shifted…

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