LoosenBelts

The moment when you have no idea what to write and then you realize that David Bowie is there to help you out.

I'd love to find a bar where they play music like this. I am starting a serious hunt for it. Somehow I feel this could actually be fun.

From now on I will play this song in my mind when there is someone talking to me too much about something irrelevant and I am too polite to hint that it’s time he/she stopped feeding my brain with nothing. Simply cause it’s so calming and one could imagine this track being a soundrack to a beautiful dream from which you wake up to nicely cold blankets. Yeah, it will work. Music by Morly

There is still summer in Prague but not really. In the evenings she lets you sit outside on a terrace in a tshirt but the clouds covering the horizont are actually an expression of her mood and of what she is about to be like. Nasty and bitchy, sometimes cold and unwelcoming, yet bloody charming, smart and seductive. Gotta love her.

Anyone seen Superpitcher's heart? He wants it back.

Of course, i cannot speak for all the people who reside to the east of the German borders but there might be something about it that the sense of freedom (of which free movement of persons is an essential part) and its intuitive protection is more strongly developed in this part of the continent simply because of our recent historical experience with totalitarianism basically all over the 20th century. Last Friday I went to see an extraordinary and very inspirative concert of the Plastic People of the Universe. They performed to commemorate Mejla Hlavsa, their lead singer who passed away a couple of years ago. As I was standing there in the crowded audience next to the discreetly puking guy, I caught myself touched almost the same way like a hipster who just discovered the 14th bean flavour from an underground coffee shop. I realized that if it was just 25 years ago, I would have been beaten up by the secret communistic police waiting outside the club, would have got fired from work and my family and friends would have been bullied for many many years. Simply because Plastic People of the Universe and their music were prohibited, monitored  and the members of the band put into a prison repeatedly. However, they never stopped playing and helped the others believe that essential freedom will come back one day. Luckily the day has come and I can listen to any music I want, I can say and write whatever I want…I can travel and move whereever I want. So far.

Aight.

A really good tune after an extremely busy week and weekend at work which was accidentally accompanied by a couple of less or more severe hangovers. The simple bass line leads the rhythm in a very pleasant way and even the falsetto which usually ruins songs for me is somehow fitting well to this track.

The Czech masses exulted when a director of a Prague highschool "showed balls" and prohibited two muslim girls from wearing the muslim bandanas at school. Allegedly the school rules do not allow any kind of headwear on its property. T-shirts with Che Guevara are ok, a little crosses on your neck are cool, speeches of politicians during school classes are just fine. A bandana on your head as a symbol of your inner believes is a bummer. The question is: was the decision of the school principal a failure of an individual or should we understand it as that the Czech society is not ready for free expression of individual life styles? Do we really want to give up on building a functional civic society and accepting differences among us? Funny thing is reading the discussions under articles covering this issue. Seems like Czech crowd imagines those bullied girls coming to the school with kalashnikovs under their burkas instead of seeing the simple reality: two muslims trying to get their education at a regular public Czech school, breaking nobody else's rights and freedoms, asking for no privileges but wearing hijab - a symbol of their culture without which they don't feel comfortable. I am wondering what could be a better way to integrate foreigners to the majority than this. Putting fences on the borders again so nobody can in and out? What the girls want from our society is exactly what our society demands from the muslim one. Shouldn't we serve as an example then?  This unconsidered fundemental secularism is a bigger threat to this country than fundamental islamism. Why? Because in the end it will only turn against us by oppression of our own freedoms. We could have learnt already how fragile they are. Our parents and grandparents fought for them basically the whole last centrury. Lets not let them down.

Should you have problems detecting quality in the music part of the song, at least enjoy the video by Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson with a clear hint to the bullshit Russian homophobic laws. I could get really political here and start writing about how I don't understand why anybody would express their own insecurity by attacking all kinds of minorities among us but let this post be mainly about the song itself. Which is amazing.

Seven minutes of warm breeze.

One more month to election and this political menstruation is over. Meanwhile happy fall, everybody.

I've been thinking for some time now that there should be a "fresher " version of Hot Chip available on the music market. Well, here it comes: Outfit. 

Honestly I am already getting over this whole dreamy/indie soft sounds thing but I'll still give it to these Australian musicians with a pretty weird name - Snakadaktal. 

[(past+future)*virtual life]-presence = bummer

Mild confident sadness..I guess.