A mere ten months ago I was writing about how my nephew had been freed from the constricting confines of his mother’s womb, and today I’m posting an image of a Pearl Jam lyrics polaroid he managed to get his hands on.
Time really does fly.
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Saturday I went and saw Oceansize.
The thing that made it extra-special: I got to interview lead-singer Mike Vennart. You can read the outcome in due time here. The whole thing was really very pleasant, conducted in the rather cramped, but cozy dressing room. My biggest mistake: I forgot to take a photo. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I forgot about it. Oh well, means you won’t get a picture today. By the way, I was the only face-to-face interviewer that night, with only two other phone-interviews. Shame on you, Austrian music-journalists, for not using that chance.
The concert itself was spectacular. Most songs were off their latest album (go figure), and the rest was a smattering of first and second LP songs.
Absolute highlight of the show: The second encore, “Ornament/The Last Wrong”. After listening to the song in the security of your home, you wouldn’t think how powerful it could come across when blasted through the Flex sound system.
As always after a concert, my ears were ringing throughout the night, and I totally thank the guys from Oceansize for it.
Oh why is it that I’m always afraid of upgrading my Wordpress version? Well, I’ll tell you.
It’s because it always ends in something that’ll take me about three hours to repair and clean up. Don’t ask me why, but it just does. Either because it turns out that the newest version isn’t compatible with the version of the theme I’m using, or vice versa. Which is actually the same, but oh well.
I tried upgrading to Wordpress 2.3 yesterday, but I did it to my other blog, you know, the one you barely read, which is about all that Web 2.0 stuff you really don’t care about. As a matter of fact, not a whole lot of people do, so I thought it to be a good test-bed. And sure as hell, I had to update my theme, and it turned out that there seems to be a CSS-files conflict between my old and the new CSS file now, so I’ve got a strange footer and my sidebar is once again somewhere it doesn’t belong.
I’d love to fix it, but that would mean comparing two CSS-files and checking everything that could be responsible, which, in my eyes, could really be just about everything.
So that’s why I won’t be updating this blog here, because, well, all that editing, uploading, installing, it just gets to me. Almost as much as my new favourite song Suburban Homeboy by the Sparks.
We went and saw Portugal. the man yesterday.
Curiously, the venue was just about half full, which is really quite surprising considering that they are not only good but also one of the most pre-hyped bands around (pre-hyped meaning not quite yet hyped, but surely on the brink).
The singer has a fantastic voice, and even though he decided to not show his face during the whole concert, he was the epicenter of the show.
Sometimes the high notes sounded like shattering glass, but I guess that was the mixer’s fault, not the band’s.
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