Two older mash ups back online: The first one was…

Two older mash ups back online:

The first one was mentioned in this wonderfully written and interesting article on Bootleg Mixes on Pitchforkmedia:
“Puritan Blister #7
The Psychopathology of Everyday Mash-Ups
Story by William Bowers”

“i wish i knew how it feels to talk loud and clear“
OMD: Talking Loud And Clear
Nina Simone: I Wish I Knew How It Feels To Be Free
März: Everybody Had A Hard Year
+ some Dead Prez & X-Ray Spex

and

“nanananananaaa - wanna be the man with the child in her eyes“
Placebo: I Do
(IMO this is one of the best songs they’ve ever written - a perfect short indiepop smasher with beautiful lyrics like “i wanna take a bath with you / wash the chaos from my skin” vs Kate Bush: The Man With The Child In His Eyes
(Nice news: I read that she finished recording a new album.)
vs Ce’Cile & General Degree: nanananana
(Taken from a compilation called “Two Culture Clash” (2004, Wall Of Sound), it also has nice tracks by Ms. Thing and Tanya Stephens.)

If I tell you that Xiu Xiu’s ‘La forêt’ and Antony…

If I tell you that Xiu Xiu’s ‘La forêt’ and Antony & the Johnson’s ‘I Am A Bird Now’ are my fave soundtrack to the last couple of days you can imagine my mood. Like the weather it slightly cleared up on a really wonderful post-wedding party of Wally & Klausi last Saturday (and I thought I’d never say that about any wedding ever!) but all in all I feel to fragile to meet people. Fear of people getting too close. Fear of old memories coming back haunting me. Fear of anything. Feels like if I don’t act really careful I might slip in an even worse condition. Stupid, innit? It feels being a character in one of those old arcade games - one wrong step and you will burn in some hellfire, all accompanied by funny bleepy little tunes.
Even more stupid: There’s a website called “Stuff On My Cat” that made me try if it works out with my Tiga too and to my surprise he didn’t kill me when I did that to him:

More reasonable news later.