I’ve got a weird relationship to the Vienna Art Fair – and to fairs in general. First off, I hate the amount of people there are all over the place. I get claustrophobia (or rather, agoraphobia I suppose) just being there for too long. Second thing, I really dislike the business part of art. I [...]
March 23, 2009
Lukas Krenn played at our photography show. He reworked some of the songs we used as inspiration for our photos, and here is what came out of it: video courtesy of niko
March 15, 2009
I’d already mentioned in a previous post that the new Sigh & Explode album is coming out very, very soon. Tomorrow, in fact. And, guess what? the boys have put up the whole album on last.fm for full streaming. You can listen to all of it, from beginning to end. Enjoy!
March 11, 2009
Today was my first Creative Writing class. I’m wondering how this semester will go because I feel like I am completely stuck on words at the moment. Even though I have neverending love for dictionaries, I never use them. I never look things up. I feel I keep reworking new texts with old overused gorgeous [...]
March 9, 2009
It’s not my favorite song by her.. But it fits so perfectly, at the moment. It’s as if we lived in that song years ago and we still do today. Your fingertips across my skin The palm trees swaying in the wind Images You sang me Spanish lullabies The sweetest sadness in your eyes Clever trick Well, I never want to see you [...]
March 8, 2009
Number of times I went to the airport this week: 2 Number of times I baked a chocolate cake this week: 2 Number of times I listened to Polyester by Maximilian Hecker on the train today: 5? 6? 7? I watched my reflection in the window with the dark landscape flashing past, illuminated once in a while by [...]
March 8, 2009
The piano was immense and the stage was so dark you had to squint to see something behind the main spotlight, right above the keys. People were whispering and shush-ing each other, you could almost hear the heartbeats in unison and the held breaths. When she came onstage, there was something slightly off about Anja, [...]
March 3, 2009
Mirah is coming to Vienna in 2.5 months. I am so very super happy. Pink Mountaintops are headlining – I’d already seen them opening for Cold War Kids two years ago, and I had found them okay-ish back then. But Mirah! she is so lovely. I remember obsessing over Sweepstakes Prize in my first year [...]
March 3, 2009
(..is finnish for: to kill two birds with one stone) So last night I went to see MEDEIA @ Arena and Son, Ambulance @ B72. I got a message from Laura (that’s the very cute, sweet, and just generally super-awesome MEDEIA keyboard player) at 7:30PM telling me that I was on the guestlist for the show so [...]
March 1, 2009
As I have already mentioned here, I joined a pretty effin’ awesome group on last.fm in January. It’s called The Monthly Mixtape and the concept is to make a themed mixtape every month (no, really?) The theme for February was Inheritance – basically, putting together a mix of songs that have been inherited from our parents [...]
My name has five letters in it, and comes up in some Bright Eyes songs. I am (apparently) an artist, with too much time on her hands. Well, enough to blog (almost) daily. I am 1/4 (the smallest one, actually) of Lazy Acre Records; I also write & photograph for a local magazine based in Englaaand and make used to draw musically-inspired comics for a canadian mag (RIP Inscribed). Sometimes I can be quite cute. I used to still have a crush on Marty McFly; I like baking, overusing semi-colons, the smell of the sea, and thunderstorms.
I tend to be quite the busy bee, but if you make VERY sexy music and want me to listen and enjoy and possibly even (!!) write about it, shoot me a mail, baby. music(at)alicetragedy(dot)org
March 25, 2009