once more with feeling

I’ve always been the Coca Cola – type. I don’t know why, I can’t explain it – it’s probably just a decision everybody makes at some point, unconsciously.
In the US, the Pepsi-Coke rivalry is even more present than here in Austria. This year, Pepsi takes it to the next level through airing a remake of a TV spot from 1995.
This is the original version:

Now, we again see the two delivery guys, but they are drinking Pepsi Max and Coke Zero (since everybody seems to bother about weight nowadays..). What I really like about the new ad is that Pepsi adapted the spot to modern times – the Pepsi guy takes a picture of the Coke guy with this smartphone and uploads it to Youtube. Wanna see it? There you go:

I wonder how Coke will react. Or if they will react at all?

I can’t believe that 30 days (well, even more, since I was too lazy to write on some weekends..) already passed. Craziness!!!
I’m sure that you learned a lot about me through this challenge – also I remembered a lot of events, people and bands I nearly had forgotten about. So now, it means going back to “normal” blogging, with some concert reviews once in a while and my passion: pictures with lyrics.

It really is a no-go to use the same band twice in this challenge. Even worse – this will be my third song of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I already told you that they belong to the list of my favorite bands and that I wanted to hear Hysteric at my wedding.
However, Karen O and her band came to Vienna last year, end of June. It was a special day, since my best friend went to France the day after, staying there for the whole summer.
After the show, my obsession with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs returned, also since they just released a new record around that time… and I remembered how awesome Cheated Hearts is. It’s perfect for dancing, for singing along, for nodding the head, for moving the feet to the rhythm. Perfect.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YweT8jvGXI&feature=avmsc2

Now take these rings
And stow them safe away
I’ll wear them on
Another rainy day

I like playing with pictures and words. Yes.

It was a Friday of craziness.
At the beginning of last week, Alice Tragedy and me decided that we could use a 24-hour break from Vienna and would go on a roadtrip to Kärnten to attend the first day of the Acoustic Lakeside Festival.
So there we were, Friday at noon: a car, lots of mixtapes, coffee, blankets and pillows, insect repellent, bikinis, toilet paper and rain ponchos.
After about 3.5 hours and me only losing the way once, we arrived at this little lake called Sonnegger See, where the festival’s organizers set up a stage with hay bales and sofas in front of it to sit and lean on. I really can’t say anything about the first bands, since we were still enjoying the sunshine and our first beer down at the lake and had to deal with attacking trees and bees (one even stung me in my finger, I think she wanted to steal my beer..).

However, we managed to get our lazy asses up and watch Deckchair Orange‘s acoustic set, which of course consisted of their old hits like Rose and Solid Lie, but also included some songs of their upcoming CD, which will be released somewhen at the beginning of next year (I think). As always, DCO convinced with their wonderful poppy indie-sound, which is only paused when Alex takes over the stage alone for his ballads Crossword and Facts & Fiction.
After only hearing them once, I really don’t want to weigh in already on their new songs – also, I’ve been told that when not in acoustic version, they will sound pretty different to everything we know from the band until now. So, let’s wait and see…

♥

After Deckchair Orange, Garish managed to completely fascinate and entertain the audience, so that nobody cared about the rain that started pouring down, but gathered in front of the stage and danced to the sound of guitars, drums, string bass, accordion, joined by the trumpet of Bernhard Eder and a choir of some friends (including the DCO boys for example) for Eisenherz and Dann fass ich mir ein Herz.

Next one was Ezra Furman and the Harpoons – a band, of which I only knew one song (Take Off Your Sunglasses) and didn’t expect anything spectacular. But isn’t it always like this: when you expect nothing, you will find the biggest surprises?! Well, Ezra immediately enchanted the audience with his Bob Dylan-like style, the folk music and his blues harp. So everybody in Vienna should go and check them out at their gig at the B72 in two weeks!

The highlight of the evening: Nada Surf. I never saw them live, since I am a bum and completely missed their album-release gig in Vienna some months ago, so I was more than excited to finally confess my endless love to Matthew. And – surprise surprise – THEY WERE AMAZING. Despite some fighting in the front row (in which Alice Tragedy was included, and even sustained an injury), everybody seemed to enjoy the acoustic version of hits as Always Love, I Like What You Say, Electrocution and Happy Kid. At the latest at the encore, Blankest Year, every single one sang along to “Oh fuck it, I’m gonna have a party!”…

matthew - by alice tragedy

… and we did have a party! After about 9 hours of straight drinking, it all ended in embarassing dancing to Indie-hits, making fun of others whose dance moves were even worse, trying to get rid of drunk creepy men that wanted to hit on us, giving boys nicknames (blue tiger is still my favorite one..) and waking up the next day in the living room of some stranger’s house with the parents sleeping upstairs and the Deckchair Orange boys in the other rooms downstairs. Oh, not to forget Mr. & Mrs. Santa, who watched us sleep and frightened me a little bit I have to admit…

All in all, the best one-day-festival of all times. Plus, I got to hear my favorite Nada Surf song: their cover of Enjoy The Silence. And having him (who? secret!!! hihi..) holding me in his hands during the song made it perfect. There were little hearts in my eyes and butterflies in my stomach. PERFECTION.

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm.

As a child, I was madly in love with Kevin Arnold. Do you remember him? He was the main character of The Wonder Years. Oh, how I wished I was Winnie!
I was shocked when I read now that Fred Savage, the actor of Kevin, is now 34 years old, married, and has two children. But he still looks super sweet, don’t you think?

Joe Cocker – A little help (The Wonder Years Theme Song)

There is only one song that fits here. The story behind the song begins with kissing a boy I shouldn’t have kissed, and ends with broken hearts and friendships breaking off. Sadness.

The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV5VmhY3-Sw

Yeah. Every song in the world?!
Seriously though – I really wish I could play any instrument better. There were times when I dreamed about becoming this tough hard rock guitarist with a black leathery outfit and red lipstick, and those times when I asked my mum to borrow me the money to buy drums because I wanted to join my friend’s punkband.
I guess I was just too lazy to learn any instrument – I always knew it would take too much of my precious time if I really wanted to be good in it. As I told you yesterday, I did start learning the piano but quit at one point because I just didn’t want to go to the class more than once a week. Maybe I should have done that, because then I’d be able to play this wonderful song now.

Coldplay – Clocks

I really suck at anything related to instruments. My family is actually quite musical: my grandpa still works for some association that researches the history of Austrian folk music and has written tons of books about it, my mum used to sing in a choir and plays the piano and violin, and even I sang in two choirs when I was younger. I used to play the flute, as probably every little girl in our town had to, and I learned the piano for about one or two years.
Now, I really regret having quit the lessons. I’d soooo love to know how to play the piano well. All I remember now is this one – well, I haven’t touched a piano in more than 5 years so actually I’m not quite sure if I even do still remember it…

The Flea Waltz

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1u8kw6hIMw

This guy is hilarious. This is one of the things where you say “that’s so bad, that it’s already good again”.
John Lajoie also has more songs which you should really check out: Rapist Glasses and Pedophile Beards for example.
Hilarious. Just HILARIOUS.

John Lajoie – Show Me Your Genitals

I just found this on the Internet. And I had to post it here, because it is cute, it is funny, and it is TRUE.