#99 You gotta love the nineties

I got 99 problems and..naaah too cheesy. Uh, I kind of didn't wanna hit the 100 posts, for God knows what reason but it is gonna be a fact soon. Maybe. I have been thinking these days about the music from the 1990s and well it is the 99th post so I kind of decided to related them in a way which through my prism seems..logical.

I came acros couple of songs from the early or mid 1990s and I just could not help notice a slight..specific sound which is missing from the music nowadays. Don't get me wrong, we got amazing bands and I kind of stick to modern music, but some sometimes I miss the last decade or whatever I can remember of it. You might feel it listening to some of the recordings and watching the videos... or maybe it is just me.

Filter - Picture 

 ..could you take my pictureeeee, cause I won't remember

Sunny Day Real Estate - Circle

one of the earliest band of Nate Mendel, the bass player from Foo Fighters...and of course the bass line is mind crushing! The band itself is actually quite influential, they started the...emo movement although eventually it evolved in a makeup fashion trend related to bad music =/

....and something else similar to SDRE ..Texas is the Reason - Blue Boy

The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 ...pure fucking classic!

#98 Ben Howard - Every Kingdom

I think the following post is one of the most postponed posts in this blog. Whether it was because I just knew I have to write a lot or.. I just wanted to be more familiar with the music of the artist I am going to present you today - I do not know. But the post if finally being writen as you read that..by my half-frozen fingers.

Anyway, there have been few occasions as you know where I present a full album. Today I want to present the whole artist itself. The name is Ben Howard. He is from UK and he plays guitar. He is usually accompanied by Chris who plays bass/drums and India who plays bass/violin. Also - they all sing. In a perfect harmony.

I was lucky enough to see him live just for two songs which were..one of the two most amazing songs I have ever seen live. I have been listening to his album "Every kingdom" through the past months. Those songs were my company through lots of things I have experienced this semester. The only songs I never removed from my phone. They can bring you down and they can raise you up. I had the honour to play one of his songs and I felt so ....good. I won't describe how I ... how I feel and sense that music. It is up to you. I just want you to get familiar with that music cause it is worth listening to. The rest is up to you. This post is a mere transmitter of that music.

Ben Howard - Old pine
Ben Howard - The wolves
Ben Howard - Keep your head up
Ben Howard - Empty corridors
Ben Howard - Diamonds (live)
Ben Howard - The fear
Ben Howard - Only love
Ben Howard - Gracious 

whatever your eye and ear can grasp from that guy. Go for it. Enjoy.

ps. Maybe just a few people would read that post, I do not care. but if you make it that far - all the way to the bottom - this is the first music I actually sent to my parents to listen to. They loved it. I love it. I hope you love it :)

#97 Post Rock is a Genre

I wasn't planning on posting anything anytime soon, but I couldn't help it because I think I just found the best post-rock song in the world. I've been listening to it for hours now and I think I'm even gonna play those guys on the radio. This is just out of this world. On top of everything, in addition to the epic piano, there is a nice shade of electronic music. So yeah, I have been neglecting post-rock a bit, although this is THE music. Might not be suitable for everyone, but screw that. So the reason for this post is Collapse under the empire - Intelligence.

 Jakob - Malachite

The Evpatoria Report - Eighteen Robins Road

ps. all three songs are <3

#96 A walk in the mist /various/

Was walking around the city today. I guess... around the late afternoon. There was a slight mist, which is not very surprising for this dark and gloomy place. So as I was minding my own business thinking about the everyday, not very remarkable things, a blind man passed me by...

uh..I had to rewrite the next couple of sentences cause it is really hard to express what exactly I want. But lets go back on the situation. You know, people always say that disabled people don't like compassion and people feeling sorry for them and I really do get them. I kind of try to inspire myself, because those people really deserve respect. They face obstacles beyond our imagination, cope with them, often win and keep pushing. I never paid much attention to the way blind people..deal with the everyday life and I don't know what made me pay attention to that particular man. He was also kind of going my direction (more or less) so I was walking behind him and was observing his movement. It was trully amazing. He was faster than many of the random people on the street and really precise in following..wherever he was going. That thing kept for like 5 minutes or so before we had to "part" ways - using his stick as a radar, he confidently took turn in a small street and I lost him out of sight. I don't know why I even talk about that but..such an everyday life thing, which I never thought before impressed me a lot. Kudos. Enjoy the songs.

Kings of Convenience - Peacetime Resistance

Dave Matthews Band - Crash into me

The best pessimist - Walking with happiness

#95 Crystalfilm /indietronic/

Once someone said "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."


I just randomly posted that here so the post doesn't look empty, but it is true in a way. Cheers and have a nice week!

Regina Spektor - Laughing with

Phantogram - Don't Move

Little dragon - Crystalfilm

#94 A story

I told you how creativity sometimes is absent, right? Ok, I was listening/watching Mew - Repeaterbeater and.. kind of this is what it came out of it. You might enjoy the video a bit before starting reading the story. Just a humble opinion. Hope you like it :)



Blood. It was everywhere. Literally everywhere. Dripping from his hands, covering his jeans...the gray tshirt of some metalcore band, which nobody remembered. "This time there's no tomorrow" he thought to himself, while lighting a cigarette. "I am not even a smoker, where did that came from?" puzzeled and amuzed he still inhaled from that modern poison. It made the moment more dramatic. At least in his head.

It's been not more than a couple of minutes.. a time, just enough to finish a cigarette. The squeezing pain was fading away and he finally stood up. He had no name. No memories either. Some kind of shadow, another slave to the week. It has been a while so his tired and worn eyes finally got used to the lack of sufficient light. Standing motionless in the center of this..room, he finally realized there's a tiny door in one of the corners. And a dead body in the other. Then he blacked out.

It must have been half an hour before his mind finally snapped back to reality or what he thought it was reality. That half an hour felt like forever. He knew he should make a decision as soon as possible. His whole body and soul were torn between those two corners. Finally, he started walking to what he thought was the reason for him being there - the body. Just a few steps before it, he found himself falling down in this vast black hole. He blacked out again.

That unknown person could have been anyone. And it is. It is you, me, him, her, them.. in this paralell world where nothing and everything makes sense.

..blood. It was everywhere. Literally everywhere. He woke up again in the very same room. He still had no name. No memories either. "This time there's no tomorrow" he said to himself desperately trying to remember what happened and how did he end up there. In vain. He was trapped in his consciousness forever.

#93 Ghosts /downtempo, chillout/

Oh well, the daily struggle with all the reading for university and the general lack of sleep totally sucked out all creativity so I really have nothing that worth reading. And I'm also lazy. Like really lazy. I guess it is better to focus on the music tonight. Enjoy :)

Lusine - Two dots

Stateless - Bloodstream

Ladytron - Ghosts




"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these"

#92 Helen Keller

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

I have no idea why but I just came across the name of Helen Keller. Honestly, I had no idea who she was and what she was fighting for.. I do not feel confident enough with my writing to try to describe her life and what she has been through, but her story stroke me immediately. It cured my insignificant and meaningless hangover, it made me realize that staying in bed will not give me anything today, it gave me desire to stand up and try to achieve something today. Move, embrace things around you, touch, feel, absorb, smile, make others smile.. if a deafblind person managed to achieve so much and made the world a better place, I... we should try to do that. At the end if all about beliving in yourself and having the inner strength to keep fighting with what life offers us. Helen, that goes for you!

Foster the people - Helena Beat!! 

The beautiful girls - On a clear day


Citizen Cope - Let the drummer kick