Kreuzfeuer, the new album of Subway to Sally continious the path that was begun on Bastard. Not as loud as before, but still with lyrics that are worth being interrogated. The CD comes with some extras like wallpapers and screensavers (Windows only, damn you blasphemic Microsoft-loving band ) and one big disappointment. The music video for Besser du rennst. Of course, Subway to Sally has never been famous for their videos but this is really a laugh.

Really great is that you can have a foretaste of all songs on STS’s website. You really have an idea about what you will buy and nice audio comments from the bandmembers. The CD itself is not copy-protected which is a positive thing because you in Germany (if you obey the law *cough*) may not even rip it to your mp3 or ogg player if you want.

The contents of the songs are biblical or related to inter-human relationships. As mentioned, the music is not as loud as before, less metal elements but a familiar style of lyrics and song-concepts. The refrains again have a lot of importance but are not rampant compared to the rest of the text.

At last a quote from a song with a oriental disposition:

Ich bin der Krähenkönig,
zertreten ist das Korn,
gebrochen ist der Galgen,
und glühend ist mein Zorn.

Subway To Sally – Krähenkönig

Now this site is really great. A lot of comics, mostly with demons, the devil, jesus, a floating bhuddist and likeable characters. The comics of Tatsuya Ishida are humoristic and really, really time killing. One of my favourites goes here.

Links:

• sinfest.net
• The Dark Jesus#

Thanks to Stefan for the link

Martyrs is the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen and it’s different from a lot of horror movies I have seen. The plot is simple, but the film doesn’t suffer from that. It’s keeping the accident thrill. It’s horrible but you don’t want to look away either. Not only through very explicit visualisations of violence but also through the extremely emotional demonstration of force this is one of the most disgusting movies I have watched so far. It reminded me of real torture, the concentration camps from WWII and the feeling of complete helplessness. Maybe it’s one of the best movies to show how wrong abusing other people through physical force really is.

9/10

Links:

• Martyrs at the imdb
• Martyrs trailer at youtube

I’ve just tripped on the linux foundations video contest and I thought I’d post my favourite of them I have seen.

Hello all you command line lovers out there and all you people who may find this post very very strange. CLI stands for command line interface (you type instead of clicking). My most recent discovery for Firefox is Vimperator, an addon which gives you ~1 ton of key bindings and commands to use your webbrowser. Of course it specifically aims at people who already are familiar with the famous command line text editor vi or vim which I’ve already written about here.

Very useful key bindings:

• gg go to top of page
• G go to bottom of page
• h, j, k, l for left, up, down, right
• ctrl+n, ctrl+p next tab, previous tab

I’ve started my carreer and am now a computer-consultant apprentice. Beside that I have time to practise coding, design experiments and just living my life with Julia. Finally I’ve also got a new mp3-player (Samsung YP-S2) which officially supports OGG. Until now I could only listen to OGG through Julias iPod which runs ROCKbox. This post is written with Wordpress2.7 which offers a nice new backend and surprisingly it didn’t even break my layout.

Mirrors was very thrilling to see. The story is not very different from most horror movies, but it’s a good one. It’s scary, brutal and the end is genius. Kiefer Sutherland as Ben Carson is my personal highlight of the movie, reminding me a little of Flatliners. A broken man that is doubting his senses and though trying to stand against his fears. The other world, the one behind the looking glass is described as dark and horrible in this movie. If you like horror movies, see this one. Beware, the 18+ classification for German cinemas is justified. 8 of 10.

• Mirrors trailer on Youtube

Peter Fox’ first solo album Stadtaffe is a nice mixture of interesting rythms and clever rhymes. I’ve heard Peter Fox voice many times before, listening to Seeed and I loved his new single Alles Neu right away. I saw it by accident on MTV (not happening often, but this time it was worth the cell phone ads). The egocentric album about pre-, post-, or only party, beginnings, life plans and a few things in between make a great mixture.

My favourite songs are Alles Neu, Lok auf 2 Beinen and Schwarz zu Blau. The topics new beginning or new chapter in your life in Alles Neu and the restlessness in Lok auf 2 Beinen are well known. Also being alone in an urban environment even though everywhere are people is familiar to me too. Schwarz zu Blau is brutally honest about Berlin and the song I’ve definitly listened to the most. I love my nativ place, the Ruhrgebiet and feel at home in most ugly and big cities.

The musical part is an unusual hybrid between orchestra, drums and electronical beats and the great voice of Pierre Baigorry aka Peter Fox.

So long:

Guten Morgen Berlin,
Du kannst so hässlich sein, so dreckig und grau,
du kannst so schön schrecklich sein,
deine Nächte fressen mich auf,
es wird für mich wohl das Beste sein,
ich geh nach Haus und schlaf mich aus
und während ich durch die Straßen lauf,
wird langsam schwarz zu blau.

Peter Fox – Schwarz zu Blau

Translation to German (bitteschön Shino )

I just found the magazine with which I got my first Linux CDs, so I thought I’d throw out a blog post about it.

I’ve started experimenting with Linux at the age of 14 in 2003 I think. I don’t remember exactly, had to check when SuSe Linux 8.1 came up, which I started to install on my first decent own machine. I’ve had been using computers since before my third birthday. My father allowed me to play some old DOS games on his computer back then. Later I started experimenting with a computer with Windows 3.11 and later Windows 95. I never really missed anything, because I mostly played games until I more and more read of Linux in various computer magazines.
I was a fan of share- and freeware and the concept of open source started to catch my interest. Since 2003 I’ve tried a lot of Linux distributions and various versions.
I had shorter installations of Knoppix, Mandrake or Suse and longer ones with Kanotix, Debian, Gentoo or Ubuntu. Right now I’m mainly using Sidux on my Laptop and mainstation because I’m basically a Debian fan who just loves apt but likes the scripts delivered by the Sidux team.
A saying I believe in, concerning distributions is: Ubuntu for users, Debian for servers, Gentoo for insanes. I don’t know if meadow is the creator of this saying, but if so: credits to him.

This weekend me and Shino aka Hans surprised Julia with him visiting us! The look on her face was just glorious. It was a nice time with these two shy personalities. We got to know Shino while playing World of Warcraft over half a year ago. We spend saturday talking, playing, watching movies and we showed him a bit of Flensburg too. This picture I took after he just woke up with my Thinkpad on his lap. Thought it was too funny to see sleepy Shino with the eeevil logo (He’ll kill me for uploading this)