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The Frames, Hamburg

Felix — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:10:05 +0000

This weekend, I went all the way to Hamburg in order to see the only gig by The Frames in Germany. Let me tell you, every single kilometre was absolutely worth it: Glen and the boys played about two hours of awesome, hand-made, emotional rock music. Fitzcarraldo, Revelate, God Bless Mom, Lay Me Down, Seven Day Mile, What Happens When The Heart Just Stops… you name it, they played it (unexpected: Kraftwerk’s Autobahn). And I finally got my hands on their rather obscure, finally re-released debut album Another Love Song. Gee, I wish I could go to Dublin and see one of the four gigs they play in their hometown (1x Olympia Theatre, 1x Vicar Street, 2x Whelan’s); they are all sold-out, though.

Here are some musical impressions:

The Frames – Seven Day Mile:

The Frames – Revelate:

Opening act was Duke Special from Belfast – I was impressed.
Duke Special – Mockingbird Wish Me Luck:

Fun Fact: the venue had the ubercool German name Übel & Gefährlich, which translates roughly to Evil & Dangerous.

Ronnie James Dio

Felix — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:45:39 +0000

Yesterday, Ronnie James Dio passed away. What a bad day for rock’n'roll. Here are three highlights of his legacy:

Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell (Album: Heaven and Hell)

Rainbow – Stargazer (Album: Rising)

(This live version is with his own band called Dio)

Dio – Rainbow in the Dark (Album: Holy Diver)

In These Arms

Felix — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:17:58 +0000

New video by The Swell Season (Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová). Filmed on 16mm in New York. Turn up the volume and click play:

From their album Strict Joy (2009).

5PRIME.com Relaunch

Felix — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:06:47 +0000

Some of you might have noticed – either I told you or you guessed it from my post frequency – that I have been working quite a bit during the last weeks. Today, the fruits of this work finally went online: we relaunched 5PRIME.com, my employer’s corporate website. Apart from the new design and improved usability, we have added, e.g., a new product line, some pages about application areas and an extended literature search.

Kudos to Marian, who created a little surprise that you might want to check out, and his buddy Kristian, for a nudge into the right direction when the two of us did not see the wood for the trees.

Just navigate to the homepage (you have to select your country first) and enjoy the video!

Swansea Graffiti

Felix — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:06:36 +0000

Thomas, who spent the last two semesters in Swansea, created two really cool videos that show two months in the life of two walls: Swansea Graffiti.

Bob

Felix — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:07:18 +0000

Yesterday, Berta, Isa, Chris and me went to a very special lecture. The subject? Folk. The lecture hall? The O2. The lecturer? Robert Allen Zimmerman, better known as Bob Dylan.

He might be old, he might be mumbling and grumpy, but the concert was awesome anyway. Bob, whose hat had the biggest flap, played the organ and told his stories while his band, all dressed in black, stayed very much invisible in the background. Whenever he reached for the harmonica, the whole audience cheered in joy.
Here are some of the great songs he played:

Highway 61 Revisited

Like a Rolling Stone

All along the Watchtower

Blowin’ in the Wind

It was a great night. Thank you, Bob! And thank you, Isa!

German Sausages & Irish Flirting

Felix — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:44:04 +0000

Wednesday there was a bring-a-dish-from-your-home-country-party, but apart from the fact that our initially sneered at frankfurters were gone in the blink of an eye there’s not much to tell. If you ever have to prepare German food for a large number of people, just buy good ol’ sausages and mustard. That might not be as impressive as the delicious Tartiflette from France or a mouth-watering Spanish omelette, but it’s popular finger food, can be prepared within some minutes and is still tasty when it’s not warm anymore. Depending on where you are it might even be cheap. Downside: some people will assume that you can’t cook a proper meal. Don’t do it if you want to impress girls…
But enough about the grandeur of German sausages, I wanted to tell you another story.

Our way to this eating binge was more interesting. Chris and I left the house and went to the Belgard stop where we had to wait quite some time for the next Luas. Our boredom did not last long: a bunch of teenage Irish girls showed up. They were all dressed in the ubiquitous tracksuits and were really young; maybe twelve or thirteen years old. While we just stood next to the rails and waited, they were running around us, climbed the benches and used their high-pitched voices to shout annoying (ridiculous) lines at us. Chris managed to keep a straight face, I had a really hard time to hold back the laughter.

Then they tried to hit on us. “Can I have your number? Can I have your number?” a girl asked me with her thick Dublin accent “I’ve got a black marker and a red one. I’ll write your number in red on my arm. Red for love.” Gosh, this was too much for me. I don’t know what came over me, but for some reason I suddenly had to think of a song and replied: “It’s 222 2222, I got an answering machine that can talk to you.”

The rest of the evening this BossHoss song was stuck in my head:

By the way: this is a cover of De La Soul’s Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey).

New Arrivals

Felix — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:19:20 +0000

The new Erasmus students arrived. Well, at least most of them. There are not too many; just about twenty. Most of them are French. Then there are some from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.

On Wednesday we invited them to go to Captain Americas in Tallaght with us so that we could get to know each other. It was nice. That evening Carmen taught me the lyrics of the famos Chiqui Chiqui by Rodolfo Chikilicuatre. “El chiqui chiqui mola mogollon…”

Well, maybe she should not have done it: I found my secret talent and like to sing el Chiqui Chiqui all day long. It is really addictive. See for yourself:

Yesterday, I was invited to Berta’s new flat in city centre where I met her, Chris, Isa A, Isa B, Isma, Carmen, Oscar and Alejandro. Yes, you already guessed it: I delighted my Spanish friends with my new-found talent as well as a special variation of it. Well, we had a nice evening anyway.

When your mind’s made up

Felix — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:20:03 +0000

I saw this scene some weeks ago during the Dublin Culture Night and it just came to my mind again.

A great song from Once, an Irish film that is set in Dublin.

First CA in SDEV

Felix — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:08:42 +0000

Yesterday, we had a closed-book CA in the Software Development class. The task was to implement some basic I/O and functions that did some basic calculation with arrays of doubles. Three of the functions were very similar and after half an hour I was basically done – 90 minutes before we had to hand in our source code.

The other seemed to be still working. I read the instructions and specifications on the sheet again. And again. No, everything done. I did not dare to leave that early – a dilemma. Some minutes, which I spent with code clean-up, slight refactoring, documentation, later, I still seemed to be the only one, who was finished. Okay, let’s test, monkey-test. Still about 45 minutes to kill. Hm, boring. I uploaded my work on moodle and left.

Later, I found out that Stefan and Lukas/Klaus had a similar problem. Each of them was finished and did not want to be the only one, who leaves reeeally early, as well. Wasted time. Next time we’ll probably agree on some secret code noise: