Review: “Once Again” von John Legend

October 31st, 2006
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John Legend hat es wieder getan. Der dreifache Grammygewinner von 2006 (John gewann in den Kategorien Best R&B Album für “Get Lifted”, Best R&B Male Vocal Performance für “Ordinary People” und Best New Artist) hat es, nach seinem Debüt-Album “Get Lifted” (2005) und vielen Co-Produktionen mit Künstlern wie Alicia Keys oder Kanye West, wieder geschafft ein großartiges Album auf den Markt zu bringen.
“Once Again” klingt überhaupt nicht nach dem Vorgängeralbum, hat aber dennoch diesen typische Legend-Flair. Facettenreich und gefühlvoll erinnert es an die “guten alten Zeiten” von Marvin Gaye, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding oder Sam Cooke. Legend zeigt was Soul eigentlich ist. Während “Get Lifted” deutlich R&B-lastiger war, ist “Once Again”eine perfekte Soul-Platte bei der Lyrics, Rhythmus und Vibes eine perfekte Symbiose eingehen. Die Grundstimmung der Songs ist sehr positiv. Es ist kaum zu übersehen, vielmehr zu überhören was John so froh stimmt - wie sollte es anders sein: es ist die Liebe einer Frau, der er gleich mehrere Songs widmet. John Legend’s Musik ist originell und unverwechselbar - ein Prädikat, dass heutzutage nur noch sehr wenige Künstler verdient haben.
Das Album gehört in jede gut sortierte R&B/Soul Sammlung, nicht die der jungen Generation, sondern durchaus auch in die der Liebhaber von Classic Soul. Für Fans des Genres extrem empfehlenswert.

Related Links:
johnlegend.com - offizielle Website
John Legend music videos


Wunder geschehen…

October 30th, 2006
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… hier und da. Und heute mal in Erlangen, genauer gesagt in Langensendelbach. Denn seite gerade eben geht unser Internet wieder. Man möchte meinen ein Wunder, denn wir haben nichts gemacht. Wir waren bei der Telekom, die haben aber gesagt es dauert bis nächste Woche. Und wie durch ein Wunder eben waren sie anscheinend schneller als sonst. Das gibt mir natürlich die Gelegenheit Müll zu schreiben, den du gerade liest und dich vermutlich fragst, was der Sinn dahinter ist. Und nach dem letzten Satz hast du vermutlich schon aufgehört zu lesen und weg geklickt. Falls nicht: du Trottel!

Eigentlich wollte ich nur sagen, dass jetzt wieder alles back-on-track ist und ich gerade auf Wordpress 2.0.5 umgestellt habe. Eine Liste neuer Features gibt’s hier.

Falls du durch Zufall auf Seite gekommen bist weil du bei Google “Wordpress 2.0.5 500 Internal Error” oder sowas eingegeben hast: ja! Bei einigen gibt es wohl ein Problem mit dem 2.0.5 Upgrade. Mark Jaquith hat allerdings ein Plug-In geschrieben, welches das Problem behebt. Es wird vermutlich kein 2.0.5.1 Update geben. Das Plug-In findet ihr auf Mark’s Homepage.


Phil Fak Feier am Mittwoch, 25.10. im Bambu

October 20th, 2006
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A moment in the life of a pizzaboy - “Dating”

October 1st, 2006
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Pizzaboys have a hard life. While all your friends go to party Saturday night you deliver pizza. And while your friends are having a great time together, all that’s left for you is knowing you’re doing something good. Something important. You feed people. You’re better than most politicians. I must admit there is something to that. But then again, the fun part of your life is missing. It’s a price pizzaboys willingly pay for a bit of complacency and admittedly the tip money.
But when it comes to relating pizzaboys, again, are delivering pizzas while your buddy is hitting on that hot chick from the coffee shop you admire so much.
So yes, it’s true. Pizzaboys are lonely. So am I, I’m a pizzaboy myself. So since I’m so lonely and all, I thought (after that report about the pervs on MySpace on GMA) I’d try the internet. There’s that girl I went to school with. Well, sort of. I was a high school senior when she was a junior. Uh, however. I’m 20 now and she’s… uh, well she’s not. But hey, I’ve got a friend who’s actually being serious about dating a 14yr old. The best part is his argumentation: “She’ll be 15 in December.”
However, so there’s that girl… and she’s like 17 or something. And she would always start to chat online with me.
She said she knows me, I never heard of her or seens her. But she sent pictures, which looked okay. So I, being the lonely pizzaboy and her obviously having sort of a passion for pizzaboys, thought I’d ask her ’bout a date. She liked that I idea, so we were all set for our date.
We met in a parking lot. I was pretty excited. But the excitement would soon fade to horror when she got out of that car. I know, I know, that sounds pretty dramatic and all. It was. It was horrifying. I mean where did that cute girl go? She was just sort of massive. I’ll leave it up to your imagination what I actually mean by that, but just one thing: I disliked what I saw.
But me being a good person and all, I thought ‘Alright, she’s…. uh but maybe she’s got a good character.’. It’s like they say real beauty comes from the insight right? But I could tell she’d better have a lot of beauty inside.
The plan was to go to the movies and maybe go for a walk afterwards. Before we went to the movies we were going to a café. Of course not the one I like the most but the one I like the least. I’ve learned from former mistakes. However, on the 20 min trip to the movies she was talking trash. A lot of trash. She told me she used to like this one bud of mine. Solid.
Then she was talking about having stress with her girl friends. From that moment on I was actually counting the minutes until the movie would start. And while she talked about her ex-boyfriend (you go girl) I was waiting for the movie and actually not listening. See, the thing is a lot of people say taking a girl to a movie for the first date would be a bad idea. I don’t think it is. See, for a guy in my situation it’s actually the best thing to do. Because if the girl’s talking trash, and oooooooh she had a lot of trash to get out of her mouth… you still have the movie. First of all she’s going to shut up and even if she don’t you can still pretent not to hear her because the 7.1 Dolby Surround in the cinema is so loud… And you might actually have a good time, if the movie’s alright. Well, we went into “The Omen”. She chose the movie. “The Omen”, the worst movie I’ve seen since “Torque - The Movie” and perhaps “Hannibal”. Awful.
So let me draw a conclusion of the date so far: Awful date, awful movie and a pizzaboy who suddenly realizes that being lonely maybe isn’t such a bad thing after all.
When the movie was over she asked about the walk in the park. Instantly I had to yawn and told her I had a tough day (since she got out of her car back in the parking lot - I was keeping that part secret though). I took her back. And as it wasn’t enough for that day she started to talk about how much she hates Tom Hanks. I like Tom Hanks. He’s a good actor. I liked him in Forrest Gump and most other movies he was in. I really felt like hitting the brakes and kicking her out of the car. Okay, maybe I wouldn’t hit the brakes. So we finally came back to the parking lot. She got out. I said, you got my number, thinking “Oh damn, she really has my number, and email!” - I really hated myself for being that sort of naïve in that moment
Oh well. Next day she emailed. I told her I don’t feel like dating, right now. When it comes to her, I don’t feel like dating at all. I don’t even feel like talking at all.
Lesson learned kids, now you know what spam filters are for…