If there's one song I would love to have heard this sunday in the Vooruit, it really was Drunkship of Lanterns. Can't complain though, the band played almost played everything from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Loused_in_the_Comatorium, their debut album. No Flea or John Frusciante either, can't have it all right :) Thank god for YouTube of course!

I was planning to buy a new guitar this month(*), but after seeing Notwist this weekend at the Cactusfestival, I should maybe consider buying a Wii and see if I can also create sounds just like Martin Gretschmann. It's funny to see him control his sequencers with his 2 Wii remotes, although I would like to see a picture from stage to really confirm that he isn't playing tennis .. I currently have 2 remotes at home, so the next nerd night I'd like to try and install drivers to control something on my Mac (yeah, don't bash) .. As expected, Cactus this sunday really was great and as usual with very nice art in the park.

(*) instead I had to come up with a financial plan because I completely forgot that changing jobs is a disaster in july when payday arrives - and if you rely on that fact when ordering a lot of stuff with your visa card .. :)

I don't get excited a lot about music nowadays, but I feel it's my moral duty to spread the word around about Battles. The band is not a completely new kid on the block, I already knew the singles Atlas and Tonto, but never heard a full album since this week, which is a real shame. It's not the easiest music to grasp, in fact, I'm pretty sure a lot of people won't even make it to the half of one song when listening, but if you do, I promise your brain will be thankful eternally for the new musical experience. And otherwise, stick with established values like Sonic Youth, their new album The eternal really is a blast! But first, go watch the video of Atlas and if you make it through that and want more, Tonto is your next step.

This saturday I attended a show of Ter bescherming van de jeugd, some fine new Belgian cabaret. If you haven't seen them yet, be sure to catch them when they perform somewhere in your neighbourhood. Dries and Tim did a hell of a performance, but one thing that hunted me for two days was the name of a song they hilariously adapted to 'Niemand' - everyone remember the growing madness in Dries' laughter while playing on his contrabass ? I knew I heared it before but couldn't put my finger on it. Untill now. I had one lead, I heard Johnny Cash's voice singing it in my head so I pulled out all the music I had from him and the answer is on American III: Solitary Man. Turns out it's a cover of Nobody, a very old song by Egbert Austin Williams. So if you have that CD in your collection, put it on and skip to number five or click here to listen. Enjoy, no thanks!

I'm heading for a cultural weekend with lots of music starting tonight at Rock Ternat. Really looking forward too see De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig & Arsenal playing live. Hoping to get some more inspiration too, to get behind drums and guitar tomorrow and ending the day with Madensuyu at the Chantier. And on sunday you can find me at the museum of Maaseik to look at the terracota army of Xi'an. Looking forward to that for various reasons.

Being a sucker for lyrics, the title of this post is one, so let's end with one of Madensuyu's:

I'm not a home, so you call me home baby!

My Morning Jacket is coming to Belgium in november. I'll be there, you should too! And tomorrow I'll be on the front row for Two Gallants at Pukkelpop. Excited as hell, hope I can sleep this night!

As last year on pukkelpop, Sonic Youth played a lot of songs from Daydream Nation - probably the best album they made imho - during their set on the Lokerse feesten yesterday. But they also played other old material like Mote (from Goo) and Drunken Butterfly (from Dirty) (and a couple of other songs too, but I can't recall on which album they are). Especially the latter song, one of my favorites on Dirty, now sits in my mind as one of the most breathtaking live experiences ever heard, especially when the madness in the song really started (listen closely from 1:16, pure madness). I remember the Pixies a few years ago in Barcelona and Frank Black screaming Tame at the end of the song. And I also .. well nevermind, I'm going to listen to the song again and drown away in nostalgia.