what my parents sent me for my last birthday.

friedrich hollaender: wiener schmarrn.

bruno bozzetto: freedom must always be conquered.

dave winer: "I imagine this is how parents feel when a kid finally reaches college age and leaves home." – or when it enters the limo of the men in suits wearing shades.

anyway, he's the one who earned some millions letting the "kid" go.

suicide is alright?

a few suicide girls "are spreading rumors and lies".

however, the heat is rising.

...says she: "i recognise a wanking template when i see one."

more music: www.3hive.com

just missed their concert in vienna: suburban kids with biblical names!

nice skwbn video down at antville (and that's also the via).

mmmh, boards of canada...

austrian media landscape's hope.

nzz: "Klein, aber fein. Das Magazin «Datum» als österreichische Trouvaille" (via elektrosmog).

best book. i read in the past month. ever.

chris turner's planet simpson. entertainingly and intelligently closes a big circle from cartoon history over u.s. politics and media research to pop culture.

doctors and drinks, dolls and drunkards.

old, orphaned but still excellent: tiki bar tv.

which leads me to original tiki-style music makers like les baxter or martin denny – and then suddenly turns to a queer and disturbing epicenter called boyd rice...