Challenge. O!

Dearest Darlings!
I LOVE CHALLENGEs! Well, not always and not concerning every part of life. I have to admit.
But generally: I'm mostly up for challenges that come across
(Sometimes it takes a while to identify "problems" as "challenges", but that's ok. I guess that's a challenge, too.) Yes, OK.
So.
I'm challenging myself. From this day on I promise I will post on here every day. Yep! Every day.
Why I do this? TO SHARE STUF WITH YOU!!! YAY!!!
So:
Be prepared while I prepare myself. And take lots of pictures. And remember everything. most of all: remember to write on here.

Exciting! Again!
And: I saw the first preview of our VIDEO! LOVE IT! And: I still owe you the story (and maybe some non-spoiling preview pictures) of my Album-Cover-Shoot with Elfie!

And: went for birthday dinner. to set the stage for what's about to come we went here:

Sincerely yours, as always.
ME.
and:
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take a walk On the Wild Side

just another Sunday afternoon in New York.

<3

VIDEO! STIllS!

sO. the dearest friend Bernhard Rappold (www.bernhardrappold.at) came up with this Idea for a Video. 2 days before we left for NYC. BUT: WHY NOT? so we took a camera, some wine, a hat and a bunch of tulips and shot Our first VIDEO! want to see what it lOOKs like? you'll have to wait a little more for that BUT: here are some stills I can show you already. SOOOO EXCITED! hurra.
also: hellO from finally sunny New York. Winter is over. PLEASE!

IMpressiOns of an O.

chillin' with a ..Fußfessel.

Dorit Chrysler at the MOOG LAB

XXX

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O! just A!

..quick update! hellO! you dears! time is so rare at the mOment that I just had nO TIME to write on here and to talk to you!!! Oh nO! Oh nO! Oh NOO!

but: I'm alive! so, Schnelldurchlauf: we recorded for one month. we mixed for another month (and a half). finally finished Messiah, had a quick Vodka Shot on an early friday afternoon. felt weird. really really did.

packed our stuff (for 3 hours). got on the plane (for 9 hours). got out of the plane, got a ride to our new appartment. hOme! and this is it. we finally arrived. hellO!
it's exciting and exciting and lovely and huge and inspiring. and weird to be here. hello you lovely city!!! (although i don't really know if lovely doesn't rather apply for, let's see, maybe Florence, or Nice.., but i can't think of a better word right now and: it is lovely!!).
we tried to figure out the simplest stuff (i.e. where to buy food) and a little more complicated stuff (how do you explain to a 2 year old that it just will take some time to understand these people talking so strangely..?).
we went to Central Park Zoo (twice), to the Children's mUseum of Art (more than that), to Kindergarten, we walked through Central Park from North to South and East to West.
Mini Me figured out that waving back to people is nice so he does it all the time, tries new words like "ewuaibadi" (everybody..not so easy!!) and likes french fries.


and: I worked on the ALBUM-COVER  last night, and I'm thinking of doing it myself. did I ever tell you the story of taking the cover-pictures with the incredible Elfie Semotan? 9 months pregnant? naked? this will be a post of its own. has to be!!!

OH! and we started shooting Our first video just a few days before I took off. sO excited about it!!!
hOpe that I will have more time for all this stuff soon. sO SOOOON! but i'm O-ptimisitc about that ;-)

sO. it's spring! and live is GOOD!

and: my dad is now major of the little village he lives in. COngrats, pop! ;-)

sincereliest yours, as always:
ME




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ME (out of mine me's perspective)

it's dOOOne!!! (almost)..

so to explain what i did with my time instead of writing on here (in here?). here. : i finished an album. (almost). celebrated christmas (exhausting: visiting parents living hundreds of kilometers apart from each other. made about 1000km in one week. hooray. did i mention that we don't own a car..??) celebrated new years eve: with friends who mostly hate new years eve. so it was a very nice and quiet dinner- everybody pretended that it wasn't new years eve. then we still were a little excited when the new year arrived. happy 2014!!! and went to bed. yes yes yes. and: finished an album (almost): that means: weeks of recording: choir, bass, slide-guitar, e-bass, pauken, glockenspiel, keyboards, synths, orgeln, vocals, drums...to mention a few. and not to mention the guitar- stuff wolfgang möstl provided.
well yes.
then: mixing. really easy with some tracks. really hard with others. this is how it goes. we tried to do one track a day, and almost got through with it. until the last track. that's one i wrote just a couple of weeks ago which means that we didn't play it live yet- which means that i still don't know him (the track) that well. so we couldn't finish off - i have to re-write the lyrics. from: there you go and i am here, you wanted what? i did not.) to something different. i don't know yet. working in the studio with patrick pulsinger was exciting (and exciting and exciting.) and very relaxed. and very concentrated. and very enthusiastic. and inspiring. sometimes frightening. but then the "musik mit dem erhobenen zeigefinger" (P.P.) striked back. hell yeah. ha.ha.
so, ladies and gentlemen: we're almost done. i know i shouldn't say that too often because it wears out. still: almost.
and: i can't wait to play this little baby to you and you and you. but before that: we're moving to new york in about 3 weeks (actually it's less than that). feels good. and exciting (i use that word a lot when i try to describe my feelings. that's good, though..better than boring i guess). and scary. mini me tells everybody that they will cry when he leaves, i try to not freak out my parents (it's so cold there right now. it's too loud. it's too crowded. it's too far away). and besides that i try to prepare myself, try to find quiet moments so i can focus. pretty hard. but as it always was in my live so far: i'll think about it on my way there, and when i'm there it will be ok (this not only works for physical situations..).
so: hello solo-debut. hello new york. sweet. SWEET!!!






lovliest yours, (sure!)
ME


O! we'll be playing at POSTHOF LINZ on 24/01/2014 (this upcoming friday- togehter with CAGED ANIMALS from BROOKLYN/NY). and because i am a nice person and because we are an awesome band we will give away 2 guestlist "tickets": write why you want to come. o@thisiso.net