Jeph is just amazing. Just read QC #275 and laughed till I stopped. The one thing I don’t get is the connection between emo and Good Charlotte. While emo might be discussed controversial, Good Charlotte just suck. Big time. So do their haircuts.. wait, I guess I start to see the connection here. Anyhow, you keep Sunny Day Real Estate out of this, will you?

So I grabbed my guitar just to find it so out of tune. My tuner’s batteries are empty and somehow I really can’t trust my ears today (I’d probably consider just to stay away from making music then..). versiontracker to the rescue! a quick search for ‘tuner’ revealed Pefect Pitch, a really nice piece of software or as one comment puts it:

“This is a freeware application you actually want to pay for.”

I really like it if my application-needs get satisfied that easily. Kudos to the net and all those busy programmers!

Someone (Susu?) pointed me to Questionable Content, a web-comic by Jeph Jacques. It’s just amazing, although a little pro-indie (at least not alternative, isn’t it?), and somewhat anti-emo. well, sort of.
It’s not like I consider myself beeing emo, but we all have our soft spot, don’t we? Ok, ok, I admit it, I’ve even read Nothing Feels Good. But hey, it’s a nice read. Definitely too much scribbling about that Dashboard Confessional guy, Chris Carrabba, though, so maybe just skip the last chapter..

Anyhow, check out the comic, it’s really fun to read. Jeph also writes some sort of diary to every strip, interesting to see how things evolved. Now go, read! By now you have to catch up at least 331 strips!

Azrael is running a nice MP3Blog. He introduces bands of nearly all genres and even links to legal MP3s. Although a german site, the links will probably work even if you don’t understand what he’s scribbling about

Yesterday I witnessed The Mars Volta live in munich. The more weird part of the At the Drive-In split (Sparta beeing the, well, less weird half) performed an incredible show. If you know their studio stuff, forget about it. Their live arrangements are just above and beyond. Quite exhausting, though. Maybe I was either too drunk or too sober, for it took me quite some time to find my “comfortable space” to really enjoy their performance.