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R.I.P.

Tid til at se frem. Pitchfork har et nyt Q&A-interview med frontfigur Matt Berninger om The National’s til maj kommende nye plade lige her.

For to må man være ude på det store fodboldeventyr; Allan Simonsen og Annette i Vesttyskland, dengang.

Borussia Mönchengladbach – Werder Bremen, lørdag, kl. 15.30, Borussia Park
Liverpool – Bolton, lørdag, kl. 16.00, Canal+/downthelocal

01. Elton John – “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
(Vinematic pointed anger)
02. The Clash – “London Calling”
(A punk rock Exile On Main Street)
03. Neil Young – “Harvest”
(Sunday morning coming down)
04. Chuck Berry – “The Great Twenty-eight”
(Motivation)
05. The Ramones – “Road to Ruin”
(Form a band, write a song, change the world)
06. Bruce Springsteen – “Nebraska”
(Paint the picture through the darkness)
07. The Replacements – “Tim”
(Guitar on your shoulders, heart on your sleeve, spit on the microphone)
08. Wilco – “Yankee Hotel Fox Trot”
(Yearning in the modern world)
09. The Rolling Stones – “Goat’s Head Soup”
(Dark and dirty, warm by the fire, bottles of red wine)
10. The Jam – “Settings Sons”
(Education across the pond, working class issues, wonderful story telling, a different system to buck)

Vi er på mexicansk restaurant i München, januar 1970. Franz Beckenbauer drikker tequila med sin første kone Brigitte. Det er VM-år, der er kulørt herremode, Franz er 24 og fremtiden ligger vidt åben…

I dag for 24 år siden døde den amerikanske skuespiller Leif Erickson, kendt for sit ægteskab med Frances Farmer, men også for filmroller i bl.a. On the Waterfront, Tea and Sympathy og Elvis-lystspillet Roustabout. Vores forbindelse til ham er indrømmet kun via sidste sang på Turn On The Bright Lights, Interpols fremragende debutalbum. Den hedder ‘Leif Erikson’ og spiller her…

Da jeg opholdt mig langt ude i Dollerup Bakker og kunne fange knitrende BBC på langbølger, var en fast del af lørdagsroutinnen at høre dagens fodboldresultater  fra de engelske og skotske divisioner – ‘the Classified Football Results’ – blive læst alvorligt nøgternt op lidt i seks af en ældre og klassisk skolet herrestemme, tilhørende BBC-institutionen James Alexander Gordon. Nyd her The Fall’s ekcentriske og aldrig kedelige Mark E Smith, da han en enkelt lørdag for få år siden fik lov at varetage netop den traditionsforpligtende opgave hos BBC…

Franz Beckenbauer fotograferet på gaden i NYC i sen70′erne. Til venstre for Franzi er det mor Antonie, til højre daværende kæreste Diane Sandmann og tante Pauli.

“Message to my future self.

You were at Silvercup Studios tonight. It had been a long shoot and nothing much was going according to plan. When the director wrapped you walked up onto the set, a beach scene, took off your shoes and built a sand castle when nobody was watching. In the car home you passed a bar and remembered they had a photobooth. The place was closing up, but you decided to tell the driver to stop. You got out and made this series of pictures.

At home you have three varieties of tomato plants on the fire escape (Green Zebras, Black Krims, and De Pintos); all are in full bloom. You will eat tomatoes like apples before you sleep.

Lately you have fallen into dreams in which your room falls away and you are out under starry mountain skies.

You see beauty all around. Maybe you will read this in 2004 and think it naive. Maybe you will forget it or lose it. Maybe you will read it and remember what it was to be alive on this day.

-September 4th 1994.”