FOMP 2008

Tonight we went to the "FOMP" festival. It's an open-air hosted by - amongst others - a friend of mine. It started like 3 year ago as a bday-party of a few ppl and ended up as an official open-air festival a year later.This year, my friend wasn't the main person responsible but he still helped out alot. We know that the festival tends to have bad timing with the weather, even though it's held in the middle of the summertime. And we weren't disappointed this year. The first day we went there thinking we better take our chance to go there before the bad weather arrives on the next day, but the rain was faster and caught up on us - just in time we got there, the rain started. It was really heavy rain and wind but thankfully, it didn't last too long so the rest of the festival was still great. And I like having cooler air instead of the weather being too hot. I always am in favor for cool weather. And again, I ended up being one of the few people wearing a t-shirt in the very end while everyone else put on a pullover or a jacket.... something isn't right with me. I guess I'm simply my father's son.

New Coldplay Album

Coldplay released a new album, called "Viva La Vida". I've always been a fan of Coldplay, I like emotional, catchy, sometimes melancholical tunes with alot of feeling and poetry in it. I liked singing with the songs, learning the lyrics. How much their music touched me and meant for me emotionally I all too well realised after Karen broke up with me.

As their last Album, "X&Y" was released, we were still together and it was during a hard time in my work-life where she and Coldplay were the things that gave me the strength I needed.

Now it's 3 years later and they have another album out, and I think I'm ready to start listening to Coldplay again. So I got the album and just listened through it one time. I'm still alittle undecided what to think of it. It's definitely Coldplay, and I would think it's pure and without compromises. The songs are all good and not mainstream. They all show the usual determination and deep emotions... it's what makes their songs so enjoyable when you are in the right mood and connect happy thoughts and memories with em - and so tough when you are in a completely different emotional state.

Right now while writing this, I have the first "song" (more an instrumental) running in a loop. I immediately fell in love with this short little tune called "Life In Technicolor". The rest of the album is alittle different than that song though, not too fast, drum and beat-oriented... something I have to admit I did like alot about older songs and wouldn't have minded hearing again on this album.

But perhaps I just need to listen to it alittle more to learn to love it even more... or maybe I simply lack the right emotional state... or someone special to enjoy it with...

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