a liver a lung a kidney a thumb

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:57:28 GMT

(taken by my mother)

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:06:20 GMT

oh. and:

TBA magazine best albums of 2009

you can vote for thaumatrope. you can also vote for 50cent. but come on, he really doesn't need it.

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:23:10 GMT

frozen prayer upon my lips, inside the blood runs hot.

merry christmas or whatever you are celebrating or not celebrating these days.

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:39:53 GMT

this night's dreams / inherited mansions, black elephant parades, flying manta rays and fish from the amazon. naked skin in shop windows, planning a murder with a lover, all the gazelles lined up on the street, watching the iron gates rust.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:36:38 GMT

that night, max wore his wolf suit.

<3

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:30:38 GMT

sore throat, low energy, sage&ginger tea with honey, waiting for this to get better
before the gig on sunday and...

http://www.formspring.me/paperbird

ask me. i might even answer.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:02:38 GMT

woke up after a good long sleep full dreams about of steering rubber airplanes over europe with my parents. another grey dull day. the postman brought me an envelope full of amazing things, straight from awesome lisa max from perth, australia. i might disappear under my blanket real soon with shaun tan's tales from outer suburbia.
the seashells still have sand in them.

<3

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:24:20 GMT

in order to
say thank you to you
i must do it intentionally
but tonight with every breath
i can feel my death
sure as i can feel my knees

you were my modulation
so that's what you will always be
we took each other higher
we set each other free

course, neither of us were wearing helmets
and our blood was just everywhere
and when the morphine kicked in later
the censors threw their hands up in despair
and that's when the truth came marching in
and promptly pulled the plug
but you were better than any drug
you were better than any drug

in order to
say thank you to you
i must do it intentionally
but tonight with every breath
i can feel my death
sure as i can feel my knees

you were my modulation
and that's what you will always be
we took each other higher
then we set each other free
we set each other free

it's been a very long time since i listened to this record. it still works.

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:45:59 GMT

even more media feedback things...(updated)

*paper bird is one of myspace's artists of the week. this will be the only time in my life next to snoop dogg and paul mccartney.
http://music.myspace.com/

*someone wrote a nice review on roteraupe.de
http://www.roteraupe.de/review/8360/paper-bird-thaumatrope.html

*someone else wrote another i-don't-want-to-read-reviews-but-thanks-this-is-good-for-my-heart review in the weekend supplement of die presse.
http://diepresse.com/home/kultur/popco/popkritik/524412/index.do

*you can discuss paper bird lyrics on songmeanings.net, if you don't have anything better to do.
http://www.songmeanings.net/artist/view/songs/137438988498/

*TBA magazin. 9/10. oh.
http://www.tba-online.cc/magazin/musik/cd-rezensionen/cd-rezi-detail/article/10967/

*FM4 Feature
http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1632726/

*Profil review.
http://www.profil.at/kulturkritik/
direct link: http://profil.puaschitz.at/?kategorie=3&kritik=49

*Falter review.
https://secure.falter.at/web/shop/detail.php?id=31108&SESSID=73eb3c4ad696ae843b553ba041ac69cd

*Laura, who i recently got to know at a concert at the transporter bar, came to my release show at the konzerthaus and wrote about it in the Art-Star blog (english)
http://www.alicetragedy.org/blog/?p=1182

*somebody of austrian art/philosophy/technology collective Monochrom wrote some very clever things about Thaumatrope (english):
http://www.monochrom.at/cracked/reviews/Rev%20paperbird.htm

*now-on magazin
http://www.now-on.at/kritiken.artikel.php?artikel=3892

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:02:21 GMT

i'm in Profil's (austrian magazine) weekly playlist with chiddy bang and julian casablancas.
http://www.profil.at/

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:28 GMT

small album presentation today on radio fm4 (http://fm4.orf.at), 9:30pm.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:22:26 GMT

sometimes your friends write the best songs.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:35:31 GMT

actually, last night was the night.

pictures, as almost always, by david murobi.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:22:00 GMT

home is where you can't breathe.

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:28:48 GMT

reminder...

i will play the album release show for "thaumatrope" this thursday at the Konzerthaus in vienna.
tickets are half price for people under 26. seayou label mate and generally awesome guy sir tralala will be playing as well.

come.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:16:11 GMT

it's happening.

the new Paper Bird album can be pre-ordered. now.
official release date: november 24th.
if you order it from me directly instead of amazon etc,
and happen to be one of the first 50 people to order it,
you get a special thaumatrope package. the next 50
still get a little surprise.
there's also new merchandise. tote bags, for example. pretty ones. and buttons.

information, new website, etc...

official website

blogging about it

i need a vacation. so badly.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:21:41 GMT

new collection of paper bird buttons arrived and looks great.

robert rotifer will play one or two songs from the new album on fm4 heartbeat tonight.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:18:03 GMT

hooray for university squatters.

(i'm only a part-time squatter due to work and band rehearsals.)

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:23:30 GMT

last night me and some other people were sitting in a room with a small but very soft sofa and a big television. suddenly barack obama came in. he thought he was at a press thing and had brought a picture book for kids to read with them, but as he saw that there were no kids, just us twentysomething slackers, he shrugged and sat down on the sofa and watched some TV with us. i though: that's weird. i'm watching television with obama. how did this happen? after some time, he stood up again and went out with a couple of bodyguards. he was wearing a red satin jacket.

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:21:35 GMT

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:33:17 GMT

you can now take approximately fourteen minutes of your time and invest them in listening to three songs from the new album on myspace. or not. i don't know.
it's been a long and exhausting journey, my head hurts, but this was so fucking important.
and it still is.

http://www.myspace.com/paperbird

a lie a lie (slow down), bone marrow pen, war strategies.

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:34:12 GMT

my blue half-circle shirtjacket, made from something that once was meant to become a dress.

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:26:41 GMT

michelangelo merisi da caravaggio, the crowning with thorns, ca. 1604
kunsthistorisches museum, vienna.

.

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:24:22 GMT

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:51:17 GMT

a late bird summer // paper ships under ex-monastary roofs and fully dressed in creeks.
photographs by klemens kohlweis.