Today is Wednesday, I am on the train from Vienna to Carinthia and this is the last post for today. I still have a few images left for the next days and if weather in Carinthia gets as bad as it is predicted, I may even need them 
The Song of the Day is “Eingang” by Anton Webern.
Hmm … as much as I like Schönberg (although mostly for the brilliant “Pierrot Lumiére”), I find Webern always depressing. Anyway, hear for yourself on YouTube.
Ok, ok, it could be someone else’s ladder as well, I don’t claim to know, it’s only that songs with “ladder” in their title are exceedingly rare
The Song that gave this Tuesday post its title is “Jacob’s Ladder” from Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band’s 2007 album “Live In Dublin”. I’ve had the song in “1961 – Jacob’s Ladder“, more than a year ago, and it was simply time again to hear it on YouTube.
Old wood is a wonderful material. It has all the character of an old and wrinkled face, only that its stories never get told.
The Song of this Monday post is “Untold Stories” from the 2005 Sinead O’Connor album “Throw Down Your Arms”. Hear it on YouTube.
Let me try the same title one more time, may I? This is for Sunday, totally different subject, but I guess the title works as well 
By the way, this is an excellent example of an image that needs post-processing, and it is also an excellent example of how good Lightroom is at preserving highlight detail, or in this image rather detail in the extreme reds.
Again the Song of the Day is “They’re Red Hot“, but this time I can recommend Eric Clapton on his 2003 album “Me And Mr. Johnson”. Hear it on YouTube.
Here’s a post for Saturday. The pictures were taken a few days before in Simmering, a part of Vienna with a high percentage of foreigners, many or most of them Turks.
In February, when I moved my furniture, I hired a few helpers from a Turkish transport company. Only one of them spoke German. He is married to an Austrian woman, maybe himself Austrian citizen by now, maybe not, and we had an interesting and friendly conversation about what it means to be Turkish in Austria.
What can I say, it’s not a pretty story and nothing to be proud of as an Austrian. There’s definitely a hierarchy of foreigners, with the Turks being lowest of all non-colored people. What makes it easier for them is their sheer number, the fact that they can get work, often employing each other, and finally that many of them have been here for a long time. On the other hand cultural differences work against them, their number seems to frighten many people, and of course there is the matter of Islam, the oh so convenient enemy since the Twin Towers collapsed.
Being in a part of Vienna like Simmering always amazes me. I immediately feel like being in another country, feel how the world is open and new. That’s pretty much the opposite of what seems to trouble other people
This red-hot shop is a Turkish supermarket opposite the church in the other image, and the Robert Johnson classic “They’re Red Hot” is also the Song of the Day. I’ve used Peter Green’s version in “844 – They’re Red Hot“, hear Hugh Laurie on YouTube today.
This is the post for Friday, featuring an image taken … I don’t know … sometime last week. I’ve been busy. Very, very busy.
This is not a particularly original image, I may have posted an image with roughly the same subject years ago, but in a way I like it. Maybe it’s only for the fact that it didn’t amaze me at all until … I turned it around. Suddenly the plain look up this old, shabby house got tension, lost its feeling of gravity. Sometimes an image can get better just by rotating it. Funny, huh?
The Song of the Day is “Turnaround” from the classic Pat Metheny album “80/81″. Hear it on YouTube.
All the time I find myself having strong ideas of how my life will turn out, but in reality it’s always only a projection of what I am, mixed with the dream of what I want to be. And so often it comes totally different …
The Song of the Day is “Dream Of Life” by Billie Holiday. Hear it on YouTube.
I’ve recently found myself less than impressed by Google. Having been an avid user of Reader, I was left out in the cold when they announced their intention to shut the service down. As a result I use Feedly now.
A few days ago I found that Chrome had begun to crash frequently on Linux, at least on my workstation, and so I had the idea to try switching to Firefox as my main browser.
I had been an Opera user for years and Firefox was never my main browser, so I am not sure why I didn’t try going back to Opera. In any case I didn’t, and now I have set up my workstation, my laptop, my phone and my tablet to all use Firefox as their primary browser.
It works on Linux again, Firefox 21 on Android is working just fine, and on Windows I see much less memory consumption. Everything is tied together by Firefox’ synchronization service. Bookmarks were imported from Chrome on my laptop and then synced to all other devices. Neat
The Song of the Day is “My Ever Changing Moods“, originally from the 1984 Style Council album “Café Bleu”. Hear it on YouTube.
Here’s some construction work in Vienna. This is in the same block where my company will have its new office, a hundred meters from my apartment. At the moment there is still a lot going on here, there is dust and dirt and noise, but I hope everything will settle down soon.
And then: even construction work can look good on such a day
The Song of the Day is “When The Whip Comes Down” from the 1978 Rolling Stones album “Some Girls”. Hear it on YouTube.
Here is an older image for Monday, taken two weeks ago. It was a bright, sunny day and the sun sparkled in the chrome letters on the roof of this Peugeot dealer.
Except of a short and unlucky intermezzo with a Mazda 121 around 1994 (followed by an intermediate Toyota for almost a year) we’ve always had french cars. First came two Citroen CV2, later two Renault Twingo, but we never had a Peugeot. Perhaps an experience still waiting
The Song of the Day is “Blue Sky” from Joan Baez’ 1975 album “Diamonds & Rust”. Hear it on YouTube.