Sunny Afternoon

After a longer break, Miss Katjes is back with blogging, fresh photos, exciting stories and visually enchanting inspirational stuff. I have much to catch up on, but let me start with some not-so-recent photos that might just take us back a little to summertime afternoons.

:* :* for the wonderful photos Vilmos Varga and Timea Kiss

Canadian indie, a great deal of instruments, extraordinary stage presence

Arcade Fire is one of my great favorites, especially after I've stumbled upon their 2010 Reading performance. It's so good to see them on stage, being totally excited about their performance. It's infinite love for music in each and every tune they play. Btw, Régine is so cute in her glitter dress, especially while singing 'Haiti'.

To you, lace-dress girl!

To the boho-ness in our hearts, because we never tend to let go, to let it fade.






photo from: blog.electrabike.com

Friends' Fashion: The hairstylist

Not only she works great with scissors, but she's a modern time diva as well. Yepp, this is Kinga and her lovely little polka dotted dress. The whole ensemble is so nu jazz that it instantly gives me the vibe to listen to a little Waldeck...or Parov. I think girls should wear dresses and skirts more often....way more often.

Photos: Kinga handed them to me...and if you're speaker of the Hungarian language, you can read her blog by clicking just right here.



Wow, this is Waldeck indeed!!

Tingles down the spine

Updates coming soon, until then whistling day and night (let it out, let it out=).
P.S. Listen to the song!!!

Inspirational visual effects after a Masquerade/Bday party

Do you Poetrie? It's all about fashion inspired by a slight of retro/vintage/indie wave presented in a poetic way.

...and the following images I added because I liked some-some tiny parts of them.

*images: poetrie.com, 100layercake.com, stockholmstreetstyle.com

Wien für Dich, Interpol for your heart

I truly recommend you to see Interpol for yourselves, they sound so real, so professional. The highlight of the week we've spent in Wien was the concert of course (the only thing I missed from the event was a little 'All fired Up', but the 'Heinrich Maneuvre' has pleased me in the end). Unfortunately, we couldn't make any good photos of the band because of that silly thick smoke on the stage, but after me, here's the best songs of the night:




Anyway, we've made some epic photos during our stay, not particularly from a streetstyle-point-of-view, but something that would give back hmm....a certain relieved mood we were into all week long.

Photos made real by Maci

Counting down the Days (Tenderly, tastefully)

I just love that in almost every song from Interpol you could hear 'I love you'. It makes it all so painfully simple yet special...depressing in a way, but elevating at the same time. Tommorrow I'm heading to Wien to see them live. It's weird in a way, but I'm very curious about the way they sound live...seeing them face to face. But I think it'll be massive! :)

"Oh, how I love you
And in the evening, when we are sleeping
We are sleeping. Oh, we are sleeping"

Redemption

I made myself a few days to get far far away from work to sleep, to read, to be alone for a while...this day I spent mostly in bed, but I decided to focus on reorganizing my closet for the following fall-winter period...which is not my favourite one. Anyway, I made a little research on various streetstyle blogs and found some good ideas... at least this much until a new photo session...

I really really love these ankle boots and the way these girls wear them. I definitely want one of these!

photos: fashion.elle.com

Keep forgetting...or rather..keep listening??

I've just discovered a British band called The Cinematics. I have to say the play some great tunes. Yepp, that's me...I'm always returning to the good old indie for a while. By the way, I'm thinking of going to an Interpol concert this fall (Wien or Berlin, maybe...). Does anybody know something about these concerts? For instance, they are giving a concert in Coimbra, Portugal as well (in October) along with U2. Well, that would be truly amazing to see!

Senses, scents, sentences

I can remember a particular year in which spring was especially beautiful with all kinds of feelings in my heart (Haha, what a poetic spirit I have at this hour). But all it's true and I can still evoke the mood I was in those days, and the air smelled not only of blossoming trees but rioting melodies as well. I think that was the time I started listening to indie, thanks to a guy who several months before that moment surprized me with a song called Evil ("Rosemaaaaary, heaven restores you in life"). I still remember that one afternoon while walking home from the university and listening to this song again and again and having such an easy heart, feeling perfectly happy for the song, the mood, the sunny-spring-ish weather-mood medly moment.
It's funny how certain tunes can generate a so-called "perfect moment" feeling (I have to come up with a better, more personal denomination though) and then making that tiny moment unforgettable. With this blended musical impression I still have a sour throat and eyes filled with tears listening to a tender indie made by Interpol. Just think about it :).

These days' favourite> Lungs [2009]

My absence from the blogging world is due to my fragile health condition these days that I'm slowly getting very very tired of. Anyway, I got the chance to put my hands on a new and pretty catchy material, namely Lungs from Florence and the Machine. The mood of the whole album reminds me of the mid-90's Cornflake Girl atmosphere. And indeed, Florence sounds like a younger Tori Amos mixed with a less outspoken version of Kate Nash. As genre I would group Lungs in a smooth indie/British pop/soul-is experimentation and trial of self-expression category. If you are lover of the genre, Dog Days Are Over, Hurricane Drunk, Rabbit Heart and My Boy Builds Coffins are the tracks you would choose to listen to for more than once, I guess. Oh, and not to mention the Candi Station cover You Got the Love, as a beautiful conclusion of the sweet and sour story of a breakup.


By the way, Florence is one stylish London-girl .)

[Pic: http://www.analoguemagazine.com/author/ailbhe-malone/]