music and life of Albert Cerny

Hi there, my name´s Albert. I love to sing and play... This blog is about the music my friends and I make as well as about certain bits of my personal life. Visit charliestraight.com AND myspace.com/CharlieStraight to learn :) more about us.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

My body is a cage?

I´ve just finished reading The World Accoring to Garp and I´ m sure it changed my life to better. I have to quote Irving here: "Imagining something is better than remembering something", Garp wrote.

I ´ve also been lisening to John Mayer and some Arcade Fire.
Please come see us play in Vendryně on the 9th of June, 3necké Kilowatty!

What else is there to say? I ran up Čantoryje (mountain) today and spent a great day in and outside our cottage.

I drive the car these days, you know. Only mom still seems unsure of my abilities.
I´ll go to bed in a minute, thinking about nothing hopefully. Blank state of mind. No worries...

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Saturday, December 09, 2006

Přijďte si nás poslechnout 10.01.2007 na Stodolní do klubu Boomerang


Jak hraju s Petrem Kotvaldem, pocitovým kytaristou, sympatickým perkusákem, hodnou klavíristkou, basákem, co rád čte noviny a seriózními smyčci








Thursday, December 07, 2006

Reinhold Messner - life of an actual hero

Reinhold Messner was born in 1944. He´s one of the most popular mountaineers on earth having reached the peak of all 14 mountains in the Himalayas over eight thousand meters high. He´s made over a hundred expeditions in various mountain ranges and deserts of our planet and has written 35 books about them. He has also stood on the North as well as on the South Pole, never wanting to break records like many adventurers these days.
Reinhold was born in the village called St.Peter located in the Vilnösser Tal valley – today´s north of Italy. He started climbing for two reasons: His father was a climber, and there was no football pitch or swimming pool to give out energy in the valley. The child conquered his first wall at the age of five, at that time with his father´s help, ´of course. But he soon beat him and took the sport as his. Later, when he was about thirteen, his brother – Günther and he became an inseparable pair in the heights. They explored the other parts of the Alps learning pretty quickly by watching already experienced guys and then did the same.
Shortly afterwards, the South-Tyrolean lost his beloved brother in a successful attempt to ascend Nanga Parbat. This somehow affected the rest of his life and he realized, he´d continue alone. His most remarkable act was definitely when he became the first human being to reach the top of Mount Everest without oxygen completely on his own in 1980. Talking of results in a mathematical sort of way, he also walked a two-thousand-kilometer-long track in Greenland and made an as long journey through the Gobi desert.
Nowadays, he´s establishing many so called mountain museums throughout Europe and contributing to European politics in his own straight manner. All in all, his books and activities in general will alway impress me like no one ever before.

Learn more about him e.g. at Nationalgeographic

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Je mi tak fajnie kapke smutno

Czaucie wszyscy, dzisio zech je tak szczynśliwy... Móm za sobóm jedyn z nejpienkiejszych weekendów mojigo zywota...
Ale jak zech był u babci z dziadziym na obiedzie napadło mnie, jaki to majóm dziadkowie smutne jak po wielki oslawie rodzina odejdzie a zostanie kupa nieumytych garców, bałagan w sypialni, papier od podarunków itd.
Dla nas wszystkich - dzieci i dorosłych - to u nich dóma je jak oaza, tam se mi zastawi czas a wogóle niemyślym na szkołe a to, ze nie naprzykład nie ścigóm. Strasznie se mi to tam podobo a dzisio zech tam jakosi chcioł zóstać o moc deli.

Dobranoc

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Jetzt möchte ich aber auf Deutsch schreiben!

Tja :-) Ich möchte ihnen erzählen wie es war als wir in Západní Tatry - Žiár waren.

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Der Wanderkurs im alten Wunderland

Jetzt aufstehen aber dann mochte ich laufen gehen, oder? Alle in unserem Zimmer schlafen, wenn ich mich umziehe. Draußen wird es noch kalt sein, deshalb trage ich meine Mütze.

Das Lager hat sich seit 1960 gar nicht verändert, denke ich. Die selbe Unterkunft in kleinen einfach eingerichteten Hütten, die selbe bunte Sportmöglichkeiten in der Umgebung und dieselben schönen Gipfel und Natur. (…)

Unsere erste Tour gefiel mir, aber später wurde mir schlecht. In der Nacht konnte ich kaum einschlafen und ging immer kotzen. Vielleicht war ich zu erschöpft, um fort zu gehen. Am nächsten Tag schlief ich fast bis zwei Uhr nachmittags. Dann fing ich an mich wieder an diese Berge zugewöhnen.

Zuerst musste ich das alles in meinem Kopf in Ordnung bringen. Für mich waren diese Schluchten und Felsen zu zeitlos. Sie standen hier rastlos und rücksichtslos seit tausende Jahren. Sie schweigen mit den Wolken und Wind wie ein tanzendes Ehepaar.

Endlich waren meine Verdauungsbeschwerden weg. Die letzte Tour war eigentlich eine wichtige Erfahrung. Ich fühlte mich besser. Wir bewegten uns als ob wir über den Pfad schwebten, irgendwo zwischen den Ketten und den blühenden Blumen. Alle wussten, dass wir jetzt wach bleiben müssen, trotz dieser Atemnot und Schweiß. Die sanften Weiden sahen wie ein Bett aus in dem ich mit den Gemsen und Murmelltieren über diese saubere Welt traumen könnte. Über das alte Wunderland, wo ich jetzt wandern kann.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

It has been a long time, hasn´t it?

Thanks to everyone that helped us do the show last night. I´m so happy with the band. It has always been a dream to me to play with musicians that are so good. I´m learning at every single rehersal with them. And a special thank you! to Honza Cienciala for organizing this great student-underground-event... (I hope he´s back home now safe and sound, recovering.)

Next rehersal: Sunday 08.10.2006, 14:00

By the way, have you heard of fair trade?
I´ve alway wondered about the thing Chris Martin has on the back of his piano, about the two little rectangles he paints on his hand. Check this out to see what he did and where he went in Ghana.
Next, I watched a crazy documentary about Bob Dylan , I´d really like to understand him and his approach to music someday. It seems that I´m still not ready...
I´ve got to go and bring the stuff up home from the garage where we put them at half past eleven last night when we arrived.

Bis bald :-)

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Prague is a beautiful city

I spent last weekend in the heart of Europe. I did visit Hanuš a Heřt and was indeed excited!
I toured the Jewish part of the town with my Spanish friend Pablo from Salamanca and had a drumming lesson with Otto Heinitz, one of the best drummers I´ve ever met. I also talked to my potential producer, but that´s a different story.

MY MUSIC IS FREE FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD on www.MySpace.com/CharlieStraight

my band name is Charlie Straight