solace.

week 47 - 21/11/11-27/11/11

I SAW :: *cough* Breaking Dawn *cough* 

I HEARD :: gave a second chance to HOW TO DRESS WELL

I READ ::  John Green's LOOKING FOR ALASKA

I ATE :: Falafel

I DRANK :: Jasmine/Hibiscus Bubble Tea

I THOUGHT :: our new intern is a very interesting person

I LIKED :: that i passed the final exam, yay!

I DISLIKED :: Breaking Dawn...horrible

I PLANNED :: to travel more, next year

I BOUGHT ::  a lot of chocolate (because...you know...winter is coming!)

I CLICKED :: http://cottonandcurls.blogspot.com/

tamer animals.

I fell madly in love with this. I got the recommendation the day they played live in Munich and I already had other plans, now I wish i could have seen them.

 

thanks to katie, for sharing this with me.

our own dream.

Cute. Over. Load.

 
Keep Shelly in Athens VS ABADABAD // California Birds from Feel Good Lost on Vimeo.


For me, the discovery of KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS is sort of a compensation to the somewhat
disappointing M83 record that dropped out this year. check out their other stuff!

conatus.

week 46 - 14/11/11-20/11/11

I SAW :: WEEKEND by Andrew Haigh 

I HEARD :: on stage: ZOLA JESUS! off stage: Other Lives

I READ ::  The Guidelines for my (hopefully) new side job

I ATE :: Burrito at Tacco Libre

I DRANK :: a lot of Jasmine Green Tea

I THOUGHT :: it's sad that gay movies mostly only have a limited audience = gay people.

I LIKED :: that bubble bath by Dresdner Essenz

I DISLIKED :: getting ripped off by my poker mates. : (

I HOPED :: i would pass the exams for my new side job

I PLANNED :: an ice-skating evening with my friends.

I BOUGHT :: no books this week, and actually nothing else, in particular. 

I CLICKED :: 63 Reasons Why Bradley Cooper Definitely Isn't The Sexiest Man Alive

white pony.

dear followers. nostalgia music week comes to an end and it's crowned with a song by the band that had the most influence on my youth. a band that still gives me shivers whilst listening to their music after such a long time. ten years ago a band called DEFTONES released an album called "WHITE PONY" and to me it's the most wonderful, dynamic, disturbing and frightening piece of music i have ever witnessed. true story.

[A -> B] Life

Ladies and Gentlemen, today we actually have a real music video. Enjoy MEWITHOUTYOU!




get excited! because tomorrow the pinnacle of "nostalgia music week" will be revealed!

weekend.

Good to know, that there are still movies, that don't need no massive visual effects, no wagner opus, and still can be convincing. Thank you Andrew Haigh for this splendid movie.

www.quinnfordandscout.eu/

false cathedrals.

This was a tough choice today. My first thought was Coheed and Cambria. But try to find some songs on youtube by a well known band and GEMA will cut your plans. The next band I think about is Criteria. But Criteria is not really a helpful bandname if you are searching for their music. So my choice today is ELLIOTT. Enjoy!

nap on the bow.

week 45 - 07/11/11-13/11/11

I SAW :: THE FUTURE by Miranda July

I HEARD :: on stage: The Rapture, Evening Hymns & Timber Timbre // off stage: New Look!!

I READ ::  The Walking Dead - Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore

I ATE :: that tasty Quiche Ricarda brought me today!

I DRANK :: Roast Apple Tea

I THOUGHT :: i want to travel home with my kindergardenfriend Mia and visit the places where we spent our childhood/youth.

I LIKED :: this weeks episode of "How I Met Your Mother". No, actually I LOVED IT!!

I DISLIKED :: the condition in which "HABIBI" arrived! FUUUU Amazon!!! 

I HOPED :: that I would find some more time/discipline for the the gym, but i am pretty well occupied with going out almost every day of the week. which is nothing negative, of course. 

I PLANNED :: finally a new poker game edition with some friends.  

I BOUGHT :: 5 more books. i'm crazy i know, but the prices where..i just couldn't..!

I CLICKED :: http://caticorns.blogspot.com/

thriller.

welcome to nostalgic music day #4.

oh jonah...

relationship of command.

Today i want to remember to a band I discovered when they already had split up. AT THE DRIVE-IN. I must have listened to RELATIONSHIP OF COMMAND a bazillion times and i never grew tired of it. Here is "Quarantined".

 

two conversations.

on the second day of nostalgic week I want to pay homage to THE APPLESEED CAST. More specificly to that outstanding release called TWO CONVERSATIONS.

this song. breathtaking.

who will survive and what will be left of them?

I just decided it is nostalgic week. i'll bury some music treasures for the following seven days. 

Today I'll start with MURDER BY DEATH. I just re-listened the whole "Who will survive and what will be left of them?" album and every song on this record is a friggin hit!

i could also imagine, that at the end of this week, there will be a sampler with the chosen songs on 8tracks.

purrrfection.

EVERYTHING IS BARNEY AND ROBIN AND NOTHING HURTS.

belispeak

to have some more regular entries i decided to snitch someone else's idea, which i think is quite nice.

cara from thelinesbetween posts a review on every week, and i am going to start with some thoughts on the last week. here is an example of her review.

week 44 - 31/10/11-06/11/11

I SAW :: pirates of the carribean 4, haha!

I HEARD :: a lot of ACTIVE CHILD (obsession alertt!) and discovered BLOUSE

I READ :: "Across the Universe" by Beth Revis

I ATE :: a cake called "Scheiterhaufen" (stake), Oreo Cheesecake, Carrot Cake muffins and Sugar Skull cookies, oh my! But it was the birthday week, so thats ok. 

I DRANK :: Rum Cola

I THOUGHT :: this years autumn is actually nicer than this years summer

I LIKED :: willi's birthday call ♥

I DISLIKED :: that i was to late for november's glossybox. 

I HOPED :: the birthday party would be nice, but instead it was awesome!

I PLANNED :: that i'll spend this christmas with two lovely cats, again.  

I BOUGHT :: a new bag from the fleamarket (backpack) and a lot of presents

I CLICKED :: Neil Patrick Harris & Family in their Halloween Costumes!

let's see if i can keep this going.

i was in the future, yesterday.

I am currently reading this book by Beth Revis called "Across the Universe".

It tells the story of a girl who, together with her mom and dad, gets frozen and put on board of a spaceship called "godspeed" in order to travel for 300 years to a yet unexplored planet, since it will soon be impossible to go on living on planet Earth. But after 250 years she is accidently woken up too early and is faced to living 50 more years on the spaceship before her parents (scientists who are essential for the development of the future civilization on the new planet) are going to be unfrozen. I have read one third of the book, yet and it is surprisingly tense. I assumed it would be cheesy since there is going to be a romance involved. Well, some days ago i discovered the music of BLOUSE, a dream pop band with an 80ies sound who wrote a song called time travel and it fits perfectly to that science fiction topic, which i actually never thought i would enjoy. here's a glimpse of BLOUSE's sound with said song:

presents.

i also wanted to show you the prezzies i got for my birthday. some cool stuff among it!!

crazy ricarda, for example, not only baked some awesome sugar skull cookies (corresponding to the dia de los muertos themed costumes) and rose carrot cake cupcakes, she also managed to obtain a screen print from craig thompson's newest graphic novel "habibi" (which i still do not own, yet, due to a lack of money). my kindergarden friend mia gave me a cute owlish rubber stamp, and so my owl collection expands. also yoko and bernd know me pretty well, so they surprised me with a lip balm hidden in an owl costume. the cool thing about it is, that you can still use the owly as decoration after the lip balm is consumed. and then there are books. and there are books, yet to come! (like habibi) but first some words about these. from my eldery housemate i got a book called "the art of classy impoverishing". i'm not sure if i can still learn something, as i am already classy impoverished, haha. i myself bought two books from the very innovative money present my parents transferred to my bank account. the first one is patrick ness' "a monster calls" i have high expectations to this one, and the way it is illustrated is already pleasing my eyes, big time! can't wait to read it, but i still have to finish another book, before. the second book is "looking for alaska" from john green. this one also has been recommended to me a lot. so i expect something great on this one, too. lots of stuff i can fill my time with, on the forthcoming winter! thanks for all the nice stuff!

creatures of the night.

it was the best night eeeever! *

thank you for an awesome evening! 

pictures taken by Ricarda Klinkow and Yoko Miura

* Marshall Erikson