the deadly swamps of sadness.

i am rewatching one of my childhood favorites "the neverending story" right now. i guess, around this time it was still ok to turn great books into movies and nobody complained. ;) or did they? however, i am enjoying this watch a lot and would like to share some of its great moments here:

Stone Eater!!

Don't let the sadness of the deadly swamps affect you!

I remember i was so afraid of this creature when i was little!

Can you scratch my ear, please, Atreyu?!

The slooooww talking and sneezing Morla!

I know you wanna watch it, too, now! i am also thinking about re-reading the book!

danse macabre.

ever since i've known the the tradition of halloween, i always wanted to disguise and walk around at night and celebrate. the fact that this day also happens to be my birthday makes it even more special. but this tradition only slowly slopped over to german realms, so halloween parties and costumes over here were always kind of lame to me and no one out of my circle of friends ever really felt the same fascination to join and celebrate. but! this year i found my halloween soulmate and right now i am already making plans for a costume. first i thought about dressing as a certain well known character, but i couldn't decide out of too many options, so i made some researches on the web and stumbled upon the term DIA DE LOS MUERTOS. i really love everything about the style and its possible to be a lot more creative and adjustable than with having chosen a certain character. so DIA DE LOS MUERTOS basically is a mexican tradition, celebrated from 31st of october to 2nd of november, similar to the halloween tradition and it looks like this:

so there is about one month time to plan and i already got some ideas. if everything works out as i imagine it, it's going to be awesome!

more inspiration and resources on my DIA DE LOS MUERTOS pinterest board.

matrimonium.

two friends of mine got married earlier this year in may. since their wedding took place with only the closest relatives, they wanted to celebrate once more with their friends. the idea was to have a bbq on the riverside, but since all summer long the weather was rather inappropriate, it already seemed to be cancelled. but september decided to overwhelm us with some more sunbeams, so last weekend we had the chance to gather for some munchtime in the evening sun. here are some impressions:

vessels.

i recently signed up with 8tracks.com a website where you can make online mixtapes. and i made two mixes already which is actually one mix split apart in two pieces, since you can only upload 8 tracks per mix, if you don't sign up for the paid version.* while mix one SOME✝HING ▲BOUT WI✝CHES is a bit darker mooded, mix two COSMIC G▲ZE is light fare. enjoy!

* that is a lie. i'm sorry. ;)

Apple Orchard Banana Cat Dance 8663

it's 17 days until the premiere of the new How I Met Your Mother Season (you might have noticed the countdown on the right) and this is a good occasion to show you the 10 reasons why i love this series so much. (ok, i know there are in fact a bazillion reasons why i love this show, but i thought i narrow it down to ten as some of you might already get bored about me talking about this show too much) it was quite a struggle with myself here, to name only ten. ;)

so here it comes. for more memorable awesomeness check this blog to find your favourites.
http://himymthings.tumblr.com/

p.s. i know the actor is called willem dafoe, but since i didn't make that blog i had no influence on the correct spelling.