relief.

Uhm, hi! So...I have been neglecting this place somewhat, due to lack of time. But I wanted to give you a little retrospective on the last 12 months, which were possibly the best I have yet witnessed. And I sure hope the awesomeness will continue in 2013! 

Like usual, I wanna start with a review on my favourite records of 2012. I remember that, in summer, I had rashly announced BEAR IN HEAVENs album "I love you, it's cool" as my favourite record of the year 2012. It kind of blew me away like nothing I had heard in along while and so I was sure there would be no other record that could possibly oust this release from the throne. But here comes the Mancunian (yes I had to google that, too) in to the game. Like with BEAR IN HEAVEN, I needed several attempts with HOLY OTHERs "Held" to get into the full spectrum of this – yes I might just call it a – masterpiece. And because it is often too hard to clothe my thoughts into words, I picked out a quote from Pitchforks review on "Held":

"Desire, neediness, vulnerability, fear, pleasure, and confusion are all laid bare. Held is a love album, a modern love album. Not love as aspirational fantasy but lived love, contradictory love-- the real love that stifles as much as it soothes."

With LEMONADEs "Diver" I (re-)discovered my love for synth-pop in the vein of ZOOT WOMAN. I fell in love with tracks like "Neptune" "Vivid" and especially "Whitecaps". There is actually not one flaw on this release full of pop gems. And with the last two records I am still quite surprised as I never got along before, with their previous releases. I think the gates to HOW TO DRESS WELL opened a little with the collaboration on ACTIVE CHILDs 2011 release "You Are All I See" which was, if you remember, one of my favourite albums in 2011. In hindsight, I am very happy that I finally got access to this artists world, since his concert in Munich on the night before my birthday was one of the best experiences in 2012. And with GRIZZLY BEAR I am even more surprised, because on the one hand, it is actually one of the few non-electronic albums I listened to this year, and on the other hand, similar to HOW TO DRESS WELL, I never really liked this band before "Shields". Therefore I am still convinced that the older you grow, the more open you become to several stiles of music and I am looking forward to all the stuff I have to explore, yet. 

Below, you can see some more releases I enjoyed this year, warm-heartedly recommend to everyone who is open for something new and more or less unexplored.

But we're not done here, yet. I imposed myself with the merely impossible task to sum up this year in music by picking out 12 of my favourite songs. By all means, there are lots more than just 12 of them, but here we go:

1) HOLY OTHER_NOTHING HERE

Unconditional love.

2) WIFE_BODIES

When you get a personal recommendation from your current favourite artist, chances are high, that you dig it. But I completely fell in love with this song from the very first listen.

3) BEAR IN HEAVEN_THE REFLECTION OF YOU
This song had almost been ruined to me by a person. But fortunately I don't let people do this to me anymore.

4) TWIGS_ACHE
What the title says.

5) LEMONADE_WHITECAPS
The one song I desperately wanted to dance to in a club last year. But never had been given the chance to. And I love love love the drums in this one.

6) JOHN TALABOT_ORO Y SANGRE
If 16 wouldn't be such an odd number* when it comes to making best of lists, you would probably see John Talabots "Fin" up above. And: there should really be more songs with screams in them.

7) PURITY RING_OBEDEAR
Oh, look! It's a video from the concert in Munich. Nevermind the bass, though.

8) o F F LOVE_BE AROUND YOU
I still remember how it stunned me, the first time I listened to it. And it still does, today.

9) HOW TO DRESS WELL_STRUGGLE
Probably the most intense live performance from last year.

10) GRIMES_GENESIS
It took a very long time with us, Claire and me. But this song made me fall in love with her. Unfortunately, she did not show up, when we were supposed to have a date last november. Bitch.

11) ¥OIN_TIRED OF ME
This song introduced me to future garage. Thank you very much, song!

12) STAY+_DANDELION SEED
Because we did not have enough weird videos in this list, yet. But serioulsy though, I love the song.


And how about those concerts I visited in 2012. These were my favourite ones:
ACTIVE CHILD - 28th Feb - Atomic Café - Munich
Pure bliss. That is all.
M83 - 5th Mar - Theaterfabrik - Munich
I still think I was the one person in the audience who had the most fun.
BEAR IN HEAVEN - 5th June - KONG -
Munich So the sound wasn't perfect, as I recall, but still these guys were superawesome.
OTHER LIVES - 25th July - Kranhalle - Munich
Those peeps made me want to join a band and stand on a stage myself.
SPRING OFFENSIVE - 18th Oct - Orangehouse - Munich
Unexpected. Intense. Stunning.
HOW TO DRESS WELL - 30th Oct - Kranhalle - Munich
Heartbreaking.
HOLY OTHER/BEACH HOUSE - 14th Nov - Hansa39 - Munich
If only there wasn't the audience. But then again..I had a really great night.
PURITY RING - 15th Nov - Hansa39 - Munich
Best atmosphere.

Also, every time I had the chance to see Carlos play live. Always amazing.



Ok, three more categories, and you're through, I promise.

So what about cinematography in 2012? I must admit, I probably haven't seen too many relevant movies that were released last year, to make a proper judgement. But still I doubt that any movie I didn't choose to watch (for reasons) would be better than the one favourite movie I chose. And this would be:

Michael Haneke has been one of my favourite filmmakers for quite a while. And I was very much lucking forward to see this one. It is one of those movies, that employs your mind for longer than a day, after having watched it.

Other movies from 2012 I enjoyed a lot:

PROMETHEUS
CHRONICLE
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
LOOPER
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
PARANORMAN
SHAME
and of course
THE HUNGER GAMES

and then there were TV shows of course. And one which was pretty outstanding. My favourite show this year comes as a real surprise mostly for myself, since I didn't enjoy the prior season that much. I am talking about:

The current season hasn't even ended, yet. In fact, as you might know, they split the season in two parts and expected viewers to put up with this terribly long latency. Damn you! And as if this is not enough, they ended the first part of the season with the most terrible cliffhanger!

And last but not least. My favourite book, released in 2012. What else would it be than this one:

I don't think I need to say more about this. I don't even know if there will ever be another book that will mean as much to me (and probably lots of other people) than this one. Seriously.


As usual, when encountering my dear followers with epic posts like this one, I thank you very much for  your attention! Stay tuned, I am will try to keep this thing here alive! :)

*I know 16 is not an odd number. In fact it is the opposite of it. But YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, RIIIGGHT!?! D'UHH

amiable.

So last night I met John Green.

What a wonderful and kind person he is. 

Thank you for putting the most powerful and overwhelming thoughts on paper. 

life, according to plan.

Okay, peeps. I think it's finally time for that huge announcement, I've been hoping to do for a while now. I will start a new job in November with a very amazing and impressive company and to say I am very much looking forward to this is a big understatement. On friday, right on time for the weekend, I've been given a firm offer, after being interviewed three times (I guess they wanna be super certain, about who they want to work with). The funny thing about this is, that I was being introduced to the job offer via Xing, so yeah, you can probably count me to one of the few people who found their new profession via Xing. And you guys know how much I love the internet, and the fact, that it now provided me with a new job is just super incredible! 

Okay, lots of exaggerations in this post, huh? But the awesomeness proceeds as I am going to meet one of the coolest people in the world in less than a week. On friday, 14th of September, here in Munich, there is going to be an introduction to the german release of "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green, which I already described as one of the most impressive and affecting books I have ever read. (if not THE most..) and the author himself will be there and I am sooo excited! 

I also made myself an early birthday present, and purchased this amazing box set (thanks to credit cards, I was able to buy it on Amazon.com since it's only available in the US.)

www.amazon.com

I know I already own "Looking for Alaska" and "The Fault in Our Stars" but I might aswell sell my previous editions. Both of those books are also signed by Mr. Green. And I still don't own "Paper Towns" and "An Abundance of Katherines". And the price is just super appealing to NOT wanna buy this! 

hexagons.

What an exhausting but awesome weekend that was! I had been looking forward to this for a while. Been excited since the day I heard of munich's light installation artists from Lunaland, planning their anniversary party in a special location, a factory where sleeping cars once had been built. (Among these, the famous Orient Express!) And I shrieked a little when I heard that ESBEN AND THE WITCH would be the headlining act to play on friday night. Some of you might remember that I declared their gig last year at Atomic Café in Munich as concert of the year.  And with this kind of venue and all the light effects I wouldn't have been surprised if that concert would be even better.

Another surprise was, that the band played lots of new tunes for the first time ever. There were three more bands this evening, all more or less from the shoegazer faction, but my attention was rather limited to EATW, I have to confess. 

While friday was pleasure for your ears, saturday was dedicated to the visuals senses. Next to two dancefloors there where lots of exhibitions by several local artists in the different parts of the factory. Among these were some psychologists who introduced a light therapy that was supposed to dissemble the perceptions of a mind under the influence of LSD. I tried an innocuous demo of 2 minutes (on friday), but I thought it was rather unspectacular. I wanted to try the longer and more intense version a day later, but the room was flooded with people and I couldn't imagine all of them watching while making this new experience. All in all I thought it was more amazing to watch, then to actually sit on the chair and have this extremely bright and flickering stroboscobic-like light on your eyes. And watching other people sitting there with that light just felt like you are right inside of a Lynch movie. Crazy shit. 

On sunday it was time for some music again. A little bit more quiet, this time. The team from innen.außen.raum invited three solo musicians, Woodpigeon from Canada, Halo of Pendor from the Netherlands (former Sweden) and dear Carlos Cipa from Munich. Carlos opened the evening with a simultaneous record release party and was stunned when people asked him to sign their copies. I also thought it was kinda sweet that his parents came to see him play. 

Then the swedish (dutch...whatever) guy played his sad songs, and messed up a little, with his loops but it was pretty easy to forgive him due to his cuteness. ;)

And the canadian guy was a little tired, and I still don't know why he kept checking his iPhone after every song, either was he checking the results of the football game that was running at the same time the concert took place, or he had his setlist on his phone, I dunno, but it didn't make a good impression.

Anywho! Here are some impressions of the weekend. If you weren't there you are probably a square, but at least you can imagine what you were missing! :P

To see more and fullsized images check this. All the images tagged with lunastrom10 are relevant.

amongster.

So that was may, yay. I'm gonna throw you some sentences to sum up the events that highlighted my days and nights in the merry month of may.  Some flattering scoldings were showered at me. A weird guy from Los Angeles shook my hand for what felt an eternity. I finally bought a new bookshelf for the  countless books that flew around my bedroom, and I made my first Facebook-Page. It already counts an outrageous number of fans (that would be 5, so much for the loyalty of your friends, pah!)!! So be quick and like it if you, too, want Ryan Gosling to play the part of the irresistible Johnny Castle in the remake of Dirty Dancy, which will be released in 2013, I guess. And I know, you want it. And because you might not be able to picture him as Johnny, foresightful as I am, I made a little photo-manip for you, so you will be convinced, immediately. (Oh gawd, did I really name that URL goslinggoesdirty?)

Ok, enough of the shenanigans. I didn't really consume much media this month, at least not many movies lighted my homescreen, nor did I set foot in a cinema, this month. But let's start with the books I read this month. I read a lot in my mother tongue, since I hauled some german books from a second-hand book store at the end of last month. 

THE BOOKS I HAVE READ:

SE RÉSOUDRE AUX ADIUEX (Ein Abschied) by PHILIPPE BESSON

This book was actually a very spontaneous purchase. It tells the story of a woman who is left by her lover, and devastated as she is, she starts writing letters to him while she travels the world trying to escape the city in which they spent so much time together. And what can I say, this book literally spoke    from my heart with all it's allegations and self-doubts, the more astounded I am, that this book actually wasn't even written by a woman, but I am probably just to swayed by stereotypes. But I enjoyed this read a lot. (4/5)

UND IM ZWEIFEL FÜR DICH SELBST by ELISABETH RANK

A book by a native german author, so no english title here. I planned to read this one for a while now. I thought I could identify myself pretty well with the story she tells, since the author and I share the year of our birth. But I had my troubles to really sense the emotion here. Reading a book about a fatal accident of a loved one, might make you think, it shouldn't be to hard to get emotionally involved. But  I guess it was just the style of writing that made it somewhat hard for me. (3/5)

THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS by PAOLO GIORDANO

Ugh, italians..haha. Sorry. But I recently saw the screen adaption of this book, and it was...I really don't know, but I felt like all the important details were put aside and the filmmakers just made a completely new story. But back to the book. The storyline sounded pretty interesting. The lives of two teenagers who suffered major strokes in their childhoods, get mixed together and both of them, as much as they need each other, just can't find their way together, both rather preferring solitude than to risk something. Anyways, I wish the author wouldn't have skipped so much through the years, so I felt like some important things happening in between were missing (almost like in the movie, haha...well actually not THAT disastrous). (3/5) 

INSURGENT by VERONICA ROTH

The follow-up to the first book of the DIVERGENT book trilogy. I think I didn't write about the first one, but I would say this is a pretty satisfying quality dystopian book series comparable to THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy, but yet a totally different and unique world. INSURGENT is in no way inferior to DIVERGENT and just as exciting and suspenseful. (4/5)

THE MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED:

 

HELL

Hell as in hell like the german word for bright. But it might as well be an allegory to the devil's hell, since the sun is burning so bright, that it is almost impossible to stay in the sunlight during the day,  and also the hell that people might face, in a post-apocalyptic world where the phrase "an eye for an eye" applies. But why am I actually putting so much effort in this short review. The movie was shite.  There you go. Haha. (3/10)

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

Well, this movie certainly was something for the eyes. Even the opening credits were a little movie themselves, haha. I think, James Bond and Ms. Mara made a good team on this american movie adaption. Of course it had much more suspense than the swedish original, but I was constantly asking my friends, with whom I watched this movie together and didn't read the book, if they were actually able to follow the movie. Even I had my problems to recall everything from the books I read one and a half years ago. I can't imagine how confusing it must be for a person who didn't already know all the secondary characters and their relevance. I think, this could have been done much better, and already has been done better in the swedish version. Nevertheless I like the movie quite much. (7/10)

INTO THE WILD

Ugh, THAT GUY. If it wasn't so sad, because it's based on a true story, I would have laughed all the time. Just go out in the wild with NO experience at all and get yourself...in trouble. I also might not share the same desire for adventures and freedom, because I like it safe and sound, so I didn't enjoy the movie as much as a kindred soul probably would have. (7/10)

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS

Say what you want but this movie was so full of AWESOME. I lol'd a lot. (10/10)

LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS

Another guilty pleasure which actually wasn't really a pleasure since I found out during watching the movie, that I don't really like Anne Hathaway. Jake Gyllenhaal was quite charming yes, but I still like him the best as the awesome Donnie Darko. (6/10)

new arrival.

i love 'em!

okay.

Oopsie, already a little late, am I? So what happened in the month of showers, besides...uhm..showers?

In a city, or rather a whole country of precaution, mistrust and paranoia (and unfortunately all these characteristics are a big part of my own personality) I was recognized and approached by a stranger, and not a drunken idiot mistaking me for a boy (oh, yes that happened) or a lusty old man...but by a like-minded individual!

But April also was a month of mobile phone apps. Next to instagram - which, after one and a half years of its apple exclusive existense, finally got released for the Android world - I was literally drawn to Drawsomething. Chances are good I might do an extra post about my favourite drawings!

Alright let's get right to the consumed goods of April 2012:

MUSIC DISCOVERY OF THE MONTH:

THE BOOKS I HAVE READ:

COLLISION by STEFNE MILLER

This one was a present by a dear friend, and I was a bit confused in the beginning, because of the mention of that shady organisation called The Invisible Children. Part of the book also takes place in Uganda, but as I continued reading, I was relieved, that this was not a missionary book at all, but  a story about two very different characters whose personalities first collide and then grow slowly towards something big and special. What I really liked about this book, and what made me rate it with the highest score was the narration style of the author and the way she put so much life into a story, I didn't at all think, I would be interested in. Well done. (5/5)

THE SCORCH TRIALS by JAMES DASHNER

The second book of the Maze Runner trilogy (I wrote about the first part in the March review) is packed full of tension and cliffhangers as the first one was. Until the last pages of the book you are not sure wether to trust this certain person that is literally mentioned as "the betrayer". And that kept me  just as riveted like it was with the first book. Nevertheless, all the why and who and what for questions still stay unanswered and I keep thinking, the third book better comes up with a conceivable explanation.  (4/5)

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by JOHN GREEN

There should be only one sentence about this one. Best book ever. But as hyperbolical as it may sound, this wouldn't even make the grade. Oh, all the praise I think I am not even able to put into words. I already mentioned it some place else: I'd love to buy a dozen copies of this book and give it to every single one of my friends, so they won't miss this magnificent experience. I absolutely loved the sense of humor among these tragic figures. Two weeks passed after reading this book and I still miss Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters like they were my own friends. Perfect, perfect, perfect! 

(6/5 just because..)

WITHER by LAUREN DeSTEFANO

I must admit, it's probably not very easy for a follow up, after having read an amazing book as TFIOS. I thought about waiting for a week to start with the next book, but I had so many books I wanted to check out and the list isn't getting shorter. So I picked Wither right away and it was an easy read, dystopian themed again, but I just didn't find a way to sympathize with the main character, and the quite undeveloped storyline of humans not growing older than a quarter century, because of nasty genetical experiments committed their ancestors, was well...nothing really new and spectacular. (2/5)

THE MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED:

KING OF DEVIL'S ISLAND

A norwegian movie about a reformatory school in that existed in the 19th century. A very congenial main character who has a big influence on his fellow inmates who unlike him, seemed to have already accepted their fate with abusive and relentless wardens. (7/10)

TOMBOY

A story about a girl who wants to be a boy. Sensitively realized. I was especially impressed by the role of Laure's little sister.  (7.5/10)

UN PROPHÈTE

A very raw and rough impression about a young kid that seems to be born into a life that can only be delinquent and still he is trying to find his way out of it. Very intense, but worth watching. (8.5/10)

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE

An interesting storyline about escapism and brainwash, I thought, but I believe the filmmakers could have made more out of it. And yes, the end was a little confusing. (6.5/10)

LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES

I was stunned to hear, that, Xavier Dolan, playing the main character in this movie, also directed it. Friggin' 23 years old, he is! Say whaaat? I had my difficulties in the beginning, but liked it more and more towards the end. This movie is giving me the feeling that I am not alone with my doubts. (8.5/10)

RESTLESS

Once again a very good job by Mia Wasikowska, reminded me a lot to the story of John Greens "The Fault in Our Stars" but didn't touch me as much. (7/10)

CRACKS

A story about stubborn boarding school girls that envy their new classmate from spain, who seemed to have much more life experience than they could collect while being locked behind the borders of their school. Oh yeah, and Eva Green plays a role, too. (6.5/10)

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

Ugh, I dunno, I thought this one was just reeeally ridiculous. Why do filmmakers always add the  character of the evil Nazi-villain to their stories? And Kevin Bacon talking german..being a native speaker, I didn't understand half of what he said. And Michael Fassbender...uhm bending that huge satellite receiver..? ughh.. (6.0/10)

AMERICAN BEAUTY

So apparantly I missed this classic. Very good acting by Kevin Spacey. But I have to admit, the main reason why I decided to watch the movie, was Wes Bentley...yeaahh..I know.. (8/10)

EASY A

Well..you just gotta like Emma Stone and her quirkiness. Cute movie, and her parents were just as adorable. (6.5/10)

excuse me...

...while i am enjoying this awesome book. 

bookscapes.

Back to awesome, muchachos! I am still a bit snuffy but  bad weeds grow tall, you know. Today I found this awesome artist called GUY LARAMEE who carves landscapes into books. Hard to imagine, right? I thought so, that's why I wanted to share some pictures with you. 

That's some amazing shit, right? Find more pictures here.

raconte-moi une histoire.

It is the end of the year and time to look back to what treasures 2011 brought to us. today I will start with the musical treats and the following weeks I will enlighten you with my favourite movies, tv series and books of 2011. all in all, I can already say that it was a fruitful year from every point of view!

So here i'll display my favourite records of the year, music from 2010 i listened to a lot this year, and music from artists i expected a lot of, but got a bit disappointed. those i put on the wall of shame. ;)

Some words about the records:

AUSTRA :: Feel it break

With her unique voice Katie Stelmanis, together with her canadian mates, creates something very new, something i haven't heard in that way. This is exactly what i need, and I also think this is the reason why they grew so big in such a short time. I love how they combine dark melodies with catchy pop tunes and still don't sound ordinary. For me this was without doubt the best record of the year.

ACTIVE CHILD :: You are all I see

This one took a while for me to like as a whole record. In the beginning I only picked out several outstanding songs, but listened to them excessively. But meanwhile I learnt to love the whole record, especially "Playing House" that features "How To Dress Well". I thought it was so cheesy, but now I love it! The term "unique" also fits very well with what Pat Grossi and his friends create under the name "Active Child".

WYE OAK :: Civilian

It is incredible how much warmth this record, ney, this band, delivers, with every one of their records, imagining they only consist of two people. But here, too, i needed some time to get used to the sound. I think it is edgier than the ancestor, whose songs harmonised a lot better. But with every listen I learnt to love this release as well. On stage, the band showed a very congenial character.

WILD BEASTS :: Smother

Another almost classical falsetto voice just like Pat Grossi from Active Child. Not many people like this, I can comprehend. But this album shows so much passion that it really grew on me. I would love to see them play live, but haven't had the chance, yet since they didn't play in Munich this year. For shame! 

ZOLA JESUS :: Conatus

Last year I got into Zola Jesus via NME marking her as an artist to be watched for 2011 (or something like that) putting her on a sampler with 49 other artists, and for me she was outstanding and I wanted to hear more from her. But then i saw the video for "Night" which is still an incredible song, but for me it was so embarrassing serving all the stereotypes of gothic music. So I left that EP behind. And this year Nika is back with her new full album and I decide to give her a new chance, and that was a really good decision. The album is catchier than her first releases which had a much edgier sound but for me, writing catchy tunes seems a lot more difficult than just to create something that most people would find hard to listen to. 

About the WALL OF SHAME: None of these albums are really bad. But as i mentioned i expected a lot, for example the M83 record. In my opinion everything above 12 tracks is too much for a long player record. And Mr. Anthony Gonzalez just overdid it. Besides "Midnight City" there is no other track that pokes out, but at least this guy never runs out of ideas when it comes to naming his songs, haha. Nevertheless I am very much looking forward to the concert he will be playing in March next year, here in Munich. 

My 10 favourite tracks this year are:

01.AUSTRA :: The Beat And The Pulse 02. ACTIVE CHILD :: Johnny Belinda 03. UNISON :: Intimacy 04. LIGHT ASYLUM :: Dark Allies 05. WYE OAK :: Civilian 06. M83 :: Mighnight City 07. WILD BEASTS :: Albatross 08. BON IVER :: Perth 09. KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS :: Running Out Of You 10. JAMES BLAKE :: Limit To Your Love

Usually I don't pay that much attention to remixes, but this year some of them really got me, and some of them were even better, than the original versions. These are my favourites:

01. ADELE :: Rolling In The Deep (Deathstar Remix feat. MartyParty & Minnesota)

02. ACTIVE CHILD :: Hanging On (White Sea Remix) 

03. Lady Gaga :: Yoü And I (Wild Beasts Remix)

And then, of course, there were some concerts. Not many as usual, in Munich, but some memorable gigs were among them like Wye Oak or Austra whom, in fact,  I have seen twice this year, but the most special two concerts were EVENING HYMNS playing a secret gig for Hauskonzerte.com , there were maybe 30 people (i'm so bad at valuation) in an abandoned house and so it was quite intimate and intense but see for yourself  and then there were ESBEN AND THE WITCH, with probably the same number of attendies, which was in one way a shame, of course, but in the other, it is kinda nice if a concert isn't that crowded. However, the atmosphere was amazing, it was all dark, just a few lights standing on the bottom of the stage and when Rachel Davies started to play that drum I got totally lost. (Unfortunately the quality isn't thaat good, but it kinda delivers what i mean) 

Thank you for your attention, ladies and gentleman. And no, the other "best of" entries won't be about the size of a Tolstoy novel.

for the record, so I won't get sued: I used this and  some of this for the collage.

purrrfection.

EVERYTHING IS BARNEY AND ROBIN AND NOTHING HURTS.

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

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!

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.

gems.

AUSTRA! AUSTRA! AUSTRA! AUSTRA!

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT







splendid!

unfinished.

i guess i want this as a print in my room.

via weheartit.com


(not as much as i want to be a part of their group)

and by the way, i am waiting for the next episode, gaaaawd!