Thanks to everybody who kept his/her fingers crossed! palemoonsdream 's surgery went well, and he's feeling as good as one can feel after tonsil operation and sends his hugs to everybody on the friendslist!

By browings for a CD to listen to while cooking, I stumbled over a pretty underrated Smashing Pumpkins Album, Judas O. Haven't heard that in years, and this song is stuck in my mind ever since.
Though it's pretty dark...saturnine, of course...I am not in a bad mood, should you wonder. I enjoy only having one big task ahead instead of ...I dunno how many ;) And I'm in a retro mood *g* Watched the new Harry Potter movie yesterday, and now listen to the music that kept me going when I was a teenager ;)

It's almost the end of what some people might call "spring break" :P and I'm through with the two papers and the bloc seminar. So next week the next semester will start, and I'm very much looking forward to another "Children and Young Adult's Fiction in Germany from World War II to the Present" seminar and one about - this is so freaking cool - "How stories are told in Computer Games". There's also one about kinda trashy "Heimatfilme" (sentimental films with regional backgrounds, most of them from the 50s and 60s) which I took chiefly because it's so trashy and because another student asked me to accompany her there *g*.

I'm also getting started with research for my final BA paper and spent the morning going through speeches and letters of the Parteifunktionäre (I'm sorry I have no idea how this is translated...it's basically a politician) of the early communist and socialist party of Germany (around 1900), reading up on their opinions about how socialist children's literature ought to be written. Very interesting, but kinda tough to read.

We're also planning our vacation. I can't wait to journey about again, I love to see foreign countries and people. This year it'll be the UK, twice: once in summer, a caravaning tour through England, Wales and Scotland, and then on Halloween, we'll visit a Joss Whedon Convention called Hallowhedon in London. Whee I'm excited :)

hope you don't hate me for not posting anything interesting for ages and then just coming up with another quiz :P but I liked this one a lot





I might as well give you a short update.

I'm currently working at a so-called "Hausarbeit" which is an academic paper of roughly 12 pages. Since the Seminar was rather boring, I tried hard to find an interesting topic that's somehow related to the Seminar (The Motive of the greek legend "Amphitryon" in the European literatures, mostly Heinrich von Kleist because he's german) and -tadaa!- I found a topic which nobody has so far written about (a short piece called "God's Gift", an Irish adaption of Kleist's "Amphitryon"). It's thrilling to do something completely new, almost like treasure hunting, but then again, there are these frustrating moments when you simply find NO information because, as I said, nobody has written about it so far. So I'm working with primary sources at the moment and this can be kind of hard sometimes, but it's still interesting and I make enough progress to be happy with myself.

Hmm...what else...I spent quite a lot of my spare time at the doctor's, because one infection led to another led to another...and then my ear started making funny noises...but right now it seems that I'm actually healthy, yay me! Let's hope it stays that way.

Everything's fine on the emotional sector, although I cannot spend enough time with cuteeevee , and feel sorry for that. I should get more organized...or better, get used to organizing relationships.

Hmm...what else...couldn't find the time for any creative output lately, although I had an idea for a short novel last week. It's still in the "stay-in-the-head-until-it's-colorful-enough-to-be-written-down" kind of state. But I booked another bellydance course for the next five weeks and its more fun every time I do it^^ makes me feel good.

The update wasn't that short, after all^^ Well, off to work I go. Have a nice day!

a quiz i stole from marcyleecorgan :

Your result for Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test...

Linguistic

18% Logical, 22% Spatial, 78% Linguistic, 20% Intrapersonal, 24% Interpersonal, 33% Musical, 12% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 37% Naturalistic!

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Yesterday, I spent a beautiful sunny day in Poland, at the shore of the baltic sea. In fact ,I liked the place so much that I am thinking of spending a few holidays there in late summer - the place still got the certain "ostblock"-charme germany has long lost ( no wonder), and prices are still very cheap ( about 10 Euros per day for a room), and still it's just a 3-hour train ride from Berlin. Still, you have the impression that you're on holiday, because of the foreign language. We'll see...anyway, it's a very beautiful cozy place, and I'm definitely going to go there again, no matter when.
Now I will do a bit of writing for University, and around noon, my mum will come again. She wants to take me on a shopping tour - well, why not. I could use a few new clothes.

Serenity = "heitere Gemütsruhe"

Yes I have to admit, I stumbled into another fandom ;) For everyone who hasn't done so yet, go watch "firefly" and the movie "serenity", you won't regret it.
But Serenity pretty much describes my mood right now. A mixture of Serenity and Desire ( yes, the capital letters are supposed to be there).

Semester's over. Busiest so far. I started my apprenticeship in the children's book store/publishing house/ art gallery on monday. It's great fun, although there's not so much to do right now, but the owners promised me I will be given an own project ( contacting schools and selling our books to them) as soon as I got into the job a little more.
I spent the last two days writing....oooh how I missed it. I'm attending this "non-fiction writing seminar" at university, but it's so much more than that. You don't even have to write non-fiction, but I chose to do so. I'm on a project about popculture inside and outside World of Warcraft. There's so much good energy in all the people, especially in the women who teaches. I feel as if I was a child again, struck in wonder about how great and beautiful and strange and painful this world is, if you just LOOK close enough. Fantastic. And I actually LIKE the stuff I write in there! Great. I hope very much that our ambitous plan to form a "writer's club" after the Seminar's over ( tomorrow *weep*) will not be forgotten, but since I know the people quite well already and would keep contact with them anyway, chances are not too bad. I find that my writing improves very much if I get direct feedback from people who write, too. you can never appreciate honest feedback appropriately. We might even start an english writer's club, since a friend of mine, who's from africa, was looking for people to write with ( and her german's not too good), and some of the people in the seminar (including me) write english fiction.
Life would be perfect if only the person I miss so much right now would be here.

Yay me! I finally got an internship. I'll be working in a small children's books publishing house for a few month. It's actually a small shop downtown, belonging to two women who write and illustrate most of the books themselves, and they sell art and some books from other authors. They appear to be very kind, interesting people ( one of them is actually a documentary film maker and the other is a photographer, the publishing house is more or less their bread-and-butter-business), and since it's not a big business right now, I will be able to watch the "birth" of a childrens book in every detail. Is that cool or what?
Even more work...but at least interesting work!

What else? The days are just packed lately, there's so much I could write but unfortunately I have to get back to my paper about Ingeborg Bachmann and Elfriede Jelinek *sigh*

OMFG

I just received a fan-email for a fanfic I wrote when I was 13. 8 YEARS AGO! From a girl who's 14 right now! This is so strange....I really don't know what to reply *lol* I didn't even know this....stuff....was still on the net. The webmaster must have posted my email beyond. Hell this is so confusing *g*

Whoever started the urban legend that students are a bunch of lazy partypeople is definitely WRONG

I am so overworked at the moment that although I went to bed at 10 pm last night, I fell asleep today at Uni, and I had to go home and sleep again for a few hours. now I am still tired but I try to keep myself awake so I won't  loose my rythm too much. And  if I am not lucky I will loose my sportst course because this is the third time I'm absent. Why the heck do they check attendancy for volountary courses for which you even have to PAY?! I don't get it.
Sorry for the whining. I think I'll just go back to the couch and sleep a little more. Just two more weeks to go and then I'll have enough time to get new energy.
At least the stuff I need to learn this semester is very, very interesting. I really wish I had all the energy to learn everything properly.

YES! the university professor is okay with the subject I chose for the term paper in "chicano literature and film". It's "The Depiciton of Mexican-Americans in U.S. - American animated sitcoms". STRIKE! Now I can watch Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy and South Park and say "I'm doing this for UNIVERSITY!" *gg*

is it a family when your brother (who's 17 years older than yourself) calls you on sunday and you comfort him for the whole afternoon because your parents were so rude to him ( on friday) he almost cried, and the next day your mother sends you an email ordering you to spy on your own brother because he hasn't called her yet, telling you that your brother is so incompetent and not thankful and everything?
It thought adults were able to settle things among themselves. It happens they need the little sister/daughter to spy on each other.

i think it's called a madhouse.

here are the rules
1. Go to http://www.librarything.com/tag_allbooks.php?tag=unread and copy the first 100 books on their "Unread" list. (this changes constantly, so check it out)
2. Paste it into your LJ.
3. Bold what you have read.
Italicize those you started but didn't finish. (Or have only read parts of.)
Strike through what you can't stand.
Bold Italics for those you've read more than once.
Underline ones you intend to read.
Underline Italics for ones you're really in process of reading, or really intend to get back to.
Owned in blue.)

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# Anna Karenina (132)
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Soooo much stuff I wanna read! And so much stuff I threw into the corner after heaving read half of it :P

I would be sleeping now if it wasn't for the little boy next door who started "playing" the recorder half an hour ago...so, now I'm sitting here, waiting for my love to wake up and my friend to logg onto ICQ so we can get started and have brunch in town. Why not take the time to write a review of yesterday's concert?
SAMSAS TRAUM!
I got the ticket as a birthday present from a friend ( but I would have bought it anyway ;) ) who went there with me. The location was in the same building as the hall were I saw the pumpkins, yet a lot smaller, which was good. There were about 300 people there, so it was no too crowded but it didn't look as if noone was there either. I was astonished by the number of teenage groupies I saw there ( well, I mean, Alex *is* hot, but still, I don't think they can make sense of most of the lyrics at the age of 14...).
As you know, I'm such a coward when it comes to standing directly in front of the stage, so I decided to buy some merch instead of fighting for a "good" place to stand. The problem was, there was only one vendor, a women who spoke english only, and I waited there for like half an hour, gazing around and being bored, when suddendly I realized that Alex Kaschte was standing, like, 2 meters to my left, and almost noone realized it was him, cause he wore his glasses and the hair tied back in a ponytail. Some people did, though, and he was chatting to them a little and taking photographs. I'm not so much into this stuff, I always have the feeling that I get on the musicians nerves and, you know. But he was fun watching from 2 meters to the left ;)
The first supporting act was a disaster. Some trashy electro beat with strange black-and-white videos screened on a wall and the guy at the keyboard was actually wearing a mask, but he didn't look cool :P
My friend and I left the hall to sit outside and talk a little. The second band was pretty good, though, "spiritual front" from Italy. They have a very unique unplugged style.
And then, the Master himself ;)
My friend warned me that sometimes if he has a bad day, the concerts are destined to be bad, but yesterday he seemed to be all euphoric and told us that it was "on of the fucking best concerts I ever played!". There were some songs from the new album nobody knew yet, but I liked most of them. And many old classics: Für Immer, Stromausfall im Herzspital, Sysiphos, Die Zärtlichkeit der Verdammten (without Trullala, though *sniff* She was given away during a concert last year) and my personal all time favourite, ein Foetus wie du. At times I was rocking and banging so hard I felt dizzy ;) And one time Alex threw an empty bottle of water into the crowd and my friend almost caught it, but it slipped through her fingers and one of the squealing groupie girls got it...ah well, I was glad it didn't hit her straight in the face^^
The new musicians were all masteres of their instruments, especially Adrian Erlandson ( ex-cradle of filth), his drum solo was marvellous!
This concert makes it into my top 3 easily, I'd say^^

My body does not like me these days. I got a 2cm x 1 cm large blister on my toe and I'm all tired and out of my usual sleep rythm, but it was worth it. I went to a goth/wave/metal festival on saturday (www.meraluna.de) with palemoonsdream and a friend from Berlin. Man it was so cool! I did only know a few bands beforehand ( Schandmaul, Cultus Ferox, Tool ) but I learned about quite a few good ones there. A small german Band called Down Below, Client from GB, and Emily Autumn - man that women's strange, and I only saw half of her performance because it was a little too much pink, white and fluffy ;) and a very good band was playing on the other stage, but it sure was an experience. Yesterday I learned that she had been performing with Billy Corgan and Courtney Love^^ There was a strange german band called Lola Angst...the music was kinda boring but they had a church organ and two ballet dancers on stage which made the performance worth watching^^ Tool played at the end of the festival, and I was so tired already ( you know, standing in the sun all day) that I gave up after a few songs...I must say, I had wrong expections: I know quite a few A Perfect Circle songs, but almost nothing from Tool, and after all, they *are* two different bands...but the performance was great, really...lots of videos, and Maynard could only be seen as a shadow figure because they illuminated him from behind, so you could only see the shape.
I really enjoyed Schandmaul again - I mean, if a band can make a whole audience of eeevil depressed trueee gothics jump around and make them screem "we feel good!", then there must be something to them ;)
And I had a great time watching people. Some really spent hundreds of euros and lots of time on their ... erm...costume, you could almost say. When I passed a women in a bright green shirt and yellow dungarees, I smiled at her and said "cool!", and she beamed back at me.
One funny moment was when the three of us went back to the stage ( we had food and drink stored in our car, so we went there every now and then to refresh) we passed a group of drunken young men, all of them wearing cardboard crowns, drinking the cheapest wine available and one singing (sorry I have to write this in german because the song itself is german): "grieeechischer wein, aus dem tetrapack, voll ecklig, aber geiiil!"
I hope I can go there again next year.

Don't be afraid, this post ist absolutely FREE of any POTTER SPOILERS!

Yesterday around 11 o'clock I went out to get into the city and buy my copy of Deathly Hallows. palemoonsdream and I agreed on meeting in the city at midnight because he took the late shift yesterday. However, I caught every train, so I was half an hour early. Out of boredom, I walked to the bookstore already, since it's only about 7 minutes away from the station. While I was waiting for the traffic lights to get green, two elderly ladies joined me, and one, beaming like a child on christmas eve, asked "are you going to buy the Harry Potter book, too?"
"Sure." I said and smiled.
I walked on as soon as the light switched to green. But about one minute afterwards, the younger one of the ladies came racing towards me. "Wait a second - have you read today's Tagesspiegel?" ( newspaper)
Me: "no."
She: "well, there was a coupon in there. If you can fetch one of the first 1.000 copies, it costs five euro less. We've got two of them, so, if you want to have it, here it is." And she handed it over.
I was so amazed I could harldy say "thank you!" before the two smiling ladies vanished in the crowd.

And a crowd it was. Palemoonsdream and I were lucky to get a place in the queue that was still inside the bookstore. It was really funny to stand there among hundreds of grown-ups discussing Harry Potter. I would never have dreamed of that back when I was a kid!
There was a very nice woman in front of us, and an elderly man. Both were interviewed by the radio. The man was talking so much rubbish it was hard to bear. "Welll, you know, I am an engineer, a scientist, and I tried so hard getting behind the forumla of the Potter success, but I haven't found it yet, ha ha ha". What's more, he kept gesticulating so hard he almost hit palemoonsdream in the face several times with his hands and elbows.
The woman was very nice, though. We kept discussing Fantasy books and she told me that she had studied the exact same subject I study 10 years ago, and works for the UFA ( that's about the biggest german film company), so I should not believe anyone who says that people who study German Literature will never get a job.

Some boys, in their twenties, wore spoiler T-shirts listing the deaths and marriages. I tried not to look, but I caught a few names. Now, after having read 130 pages, I can say that not all on there was true, so you don't have to bother too much: I guess most of the rumors are fake. Frankly, I have no idea why they did this. Probably they just wanted to be on TV. There was lots of media there.

I was lucky enough to grab a book at about 1:15 and stormed home to read it.
Right now, I am so amazed of myself that I manage to learn American Literary History and read HP7 simultaneously. It's always half an hour Potter, half an hour studying. Gosh, I wonder if I'll be so disciplined still when it comes to the end ;)
So now I'll go study another half hour. Have fun reading yourselves!

For everyone who has not done so yet: go read the "His Dark Materials" Trilogy by Philip Pullmann! It is currently being adapted and the movie will come to theatres in December, so go and read it so you can make your own pictures.
I read the first volume while I was a kid...well, I tried to read it, but I discovered I was too young ( yes I know it's supposed to be a children's book, but back than, it was kind of too "harsh" for me) and I bought the second one about a year later but I was still too small.
This week I bought the first volume in English to re-read it and it's just breathtakingly great! And it's so gripping. It's one of the 5 most gripping stories I've ever read.
So, enough propaganda: go read it ;)

In case anyone wants to read it in German, the trouble is that the books are not being marked as a trilogy. They're just called Der Goldene Kompass, Das Magische Messer and Das Bernsteinteleskop. But you should read it in English, the use of language is terrific.

What's more? Nothing very interesting. I had my hair dyed black again. And I should be studying for the final exams ;)

First off, I write this in English because from the three people who're interested in this review, one is from Germany, one from Luxemburg, and one from the U.S., so I chose the language everyone can understand...


Where should I start? When I came to the Columbiahalle, I was greeted by the somehow muffled distorted sound of Billys voice and I thought that perhaps someone had turned his/her car stereo up really loud, but it actually was the band rehearsing, and they kept the doors open ( because they wanted some air, I suppose, but it was still cool^^). We couldn't watch them, though.
I found a friend of mine in the row and there we were standing, listening to some italian guy standing behind us trying to imitate Billy's voice and, of course, failing miserably in doing so ;)
The Columbiahalle is wider than long, so you can practically see the stage no matter where you stand. But because I'm pretty afraid of moving body masses, I chose to stand on the balcony, and I didn' regret it, I could see everyone and hear very well. My friend staid in the front row.There was room for about 3,500 people, and it was full.
I was surprised by the number of "old" people there. I had two men standing behind me who were in their forties, if not in their fifties. It was fun to listen to them discussing siamese dream^^

The Pumpkins appeared half an hour late, but they compensated this with a 3-hour-show! It was just amazing, hypnotizing, and there was not a single song I did not like. They played a handful of new ones, the well-known singles from Siamese Dream, some not so well known songs like "Winterlong" or "Glass and the Ghost Children". I was so happy to hear them playing "drown", because it was the first song I had heard from the Pumpkins, the song that made me fall in love with them.

There was an unplugged session in the middle of the show. Billy performed a few songs alone, and was accompanied by Lisa on the keyboard during a few others. It was so beautiful I almost cried. Luckily, the hall manager at some point opened the roof windows, so at least the people on the balcony had fresh night air and the soft light of dawn, and Billy singing "33..."...it gives me shivers when I think of it, although it's 27° celsius in my room.

The outfits were gorgeous. Ginger wore a fairy-like dress, Lisa had a fancy top hat, Jeff and Billy wore overalls and, at the beginning, capes. I couldn't really see what Jimmy wore, but their clothes were all white, except for Billy's sleeves, which were black-and-white-striped.

There was a guest guitarist there, a guy who looked as if he had stepped into a time machine 30 years ago and came out in the year 2007 - but man, could he play guitar! His name was "Uli" or something, he was a friend of the band. I guess I am making a fool of myself right now because he's probably a very famous musician but I just didn't recognize him^^

Of course the show had it's funny moments too.
Someone threw a Winnie-the-Poo soft toy on stage. It landed right beside Ginger, who looked at it, shook her head disbelivingely, and threw it back to the audience.
Billy started to talk to the audience after half an hour. I loved his announcement of "God&Country":

"I'm gonna play a song about my country, about the United States."
The Audience was not cheering...( for Joy: it's considered cool to haven an anti-american attitude in Europe at the moment because Europe rejects the current political programm of the U.S. - sadly, people reject everything that's american, even the non-political issues. And many Europeans - except for the French of course^^ - cannot understand why anyone would be patriotic...it's a very tricky issue in Germany, you know, Patriotism and all...).
So he then added. "You know, I think Gerhard Schröder ( that's our ex- chancellor, that would be the equivalent of the President) loves America too. He cheats on his wife with America. Is he still prime minister?"
The Audience responded "No"
Billy: "well, that prooves how much I know about Germany. Who's prime minister now?"
(Our chancellor at the moment is a woman called Angela Merkel, normally referred to as "Angie". So people cried "Angie!")
Billy: "Ali G? Ali G is prime minister of Germany? Awesome!"

There was another funny moment during the second encore. The Pumpkins and that Ulli guy played "Gossamer" but at some point it turned into a jam session, improvising, and creating a hypnotic sound I've never heard before...it seemed like nobody knew when to stop, and everytime somebody stopped playing, somebody else would start another tune, and so it went on and on...and after about 20 minutes Billy tried to end this all, announcing "that's the end of the show" about 10 times or so, always laughing because everybody was playing on...it was just great!

What's more...someone painted a banner saying "Spaceboy, we've missed you." And they're right.

Back in 2002 when I bought my First Pumpkins CD (I'm not sure whether it was siamese dream or mellon collie) I would never have DREAMED of being able to sit in front ot the PC, klicking a few times and then reading "your ticket for the SMASHING PUMPKINS show in Berlin, june 6th, has been booked. Please pay within 7 days".
I can't believe it yet. Perhaps I'll realize I'm really going to see my favourite band ever live the moment I enter the Columbiahalle.

Hope you're not disappointed of me writing such an entry after not having written for months ;) Everything's well here. My boyfriend finally got a job here, at the moment we're still short of money ( I had to buy the ticket from the money which is reserved for the least 3 driver's licence courses, but I will have to collect it again since I won't need it untill August), but in about 2 weeks, everything will be okay again.
I am happy he got a job not only because of the money, but because he feels more valuable again, and that's even more important.

University is still nice. I like this place so much, though it's *very* chaotic (perhaps that's why I like it *g*), I am recently dreaming about working as a university teacher once I am finished. I've started medieval german literature this year and it's really cool, learning the language germans used to speak 1000 years ago and reading all the Arthurian myths and the story of the Nibelungen. American studies is, and has always been, one of the coolest subjects ever ;)

I GOT IT!!! I GOT MY DRIVER'S LICENCE!!! WHEEE!!!