Just a very quick update... I drove home for the weekend, to meet some friends and...get away from munich *lol* (no, it's not that bad ;) ).
Anyway, tonight we will watch some movies on DVD, eat an unhealthy amount of crisps and popcorn, drink coke, lemonade and juice until we get a sugar rush and watch kitschy german chick flicks and bland american comedies...I'm looking forward to it - I haven't done anything like that since I'm back from Sweden. Oh how I miss the cosy evenings (or Sundays) with Sofia, TV and popcorn..and Melodifestivalen or a DVD.
However...what else is there to say...not much, to be honest. I work...a lot.
Next weekend we have our "Karlstad-Reunion" which will be nice, hopefully. I'm really looking forward to see everyone again..especially Elisabeth, Hong, Sofia, Eva, Sina...and maybe even Jonathan! :)
So, I will write more on monday...If my fingers aren't too fat and greasy after the crisps-overdose tonight ;)
manuel
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Take my shoes off...
Ok, the following text will be about an artist. Some of you may know the artist, and some of you won't. It's Kate Bush.
Why?
Well, on friday evening I took the train home to
Austria..it was dark, raining and cold. The raindrops hit the train window and it was a quite scary and strange feeling, sitting there in the moving train rushing through the dark night. As always I was listening to my iPod and for some reason I turned on Kate Bush' CD "Hounds of Love" from 1985. I bought it some years ago when I finally decided to check out Kate's music, but I haven't listened to the cd for ages. Actually I just wanted to listen to track 1, "Running up that hill", but I kept on listening. I was in awe. I was amazed. For the first time, I really seemed to understand that whole album. Do you know that feeling?
For your information, "Hounds of Love" is considered to be Kate's best work. It includes "Running up the hill" which was voted to be one of the best pop songs of all time (the lyrics, the beat [for that time],...amazing!) and many bands covered the song (Placebo, Within Temptation,...).
It's a concept album, which means that she tells a story on the album; It's divided into two parts - the first 5 songs belong to the "Hounds of love" part, the other 7 songs belong to the "The Ninth Wave" chapter and this chapter is about a woman who is drowning.. Sounds scary, eh? And oh yes, it is... I really had goosebumps during some songs (I hope the guy next to me didn't realize it :P )
Anyway, as I said, for the first time I really understood the album and its full beauty. Before that I listened to it, liked some songs (especially the first half of the album) and never really thought about the story. Which is a shame, because that's a big part of the album. Maybe it was because I was still in awe of Kate Bush' "The Dreaming" when I bought Hounds of Love (The Dreaming is still my favourite cd...even if most people think it's too weird..I just love how she used samples and backward vocals -> check out "leave it open" for a good example..the last minute is just...wow). However, this time it was different and I could focus on the lyrics, the great production (she really used all the technologies that were available at that time...and her way of working with the panning is really cool - in this song, for example - but the youtube audio conversion destroys it :( ).
Ah, well...I guess you get my point *lol* If you're not afraid of some music from the 80s that, obviously, sounds like 80s music, go and check out Kate Bush ;)
I will end this post with the video to "Cloudbusting", another great song of that album...notice how the beat gets faster
Sorry if this posting bored you, the next one will be more exciting, I hope/promise ;)
m.
Why?
Well, on friday evening I took the train home to
Austria..it was dark, raining and cold. The raindrops hit the train window and it was a quite scary and strange feeling, sitting there in the moving train rushing through the dark night. As always I was listening to my iPod and for some reason I turned on Kate Bush' CD "Hounds of Love" from 1985. I bought it some years ago when I finally decided to check out Kate's music, but I haven't listened to the cd for ages. Actually I just wanted to listen to track 1, "Running up that hill", but I kept on listening. I was in awe. I was amazed. For the first time, I really seemed to understand that whole album. Do you know that feeling?For your information, "Hounds of Love" is considered to be Kate's best work. It includes "Running up the hill" which was voted to be one of the best pop songs of all time (the lyrics, the beat [for that time],...amazing!) and many bands covered the song (Placebo, Within Temptation,...).
It's a concept album, which means that she tells a story on the album; It's divided into two parts - the first 5 songs belong to the "Hounds of love" part, the other 7 songs belong to the "The Ninth Wave" chapter and this chapter is about a woman who is drowning.. Sounds scary, eh? And oh yes, it is... I really had goosebumps during some songs (I hope the guy next to me didn't realize it :P )
Anyway, as I said, for the first time I really understood the album and its full beauty. Before that I listened to it, liked some songs (especially the first half of the album) and never really thought about the story. Which is a shame, because that's a big part of the album. Maybe it was because I was still in awe of Kate Bush' "The Dreaming" when I bought Hounds of Love (The Dreaming is still my favourite cd...even if most people think it's too weird..I just love how she used samples and backward vocals -> check out "leave it open" for a good example..the last minute is just...wow). However, this time it was different and I could focus on the lyrics, the great production (she really used all the technologies that were available at that time...and her way of working with the panning is really cool - in this song, for example - but the youtube audio conversion destroys it :( ).
Ah, well...I guess you get my point *lol* If you're not afraid of some music from the 80s that, obviously, sounds like 80s music, go and check out Kate Bush ;)
I will end this post with the video to "Cloudbusting", another great song of that album...notice how the beat gets faster
Sorry if this posting bored you, the next one will be more exciting, I hope/promise ;)
m.
Monday, September 8, 2008
back to (blogging)life
Hej!!
Quite a while has passed since my last post...sorry for that. But I was too exhausted/uncreative/sluggish for writing a new entry...Finally, here it is ;)
Sooo, where to begin...
Work is fun, but it has been quite busy for the last few weeks, but I won't bore you with that. What's more important - some quite important decisions concerning my future have to be made in the next few weeks. It's not fun at all, since I hade making decisions ;) I don't want to write too much about it, since everything is just developing and nothing has been settled yet.
Anyway, last weekend I (finally) drove to Frankfurt to visit a good friend from my university. It was a really cool weekend and it was soooo good to see him again :)
And Frankfurt is a really nice city. Smaller than Munich, but so much cooler, imo. I don't know why, but I felt much better there than in Munich. The thing with munich is, that the city itself is quite nice. The buildings are old and nice, the streets are old and nice, the traditions are old and...well, nice...but the people are old (or young) and not so nice. And the whole atmosphere in munich is a bit weird. It's really hard to find the right words for it, but every city has a special atmosphere for me. Salzburg, for example, had a nice atmosphere, I was very comfortable there. London or Vienna, two totally different cities, have a good atmosphere too (at least for me). Ancona (Italy) was the first city I visited where I thought "oh, I want to get out of here". I don't know why, because the city is really nice and sunny...but I had such a strange feeling the whole time I was staying there. It's similar with Munich. I don't hate the city, it's just that I don't feel too comfortable here.
2 weeks ago I went downtown after work to meet a friend. I was too early (as always) so I strolled around the meeting point and that was the point when I realized that I don't want to spend the rest of my life in munich (not that I was considering it anyway, but you know...it was just one of those enlightening moments). The people that passed me, small things like the silly newspaper headlines on the newspaper stands, the terrible supermarkets, the chaotic street system, unfriendly people who shouted at passing cars...everything happened around me, and I felt like screaming. That was the point where I made the decision - I don't want to stay in Munich longer than necessary. It's just not my town.
But who knows, maybe I will change my mind. Of course, munich has some really lovely places. The "Gärtnerplatz" or the area around the Sendlinger Tor are really nice parts of Munich...but it's still Munich, even if it tries to look like some italian city.
Another thing I was thinking about on my way home today - all the people who I met in life so far. Especially old school mates. It's shocking how I lost touch with most of them. Even some really close friends from elementary school, which I considered to be my "childhood friends" - no contact at all. It's sad, but that's how life goes, I guess. There are just a few people from my school time that I'm still in touch with, but they are really good and close friends...which is good, I guess.
However, it's getting quite late and before I bore you to death with more of my "thoughts"...I better go to bed now ;)
Here are some pictures from Frankfurt/Mainhattan :)
m.
Quite a while has passed since my last post...sorry for that. But I was too exhausted/uncreative/sluggish for writing a new entry...Finally, here it is ;)
Sooo, where to begin...
Work is fun, but it has been quite busy for the last few weeks, but I won't bore you with that. What's more important - some quite important decisions concerning my future have to be made in the next few weeks. It's not fun at all, since I hade making decisions ;) I don't want to write too much about it, since everything is just developing and nothing has been settled yet.
Anyway, last weekend I (finally) drove to Frankfurt to visit a good friend from my university. It was a really cool weekend and it was soooo good to see him again :)
And Frankfurt is a really nice city. Smaller than Munich, but so much cooler, imo. I don't know why, but I felt much better there than in Munich. The thing with munich is, that the city itself is quite nice. The buildings are old and nice, the streets are old and nice, the traditions are old and...well, nice...but the people are old (or young) and not so nice. And the whole atmosphere in munich is a bit weird. It's really hard to find the right words for it, but every city has a special atmosphere for me. Salzburg, for example, had a nice atmosphere, I was very comfortable there. London or Vienna, two totally different cities, have a good atmosphere too (at least for me). Ancona (Italy) was the first city I visited where I thought "oh, I want to get out of here". I don't know why, because the city is really nice and sunny...but I had such a strange feeling the whole time I was staying there. It's similar with Munich. I don't hate the city, it's just that I don't feel too comfortable here.
2 weeks ago I went downtown after work to meet a friend. I was too early (as always) so I strolled around the meeting point and that was the point when I realized that I don't want to spend the rest of my life in munich (not that I was considering it anyway, but you know...it was just one of those enlightening moments). The people that passed me, small things like the silly newspaper headlines on the newspaper stands, the terrible supermarkets, the chaotic street system, unfriendly people who shouted at passing cars...everything happened around me, and I felt like screaming. That was the point where I made the decision - I don't want to stay in Munich longer than necessary. It's just not my town.
But who knows, maybe I will change my mind. Of course, munich has some really lovely places. The "Gärtnerplatz" or the area around the Sendlinger Tor are really nice parts of Munich...but it's still Munich, even if it tries to look like some italian city.
Another thing I was thinking about on my way home today - all the people who I met in life so far. Especially old school mates. It's shocking how I lost touch with most of them. Even some really close friends from elementary school, which I considered to be my "childhood friends" - no contact at all. It's sad, but that's how life goes, I guess. There are just a few people from my school time that I'm still in touch with, but they are really good and close friends...which is good, I guess.
However, it's getting quite late and before I bore you to death with more of my "thoughts"...I better go to bed now ;)
Here are some pictures from Frankfurt/Mainhattan :)
m.
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