Tuesday, April 08, 2008

strange day/keine Deutschstunde

i went to work early today.
'cause i had class later.
but i got up too too early.
so i got too sleepy.
and that allergy pill.

and on the way to work.
i took this picture.
properties file:
Today, April 08, 2008, 8:02:26 AM



so. after all.
i didn't make it to class.
i feel guilty.
i know i shouldn't.
but i feel the guilt.
that one of the lazy student.
faul, langweilig Studentin.
but i came early(ish) home.
and been doing nothing interesting
since then.

this morning's menacing sky.
should've been a warning.
a cold day it was.
still is.
12° below the average
temperature for this time
of the year.
that might explain.
why.
what?

Monday, April 07, 2008

junk

just as there is junk food
there is plenty of junk literature

when i feel a little too susceptible
and don't want to really question
my intellect nor my soul too much
i stick to junk...
both, food and literature

being afraid that a too-good book
might caught my interest too deeply
or could drive my soul to ponder
over the subtilities that form
the filigree of one's soul and core...
good books get to the core
cheaper novellas, don't.
or a too great meal could awake
senses are better to keep dormant

good things awaken you
and sometimes to survive
one has to be a little dull
somehow aloof...

so this past Sunday
like under a spell
i read over 200 pages
of Mrs. Diane Mott Davidson
first "culinary mystery"
Catering to Nobody
that actually is kind of a 'cute'
mystery, a divorced woman
whose supports her 11 year old
with catering businesses and gets involved
into a murder...

so while i chowed down some really fatty fries
i read recipes mixed with murder



junk, sometimes so good for the soul
even if not for the heart, and certainly
nor for the intellect...

oh! and i have junk socks too!
my mother gave me these
kitty-socks
they are sort of silly and
not very adult...
but they come in very handy
when i run out of clean laundry



'cause sometimes you have to rehearse
your disconnection notice
[this is an amazing live version!]
and then stop playing the diva games
and wear anything...
but the mild lovely noise cuddles me
yes this mild noise
does beautifully corrupts my soul
but no danger on it at all ...
this my band of always



and there is a SYR

Sunday, April 06, 2008

lali puna

Es war Sonntag
it was Sunday
era Domingo



and
[Where do you want to go?]
[Where do you want to go now?]
[Where do you want to go today?]


Lali Puna
one of my preferred bands
i haven't listened to them in a while
but tonight... this song



Micronomic
It’s so hot in here
It’s burning outside
And all your teenage idols
have left the building
Haven’t you seen the signs of the time?
Where do you want to go?
Where do you want to go now?
Are you the last to know
they’ve changed your future
Where do you want to go?
Where do you want to go now?
Where do you want to go today?
It’s so hot in here
It’s burning outside
Everybody’s leaving
Say they will make it on the other side
Haven’t you seen the signs of the time?
Where do you want to go?

Saturday, April 05, 2008

the weekend so far

Friday night - 18:00 Uhr
and the weekend started with
ein kaltes Bier
a cold beer
una cerveza fría
Full Sail Amber



and by
Samstag Nachmittag
Saturday noon
Sábado al mediodía
looked like this

Tomaten, kleine Zwiebeln und Avocado
tomatoes, green onions, and avocado
tomate, cebollines, y aguacate



and a little later
Tomaten, kleine Zwiebeln und Knoblauch
tomatoes, green onions, and garlic
tomate, cebollines, y ajo



plantita intermezzo



and finished Saturday with
anderem kalten Bier
another cold beer
otra cerveza fría



one of my favorites
Red Stripe
a Jamaican lager

Thursday, April 03, 2008

blue déjà vu



déjà vu time!
i used to live in this house
this is the back door
the file's properties read
Monday, April 25, 2005, 6:34:00 AM

so i created this image
3 years ago, this blog not existed yet
so many things were so different!

now my atmosphere is not so teal

that's quiet a while
yes 3 years ago

and then that was home
and this song from 2004!



and now this is it
not so blue
but not so dark on the edges either

teal and surrounded by a black circle
seems that, i saw the world
in 2005
now i feel like a newborn
with an old soul

"Ah, böwakawa poussé, poussé"

one of my favorites
John Lennon's songs is
#9 Dream

and after about 25 years of
have listened to it
i never really knew all the lyrics to it

english is my second language
but rock music
[properly and by definition written in English]
is my first choice

and many times i have fallen in love
with a song, without understanding all what
the singer was singing, i could fall in love
with a song just
'cause it 'freaking rocked'!!
heck yes!

but tonight, after 25 years or so
i realized, a-ha!! Web-reka!!
this is what the internetsss are for!
to look-up what the heck is john lennon babbling
over some bucka bucka come-so come-so (???)
[what i made of it!...]
so indeed!
i googled the lyrics to the song
and yep! the words really meant nothing
just something on a dream
but then i googled more!
and remembered this great site
SongFacts
[just wish the data base was bigger already
and more to my favorite musical genders oriented]

so here the ideas, i guess more than facts
over #9Dream
i bet John looks from the sky at us
laughing at our attempts to decipher
his stoned dreams, ha! what a crazy
great lunatic man he was, admirable!
just a lovely john lennon dream though
his #9 dream, by the way...
his dream has given me so many hours of pleasure!
and...
"Ah, böwakawa poussé, poussé"
"Ah, böwakawa poussé, poussé"
now... i endlich know...



i recommend you to get rid of your shoes!
and sing along, and if you want and nobody is
watching, you should dance too...

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

my blue suede shoes

i got myself a pair of blue moccasins
from the traditionally made
Minnetonka brand
and wow they are comfortable
and incredibly comfortable and soft!
[oh no! just wrote comfortable twice...
damn, now it's three times... ]




oh! they feel like gloves on my feet
more than shoes...
and tomorrow, yes! tomorrow
my new blue suede shoes [smile]
shall be tested on the streets
ah!

and i just hope that nobody
steps on my blue suede shoes
und ganz selbstverständlich...
from 1956!
mister Carl Lee Perkins



and since then, we still rock n roll
then and now! and
shall we dance?

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

my eyebrows hurt (the sandwiches and vermouth edition)

yes!
i know it sounds idiotic
but my eyebrows hurt!
not the hair itself
but more the bones that go
right behind the line of the eyebrow

a strange pain, like a muscular pain
not itchy, the skin not sore, and not a headache
really... but
just... pain?

oh my eyebrows!
ach meine Augenbrauen!
¡ay ay mis cejas!
[this translation made me laugh
i am such an idiot translating this
but i laugh, hope you too!]


mmm? i've been working a lot with
Photoshop and dealing with a
detailed image today, and i squint my eyes
sometimes a lot...
and i read a good load of Deutsch last night
'cause i had der Kapitel 9 Test

and it's April's Fool
April! April!
[...in Deutschleid heh heh]

so anyway, this day did fool me
and end up being... the day!
the day...
of the fool-me eyebrow pain

still hurts!

and i wrote something about this day
on a piece of paper at school
a sentimental note and then i couldn't find it
some kid at school might be laughing over me now
or worse, just on the floor, so...

so i will drink a vermouth
i don't think people drink vermouth straight anymore
i drink it straight, but with ice
my mother says it's an old's people drink
but i have a vermouth once or twice a week

my favorite one is Cinzano
but this one Di Torino Rosso that i found
at Trader Joe's is pretty decent, not the best
but not like there is a lot to judge over a vermouth
or is there?
...
Il Vermouth è un vino aromatizzato vecchio di...6000 anni...



and yes... technically my mother called me old
yes, i might behave stubbornly old-er sometimes
manchmal manchmal...
a veces, a veces...

so that's why i cure myself with these
sandwiches
oh sand-wi-ches, like that, slow... and soft
thank you John!, Earl of Sandwich
for this rather international mouthwatering word
with no translation required word...



Saturday, March 29, 2008

barely California

just yesterday
was this sunny...
the Friday-driving back home
finally-was-the-weekend drive



atmosphere smelled like palm trees
burned to a golden sunset, pavement
and freedom, yes it was this golden

today is gray-er, gloomier
there is even a menace of rain...
barely California

Thursday, March 27, 2008

look who's back again! (or Part II)

these photos are from this March
a lovely and now becoming traditional
visitor, arrived again to the little yard
outside my home

this coming-along tradition of
grasshopper friends
[click on it for the whole grasshopper-saga]



above ▲ this as 1st seen this early March, through my window
and below ▼ ... so i came outside to say hello and...


...
for the photo, he posed

i must smile everytime they make it back

good to see you again!