alpha

oh very sad situation
this Sunday morning
my alpha's lens is not working
stuck...
sad, & here one of the last photos
i took with my alpha just yesterday
of a dying flower... not a sign
one can just hope...

my favorite drug

ah!
can smile now
taking doses
of my selected drug
música...

listening to 3 of my favorite
online radio stations

KCRW.com
national public radio
from Santa Monica College

Brainwashed Radio
a non-profit online broadcaster
of excellent music hosted
on Brainwashed.com
producers of rather
obscure music
such another of my favorite bands
godspeed you! black emperor

Otto's Baroque Musick
ah! Otto's online selection
of early baroque music
is great for changing mood
from too modern
to mild-lunatic from the 1600's

no wonder tonight
is my turn to smile!
tonight sounds eclectic indeed
been from
Air
to
Loscil



all the way to
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos


so if you want to smile also
maybe you should check them out too'
they are free and international,
like the world-wide web...

and by the way, if you want to know how all this got started
in mean, 'the internet'
dont' forget to read:
Where Wizards Stay Up Late,
'the origins of the Internet'
full of interesting facts that helped formed
this web, that you & me now so placidly 'surf'

der Wortschatz

so another day
still my philosophies/ideas about life
and the reasons for existence
lingering on the air of a Californian spring

but at least today i have learn a couple more
of german words, courtesy of
Kapitel 10 Wortschatz Quiz morgen Nachmittag

more than mnemonic techniques
what i do to memorize the new words is
to write down a couple of times the words
on a little notebook that resembles
the work of a lunatic, am sure...
if found out of context

and funny enough one of the phrases to learn is
So ein Mist!
so the expression reminded me of this little book
On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt



and more repetition of words
good way to scare away the existential neurosis
writing words in German a diestra y siniestra...
now excuse my spanglish
but to also to fill out the space on this picture
i remember tonight another also small (slim over all)
book but with a great content
The Book of Tea, by Kakuzo Okakura
as i mentioned in one of my very first posts
a must read, regardless of being a tea drinker or not



and to finish this day
not sure why
sure out of moodiness i came out with these
set of self-fractioned-portraits
unfresh from tonight
tired dark circles under eyes
and to wake up tomorrow at 6.30 am
sechs Uhr dreißig morgen





at least i already have the pijama on this one



good night!
zzz... und zzz, and zzzz
y... a-ha! todavía no me he dormido
pero ahí voy!

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?

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

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?

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

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...

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?