rockin' the casbah

hey! a new post!!!

2008-02-07T22:57:00.000+01:00

here you go: a new post! i almost cannot believe it myself. i've been a lazy git regarding this blog and actually i kind of moved it to a wordpress site (link to be found to your right!) which i like better at the moment!

so check that site out, but please do bother to check this blogger-site once in a while for any changes that might come to my mind...

by the way:

i just came back home after being to the cinema today and watching this great documentary on our planet earth which was directed by two bbc guys. great pictures of the earth, definitely worth watching on a big screen!

see you...

My first school holidays...

2007-10-29T10:06:00.001+01:00

... as a teacher that is, hehe!

Well, I've done it: I somehow managed to work seven weeks as a new born teacher. And now I'm officially on holidays. Although, I have to say that there's quite a work load waiting for me 'cause the next weeks are going to be much more stressful than the last 7. I'll have to teach and prepare more and more lessons and my lessons will be supervised.
All in all I really enjoy teaching in primary school, but it's new for me and mistakes are to be made and learned from ;-)
Subjects I'm teaching at the moment are mainly English and Music for 3rd and 4th grade. Lessons are very lively, as in both subjects there's a lot of singing, speaking and dancing going on.

But enough for school at the moment, I've got some fresh and hot audio stuff to recommend. If you've got time and money check out the following:

Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation:

Just like the infamous Libertines' I simply love the sound of Pete Doherty and his Babyshambles. It's got that druggy, punk-rock attitude while having a perfect songwriting, both the music and the lyrics combine smoothly. Doherty's one of the best in his genre - forget about all the tabloid scandals, just listen!

Pinback - Autumn of the seraphs:

Despite the heavymetalish looking album cover, this is american Indie-Rock in perfection. One of the underrated and - sadly - not very well-known bands. The sound reminds the listener of nothing else but: Pinback, actually! Warm guitars, multi-layered vocal tracks, melodic songs and very good lyrics. Vaguely comparable to Death Cab for Cutie maybe, but without the many sad parts ;-) But listen yourself.

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam:

Mmhh, this Band is special. Working as a collective of 4 members (with each of them having his own solo projec) those four guys create a sound which is psychedelic, delayed and a bit electronic but still based on Indie-Rock. The lyrics are just as psycho as the sound. So for all of you who might wonder why the hell I'm recommending this album, here's the answer: it's funny and something completely different and I love listening to it... And in parts - or better: once in a while - you're reminded of all the great bands, I love that much: Modest Mouse, Pinback, Beta Band, and so on.

Okay, I think that's enough for today, but I promise there'll be more soon...

is it already september?

2007-09-07T12:03:00.000+02:00

hello my dear friends!

i think this blog has seen better days for sure. as time goes by, new web services - like facebook and others - find their way into my conscious mind and as a result a new profile under my name occurs sooner or later.
so all of you who actually want some updates on me, check out the fresh facebook link to your right.
my flickr page needs updating too, but i promise i'm going to post some new pix soon (can't be that difficult!)
nevertheless, i'll try to keep this blog alive a bit longer, maybe i'll find some time to write more in the near future, as the last couple of months weren't that busy-busy: exams, end of exams, relaxing, holidays in germany, chiling out, having a party, a great week at verena's & alex's place in ldn, a nice weekend at clemens' japanese-style flat in brighton, partying in germany, relaxing and chilling out up until now!!!
although time to post on this blog might be the one thing i won't have in the upcoming weeks, as i'll start my practical teaching education next tuesday - and as excited as i am, it'll be quite stressful too, i reckon.
well, that's it for the moment. see you soon, stay fresh and rock on!!!

it's done!!!

2007-07-11T12:17:00.000+02:00

finally, i've done what i somehow couldn't think oof doing anymore: I FINISHED MY STUDIES!!!

some weeks ago i had my last exam and i still can't believe that years of studying have finally come to an end. but that's how it is: i'm free to do whatever i want to - at least up until early september, that is...

and now i'm enjoying this freedom to travel a bit around germany (i was at the art basel a couple of weeks ago and then at the documenta in kassel, too: a lot of nice and intteretsing art to be seen there, i really liked that!).
maybe i'll go to england in august but at the moment i'm based in augsburg and my body decided to catch a cold which i hereby welcome and i'm trying to get it out of my system at the moment.

next friday we'll have a "guerilla-lesershow" and so i have to decide on texts i want to present. you see, not much to do for me at the moment and i'm definitely enjoying that, believe me. i can concentrate on watching crappy tv-series, listen to hilarious music and meet friends all day long or just have a long lie-in if i want to. i don't want to make you jealous, but i have to say it as it's a bloody fine feeling (until it gets boring, but that might take a while...)

well, that's all for now. i'll promise to post more in the future and maybe even refresh my flickr photos soon.

i hope you're all fine out there and that you're happy with whatever you're doing at the moment.

see you all soon.

"worth"-case scenario: make the best of it...

2007-04-25T20:54:00.000+02:00

as you know my reason for not posting that much these days is that i'm studying hard for my final oral exams at the moment. but today something very surreal happened and i've got to put down a few lines here.

imagine me, sitting at my desk in the library bent over books and sheets, trying hard to get all the stuff into my head to make ends meet gradewise for my exam tomorrow afternoon.
suddenly my mobile rings: a strange number i don't know appears on my display - the only thing i can tell is that it has to be somebody calling from within the university building. so i answer the call and to my surprise it's the person who is going to hold the exam tomorrow, asking:
"where are you?"
"why? i'm in the library - studying..."
"well, you should be sitting in front of me as your exam is now!"
"no, that can't be. i'm supposed to be in tomorrow, i doublechecked it..."
"but you're on my list, so either you can arrange to come over here, or you'll fail the exam!"

WORST-CASE SCENARIO, isn't it?

i was totally confused, but sure that something on the exam schedule must have been changed and i didn't check it in time, or whatever. so i packed my stuff and ran over there, adrenaline pumping to my veins, but actually not really nervous. although i had to sit an exam i wasn't as prepared for as i wanted to...

half an hour later it started and i just talked and talked, realizing that i wasn't blank, but instead could answer most of the questions...

and half an hour later they sent me out to discuss my grade, let me in again a couple of minutes later to announce my grade: a "1" which is the best grade you can make in germany. i couldn't believe it, and still can't. well, that's the best way to handle a scenario like that: just try to make the best of it - which i surely did, hehe...

that's all for today, it was a stressful but in the end veeeery nice one for me!

hope you're fine out there and see you soon!

SumMeRsuMmerSummeR

2007-04-14T19:58:00.000+02:00

yes-yo-yippie-yeah!

it's mid-april in germany and one can't believe it: summer's here. it's got about 27 degrees celsius and everybody's out on the streets in this nice town - well, everybody but me...'cause i've got to sit at home and study study study for the last bit of my exams: still 9 to go. all oral exams, starting next wednesday and the last one will be at the end of june.all the written exams have already taken place, and i think it went quite well most of the time. but i'll see.

so all that stressful studying is my excuse for not updating this blog since january, by the way. nevertheless, i just wanted to let everybody know, that i'm still alive, quite busy at the moment but happy indeed: the weather is nice, i'm gonna finish my studyies soon and the summer won't be over by then, i hope.

well, that's it for the moment as i don't really have any incredible & interesting news - studying is indeed quite boring i reckon - but i promise to keep updating this casbah once in a while. at least i managed to get a new blog layout - which has to be slightly adjusted i think - let's see.

so see you and enjoy yourselves!

p.s. here's a nice pic i shot at the "pinakothek der moderne" in munich

p.p.s.: check out the new modest mouse album "we were dead before the ship even sank": not only one of the best album titles in years but hilarious indie-sound from portland, oregon. just the way i like it... my favourite songs: florida, fire it up, dashboard, and the rest of the album, actually ;-)

Happy New Year my friends!

2007-01-03T10:20:00.000+01:00

here we go...

i want to wish all of you a happy new year. i hope 2007 is going to rock your world (and mine of course)

hopefully all of you had a nice new year's eve and possibly the best start into 2007. i definitely did have a bloody good party. just click the silvester-link to your right, there might be some pix online.

now it's back to work for me, there is still a hell lot of work to do: my final exams are starting soon!

see you all soon and good luck...

merry christmas to y'all mates!

2006-12-26T20:12:00.000+01:00

hello darkness my old friend... nice pic shot from our living room window: wintery augsburg at night!

hope you're all fine and celebrating christmas with your families. i very much enjoyed these days with my family, but now it's got to be "back to work" again. busy times indeed! got to write essays still and soon i should be starting to learn for my final exams in spring. but i won't be able to learn on new year's eve, as we're having a hell of a party... just click the link "siggi-silvester" to your right, hehe!

sad to say, that's it for my latest update: i'm still amongst the living (dead).

see you soon (hopefully) ...

p.s.: check out the new jarvis cocker album - if you've ever been slightly into pulp, you'll like it...

chill & ill

2006-10-07T20:11:00.000+02:00

hello again my friends out there. it's two months since my last entry, and i feel there's need to post some stuff. it's been a busy busy busy time for me, as i had to do soooo many things: learn for an exam, then write and coordinate my final thesis. hand it in. yeah! but it was a sleepless night beforehand.

and: i finally moved into a new flat with my girlfriend. now we've got a nice and cosy flat in the city centre of augsburg (and everybody's jealous, hehe...) pix to follow soon.

and yesterday - it was a lovely, sunny autumn day - my grandfather was celebrating his 90th birthday. it was a very nice and joyful party - not too many people so that it was a very familiar atmosphere everyone enjoyed a lot. and we ate the whole day, yummie!

and now i'm glad i've got some days to relax. i have to start writing essays for uni again, and then there are other exams coming up end of october but i don't have to stress myself that much...

well, after such a stressful time there's only one thing you love to do: chill. and only one thing you hate to be: ill. i managed to get both things. now i'm ill with a cold and chillin in bed. hopefully just for a day or so. my nose is running, my throat's itchy - pah, i hate it!

that's it for me, i hope everyone out there's fine. see you soon...

a very much needed update!

2006-08-02T13:42:00.000+02:00

as this blog pops up first whenever i start my browser and i'm feeling more and more frustrated that i haven't been posting anything the last weeks and month i will do that now.

and here they are, the - not very interesting - news: i've been busy busy busy working for uni the last six weeks, and still am.
there was a theatre play i was working on with some pimary schoool kids: this was the practical part of my final essay, which i have to start writing now (deadline is early october, so that's gonna be a huge work load). but i'm confident that it'll all work out timewise.
teaching the kids and helping them create their own play was so interesting and exciting, i had a very good time, although it was quite stressful from time to time...

more news? not really... ah, there's another one: i had some exams and there's another huge one coming up next monday, so i'm learning hard at the moment. i shouldn't be blogging right now i realize.

so, i'll close now, after these short notes on my life at the moment.

stay as you are, and enjoy the summer (if you can...)!!!

summer in the city

2006-06-10T19:50:00.000+02:00

hey my friends,

it seems that summer finally is trying to reach out with its warm hands even down here in bavaria. well, it's time at last. however, somehow the world cup and the fifa managed to get the most beautiful weather for the first day of this worldcup in our beloved germany... well, i don't really bother although even i might be watching some of the footy games throughout the next few weeks - everybody's manic about it anyway.

besides, while the world cup just starts, our little play is almost over - and it went damn good. we've got a lot of very enthuiastic reviews by both friends and strangers. so i'm quite proud about the result of some months' hard work of rehearsing and planning. for those of you haven't had the chance watching "the zoo story" there's one last chance next thursday: at the "pavian" in augsburg. a real good club/bar where the owners have set up a beer tent for watching the world cup. and in this tent we're gonna play...

and watch out on zoogeschichte.blogspot.com for other dates to come and more info. we're definitely planning to have some more dates to play the whole thing open air throughout summer: in parks, at the zoo, ...

well, that's all for the moment. beside alll my theatre stuff i'm still going to uni, writing my essays and trying to plan on my final dissertation (which will be quite practical first, meaning i've got to plan and teach some lessons in a primary school). youi see, there's a whole lotta stuff to do, so i better keep on working. although, i think i'lll head of for some beers and some good music now - cause it's saturday, summer and the zweiundgut is rockin' the mahagoni café tonight (for those of you who don't have the slightest clue what i'm talking about: come visit me in auxburgo and check it out yourself...)

see y'all a.s.a.p.

let's play!

2006-05-23T23:38:00.000+02:00

here you go... and what you see is what you get: the poster to our play which is ready to be opened up for audience this friday, 26th of may 2006.
and this goes hand in hand for my long "posting absence". but, while other people enjoyed themselves somewhere around germany, europe and elsewhere, i was rehearsing, rehearsing, learning my bloody text by heart and then there was some more reharsing to do afterwards - and it's still gonna be some busy days until friday.
nevertheless, i think we will present a neat and watchable play on the friday premiere. so everybody who's gonna be around bavaria should try to come. we'll also play a couple of more times: on the 27th, the 1st and 2nd of june. same place same time...

for more info, just click the link on your right named "zoogeschichte".

hope to see y'all a.s.a.p

cheers and cheerio!

happy easter to all of you!

2006-04-14T14:01:00.000+02:00

it's been a while since my last post - but i'm still alive and wishing everybody all the nicest and happiest easter holidays. enjoy the weekend whatever religion you may believe in or not. i'll do the same. and here's a great link for everybody who wants a laugh (i got it from verena, her blog is linked via stratford place to your right...):

http://www.flowgo.com/index.cfm?action=view&id=10664&scid=0

haha! have a laugh while checking out that link.

some other stuff: weather is quite ugly here in southern germany. still too damn cold and rain rain rain. i'm busy writing stuff for uni and rehearsing for our next tiny big drama projject: edward albee's "zoo story". we're busy rehearsing but there's still loads to do (organising, promotion,...and more rehearsing, and a lot of text to learn for me) and we want to go on stage on may the 26th. well, it's gonna work out... i hope.

and there's yet another thing: i just started my own flickr page, where i'll post photos from now on. i'll also add some older stuff. i got an invite from alex (plasticshore link - again to your right...) and immediately started posting. the link is MY FLICKR PHOTOS to your right or just go to

http://www.flickr.com/photos/casbahflo/

the first post there are some of my favourite graffiti pix. check them out...

so, that's it for now, i've got to rush off to munich, see you all soon and have a hell of a time folks!!!

some mexico pix!

2006-03-28T10:07:00.000+02:00

okay, here are some pics of the mexico trip. and there are gonna come more later-on i think. i hate posting pictures as it takes ages and there is no comfortable way of getting them into the right order afterwards.

anyway, here you go:

the great pyramid in chichen-itza

an underground lake in a "cenote"

my sister making faces in coba

the caribbean

and there's even more news...

2006-03-14T20:27:00.000+01:00

...yep, that's true. i still haven't finished my "report" on all the things i saw and did here. hope it's not boring!!! well, not for me anyway.

so, after having been to that nice club med hotel (great pool) in uxmal on friday we went on to valladolid. on our way there we climbed into a real nice cave where we saw mayan remains that were dated thousands of years ago. it was a 2 km walk - all under ground and very impressing. you can see hand printings quite similar to those found in europe (which are about ten thousand years old).
and the whole cave was full of bats, bad bat shit and stalaktites.

after having seen that, we went directly to valladolid, a quite big city in the center of yucatan, where we spent a nice evening and the night.

early sunday morning we went to a lovely cenote, which is an undergroound cave (again - the whole peninsula is stuffed with caves) half-filled with water, where one can swim in. these cenotes are spread all over yucatan, some of them are closed, others are kind of half-open so that there's sun light hitting the surface of the water.

after a quick stop and swim there we drove to coba, which is another huge site of mayan remains - mostly pyramids and monoliths. it's such a large site, that we rent some bikes to be quicker. that was fun and quite different to the visits on other sites before.

well, and in the evening, after my sister and i grapped some stuff of hers - in the small town where she's normally working and living - we went via tulum to playa del carmen, where we are since.

playa is a very touristy, but nevertheless nice city on the caribbean coast of yucatan, or better, quintana roo, as the state here is called. a lovely but very thin beach (due to the last hurricane last autumn) with the whitest and coolest (temperaturewise) sand i've ever seen and beautifully coloured water. a lot of u.s. american tourists gather here, but i can live with that - for a week...

after the busy last week it's really cool chilling out a bit now. reading and swimming as much as possible, hanging around the pool and in bars at night - what a leisure. mmh, that's holidays!

i hope i made you're a tiny bit jealous now and if: i don't mind, hehe!

so see y'all later and have fun.

a week in yucatan

2006-03-13T19:20:00.000+01:00

ok. let's go.

after having had a long and necessary "nap" of i don't know how many hours, we started our tour of yucatan very relaxed by going to see a smaller mayan site on the roed up north of merida on tuesday. we spent some time there and headed further north to have some food at the sea, where it was quite windy, but: it was the sea, folks. i really missed the ocean throughout the time back in germany, i realize now. well, after living a year by the sea you kind of get used to it i think.

after another night in the busy yucatecan capital merida - loud buses, cars and motorbikes the whole day long, a lot of dirt and many many friendly mexicans and nice mxican food we finally left the city and headed for the coast again.

we went to celestun - a tiny fisher's town at the mexican golf coast, where we found a simple but very nice hotel at the beach. the town is near a huge lagoon and we went on a boat tour there to see the mangrove woods and the many flamingoes and other birds living there. thrilling trip that was!

and the next day - after a good morning swim in the kind of algae-smelly sea we drove on to the next very very famous site: uxmal.

uxmal is the most flashing site i saw throughout the last week. it's a huge complex consisting of several pyramids, temples, other buildings, a lot of plants and trees. all in all it's not as flat as chichen-itza is which makes it more interesting to look at.

after sunset we came back to the site (we stayed in a hotel close-by) to see an impressing light show. wow!

ok. i think that's it for part 2 of our first week, more about our journey soon...

¡HOLA!

2006-03-12T03:45:00.000+01:00

hey my friends out there in the jungle called life! i myself am somehow almost quite for sure in a real jungle at the moment. well, it's "junglish", one might say - and some others just call it yucatan, the peninsula in mexico's southeast.

and here i am, travelling around with my folks: my sister, my parents and a good friend of ours. for almost a week we've been on the road now and seen a lot of beautiful places.

but it wasn't easy at all to get here. my father and i wanted to take a "nice and easy" flight from munich via madrid and mexico city to cancun. doesn't sound the quickest way to come here, and - believe me - it wasn't. as we were booked on a flight last saturday night something made us change our plans: the awful snow conditions in munich which were so harsh that they cancelled our flight. after waiting 5 hours to be booked on another flight and waiting around the rest of the night we started on sunday morning in munich to fly to madrid, direction mexico. but in madrid the transatlantic plane was a tiny bit late (3 hours), so that we missed our connecting flight in miami (which should have brought us to cancun). after a short but good night of sleep, we finally came to cancun, one day late. but once on the airport we were really lucky to see my sister who waited for us. the only thing that didn't wait for us was our luggage.

to summarize our journey to get here: after never having had many problems on my previous flights, this time everything that can go wrong actually did go wrong.

but here we are now: in a land rich of sites, that belong to the historic and cultural heritage of mayan culture, we've got our hired car that brings us there and we saw so many things i won't forget in the last few days. we've got sun the whole day long and a reasonable amount of heat, hehe.

we left cancún immediateley after hiring our car and left for mérida. on our way we stopped at chichen-itza, one of the largest and most famous mayan temples on this peninsula. as we had little time, we had to rush a bit, but it 's a very impressing site indeed, although there are quite a few similarities to aztec pyramids in central mexico, i think. i'll post some photos as soon as possible. phew!

oh my golly, it's been so much, we saw and did, this one post won't do it.

well, after seeing chichen-itza we drove to mérida in the afternoon heat, and finally got there in the early evening to meet my mother and our friend sigi. we had a nice hotel in the center of yucatan's capital, quite near to the zócalo (the main, central place of each mexican city).

and after the first real mexican dinner at night last monday my father and i had to regain power via sleep - a long, long sleep...

(to be continued very soon...)

oi oi oi!

2006-02-28T13:44:00.000+01:00

oi people of da world!

long time no news - as usual. but here i am: still among the living and back for some lines.

i'm still sitting in snowy and freezing cold augsburgo, but soon soon soon i'm gonna rush off to warmer places. and that'll be on saturday, when my plane leaves from munich via madrid to mexico d.f.

yeah! it's gonna be warm, nice and holidays, hehe. and i want all of you to be freaking jealous. but, nevermind, i'll post some pix, while i'm there (or afterwards). I'm gonna travel around, swim and look at old maya sites with my whole family, as we're meeting my sister there, who's staying abroad for a couple of months - researching for her diploma and otherwise surfing the caribbean waves... (check out helenshunting.blogspot.com to learn more)

so, see you all soon and have fun while i'm away. once i'm back we'll meet a.s.a.p. i hope.

cheers!

p.s.: and finally some tips on recent (and ancient) stuff:
read, listen or watch some of the following:
- richard ashcroft "keys to the world"
- starsailor "on the outside"
- frank schätzing "der schwarm"
- babyshambles "down in albion"
- "walk the line"
- whomadewho
- belle & sebastian "the life pursuit"
- isobell campbell & mark lanegan "ballad of broken seas"
- "skaggerak"
- wolf parade
and never never forget to admire and listen to everything by: THE CLASH!!!

a happy new year!!!

2006-01-14T12:59:00.000+01:00

hey folks out there.

and again it's been ages since i've written the last few words on this nice little bloggy-blog. but there has been christmas and new year's eve and all the other things to do and celebrate with my family and friends. it was all very nice and cosy indeed and i had a bloody good time and really relaxed holidays.

last week i had the opportunity to read at the opening of an art exhibition - i was reading texts on colour by alexander theroux and some poems and i've got the feeling the audience (and me too of course) enjoyed it very much.

well, there were even more cultural events: the "brevier mamba" was performed again on the 6th of january and will be performed again tomorrow in munich at the orangerie (englischer garten) at 6 p.m. seems to be the start of a world tour, hehe... the "reviews" by the audience were quite good so far. of course some couldn't deal with the structure of the whole book and our scenic presentation thereof.

mmh, is there anything more to say? yes, there is:
2005 was a wonderful year for me. i had such a good time. and luck. finally found love (or love found me?). came back from england and am able to enjoy germany again (which i wasn't before i left). saw, heard and read loads of fantastic new stuff. YEAH, 2005 REALLY ROCKED MY WORLD!!! and 2006 will hopefully continue like that...

okay. i think this shall do it for the moment.

see you all soon my friends out there in the jungle we call life...

finally again!

2005-12-11T16:47:00.000+01:00

yes! it's me again. finally... but as i was really busy (i've got the feeling i kind of repeat myself) the last month. a lot of theatre shows to do, in between a spoken word performance at a brilliant club night called 2zkb (means "zwei zimmer-küche-bad) at the kerosin. and then last weekend two shows with our new performance of the "brevier mamba" at a nice loacation combined with a lot of paintings of the author.

you see, i definitely was busy and therefor it's not just another easy exuse. nevertheless other people have been busy too, especially my dear little sister, who's up and away once again. she left to mexico for acouple of month to do some research and work for her dissertation. and if anyone of my readers does know her and is interested in her life overseas just check out the link helen's hunting next to you on the right side, she's busy posting at the moment and i very much enjoy her texts.

well, time flies. and soon it'll be christmas and then new year's eve. as usual i don't have any presents yet and there are still plenty of things to do and prepare. i've got to get some lessons ready for next thursday at school, and some stuff for uni too.

but today and tomorrow it's time for some cultural events. tonight i'm going to watch a play produced by our "huge" city theatre her in auxburg and tomorrow it's popular culture at its best: franz ferdinand's gonna rock munich and i'll check it out. quite expensive, but i hope they're worth it. support act are the rakes and so it should be one hell of a night.

so long for now and rock on!!!

see y'all soon.

monday: not a fun day

2005-11-14T10:54:00.000+01:00

well, it's one of these mondays: got up way to early, sat in a seminar by quarter past eight and haven't had anything to eat yet. tired, bored and still a long day to come.

but what a great weekend! we had a very smooth and succesful premiere of our play on saturday and a nice party afterwards. the audience was very good, it was great fun playing and no major accidental incident happened. i can only ask all of you theatre enthusiasts to visit one of our shows throughout the next two weeks, if you get any close to auxburg and its university

well, now it's time for me to rush off again to sell some more tickets for the mentioned shows...

so long and thanx for the fish!

sunday boring sunday!

2005-11-06T16:04:00.000+01:00

uah! it's sunday and after a quite busy week i finally can relax; to be honest: i am doing so instead of working myself through all the stuff that has grown incredibly since i came back to germany (bills, contracts, info-sheets, uni-stuff) and which definitely needs filing. boring, boring stuff. but after having had a shower and a nice cup of tea i think i'll manage to do that now because it has to be done sometime anyway!

the weather is such a shite today, november's getting his grip on augsburg: grey, coldish, damp and soon it'll be dark. the perfect day for filing stupid paperwork and switching the tv on.

but there is a nice week of uni and rehearsing for our upcoming play to come - i'm looking forward to next weekend.

see you later...

culture clash...

2005-11-02T13:51:00.000+01:00

some time has passed since my last post - as usual...

but as i mentioned before i was busy the last few weeks and weekends. i have been to the annual frankfurt book fair with my girlfriend a week ago and it was very nice and interesting and a whole lotta books. two days of walking and looking and that was quite exhausting as one can imagine. but very worth seeing.

well, whenever i wasn't at uni or school or work the last few days and weeks we were preparing, rehearsing and practising for the 3rd part of the "lesershow" which finally took place last saturday - and was an enormous success. a great evening for both the audience and us i think (and heard). we read a lot of different pieces: a wide range of poetry, novel excerpts, short stories and more. the label was "black and white" and so were the texts. mostly german literature; after a long period of research we chose a whole bunch of long and short texts. the authors differed a lot in style and publishing date: jeremias gotthelf vs. max goldt, christian morgenstern vs. christian angel, karl krolow vs. wiglaf droste etc.

and now again i'm rehearsing a lot as there's the premiere of our new play by the "romanistentheater" coming up in one week and a half on saturday the 12th. you can see our poster above. so everyone who's around town or county just let me know if you'll come, i'll get some tickets for you... and go to www.romanistentheater.de if you want to!

we'll play "hotel zu den zwei welten" by eric-emmanuel schmitt who is although the author of "monsieur ibrahim und die blumen des koran". it's a very dramatic and tragic play but quite funny in some parts too. it deals with all the great philosophical questions of life, love, death and the afterlife... just come, see and listen!

to come to an end for now: there's a nice new novel by jess jochimsen (a young german comedian who is very witty and talented in my opinion): "bellboy". i really enjoyed reading it and can only recommend it...

see you soon my mates.

back again!

2005-10-16T22:59:00.000+02:00

yes, yeah, yep! i'm back in good old augsburg after a lovely but much too short week in sicily. i was staying there with my girlfriend and her relatives in the very picturesque village taormina up in the hills next to the coast and the etna-region.
it was a very chilled, relaxed week, full of good food and nice evenings. we had a bit more rain than over here in germany but nevertheless it was warm and holidaylike. mmmh, could have been much longer, actually.

and now it's back to normal. uni lectures and seminars start again tomorrow and there are a lot of rehearsals for upcoming drama shows and spoken word performances to come throughout the next weeks. so it's gonna be a really busy time for me from tomorrow on, but at least i've got something to do...

the next event i'll participate in will be the 3rd part of our "lesershow" on saturday 29th of october in about two weeks from now. so here's our flyer:

finally i've got some tips:
bought the new element of crime cd "mittelpunkt der welt" yesterday as well as thge new starsailor album "on the outside" and both of them are really really worth listening to. element of crime and especially sven regener haven't reinvented their sound but still they've got the best german lyrics at the moment (in my opinion at least).
starsailor are following their last album soundwise, they find a nice mixture in between quiet and loud and the singer's voice is outstanding again!
well, and i finished reading "middlesex" by jeffrey eugenides while on holiday. a very remarkable piece of literature by the author of "virgin suicides" but completely different in style and topic. just have look at it.

mmh, nothing more to say for today. see you all soon, hopefully saturday in two weeks time...

pandora's box

2005-09-29T12:53:00.000+02:00

after having read an article on a new kind of web radio i just tried it. and it works quite good i think. it's called pandora and can be found on www.pandora.com
it creates your own "radio stations" after you've been asked about your favourite artist(s). then it searches music and bands which sound similar to these and compiles them for you. very nice and worth checking out for music fanatics like you and me...

on the road again soon...

2005-09-27T11:30:00.000+02:00

here you go. another random picture of my growing graffiti collection. found it on some wall in auxburg. let's call it "the wanderer" or "the passenger". for me it stands for my trip to sicily that's soon to come. actually, we'll be leaving for some sunshine friday the 7th. for a week. not for good. i'm really looking forward to going there as i've never been to sicily before. it's gonna be sun, sun, culture, relaxing and some more sun hopefully. be jealous please (i definitely would, hehe)!!!

another update

2005-09-26T10:41:00.000+02:00

hey-ho let's go!

ages since i've written the last few words on my latest experiences out there...
i have been busy travelling around the northern part of germany for a week - well, it's already a whole week gone by since my return to my beloved girlfiend and therefore augsburg.
i was in berlin for a couple of days to visit my good friend franzi over there. it was a bloody good time we had there. i stayed over at her place in kreuzberg which was really lovely (and thanx thanx thanx again for a real nice stay, franzi!). not too much sightseeing for me, as i'd been to berlin several times before and i saw quite a lot back then. but for the first time i had the chance to cycle around town - on a beautiful and very relaxing "hollandrad" - and as the weather was perfect for such a task i did very well in doing "flo's biketour". it was quite different from getting to know that city by walking (which is my usual way of doing that) and i really enjoyed it very much.
for the first time i went to see the holocaust memorial and i was really excited: it's a very well planned and structured memorial and definitely a good thing to be there and make people rembember the holocaust. there were so many arguments beforehand about building it or not or how and why and so on, but i think it's a perfect, somehow abstract memorial that causes the right emotions and thoughts while wallking through.
we didn't go out that much, but i went on a great concert with franzi, where we saw the stars, koufax, supergrass and the stereo mc's. almost all of these bands were really good and worth the 20 euro we spent on them. the most surprising act were the stereo mc's, those old and used and drugged masters of rave, which really rocked the whole crowd. we were shaking our booties up until 3 in the morning. so, if you've got the chance to check them out once i hereby recommend them! another highlight was supergrass. they had a more unplugged set, which wasn't that rocking and they mostly presented songs of their new album (very good by the way: road to rouen) - extremly relaxed atmosphere (lampshades and dimmed light) and some good musicians, great voice and great sound.
on my last night in berlin - before leaving to hamburg - we went on some kind of spoken word performance by a group called the "unenthusiasten" - if i recall that correctly - which was a nice bunch of authors reading their own texts, some of them really good, some rather good, others quite boring. but the people and the atmosphere there was very pleasing and nice.
the next morning i "rushed" to hamburg with the german rail. i was in quite a hurry so that i could meet my cousin olli and i was really glad that my train was only half an hour late and not more (as usual). well, i went for coffee with my cousin then spent a night at marie's place in hamburg-othmarschen, which was really lovely (such a fab house and garden...) before finally having a huge party for marie's birthday some thirty kilometres south of hamburg in the middle of nowhere an enormous site - an old cottage house with a garden footballgound-size. nicey-nice. we had a lot of fun partying, although it got freezing cold at night, but there was a fireplace, my self-made chili (both vegan and meaty) and some alcohol to keep us warm.
next day i had another long train trip back to auxburg and here i am again sitting at my desk.
and it still took me a week to finally get a grip and write a post on all that stuff. but as i brought the lovely weather down here, anke and i decided to leave for wasserburg last weekend and as there's no dsl there i had to wait until today to write some words. and that was that and is this.
now uni is starting soon, but again i'll leave this country for a week in 10 days or so, hehe. more about that later.

have fun and enjoy yourself!!! life is great ;-)

street art!

2005-09-06T15:03:00.000+02:00

just found these nice graffiti pictures on my mobile. the quality is rather bad as my mobile's camera is real shite...
but in finding and posting these pix my old pictures of graffiti i took in several european cities popped up in my mind again (i'm quite sure they are somewhere deep down in an old shoe box in my parents' home in munich). some of them are really great and hereby i promise to post them as soon as possible (i think i'll have to scan! damn!)

well, there's no news so far, summer finally returned to germany after maases of water from above flooded bavaria - the shittiest august in a long time. i'm still in auxburg but change is gonna come soon as i'll be in berlin and hamburg next week - visiting franzi in berlin (and for sure some other people), rocking the popkomm there and then celebrating marie's birthday close to hamburg. definitely a fine way to spend time, i'm really looking forward to going on this short trip.

see you all soon!!!

bloody bastard summer!

2005-08-30T12:26:00.000+02:00

mmh, not a very nice headline. and actually i'm not at all in a bad mood. well, weatherwise i am. down here in the floody south of germany we had one of the worst summer months ever, i think. august was completely soaked. yak!
and now, as september is ready to start and rock, it's starting to boil again. strange strange weather, must be the climate change. at least we won't get any hurricanes i hope.

i had some real nice things going on the last few days and weeks - the only thing i did not enjoy was the weather (did i mention that before?). there was my birthday the other day and we had a huge gathering at the coq (it's french, meaning cock, hehe) a nice little bar, downtown auxburg. there were loads of people 'cause i've got soooooo many friends. i was very pleased to see them all. thanx for coming, mates...! and thanx for all the presents, of course.

well, and then there's other things do, like reading, researching music and literature, buying stuff, working (just a joke), working for uni (for real), doing some sports once in a while and and and

ah, and yesterday we went to see "charlie and the chocolate factory" by tim burton and it was great, fantastic, trippy, funny and the perfect adaptation of dahl's book (i read it years ago, but i think burton did a bloody good job). i can only recommend it , it's not at all just a film for kids.

let's see if i've got some music tips too!?
mmh, there's always firewater, a band that too few people know, but which is definitely one of my favourite bands. they come from new york, play alternative/indie tunes mixed with klezmer, blues and circus stuff - some songs remind me of tom waits or even eels and beck. the lyrics deal with dark, macabre and ironic topics. as you can see i really do like the band and hereby i want everyone of you to at least check out some songs (my tips: another perfect catastrophe, bad world, anything at all, so long superman, i am the rain) or albums (their latest one is a year old or so and an album full of covers: "songs we should have written" - very nice). do it. do it do it.

no book tip today, but maybe tomorrow.

have a nice day, week, month, year, decade, life. but nevertheless, see you soon somewhere out there...

angie merkel

2005-08-19T15:01:00.000+02:00

have been a tiny bit creative today. as i'm really fed up with the political circus in germany and the same stupid faces everywhere so close before our next major election i started to joke around about our beloved conservative leader recently. and so, with a little help from my friends mick jagger and keith richards the following little piece found its way on my new ibook and now onto this blog:

Angie Merkel (music and major parts of the lyrics by the rolling stones)

Angie, Angie, oh now this black cloud will appear!
Angie, Angie, where will you lead us from here?
With no loving in your soul and no money in our coat
We can't say we're satisfied
But Angie, Angie, you can't say you've never lied
Angie, you're horrible and ain't it time you said goodbye
Angie, how we hate you, just think of all those nights we cried!
All the dreams we hold so close seem to all go up in smoke
Let me scream this in your ear:
Angie, Angie, where will you lead us from here?

Angie, you creep, oh your distress will taste sweet
I hate that gladness in your eyes
But Angie, Angie, ain't it time you said goodbye?
With no loving in your soul and no money in our coat
We can't say we're satisfied
But Angie, we still hate you, baby
Everywhere I look I see your bloody face
You ain't a woman that's for goddamn sure
Come on disappear now in a haze
But Angie, Angie ain't it bad to live a lie?
Angie, Angie, we won't say we never tried

heya!

2005-08-19T14:39:00.000+02:00

cheers!

i just realized i haven't posted anything in quite a while, so here you go again: have been busy doing nothing but still have done quite a lot in the last few weeks. i settled down more and more here in good old bavaria. and i'm planning the next literature projects (coming up in auxburg in october and december so watch out!) with some friends and some guys from my uni.

well, and finally finally i found love or even better: love found me. i'm happy, enthusiastic, in a perfect mood and soooo much in love. it's great. she's perfect.
everybody should try that once in a while, i can really recommend it;-) so go out now and find somebody to love...

last weekend we had a great party in wasserburg (i posted a picture of the sun rising above the lake some time ago...). my family, their friends and my friends. a huge bunch of people and a lot of talking, drinking and enjoying the countryside. fun indeed.
and some people (not me) even came round to see exactly this sunrise:

it was a bloody good party. thanx to everybody who made it...

mmh, there sure is much more news but i can't think of any now.

have fun everyone!!!

good day sunshine!

2005-08-04T13:39:00.000+02:00

hello again!

i know i'm quite lazy and not posting very much at the moment. but i'm still waiting for my new ibook to arrive (ordered it a week ago or so). and then everything will be better and updated more often and stuff...

i'm quite busy enjoying my spare time here in auxburg. still a lot of friends to meet, parties to visit, things to do and money to spend (money i don't really have that is).

well, i just want to take this opportunity to write about the links on the right hand side of the blog. all sites by or about good friends of mine. the first 2 are the blogs of alex and verena my lovely hosts throughout my last few weeks in london and very good friends indeed (be careful out there in london these days;-)). extremebordercrossing is ablog by miri, which is a very interesting thing to read for people who are interested in the whole palestinian/israeli conflict as she's over there at the moment. then there's cordula's homepage, my old classmate now living and working and doing arts and stuff somewhere in the u.s. (boston it is most of the time). that page is followed by her band's website. they've just started playing together and i think it's real cool punkrock stuff. plasticpilots is another project by alex. finally, i posted the sites of my old bandmates and the drummer's sideproject. rock'n'roll. CHECK THESE SITES OUT, THEY'RE JUST A CLICK AWAY...

more news soon. summer is shitty and i have to do some dancing now to get more sun. see you...

Kommandeur Kloontsch

2005-07-23T13:37:00.000+02:00

here it comes, my first story worth reading. enjoy and comment!

KOMMANDEUR KLOONTSCH

Kloontsch, auch bekannt als Kloontsch, Kommandeur der krawenzenden und knuteschlagenden Knilche – wie ihn seine Anhänger häufig zu nennen pflegten –, war fürchterlich mies drauf an diesem Tag. Wäre er doch einfach im gerade neu beschlagenen Nagelbett liegengeblieben, ja dann hätte er sich wenigstens nur mit den für diese Jahreszeit üblichen sinnlosen Anrufen diverser Sektierer und anderem kyrillischem Abschaum herumschlagen müssen.
Aber er hatte natürlich unbedingt auf die Gasse hinaus gemusst. „Mal sehen was der ewig-dunkle Regenmoloch an Abenteuern bereithält,“ waren seine ersten Gedanken gewesen, nachdem der alltägliche, rasende Kopfschmerz im Bereich der linken Gehirnhälfte langsam nachließ und er wieder einigermaßen klare Gedanken fassen konnte. Und so erhob er sich zermartert, schlüpfte in seinen grellgelben Overall und strebte der Außenwelt entgegen.
Der komische kleine Mann im Hausflur mit seinen neonfarbenen, augenkrebsverursachenden Klamotten schob ihm im Hinausgehen wie jeden Morgen eine Handvoll Pillen zu, welche Kloontsch frag- und emotionslos mit einem großen Schluck lecker hochprozentig-eisgekühlten Alkohols in seinen Magen spülte (sollte das etwa der seit langem verschollene Geschmack des Suds aus dem halluzinogen wirkenden Kraut Jaristafai sein?). Wie auch immer, die Visionen fingen schnell, vehement und eigentlich schon beim Durchschreiten der silbernen Hauspforte an.
Der Kommandeur ließ seinen getrübten Blick langsam über die Gasse schweifen, die er nun seit ziemlich genau 67 Stunden sein Hegemonialgebiet zu nennen pflegte. Wie aus dem Nichts erschien ein grässlicher Schwarm einäugiger Flugratten, die ihn im Vorbeifliegen aufs übelste beschimpften. Kloontsch erschlug exemplarisch drei besonders laut und aufrührerisch wirkende Männchen und schritt dann mit grimmigem Lächeln tiefer in die sich verbreiternde Straße hinein, seine Hand ließ er voll vorausschauender Vorsicht sehr nah am Abzug seiner äußerst antik wirkenden Pistole baumeln.
Einer psychedelischen Aura folgend, welche sich wie der Schweif eines Regenbogens hinunter in die kesselförmig unter ihm liegende Altstadt schlängelte, stapfte Kloontsch langsam aber zielstrebig in seinen immer schwerer werdenden Militärstiefeln in Richtung Zentrum.
Urplötzlich wurde er in seinen Bewegungen unterbrochen, denn von irgendwoher erschienen rund um ihn herum eine Handvoll zu groß geratene Kleinwüchsige welche wie irr um Kloontsch herumrannten, dabei die wildesten und würzigsten Flüche ausstießen und gleichzeitig in atemberaubenden Tempo mit ihren dürren Ärmchen herumfuchtelten. Dies machte Kloontsch ganz kirre im Kopfe und gleichzeitig spürte er ein undefinierbares Pieksen in seiner Lendengegend. Er sah an sich selbst munter herunter und entdeckte zu seinem allergrößten Vergnügen seinen treuen Adjutanten Schnappzapf, der, um Aufmerksamkeit von seinem Kommandanten zu erheischen, piekste und quiekste.
Kloontsch erhob das Wort in lauter Lautstärke, jeden unlauteren Wettbewerb von vornherein lärmend vermeidend.
„Sei still! Dich brauche ich jetzt nicht!“ fuhr er befehlend seinen Adjutanten an. Diese Gefühlsschwankungen seines Kommandeurs kannte der kleine Schnappzapf schon zu genüge. Ebenso fürchtete er die üblen Strafmaßnahmen, die er schon unzählige Male über sich hatte ergehen lassen müssen, wenn er seinem Herrn nicht aufs Wort gehorcht hatte. So verstummte er verstimmt und schwieg beleidigt. Was blieb ihm auch anderes übrig – er war ja seit seiner Geburt zum Mitläufertum gezwungen. Er war nur ein Teil des großen Kommandeurs Kloontsch – wenn natürlich auch sein Bester.
Nachdem hiermit die Zuständigkeiten geklärt waren, befasste sich der Kommandeur wieder mit den vor ihm schwirrenden und sausenden Kleinwüchsigen, die allmählich seine Sinne zu benebeln begannen. Schwindel durchfuhr seinen Kopf und trotz der festen Militärstiefel fingen nun auch seine Beine an zu rebellieren. Sie wollten einfach nicht länger seinen Befehlen gehorchen und widersetzten sich seinem Kommando. Immer weiter weg sausten seine Füße und Kloontsch blieb nichts anderes übrig als irgendwie zu versuchen das Gleichgewicht zu halten. Wie zwei gigantische Gumminudeln hingen seine Extremitäten am Torso und er schaukelte in der Kommandozentrale weit oben, wie Löwenzahn im Wind, von Ost nach West und von Hinten nach Vorne. Aus den Augenwinkeln konnte er sehen, dass seine Beine nicht das einzige waren was sich in letzter Zeit verändert hatte. Die dürren Ärmchen der Eindringlinge, die sich hier so plötzlich und vehement in seine Welt gedrängt hatten, begannen nun anzuwachsen.
Immer länger und dicker schienen sich die Arme aufzublasen und bedrängten schon bald den Kommandeur aufs gefährlichste. „67 Stunden!“ zuckte es durch seinen Kopf. Schweiß lief seine Stirn herunter, perlte an seiner Nase ab und fiel dann mehrere Meter in freiem Fall an seinen Beinen entlang hinunter auf die harten Pflastersteine der Gasse. 67 Stunden war dies sein Hegemonialgebiet gewesen. 67 Stunden war er der unbestrittene Herrscher dieser Gasse gewesen und noch viel mehr, denn sein Reich erstreckte sich bis weit in den Altstadtkessel hinein. Und nun sollte alles wegen dieser Handvoll Wichte vorbei sein – sein Traum endgültig ausgeträumt? „Neiiiiin!“ schrie Kloontsch mit vor Zorn zitternder Stimme.
Und dann wußte er wissentlich wider sein bestes Gewissen was zu tun war. Es gab nur einen – sehr widerwärtigen – Weg seine Widersacher loszuwerden und diesen hatte er erst am vorigen Tag in seiner wöchentlichen Gramistel-Lehrstunde zum ersten Mal erprobt. Er hatte keinerlei Ahnung ob es klappen würde, doch er mußte es einfach versuchen. Und so holte er tief Luft. Und tiefer. Am tiefsten. Er holte so tief Luft, wie wohl noch niemand je zuvor in diesem Universum. Seine Lunge schien zu bersten, es fühlte sich an als wären 3 m³ Luft in dieser komprimiert worden, doch genau so musste es sein, um das nun beginnende, äußerst spektakuläre Spektakel zu entfachen.
Der Kommandeur begann nun die Luft langsam aber stetig ausströmen zu lassen wobei seine Stimmbänder nach und nach anfingen zu vibrieren. So entstand ein immer lauter werdender, sehr merkwürdiger Ton, sehr hoch und doch ungewöhnlich rein im Klang, ein Ton den man in dieser wild-wütenden Gegend des kapistelschen Planetensystems noch nie gehört hatte. Er klang wie tausend wilde rote Afgohmblüten deren Duft so intensiv ist, dass jede Wesen das diesem Phänomen ausgesetzt wird nicht umhin kann sich einer wohlverdienten Ruhepause hinzugeben. Auch auf die aggressiven, atonal aufstoßenden Angreifer Kloontschs begann der Ton Wirkung zu zeigen: sie ließen nach und nach vom Kommandeur ab, ihre Bewegungen wurden langsamer und sie schrumpften schrecklich schnell.
Kloontsch verstummte kurz darauf und das letzte Echo dieses faszinierenden klanglichen Meisterwerks verhallte tief im Altstadtkessel. Die ganze Stadt befand sich in einem gemütlichen Rauschzustand, alles war weich und nahm sich Zeit von welcher es nach dem Kampf unseres kommandierenden Krawallkopfes plötzlich wieder viel mehr zu geben schien. Kloontsch begann seinen Weg nun ungestört fortzusetzen, leicht benommen von der soeben vollbrachten Anstrengung. Nach einigen Minuten begann die vormals gepflasterte Straße in einen schlammigen Pfad überzugehen. Hier begann er also, der gefährliche aber notwendige Abstieg in die sagenumwobene, unnahbare, furchterregende und kesselförmige Altstadt von Brimboxlum am äußersten Ende von Kapistel III, der letzten anarchosyndikalistischen Enklave diesseits der sunogischen Sonnen.

© Florian Hüttl & Henning Rader, 2005

hello says the flo!

2005-07-23T13:18:00.000+02:00

yoyoyo!

i know i've been and still am a lousy blogger as i haven't posted much recently. but i've been busy busy busy enjoying my loads and loads of spare time without getting bored. last friday there was this hilarious evening i mentioned in my last post, we had a great time in reading all this stories, playing those little scenes. and we had a wonderful audience that was very concentrated and never got bored throughout the long long evening. it was a lot of input with some music in between and not all of our texts were easy-going fun stuff.
i was very nervous before that evening started, because i had decided to read one of my own stories (i wrote it with my good friend henning) which was a great deal for me as i never read anything like that in public before. and the story is quite weird stuff, too. but i finally did it and i got some very charming and pleasing comments, which i hope were honest critique and this encourages me to go on with my surreal and grotesque little stories. i think i'll post it here soon, so that those of you able to understand german can have a quick read through it. i'd love to read your honest critique on that story in form of a comment or two. so just do it, do it do it ;-)

after that hilarious evening last friday i had some nice days here in auxburg and then i went to lörrach with my mother to visit some relatives there and to do some day trips to switzerland (lörrach is very close to basel, for those of you who haven't got a clue what i'm talking about). and so we went to zürich on wednesday and to basel on thursday. both of the towns are really beautiful and picturesque, i very much enjoyed having a stroll through the ancient aprts of the cities. as both basel and zurich have never been destroyed in world war 1 or 2, the appearance of the cities differs quite a lot to german cities of similar age. i can only recommend a visit to those of you who have never been there... but one day is definitely too little time to see enough. in besel we went to the tingely museum which was a great experience too. i just love his sculptures. they are so big, enourmos and loud. quite industrial sound, long before that genre was acutally invented ;-)

well, i think that's it for now, tonight there's gonna be a bbq and then a great dj-set by dj koze at the kerosin, hopefully!

so take care out there, especially my friends in london and see you all soon!

some news...

2005-07-13T14:03:00.000+02:00

hey mates!

i know i haven't been writing some days, but i've been bloody busy and so i couldn't find any spare time to post some words. and without a computer it's quite tricky too...

but the important news first: this friday, 15th of july, there's gonna be some kind of lecture where we will read out (loud) some literature and we will have some live music and other stuff. it's called SPRECHSTUNDE and will start at 8ish at the CAFÉ STRIESE in auxburg. i think it's gonna be quite interesting and we've got a lot of funny texts too, so if anyone of you is round here in bavaria... see you there!

well, and now to something completely different: my return and rebirth as a true auxburgian has finally happened. i already moved my stuff from munich to auxburg and i'm kind of living here again. and it's fantastic! my room is really nice and so is my new flatmate - my good old friend gerald whom i know since my very first day of studying here - and we already had a fabulous "farewell carmen / welcome flo"-party last thursday. it was great to see all those people again, the flat was quite crowded and a lot of drinks were drunk until 4 in the morning. rock'n'roll!!!

although i don't have anything to do (like a job or uni) at the moment i can't really complain about being bored - there's always stuff to do, friends to meet, things to buy and fun to have.

as all of you might guess i'm in a very good mood and i haven't fallen in that dark hole created by the cultural shock of coming back. and i hope i won't either. i do miss england and all my friends there or back in their home countries already (or finally) but i'm sure we'll meet soon and i'm very much looking forward to doing that. the summer is still long and hasn't really begun yet.

see you all soon and kisses from auxburg to everybody out there in this big wide and wild world ;-)

just a quickie!!!

2005-07-04T12:02:00.000+02:00

hey!

just a quick update as it's been a week or so since i've written the last stuff. have been really busy (that means if not working but having something to do can be called busy!?). on wednesday i moved the first things to augsburg and it was abloddy hot day and some kind of odyssey as we had to go from munich to wasserburg (to put my new bed on the roof of lorenz' car) and then from there to augsburg via munich again. but we had a swim in that lovely small lake i posted a picture of the other day; and somehow we managed to avoid the thunderstorms on our way to augsburg.

well, after having moved the most essential things (stereo & bed & some books)to my new flat (pix will follow a.s.a.p.) i went back to munich for two days, met a lot of people and then i came to augsburg on friday to visit a seminar at uni (sprecherziehung) which is always fun and in the evening i saw the first rehearsal of the drama group i'm gonne rejoin immediately. a very nice day which found a lovely ending with some beers at the student pub near campus and then some more drinks and a spontaneous dj-session with michi at the kerosin (augsburg's best club i have to admit, and there was not one better club in england i've got to say). a hard night but fun.

the rest of the weekend was quite relaxed, i saw some more good friends, a strange play named "judith" and some strange shortfilm-collection named "ten minutes older" (both maybe too art-farty for me - i don't mean my friends of course).

mmh, and that's it for the moment, i'm at uni right now signing in for some courses in winter and then i'll head off back to munich for a couple of days.

so see ya all soon!

ah, and here's a music-tip:
i bought a bloody good sampler of some strange but good bands (some of them from munich others from america). it's called "freunde selbstgemachter unterhaltung" and published by the label gutfeeling in munich. some songs are quite strange, other are very catchy, so if you've got the possibility check it out...

oh sweet bavaria!

2005-06-26T13:09:00.000+02:00

here you go... the first picture i posted. and it's one of the earliest pictures in my head too: the view from my grandparents' house in wasserburg in the morning. by the way, this is the lake i learnt swimming in.
i'm here at the moment and it's lovely as usual in the summer. very hot and humid and the lake is just a minute's walk away - yeah! indeed a very big contrast to london where i spent my last two or three weeks in england at my good friends verena and alex.
bavaria in the summertime is something i definitely can recommend. i'll post some more pictures soon to make those people jealous who have never been here (and those who come from here shall get homesick, hehe!)
had a busy last week, as i met all my friends, went out every night, spent 2 days in augsburg, went to the countryside yesterday and so on. so it's no wonder i slept so sound and really long last night. just got up 2 hours ago and the first thing i did to wake up was having a swim in the lake - great!!!

as you might imagine, i feel quite fine here in germany again, but on the other hand i miss all my folks back there in england too... it was such a great year over there and something quite different from home! ah, and in thinking of england i hereby want to thank all of those over there who made this year a good one. and some people i want to thank via this blog (no clue if anybody reads it anyway): the first those people who gave me a home in my homeless phase last month, which are specially alex and verena, as i kind of lived in their flat (it was lovely and a very relaxed contrast to busy london outside the flat's windows). and of course clemens has to be thanked loads and loads for having me round his place almost every weekend without complaining once (but hitting me with a frying pan just for the fun of it). and then there was jean-philippe who lend me his flat for some days; and franzi and j-p and verena and alex again who helped with all my suitcases and bags on the way back home; and of course miri who organized a car and so many more people that i can't name all now who made the last year a very pleasant one for me: THANX FOR EVERYTHING.
i'll be happy to return some of these favours once you are around in munich or auxburg...
puh, it's getting hot and the water seems to call out for me. so i think i'll leave the blog a blog and dive into the lake once again...

see you soon.

back in da hometown, yo yo yo !!!

2005-06-22T15:40:00.000+02:00

hello out there!!!

i finally made it back to germany and to be more precise: to munich. last sunday my good friend miri and i headed off early in the morning from very sunny and hot london. we got this small fiat punto or something which was filled up until the roof with all our stuff...

we had a quick drive to dover and a easy and very nice ferry journey over the channel. from calais we went straight into france and took the wrong way to end up in brussels two hours later. beforehand our plan was to drive via strasbourg but we thought about visiting brussels anyway, so we took a long break there. we didn't know what to expect and so we just loved it as we arrived in the old part of the city, where one can find lovely old houses, slightly run-down sometimes but with a lot of heart and culture to it. another thing you've got a lot there is turkish shops and restaurants. actually there were so many turkish shops, bars, cafés and restaurants that we decided to rename the town. now it's called "BRÜSSÜL".

after having some food and astroll through this very pittoresque town we got in our 60 to 80° celsius hot car and drove off. we crossed belgium and holland in a couple of hours and finally entered good old german soil at aachen around ninish in the evening. i wanted to drive directly to munich but luckily miri convinced me to stay somewhere over night and so we found this great youth hostel set in an old castle high above koblenz with a great view over the two rivers meeting there (rhine and mosel).

after a short night we had to get on the road again as soon as possible as we had to avoid the heat. and after six hours of driving through god knows how many german states we were back where it all started from (my life, my year abroad,...): MUNICH.

and today (after two days of time to adapt to germany and the cultural shock being back brings with itself) i have to say that i love being back. it's summer, it's hot, i already saw loads of people i haven't seen in ages and i've been swimming and drinking good bavarian beer and so on. am in augsburg at the moment to check all my uni stuff and dates and meet all my good mates here and i'm really enjoying that too...

puh, that was a lot going on for me the last few days. i'm in a hilariously good mood and quite euphoric at the moment and now i'll stop this update as this bloody "cip-pool" is too hot, so i've got to get out and about now.

friends & fun & sound & sun in brighton

2005-06-16T01:48:00.000+02:00

hey folks!

just came back to london after 2 lovely days in brighton, where i went to say goodbye to all my friends and all my favourite spots and venues. and i have to say it worked out really fine.

yesterday was a nice and sunny day and i spent a lot of my time at the seafront.
at night i went to a gig at the concorde 2 and we saw two hilarious acts i hereby definitely want to recommend: brakes and buck 65.
brakes were support and playing some really nice straight-forward punky rock, without being too arty-farty as a lot of the other english bands at the moment. very energetic and i think they'll publish their debut album in a couple of weeks - listen to it!!!
the main performer - buck 65 - was just unbelievably good. i wouldn't call his sound hip-hop, as it's much more than that. he does a one-man-show which is very funny and all he needs therefore is a turntable and some samplers. his lyrics are so weird, absurd and utterly funny i stood there concentrating to understand the very last bit and in between i almost laughed my head off. the whole thing - to come to an end now - reminded me of beck's odelay period (if anybody remembers his life shows back then: much rougher than today) and sometimes his voice has a strange resemblance with tom waits. but all in all this is just a bad attempt of me to describe something you should actually listen to yourself...

today i had another relaxing day at the sea and around brighton and a nice last night at the prince albert.

ok, i think this are enough news for today, i finally managed to post my old e-mail to germany from the last 8 months (thanx to cordula for sending me those i thought that were lost!). just to fill up this blog and as a nostalgic view back!

ok. that's it for today, have fun and dance in the sun (if there is no sun then dance to get some; i call it sun-dance and i believe it works)

see you...

in the night

2005-06-14T01:27:00.000+02:00

hey folks,
it's already in the middle of the night, but this new toy named blog keeps me awake. i'm still sitting here at the table designing and rearranging words and thinking about the best way to publish and what to publish and and and...
tomorrow i'm going to go brighton for two last days at the sea and i hope the weather will be fine as i don't have anything to do except from relaxing at the seafront, eating some falafel and meet some of my mates for the last time. ahh, it's gonna be wonderful, but hereby i promise i'll shed some tears for all my friends out there who have to work or study or whatever. tomorrow night i'll see buck 65, a really great mc, at the concorde 2. i'm really looking forward to that as i listen to some of his stuff this very moment and i have to say: he's great, that is some really good hip-hop, very unique and advanced; definiteley worth listening in my opinion...
well, let's see how he is performing all that live! SEE YA!!!

old news

2005-06-13T11:57:00.000+02:00

ok, dann poste ich halt jetzt doch meine rausgegangenen e-mails an die heimat - nur damit hier überhaupt mal was steht und außerdem waren diese mails ja nichts anderes als ein blog in e-mail form... konnte leider nicht mehr finden als die unten stehenden, da fehlen die mails von september bis februar (falls die noch irgendjemand in seinem wust von e-mail haben sollte: einfach schicken). ich denke, die mails geben nen netten überblick über meine zeit in england und falls irgendjemand nen kommentar dazu abgeben möchte, so soll sie/er dies tun und natürlich verbesserungsvorschläge sowieso...

london

2005-06-13T00:27:00.000+02:00

german:

yo leute,

hab hier gerade meinen ersten eintrag auf englisch hinter mich gebracht und somit mit hilfe meines guten freundes alex' mein erstes blogpost gestzt. bin nach wie vor noch nicht in deutschland sondern immer noch auf der insel, genauer gesagt in london. und zwar seit dienstag und voraussichtlich noch bis nächstes wochenende. habe spass hier, denn ich hab nix zu tun und die große stadt gefällt mir sehr. und so sehe ich sehr viele ausstellungen an und laufe, laufe und laufe bis meine füße abfallen durch die stadt. das wetter passt auch auf jeden fall, es ist halt london und da hat die sonne bekanntlich ja eher so gastauftritte.

english:

i won't repeat that. haven't decided on my official 'blog-language' yet, but it might be german if the majority doesn't complain. or whatever. just decided NOT TO POST my angland-updates as they are documents of the past and who wants to live in the past except from strange people running around in a mod-costume and wearing funny clothes like half the population of brighton...!?

hello/goodbye

2005-06-13T00:12:00.000+02:00

it's sad. i say hello to this blog and everybody reading it, and at the same time i'm going to say goodbye to england very soon as my time here has come to an end. it's a pity i didn't have this blog before coming here. but as i don't have that many news now and as i have to figure out how all this new stuff here works i'm going to post my monthly mail-updates for my german friends tomorrow...

mail an alle vom 31.5.2005: flo's last england update

2005-05-31T12:23:00.000+02:00

hallo ihr alle in und aus germanien!

tja, dies wird wohl erstmal meine letzte mail aus england sein. denn -
huiuiui wie die zeit vergeht, wer hat da an der uhr gedreht? - die
acht monate sind vorbei und ich werde alsbald wieder in der heimat
weilen, also im guten alten bayern halt. und zwar so ab dem 15. juni
rum. erstmal muenchen dann ab juli auxburg. also freut euch und
bereitet tolle begruessungsfeiern vor oder halt auch nicht.

hier ist nach wie vor alles richtig schoen und gut und so. letzten
freitag musste ich zum letzten mal arbeiten und ich habe mich in der
letzten woche schweren herzens von vielen meiner kollegen und
schuelern verabschiedet. faellt natuerlich nicht so einfach, vor allem
weil ich viele dieser leute erst mal lange lange nicht mehr sehen
werde. naja, und jetzt hab ich halt noch ganz viel freie zeit die ich
in der sonne und am meeer geniessen werde (wenn die sonne denn mal
scheint) und zwar ab morgen in brighton und ab naechster woche werde
ich mich dann noch ne zeitlang in london tummeln!

mmh, ansonsten gibt's eigentlich nicht soviel zu berichten und deshalb
verbleibe ich mit den allerbesten gruessen und einem see you soon und
den obligatorischen tips im postskriptum...

euer flo.

p.s.:

die kulturtips
- die neue eels-platte "blinking the lights", ne schoene doppel-cd
- "the jacket" ein recht sehenswerter film mit adrian brody und keira knightley
- schon laenger draussen aber nen knaller: das neue roots manuva album
"awfully deep" wer mehr so auf elektronisches zeux und netten hip-hop
steht.

so, aller guten dinge sind drei!!!

sammelmail vom 3.5.2005: guten tach von der insel

2005-05-03T12:21:00.000+02:00

so, hallo ihr alle da draussen in der welt!!!

verdammich, jetzt ist schon mai und ich hab meinen
eine-mail-pro-monat-rythmus total durcheinandergebracht. aber
nichtsdestotrotz gibt's jetzt mal wieder ein nettes lebenszeichen aus
dem land der muellengel(laender). wer sich nicht fuer mich sondern
eher fuer meine grandiosen kulturtips interessiert, darf uebrigens
genau jetzt ganz nach unten scrollen.
wie gesagt bin ich noch immer im england und genau heute hat die erste
meiner letzten vier arbeitswochen angefangen. fuer die schueler wird's
jetzt richtig ernst, denn in den naechsten drei wochen haben sie ihre
pruefungen und ich helf bei der vorbereitung. ist fuer mich auch ganz
spannend, denn ich hoffe natuerlich, dass sie mit oder wegen oder
trotz meiner hilfe gut, besser oder auch passabel abschneiden werden.
seit ostern ist bei mir natuerlich auch wieder einiges passiert,
obwohl ich auch jetzt nicht mit meinen tagebucheintraegen nerven
werde. ich war ja (wie in der letzten mail erwaehnt) mitte april als
begleitlehrer eine woche auf nem schueleraustausch in karlsruhe mit
dabei, und das war ne supererfahrung. man hat die schueler mal von ner
anderen seite kennengelernt und ausserdem hab ich karlsruhe und
umgebung ja ooch jar nueschd jekannt vorher und dit war ooch janz
interesting! nette leute kennengelernt dort. tja, und nach meiner
rueckkehr hat wieder das arbeiten angefangen und schoen freizeit und
wetter genossen so gut es ging und tolle konzerte gesehen und cds
gekauft und filme geglotzt und und und. ihr seht mir fehlt's hier an
kaum etwas und doch fehlt mir auch deutschland ab und zu bzw all die
leute dort und augsburg und muenchen und brezen etc. na, und deswegen
freu ich mich auf die rueckkehr in heimischere gefilde. inzwischen
weiss ich auch schon etwas genauer wann das sein wird: so gegen mitte
juni (genauer wird's aber auch nicht jetzt, oder doch) so um den 15.
sag ich jetzt mal. und wegen meiner augsburger wohnungssuche: da
scheint sich doch schon jetzt was ergeben zu haben, also alle mal grad
nicht weitersuchen fuer mich!
am sonntag hab ich anstatt kreuzberg zu zerlegen einen netten ausflug
nach bath gemacht um ein bad zu nehmen und herumzuflegeln mit meinen
zwei augsburger genoosen tobi und jockl. des war super. haben kaum
kultur gemacht (viel zu teuer und eh langweilig) sondern mal nen
richtig guten abend in nem schoenen pub verbracht und sind sogar recht
lang unter freiem himmel gesessen. nett war's.
so, des langt jetzt erstmal, ich wuensche euch das allerbeste und sage
nur bis bald, vielleicht gibt's ja nochmal nen update, jetzt wird auf
jeden fall weitergearbeitet...

bis denne,

der flo.

kulturtips:
1. die neue eels-platte ist wunderbar, garndios und ein meisterwerk an
schaurig-schoenen melancholischen gute-launestueckchen. undbedingt mal
reinhoeren ist alles was ich da sage...
2. durch meine gastgeberin in karllsruhe bin ich auf stephen fry als
autor aufmerksam geworden und bin jetzt grad dabei, das dritte buch
von vielen die er geschrieben hat zu verschlingen. es heisst 'making
history' und will wohl am besten auf englisch gelesen werden. eine
abgefahrene, humorvolle geschichte...
3. an filmen hat mir 'the interpreter' recht gut gefallen. sean penn
UND nicole kidman. mehr gibt's da eh nicht zu sagen...

SO, DES WAR'S.

massenmail vom 31.3.2005: flo's backup for the krauts

2005-03-31T12:18:00.000+02:00

hallo ihr alle,

jaja, ich lebe noch, auch wenn ich mich ne halbe ewigkeit nicht mehr
per so-laeuft's-in-england-sammelmail gemeldet habe. aber ich bin
sogar noch in meinem "eine-mail-pro-monat"-rhythmus wie ich
festgestellt habe, denn heute ist ja erst der 31.maerz...
so wahnsinnig viel neues gibt's eigentlich auch gar nicht zu
berichten. mein alltag besteht immer noch darin brav zur schule zu
gehen und dabei versuche ich immer noch deutsche sprache und kultur zu
vermitteln (ob ich da der bestmoegliche mensch fuer bin, sei hiermit
dahingestellt). inzwischen habe ich sogar noch nen nebenjob an ner
dritten schule, die dringend meine hilfe brauchten, da deren
deutschassistent zurueck in die heimat musste. naja, ich freu mich
natuerlich ueber mehr geld und die moeglichkeit neue und andere
erfahrungen an dieser schule zu machen.
in meiner freizeit verbringe ich nach wie vor viel zeit in brighton um
lecker in pubs, ins kino oder halt ab und zu in den ein oder anderen
club zu gehen. und samstag wird immer schoen rugby um halb elf im park
gespielt. und wenn alle leute weg sind - so in den osterferien zum
beispiel, wie im moment - na dann langweil ich mich halt ein bisschen
in worthing rum, sitz am meer, schmeiss steine und versuch manchmal
auch halbherzig eine von den ekligen, mutierten haesslichen moewen
(oder auch "shite-hawks" wie sie einer meiner schueler treffend
bezeichnete) zu treffen (stimmt gar nicht, aber selbst wenn ich's
versuchte, die sind zu schnell). diese moewen sind uebrigens genauso
aetzend wie tauben, also schlussendlich ueberdimensionierte
flugratten.
tja, jetzt sind dann noch ne woche osterferien hier und ich werd wohl
noch ein paar tagesausfluege in die umgebung machen und nochmal nach
london fahren und halt schoen viel freizeit haben und geniessen. und
dann bin ich vom 8. bis zum 16.april sogar noch mal ne woche in
deutschland bevor ich dann im juni endgueltig zurueckkehre (an alle
augsburger sei hiermit die bitte gerichtet mal augen und ohren nach
ner wohnung oder nem zimmer fuer den armen obdachlosen flo so ab
august oder september offen zu halten bzw. zu spitzen).
und zwar hat sich mir die grandiose moeglichkeit eroeffnet eine meiner
drei schulen auf nen schueleraustausch nach karlsruhe zu begleiten.
und da hab ich natuerlich sofort "ja! hier! ich will mit!!! mach ich
auf jeden!!!!!" geschrien, wenn auch in leiser lautstaerke, hehe! wird
zwar sicher kein urlaub fuer mich aber gleichzeitig ne super erfahrung
und ich muss ne woche nicht hier in den "april-showers" rumhaengen,
die da mit sicherheit kommen werden. und falls irgendjemand von euch
in der naehe sein sollte zu der zeit: ich finde sicher nen freien
abend an dem man sich in karlsruhe treffen koennte...
so, jetzt mal schluss mit dem ganzen geschreibe, ihr habt sicher alle
schon fast augenkrebs vom vielen lesen bekommen, und dafuer will ich
ja nun auch wieder nicht verantwortlich sein, gell!?

in diesem sinne wuensche ich euch allen einen schoenen
fruehlings-anfang, auf dass die blumen und hormone spriessen und die
haeuser und geputzt werden moegen und bis ganz ganz bald schreibt

the flo.

p.s.: fast haette ich die obligatorischen (pop)kultur-tips vergessen:

1. wer lust auf neue, (meiner meinung nach) supertolle musik hat,
sollte doch auf jeden fall mal in folgende alben reinhoeren:
- jack johnson "in between dreams" (sehr schoen relaxte
singer/songwriter-mucke aus dem noch schoeneren hawaii)
- beck "guero" (ein neues meisterwerk des tausendsassas, wieder mehr
in richtung "odelay" und "midnite vultures" und weniger traurigkeit
als auf dem letzten album)
- queens of the stone age "luulabies to paralyze" (das rockt wie
hoelle und ist teuflisch gut im wahrsten sinne des wortes)
so, da sollte fuer jeden was nettes dabei sein!
2. ein genialer, sehr lustiger film (ich hab zumindest zwei stunden
traenen gelacht) mit viel viel retro-optik ist wes andersons ("the
royal tenenbaums") neuer film "the life aquatic with steve zissou" (in
deutschland unter dem titel "die tiefseetaucher"). unbedingt angucken,
vor allem die leute die "the royal tenenbaums" mochten...
3. tja, da fehlt nur noch ein buch und da hab ich nix aktuelles zur
hand, habe aber ein tolles buch ueber einen jungen mit
asperger-syndrom gelesen vojn mark haddon: "the curious incident of
the dog in the night time", keine ahnung ob's des auf deutsch schon
gibt....

SO JETZT IST SCHLUSS!!!

post vom 1.2.2005: februar-england-update und tip-top top-tip

2005-02-01T15:46:00.000+01:00

hallo ihr alle!

nun ist schon wieder februar, und ich hab gerade gemerkt es ist zeit fuer ein update aus england. viel gibts nicht zu schreiben, ausser das der winter hier sehr viel milder ist als in germanien. und das ist auch gut, denn die schweinekaelte und den schnee(matsch) vermisse ich nicht wirklich.

mir gehts nach wie vor blendend hier drueben. der unterricht laeuft super, inzwischen kenne ich die schueler und bemerke auch schon einige fortschritte seit meinem start hier im oktober.

und das schoene ist, das (da ja schon wieder februar ist) in eineinhalb wochen erst mal wieder ne woche ferien sind. tja, das lehrerleben ist schon ein kreuz, hehe. ich merke gerade wieder wie die zeit verfliegt und wie wenig ich bis jetzt von england gesehen habe, deshalb werde ich das alles jetzt nachholen und in meinen ferien und an ostern und im juni undundund und deshalb muss ich jetzt die e-mail beenden und schnell england erkunden... sorry!

ich hoffe euch gehts allen gut in deutschland und der welt und ihr wisst ja: ich freu mich immer ueber neigkeiten oder ein lebenszeichen!

zum schluss noch ein tip-top ausgeh-tip fuer naechsten freitag an alle leute die sich in der naehe augsburgs befinden und spass an literatur und lesungen haben:

am freitag, 4.2. findet im CAFE STRIESE der zweite teil der LESERSHOW (der erste war im juli und ein bombenerfolg) statt: viele kleine gedichtchen, anekdoten und geschichtchen rund ums thema liebe wenn ich mich nicht irre. und, wer weiss, vielleicht kann man ja auch meine exil-astral-stimme aus england hoeren!? (FLYER IM ANHANG)

also, wenn ihr zeit habt schaut da doch vorbei.

bis bald ihr alle und macht's gut,

der flo.

lange mail am 6.1.2005: a guats neies!

2005-01-06T16:25:00.001+01:00

servus ihr alle!

tja, hiermit also auch vom flo ein verspaetetes aber dennoch herzlichst gemeintes GUTES NEUES JAHR an euch alle. auf das 2005 ein schoenes, erfreuliches und geistig wie koerperlich gesundes jahr fuer uns alle werden moege!!!

ich bin inzwischen wieder auf der insel und auch schon wieder am arbeiten. gibt kaum neuigkeiten, ausser dass es gerade nicht regnet sondern halt die sonne scheint, man weiss nur nie wie lange. ausserdem ist es waermer als in deutschland, aellabaetsch! und das meer ist auch schoen.

da ich eh nicht weiss was ich schreiben soll, hoer ich jetzt lieber auf fuers erste. also bis bald und hier der unvermeidbare musiktip: inzwischen auch nicht mehr taufrisch, jedoch wahnsinnig gut ist die neue und (suizidbedingt) letzte platte von elliott smith "from a basement on the hill" (oder so aeh! nlich) - rotiert bei mir sehr oft, laut und lange und ist was fuer freunde trauriger ab und an mal beatelesker wintermelodien. mal reinhoeren!

in diesem sinne macht es gut und bis bald...

der flo.

infopost vom 7.12.2004: musike, musike

2004-12-07T15:39:00.000+01:00

hallo ihr alle!

erstmal vielen dank fuer eure zahlreichen antworten. ich bin am fleissig zurueckantworten, und nu gibt's doch noch eine mail vor weihnachten.

und wie immer dreht sich (fast) alles um musik!

denn fuer alle von euch, die sich um den 15.12. in und um muenchen befinden, geht jetzt ein heisser konzert-tip hinaus: NO SUE SESSION are back!

wem das nichts sagt, der lasse sich hiermit sagen, dass das eine tolle, kleine drei mann-kombo aus muenchen ist, bei der ich fuer so acht jaehrchen als "saenger" zugange war.

und nu hamse ihre neue cd fertig und sind bereit das haus zu rocken. schoener breiter gitarrenrock mit deutschen texten (falls ich noch up-to-date bin!)

dit wird sicher'n spass, den ich leider verpass.

aber ihr koennt dabei sein, fuer (glaub ich) umsonst. ich hab den flyer mal in den anhang gepackt und hier kommen die daten:

no sue session album release konzert
mittwoch, 15. dezember
im salon erna (optimolwerke)
20 uhr, eintritt frei!!!
! + special guest (die rockband vom flo klimpke, a.ka. mr. steam y dumpling)

so, des war's von meiner seite, ich wuensche euch allen ne schoene zeit und auch schoene feiertage falls man nix mehr voneinander hoert, sieht oder liest. macht's gut und bis bald,

der flo.

p.s.: musiktip nr.4: ist zwar schon nen hype (zumindest hier in britain!) aber macht trotzdem gute laune. sogar trotz bzw. vielleicht auch wegen der achziger-anleihen: the scissor sisters.

atpfent, atpfent

2004-12-01T04:38:00.000+01:00

hallo ihr lieben leutchen,

jaja, es wurde auch mal wieder zeit, ich weiss! und somit gibt's hier das allerneueste, aktuellste und albernste wie-mag's-dem-komischen-flo-in-england-ergehen monatsupdate fuer dezember.

und ihm (dem flo, also mir) geht's super! england gefaellt mir immer besser und ich fuehle mich gut in meinem kleinen verschlafenen staedtchen am meer, die familie bei der ich wohne ist sehr nett und angenehm, die arbeit artet nie in stress aus und ich geniesse meine freizeit indem ich diese kleine aber feine insel erkunde. diese erkundungsausfluege haben sich bis jetzt zwar hauptsaechlich auf brighton und london und die naehere umgebung hier im suedosten beschraenkt, aber irgendwo muss man ja schliesslich anfangen.

tja, und bald ist ja auch schon weihnachten, und hier werden schon alle ganz kirre vor lauter weihnachts! geschenke einkaufen. da mach ich eh nicht mit, hatte ich noch nie lust dazu. es kriegt einfach keiner was von mir, ausser natuerlich die allerbesten wuensche!!! nee quatsch, ich beschenke alle leute die in deutschland weilen werden mit meiner anwesenheit vom 21.12. bis zum 1.1.! das ist doch mal was. also wer mich sehen, hoeren oder angucken will: mein e-mail-sekretaer nimmt ab sofort terminwuensche auf...

uebrigens: weihnachten (bzw. weihnachtskommerz) beginnt hier noch frueher als bei uns. so habe ich bereits am zweiten tag nach meiner ankunft hier (also irgendwann ende september) ein schild im schaufenster eines ladens in der worthinger innenstadt gesehen: "only 87 days until christmas!" nur so ne anekldote von der insel, hat mich zum schmunzeln gebracht!

so, da ich sowieso in 2-3 wochen wieder im lande bin, schreibe ich jetzt nicht mehr weiter (ausserdem faellt mir nix mehr ein). es gilt wie immer: werr mir schreibt, wird mit einer antwort belohnt - fr! ueher oder auch sehr sehr viel spaeter. und nicht zu vergessen, hier d er obligatorische, nicht besonders aktuelle musik-tip: es ist winter, und da darf's ruhig auch mal ein bisschen depri sein, also hoert doch mal bei (allen) eels-scheiben rein! mach ich auch gerade sehr gern.

ich wuensche euch allen das beste und lasst euch nie nicht stressen.

see you soon,

der flo.

einen schoenen guten tag alle zusammen

2004-11-02T12:41:00.000+01:00

hallo ihr alle und schoene gruesse von der insel!

tja, hier kommt nun also mein monatliches update von der insel! hoffe es interessiert euch auch...

ich bin jetzt ja doch schon nen monat hier unten im sueden englands und fuehle mich durchaus wohl, habe mich eingelebt, an die witterungsverhaeltnisse halbwegs angepasst, mich in meine zwei schulen integriert (so gut das bei 2 tagen pro woche halt geht!) und auch so einige neue leute kennengelernt.

die arbeit in der schule ist nicht wirklich uebermaessig anstrengend, es sind insgesamt 12 stunden die woche plus ein wenig vorbereitungszeit - alles in allem durchaus machbar und nicht wirklich der stress, der einem nach zwei wochen auf dem zahnfleisch daher kommen laesst. meine schueler sind durch die bank alle sehr nett, kaum aufmuepfig, aber das mag wohl daran liegen, dass die meisten m! einer schueler freiwillig deutsch machen und auch ihre a-levels in idesem fach absolvieren wollen. da strengt man sich dann schon mal ein bisschen an. ihr deutsch laesst allerdings teilweise sehr zu wuenschen uebrig... die schulen unterscheiden sich auch ziemlich voneinander und das ist fuer mich eine gute erfahrung. die eine ist eine klassische englische comprehensive school, die andere ein sixth form college, will heissen nur fuer die letzten zwei jahre. die lehrer an beiden schulen sind sehr hilfsbereit und es herrscht eine sehr angenehme atmosphaere in beiden language departments - ganz anders als in den deutschen schulen in denen ich bis jetzt praktikum gemacht habe (da fuehlt man sich oft wie der doofe kleine student der man in wirklichkeit ja auch ist!).

so, genug von den schulen ist ja so interessant auch nicht fuer euch , ne? ich habe hier auch einiges an freizeit, die ich natuerlich zu nutzen weiss. besonders zugute kam mir da auch die letzte woche, da war n! aemlich half term, also ferien. ach ja, das lehrerdasein. und da ich m ich an der englischen suedkueste befinde, ist es nie besonders weit zum meer, wo ich denn auch so oft wie irgend moeglich bin - und sei es nur um stundelang dazusitzen und richtung frankreich zu stieren. sehr beruhigend. ich komm aber auch rum in der gegend, war schon zweimal in london um gute freunde zu besuchen und dann ist da ja cuh noch brighton gleich um die ecke, wo man gut ausgehen, konzerte besuchen oder halt sonst irgendwas machen kann. an leueten mangelt es auch nicht wirklich, ich habe inzwischen so einige andere assistenten kennengelernt, unternehme auch gerne was mit ein paar der juengeren lehrer und lehrerinnen an meinen schulen.

so, jetzt muss ich dann mal wieder ein bisschen unterrichten und verbleibe hiermit mit den allerbesten und herzlichsten gruessen aus england an euch alle. ich freue mich ueber nachrichten von euch. und ach ja, hier noch ein musiktip (nicht wirklich aktuell aber sehr smooth und hoerenswert): jack johnson (alles von ihm! und ! nicht zu verwechseln mit joe jackson).

bis bald sagt der floribub.

to whom it may concern...ich bin in jetzt in england

2004-09-29T18:35:00.000+02:00

hallo ihr alle und schoene gruesse von der insel!!!

ja, nun bin ich also erst mal weg und gut angekommen. fuer alle die noch nicht wissen wo, gibt's auch gleich die evtl wichtigsten daten um mich zu erreichen bzw. zu besuchen oder halt um diesen weitraeumig zu umfahren wenn man mir aus dem weg gehen wollen sollte (koennte mir jedoch keinen grund fuer so ein merkwuerdiges verhalten vorstellen!):

so, bitteschoen:

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wer jetzt noch lust hat, kann ja ruhig weiterlesen (ansonsten: sofort aufhoeren):

jetzt wisst ihr erst mal das wichtigste. bei mir gibt's noch gar nicht so viel zu berichten, bin ja gestern erst angekommen und dann erst mal so die gegend erkundet. es schien die sonne und alles kommt mir ziemlich englisch vor, hehe! will heissen: komische haeuser komische leute komische autos (fahren auf der falschen seite) und noch was komisches: kaum einer spricht deutsch. muss ich mal was dran aendern. und dafuer bin ich ja auch da (ha, super ueberleitung), denn heute hab ich dann eine der beiden schulen besucht an denen ich die naechsten 8 monate unterrichten werde. ist natuerlich ganz anders als bei uns, ihr wisst ja, gesamtschulsystem und deshalb auch schon mal gut 1500 schueler an der schule. ich werde die 11th und 12th form zu unterrichten haben und diese jeweils auf ihre muendlichen absdchlusspruefungen vorbereiten in kleingruppen bis zu d! rei schuelern. ein paar der zwoelftklaessler habe ich bereits ken nengelernt. alle ganz nett, doch bis auf eine ausnahme (mich, nee quatsch) sprechen sie kein berauschendes deutsch (zumindest im vergleich zu unseren zwoelftklaesslern: die koennen oefters halbwegs gut deutsch).

so, das waren meine ersten eindruecke. ich verspreche ich nerve nicht andauernd mit massenmails, nur ab und zu halt. wer oefter was lesen will, kann mich dies ja wissen lassen. ach ja, heut regnet's bzw. nieselt's uebrigens schon den ganzen tag, soviel zum thema sonne... dafuer war ich aber schon am meer und die meisten von euch wohl eher nicht, aellabaetsch.

wie auch immer, hiermit schliesse ich und verbleibe mit den freundlichsten und besten und herzlichsten gruessen nach augsburg, muenchen oder wo immer ihr euch alle halt gerade befindet!

bis bald,

euer flo.

p.s.: ich freu mich natuerlich ueber massig post falls das nicht klar genug herausgekommen ist, wahlweise auch ueber care-pakete und aehnliches (mix-tapes/cds/dt. zeitschriften, selbstgemalte bilder, ....)

p.p.s.: ich hoer gerade die neue max herre platte (der vom freundeskreis) und kann diese nur waermstens empfehlen! ueberhaupt, hier noch ein appel: hoert mehr musik!!! tut gut.