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.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
let's play!
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!
Friday, April 14, 2006
happy easter to all of you!
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!!!
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!!!
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
some mexico pix!
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
anyway, here you go:
the great pyramid in chichen-itza
an underground lake in a "cenote"
my sister making faces in coba
the caribbean
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
and there's even more news...
...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.
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.
Monday, March 13, 2006
a week in yucatan
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...
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...
Sunday, March 12, 2006
¡HOLA!
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...)
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...)
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
oi oi oi!
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!!!
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!!!
Saturday, January 14, 2006
a happy new year!!!
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...
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...
Sunday, December 11, 2005
finally again!
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.
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, November 14, 2005
monday: not a fun day
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!
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, November 06, 2005
sunday boring sunday!
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...
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...
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
culture clash...
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.
Sunday, October 16, 2005
back again!
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...
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...
Thursday, September 29, 2005
pandora's box
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...
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...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
on the road again soon...
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)!!!
Monday, September 26, 2005
another update
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 ;-)
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 ;-)
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
street art!
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!!!
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
bloody bastard summer!
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...
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...
Friday, August 19, 2005
angie merkel
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
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
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