- "Das Leben ist nur interessant, wenn wir unseren Willen nicht kriegen." - Haruki Murakami, Kafka am Strand // I loved reading Kafka on the Shore. Murakami seems to be an ass and I don't care much about the German translation (or has Japanese just a really weird language structure?) but I loved the story and the magic realism, the Shinto-influence. The talking to cats part. The food descriptions. The (more or less pretentious) insights and life lessons. I've even ordered two more Murakami books, in English this time. Maybe I like the style better in another language. That's why I hate reading German books that weren't originally written in German. Bad style is so much more noticable in your mother tongue.
- Dreaming so so much lately. Whole stories, actually. Does that come from reading more books?
- Labertal Festival! Großstadtgeflüster! A rather good talk with Claudia.
- Listening to a loaf of bread. Sounds weird but I had a hollow (the soft part is too yummy not to eat first) loaf of olive ciabatta, put my ear to it and listened to myself ripping off crumbs from the inside. Great ASMR-sound!
- After reading Kafka on the Shore I had to think of Japanese microseasons again. Great rains sometimes fall at the beginning of August. Pretty shitty microseason if I dare say so.
- Watching the big yellow full moon rise behind the trees, still hiding behind a weak cloud.
- Frauen, lernt endlich verhandeln!
- Rookie mistake: drinking a really STRONG batch of iced coffee in the evening. And since I hardly ever drink (strong) coffee it was such a new experience for me to feel so alert and awake! I might be a convert now. Gonna keep experimenting.
- Miranda would be the true Sex and the City heroine if the show came out in 2017.
- Sally Rooney used to be a debating superstar and has written a very smart novel - Conversations with Friends - which I read in one sitting and liked a lot. There is a very interesting and entertaining interview with her in Literary Friction in which she says: "I get into a real magical thinking phase when I'm writing where if something comes to me easily I attach a huge amount of significance to it, as if it augured something about the novel." Is it weird that I have that, too? I mean, in life? With coincidences, decisions? It always gives me the feeling something is supposed to be. Which might be stupid but graces your existence with a spark of magic, doesn't it...
- Rolf Dobelli's column in the NZZ - Die Kunst des guten Lebens.
- A video of geckos. With Yoshi-sounds. #nintendogirl4life
- Alain de Botton says that we are always looking for a partner who makes us suffer in a familiar way. So my interpretation is: whenever I say about someone that he is too nice I feel like he can't make me suffer appropriately. I mean, I always knew that, but it's nice to have confirmation about my wicked ways.
- Cutting off the soft, moist, stringy outsides of a ball of mozzarella and eating them straight away.
- Baking cheesecake with Anna.
- The little birds playing catch in the big bush right outside my balcony.
- The open box of veggie fingers has such a clever way of closing after you've taken out a few of the sticks - you just slide the parts into each other! It really works!
- Proper outfit inspiration. A denim shirt knotted over a bright red dress. I'm convinced!
- BERLIN: Deichkind playing in Wuhlheide / Teledisko! / watching Mulholland Drive at the open air cinema in the RAW area / Photoautomat sessions / stand-up comedy and a poetry slam at Lido / an exhibition about kisses (and my drawing being featured on the museum's Facebook page a few days later) / the Vietnamese market and pretty good spring rolls / matcha latte, a new purse, earrings and excellent ramen noodles at the Maybachufer / Fräulein Frost ice-cream and super cheap late-night pizza in Friedrichshain //
- FRANCE: Ramatuelle (what a gorgeous city), taking selfies with Lexi in front of a huge, open valley with a sea view, drinking frappé on the town square, buying a shopping basket, walking through the streets filled with beautiful flowers / a three course dinner at a very nice restaurant / listening to Coco Bello in the car, way too loud, windows down / Rexi-licious picture action (and leashing him to my bad on a windy day at the beach) / the underwater camera / Pampelonne, a beach near St. Tropez. White sand, crystal clear water. Tiny fish, following us, trying to nibble at our feet; the moon over the hills at sunset / cooking together (I loved Lena's oven veggies with orange juice and burger night) and having decadent breakfasts every morning / French hypermarchés / crisps with chèvre and piment d'Espelette / the best dessert I ever had at a McDonald's - raspberry parfait with noisette sauce / driving down to Spain with Anika; walking along the Cap de Creus, having dinner in the shade on a town square surrounded by white buildings; all those winding mountain roads - the view! / L'Auberge de Fréjus, one of my favourite places in the world. Looking up to the starry sky, sitting on the bench near the hill in the middle of the night with a bottle of cidre, talking. Oh, and Violette, the goat. I LOVE goats. / the camera obscura effect in Lena's and Obi's room / drawing quite a lot, inventing sketchy zombie characters and taking in the landscape / Musée Picasso in Antibes, getting a book about all of his animals / playing Kubb in our garden / the perfume museum in Grasse, especially the afternoon in the museum's gardens near Mougins - I loved the Mimosa trees / whole days at the beach / getting to know Alex from New Zealand and Julie from Toulouse / reading five books in two and a half weeks //
aug 6 2017 ∞
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