I am not sure how much you guys know about Karneval in Köln.
Yesterday went to an extensive cabaret/sessions of the other kind sessions of the other kindthat has been established in Köln in order to make fun of the established Karnevalssitzungen. And "bam!", tonight I am going out as one of the seven deadly sins,I think that the disguise might look a little slutty, but who cares :)
So: as much as you plan to escape from it, there is always something to it and it´s fun.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
to my dear Grandmother
a couple of days ago, my grandmother got really ill and went to the hospital.
To be honest here, I tried to ignore it as far as I could but today it hit me. She might not be with us next year any more. I will have to find out somewhere around this weekend when and how to see her.
She is the kind of person that always goes through life with kind of stoic attitude, at the same time loving and caring. Willpower. Contenance. Discretion and common sense. She is my stepfathers mother and I do remember the moment I saw her for the very first time, where and how she sat, everything around in that room, even a certain smell and sounds in our old appartment in a very distant past, somewhere in the early 80s. She accompanied us for weeks in Spain, cooking, baking, knitting, watching all of us children grow and watching her sons become gentle like her husband who died far too young to see what they had become.
The pastries, she made tons of them for several occasions, my brother and I once ate them at once, which was sort of unbelievable due to the amount and based on a bet (the things you learn from your brother who is a couple of years older and capable of eating anything you are not quick enough to eat yourself). The trips to the german church in Barcelona, where once she got in the middle of a marathon and yet managed to arrive in church without knowing a word of Spanish. The time when she explained the maid in Tarragona how to properly wash a curtain (still with no clue about spanish). Again, the cooking...
I will go up to the North soon to see her once I know how and when.
To be honest here, I tried to ignore it as far as I could but today it hit me. She might not be with us next year any more. I will have to find out somewhere around this weekend when and how to see her.
She is the kind of person that always goes through life with kind of stoic attitude, at the same time loving and caring. Willpower. Contenance. Discretion and common sense. She is my stepfathers mother and I do remember the moment I saw her for the very first time, where and how she sat, everything around in that room, even a certain smell and sounds in our old appartment in a very distant past, somewhere in the early 80s. She accompanied us for weeks in Spain, cooking, baking, knitting, watching all of us children grow and watching her sons become gentle like her husband who died far too young to see what they had become.
The pastries, she made tons of them for several occasions, my brother and I once ate them at once, which was sort of unbelievable due to the amount and based on a bet (the things you learn from your brother who is a couple of years older and capable of eating anything you are not quick enough to eat yourself). The trips to the german church in Barcelona, where once she got in the middle of a marathon and yet managed to arrive in church without knowing a word of Spanish. The time when she explained the maid in Tarragona how to properly wash a curtain (still with no clue about spanish). Again, the cooking...
I will go up to the North soon to see her once I know how and when.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Help Coffy, please
Haiti is closer than we all think. Keren´s daughters daycare friends are searching for their relatives in Haiti as we speak.
Please help.
http://helpcoffy.blogspot.com/
Please help.
http://helpcoffy.blogspot.com/
Sunday, January 17, 2010
The Lab
Installation in St Peter´s church Köln* If anybody has the chance to see this installation: go! In real life it is black, white elements, and red and white lights :)
* foto copied from http://www.sankt-peter-koeln.de/index.php?id=7
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Achmed the dead terrorist in Nienburg and soonissimo 101
Yesterday, a journey started that seem to be ending in the outskirts of snowy nowhere in Northern Germany with horses on a side and a dog who seems to love opening fancy tea bags. In fact, a snow storm was all over the place, and the train was supposed to be arriving in Nienburg, but nothing, literally everything blank and not even houses for while. The landscape up there is flat and people from the area make the joke that you can see today who will be dropping by tomorrow by viewing them on the horizon. But I did arrive sound and safe and it was so much fun.
Btw: I forgot Sam at home and as a logical consequence it is my turn to do the honours here :)
We had a great party at Ray´s place, and for starters, so many cool people, coming from Berlin and Hannover. Ray´s cooking was excellent and the night, and yes, I was rolling home without any help in front of the train :) (no wonder: we started with datils in bacon, continued with guacamole and nachos, sushi, cous cous, etc).
I am lucky enough to know Ray for a couple of years now and the fun is endless. While I am writing this, youtube is playing Achmed the dead terrorist and I still can´t believe it, we were laughing so hard about it!
Other than that, I learned that there seems to be a habit in berlin to tell somebody to dance their name (tanz´Deinen Namen) aka "get lost" which I find hilarious, especially considering the it seems to be a part of the Waldorf-school educational system in a much nicer context.
And if anybody reading this finds a good idea for converting a property into a multi-family/multi-party (party in the sense of various parties living there, not crack-parties with a disco-light) house in Italy, Spain, France, Cologne area, Rügen or schwäbische Alp, they should get in touch with us. We are not crazy but weighing our options to put some ideas into the hat within a couple of years, until we have a good and feasible concept together. Right now the concept is rather blurry, but this idea has popped up so many times already we think we should look into it. The main idea is: quiet, peace, family if we wish to and none if we don´t in a nice environment. This is soonissimo 101, so please advice!!!!!
Ray, we all had so much fun, thank you very much. Psychedelic kisses as always :)
B
Btw: I forgot Sam at home and as a logical consequence it is my turn to do the honours here :)
We had a great party at Ray´s place, and for starters, so many cool people, coming from Berlin and Hannover. Ray´s cooking was excellent and the night, and yes, I was rolling home without any help in front of the train :) (no wonder: we started with datils in bacon, continued with guacamole and nachos, sushi, cous cous, etc).
I am lucky enough to know Ray for a couple of years now and the fun is endless. While I am writing this, youtube is playing Achmed the dead terrorist and I still can´t believe it, we were laughing so hard about it!
Other than that, I learned that there seems to be a habit in berlin to tell somebody to dance their name (tanz´Deinen Namen) aka "get lost" which I find hilarious, especially considering the it seems to be a part of the Waldorf-school educational system in a much nicer context.
And if anybody reading this finds a good idea for converting a property into a multi-family/multi-party (party in the sense of various parties living there, not crack-parties with a disco-light) house in Italy, Spain, France, Cologne area, Rügen or schwäbische Alp, they should get in touch with us. We are not crazy but weighing our options to put some ideas into the hat within a couple of years, until we have a good and feasible concept together. Right now the concept is rather blurry, but this idea has popped up so many times already we think we should look into it. The main idea is: quiet, peace, family if we wish to and none if we don´t in a nice environment. This is soonissimo 101, so please advice!!!!!
Ray, we all had so much fun, thank you very much. Psychedelic kisses as always :)
B
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