Escaping today's visitors for a moment, I take the time to write a small post which i havent done for quite a while. Inbetween the years for me also means inbetween the worlds, or inbetween my lifes, as i spend the time at my parents' place. I kind of enjoy that every time, and even decided to stay a bit longer to celebrate nye here with my cousin. I like to meet my old friends but somehow i am also a bit lost each time i am here. Feels like being part of it and not being part of it at the same time.
My friends groups here hang out year and day, and with me coming home every now and then, i can see and feel that the're happy, but you cannot ignore that most of our lives take place separately. Maybe i am just such an "inbetweener", and maybe i always will be (cause I feel i have been in the past, too) and maybe i should just like and accept it.
Anyways,
wish you all a happy new year and all the best for 2013!
gkk
Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2012
Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2012
Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2012
Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012
The incident of being famous - or: Twilight
Just came home from the movies watching Twilight.
As i write for a boulevard online magazin - amongst others - and my collegues and have to do articles about the couple or not-couple Pattinson-Stewart EVERY FUCKING DAY we kind of made in ironic cinema evening to see what the hype is all about (when i think about how annoying and non-understandable all this is for us, how much more annoying and how much less understandable must it be for the two? Sacrifying their youth to a film company, but that just btw). So, what is it about?
Going to the movies tonight, i was one of the few who really had NO clue about the story except from there are vampires and those others, not vampires but animals anyway, two boys, one girl (which is never good) and the author of that story which has been artificially extended to something like four books and five movies. Ok, i was prepared for that we-against-all-odds-love-story which appeals the girls and women and always has and always will probably. But somehow i also expected, i dont know, a story at least?
There were people standing around in couples. A lot.
Red eyes and yellow eyes.
A lot of jumping and running at high speed with close-ups of "Bella" and they guy played by Pattinson. Ah, one question here, why do vampires drive a car when they can basically fly everywhere?
Actually i expected a technically well-done movie, but it wasnt. It really wasn't. A computer animated baby - why? The dialogues totally unnatural. The fake fighting scenes - WTF?
well, to shorten it up: i really didn't get it. And it makes me wonder once again how arbitrary success is. And what a deep impact it can have in life, how it influences other people and why.
Just wondering.
gkk
As i write for a boulevard online magazin - amongst others - and my collegues and have to do articles about the couple or not-couple Pattinson-Stewart EVERY FUCKING DAY we kind of made in ironic cinema evening to see what the hype is all about (when i think about how annoying and non-understandable all this is for us, how much more annoying and how much less understandable must it be for the two? Sacrifying their youth to a film company, but that just btw). So, what is it about?
Going to the movies tonight, i was one of the few who really had NO clue about the story except from there are vampires and those others, not vampires but animals anyway, two boys, one girl (which is never good) and the author of that story which has been artificially extended to something like four books and five movies. Ok, i was prepared for that we-against-all-odds-love-story which appeals the girls and women and always has and always will probably. But somehow i also expected, i dont know, a story at least?
There were people standing around in couples. A lot.
Red eyes and yellow eyes.
A lot of jumping and running at high speed with close-ups of "Bella" and they guy played by Pattinson. Ah, one question here, why do vampires drive a car when they can basically fly everywhere?
Actually i expected a technically well-done movie, but it wasnt. It really wasn't. A computer animated baby - why? The dialogues totally unnatural. The fake fighting scenes - WTF?
well, to shorten it up: i really didn't get it. And it makes me wonder once again how arbitrary success is. And what a deep impact it can have in life, how it influences other people and why.
Just wondering.
gkk
Mittwoch, 28. November 2012
Meine Armut kotzt mich an
The heading means something like "My poverty really sucks" or "my poverty makes me sick". A friend of mine says that when we meet every now and then for a coffee somewhere, a cake or a small breakfast. And the situation's usually like this: we exchange news, then complain about our lifes because what we want and what we can actually get are two completely different pair of shoes and as students of social science or fine arts we are totally aware this will stay like this for the rest of our lives unless we marry rich (her boyfriend is a teacher and i don't even have one) or we found a company (lacking capital, ideas mh maybe) or unless we are just incredibly lucky one day (not worth waiting, too many people do that). And yet i am totally aware that we ARE already lucky.
Karōshi (過労死), which can be translated literally from Japanese as "death from overwork", is occupational sudden death. Although this category has a significant count, Japan is one of the few countries[which?] that reports it in the statistics as a separate category. [...] nowadays it it generally seen that woking six to seven days per week with more than 12 hours per day over the course of several years causes physical and psychological problems.
Today, several German media reported that before being edited, the government has "pimped" the so called poverty report on Germany which is to be released in the upcoming days. Statements like "private property in Germany is very unequally distributed" have been crossed out or re-written in order to sound less - well, tragic? Poor? Because in fact, disparities have worsened and while the rich sollect more money so easily, the 52-year old single mother can't find a job anymore. Or she has to work for 3,75 Euros per hour.
Quicksilver, Roxy, Abercombie & Fitch, Tommy Hilfiger - this is not a collection of fancy fashion brands (well, it is, in some kind) these companies demonstrably work with suppliers in Bangladesh, Senegal, India, China or wherever, that let children work in their fabrics, more than 14,15 or 16 hours per day, so social security, a few minutes break, minimal wages. The so called Sumangali scheme of child labor where young women and men are hired and legally binded to e certain company over several years. They have to work there under the lowest conditions and only get paid at the end of their contract after several years. This happens because cool kids here, in Hamburg and x (substitute by a European or American city of your choice) wanna wear that stuff.
Last month, i was searching for a job after finishing my Master's degree at university, i have several internships in Germany and abroad, party studied in a transition country and have really good certificates - now i am working in a company which calles itself a Start-Up - suggesting a lot of things but not that i will be barely able to live with my monthly salary without my parents' financial support.
So, i ask myself, and i ask you: what does it mean to be poor? And who is poor?
Some links for you:
Avoid - this is a plug in which you can install. while online shopping, it will not show you products which are produced by children's hands. And believe me, some of your favorite stores will be pretty empty suddenly.
Article on the German poverty report
Why poverty? - The German-French TV channel Arte has a whole week's programme dedicated to this questions, with a lot of interesting about African countries, living in China, Bob Geldorf and Bono, how globalisation works and more. Watch it online!
Brad Pitt's newest movie "Killing Them Softly" is a parable on American society today: "America is not a nation, America is a business". I will watch it next week.
HOPE, your money will be enough for you.
gkk
Karōshi (過労死), which can be translated literally from Japanese as "death from overwork", is occupational sudden death. Although this category has a significant count, Japan is one of the few countries[which?] that reports it in the statistics as a separate category. [...] nowadays it it generally seen that woking six to seven days per week with more than 12 hours per day over the course of several years causes physical and psychological problems.
Today, several German media reported that before being edited, the government has "pimped" the so called poverty report on Germany which is to be released in the upcoming days. Statements like "private property in Germany is very unequally distributed" have been crossed out or re-written in order to sound less - well, tragic? Poor? Because in fact, disparities have worsened and while the rich sollect more money so easily, the 52-year old single mother can't find a job anymore. Or she has to work for 3,75 Euros per hour.
Quicksilver, Roxy, Abercombie & Fitch, Tommy Hilfiger - this is not a collection of fancy fashion brands (well, it is, in some kind) these companies demonstrably work with suppliers in Bangladesh, Senegal, India, China or wherever, that let children work in their fabrics, more than 14,15 or 16 hours per day, so social security, a few minutes break, minimal wages. The so called Sumangali scheme of child labor where young women and men are hired and legally binded to e certain company over several years. They have to work there under the lowest conditions and only get paid at the end of their contract after several years. This happens because cool kids here, in Hamburg and x (substitute by a European or American city of your choice) wanna wear that stuff.
Last month, i was searching for a job after finishing my Master's degree at university, i have several internships in Germany and abroad, party studied in a transition country and have really good certificates - now i am working in a company which calles itself a Start-Up - suggesting a lot of things but not that i will be barely able to live with my monthly salary without my parents' financial support.
So, i ask myself, and i ask you: what does it mean to be poor? And who is poor?
Some links for you:
Avoid - this is a plug in which you can install. while online shopping, it will not show you products which are produced by children's hands. And believe me, some of your favorite stores will be pretty empty suddenly.
Article on the German poverty report
Why poverty? - The German-French TV channel Arte has a whole week's programme dedicated to this questions, with a lot of interesting about African countries, living in China, Bob Geldorf and Bono, how globalisation works and more. Watch it online!
Brad Pitt's newest movie "Killing Them Softly" is a parable on American society today: "America is not a nation, America is a business". I will watch it next week.
HOPE, your money will be enough for you.
gkk
Sonntag, 25. November 2012
Lisbon
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| Nostalgia |
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| typical Portuguese houses, with iron balconies and tiles on the front |
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| break in the park. with friends and ice tea and pasteis de nata |
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| "Au bonheur des dames" - for women's happiness: George Cloony (shopping center entrance) |
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| Some reggae - Lisbon street music |
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| Think about it |
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| The perfect afternoon |
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| The city has hundreds lovely views like this |
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| Street of Saint Michael |
Enjoy your Sunday,
gkk
Sonntag, 18. November 2012
Dienstag, 13. November 2012
New times, a new me
The ones who came here latey might have realized that I am currently kind of re-building this blog, trying to develop a new concept, finding its new identity. Or MY new identity. This touches issues such as which language shall i use (I'd opt for English because it widens the group of potential readers massively, plus i like to write in English; on the other hand - German will always be my mother tongue, i can be more specific and my German writing's definititely better. Also it might seem weird to German friends if i talk in English to them.). Let's see, maybe i even alternate between the two.
Well. I'm kinda back. Some new period in my life has started and i decided that I finally want to really invest time again to write here regularly. We will all see what comes out of this. What i can tell for sure by now is: it will contain a lot of lifestyle and zeitgeist shit in the sense that i will blog about things which cross my view in my daily life. It will be personal also, very personal sometimes maybe because i want to share something with you. I want to increase interaction. Not many of you comment on here (which in my eyes is also because you have to leave my blog and write in the Blogger-surface in order to comment - it annoys me A LOT) and the other reason is that i get a lot of feedback via other channels. Like friends calling me saying "hey i've read your blog". That is very nice actually (and please don't stop that) but i also want to bring some more life to this virtual place.
So for today i want to share my current "ohrwürmer" - the songs that are stuck in my head these days.
5. Cro - Easy
Yes, there's something like popular and trendy German hiphop again. And good one, too. I love his lyrics.
4. Asaf Avidan - One Day (Wankelmut Remix)
The clubbing-able remix of Israeli Asaf Avidan is just great. And he's so right. "One day maybe we'll be old and think of all the stories that we could have told" - don't let that happen! I love the passion and unchainedness of the pictures.
3. Seeed - Molotov / Wonderful life
Great band, great video, great songs. Writing one hymn after another for our crazy capital Berlin. The beat makes me move immediatly. Yesterday i was waiting in front of the traffic light to turn green and suddenly startet singing out loud "no need to run, no need to hide, it's a wonderful life" until realizing i'm in public and people stand next to me. I ran.
2. Billy Ray Cyrus - Don't break my heart
Thanks to my new American friend around here i sing that old country song. It's not bad, i actually like the song. The problems are the pictures in my head after watching the performance. This hair, the clothes, let alone his dancing...c'mon! And i learned it's the father of Miley Cyrus. And the worst thing probably is that he thinks he's a rocker. Bitch please!
1. Lykke li - I follow Rivers
jep, i know this is not very new. Indeed it has been on the stations over the summer. But somehow it hit me late and it hit me hard. It's in my head literally all the time, i sing it (=the two lines i know) all the time - while cooking, when i wake up, at the toilet, at work, everywhere. Sometimes i change my voice, either singing very high or low or whatever, probably not to bore myself too much haha. I want to get rid of it.
Stay tuned.
gkk
Well. I'm kinda back. Some new period in my life has started and i decided that I finally want to really invest time again to write here regularly. We will all see what comes out of this. What i can tell for sure by now is: it will contain a lot of lifestyle and zeitgeist shit in the sense that i will blog about things which cross my view in my daily life. It will be personal also, very personal sometimes maybe because i want to share something with you. I want to increase interaction. Not many of you comment on here (which in my eyes is also because you have to leave my blog and write in the Blogger-surface in order to comment - it annoys me A LOT) and the other reason is that i get a lot of feedback via other channels. Like friends calling me saying "hey i've read your blog". That is very nice actually (and please don't stop that) but i also want to bring some more life to this virtual place.
So for today i want to share my current "ohrwürmer" - the songs that are stuck in my head these days.
5. Cro - Easy
Yes, there's something like popular and trendy German hiphop again. And good one, too. I love his lyrics.
4. Asaf Avidan - One Day (Wankelmut Remix)
The clubbing-able remix of Israeli Asaf Avidan is just great. And he's so right. "One day maybe we'll be old and think of all the stories that we could have told" - don't let that happen! I love the passion and unchainedness of the pictures.
3. Seeed - Molotov / Wonderful life
Great band, great video, great songs. Writing one hymn after another for our crazy capital Berlin. The beat makes me move immediatly. Yesterday i was waiting in front of the traffic light to turn green and suddenly startet singing out loud "no need to run, no need to hide, it's a wonderful life" until realizing i'm in public and people stand next to me. I ran.
2. Billy Ray Cyrus - Don't break my heart
Thanks to my new American friend around here i sing that old country song. It's not bad, i actually like the song. The problems are the pictures in my head after watching the performance. This hair, the clothes, let alone his dancing...c'mon! And i learned it's the father of Miley Cyrus. And the worst thing probably is that he thinks he's a rocker. Bitch please!
1. Lykke li - I follow Rivers
jep, i know this is not very new. Indeed it has been on the stations over the summer. But somehow it hit me late and it hit me hard. It's in my head literally all the time, i sing it (=the two lines i know) all the time - while cooking, when i wake up, at the toilet, at work, everywhere. Sometimes i change my voice, either singing very high or low or whatever, probably not to bore myself too much haha. I want to get rid of it.
Stay tuned.
gkk
Freitag, 9. November 2012
11/9
And I am sure not ven half of us Germans thought about it today...and it's a shame
Fall of the Berlin Wall
See you soon, from now on.
Word.
gkk
Fall of the Berlin Wall
See you soon, from now on.
Word.
gkk
Freitag, 13. Juli 2012
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