Glad that THAT is over
Apr. 16th, 2005 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mk_tortiePhew, that week was a bit hectic. But now at least I am happy because German coursework is out of the way, and I have a whole day in which to sort my room, make CDs and sort all the things I need to sort!
Berlin was good fun but the lack of time to unpack has caused me a few problems in the actually being able to walk across my room side of things, but oh well. I will tidy it today. Hmm... I did get some news which could be construed as possibly exciting whilst I was there though. The two producer guys who came to dinner (one of whom was in The Clash, how cool is that?!?) listened to my stuff and said they'd love to work on it with me... which is pretty cool... but I don't want to get too far ahead of myself cos I've seen enough in the last two years to know what happens with these things; mostly, absolutely nothing. So we will wait and see. In the meantime, I have to make a CD of all my stuff to give them, so I'll see what they think. Bizarrely, the track they liked the most was Haze, so now I wonder if they will like the tracks that I don't normally pay so much attention too... *muses*... anyways, enough of that, I have more immediate things to think about right now - like the fact that my internet is being so SLOW!!! This is broadband, computer.... WORK!!!
Gah. Stupid machine. Hmm, actually what I'm most excited about is the concert I am going to with a certain person on Tuesday... cept I'm really quite worried too... another thing that I will have to wait and see about, I guess.
I found something hilarious- http://www.mk-magazine.com/news/archives/001567.php - according to this, I would say that the whole of the music department is a goth... I do enjoy a good laugh in an afternoon!
Have been listening to Crowded House stuff this morning - I'd forgotten how much I like them. I really ought to buy the Finn Brothers album, except it's so expensive. Why does all the stuff I want cost so much more than all the other things of the same type? For example, the Amelie DVD costs 19.95 - why? All other DVDs are like 14.00. And the Finn Brothers is the same, it's so stupid. I'll probably buy them eventually anyway, because I love both too much to live without them for much longer. Amelie's such a gorgeous, feel good film.
Speaking of feel-good things, or at least things that provoke strong emotion, I was sorting my photos from Berlin, and it's so weird - I came across one (which actually didn't come out well at all) and it reminded me of part of the Tuesday that I'd forgotten.
There's a memorial in Berlin which is a memorial to everything bad in the world. Anything bad you can think of, that's what it's for. It used to be an army building 150 years ago or something, and they decided to change it to a memorial after the war or something because they really didn't need any more army reminders. Inside, it is a large, high-ceilinged room with a hole in the ceiling, one single round hole about 1 and a half metres across which lets in the elements. The room is just built of dark, cold stone, and you just walk into it straight from the outside, it's not in the middle of a building or anything. The only thing in it is a statue, right underneath the hole in the ceiling. It's of a woman holding her dead son, not a baby but an adult, cradling him in her arms. The sculptor of it was a woman who lost her sons and husband during the two wars, and once you know that it holds even more poignancy. But what really affected me was not even that. It was that it was raining outside, and the rain came in through the hole and was trickling over the statue, over her face and onto her son.
It looked like she was crying.
Berlin was good fun but the lack of time to unpack has caused me a few problems in the actually being able to walk across my room side of things, but oh well. I will tidy it today. Hmm... I did get some news which could be construed as possibly exciting whilst I was there though. The two producer guys who came to dinner (one of whom was in The Clash, how cool is that?!?) listened to my stuff and said they'd love to work on it with me... which is pretty cool... but I don't want to get too far ahead of myself cos I've seen enough in the last two years to know what happens with these things; mostly, absolutely nothing. So we will wait and see. In the meantime, I have to make a CD of all my stuff to give them, so I'll see what they think. Bizarrely, the track they liked the most was Haze, so now I wonder if they will like the tracks that I don't normally pay so much attention too... *muses*... anyways, enough of that, I have more immediate things to think about right now - like the fact that my internet is being so SLOW!!! This is broadband, computer.... WORK!!!
Gah. Stupid machine. Hmm, actually what I'm most excited about is the concert I am going to with a certain person on Tuesday... cept I'm really quite worried too... another thing that I will have to wait and see about, I guess.
I found something hilarious- http://www.mk-magazine.com/news/archives/001567.php - according to this, I would say that the whole of the music department is a goth... I do enjoy a good laugh in an afternoon!
Have been listening to Crowded House stuff this morning - I'd forgotten how much I like them. I really ought to buy the Finn Brothers album, except it's so expensive. Why does all the stuff I want cost so much more than all the other things of the same type? For example, the Amelie DVD costs 19.95 - why? All other DVDs are like 14.00. And the Finn Brothers is the same, it's so stupid. I'll probably buy them eventually anyway, because I love both too much to live without them for much longer. Amelie's such a gorgeous, feel good film.
Speaking of feel-good things, or at least things that provoke strong emotion, I was sorting my photos from Berlin, and it's so weird - I came across one (which actually didn't come out well at all) and it reminded me of part of the Tuesday that I'd forgotten.
There's a memorial in Berlin which is a memorial to everything bad in the world. Anything bad you can think of, that's what it's for. It used to be an army building 150 years ago or something, and they decided to change it to a memorial after the war or something because they really didn't need any more army reminders. Inside, it is a large, high-ceilinged room with a hole in the ceiling, one single round hole about 1 and a half metres across which lets in the elements. The room is just built of dark, cold stone, and you just walk into it straight from the outside, it's not in the middle of a building or anything. The only thing in it is a statue, right underneath the hole in the ceiling. It's of a woman holding her dead son, not a baby but an adult, cradling him in her arms. The sculptor of it was a woman who lost her sons and husband during the two wars, and once you know that it holds even more poignancy. But what really affected me was not even that. It was that it was raining outside, and the rain came in through the hole and was trickling over the statue, over her face and onto her son.
It looked like she was crying.
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fundamentalist crap
Date: 2005-04-16 04:34 pm (UTC)Re: fundamentalist crap
Date: 2005-04-16 08:02 pm (UTC)Re: fundamentalist crap
Date: 2005-04-23 10:34 pm (UTC)Elmo's a Goth!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goth
Date: 2005-04-17 09:05 pm (UTC)1) peasant: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
2) one of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries
hehe anyway - Good to see Fundamentalist Christians deciding not just teenagers; i'd say probably THE WHOLE OF WESTERN SOCIETY has been gothicised (it's a real word, i looked it up!! :D)
my favourite bit - "If any of these problems persist, enlist your child into your local mental health center."
ROFL
anyway, i'm off to submit to the temptation of Satan......
TTFN
Gulliver