Family weekend in berlin

Am on the run again. Sitting in a train to berlin to spend a couple of days with the parents and miki. Listening to the killers again - the day & age album is simply great, am totally not getting tired of it. I remember I never wanted an ipod or a portable music player so I didn't have to listen to the same thing over and over again but now I don't mind at all ( 1:0 for the ipod marketing people I guess:)
Anyway - the past couple of days have been quite boring work-wise as I didn't have to travel but could so take care of a couple of things at home and catch up with friends. I didn't sleep as much as I should have though thanks to discovering a new computer game and also thanks to a book I got as a birthday present (thanks ute!)
Looking out of the window on the train I see sunny fields, rivers, hills, some people fishing, some hiking, small houses with happy people running around, a highway with cars stuck in traffic, all good. And the two girls in front of me chatting about leipzig remind me that leipzig somehow was forgotten but is now definitely back on the list of places to go next.
Are we human or are we dancer? Definitely both these days!

500 euros and the summer can come

i am still a bit jet lagged from the new york trip - or spent too many hours last night playing the world of goo. either way i had a visit from the movers and got a good offer for moving all my stuff for 500 euros to the new flat. i think i will take this offer - they will send a letter in the coming days and then it's booked. I now need to contact the painters and then the move is on track i think...

on other news here is a song i love since i saw it on germanys next topmodel and i think it has big potential to become the summer song of the year - even if it is quite old already. it is certainly my summer song of the year

barcelona and the world of goo

another day working from home and i used the time to put in an ad for the move to the new flat. 5 companies called me within an hour and i have already 4 offers ranging from 360 to 700 euros. amazing - most of them don't really guarantee that price however and i have one more company coming by tomorrow to actually look at the situation. we shall see ...

we then watched the champions league final - pretty boring except the two goals if you ask me - at jack and jasmina's place. afterwards we played a new game on the wii called the world of goo which was really funny. reminded me on the lemmings from when i was young. and so when i came home i went online and bought it!!! it is soooo addictive - you have to save as many cute little goo balls as possible in every level and when you do so you can build up a tower using them. here is my current tower:

i will try to go to bed a bit sooner today ...

from modern to spanish

we wanted to go to the städel to listen to some music and have some drinks but ended up crashing a great party for the spanish tourist industry in the other side of the building - so as a small gesture of good faith here is a link to their website to say gracias at least: www.spain.info


the food was great, the people smiling, the music nice. oh, and before that, the actual event in the städel was not bad either. some modern music where i always wondered how the musical notation looks like - i mean how do you describe in a formal way to hit the double-bass with the backside of your bow 7 times? I just wonder that's all...

did i mention that i love frankfurt?

the promotion

this movie could have been so much better. it was all right, even funny at some points, but too slow and not dirty enough.

i [HEART] new york

New York was fantastic - I am not sure any more that I want to live there any more, but it is still an amazing place to visit. Here my new york things to see / talk about list / list for next time so I don't forget to visit the one or other next time:

- new museum (235 bowery / prince str)
- katz's deli (houston str / ludlow str)
- orchard street / ludlow street boutiques & cafes
- b&h photos store (9th ave / 34th str)
- metropolitan museum (5th ave, 82th str)
- armani store (5th ave)
- cafe habana (elisabeth str / prince str)
- urban outfitters (628 broadway / bleeker str)
- the open house gallery (201 mulberry str / spring str)
- flying A - (169 spring str)
- strand book store (828 broadway / 12 str)
- back room (102 norfolk str - between delancey and rivington)
- the annex - www.theannexnyc.com (152 orchard str / rivington)
- the slipper room (167 orchard str / stanton str)
- for more always check the nyc superguide at the superfuture site

oh, and three more things for next time:
1. book another hotel that doesn't save money by not operating the elevator in the night or ask for a room on a lower floor than the 6th one
2. don't forget the earplugs for the plane
3. don't take so many clothes (i will never learn ...)

Neeeeeeeeeew Yooooooooooork

Of course it's cool. Of course I broke the rules Of course we didn't get to see letterman live. The rest is not of course. Great weather - almost too warm. Bought a filter for my camera, 4 shirts from french connection, a t-shirt, a shirt and shoes from another shop, two books, very new york style sunglasses, have been to a lot of galleries, fell in love with so many people I cannot really describe, missed susan sarandon / geoffrey rush by 10 seconds and saw a weird totally unexpected sexy burlesque show - all in more or less a day and a half. Now sitting in a place listening to techno music and writing this while slowly sobering up. Little big brother is a great guide and I love to be here together. To be continued...

That famous smell

Another advantage flying with air india is that it feels (and smells) like india. I totally forgot about the hilarious boarding scene in milan last year but it came back instantly when people attacked the plane. Which made me think that I need to go back to india once more actually. And I also wonder what we are going to get for lunch.
I am now going to turn off the mobile hoping to speed up our departure because we are already late. Next stop is new york!

Due to popular demand

I am flying back to new york. It was exactly a year ago that I went to new york for a long weekend and here I am again at the airport waiting for boarding. This time I am not going alone and will stay in a proper hotel (at least that's the plan). The only similarity I could live without is the less than 3 hours of sleep I got. On the other hand I had a wonderful evening at sausalitos so I don't really care. Let's see if I manage to see david letterman this time ...

stupid dumb useless crap

And I thought the sneak preview has reached the bottom with last weeks movie. I was wrong.

On the other hand - the restaurant on top of the Fleming's Hotel is really nice (and expensive which is normal for Frankfurt actually). The ceasar salat was one of the best I have ever had in my life. And the tomato with mozarella di buffalo was also one of a kind. Totally worth going for the food and the view. Check it out here.

getting it together

posting again after a long long time at the end of a fantastic weekend. today i met with my new landlord and finally got the contract for the new flat. it will cost more than what i wanted originally but i simply didn't find anything better and cheaper so i guess it's just going to be perfect. plus the other funny thing was that i also happened to see two more of my former landlords walking around in the city. i officially declare this day the day of the landlords.
the weekend was simply crazy (similar to some other ones recently). it started with a lot of sleep, followed by another party at florent watching (more or less) the eurovision song contest and then crashing another party next door which was the real highlight of the evening / morning. all in all an amazing weekend. and now i am looking forward to new york, berlin and finally london - although in a different way than this guy

room full of cups

the big advantage of having a museumsufer-card is that you can walk into the schirn 10 minutes before closure, get a ticket and check out part of any exhibition. Or in this case the whole exhibition - which consists of a lot of trophies standing in one room. there are of course numerous possible interpretations one could find, some more relating to one's life, some less. i personally liked it a lot - standing in front of hundreds of trophies asking yourself what the important things in life are.

am still glad to not have paid 8 euros only to see this.

ghosts of girlfriends past (sneak preview)

"i'm gonna keep it forever"

i don't know what is more harmful for this world - this movie or the horror / slasher movie from last week. makes you think ...

notic nastic saasfee*pavillon

frankfurt is great. and it is getting better. now we have finally discovered a new place called saasfee*pavillon, hosting a bit more alternative event than the usual posh ones. we will return i am sure ...
this time it was a performance by notic nastic, with glowsticks in the darkness. great great great

london star trek

tried to see "waiting for godot" in london but it was sooooooo sold out that there were only 1 ticket returns and as i was second in line, i didn't get a ticket in the end. there was a guy from romania with his girlfriend with only one ticket and he was offering people 150 pounds for a ticket but still couldn't get one.

i wasn't too unhappy though as i had a backup plan - to watch the new star trek movie in the empire cinema on leicester square. needless to say, the cinema was great - superb sound system, great view and a working air-condition system. the movie was extremely good - action-packed, sexy, funny and very much connected to the original movies. it was also great to walk around in london after the movie and breath in the atmosphere. looking forward to our london weekend in june!!!

oh, almost forgot - saw a fascinating small dispay of a collection of portraits of fabiola, a christian saint in the national portrait gallery. the original painting fromthe nineteenth century is now lost but the artist (francis alÿs) has collected copies of the original portrait over a time period of 15 years from various flea markets. It is really fascinating to watch all these different and still somehow related works in 2 big rooms.

The Last House On The Left

another hopeless night at the sneak - expecting to see star trek and then they show a shitty remake of a horror movie that nobody really wants to see. we left at the middle of the movie. and then i read on wikipedia (which totally spoils every movie so careful ...) that there is a big twist in there at the second half. but i think it was still the best decision. and so we discovered that there is a paternoster in frankfurt in the fleming hotel which is next door to the cinema - with a nice restaurant on the top floor which needs to be checked out once the summer is here ...