Friday, 30 March 2012

Inspo.

Photo's courtesy of Topshop Tumblr (http://topshop.tumblr.com/)
I've been having a shit week. Exam on Monday, work all week, rubbish results on Thursday from Monday's fail, speaking exam this morning.. It doesn't look good at the mo for my future in German Uni's.
On the plus, had fun with friends this week- they have massively cheered me up with their food, beer and music (esp. on the streets at two in the morning..) I'm seriously going to miss them when I go on holiday on Tuesday (Italy and then home for a few days..)
One recommended this band.. Check them out!
Thieves Like Us – Shyness
Thieves Like Us – One Night With You
Thieves Like Us – Forget Me Not
Tunes from the 'Again and Again' album -x

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Oh sympathy..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZUvwC0Zb_M
Forget Me Not
Thieves Like Us
Again and Again





This 'Automaten Emma' is a very weird concept.. Its open 24 hours, and its like a huge vending machine! But with literally everything.. From 'fresh' meat and cheese to bread, sweets, beer, wine, and even condoms.. It was pretty grotesque in a way, but we felt a need to buy something all the same! (Sweeties and beer were like the safest options there..) 
It's super sunny here, feels like an English summer (but in March!!) got the exam tomorrow- so I'm going to go and jump off a bridge.. See you on the other side -x

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Havoc in heaven..




Jesca Hoop on loop right now. Still feeling so ill. Early night me thinks, after doing this work for tomorrow that is.. -x

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

First day of Spring..

.. And I feel so ill.
I need the sun to come back out, starting to feel the effects of preparing for this exam and training. I've gone over-board on my Vitamin intake and calcium today, that's supposed to help right?!

In other news though, Neil Young And Crazy Horse are to release a new album on June 5th! It's going to be filled with old American folk and traditional songs..
Don't forget to check it out!
Right- I've been sent to bed by my dear Mother via Skype.. I thought she would have stopped doing that after I'd moved away!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZq_3jnpgcI
Wonderful World
Sam Cooke
Portrait of a Legend
(Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong (i.e, the jazz, soul and blues boys) are getting me through these intense weeks..) -x

Friday, 16 March 2012

Get me out of here..



The few good moments from my week- the amount of work I'm doing for German is insane right now. I feel like I'm slowly going under.. And I would say thank God for the weekend, but working at H&M all day tomorrow- plus it's St Patrick's Day, meaning going out till the early hours.. Followed by a day of training and studying on Sunday!
The fun continues..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFJQgrVmJoQ
Mustang Sally
The Commitments
The Commitments
-x

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

She wants to let you down easy..

http://www.thecure.com/blog/
http://www.southside.de/

AS IF !!! The Cure headlining at Leeds/Reading.. AND Southside (a festival in my area of the world!) I really really really really really wanna go- it would be sooo good! Plus, Mumford and Sons, Casper, The Stone Roses, Katzenjammer, The Kooks, The XX, The Vaccines, Florence & The Machine, Beirut, New Order.. Seriously- gonna be sweeeeeeeeeeeet.

Had such an amazing weekend- sleeping, partying, eating (free food, curtiosy of the local Irish pub..) drinking, running, meeting new folk from America.. Oh and of course, learning. A bit. Now and again.

Don't have much to say- I'm super tired. Went for a run with a local running group and a mate from the Language School tonight, and then got asked by some German wrestlers to go to the sauna after.. Super weird experience, not sure I'd like to do something like that again.. Then went to the pub, again, for some Snakebites, chips and cheese and quizzes. Which, unfortunately, we didn't pay attention too.. But I thought it was awesome how they said the questions in English and then in German- such a brill idea!

(P.s. If there are any stupid spelling mistakes or anything it is because my computer is now in German, as everything I write has a red line underneath it.. Meaning, everything I write is a mistake.. Apprentley!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCUq2N1dIk
Let You Down
Hungry Kids of Hungary
Escapades

Sweet dreams. -x

Saturday, 10 March 2012

Bad kid baby..



Bad Kids
Lady Gaga
Born This Way

Just off out.. See ya'z! -x

Thursday, 8 March 2012

I think ur a contra..

I Think Ur A Contra
Vampire Weekend
Contra

I saw these guys at Latitude Festival 2010- so so good live. I would post a pic but I seem to have deleted all my pictures, music, videos.. My whole previous life really. Maybe I should see this as a way to stop looking so much in the past and live life in the present and exciting, unknown future!(?)

Getting ready for Summer with Topshop..

Video- Kony 2012


Official video on YouTube. 


-x

Kony2012

This Kony stuff is really getting to me. How come no-one had really heard about him before?! It's almost embarrassing. Please get as involved as you can.. I'm going to try and sort something out for Freiburg- already got a few people interested and down to get more involved in it.. There are already so many videos and ideas that this is a Fad or a hoex, but think about it, if we can capture Kony before the end of 2012, then it will the first time the people have really proved and decided that we want to live in a better world. The fact that the governments have to listen to us, to the people, the youth, is incredible. That only gives me the shivers. We need to plaster the country, the world with the face of Kony2012.
"The world is talking about a real issue about our humanity."

Dieses Zeug ueber  Kony geht mir wirklich auf dir Nerven. Wie kommt es dass niemand etwas von ihm gehoert hatte? Es ist fast peinlich. Bitte mach soviel du kannst.. Ich werde versuchen etwas zu sortieren und plannen fuer Freibrug- schon ein paar Leute haben davon Interesse.. Es gibt schon so viele Videos und Ideen, dass dies eine Modeerscheinung oder eine Hoex ist, aber denk mal darueber nach, wenn wir Kony vor dem Ende des Jahres 2012 erfassen kann, dann wird es das erste Mal, dass die Leute wirklich bewiesen haben, und beschlossen, dass wir in einer besseren Welt leben wollen. Die Tatsache, dass die Regierungen, um uns, den Leuten, die Jugend zuzuhoeren haben, ich unglaublich. Von nur das allein gruselte ich. Wir muessen die Plakate ueberall hin kleben, ueber das Land, ueber die ganzes Welt, mit dem Gesicht Kony2012.
"Die Welt redet ueber einem echten Problem unsere Menschlichkeits."


Sorry, my German's not so great, but you get the idea. This is a big deal, lets be a revolutionalising Generation and change the world we live in!

-x

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

BE AWARE.


BE AWARE OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD AROUND YOU.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kony2012/kony-4.html

PLEDGE NOW TO SAVE THE CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE.

It's up to us.

-x

Monday, 5 March 2012

Amen.

Pic of favs right now.
I am seriously low on dollar which is scaring me, big time. I want to go to Berlin to visit my bezzie on Sunday, and I've just spent a load on a external hard drive and a Regio Karte for the trams. Plus, I still have no computer.. Its taking me days to figure out how to fix it, does anyone know anything about computers?! Me need help!! Life is a bitch sometimes.
In the picture..:-
Vintage diamenté trouser braces.
H&M clutch in silver.
Retro sunglasses from Flohmarkt.
Leonard Cohen's new album 'Old Ideas'.
Neal's Yard Remedies hand polish and nail balm, both in Nourishing Melissa.
Hair bow, bought at Leeds Music Festival.
ECM magazine, Spring 2012.
-x

Saturday, 3 March 2012

Blasted technology.

Hating on my computer right now. I have managed to un-installed the sound software somehow.. Don't ask how, as I haven't a friggin' clue.

Small selection of photos from last week when I met up with my 'zukuenftige Mitbewohner' (future flatmates..) when I got back from England. I think the Freiburgers aren't quite used to the designs of Topshop, as my leggings got rather a lot of 'weird' looks.. Plus I just realised I wore the exact same outfit today for work. Turned up late as per usual for the Saturday 8am shift- whoopsie.
No music because I can't listen to any thing new, apart from what's on my Ipod:-
Pink Floyd, 'Echoes' (for my walk home) but for now Mumford & Sons 'Sign No More'.
"I close my eyes for a while,
And force from the world a patient smile.
But I gave you all."
-x