What I like.......
going out with friends.
live music.
acoustic nights.
sitting in coffeeshops and watching people.
lazy Sunday afternoons with tea, cookies and a novel on the couch.
Rain.
dancing in the rain.
road trips.
standing in a demonstration for something you believe in and feel how you connect with hundreds of people.
Jack and James, but not Jim.
Windy autumn days on the beach.
beach parties in the summer.
Laughing until you cry.
Music.
A glass of red wine while having a bath.
the first sip of my morning coffee.
ah what the f***, coffee in general.
Markets.
Festivals.
The take-off on flights.
Walking.
the first glass of whiskey when you have been longing for it all week.
the tickling down your spine while playing your favourite song on headphones.
second hand books with notes.
black and red.
charity shops.
tattoos.
the smell of warm olive oil.
Receiving mail.
dancing.
maps.
Matinee cinema.
Coach trips.
House parties.
Mix tapes.
Record stores.
Book stores.
classic cars.
frisch o'zapfte Mass
The New Forest.
Day trips.
Flying.
finishing tasks.
studying (no joke).
giving presentations.
being on stage.
......and what not......
the sound of alarm clocks.
fanaticism.
Stoiber, Strauss and Huber.
Beckstein.
well, let's face it, probably Bavarian politics in general.
pick-up lines.
Dieter Bohlen.
Bild Zeitung.
lying to myself.
losing control.
"reality" tv.
spiders.
neon light.
being late.
instant coffee.
fireworks.
new year's eve.
people wearing furs.
tequila.
smell of sunday roast.
word limits.
good-byes.
shopping before christmas.
shopping in general.
constraints.
being told what I 'should' do.
ignorant people.
being judged by looks.
tube- especially peak times.
nail polish.
holding companies.
finding out that some food/drink you really like has a weird animal-based ingredient; hello, Guinness anyone...
a conversation starting with "HOW can you be vegetarian?".
.... TBC.
surprise guests for this very special party....
James Hetfield
Daniel Johns
Christa Wolf
Bibi Blocksberg (with Kartoffelbrei, obviously)
Pippi Langstrumpf
Tiger Woods
Denzel Washington
Don Durito
and if I could invite the dead....
Elvis Presley
Rudi Dutschke
Sophie Scholl
Che Guevara
Tom
would be one hell of a party....
Important! I love Rock, Rockabilly, Indie, Folk, Blues, Heavy, Hard, Alternative, whatever. I'm listening to music almost 24/7, and the mp3-player is always with me... normally with (no particular order)
Metallica
silverchair
YouAmI
PJ Harvey
The Libertines
Dirty Pretty Things
Die Toten Hosen
Bob Dylan
Zemfira
Elvis
Nick Cave
Arctic Monkeys
Apocalyptica
The Donnas
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Long Blondes
The Shins
The Clash
Richard Ashcroft
Babyshambles
Coldplay
Rage against the Machine
Placebo
Queens of the Stone Age
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nine inch Nails
Velvet Revolver
Green Day
Letters to Cleo
The Vines
Electrocutes
Damien Rice
Guns n' Roses
INXS
Skid Row
White Lion
Def Leppard
Jet
The Blues Brothers
Gravenhurst
Life of Agony
stone temple pilots
REM
Muse
Orange Goblin
Jonny Lang
Hereos del Silencio
Rufus King
U2
Jeff Buckley
Neil Young
Jinder / P.R. Dewhurst)
Bush
Creed
Nick Drake
Tool
The Ramones
3 doors down
Radiohead
The Kinks
The Strokes
The White Stripes
Kyuss
Monster Magnet
Die Toten Hosen
The Smiths
Sportfreunde Stiller
The Dissociatives
Violent Femmes
Tambalane
Fevertree (RiP)
Velvet Underground
Swinging Blue Jeans
Nickelback
The Smashing Pumpkins
A perfect Circle
Korn
Lifehouse
Lost Prophets
Bryan Ferry
Die Ärzte (the old stuff)
Die Böhsen Onkelz (the not too old stuff...)
Willy De Ville
The Social
The Outside Royalty
Freedom High
Lincoln Brown
Oh no Oh my!
etc etc etc
favourites list is difficult...
The Godfather Trilogy
The Educators/Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
In the name of the Father
Pulp Fiction
Clerks
The Garden State
Goodbye Lenin
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Star Wars Trilogy
Equilibrium
Billy Elliot
Trainspotting
Grosse Point Blank
High Fidelity
Avanti Avanti
OTH.
Brothers and Sisters.
Supernatural.
my so-called life.
Writings, which influenced me the most in any way may include:
Christa Wolfs novels, especially 'Nachdenken ueber Christa T.'
'The Bell Jar' (Sylvia Plath)
loads of poems by Erich Fried
Anna Karenina
'Our word is our weapon', Subcomandante Marcos
'Bambule' by U.M. Mainhoff
novels by Wally Lamb
Lord of the Rings
Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's guide..."
"Die Chronik der Unsterblichen" by Wolfgang Hohlbein
Nick Hornby's High Fidelity
Tanja Kinkels' "Die Puppenspieler"
the Adrian Mole Stories by Sue Townsend
Ingeborg Bachmann
Jane Austen
Heinrich Boell
Dylan Thomas
Hermann Hesse
Ephraim Kishon
Georg Buechner
Harry Potter.
Sophie Scholl
Subcomandante Marcos
Heinrich Boell
Tiger Woods
Elvis Presley
Georg Buechner