Important news

Hey there! Last Friday, while I was biking to work, I got this marvellous idea about how to make this weblog so much more interesting. On my way home after work I pondered over this idea a little more and became determined to work on it as soon as I got home. But, to my great shock, I found out that my internet connection didn't work anymore... :( And not until yesterday could I get on the web again. The good thing was that I had time to finish the last Harry Potter book that I liked very much. I really think it is the best one so far. Right after that I started reading One of ours by Willa Cather, who has become one of my favorite writers. This one is about a guy who grows up as the son of a rich farmer in Nebraska, but has the feeling he doesn't belong there. Furthermore, I watched three movies last weekend: Spider-man, The graduate and The virgin suicides. I had never seen The graduate before, but I thought it was a very cool movie. The virgin suicides is one of my favorites. And Spider-man has Tobey McGuire in it and Kirsten Dunst, so I just had to see it. It's not my favorite genre, but I thought this one was cool. Well, anyway, it wasn't until yesterday before my internet got fixed. Fortunately, I didn't have time to work on my weblog then, because a friend came to have diner and drink wine with me. But now I'm back to tell you that I will work out my idea very soon! It will involve a new introduction to this log and it will become some sort of story. Today, however I have other things to do, like writing and getting some groceries and preparing diner for another friend, so you will have to be patient for a little longer... Since nobody, except some spammers appears to be reading this log, I'm sure you don't mind!


The last thing I want to tell you before I go again is that I'm listening to a very nice indierecord now called Lost in reverly by The Mendoza Line. And of course, that I found a book in the mail this week that I had ordered from England. It's a children's book by Enid Blyton called The faraway tree stories. It was recommended to me once by a very nice girl I used to know and whose advice and recommendations I still value a lot. After reading The wind in the willows I decided that I wanted to read more stories like that, so that's when I ordered this on Amazon. It looks like a fun book to read so I''m looking forward to it! I will keep you posted.

Bye for now.

Deadbeat sweetheartbeat!

Whoohoo, yesterday this great cd arrived with the mail! I had already been looking forward to this for many months now and there it finally was!


It seems kind of silly to spam on your own site when there is appearently nobody else who reads this blog, but I just want to tell everybody how much I like this band! ;-)

Here you can listen to the entire record: http://www.purevolume.com/thejulianatheory

Well, gotta go again. Bye...

Made again

Marillion - Made again

I have been here many times before
In a life I used to live
But I have never seen these streets so fresh
Washed with morning rain
I have seen this face a thousand times
Every morning of my life
But I never saw these eyes so clear
Free of doubt and pain

Like the whole world has been made again

I have been here many times before
In a life I used to live...
And it's all because you made me see
What is false and what is true
Like the inside and the outside of me
Is being made again by you

And it's all because you made me see
What is false and what is true
Like the inside and the outside of me
Has been made again by you

Like a bright new morning
Like a bright new day
I woke up from a deep sleep
I woke up from a bad dream

To a brand new morning
To a brand new day
Like the whole world has been made again

Music, books and movies

Hello, it's me again. Listening to this wonderful cd that finally came with the mail, yesterday.

I had been looking forward to this all week and so far I haven't been disappointed. Songs like the titletrack, I don't mind singing and Shameless heart are really gorgeous! Josh Kelley is not very famous yet, but he sounds a little like John Mayer (on this record less than on his first though), so maybe that will change. It's a rather romantic kind of music, but I find that I really like that kind of stuff, although I enjoy David Sylvian's dark and gloomy record Brilliant trees (that I bought yesterday) very much as well.

Yesterday I also finished The wind in the willows. A really funny book about Mole, Rat, Toad, Badger and some other animals that behave like humans. Now I've already read a hundred pages of the last Harry Potter. One of my roommates was so kind to lend it to me. Hype or not, I really like those books!

Oh, and I saw this wonderful movie last night: Ed Wood, by Tim Burton, with Johnny Depp. A great team. I liked it almost as much as Edword Scissorshand. I bought this dvd some time ago, but had not yet found the time to watch it. Nevertheless, I was actually going to watch Spiderman, but I found out that my dvd is Region 1 (!). Cannot play it... :( Well, there should be a solution to that, since I also have some other dvd's that are Region 1 that I have already watched here. By the way, Friday I also saw a great movie: Gladiator. I don't watch this kind of movies very often anymore, but I found that I was really impressed by this one. It's got a good story and it's very interesting from a historical point of view. As I've probably written before, I'm very much interested in the ways moviemakers and novelist deal with history and the way they portray historical events and persons, because it tells us something about the place history has in our society. Maybe I'll write some more about that later.

Well, gotta go now. Find something to eat and then go out on my bike, because the weather is too nice to stay inside all day. And of course, I still have to work on a plan to make this blog much better than it is now. ;-)

:wave:

Yes, ladies and gentlemen!

Finally, our little blog has been discovered! Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to our first visitor! (You can find him in my previous post...)

Unfortunately, it seems to be some spammer... :-(

Still, this visit means that there is hope for my modest blog.

Anyways, right now I'm particularly busy with nothing in particular (have to do the dishes, want to read, see a movie, et cetera), so I have to go again.

Oh yes, listening to the Counting Crows now, as you can see at www.lastfm.com/user/marco78train

Till next time!

New ideas and a record fair

Yeah, right now I'm working on a nice idea how to make this blog more interesting and to give it some direction. I cannot tell you anything about it yet, but the idea came to me this morning when I started reading this wonderful book:

I have only read 20 pages or something, but I have already fallen in love with it. Perhaps I will tell you more about it in my next post.


Listening to Vertical Horizon now. This cd has some beautiful songs that somehow fit the weather of today (when I look out of the window I see a grey sky).

Yesterday, I went to a record fair and bought some classic records by REM, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smiths and Billy Bragg. And cool cd's by Jimmy Eat World, Noir Desir and Pearl Jam. The last record (Riot Act) was the one that really got me into rock music again, a few years ago. I had to review it and I found out that I still liked those nineties rockbands very much. This cd also has one of my most favorite songs ever on it:

Love Boat Captain

Time: 4:36 Vedder, Gossard
Is this just another day? This god forgotten place.
First comes love and then comes pain.
Let the games begin.
Questions rise and answers fall insurmountable.
Love boat captain take the reigns and steer us towards the clear.
Here.It's already been sung but it can't be said enough.
All you need is love.
Is this just another phase? Earthquakes making waves.
Trying to shake the cancer off. Stupid human beings.
Once you hold the hand of love it's all surmountable.
Hold me and make it the truth.
That when all is lost there will be you.

Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing.
And there's just one word I still believe.
And it's love.

It's an art to live with pain. Mix the light into grey.
Lost nine friends we'll never know. Two years ago today.
And if our lives became too long would it add to our regret?
And the young they can lose hope cause they can't see beyond today.
The wisdom that the old can't give away.Hey, constant recoil.
Sometimes life don't leave you alone.
Hold me and make it the truth.
That when all is lost there will be you.
Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing.
And there's just one word that I still believe and it's love.
Love. love. love. love.
Love boat captain take the reigns. Steer us towards the clear.
I know it's already been sung. Can't be said enough.
Love is all you need. All you need is love.
Love. Love. Love.

See you soon!

I will not give up!

Hi! It seems as if this weblog is doomed to fail. Not only does nobody seem to read it - which is not very important - the worst thing is that I don't have enough time to think of creative postings... But I will not be defeated. I will not give up! I will be back soon!

It's me again, back after a very busy week!

Wow, I have really been working a lot last week. And after that a weekend of fun. Went to a movie called Palindromes, sat in the sun with friends and enjoyed the weather, went to a book- and to a recordfair and celebrated some birthdays. But now it is time to write something here again.

I still haven't thought of a good theme for this blog, but since appearently nobody is reading it, I guess there is no hurry. ;-) So today I will just say a few things about the music I'm listening too and the books I bought.

Right now, I'm listening to this cd now:






















Bought this one in America and hadn't heard it in some time, but I have just found out that I still like it very much.

Last friday I bought some nice cd-singles by Matchbox Twenty, The Juliana Theory (I was very lucky to find that one), Nada Surf and Edwyn Collins (A Girl Like You! Love that song!). I like to buy singles of my favorite bands or of songs that mean something to me. I also bought a record of Tom Waits and a cd of the Afghan Whigs.

At the bookfair I bought books by William Thackeray (Vanity Fair), Arthur Miller (Focus, already read this one, but it's a fascinating book, so I wanted a copy of my own ;-), Kenneth Grahame (The Wind in the Willows), Mark Twain (The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson) and Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage, of course I had to have this one, since I'm so much interested in the American Civil War and it's portrayal in popular culture). Furthermore, I bought Shaping a nation, a book about twentieth century American architecture, a book of New York wisdom, The Portable Abraham Lincoln and a book called Americans, with loads of short biographies of important Americans.

Well, that was it for today. I guess I have some thinking to do now.