Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Digestion reader (that's what you will be if you read on).

People, I don't know what I could write about. Every time I sit down after thinking "Yeah, I can write a quick little post about that" I think it's overly boring and possibly nauseating while writing, so I put it off until the time I'm in a quirkier writing mood. And you know what? That time still hasn't shown up 'round here. Like it's mad or something cause I wouldn't answer late night phone calls or didn't have its new address to send a postcard. Or maybe writing time's not mad at me at all. Maybe it's just jealous cause we just got these new plants for our window that I think are really awesome. We also have two cactuses, which I know are called cacti, but I'm not feeling any Roman vibes right now, so cactuses it is.

Speaking of which, when you call a woman a "Tussi" in German you are most likely not going to be friends with her. The translation is only supposed to give you a vage idea (I know, vague, but it's national day for the abolition of silent letters (n-dasl 2008), in case you were wondering, plus hoo kears ebowt orthography ennemawr). I'm thinking of a young woman who thinks she's hot digestion end product and wears lots of make-up and stuff like that. Anyway, we've been seeing this women's deodorant/antiperspirant in stores, and meant to tell our friends in Germany about it, but never did. Sorry, it's much less hilarious this way.

What I've been wanting to communicate is some opinion. Not so much about politics, even though I agree with a German speaker I overheard saying that the excitement building at home about Barack Obama isn't a good thing, since we don't get to vote the American president. The reason I think that German speaker was right is that ultimately, this might fuel the already deep-rooted and sometimes irrational anti-American sentiments of some Germans. Let's say the majority of Germans determines for themselves who they think should be the next American president, the right guy. Then somehow, the wrong guy wins. How could this happen? It was so clear who was the far superior candidate. Verdammt nochmal, those Americans, always making the world a worse place to live, one vote at a time. Typical! They just have no clue. At least hypothetically, that's what I can foresee happening. And I don't think it's good for Hans and Gisela to get their hopes up like that.

But like I said, I would never subject you to any political blabber emanating from my fingers like that. I have opinions about other things today. Like the latest Indiana Jones movie, which I thought was just fine, except the whole thing about aliens, which unfortunately was a rather large part. Could have done without that. Regular mysterious natives would have been just fine. I also saw Hellboy II, and liked it as well. Not spectacular, and the humor isn't all that great, but some of the visuals were expectedly awesome. Like the character that heals Hellboy (yeah, I just spoiled it, no wait, of course he wasn't gonna die, that was like saying that Hellboy wins one of his fights, so nevermind) and Selma Blair. Speaking of Selma Blair, if you've been seeing Kath and Kim previews on American TV, check out the Australian original and tell me that's not 100 times funnier than the American version will be. Well, it might be hard to tell from the website and there don't seem to be any good clips on youtube, but you can trust me on this one.

If you thought that was it you're way wrong. I also listened to some good CDs. But first, I have a question for all you people out there who enjoy some good rock music. Cause I have been feeling old lately for not knowing any good new bands that are exciting. Most online review sites I visit have too broad of a spectrum and all they seem to review is bands that traded their distortion knobs for a whiny lead singer. Don't tell me to check out Kerrang either, cause they write about Slipknot as if they're to be taken seriously. Maybe I'm just being too snicky (that means 50% snobby, 50% picky). I was able to get some good stuff I somehow never had in my collection like Dirt by Alice in Chains in the meantime, but I wanna hear something fresh. Cause the time between Tool releases is too long to not be listening to anything else. And I definitely like Aenima the best, from which you may draw your own conclusions. Part of the problem is probably that I don't end up getting new releases that I probably would like when they come out. Like System of a Down's last albums, and I have only one Mars Volta album (even though that might really be enough in that case). And I don't get reunions stuff out of principle. Good CDs I have been listening to: As I Am by Alicia Keys (go ahead make fun of me) and Rising Down by The Roots (even though I haven't spent too much time with that one). Good night.

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