Seeing: * the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, via live broadcast from the cozy vantage point of my couch with a glass of wine. My favorite part(s) were the giant falling dominoes, knocking each other over one by one. Normally overt symbolism like that kills me, but I …
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Five Senses Friday no. 12
Seeing: * this inside of my office a little more than normal. Hearing: * a soccer game between FC Bayern and some other team (don’t ask me who) that we (i.e., mein Schatz) streamed over the internet because it wasn’t showing on local television (that’s what you get for being a Northern fan of a …
Five Senses Friday no. 11
Seeing: * the 1969 French film Army of Shadows. A rather bleak, but interesting story. Fun to see what passed for high-tech special effects, back in the day. * yellow leaves everywhere: on trees, floating in the wind, piled up on the ground. Hello, autumn! Hearing: * Ben Harper’s (relatively) new album, White Lies for …
Five Senses Friday no. 10
Seeing: * lots of naked people. In the sauna, that is. Yep, ’tis the season. Hearing: * the world through plugged up ears after the plane ride back to Hamburg. Along with the motion sickness, my ears tend to plug up during landing and it lasts the good part of a day. It’s a wonder …