Dead Can Dance - my all-time favourite

Dead Can Dance have been one of my favourite bands for years now and I keep listening to their songs often in continiuous play mode. I played their first album over and over again while I was reading 'The Lord of the Rings' and both - music and text- have literally melted and burned into my memory.
And I just read (which is a bit late, as it already was pronounced in May) that Dead Can Dance are planing a new album and world tour in 2012. Oh please, let them play somewhere nearby - I'll be there!

Dead Can Dance ist eine meiner Lieblingsbands, die mich schon viele Jahre begleitet und die ich immer wieder höre, oft im continiuous play modus.
Das Debut-Album habe ich rauf und runter gehört, als ich gerade den Herrn der Ringe las und beides - Musik und Text- haben sich zusammen in mein Hirn gebrannt.
Jetzt habe ich gerade gelesen (ok - bißchen spät, es wurde schon im Mai bekanntgegeben), dass DCD ein neues Album und eine Tour für 2012 planen. Wenn sie meinen Längengrad streifen muss ich hin!

Never give up - "Life without Limits"

Hey folks. I just found a video I think is worth sharing with you.
Very inspirational. There's also a homepage of the guy in the video - Nick Vujicic and you can find his newly written first book. This guy is so funny and wise at the same time. Wow.
My reactions? I've laughed and wept and laughed again. And you?

Hey da draußen. Ich hab gerade ein Video gefunden, dass ich unbedingt teilen möchte.
Eine Homepage und ein Buch gibt es auch (Siehe Oben). Der Typ ist echt inspirirend, witzig und weise.
Meine Reaktionen? Ich hab gelacht, geweint und wieder gelacht. Und ihr?





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Learning Languages Online - Sprachen Lernen Online

Jó napot! Grüzi und Hallo ;)

Hab gerade eine tolle Seite gefunden um online Sprachen zu lernen.
Die Homepage ist vom Goethe-Verlag, man kann dort "aus über 40 Sprachen" wählen und dann jeweils 100 Lektionen online lernen und als mp3-Dateien anhören. Alternativ gibts diese kleinen Sprachbücher auch für 9,95 z.B. bei Amazon zu kaufen und die passenden Audiodateien zum anhören kann man auch komplett runterladen. Was einem eben lieber ist.

Berlin and me

This is a a picture of me in front of the East-Side-Gallery in East-Berlin. It's a part of the Berlin Wall which was painted by artists after the peaceful revolution of 1989.
My boyfried and me did a one day-sightseeing tour and the wall was of course a place I wanted to show him. Although I never lived in Berlin only just in a small town one hour to go by car - Berlin feels close to my mind and heart. Somehow it feels like coming home but then there is still a feeling of strangeness. I quess this is part of my mixed feelings when it comes to topics like homeland" or "being german" or even being born and raised in East Germany and former GDR. All this stuff is not that easy to explain. But I quess, if I had to tell someone what's all that about for me, I would take them to Berlin.

Curious enough, when we visited the "Fernsehturm" I happened to find a shop, that sells original products of East Germany.
For those who can't understand my excitement: this stuff is part of my childhood and also hard to get. Firstly, because I live one thounsand kilometres away from Berlin and secondly because the state of my childhood does not exist anymore. It was more or less erased. After 1989 East Germany tried to catch up to the rest of Germany. This ment rapid modernisation in all fields of society, which is of course a good thing to do and East Germany was desperately in need for restoration.

But somehow this was a "tabula rasa" which swept off even the good parts of people's former lives.
Maybe this is a cause why lots of East Germans feel rather nostalgic about their past. Some people keep saying "It wasn't all bad stuff we had.." and mean that they felt safe and sheltered in these days. Historical facts and personal memories do not always go together as people tend to sugarcoat their views over the years.
So do I. And sometimes I cant help to feel a bit wistful about the good old days, whenever that was.