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Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:23:55 -0500

"All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of..."

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:28:49 -0400

“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.”

- Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via colinfirth)

my thoughts exactly

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:37:47 -0400

my thoughts exactly

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Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:50:33 -0400

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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:21:53 -0400

"Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for the Short Story 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he..."

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:27:24 -0400

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Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for the Short Story

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things–reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them–in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

”

- via advicetowriters.com (via kadrey)

Happy Birthday!

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:19:13 -0400

Happy birthday, Malcolm McDowell!

(photo credit: Empire Magazine)

RIP

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:51:06 -0400

RIP Ray Bradbury
You were one of the finest writers and I’m deeply saddened by the fact that there will never be a new book written by you.

fuckyeahdementia: LIES!!!!1!

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:48:44 -0400

fuckyeahdementia:

LIES!!!!1!

greenanchorr: love this

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:37:50 -0400

greenanchorr:

love this

"Dance Like No One is Watching … Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt Before … Go to Work..."

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:43:28 -0400

“Dance Like No One is Watching …
Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt Before …
Go to Work Like You Don’t Need The Money.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

"I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:13:23 -0400

“I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, ‘If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we’ll talk.’ All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don’t want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.”

- Ray Bradbury (via fivetwofivetwo)

are2: Stay Creative

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:27:13 -0400

are2:

Stay Creative

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Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:17:12 -0400

Easter

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:34:41 -0400

I totally forgot that Frankenstein’s monster learned how to smoke in „Bride of Frankenstein“. Well, I wish I could quit! ;-)

Easter is ahead and all I do care about are the 4 days off. Raised as a Catholic this used to be a very important time for me and my family. But nowadays it is not special to me anymore. The weather is awful. So I decided to spend most of the time at home, preferably in my bed.

I’ve done a lot of reading lately (Ray Bradbury, Tom Rob Smith, Neil Gaiman, David Peace) and I plan to continue with it. I haven’t finished reading “House Of Leaves” (Mark Z. Danielewski) yet, although I started with it months ago. But I always get distracted by other things: other books, graphic novels, games, movies, life itself…
Did you experience that: you stopped reading a certain book and after a while you start to forget what it was all about? So, I think I should hurry! I hope I have it finished after Easter.

Here’s a link to bring you into the perfect Easter mood: http://www.happyplace.com/15235/the-creepiest-easter-bunny-photos-ever-taken

;-D

Happy Easter!

"As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a god. I don’t think there is a god, but belief..."

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:49:14 -0400

“As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a god. I don’t think there is a god, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a god. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different god, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are.”

- Ricky Gervais: “Why I’m an Atheist” (via patricktimothy)

Organizing Life

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:13:29 -0400

I am a person who likes making lists.
Schedules, to organize my life. It’s absolutely necessary for my time management. Otherwise I would “get lost”.

I would probably forget most of my plans because life can be so hectic and unpredictable sometimes. And this is further aggravated by the fact that I am a person who gets easily distracted.

Oh look, a butterfly!

So, I made some plans for 2012. Nothing spectacular, I know. But I hope I can accomplish most of them within the next 9 months!

· relax much more in my spare time (reminding myself that a job is just a job and shouldn’t influence my entire life)

· join a Tai Chi Chuan class

· spend my weekends rather with my friends than with my Xbox

· learn a new language (any suggestions?)

· quit smoking. AGAIN.

· new tattoos (yes, plural)

· NY in July to meet my dear friend K. and finally her husband

· bar-hopping in London with my dear friend M.

· Edinburgh in fall

· a new hair color for the summer (again: any suggestions?)

· visit dear friends in Germany

(@ R,P,B and T: Remember our plans for the Village People Meeting in Hamburg? Give me a date and I’ll be there!)

· another bad taste night with the lovely ladies B. and I. (Next time in Bremen?)

· Oh, and I decided to use these beauties again (on a daily base):

Wisdom from Woody

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:56:44 -0400

Sherlock Holmes

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:32:29 -0400

During the last 2 weeks I watched the entire Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett again.
Now I feel the constant urge to say “my dear Watson” every time I’m explaining something to somebody!

:-D

life.again

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:34:00 -0400

Lying sick in bed for almost a week gives you the opportunity to slow down and to think about your life (a little bit).

I’ll turn 38 this year and honestly, this scares the crap out of me! It’s not getting older that sucks. Looking older is what’s so annoying. And the fact that I don’t feel any wiser or more mature. I thought this would come with time. But nope! I’m still feeling immature and insecure. I wish I would be more confident about myself but I am not.

My life has become quite busy. Work is now the dominant part of it and I don’t think I like it that way. Don’t get me wrong: I love my job! But I have the feeling that it is consuming me. Even in my spare time I think about work and this exhausts me. I do have social contacts but quite often I’m glad if I don’t have to communicate after work. Odd, isn’t it?

I miss photography, I miss strolling through the streets, I miss reading books, I miss my pen pals, I miss writing proper blogs …
So, I think it’s time for a change now. Or soon I will be a frustrated old spinster! ;)

First of all I “re-activate” this tumblr blog. I got my account in November 2009 and back than it contained much more written blog entries than it does now. In the last months it became rather a platform for reblogging funny pictures from the internet. I enjoy those pics very much but I think it’s time to rediscover the joy of writing. :)