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I saw a 2 year old who was just repeating poppy! wo bist du?
I have a way better vocabulary than you, you 2 year old brat! Learn to speak!!! I’ve been here less than 2 years and I have 3 times the vocabulary that you do…

a colleague actually brought in sesemestrasse CD with songs from the show…I knew the english versions of some of the songs from watching as a child. So far today I’ve learned fledermaus (bat), keks (cookie), and nimm (take).

I’ve noticed that telling someone to “calm the F*ck down” rarely has the desired calming effect. especially if you say it with any amount of uncalmness in your voice…

my lawn-mower is from 1974 because the cord is 3 meters long…

kat: Mow the lawn bitch!!!!

kat: (probably immediately after calling Pete and I Mork n Mindy)…I just insulted both of them at once…it’s called time management…

It was quickly determined that I am in fact Mork…so things could be worse for me…

I buckled saffas bike but Seattle Crippled it…this sounds like bad wrestling…Tonight the Buckler vs. The Crippler…Seriously saffa…what kind of genius wants to drive around grown men on the back of his bike?….6-0
remember that time you leaned your bike against the bike rack and forgot to lock it??? 6-0

Kat: may the beer flow 6-0 (say it six love enough times and it becomes funny…)

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Stayed in and watched Sideways…good flick…

pizza and NAD!!!

I spilled water on my external drive yesterday…bye bye photos and music…uhhh….I hope whoever has my old external drive still has it and didn’t wipe it
lemme know…

I borrowed another book from MacGowans…Cloud Atlas…nowhere inside or out does it tell what the book is actually about, it does however have a quote from the Daily Telegraph that says the book is “Superbly entertaining”…well good enough from me…it starts out with a diary of an english doctor who seems to be visiting the colonies…sounds awful…please don’t turn out to be a John Irving book…

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“If I had a gun for every ace I’ve drawn…
I could arm a town the size of Abilene…”
Cracker…Loser…
Ok great opening line of a song…It just came on as I’m typing so I retype it now…

so happy birthday matt for the 47th time…it’s still not quite as bad as Benj’s birthday last year when he celebrated 87 times…but here’s some pics…

below is another song that just came on…I always think of my dad when I hear this, though maybe it doesn’t all apply.

what’s even more unusual though is that reading these lyrics without hearing the music it doesn’t seem very poetic or musical, but with the music it is…

“Things The Grandchildren Should Know”

I go to bed real early
Everybody thinks it’s strange
I get up early in the morning
No matter how disappointed i was
With the day before
It feels new

I don’t leave the house much
I don’t like being around people
Makes me nervous and weird
I don’t like going to shows either
It’s better for me to stay home
Some might think it means i hate people
But that’s not quite right

I do some stupid things
But my heart’s in the right place
And this i know

I got a dog
I take him for a walk
And all the people like to say hello
I’m used to staring down at the sidewalk cracks
I’m learning how to say hello
Without too much trouble

I’m turning out just like my father
Though i swore i never would
Now i can say that i have a love for him
I never really understood
What it must have been like for him
Living inside his head

I feel like he’s here with me now
Even though he’s dead

It’s not all good and it’s not all bad
Don’t believe everything you read
I’m the only one who knows what it’s like
So i thought i’d better tell you
Before i leave

So in the end i’d like to say
That i’m a very thankful man
I tried to make the most of my situations
And enjoy what i had
I knew true love and i knew passion
And the difference between the two
And i had some regrets
But if i had to do it all again
Well, it’s something i’d like to do

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So Friday was good…wine market with the old man and usual crew. Good to have jeff in town for a week..we’ll miss you again when you’re gone…

The sun came out today and I had a stimulating conversation this morning with the crazy old harmonica dude who sometimes hangs out by starbucks. He wanted to take a break from singing Rastafari Party to come ask me for change…he then launched into some thesis about how the sun makes the people smile…He was quite happy today…even though he had health problems and can’t work anymore (i know way too much about this dude now!)

singing rastafari party while accompanying yourself on a cheap harmonica must take some kind of skill…

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kat apparently lives in constant fear that her mother will burn the (proverbial) mother down….

Kafka on the shore is not the best book I’ve read so far this year, but I did finish it rather quickly….unfortunately the author said the book contains riddles that you will only find if you read it over and over….great!!!!!

I’m sticking to horror novels with happy endings or just sci fi romance….I don’t have time to reread books…
Can someone just make a movie and I could just watch that several times???
Since it’s translated from japanese would I also need to learn japanese to get the riddles???

I have today off for the börse weinmarkt (difference this time is that Saffa and the old man aren’t sneaking off work early…drinking loads of wine and then having to go back to work to say bye)…so since I was killing time with coffee I was reminiscing about Planet of the Apes and it’s ending…I was trying to recall movies that have those endings that just drop your jaw and have such an effect on you that you want to watch the movie again immediately…the kinds of movies that make you want to watch movies…

Sadly(?) I only came up with the Sixth Sense, and the Usual Suspects…Is it really possible that movies like that are so rare…Is it just me…am I too jaded? Am I missing any others?

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I must not post after midnight anymore

It was Open Season not Over the hedge…I fixed it below in my massive well written movie review section….

I think precedence was correct…

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sophistamication

LIVERPOOL FC 4-2 arsenal
got to see the beauty of sport played out in the last 10 minutes…a miracle tie (win), followed by a miracle goal, followed by a pile on….

…and Phil, nothings happened yet re: my page count…you have no power…

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“Being a foreigner is a sort of lifelong pregnancy—a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts,”
Jhumpa Hahiri
The Namesake (2003)

Saffa:…being an american is like having an STD…no matter where you go, it still affects you…

Seattle (to me): I didn’t realize it until I was back in the states, but you are such a cliché. your look is so stereotypical…
(Seattle went to the states, and apparently everyone in seattle has a beard and wears sweatshirts and knit caps.)

kat: you look so much better with a beard…It gives you a certain level of sophistication…I saw a picture of you from last summer and you had no beard, and you looked like crap!
Which reminds me what she said last time I shaved…something like
“you look like a freak…bring it back….bring it back”

gotta love Germans and their non passive-aggressive way of communicating

Charlton Heston is dead…I remember seeing planet of the apes for the first time when i was 13 and that scene in the end when he’s on the horse and stumbles upon the statue of liberty half buried in sand was quite a powerful moment…I had no clue that he had landed in the future…blew my mind a bit….

…back to reading Kafka on the shore…

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The human torch was denied a loan….

I’m currently reading Kafka on the Shore…I’m finally turning into the reader I haven’t been since I was about 10. this can only help the writing style on this page
Just finished “A short history of nearly everything”…great pop science book. In the past few months I think I’ve finished “Harold and Maude”, “1984″, “Freakonomics”, part of “the picture of Dorian Gray”, and 90% of “Hotel New Hampshire” which I’m refusing to finish on principal…seriously…too much started happening and it was no longer realistic…I can read a book about mummies and be fine, but Hotel New Hampshire was just too much…
A few pages into Kafka on the Shore and I was missing small town life…I suddenly have an urge to spend a week in a small town with nothing to do…ahh Coquille I miss you…

anchorman again:
Ed Harken: A lot of you have been hearing the affiliates complaining about a lack of diversity on the news team.
Champ Kind: What in the hell’s diversity?
Ron Burgundy: Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
Ed Harken: Ron, I would be surprised if the affiliates were concerned about the lack of an old, old wooden ship, but nice try.
—————–
Brian Fantana: That was one crazy party. I am hung over.
Champ Kind: I woke up on the floor of some Japanese family’s rec room, and they would NOT stop screaming.
Brick Tamland: I ate a big, red candle.
——————
Brick Tamland: [riding a bear] Hey, Ron. I’m riding a furry tractor.
—————–
Ed Harken: [on the phone] I have no idea where he would have gotten ahold of German pornography. But you and I are mature adults; we’ve both seen our share of pornographic materials. Oh, you never have? Of course you haven’t, how stupid of me. Neither have I. I was just speaking in generalities. Right. I’ll stop by the school a little later, Sister Margaret. Bye.
—————–
Ed Harken: [on the phone with his son] Put down the gun, and let the marching band go. We’ll play it off as a prank.
—————–
Ed Harken: Apparently, my son was on something called “Acid,” and was shooting a bow and arrow into a crowd.

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It’s kind of difficult to meet someone at starbucks when as I’m waiting outside alone the red headed girl just brings me my drink, and says “this is for you…a Present”…
again…I was waiting outside…I didn’t even go in, but it’s a neat trick…I’m going to try it again…when waiting outside fails I’ll just walk in, make sure they see me (thus starting to make my drink). Then immediately move outside…since they’ve already made the drink they’ll have to just bring it to me….

can we just start giving numbers to the red headed girls instead of nicknames?

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