Tiny Hand

2013/05/29

Meet Jen!

Sometimes, only a strained smile can cheer you up!
 
It was a day like every other day in Jena. With one exception: the day hated me. And it did everything it could to bring me to my breaking point.
I almost overslept, we ran out of toothpaste (and toilet paper), it rained for hours and hours, the train was full of annoying school children, I got into a virtual conflict with a friend, I looked shitty (as usual) and visiting my seminars certainly didn't help.
 
But when I was on my way back to the train station running through a busy crowd of people, someone walked past me and had an incredible effect on me. Within the quick glance of not even 1 second, my eyes caught sight of the most tense, exerted and exaggerated smile I've ever seen. And somehow, this kinda smile seemed to me to be the most perfect smile a human creature could make with its face.
Jen - that's what I want to call her - was this human being. She seemed just as busy as the rest of the crowd, but different in some way. I don't think she was a student, judging from the huge backpack she was carrying. Maybe a foreign hitchhiker lost in the "big city" *cough cough*... I did not get to see much of her, but I did get an impression of her persona.
I like to think of Jen as a 26-year-old, child-loving, adventurous vegan, who once studied sociology and cultural studies, but gave up studying to help poor African children... Why she smiled that way - I don't know. And I don't get how a person can be both so extremely happy and in a rush at the same time. But seeing her with this excessively large smile on her face made me happy. It made me forget what a terrible day I had. Oh Jen, you brightened up my day!
And I bet that no matter where Jen walks and smiles, everything is (going to be) okay. No matter the situation.
 
No matter how dangerous....
...or tragic...
...or absurd...
...or, well, stupid it is...
You can always count on Jen's ability to brighten up the mood of even the crappiest situation with her strained and kinda inappropriate smile...
Long live Jen!!!
 
 
 
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~music time~
 
 
Matthew Koma - One Night

Josef Salvat - Hustler
such a good song... really digging this artist right now...

Daughter - Get Lucky (Daft Punk Cover) [Obas Nenor Remix]

Tom Odell - Another Love (Naughty Boy Remix)
cinematic adaptation of a great song

Banks - Warm Water (Prod. by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs)

Javelin - Light Out


I hope you enjoyed this weeks tracks and that maybe some Jen-like person can cheer you up when you're feeling down! :)
Greetings
~Maximiwax'*

2013/05/16

Sweet Dreams AREN'T Made Of This...!

When "normal" people come up to you and say Man, I had the craziest dream last night! , they normally dreamt about the most boring dream sceneries ever: They were being chased by an unknown man or monster / running without moving forward / some other symbolic sh*t. These are dreams that have a certain notion - a notion you can figure out with just a liiiiittle bit of logic.

There is no logic to my dreams.
It's not that they don't make sense. Each dream shows a complete and well thought out story. It's just that these stories are illogical if you try to think of their relevance considering my hopes, dreams, wishes and fears.

Imagine this:
There is a tiny, little world with a small number of houses on it. Each house looks exactly the same: futuristic; big windows; huge backyard... Above all these houses and around the world is a net of streets, more or less like a round, flying street cage, so to speak. Without knowing where I come from, I land on one of the streets above the houses in the middle of the night - on my 4 paws. Yes, I am a cat. Well, not a cat, more like an asexual cat alien. I start to run on this net of streets, chasing the echo of my wandering which I leave behind because of my enormous speed.
Somehow, I slip off the street net and fall down on the backyard of one of the houses and, unfortunately, into a swimming pool which the family of the house built up there. I crawl out of it and begin to sneeze - my alien-esque nature can't cope with the cold water and so I instantly get sick. The mother of the house apparently sees or hears what happens in her backyard and runs outside to help me. She notices my sneezing and gives me medicine - again, something that my alien body can't process and so I react to it. I react to it by becoming a female cat alien. Don't ask me why, but this damn medicine changes my asexual alien race into an XX version.
And now the funny part begins.
The mother brings me into a hospital on this planet (How? Well, I don't know) and the doctors try to help me, but all hope is lost...
I bleed to death. Because I got my period.
I am a female cat alien on an unknown, futuristic planet that dies due to its menstruation after changing its sex because of some kind of medicine.

I wake up with the weirdest feeling in my stomach and an infinite number of question marks above my head. Why did I dream this? What does this mean? Does it even have a meaning? I will NEVER sleep again!
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This is just one example of the weirdness that is my mind. I also dreamt of being a drug-addicted, Swedish male supermodel, a baby that drowns in its own pee and a guy in a Saw-like room, who has to kill Sheldon from TBBT in order to survive -- to name only a few...

I documented the most intense dreams of the last few years on little notes and pinned them on a pin board to always remind myself how f*cked up my mind is. Or to look at them again in a few years and maybe figure out what's wrong with me...
And let's not begin with the sex dreams. That's a whole 'nother level of craycray!

The last dream I remember had something to do with cooking. Quite normal, right? Fingers crossed that I finally tamed my imagination!

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~music time~

The Royal Concept - World On Fire

Kate Boy - The Way We Are
Wait for the drop ;)

Some Kinda Wonderful - Reverse

MS MR - Bones

Cosmo Sheldrake - The Fly
Irish folk -like vocals + Trip-Hop beats. Me likey :)

Austra - Home


Sweet dreams, guys!
Greetings
~Maximiwax'*

2013/05/01

The "You HAVE To See This!" Situation/Problem

Raising Hope.
A great TV series on FOX with a tremendous amount of randomness and loveable characters.
And yesterday, I watched the last episode of the current season.
I tried to avoid rushing through the episodes just as I take my time with a good book. If you enjoy something, you wanna enjoy it as long as you can, right?
Well, the curiosity for what happens to lil' Hope (more or less the protagonist of the show) was stronger than my patience and now there is a huge slot left in my schedule, which is to be filled with another great TV series - and that's where the problem begins...

We all know friends and acquaintances that recommend a certain series, a new band, some kind of movie or a place to go to. And they always try to convince you that you HAVE to see or try it. The more time passes by, the more people try to get you to do what they requested and the more things are thrown at you.

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Try this! Listen to that! Oh no, really, it's very good! You need to check it out! Next time, we REALLY need to try cooking Indian food... No wait, maybe sushi!
So many things to try out, and so many empty promises... In the end, you don't choose any of the recommended things, because the magnitude of enjoyable music/series/movies/etc exceeds your range of concentration and definitely the time you want to invest into enjoying yourself. The day only has 24 hours... And considering that I already watch more hours of American entertainment (including Youtube) than 90% of the people I know, it's hard to add something to the list.

But as I said, I have ONE slot for a new series now that Raising Hope got X-ed off from my schedule (until the 4th season comes out) and I'm looking for something to *Attention!: bad pun* fill my hole. Get it? ...
...
...
I now allow people to bombard me with their suggestions.
Let's hope that I don't get hooked on too many of them. Or the other way around: that I am able to choose something from the list. Or else...


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~music time~


Bastille - Laura Palmer (RAC Mix)

Jai Paul - Crush (Jennifer Page Cover)

The xx - Shelter (Beat Culture Remix)

Sia - Kill and Run
This track and the one beneath are from the Official Soundtrack of "The Great Gatsby" (2013). Seems to be a great soundtrack (except for Beyoncé's version of "Back to Black" -.-) ... Check it out!

Skylar Grey - Final Warning



That's it for now, guys... If you have any suggestions on what series is really worth watching, let me know in the comment section below! ;)
Greetings
~Maximiwax'*