Long and random. You've been warned.

[gothikmaus]

I'm feeling melancholy these days. Maybe it's because of the sudden weather change; maybe it's because of those comics I read the other day; maybe it's because there are some old issues that were never really forgotten, only hidden away, and sometimes they come up again and remind me that I'm still the same old Alex, no matter how hard I try to change. I know I've changed a lot, but apparently that's not enough. And I'm afraid it'll never be.

But instead of boring you to tears with a useless whiny post, I'll bore you with a useless random post.

- I was watching TV while having lunch today and ended up on All Music, an Italian music channel. After about 4 seconds I thought "Wait, isn't that boy with dreadlocks..." And the following shot: "Fuck! That's... Bill from Tokio Hotel???" o_O Tokio Hotel on Italian TV with a song in English (Monsoon), Oomph! on Italian radio with a song in German (Gott ist ein Popstar), Rammstein everywhere and no sign of Die Ärzte. Life is unfair.

- Driving in the rain while listening to Pulp's "His'n'Hers" brought back so many memories of England and reminded me just how much I loved them - and that country. Why did they split up before I had the chance to see them live???

- My friends asked me to draw something with the graphic tablet they got me for my birthday and to send it to them. My hand still trembles a bit when I use it, so I tried tracing over a picture using the "marker" option. It could be better, but hey, it's a start!



- I took the nationality quiz and I got and incredible result: It says I'm 75% Italian! *rolls eyes* Let's see: I like noodles (but I could be Chinese - no wait, that was a European nationality quiz), I roll the R (but I could be Spanish; and I don't roll it when I speak English), I like strong coffee (all right, this is typically Italian I guess) and I greet my friends with a kiss on the cheek (God, I never know how to greet people when I'm abroad!) Oh my God, I can't escape my origins! :P Hey, do you want to hear a nice rolled R? Here's an Italian tongue-twister.

You scored as Italian. </td> Belgian 75% Italian 75% Turkish 63% Spanish 63% French 63% Polish 63% Danish 50% Russian 50% German 50% British 38% Swiss 38% Dutch 38% Irish 38% Molvanian 13% Which European nationality should you have created with QuizFarm.com

May I ask what is typically Belgian? I honestly have no idea. And no, there weren't questions about chocolate. Also, 50% German and only 38% British. The fact that I don't particularly like beer must have counted A LOT. X)

PS: A joke only my German speaking friends will find funny:

Two strangers meet in London. They start on a conversation but they have to use their dictionary quite often.

- Hello Sir, how goes it you?
- Oh, thank you for the afterquestion.
- Are you already long here?
- No, first a pair days. I'm not out London.
- Thunderweather, that overrushes me. You see not so out.
- That can yes beforcome. But now what other. My hair stood to mountain as I the traffic saw. So much cars give it here.
- You are heavy on the woodway if you believe that in London horsedroveworks go.
- Will we now beer drink go? My throat is outdried. But look, there is a guesthouse, let us man there go!
- That is a good think: Equal goes it loose. I will only my shoeband close.
- Here we are. Make me please the door open.
- But there is a beforhangingcastle, the economy is to. How sorry! Then I will go back to the hotel, it is already retard. On againsee!
- Oh, yes I will too go. Auf Wiedersehen!
- Nanu, sind Sie Deutscher?
- Ja, Sie auch? Das wundert mich aber. Ihr Englisch ist so hervorragend, dass ich es gar nicht gemerkt hätte.

Comments

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Hehe, wir machten auch blöde Fehler in der Schule, sowohl auf Englisch als auch auf Deutsch. Aber das Beste, was ich je gehört habe, war ein Mann in einem Restaurant, der versuchte auf Englisch zu sprechen. Er hat vielleicht 3 Verben in der ganzen Konversation benutzt? Aber wir gestikulieren immer sehr viel, die anderen haben ihn sowieso verstanden. Das war sehr lustig zu betrachten. X)

Und ich fühle mich schon besser, danke. Zum Glück dauerte es nur ein paar Tage, ich hasse es, wenn ich mich so fühle.

PS: This must be the longest comment I've ever written in German. Wow. :P

[schwimmerin.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful joke! Thanks for sharing :)

And I hear you on the being melancholy. It's slowly improving for me, but I've just been so lost and despondent lately. I hope you feel better soon ♥♥♥

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

I already feel better, thank you. Luckily these phases don't last long now, they used to be much worse until a few years ago.

And I love your new icon. ♥

[schwimmerin.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I got it at www.exclamation-point.de, there are a ton of great icons there!

[achtanablah.livejournal.com]

Do you know this classic:
German customer in a British restaurant: "Waiter, when will I finally become a beefsteak?"
Waiter: " I hope never, sir."

[schwimmerin.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Also awesome.

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Haha, great! Even after all these years I tend to mix up bekommen and werden when I speak German, like "Er ist blablabla bekommen. No! Geworden! Damn." XD

I bet it's one of the most common mistakes among English-speaking people or people who learnt German after learning English. Foreign languages can be so fun. X)