Kulturzeit!

[gothikmaus]

I know I said I wouldn't make New Year's resolutions because I never keep them, but this is actually something I can do. I realised I have a lot of catching up to do concerning books, films, music etc, so this year's motto is: more culture! I've started off the year with a bang and on the 2nd I finally watched Fight Club. Yes, I still hadn't watched it. *hides* Then there are 3 books I started and never finished, and the local library has a lot of interesting CDs, like The Smashing Pumpkins and Kraftwerk (which I borrowed some time ago), and DVDs. And my parents have dozens of DVDs I still haven't watched at home.

I'll try to use this entry to keep track of my progress.

FILMS
- Fight Club
- Cappuccetto Rosso e gli insoliti sospetti (Hoodwinked!)
- The devil wears Prada
- Battle Royale
- Idiocracy
- The rocker
- Watchmen
- Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Star Trek
- The last samurai
- Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
- The boat that rocked
- Maria, ihm schmeckt's nicht
- Verblendung
- Il vigile
- Ladri di biciclette
- Catwoman
- Cado dalle nubi
- Tinker Bell
- The Emperor's New Groove

BOOKS
- "La scomparsa dei fatti", Marco Travaglio
- "La ragazza di Bube", Carlo Cassola
- "Twilight", Stephenie Meyer
- "Kill your friends", John Niven
- "Carmilla e altri racconti di fantasmi e vampiri", J.S. Le Fanu
- "The lights in the sky are stars", Frederick Brown
- "Eye in the sky", Philip Dick
- "Promemoria", Marco Travaglio
- "The city and the stars", Arthur C. Clark
- "Treasure Island", Robert Louis Stevenson

CONCERTS
- Serpenti, 31/01/2009
- Deluded by lesbians, 27/02/2009
- Franz Ferdinand, 30/03/2009
- Deluded by lesbians, 14/05/2009
- Deluded by lesbians, 22/05/2009
- Die Ärzte @ DÄ ♥ DÄOF, 17/06/2009
- Alice Cooper + Die Ärzte @ Montreux Festival, 08/07/2009
- Deluded by lesbians @ Flandrika Festival, 11/07/2009
- Deluded by lesbians @ Flandrika Festival, 12/07/2009
- Deluded by lesbians, 04/09/2009
- Carsick Cars + Joyside @ China Rock Festival, 13/10/2009
- Abwärts @ SO36, 07/11/2009
- Bela B y Los Helmstedt, Alter Schlachthof Dresden, 13/11/2009
- Bela B y Los Helmstedt, Grosse Freiheit 36 Hamburg, 6/12/2009
- Bela B y Los Helmstedt, Grosse Freiheit 36 Hamburg, 7/12/2009
- Bela B y Los Helmstedt, Haus Auensee Leipzig, 8/12/2009
- Bela B y Los Helmstedt, Columbiahalle Berlin, 9/12/2009

CDs
- "The ignorance of being important", Deluded by lesbians
- "Kill your friends audiobook", read by Bela B.
- "Rubber and meat", Kissogram
- "Code B", Bela B
- "Hallelujah", Wayne Jackson (EP)


EXHIBITIONS
- Museum am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin
- Bauhaus Museum, Berlin
- "Fired!" Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin
- "Samurai", Palazzo Reale, Milan
- "Bilderträume", Neue Nationalgallerie, Berlin


OTHERS
- Bela B. Lesung "Kill your friends", 15/03/2009, Berlin
- I Legnanesi "60 anni in una rivista" (theatre play), 22/04/2009
- "Bilder lernen laufen, indem man sie herumträgt", Daumenkinobühnenprogramm von Volker Gerling, 19/11/2009, Berlin

Comments

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

We can hide together. I just know the book. :D

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you had read that.

I also need to read more. Actual books, not just fanfiction. :P

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

Reading is like breathing for me. I HAVE to do it. XD

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

Hee, yes I agree, but I don't read as much as I used to. I have read too many disappointing books lately. I would rather read a few good ones than lots and lots of rubbish ones (for what has been read cannot be unread...)

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

There were some really awful books last year, that's right. But I HAVE to read them till the end. Must be greatest rubbish when I put them away.

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

Haha, yes! I hate it when you get halfway through a book thinking "this has to get better, but I've read half of it so I will finish it and hope that it has a good ending" and then it turns out to be shit, confusing and just plain stupid. I get angry at those books and banish them to charity shops for some other poor sod to pick up :3 I wish my local library was good, it would save me some money!

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

I remember one book I read some years ago which really had an amazing end. Everything else was awful and it took me weeks to read the first chapters. :D
Usually I don't get a reward for being patient till the end. XD

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

I'm the same. There are so many things that are popular and whatnot and when I say, for example, that I have not heard a piece of music some people think I'm lying and get angry because I really have never heard it :\

There was a series of programs on here not long ago about illustrations in children's books and in the episode where they discussed "iconic books for older children" I had only read about two of them D: And I read non-stop as a kid. I guess it's because I refused to read books about people, especially ones with other kids in them because they were always middle-class and complete pricks. I mean, books about pony riding? I couldn't get beyond the fact that the children in them could afford to go pony riding. On the list was things like The Famous Five and Swallows and Amazons, which were all about a bunch of well-off kids having rollicking adventures but still were in home for time for tea D: So out of the lists of "Books You Must Read Before You Die", I've read very few. I've started to read history books lately anyway. It's way wackier than fiction XD

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

Urgh, I hate pony riding, I hate horses. And I hate all those little girls spending their money for that stupid "Wendy". NO, I NEVER WANTED TO HAVE A HORSE, EVEN IF ALL OTHER GIRLS WANTED TO!
Wendy

Oops, I'm sorry, that's my childhood's big trauma. XD

PS: I'm sorry, I'm too stupid for that damn link! All because of the trauma!

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

No no, it's mine too XD I think it was because all little girls were supposed to love ponies and horse riding but I had no interest in it at all and every other girl in my class was bent on ponies and horses and show jumping and urgh! I hated it! It was all "Ponyponyponypony" and I just didn't care! I was happy playing with a stick and tending to my little graveyard XD

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

:)))))))))))))))))))))

*HUGS* Yeah, I'm not alone. Makes me really glad!!!

I was happy playing with a stick and tending to my little graveyard
I prefered my brothers matchbox cars collection. XD

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

I just don't see the attraction with horse riding. My mother had a horse when she was young (she was given it for free and she lived in a small village) but she didn't enter competitions and she just rode it as it was, without saddles or tack. If it was like that then I would probably like it, but it's all the little pony clubs and pony summer camps the girls would go on that were so horrible and dull D:

Hee, my brother had awesome toys too. I never played with mine. He had Ghostbusters and HeMan stuff, why would I want to play with dolls when he had that? Plus I was brought up in the countryside so I spent a lot of time up trees and swimming in rivers and things XD Nice, free things! Not expensive hobbies like pony riding.

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

I didn't want a horse either, I just wanted a cat. XD

[schonste.livejournal.com]

THE LAST TIME I READ A FULL BOOK IT WAS A SCI FI BOOK AND IT IS TH EONLY THING OF REAL LITERARY STATUS I HAVE READ IN 3+ YEARS

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

Last Sci Fi book I read had a floating throne in it and a lake where naked men whipped themselves... That finished that genre for me, I'm afraid XD

[eryka-59.livejournal.com]

That's something I have to do as well. I tend to read less than before and let's not speak about movies...OK, I'll tell you, so that you won't feel ashamed about you lack of culture : for instance, I've NEVER seen Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings so far. See? EVERYONE has seen these movies. Not me XD By the way, if you want to give me some movie recommandations, that would be nice ;)

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Oh well, I only saw the first Star Wars film. :P And I refused to watch the third LOTR film because I know there's a scene with a HUGE spider, I should watch it with someone who's already seen it, so they'll tell me "Close your eyes now" and "OK, now you can open them again." ;)

I'll let you know if I find anything interesting. Fight Club was definitely worth the lack of sleep (it ended around 3:00 am), everyone I know had seen it and said it's a great film, and they were right.