I´m A Creep

Just recently I heard this song for the first time after many many years. I love the song and it always reminds me of the wonderful time I spent in LA. It was wonderful to hear it again and to remember all kinds of different stuff.

Radiohead

"Creep"

When you were here before,
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel,
Your skin makes me cry

You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so very special

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts,
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul

I want you to notice
when I'm not around
You're so very special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here, ohhhh, ohhhh

She's running out the door
She's running out
She run run run run...
run...

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so very special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

I don't belong here...

Here´s the video with the lyrics. And then I discovered another version of the song by The Pretenders which I hadn´t heard before. This version isn´t bad either.

Día de los Muertos - Steve´s Moly_x_19

When I spent 3 months in Los Angeles some years ago I first heard about the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos). The holiday is celebrated mainly in Mexico and focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and relatives who have died.
Traditions include building private altars honoring the deceased, using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these as gifts. I really like the colorful and crazy way "death" is handled on this occasion.

The skulls were drawn in Steve´s moly from Moly_x_19.

1001 Journals

My mom just recently gave me this journal. As I don´t keep a diary and the pages are a bit thin for drawing I thought I could use it for 1001 journals, a project which evolved out of 1000 journals. 1000 journals had been the attempt by Someguy, a San Francisco based artist, to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels, to see where they go, and what people do with them. From all the 1000 books he sent off summer 2000 1 came back in 2003. What happened to the other 999? A documentary (telling the story about these 999 journals) has been just released this month at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.

Basically you sign up to add to a journal or you start one yourself and let it out into the wild. I sent this one (registered as Journal 2898) off to the States and after the next participant has added some art to it, the book will be left in some public place (airport, subway, bus, pedestrian zone, McDonald´s, etc.). This way it will hopefully travel a lot and maybe one day it will be returned to me.

I do hope that I will one day get this journal back.

Places I´ve Lived At (100 Ideas 37)

Finally I´m back to doing more ideas of the 100 things project by Keri Smith, which I´m doing with Mim and Casey.

37. List all of the places you've ever lived.

I have moved very often in my life. I think around 17 times. So I have lived in 10 different cities so far:

• Altenstadt, Germany
• Alwar, Rajasthan, India
• Birmingham, UK
• Kottayam, Kerala, India
• Los Angeles, USA
• Munich, Germany
• Peiting, Germany
• Schongau, Germany
• Stuttgart, Germany
• Vaterstetten, Germany

100 ideas
Link to Mim´s Post

Where shall I spend my next vacation? (Poll)

I frequently used to go on vacation by myself until I met my husband, married and had kids. Last year I went on vacation alone, for the first time after 7 years and I enjoyed that so much. It is wonderful to have the power of decision for a few days.
So I decided that I will get myself some time off the family once a year on a regular basis.

This year I´m not sure where I should go to. If you have any recommendations let me know and take a second to vote at the poll on the right side please.
These are a few cities I would like to visit:

• Amsterdam (I love the city and the grachts, and so far I have been there 3 times, but always only for a day or two. I remember one time when all of us slept in one Fiat Punto throughout our visit. That´s pretty small room for 5 persons!)
  
• Madrid (There are still a lot of (Picasso related ) places I still haven´t seen there)
  
• Paris (I love the city, the food, the wine, the cafés, ...)
• Zurich (I would love to visit the Giger Museum in Gruyère)
• Valencia (Another beautiful Spanish city - not that I want to visit the food fight festival La Tomatina).
  
• Kassel ( I want to visit the Documenta - no chance to do that with the kids, but spending 7 or 8 days in Kassel??)
  
• Los Angeles (My favorite city originally named "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula" - "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels on the River Porciúncula" - but I guess way too expensive for this short trip)
  
• Other city (Any ideas? I love to visit new places)

So far I think Amsterdam is on my plan.

Last year I spent 9 days in Madrid, Spain and it was beautiful. I was specially lucky as Spain commemorated an overlap of Picasso-related anniversaries — from that of his birth 125 years ago to the 25th anniversary of the arrival of "Guernica" in a democratic Spain as stipulated in the artist's will. I couldn´t even have a look at all the Picasso events and exhibitions during my stay, but I enjoyed the larger ones.

IF: Cars - Cadillac 59

Illustration Friday´s topic for this week is cars. I´m not really into cars. They should drive and be somewhat safe.



A Cadillac is something completely different. Ever since I saw a Cadillac 59 I´ve wanted to have one. Of course I would need to live in Los Angeles to profit from having one of them.
During my internship in LA, I spent quite some nights on the Mullholand Drive - gazing at the stars and enjoying the view over LA by night. The car we had to drive at that time was small and rusty and still we enjoyed the time spent in it.