Procrastination!

Wow, 2 posts in one day.... Something is happening to the world I guess.

So basically I'm posting again, cos I found some links I wanna share. Needless to say, other people found the links before me, and I didn't even find them myself.

It started with a link I got posted in Google Talk. So I went to check it out.

Turns out, it's a blog with some nice photography shots. Oh, wait.. the heading for the next entry sounds interesting. Lets see.. "25 minimalistic websites".. nice.. let's try clicking that. Oh, another blog. Ok. So where are these websites? Ah... here they are... This one is cool... oh, and this one, too. Mhmh... I should tell someone about these... Uh? What's that last one? The Idiot Behind the Iron Mask? Sounds weird. Ah, but of course it's another blog. With the most stylish subtitle I've read on a blog so far...

"I’m the quintessential gentleman, the new black, the life of the party, a man amongst men, a connoisseur of beautiful women, and all that bullshit."

Very amusing, really. I like the style ey writes in, too.

"Who cares if the system proves itself to be tainted and problematic, of course. After all, why remove or fix a system that has not yet completely shut down, if it could still be used. (To use a rather pedantic analogy, why not continue using an already-lame donkey as a beast of burden, so long as all of its legs haven’t yet broken to render it completely useless?)"

So... I quote, I link, I paste... and procrastinate from studying.
Ah, well... what's life without risks and things like that. It would be too easy, if I always did the things I should. Finish in time without stress? Naaaaw... any fool can do that! You have to make it hard! Risk something! Bend the rules until they seem to snap! Yeah, baby, yeah...

Have you yet noticed? I like to finish my sentences with ... ... ^_~
It leaves room for interpretation, and as well as that, it's nicer to type..

yeah.. w7e

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Currently listening to: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Seedling
via FoxyTunes

sometimes you could label me with "emo"

Actually I should be studying. It's even a subject I like. But I fail at studying. Never know where to start, what to do, and always on the move to find new music.
My greatest addiction, and yet I revel in it.

I just ordered two more Bonnie 'Prince' Billy albums from Amazon. Eir music is the best stuff I found for months. And it's so fitting with the view out of my window.

Black. Yellow. Grey. Brown.

So good it hurts:

Finally a new post, and tons of new music.

This is it.
New post after a good month of not writing. I had several reasons for not posting, but none of them are of any real importance, so no point in listing them up here.

So what's to tell.
I got a bunch of new CDs. You might wonder why I still bother to get CDs, since iTunes and so on are so much faster. Well, for one, I love having real CDs on my shelf. It shows people what I listen to, and the artwork is great. Apart from that, I like to have something to touch, and I daresay, it's far more likely for my harddrive to die, than for my CDs to go missing or anything.

Till Brönner - Oceana
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This is my absolute favourite of all my new CDs. It's jazz. Till plays trumpet but ey also sings. Some say ey shouldn't have started singing. I don't know eir previous albums, so I can't tell. I just know I really like this CD. I was so happy when it finally arrived. It first attracted my attention when I saw it in someone's car.
The cover is quite striking really. So when I had access to the internet again, I tried to remember the artist and album name and with some searching found it. Lucky for me, Amazon had listening samples for this album. So I tried them out and I pressed play on them for a whole evening to listen to them again and again.
On Wednesday when I got home, I finally had the CD in my mailbox. So first thing I did was to put it into my CD player and start listening. I haven't done this sort of thing for ever. There's always some music on, but usually I do stuff at the same time. Not this time though. I simply sat, watched the autumn wind play with the trees, smelled my vanilla candle, and listened to this wonderful music.
I'm so happy I bought this CD.


Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
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Second favourite of the new stuff. It's kinda hard to describe the musical style of this. On Last.fm he is tagged with folk, alt-country and indie. I'm not sure if that's what it is, but I'd definitely say it's alternative.
This album is unbearably melancholic, but what's better suited for the dawning of autumn than this. Or rather for autumn itself, since it's in full play already. The backing vocals of Dawn McCarthy add some really beauty to his songs. Since aquiring this album I've had the chance to listen to some of eir previous songs, and eir voice really enriches the sound.
My favourite tracks on this album are Wai and No Bad News.

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Currently listening to: Till Brönner - This Guy's In Love With You
via FoxyTunes

depression VS runnning

Most of today's afternoon I was totally depressed. I listenend to the same song 73 times in a row, didn't smile, didn't chew my chewing gum... I basically just sat there and let the whole world be what it is whithout caring really. As well as simply being depressed, I was worried about someone really close to me. I don't have a way of helping or knowing about that though, so that pulled me down even more. Then my 4 times Ragnarok hubby came online, and ey was down, too. And ey's never down. Mostly ey just says "normal" when I ask how ey feels.
Such a weird day.

Just a bit later I was talking to Paint, and he told me "just be careful you don't get hurt". I think it's already too late for that... But some part of me actually thinks that's fine. Which is confusing the rest of me a lot. It's like being a multi-headed animal. One head wants food, the other drink and the third maybe just wants to sleep. Except that the things my different egos want are less rudimentary than food and sleep. And just to make it clear right here and now, I'm not schizophrenic and I don't have any alter-egos. I simply don't know what I want most of the time, and I also don't understand half the stuff that goes on inside my head and heart...

Back to the day itself... When I got home I talked to yet another friend of mine, and ey was down, too. Maybe it's all got to do with the weather. Today was the first real autumn day here. There was still some sun, but mostly it was grey and rainy.

interlude
O.o that reminds me ^^ totally random... yesterday there was a squirrel watching my class at uni. That was totally cute. Haha, our prof got jealous of the squirrel, because it stole all the attention. :)
/interlude


So eventually I decided I gotta do something. Well no, I didn't really decide. It's just that I wanted to run yesterday, but couldn't because I had a friend visiting me. So my head just said I gotta run today. So I did. And it was a really great run. I still didn't recalibrate my Nike sensor, so the distance on that is a bit off still. Anyways, about a third through, I figured out how to breath without it being sore and causing stitches. So once breathing worked I could even run faster. ^^ From about half-way I simply got faster and faster... it was almost real running at the end instead of slow-ass jogging. XD

So now I feel really good. I can still feel my earlier depression lingering around, but I think as long as I don't change my music from happy to sad stuff I should be fine for the rest of today...

Ugh. Running makes me cough.

Running

Yay, today I went running again. Well, real runners would call it slow jogging. Anyways... I'm really happy I'm still going. I started like 9 days ago, and since then I went running 5 times. Apparently running with music really does make all the difference for me. And the fact that I got an iPod nano for free just makes it extra nice. Since I didn't have to pay for the iPod I instead paid for the Nike+ Kit and some really nice armstrap thing for the iPod. Calibrating the Nike sensor is a pain in the ass, but it's closer to the real distance now than it was with the default setting. Gonna try calibrating it again this week. Maybe I manage to actually run my own pace when I do those 500 meters to calibrate it. While I'm talking about pace.. my first run really sucked.. It was something like 9 1/2 minutes per kilometer. The one today was quite a lot faster ^^ 7:16 min/km. I'm making progress. The most important thing now is, to just keep going. 3 times a week is a good target. But my last two runs were quite a bit shorter than the first 3. So I gotta try and get to the same distance again, otherwise I'll wanna turn home even sooner each time. Oh yeah, you can check out my latest run on the right hand side ^^

My flatmates were supposed to come back today. But only one did. I wonder when the other one will get here. Ey's got a week until eir lectures start again, so I guess ey can be relaxed. It's gonna be good having them around again, cos they both run too. And they do it a lot better and faster than me. So hopefully they can give me some advice. :)

Sitting in the kitchen instead of my own room is really nice. I can see the moon outside the window. And also, I study a lot more here. I still get distracted simply by the fact I'm online all the time, but it's less. I guess last semester taught me a lesson - finally. Which is why I'll go to bed now. Don't wanna fall asleep during my lectures now.
I might miss something exciting *coughcough* XD