I had another splendid week-end. Instead of boring you with all the minute details, I'll tell you my top five favorite things that happened.
1) I got to see a friend's band play a little gig. Socially, though, it was kind-of strange and awkward, but that's another story. It was a worthwhile experience overall.
2) On Saturday I met with my American girlfriend in Aachen and we just had a nice, simple afternoon. Oh, and I drank a lot of coffee. Aaaand I put on this eyeliner and it was such a pleasurable experience, you wouldn't believe.
3) Feuerzangenbowle. It's a super alcoholic winter beverage that invovled fruit, red wine, rum and huge ass hunk of burnin' sugar. There's a tradition at the Aachen university to make that, get pissed and then go to the uni theatre to see this old, crappy, black and white film about students making that same drink and getting pissed. We skipped the movie part.
EDA: here's something on wikipedia about it!
4) An all-vegetarian chinese restaurant with seitan on the menu and cans of soymilk in the cooler. I went there with a vegan friend and we talked about how all her lesbian friends are turning straight and discussed our favorite vegetables. Also, the people working at this little place were insanely adorable; I could've pinched their cheeks until they bled.
5) The ballet! Me and my vegan friend had been trying to see one together for ages and it finally worked out last night. Even though we got lost trying to find the restaurant, our tram was late and we were hopelessly distracted by sexually aggressive primates in a shop window, we made it, albeit slightly tardy. When waiting with the usher for the opportune moment of entry, I felt like I was in school again and in very big trouble for being truant.
The ballet was about Hans Christian Anderson and some of his stories coming alive and manipulating his life, etc. My friend told me beforehand that this ballet had gotten bad reviews, so I went into it expecting very little. I ended up really adoring the entire thing: costumes, choriography, the stage, lighting.... Afterwards, though, I had to admit to my friend that I wasn't able to completely follow the plot. She told me, "That's the ballet for you. The storylines are always weak and people think there's more to it than there really is." Now this girl is cultured, I thought.
pictured: from the Deutsche Oper am Rhein website.
4 comments:
haha, now the fancy ballet critics are going to skin me alive... so here's a way to find my blog, I'll email you about Thursday later :)
Wow. Sounds like Elvis on Steroids. Or Feurzubruten. The catharthis is often more meaningful than the performance itself. Life is about living in the moment and you did just that this weekend.
So when is the baby due?
Love ya.
beautiful photos. This blog entry needs much more elaboration: the "socially awkward" gig, the "primates" at the shop window? Erik called me yesterday. He's going to make seitan! I bought some at GreenLife grocery when I went to Chatty to ride the Riverpark. I'm still too lazy to make it.
What is all your talk to me about living the exciting bohemian life? I mean, really, I don't have half as good stories as that weekend!
I am, however, going to a coffee shop to write a movie script (not that that will go well).
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