"Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing. It’s ok though, because I’ve got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation.. so when I meet someone who’s an 8-color type.. I’m like, hey girl, magenta! and she’s like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I’m like, no - I want magenta!"
(john mayer)



















random pics, and because i´m not here to please anybody they don´t even fit together. just liked their colours... if one of them is yours amd you want credit, tell me.

beatles survey

holiday beatles because it is really hot today...

Do you remember when John was shot : no, that was before i was born.
What Beatle song is your favorite : depends... but most of the time it´s the faster version of Revolution 1, gets me dancing each and every time.
Is there ANYTHING you dislike about the Beatles?: the way they split. nasty... i wish they could have parted without all that bitterness and hurtful comments about eachother
Do you like Yoko : Not really.
Have you ever seen the Beatles perform : Sure, in my dreams heehee... course not, if i could though i´d like to see them in the early hamburg days.
What album was your first one : no idea. probably a hard day´s night record at my gran`s
From a scale of 1-10 do you think you know the Beatles well : 9. number nine, number nine... i suck at knowing the instrument they used. and it´s a matter of who you compare it with. 9 in a healthy way that is only so much creepy ;D
Do you only listen to Beatle music : had a period where i did, but my upbringing was very varied musically, so no.
What other music do you listen to? : i love motown, jazz manouche, jazz standards, rhythym & blues, blues, some pop from the 70s, singer/songwriter stuff (mostly man + guitar+ awesome raw voice), late 60s early 70s rock... and i loooooove electric guitar sounds. in contrast to that: mozart. seriously.
What is your favorite kind of music : live music ...
If you could meet Paul and could ask one question, what would it be : if i could give him a hug... no actually i´d be quite speechless i think.
Do you still miss/mourn John & George : oh i´ve talked about that... course i wish they´d be still here just for their loved ones, but for me personally... no
Have you seen Paul in concert : no but i swear he was in a car that drove by me when i visited london :D
Have you ever written stories about the Beatles : nope. but my "fandom" started because i wrote e-mails with a friend trying to use as many songtitles as we could and then topping eachother.
Have you ever gone to sleep listening to the Beatles : oh yes. i also listened to the beatles while cooking, bathing, studying, talking to people on the phone, talking walks, shopping...
Which is your favorite, the early Beatles or later Beatles : mid?
If you could change anything about the Beatles what would it be : probably put them in a time loop so the 60s never end... and put myself in there too :D
How many books have you read about the Beatles : actually not so many. two on john and i watched the anthology. i own varios photobooks.
Have you ever dreamed about the Beatles : once, yeah... john and paul were in my dream and they were sorta weird.
What do you think of today’s music next to the Beatles music : i detect little bits of legacy here and there. you can find a lot of beatleesque or 60s things in todays music.
Who is your favourite, and why : aargghh... me favourite question. i dunno... jaul or pohn
Is there a fifth Beatle, in your opinion : probably george martin
Favourite Beatle wife : for being a beatlewife cynthia, for being otherwise fab pattie
Favourite Beatle kid : maybe mary mccartney... or julian
Favourite character from a Beatles song : the girl from girl
Do you know the words to most of them by heart : when singing along then yeah... otherwise probably not
Do you have a signature Beatles song : nope
Favourite album : love them all but sometimes i favour rubber soul and revolver
Do you own all of their albums : yes. and a couple of other post-beatles releases.
American albums or British albums : i think i own the british ones.
Records or CDs : only yellow submarine on record. but if i could choose i´d prefer them all on record
Best album cover : revolver
Favourite Beatles movie : errhm... a hard days night
Have you seen all of their movies : yep. oh no i didn´t see let it be. and won´t.
Best Beatles year for music: 66/67
Best Beatles year for looks: 65
How many posters of the Beatles are in your room : one painting (abbey road-inspired by a friend), two drawings, two photos, one beatles-related poster (of the starclub in hamburg)
How many shirts do you have : none, but i own a tunic very similar to the one ringo wears in i am the walrus :D
Ringo Starr or Pete Best : Ringo
Brian Epstein or George Martin : hmm brian epstein
Linda McCartney or Heather Mills: Linda
Yellow Submarine or Octupus’s Garden : octopus's garden, yellow submarine is too well known and has therefore been played one too many times
Hey Jude or Julia : hey jude... never liked julia all that much


What do you think about…
Heather Mills : not even worth a thought
Yoko Ono : i wish she would have teamed up to change the world with conceptional art with somebody other than john.


found this on women of the beatles , wanted to do it myself :D i never think about these thinks so it was interesting to actually answer these question... even if it probably only interests myself :D
no idea what is up with the text size... blogger won´t let me change it... i´ll keep trying...

resolutions, revolutions - results up to this point

i talked at the beginning of 2010 about resolutions, big plans i had (still have) for this great year... i need to see how far i got more than half way through the year now.
1. apply to an FH to become i director - i didn´t. i found the perfect school though and will apply in 2012 when they take new students for my particular subject. but i could bite my ass (with a bit more yoga i actually could) for not trying for anything similar somewhere else. being a lazy bum just gets in the way...
2. audition to an acting school - nearly did, but in the last second i decided that i don´t really want to be an actress (i´d be such a terrible cliché... insecure artsy actress :D), and the auditioning - process is too much of a hassle (and expensive) for something i don´t really want. did go to two auditions for smaller parts and extras on two film productions and know for sure i´m in for one of them. that´s pretty close to my original goal and much less of a hassle.
3. do something free and daring - well i had it all planned, an interrail-trip with three friends through italy starting in venice... they went, i didn´t. had an internship for a month that in the plan was only supposed to be two weeks long... we couldn´t go at a later point because one of them already moved to france to start studying. i´m still sad about that...
4. form a band - been there, did that, but nothing came from it. i keep trying... made lots of music either way.
5. revolute - done. i became a part of an organisation that protects nature directly in the region i live. also i slimmed down useless shopping at greenwashing exploiting huge swedish fashion stores. wore more vintage and hand-me-downs. costumized stuff. haven´t set my foot into a plane this year. ate the right food.
6. be positive - i am. most of the time... eventhough i don´t know where my frame of mind currently is, i feel good. i learned that being thankful is the most powerful thing. because it lifts your spirits and makes you see things clearer, whereas feeling bitter about stuff that you´re not happy with darkens everything and makes you see through the opposite of rose-colored glasses.

still got four months to go, can´t wait to see what happens! how´s your year going so far?

flew in from miami beach BOAC

never seen it before. had to use the title even if the pic is taken in the bahamas... love john in the help era :D haven´t posted anything beatles-related in a while...

and i see you hiding your face in your hands talking about far away lands

in german there´s this wonderful word "fernweh", it´s like homesickness, only you´re feeling it for places you want to go to abroad. as a traveler i like to go to places i like more than once, so i´m constantly coming back to them, soaking them in in every way. so my form of "fernweh" is actually kind of being homesick, i am longing to go back to the places i felt good and 'at home'.
also i´m a person whose senses are extremely alert most of the time, so i tend to look for more details than the average tourist. this way i can go back to places a lot and always find new little things i haven´t seen before that intrigue me. if someplace is really dear to me i want to get to know it completely, like it is a home to me.
sometimes i feel i just see more than others, but maybe it´s just that it doesn´t take much to interest me :D and i want to go back and look at it again... and again...

photos mostly of the amalfi coast, elba and london, most italy pics taken by my friend who traveled to italy with me twice last year and is going again this year in a couple of weeks... the last one is me with my beloved vintage reflex cam... weird angle.