I’ve promised to post this photo to some for a while now. Thankfully gone now, this face stared directly into our kitchen for waaay to many weeks.

Stone me into the groove…

I’m currently sitting at home listening to music, having a beer or two, and waiting to go out later tonight. Yesterday it was almost 20 degrees outside and I didn’t need anything more than a t-shirt on, but on Sunday the cold will strike once more with a whopping -6(!?) if I’m to believe the forecast. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

Currently listening to: Francis International Airport – Monsters

Samurai showdown…

After only two days of work it’s finally weekend! Granted, I was sick the first three and was glad to be back, but weekend is always weekend!
Today I’ll just stay in and take it easy but tomorrow there might be a birthday party to attend to. Not sure yet though.
The other night I saw Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai again for the first time in many years. I had great memories of the movie and I wasn’t disappointed at all. Forest Whitaker is always brilliant and the soundtrack by the mighty RZA is in my opinion probably his best for film or television he’s ever produced! So if you want to see an urban assassin take on the mafia combined with heavy influences from Japanese cinema and Bushido mixed with a killer soundtrack, I highly recommend it!

Currently listening to: Peter Bjorn & John – Amsterdam

Rant for the Reader…

Oh fuck it. My blog has no readers anyway. What I like to think is that I have a very outspoken mind. Not necessarily good in any way or in any way likable, but I stick to it. And since I’m not doing this blog to make friends, I’m just going to state one thing that’s on my mind.
As horrible the catastrophe in Japan is I feel that the government is totally in control of what they have to do. The thing that “outside” media has to deal with is that this is a country where a cat with a cute mark on its fur is top news at peak ratings. I witnessed this kind of reporting many times during my time in Japan. At the same time most of the world goes by their business parading their own headlines media.
Where station after station come up with the most horrible headline after the other in order to gain readers I feel like it’s business as usual for them, as it is normally.
One thing I find really interesting is the thousands of national guards and personnel that are brought up to the areas that are worst hit. They are there only to assist to help in the clearing of all the destruction and mayhem. In America, just six years ago in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ‘almost’ the same effort were taken then, only to keep the calm at every cost and keep people from looting and taking advantage situation. You will never and have never seen this behavior in the Japanese people.  Even though there’s hundreds of thousands of people in need there will be no looting or anything in that manner because they’re not fucking America where if you yourself don’t care for you no one will. Unless it’s a country in need where most of your interest lies economically. Then it’s perfectly legit.

Come again!

Today I went to register at the unemployment office only to get bitch slapped by German bureaucracy and all the forms one have to fill out to accommodate it. It’s not a big deal though, but a bit annoying. There’s some extra work that has to be done and I hope it will go smoothly enough…

Home sick…

I’m home sick from work since yesterday and for the looks of it I think I’ll go back first on Thursday. I was at the doctor yesterday with Tina, who’s also sick, but way worse than I am.
The really bad news is that I missed the Glasvegas gig last night at Magnet. I was really looking forward to it and then this happens.
Although I don’t follow news I had to look at the reports from Japan and the earthquake there. I just hope everyone I know over there are okay. So far I haven’t heard that any of them got hurt so I think it’s alright.

In which loss plays the part…

I really need to do this more often. Especially now when so much is going on around me.

Last week I found out that I’m getting laid off from work. Not because of my dedication towards work or my wicked good looks, as one might think, but because my firm has financial difficulties. It has been going on for quite some time now and I’m actually surprised I’ve lasted this long. I’m by far the least qualified person to work there and the thought has always been at the back of my mind. Now that I finally know for sure I feel a weird sort of relief. Not that I’m happy about losing my main source of income, but that I don’t have to go around worrying about how long I will last.
The next big thing is to find some new place I can work at. It won’t be easy since I’m far from fluent in German, but I won’t give up. I won’t say that I don’t care, but whatever I end up doing is fine by me. It’s not as if I have to work in architecture or have to work with this and that. I’m more of a whatever-makes-me-happy kind of guy. As long as I make a decent living doing something I can enjoy I have no problem with it. Surely I want to pursue my dreams and all that, and if I got an offer to work at a place of my interest I would gladly drop whatever I was doing and go there no matter what. For now though, all I want is to keep myself floating. I’m the last person to worry though. Even though I’m not always, or even most of the time, a shiny happy person I know that it will work itself out in some fashion.
This will be all for now, but I promise to return here more often. Not because I have a wicked following of half a country but because I feel that I need to write something. Not in any therapeutic way but just because I enjoy the written word and envy people that write beyond ‘Chapter 1’.