See The Sun

Somebody give me some motivation!

Monday, March 8th, 2010 | Personal, Sites, Songs | 1 Comment

Really! I am strong and motivated one (or two) days before being lazy and what not for a week. It’s really bad. Mostly my sites are affected by this. So, it’s not too bad. I can live with it. I mean it’s sad but what can you do? Real life has to come first. If I mess up in RL it’s a lot worse than if my sites aren’t as up to date as they’re supposed to be. Still, I feel very guilty about neglecting Marion-Cotillard.org. I know exactly where the problem lies. I am thoroughly excited about Sophia Myles’ new secret job! I’m constantly dying to know more about it or to be able to post something new about it! But the time I spend worrying and wishing about such things is actually wasted. I’m not actually doing anything, nor do I find serious information. And by the time I decide enough is enough I’ve run out of motivation to properly work on either the Marion site in general or the projects section of the Sophia site.

Regarding her project I just wish certain people in charge would decide it’s now ok to spill the beans. In the end people will just go “Told you so!” or “We were the first to ‘know’!” even if their speculation was based on one random guess of a barely-active member (speak: lurker) of one particular forum. Based on what the post says it could just as well turn out to be all smoke & mirrors. Either way, I’m not amused. I fear I won’t be able to say “Told you so!” or something like it anywhere, so for the record here it goes: I was one of the first to know when her participation was still totally up in the air and I knew half an hour after she got confirmation of the job! Which was 9 weeks ago!

Listening to Amy Macdonald’s new CD is great, though. Again it’s a fabulous record. I’m loving each and every song on it!

My brother came back home after a 5 month absence. I’m quite enjoying his presence in our flat. Maybe it’ll help me pull my act together as well! In any case I got to see my family more over the weekend. Because of his return we did all kinds of things together On Friday we had dinner at my parents’ place, on Saturday we went to see the bears in their new park in the city (we actually even spotted the 2 new baby bears) and had dinner at my sister’s place and on Sunday we went swimming with my parents.

Exhausted

Sunday, February 15th, 2009 | Film, Sites, Songs | No Comments

I’m definitely exhausted from upgrading 7 Coppermine Galleries with the latest script. 4 of them also needed the new Stramm Mod. Usually I try to do one each day or so, but lately I’ve been very good at procrastinating online stuff so I did it all in a row. Seems like a huge waste of time but ever since having had my whole hosting account infected due to one un-upgraded Coppermine installation I really try to take the upgrades seriously…

Watched Cranford earlier this week. I really enjoyed it, just a shame Mr. Holbrook died as suddenly. Now, that was a storyline I would simply have loved to see more developed.

Also updated the Radio Blog in the sidebar. Don’t know why I added those Il Divo tracks in the first place… Deleted those and a few others but added 4 new songs

Scivoli di nuovo

Monday, January 26th, 2009 | Songs | No Comments

I’m listening to this song over and over at the moment. Probably because I’m masochistic because it makes me cry, the sound and what little I understand of the lyrics.

And the translation (courtesy of Roby doesn’t make the song any happier. Quite sad how much I’m relating to it right now…

(you’re)wounded,You count (one by one)
The things that are not gone as you wanted
Constantly just afraid of appearing worse
than that you actually know to be
You count, you specify, in order to remember
How many glances you have avoided
And how many words you have not uttered
no to risk disappointing (anyone)
Home, the entire day
The journey that you’ve made
To feel more confident
Closer to yourself
But it’s not enough
It’s never enough

You slip again and again as
you were a morning to dress and cover up
In order not to embarrass yourself you slip again and again
as if
You were expecting to surprise the distracted faces
Too far away to catch your silences
There is a world of intents behind
The transparent eyes
That you close a little

You feel the corners again
Of that failed courage
that in an instant make
your glance lower
and your thoughts invisible
You count once more (or again)
the days that you know they can’t wait for you
You have shut too many doors and to be able to re-open them
you have to embrace what you no longer have
The house, the clothes, the party
and your held back smile has afterwards exploded
to want less pain
But it’s not enough
It’s never enough

And you do not want (to make) any mistakes
But you want to live because those who don’t live (he who doesn’t live)
Leave the sign of the biggest mistake

Ice Blue

Monday, November 24th, 2008 | Personal, Songs, TV | No Comments

Been meaning to write about this yesterday but then I felt not motivated at all… I went for a traditional ‘Sunday walk’ shortly after lunch, something I started to hate when I hit puberty. It’s something I’ve only done maybe a handful of times since living alone - and it was the first time at my ‘new’ place. I enjoyed it a lot though and I will definitely have to make time for this more often. I’m always out & about during the week (and even on weekends) that I rarely muster up the motivation to walk just for the pleasure of it on my time off.

It snowed a number of times during the weekend and then around lunch yesterday we had the most pleasant sunshine. I dressed warmly, put on a cap (I looked not very fashionable, I guess) and walked to the top of my village. Up there the view was great, though I missed seeing the Alpes behind the hills (they were all wrapped in clouds), and I loved the combination of clear blue sky with single clouds. However, the wind up there was ice cold - which gives the word ice blue a whole new meaning I guess! Only half an hour after I returned home the sky was almost fully overcast again so I was glad I hadn’t postponed my walk - it was definitely the achievement of the weekend and I felt really proud of myself.

Later on I listened to the Spanish version of Laura Pausini’s new CD - it’s absolutely fantastic - and watched the first episode of The Devil’s Whore. This is actually really good! I loved the windswept parts and the overall look, John Simm and Andrea Riseborough are great actors and I liked the story development so far a lot. Only thing I don’t like so much is that it’s about war… True Blood’s last episode aired yesterday I guess - so after I’ve seen that there’s one less series I will have to keep up with, which I’m glad of because I don’t really have the time to download so many different series. But then it also makes me sad. I only hope they ended the season well. Oh, and Pushing Daisies got cancelled. How sad is that?! Even if they have plans to release comic books and even a movie (I’ll believe it when I see it…) I’ll definitely hate the cliffhanger the series supposedly will end with.

And all I can say is you blow me away

Friday, November 21st, 2008 | Celebrity, Songs | 1 Comment

Just came home from the A Fine Frenzy concert. What can I say? I really needn’t have worried about being disappointed. It was absolutely fantastic and Alison’s a real powerwoman! I was honestly surprised by her voice and energy! I don’t think the CD reveals how strong her voice really is - or at least I didn’t realize… She is surreally beautiful and has the cutest smile/giggle in between songs. It was also very nice seeing so many people who really love her music. Although her song(s) are being played quite a lot on the radio many still don’t seem to know who she is. But there really are many fans here, and it was fantastic to sing the chorus of Almost Lover together (we got to sing along as well, Mel)

Unfortunately none of my photos turned out nice but I have at least a decent video recording of Ashes and Whine which is my favourite song on the CD. Speaking of which, I will continue to listen to it over and over again but I think I like the live versions even more! Hearing the wonderful music being played live by her and her band and especially watching Alison “act” her songs is something not to be missed! I especially enjoyed Rangers. She played 2 new songs from her forthcoming 2009 album: From Whence it Came (which I quite liked) and I’ve Got You (not sure if that’s the title but this song is simply fantastic and I LOVED seeing Alison dance). I also liked her cover songs I Will Follow You Into the Dark and Seven Nation Army.

Other songs from the album she played: Come on, Come out, The Minnow & the Trout, You Picked Me, Think of You (I almost cried during this), Last of Days, Near to You and Borrowed Time. She also played The Well which was apparently the first thing they ever published. I had never heard it before but I really enjoyed it, esp. the lyrics. [edit:] the CD allows one to unlock access to additional material on the official website, and the song’s there. Can’t believe in all this time I hadn’t used my CD for this :shakes head:[/edit] Not sure if I’ve got this songlist correct, time flew by so quickly and already I start forgetting certain moments I would like to vividly remember for a long time. I definitely could have listened to them a lot longer.

Actually I can’t think of anything I didn’t like. Except maybe that I didn’t exactly had a good view because a really tall couple was in front of me… and that a person suddenly collapsed right behind me. She/He just fell to the floor like a sack of potatoes and was unconscious. (S)he had to be carried away. I wonder how (s)he is feeling now?

I hadn’t heard of Jamie Scott and the Town before. But I was enjoying their performance too. Jamie is such a good looking musician - and very talented as well of course - and I just loved his British English I think I’ll go & buy the CD. Actually, Jamie really is good looking… We were standing around afterwards, waiting because I wanted to get my A Fine Frenzy CD signed, and he was standing nearby most of the time… But what should I have said to him, I don’t even know his music… When Alison came I was second in line and she was really lovely and gracious and seemed genuinely happy to sign it. I hope she’ll come to Bern again soon!

I seem to be making a big fuzz about it all but it’s actually the first time I’ve been to a “proper” concert! They are always so friggin’ expensive (what isn’t in Switzerland) and most of the times I only find out about concerts of artists I like when it’s too late, or they play in another city, or on a day I can’t go… So I was so happy that an artist I truly love listening to came to my town, on a day I was free to go and that the tickets were quite affordable.