video selection #2.

hey guys, i'm finally having an off time from work, visiting my parents and being generally lazy ( except of helping my parents in the house a bit ). and i have fast internet. and so i must take the chance and work on some blog entries!
i've gathered quite some good videos again ( and photography entry will follow soon! ), take a look!

fever ray . keep the streets empty
this time i start with fever ray's 'keep the streets empty' and guess what. you know that voice, huh? yeah, karin dreijer andersson of fever ray distributed to röyksopp's 'what else is there?'! i definitely am hooked!

the ronettes . be my baby
THE song. you know, dirty dancing and everything. i could listen to that song all day long... even though i'm not sure if i'm currently in love with someone, haha :P

well i can't decide which video to post next, so let's do a little triple version:
let me introduce to you 'die antwoord', a south african hiphop/rave crew! absolutely catchy and crazy! i still can't get over the fact how a woman can be so ... teensy ( and sexy at the same time?) i like the whole 'redneck' thing they're doin'. and the hilarious english accent ( netherland english? ).

die antwoord . wat pomp
aaaah, such a jump song! i want to behave as one of the hiphop guys when listening to this song. like... yo, man, whazzup?

die antwoord . enter the ninja
ayayay be my butterfly i need your protection be my samurai. CATCHY AS HELL! and yeah. that alienesque person is REAL! there's a word to that malformation: progeria. quite eerie but interesting!

die antwoord . zef side
zef = cool, rad, etc. and that's it!

okay, now we've been letting out our secret hip hop genes, let's go back to the routine.

POISON - IKWN / Jaakko Eino Kalevi from miikka lommi on Vimeo.

jaakko eino kalevi . poison
this video is beyond gorgeous and the pipe sounds really get into the ears. it definitely is some calming song. oh between the clothes are from ikwn ( iknowwhyno.com ), very lacey and drapey.

and while we're at calming songs.
how about a wonderful lullaby for elmo, the fuzzy redhead of the sesame street?

ricky gervais . a song about the letter n
i laughed so hard! i adore sesame street!

now i wish you a good night, hope i've got you entertained for a few minutes,
until next time!

mari.

november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

ghost of nature.

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