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november '19: ghosts of november.

autumn delight in my parent's garden. november 2019 will forever be a moment of time of note for me, for i had to deal with the very real possibility of having breast cancer. my gynecologist located some suspicious lumps and he sent me to a specialist for further determination. i was very scared, but i also kind of felt like i was hanging in an inbetween space, not really understanding the whole matter, not feeling like it was real, like it was a thing that actually happened to me. i very much tried to calm myself down, look at it from a distance, until i got more detailed answers, kind of isolating my fear to a rear view in the back of my mind. on the day i had that appointment, though, i dreaded it all, i dreaded the thought of having to deal with this, of having proof that my being was actually rotten, that my personality poisoned my body. you have no idea how relieved i was when they finally told me that the lumps were benign fibroadenomas. they are actually more common than yo...

geisternatur music mix: july/ aug. '21 - dancing to wrong rythms on deranged parties.

  © paul phung  . birth messy tunes & dark round dances for paradise birds & fire lions, for bad friends & wild rovers, for secret keepers & rhythm changers, for the far gone and noisy shadows.  playlist: goblin . suspiria go_a . shum jenny hval & vivian wang . lions balbina & ebow . weit weg charlotte day wilson . changes lafawndah . you, at the end lucinda chua . until i fall hayden calnin . oh what a mess i'm in soap & skin . safe with me hypnotic brass ensemble & moses sumney . soon it will be fire john parish & pj harvey . is that all there is? moritz krämer . rhythmus lali puna . come out your house planningtorock . beulah loves dancing brodka & scottibrains . wrong party queens of the stonge age. the lost art of keeping a secret david bowie . i'm deranged squid . pamphlets talking heads . ( nothing but ) flowers silly . paradiesvögel faun . sonnenreigen ( lughnasad ) lankum . the wild rover opeth . death whispered a lullaby e...

november '19: wilhelmsburg - a hessian renaissance castle in thuringia.

approaching wilhelmsburg castle. wilhelmsburg castle ( first constructions began 1584, initiated by william IV. , landgrave of hesse-kassel  ) is situated in the city of schmalkalden in the south west slopes of the thuringian forest and is overlooking the 20.000 inhabitants counting town quite majestically from the local house hill 'queste', which is about 425 meters above sea level. it's a jewel of renaissance architecture as it has stayed mainly untouched since its completion in 1618. inside the castle you will learn everything about its history, one big part being the fact that schmalkalden was the birthing place of one of the most important protestant alliances against the holy roman empire. initially schmalkalden had been a hessian city for over 600 years before it was knocked down to thuringia in 1944, and within that time the schmalkaldic league , led by a landgrave of hesse, philip I ., was brought to life in 1531 who fought against the catholic emperor carl V. it...