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ok, i think last time i posted here is way back in time.
i had these plans i wrote down for my semester break, which is already past - i think i need to have a short recounting of what i did and what i left out...
i wrote:
- find full time work for one month
i didn't find full time work, but hey, i started my own one-boy-company as a translator and computer supporter and i'm really getting jobs. it's great. except i spend even more time in front of the computer, inside my room.
- do driving theory and start taking practical lessons
ok i ... started ... theory! i looked at it. i swear!
- set up studio for recording / film editing / drawing / hanging with 6 other friends
we *found* a place for the studio but 3 of the 6 chickened out! so we had to scrap it. but i've bought microphones and mic stands and everything and my bedroom studio ain't half bad.
- record songs
ah shit, scrap that. no songwriting yet.
- get up to oslo and check out the university personally because everybody on the telephone hotlines seems to have a coffee break AT ALL
TIMES
no need to! i finally got my whole application thing through mail and e-mail, and i got it right this time. note: i am already at a university, the fine University of Basel, studying media sciences and philosophy, so i'm not *still* looking for universities. but i might go to Norway this fall.
- waste time with sleep and beer-killing
i did that!
Then there are things that i didn't write down, but which happened to happen anyway:
- did an interview with Omar from The Mars Volta
- shot the first short film of our (me and 4 friends) film group Compost
- gotten new glasses for my glasses.
Now i'm back at Uni Basel again with such wonderful subjects such as pop culture, plato, film analysis, philosophy of language, journalism and video editing.
But furthermore i am utterly confused, as in, lifewise. there are several things that make things a bit hard for me.
There's my father, who's recovering from a bone marrow transfusion. it's going good so far. and it's going to continue to go good. but there is a chance it might not go good.
Then there's my old circle of friends, who i'm really evaluating. maybe i'm being too hard on them, but i feel like we've grown too far apart. i spend lots of time on my own at the moment, though i'm really being stupid about it. thanks a lot for example to globalplayer (nothing to re-evaluate with you, you're cool) for asking if i'd come out for a drink today; although i said no, i really appreciated it. it's the typical situation: most of the time, people don't call, and i don't bother, and when i've told myself to sit the fuck down to just work on something useful, they come, and i want to but i cannot.
then again, i have some good stuff to look forward to. gigs for example. if i got some money, i have the chance to see any of the following bands in the next couple of months: sam prekop, sonic youth, cat power, trail of dead *, isis *, devendra banhart *, joanna newsom *, bright eyes *, the dears *, mono, bonnie prince billy & matt sweeney *, lcd soundsystem *, kettcar. all marked with stars at the wonderful scenery of the Montreux Jazz Festival. might even get free tickets, if things go really nice.
if things are really really nice, i might be, in half a year, in a place that's really really cold and shitty-weathered, but in a great school, namely a film school in a place called Trondheim, Norway.
so hey, i don't know. stuff is happening i guess, i feel a little bit shitty every day, there are some heavy clouds hanging. but most of it is... fine, i guess, fine.
i had these plans i wrote down for my semester break, which is already past - i think i need to have a short recounting of what i did and what i left out...
i wrote:
- find full time work for one month
i didn't find full time work, but hey, i started my own one-boy-company as a translator and computer supporter and i'm really getting jobs. it's great. except i spend even more time in front of the computer, inside my room.
- do driving theory and start taking practical lessons
ok i ... started ... theory! i looked at it. i swear!
- set up studio for recording / film editing / drawing / hanging with 6 other friends
we *found* a place for the studio but 3 of the 6 chickened out! so we had to scrap it. but i've bought microphones and mic stands and everything and my bedroom studio ain't half bad.
- record songs
ah shit, scrap that. no songwriting yet.
- get up to oslo and check out the university personally because everybody on the telephone hotlines seems to have a coffee break AT ALL
TIMES
no need to! i finally got my whole application thing through mail and e-mail, and i got it right this time. note: i am already at a university, the fine University of Basel, studying media sciences and philosophy, so i'm not *still* looking for universities. but i might go to Norway this fall.
- waste time with sleep and beer-killing
i did that!
Then there are things that i didn't write down, but which happened to happen anyway:
- did an interview with Omar from The Mars Volta
- shot the first short film of our (me and 4 friends) film group Compost
- gotten new glasses for my glasses.
Now i'm back at Uni Basel again with such wonderful subjects such as pop culture, plato, film analysis, philosophy of language, journalism and video editing.
But furthermore i am utterly confused, as in, lifewise. there are several things that make things a bit hard for me.
There's my father, who's recovering from a bone marrow transfusion. it's going good so far. and it's going to continue to go good. but there is a chance it might not go good.
Then there's my old circle of friends, who i'm really evaluating. maybe i'm being too hard on them, but i feel like we've grown too far apart. i spend lots of time on my own at the moment, though i'm really being stupid about it. thanks a lot for example to globalplayer (nothing to re-evaluate with you, you're cool) for asking if i'd come out for a drink today; although i said no, i really appreciated it. it's the typical situation: most of the time, people don't call, and i don't bother, and when i've told myself to sit the fuck down to just work on something useful, they come, and i want to but i cannot.
then again, i have some good stuff to look forward to. gigs for example. if i got some money, i have the chance to see any of the following bands in the next couple of months: sam prekop, sonic youth, cat power, trail of dead *, isis *, devendra banhart *, joanna newsom *, bright eyes *, the dears *, mono, bonnie prince billy & matt sweeney *, lcd soundsystem *, kettcar. all marked with stars at the wonderful scenery of the Montreux Jazz Festival. might even get free tickets, if things go really nice.
if things are really really nice, i might be, in half a year, in a place that's really really cold and shitty-weathered, but in a great school, namely a film school in a place called Trondheim, Norway.
so hey, i don't know. stuff is happening i guess, i feel a little bit shitty every day, there are some heavy clouds hanging. but most of it is... fine, i guess, fine.