Update

So why why why is nothing happening here anymore, people have asked. Ok. I've been busy, on planes to Germany (miriam's opening etc), on planes to Switzerland (dani's goodbye, including a mexican dinner party, francesco's birthday, plans for christmas in san francisco, sledding with megi, drinking with caro yana simon and lots of snow). I've spend too much time partying on palestinian fundraising parties (trying to capture sal on chip, trying to cope with the shishas). I've started working from a shared workspace in Angel, and our happy family has moved to a happy family house right over in Stoke Newington. Welcome wireless! Welcome garden parties! Paradise! Apart form that, I'm doing some client design work as well as spending ridiculous hours working for Uni (hey, you are getting better people - but i HATE latecomers!). Most of all, I've discovered paper, sketch, thoughts offline, so this is goodbye til next month. Bye and kiss, A.

Valentino, Oh!

now here's something refreshing from today's inbox: "women who love english men and go all romantic about *** or *** drive me mad. they not only do all these loveydovey things, but actually announce that british men are the best lovers... i almost choked!"

valentine's day, valentino, sounds pretty italian to me, hmm?

Ryan, No!

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mon 13 feb, 8-9 pm, channel 4

DISPATCHES: RYANAIR: CAUGHT NAPPING A major undercover investigation into the way in which Ryanair, one of the largest and most successful low-costairlines, operates. Two Dispatches reporters spent five months secretly filming the airline's training programme and onboard flights as members of the cabin crew. What they found may make you think twice about flying Ryanair again. The undercover footage reveals what takes place behind the scenes: security lapses, dirty aircrafts, pilots complaining about the hours they have to fly and exhausted cabin crew. The cynical staff attitudes towards passengers and their welfare are also unmasked in Ryanair: Caught Napping. Prod/ Dir: Karen Edwards; Exec Prod: Steve Boulton; Prod Co: Steve Boulton Productions

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Housecat

we've got a cat in the house now, and we already hate it. its way of saying hi to everyone was to throw up in everybody's room. officially, it had to come and stay with us cause its owner is on holidays. i think that's a lie: its owner is on holidays from his cat. it's utterly useless, the beasty: there's lots of rats in the frontyard, but the cat is a housecat. if let out, it'd probably be beaten and eaten up by the vermin in no time, and we'd have to return it stuffed. i'm sure its own uselessness has had an impact on its psyche - it sneezes all the time, i think its allergic against itself.

M.F.!

next months's motto. (love bad photocopies of Ryan McGinness's work)

No more...

nic told me it wasn't only my birthday today but also chinese new year. happy birthday to me, then, and: happy 2006 - will take the chance to restart my year cause this january has been just too much of a mess. no more berlin style living then, work is kicking in again - .

Brokeback Mountain

it's utterly impossible for european ears to judge whether these actors are getting their coached american accents right (esp. if one of the accents is texanian). so while i thought this was an ok movie, solving the accent question kept me pretty preoccupied during the screening.

by all means, i'm not the target audience: "Brokeback Mountain" has been banned from selected theatres in utah, hooray!! (gay? cowboy? movie? first the marlboro man gets cancer, and now he's gone gay as well!! omg.). some intensity over there.

and here? i recently discovered that there actually ARE people in MY environment that suffer from homophobia (ok thats comes down to one sort of men having problems with another sort of men). honestly (have to be careful here), i had to laugh, couldn't take it seriously cause it's such a past issue; even for my mother it took less than 15 years to lose prejudice and to grow up.

But Beautiful

geoff dyer's book has blown me away, i've been listening to nothing but jazz since i started/finished it. slightly panicky, though, cause there's so much to discover! i love pop, as well, i love the way it burns down it songs until there's nothing left of them. generosity! but where's good pop? and why are babyshambles a success? i can't bring myself to finish their record even once, and yet they're not only all over england, they took german media in a storm as well.

Honest Complication

last night i found a mobile phone. it's very filthy, you can see (and feel) someone's been fiddling around with it for a long time. i want to give it back. unfortunately i've used up all its charge to browse through txts, pics, movs on it instead of putting down one or two contact numbers. now i'm locked out by pin, and i don't even have the right charger!