Still alive, don't worry

Wow, long time no new post ... I think I wanted to post another "songs I like/new song recs" entry 2 weeks ago but forgot about it. I even made a list for that already. Hm, let me see, what were the songs ....

H-Blockx - Countdown to insanity: They're a German band who've been away for awhile. Now they're back and I love the song. Great for playing loud in your car.

Plain White T's - Hey there Delilah: Ah, so nice ... the band is from Chicago and the song is to a former girlfriend who moved away or something. Bittersweet. Love it.

Colbie Caillat - Bubbly: She's like the female Jack Johnson. Or Jack Johnson meets Norah Jones or something. Very mellow. Apparently became popular through myspace.

Juanes - Me enamora: Yay, been waiting for his new stuff! The first single sounds very much like La Camisa Negra from the last album Mi Sangre. I don't mind.

Crowded House - Don't stop now: Saw them perform this at Live Earth. Wasn't sure if it was a new song or an old one I hadn't heard before. Turned out it is new. Sadly, only one station here plays it at all, although I find it quite catchy.

Hm, well, that is not the list as it was 2 weeks ago, but I can't help that now.

What else? I'm still very obssessed with Prison Break / Wentworth Miller. Saw an interview he did for Dutch TV. When he mentioned he'll come to Germany in October, the interviewer - a guy called Robert Jensen - dissed us. Can't remember exactly what he said except for the fact that he mentioned David Hasselhoff. Argh. Yes, Hasselhoff had a hit here with the awful song I've been looking for freedom, but that was 20 years ago. We're not into him anymore, thank you very much. Someone should have told Wentworth there's a rivalry between Germany and Holland. Now he'll be all confused. Haha, I'm just kidding. He's been here before and he's smarter than that.

Okey dokey, that's all for now. Gotta get back to work for a little while before I go home.

Songs I like at the moment

Linkin Park - What I've done: Totally love Linkin Park, especially in my car. Still haven't got any of their albums. But the anger and pain in their music kinda fit my recent mood. Okay, that sounds very dark. I don't know, I just relate to their music right now somehow. Not that I've been abused or anything ... I don't know ... I just like it. And not just What I've done, but also older stuff like Breaking the habit, Numb, etc.

Melanie C - Carolyna: Sounds like a Red Hot Chili Peppers song with a female vocal. I'm not a huge RHCP fan but Carolyna is good. Also love the lyrics of the chorus: "Carolyna, you've traveled so far, trying to escape the pain, start again where you are" or something along those lines.

Natasha Bedingfield - Soulmate: Okay, this is becoming a deeper and darker post than intended ... it's a beautiful song and I have to try hard not to start crying when I hear it. Again, the lyrics speak to me, and her voice sounds so frail or something. Chorus: "Who doesn't long for someone to hold, who knows how to love you without being told. Somebody tell me why I'm on my own if there's a soulmate for everyone." 'Nuff said, I guess.

Maximo Park - Books from Boxes: Band from Newcastle, England, and you can totally hear the singer's northern English accent, which I love. Nice song.

Can't think of any more songs now. It's 5:30 p.m. and there's nothing urgent to finish at work, so I'll go home now. Bye!

Flooded

Sorry for the lack of updates. The past week has been pretty crazy. The weekend before last the area here was hit by heavy rain which caused flooding. Both my parents and my sister were affected, i.e. the basements of their houses were about a meter under water. No fun, I tell ya. I helped them as much as I could which wasn't easy cos I had to work.

I might post more later about the details, but for now I'll just say the rooms are empty now and are being dried by some company that brought equipment for that yesterday.

Exhausted

This week the weather’s been quite hot. Not a good thing when you’re stuck in a stuffy office. But what's good is that we can dress pretty casually, which means walking around barefoot is not a problem. I don’t think they predicted very high temperatures for today, but I found it especially awful today. Really stuffy. You could sense there was a thunderstorm coming, and it’s going on now. We had the same thing yesterday afternoon as well. First darkening sky, then storm and lightning, then heavy rain. Of course this must come on the one Friday I wanted to leave the office earlier than 5 p.m. Damn. I feel like I haven’t worked at all today. This morning we had our weekly English class – which was a total waste of time for me, as most times – so I basically only got to my desk at 9.30. Then our server was down for about 2 hours so all I could do was clean up the closet and put papers in folders and stuff like that. There was nothing urgent to work on, though, anyway, so it wasn’t too much of a problem. Then after lunch I tuned into another Canadian radio station cos we’re in the middle of preparing a study for a Canadian client. Well. I did do some other things but it’s so unrewarding when it’s nothing major.

Blah. Very interesting stuff, right? What I really wanted to say is that I’m very exhausted and tired at the moment. I guess I don’t get enough sleep. Oh, I don’t know. I really need to take a few days off. Argh.

New obsession

The excellent drama series Prison Break just started on German TV 2 weeks ago. RTL is airing it on Thursdays at 10:15 p.m. (always 2 eps in a row). The ratings have been pretty bad – especially given RTL’s high standards (they are the market leader, at least when it comes to 14-49 year-olds) – so I hope they won’t take it off the air again soon. That’s because I’m very obsessed by the show already. I had heard only good things about PB beforehand (on the internet and from a friend of mine who has already seen most of season 1) and it really is a great show. In the German press it’s been compared to 24 a lot. I don’t see too many similarities, but that doesn’t matter. The basic storyline is this: Michael Scofield, an engineer from Chicago, gets himself into prison in order to break out again – together with his brother who’s already in there for having killed the vice-president’s brother and whose execution is only about a month away. Wentworth Miller is excellent as Michael Scofield, and of course there is also a romantic storyline: the prison has a pretty female doctor, Sara Tancredi, played by Sarah Wayne Callies. So I ship MiSa, naturally. And yesterday I started looking for fanfiction and videoclips about the 2 of them. Thank goodness for YouTube, but damn my slow internet connection. And it’s hard to find something without seeing, hearing or reading spoilers, which is not a good thing with any show that builds on suspense and thrill and surprising twists or whatever you would call that (in German we have this word Spannung, which can mean tension or suspense, but it’s hard to find a good expression in English). Um, yeah, so this I my new obsession (besides Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice). Wentworth Miller has fascinating blue eyes and is very good at staring intensely at someone. Sigh.

Blah. So there, I’m a silly fangirl once again.