Random CD Player

My CD player in the car loves me and apparently loves Tokio Hotel as well...when playing Zimmer, it will almost always play 5, 8, 10, 7 and 9 in that order, and then some combination of 1, 3, 12 and 4. It rarely plays 11, which I don't really like (yes, there is a TH song that I don't care for).

I love that the CD loves the same songs I do...and plays them for me in the order I like them. Makes me feel connected with my car...lol.

Interview with the Vampire... part two

Completely forgot about Antonio Banderas as Armand and how gorgeous he is. And eternally elegant and charming and utterly captivating...until he bites you and you're dead. Always a touch of danger behind such elegance and beauty...the evil that lurks beneath the smooth rich surface, like the fetid sewer beneath the great jewel of Paris.

Dreams, Premonitions, Random Thoughts...

Twice in the past week I've had a dream and then had something from that dream occur during my waking hours...and once during the day I had a distinct impression of an event which promptly happened (something mundane but interesting...I had the distinct sensation of eating a sugar cookie; I could smell and taste vanilla and butter, feel the grains of sugar on my lips and the crumble of the cookie in my mouth. I was sitting in a meeting where someone was eating Chinese for lunch, which smelled wonderful. Right after I tasted the cookie, she took a sugar cookie out of her pocket and unwrapped it and took a bite.)

I love when this happens...it used to happen more frequently, but sometimes it goes away, or I don't pay attention well enough. It's like getting a sneak peak into the future, if I know where to look. It's something I can't force either...the harder I try to make it happen, the less it will. I just need to be open and let those impressions happen.

Alex has a girlfriend that is about 40 minutes away...it used to take an hour, but I've learned where on the Interstate I can drive over the speed limit and where the State Patrol usually is.

I love driving...I really someday would like to drive a very powerful, very fast car on a road where the speed limit is more than 75. It's 65 here; when we were in North Carolina and out in Montana there are places where it's 75. Nice...but a Toyota Corolla just isn't the same as say a power heavy Mercedes or some other luxury car made to go fast, but in comfort. I'm not thinking of a little zippy sports car, but something large and smooth and fast...powerful is the word. Power...with speed.

What else... ah, Alex is getting me Humanoid for my birthday, so I am heading over to Amazon to pre-order it so it appears on October 6th...my birthday was yesterday, so it will be late, but Tokio Hotel apparently didn't realize my birthday was the 19th and therefore didn't know when to release Humanoid...yeah, that's it! Still, it's an excellent birthday present.

"Interview with a Vampire" is on...Tom Cruise is creepy, but excellent. Brad Pitt is...well...Brad Pitt, vampire with a conscious (except he kills the little poodles, but does feel bad).

But the decadence..the excess...the grandeur covering a layer of decay...beauty followed by a view of the underside of life. Not all as it seems...Also, beautiful young men wearing make-up, which I seeming have a fondness for.

I'd also like all the clothes from the movie. I really need a new wardrobe; I'm tired of wearing Alex's old Zoo York t-shirts. I'd love to start all over with new clothes; brocades and lace and velvet...corsets and skirts and shifts made of linen. I'm apparently going to win the lottery soon..lol.

Prom Night

I knew that Prom Night had a Tokio Hotel song in it, but none the less, when Donna walks down the stairs for the prom and By Your SIde plays, I still got all teary eyed and goosebumps...and then proceeds a slasher movie. But it had a Tokio Hotel song in it...and they play a whole lot of it!!!

Young love...oldest TH fan...misc. other items

Rummage sale of thoughts...

The resident teenager is in love...which is odd, but nice. And being in that state, he's done his laundry, swept the steps and is currently walking the dog, which never happens. So, I'm all in favor of love, young or otherwise, if it gets the house cleaner and the dog walked. :)

Patiently waiting for two things: pay from online writing, so I can buy Zimmer 483 for my mom. She is, I think, the world's oldest Tokio Hotel fan, or pretty close to it. (She's 74.) She was in hospital recently and the nurse asked her in the morning how she slept. And my mom said, "Not at all...I miss my boys." To which the nurse replied she thought my mom had only a daughter. And my mom said, "Tokio Hotel...my boys...I fall asleep with them every night." Which I find sweet...she listens to Scream every night as she's falling asleep. Granted, she rarely gets past the first two songs before she's asleep... and the part of Live Every Second that repeats "Wake up..." actually does wake her up... she is a fan through and through. I think she will enjoy Zimmer and I plan on getting her Humanoid, in both English and German, when it's out.

Which brings up another thought: will I be able to get both languages at the same time? I hope so, since I really prefer listening to them in German rather than English. I'm not sure why. I love both, any, and all music I can possibly get my hands on, but in my mind, they are forever singing in German.

And hopefully I can write another Associated Content article and review the new songs...it won't be a paid assignment like the last, but since that article was such a big hit with the fan clubs in the countries that got a hold of it, perhaps they'd like my views on the new songs. And perhaps that article can get circulated and the Russians can applaud the article's quality, and the Italians can offer to hug me again. :) My foreign audience...lol.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Posting from work with no access to photos, but really did not forget today is the twins' birthday. I did forget to post last night, but I also did remember to call the number and leave a message, so I get some points for, well, something :)

I didn't realize I'd hear Bill with a message from the band, so I got a little flustered at the sound of Bill saying "Tokio Hotel" which I adore. Sounds so much better than when someone says it in American English....anyway, I ended up "witching" them a Happy Birthday! lol...

The sentiment is the same and I truly do witch them a happy day, filled with family or friends or coffee and cream tarts with people over 60 (which I sadly, yet also gladly, do not qualify for, but my mom does) or whatever else occupies their day. Cake would be nice as well...

It must be wonderful to share a birth day with someone else, as a twin...I'm an only child so I don't even have a sibling with a different birthday. But to always have someone who will always know exactly when your birthday is....even knows down to the minute where you were before you were born...and will never forget it, will almost always celebrate it with you must be extraordinry. In die nacht comes to mind on this day... rather than singing Happy Birthday, possibly that should be sung.

Again, Happy Birthday to September babies now grown and almost men. Birthday hugs and kisses to you both.... :)

Writing, but not here...

I have become a lazy blogger...lol. But with the advent of a new album, a concert in Cologne and new hairstyles, I have made a commitment to write more here, and to start to write for Associated Content, since there are precious few articles about the boys there (boys..well, not quite so much anymore) and get paid for writing about a topic I love and for writing, which I say I love doing, but manage to not really do much of lately :) Need to work on that.

And it's birthday month coming up for Tom, Bill and me...all good, talented and wonderful individuals are born in either September or March...that covers all of Tokio Hotel and me and my son. And at the moment, that's all that matters :) (others matter, of course, but since this is a blog about them, and it's mine, well...you get the picture.)

An Deiner Seite...And a Rainbow...

Driving home from work, listening to NPR for the news...reached over and hit the CD button and random play selects An Deiner Seite...and at that precise moment, a rainbow appears ahead of me on the horizon...and as the last notes of the song fade away, so does the rainbow.

I still get goosebumps thinking about it. Pretty freaking awesome....

Back to Work...

I'm back to work at AE...they had another contract opening, so I am back at a place I grew to love working at. It was very nice to "come home" so to speak...I even had someone say welcome home when they saw me. So nice...plus I already know where the bathrooms are and have someone to eat lunch with...not like starting at a brand new place, or even worse, the first day at a new school. Oh, the horror...

Anyway, I can again listen to Tokio Hotel at work... :) I have listened to them everyday now at home for the past 5 weeks I've been unemployed...and if I can figure out how Adam's mp3 player works (so kind he was to give me his), I can download more music than I have on CD, and be in heaven. Plus, if I have portable music, I'll no longer be strangling myself with the ear bud cords that attached to the computer, when I get up to leave and forget to disconnect myself.

I wrote almost 60 eHow articles...only a few that I could manage to find a way to slip in Tokio Hotel (one has a pic of Tom with dreads; the article is how to take down dreadlocks. It was a tribute to his, inspired by and written shortly after he traded his for the black cornrows.) There's one more I'm in the middle of for Associated Content, but I'm stuck on a finishing paragraph, and can't seem to get it done. Maybe this weekend...

Article

I'm still finding my Top 10 article out there on other sites...it's been copied and recopied and pasted and taken...but it's still out there. The latest is on deviantART, where someone started a journal based on my article...at least that's what I think happened. They were happy with the article and I'm happy that they found it.

More Fansites...

My AC article has been copied onto several other fan sites, and even though it's without my permission, I cannot be angry or even begin to think about trying to ask them to take it down, not this article. This article was written for the love of writing, and writing about Tokio Hotel. And to share that love.

But I've been reading the comments on those sites and I am so very touched and happy by what they've written...the majority written by teenagers...and I can't be bitchy after reading those.

Besides, it's a huge ego boost to read my article in different languages...Russian, Italian and Spanish so far, the Portuguese site won't open yet...and read the comments. It's funny as well...I wrote "smack on the forehead" like you'd do if you realized you'd made a mistake...and it gets translated as "kiss." Along with "stripped down" in reference to Monsoon...which becomes "undressed." Too funny.

But for the most part, everything comes across as I intended...except also for "arrogant guitar of Tom" in the Italian site. Not what I meant at all (I think it was powerful...I don't have the article open and surprise! I don't have it memorized) and I have no way of going back and getting them to understand. But it's the Italians that want to hug me...lol...and the Russians are very complimentary about the article, but don't want to hug so much.

And...and...and... my name is on the same page with pictures of Bill!!! Yeah, I know, I can do that myself, on my own blog or whatever, but to have it happen randomly out there in the big universe of the internet makes it more special somehow.

And, as always, it makes me smile...inside and out. Really big smile. You'd think at this age, I'd be so over acting like a teenager :)

Me and Them...On a Fan Site...Even Better

The Spain TH Groupies fan site copied my Associated Content article and added it to their site...with a link at the end. I'm happy to see it, and Bill at the top of the page, together... :)

I'm a tiny bit annoyed they copied the whole thing...they did provide a link at the end, but since I earn money from that article and they basically stole it, I'm losing money.

On the other hand, because it's TH and because I am getting increased views, I just sent them a thank you. I kinda wish they had just put the first page and then the link, so someone would have to go read the rest of the article on AC, but I'm thinking fan sites are not all that savvy when comes to content theft and such.

I don't want the article pulled from the site, and I don't want to get into a long email thing with someone where my lack of Spanish might confuse the issue.

But anyway, we're all on the same page again...click the title to go to the Spain site.

Me and Them...On the Same Page

I get so excited when my articles get put on the same page as anything to do with Tokio Hotel...and the article on how to get one of their H&M t-shirts ended up on the same page of a site that has a Tokio Hotel page. So a picture of them is on the same page with an article of mine.

Regardless of how the ended up there...it just makes me smile all over :) *sigh*

Edit: So excited I am that I've edited this post 8 times and still don't have complete sentences or make any sense. Simply put, some bot crawled the eHow site, grabbed a link to my article and put it on their Tokio Hotel page of the site. Really simple, once I get over myself. :)

Edit 2: Like so many things on the internet, what was is no more. But for a day, at least, I shared web space with the guys. Still makes me smile all over :)

Nena

Listening to Nena from 1984 reminds me how exotic we all thought she was...all the boys wanted her..."German," after all, was foreign and therefore cool. Which she was, and is.

I like her music a lot; she has such a clear pure sound to her voice.

Irgendwie...Irgendwo...Irgendwann...

My new favorite German words...along with unendlichkeit...infinity...somehow, somewhere, sometime... according to online translation, and sung in a different German voice...Nena's...who I know from long ago with 99 Luftballoons.

They are so not English, combining letters my tongue has to work to pronounce...it's a good feeling when I finally get something that resembles what I hear.

I think unendlichkeit would make a really lovely tattoo (if I can remember to spell it right)...similar in style but not exact to Bill's left arm. There's lots of loopy letters that would flow elegantly together.

Hmmm...maybe another tattoo is in the works.