Every morning when I walk to the bus station I take my morning route. Every evening when I come back I take a different route, my evening route. Both times I’m convinced that the route I’m taking is the shortest way to get to my destination. Which, I admit and am prefectly clear on, makes […]

How cool is Rob Thomas??? I’ll tell ya. On a scale from 1 to 10 with Joss Whedon floating high above with a never-to-be-beaten 194, Rob Thomas has just reached a very safe and totally deserved 11. Because using the doomed „Lost“ numbers for Veronica’s fortune cookie paper? That? Is damn cool.

Because it is such a hit, here’s another example of how good exactly we Germans are at singing. Enjoy. And please don’t sue me. (It seems not right to file this under „On Music“, but I do it anyway.)

Go check out Pandora by the Music Genome Project. A friend of my mother’s recommended it and I was very sceptical at first, but it works and it is great and so much better than I expected. In short: I am thrilled! I wouldn’t know about Paula Kelley if it weren’t for Pandora.

While talking to Ehle on AIM I managed to both cut and subtitle one of the more hilarious clips of the German Idol for her. I still am amazed at my film-editing skills. However, all this work shouldn’t be kept from all of you. It’s 30 MB for a one-minute clip, but I would say […]

Today I got this. …and this. I’m also waiting for this… …and this. Yesterday I ordered this… …and this… …and this… …and this. Do you think there’s something wrong with me?

Here’s an excerpt from Powell’s Books about this year’s Puddly Awards (which will end today, so if you haven’t voted yet, you don’t have much – if any – time left). Can you help me figure out the books they are talking about? So, was the best book you read last year an Oprah-recommended memoir […]