Southside Festival & The Fault In Our Stars

Good morning guys!

I just literally fleed upstairs from my parents having brunch with loads of their friends. I honestly could not take it how they were talking about their favourite topic aka school and university. They actually think it's easier today than it was back in their time. Let me tell you something, no, it is fucking not. You should walk a mile in our shoes and after that we could possibly have a proper discussion. But no, I remained politely silent and went upstairs instead. I'm currently sitting in front of my parents computer because my Laptop is still broken. I can't be bothered to fix it though because I don't feel like I need it. If I want to watch a movie or one of my favourite series, I can do it on the iPad and for the rest I just use my iPhone. The only part that is hard to keep up is blogging without the laptop. The Blogger app is ridiculously bad, so there is no other way than doing it on my parents' computer. Ugh. 

Anyway today's topic is the festival I went to last weekend.

Last Tuesday my friend Inga picked me up and we drove to Stuttgart where our friend Sina lives. In the evening we went to the cinema with another friend to watch The Fault In Our Stars. We watched the german version and honestly, the synchronization is so bad, I nearly had to laugh. The movie was good and all of my friends, plus the rest of the cinema, bawled their eyes out. The only one that didn't shed one single tear was me. There were a few moments when I had tears in my eyes, for example when Isaac held his funeral speach in front of Augustus, but I did not properly cry for once. I have no idea why. I couldn't help comparing the movie to the book constantly. I bothered me how quite a few scenes where missing and things were played in kind of the wrong way, in my opinion. 

By the way, two days ago it was announced that Looking For Alaska, another John Green novel, is going to be made into a movie to and to be honest, that annoys me so much. I read that book in my english course in 11th grade and know it by heart. It is one of those books that really shouldn't be put into a movie. It will be so hard to find the right actors for the roles and they will definitely choose the wrong ones. The main characters of the book aren't discribed as specifically atractive but they will probably cast some attractive hollywood stars so the movie will be more attractive to viewers. Even John Green once said that it isn't that kind of book that is made for a movie. After watching The Fault In Our Stars and I'm basically sure that it will come across the wrong way and that is quite depressing.

Back to the festival now. On Friday morning we got up quite early, picked our danish friends up from the train station and went to the supermarket to get food and alcohol, basically. We arrived at the festival around 11ish, I guess and parked our cars. The Danes got their stuff and went to the camp ground to build up their tent. We had decided to sleep in our cars which was actually the best decision ever, because we slept pretty well and it was quite outside. 

We later met up with the others and seperated ways again, because not all of us wanted to watch the same bands. Sina and I went straight to the white stage, which was in a tent, because we wanted to be front row for The 1975. Three more or less okay bands later they finally came on and I was the happiest I could possibly be. Those guys make me feel some certain kind of way and it's the best thing to possibly axperience. We jumped, we danced and sung our lungs out. Even though I've seen them live a couple of times now it does not get boring. In my opinion they were the best act of the whole festival.

After their show we actually wanted to see Passenger but because of some incident we could only see a very small bit of his show. We later went to see Ed Sheeran but we were so far back in the crowd that it was like watching him on TV. So we went to see a bit of Tom Odell's set and later went back to Ed. They are both insanely good live. Some of our group went to watch Seeed after that but as I'm not interested in them Sina and I went back to our cars. 

 

On the second day we wanted to watch George Ezra first but when we arrived at the festival slightly to late and the tent was pakced already so we just went to watch it outside on the screens. After that we went to see The Subways and they were insanely good. We went back to the cars after that and came back in the evening to watch Bombay Bicycle Club. Holy shit, they were so good! I've loved their music before but they've got such a positive energy on stage, it was amazing! Later that night we watched Casper on the same stage. I wasn't feeling very good, so I could not really enjoy the show but he was sooo good and had such energy on stage! He was one of the best acts there. I've met him back in march and he's not only a great rapper (plus a very attractive guy), but he's one of the kindest and loveliest people you could possibly ever meet. After him Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were on and they were absolutly brilliant! It was one big, fat party.

Oh and by the way, Saturday was our slut outfit day. The way people looked at us was the funniest thing ever. I got some lovely comments from the male gender and quite a few dirty look from the females, hahaha.

 

On Sunday we went to the festival ground quite early because we wante dto be barrier for Bastille who were playing around midday. The first act on that stage were To Kill A King and they were absolutely great! As they're friends with the Bastille guys, Bastille joyned them for their last song. After them there was some act on, called 5 Sterne Deluxe. We expected some school band or something but is was actually a quartet of 'older' me and one of the was Das Bo. He was a very popular rapper quite a few years back and we were so suprised to see him on stage, haha. He's actually such a cool guy and the show was very funny and entertaining. After them Bastille came on and were awesome a s always. By the way, my friend Sina is the girl that gave Dan the wolf hoodie he always weares. And anyway she gave a new one to him that day which he wore during To Kill A King's set. #IveGotTheCoolestFriends

We had a blast during their show and later went back to the cars. In the evening we went to watch Kraftklub. They had a smashing show and K.I.Z. joined them for their encore. This actually made my fucking life, hooooly shit. We sadly missed their feature with Casper because we went to see Lily Allen, but she was great aswell. 

 

copywright to Dan for those great shots of the crowd during their set.

 

Sooo, this was my first festival experience. It was great, memorable, amazing, warm, disgusting, weird, funny, entertaining, sunny, tiring, strange but a blast and I already miss it!

Arts Project

Hola,

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. Mine was full of stuff for school, but that's alright because I'm looking forward to next week. Germany's first football match is tomorrow and I'm going to the Southside Festival next weekend, which will be super rad. Yes, I actually just used rad in a blogpost. 

Anyway, no more words of my life, since I should really go back to finishing my things for school. Ugh. 

One of those things is a project for my arts intensive course with one of my friends. The topic was something about drugs abuse, etc. and we shot some pictures. I'm currently editing them into a brochure, but I decided to show you those pictures, because I actually think they look quite cool. There ya go!

Collective Haul

Hey, 

I've done quite a bit of shopping in the past weeks and bought some pretty things. But see it for yourself :)

 

One Direction shirt, Primark 

10 €

 

Michael Kors Shirt, 

it was a present so I have no idea how much it was.

 

Blouse, Vila

15 €

 

Blouse, Vila

 21, 95 €

 

Hoodie, Superdry

 94, 95 €

 

My mum thought she was funny buying me this one. I have no idea where it is from, haha.

 

Leather Jacket, Vero Moda

89, 95 €

 

Blouse, Philosophy

It was a present.

 

Dress, Tally Weijl

19, 95 €

 

Top, Vero Moda

26, 95 €

 

Top, Only

16, 95 €

 

Donut Bag, Tally Weijl

3, 95 €

Silver Bag, C & A

9 €
(Can we please appreciate my festival bags, yay!)

Dark Grey Jeans

19, 95 €

Leave Printed Pants, H & M

9 €

Sunglasses, Primark

2, 50 € each 

 

One Direction: This Is Us, Media Markt

14, 95 €

 

Ed Sheeran Ticket, via Eventim

ca. 40 € with shipping  

 

Fries Socks, Primark 

ca. 4 €

Homer Socks, Primark

ca 3 €

 

Com- Pad Powerbank, via Amazon

34, 95 €

 

Blue Top, Esprit

10 €

Grey Top, C & A

4, 95 € 

 

Flower Crown, Bijou Brigitte

7, 95 €

Oi

Hey there,

again it has been quite a while. This post is not gonna be long either, since I'm on the iPad and I hate typing on here a lot. My laptop is broken, so there's no other way to do it. Today someone reminded me on my ask that I should blog more. I really should. But I just can't find the time and motivation to at the moment. There has been only a little of free time  in the past few weeks, between exams, having way to much fun with my friends,  doing a lot of sports, getting my driving license  and all that stuff. My life is treating me really good at the moment and I'm really happy and that's what matters, isn't it? I've had a quite few brilliant weekends in the past month, I've booked my summer and winter holidays and all together I'm just really excited for the rest of the year to come. Can you believe that 2014 is already nearly halfway over? Where did the past few months go? But isn't it like that, when you're having a good time? Everything just seems to be over way too fast. 

Anyway I'll leave the past few weeks to myself, they're not blogging material. But my following holidays might be. During summer I will travel to St. Ives and the Isles of Scilly, England with one of my friends and I couldn't be more excited. I literally can't wait to blog pictures and stuff, I promise that I will take quite a few stunning ones. During winter I will drive to St. Anton, Austria with another friend and it will be fucking amazing. I already know that. 

The next week might bring something interesting to, I'm not telling you yet, but watch out for it on my blog.

That's it for now, I'm tired of typing on this keyboard already. I will try harder to blog more. Promise!

Youth

"Nobody actually wants to grow up. We just want the freedom to use our youth."

We are young. We are foolish. 

We don't really know who we are or who we want to be. 

Caught up in a place we don't seem to be able to escape. 

Stumbling across streets in the middle of the night, 

to drunk to remember it the next day. 

We meet new people, some that we will love forever, 

some that we will forget a second later. 

Promises get broken, people change.

People leave, even the ones we never expected to

But eventually even better ones appear in our lives

and we forget those that made us fall to pieces.

Racing across an empty highways

Dancing and screaming along

to the lyrics of our favourite songs,

like our life depends on it. 

Collecting memories we will remember forever.

Having the time of our lives.

They call us reckless and irresponsible,

while they weren't any better back in their days.

We are blinded by craving the attention of one single person,

that we don't notice the ones that really care. 

Trying so hard to be an adult since we're kids

though it doesn't get easier

when we get older.

And some time when we at least expect it

we realise, we were growing up way too fast

and the years were passing by, 

without us noticing.

Musical Sunday No. 13

March 2014, I love you.

Hey there,

I hope you're all doing well. I am. I'm very good indeed. I haven't been on for a while, as you may have noticed. Life was keeping me busy, well at least my weekends were. Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Cologne, Oberhausen, Offenbach, Amsterdam and Dortmund have been part of the journey. But let's start at the beginning. There's going to be a lot of pictures, so beware.

My month started on the 7th of March in Heidelberg, Germany.

I went to see my favourite british guys from The 1975. Really there's not that much to explain about this day. The concert was good as always and meeting them was quite rushed. 

The night after the concert we drove to Stuttgart, slept there for like 3 hours and got up again to pick the lovely Courtney up from the airport. We got ready and drove into town to get some alcohol and had lunch at Dean & David (my new favourite place to get food, oh my goodness. It's so delicious).

We basically went to the venue after that. We were first in line since everyone else was chilling in front of the guys' tour bus. 

Thanks to all these people on the photos, you made the day fucking amazing. Queueing couldn't have been more fun. 

Time passed by and after some funny incidents the doors opened. Let me tell you something, the gig was freaking fabulous. It was insane! I had so, so, so much fun.

We went outside to the back entry after the gig for sure. But the people there were absolutely crazy and I don't mean that in a positive way. Anyway we didn't get to meet the guys, but it was alright I guess. I was a bit gutted because I thought that would've been my last time of seeing them for a while and I wanted to thank them for the amazing show and how much fun I had just because of them. That's the thing with seeing your favourite band live. Singing along every single lyric, dancing like crazy, possibly being completely wasted and having the best time ever with the best people. It's the best feeling on the whole wide world, trust me. I live for this feeling. 

Let's jump to the weekend after that. I know, this post is really not detailed, but it would be way to much to write to tell you everything that happened. If you have any questions, the link to my ask.fm is on the sidebar.

The weekend after seeing The 1975 was a Bastille kind of weekend. The first gig was on Friday the 14th in Cologne. 

We arrived there pretty late because of school, but as we had our lovely friends we got pretty much in the front of the queue and ended up in the second row. The concert was awesome, for sure. I finally heard The Draw live, to which I was looking forward to the whole year. Bastille have such an energy on stage it's amazing! The opening act was brilliant, too, but more about them further down in this post.

Only Woody and Dan came out after the show, but they were lovely as always. It was a lot more rushed than the last time I met them. The difference six months can make, pheeew. 

We only had about an hour or two of sleep that night but who cares.

We started queueing quite early, because we surely wanted to be front row that night. People were being stupid, rude and annoying as always in the queue. But we somehow survived everything and got into the front row. We were looking forward to the gig than before, since we got to witness the amazing opening act the night before. They go by the name Grizfolk by the way.  

As you can see for yourself, they absolutely smashed it. And the gig in general couldn't have been better. I had one of the best nights in my entire live. After the show we stopped by at the merchandise to say hi to the Grizfolk guys but we somehow got thrown out by the venue's securities and happened to chill outside with the guys and hey we took some pretty funny photos! :) 

They're literally the coolest dudes ever and I hope they will come back to Europe sometime soon. You all should check them out!

After hanging with Grifolk for while we went down to the direction where the buses were to wait for the Bastille guys. Unfortunately we got kicked out by security and had to leave the parking lot etc. As we don't let people tell us what we have to do, we parked somewhere else and walked back in the hope to meet at least one of the guys. Will came out and he was only with Dick and Greg, so there was no security and it was quite chilled. 

Shortly after that Woody came out and he was drunk off his ass. I absolutely loved it. It was such fun to watch him, haha. In case you were wondering why I took this many pictures with him, as you can see he kept pulling faces while my friend was moaning at him to look normal, it was hilarious. We left after that, but apparently Dan came out, too. But probably two hours after the others because they had been recording so it must've been around 3 am.

About three days after this weekend Inga and I went to Offenbach to see Casper (He's a german rapper in case you didn't know). I actually should've bought my ticket from some guy at the venue but he didn't turn up so I drove to Frankfurt to hang with my other friends and we came back to the venue when the concert was over. We basically had to wait ages for him to come out, but he was just the loveliest person ever! Here's our piccy :) 

About a week after this day my friend Sina and I decided quite spontaneously to drive to Amsterdam to see The 1975 at their last European gig of the tour. Even though we saw barely anything of the city it's safe to say that Amsterdam is one of the prettiest cities! We had a horrific night in our hostel, but let's not go into detail. Anyway I'm so glad we went there because we had so much fun and it was just an amazing experience! I again, met people from so many different countries and had an absolute blast. The gig couldn't have been more awesome as well as the whole day in general. We met Adam and Ross before the show but it was pretty much rushed as well as meeting them and the rest again after the show. Sina and I had a few presents for George since it was his birthday the day before and he was so happy about it. Phew, that guy gives amazing hugs. 

Fun facr: the stage was so high you could barely see anything so we went onto the balcony and it was the best decision ever. 

The Friday after the Amsterdam trip Bastille had a private radio gig in Dortmund and we went there for sure, haha. The gig was quite intimate measured of how big Bastille became. The setlist was a lot longer as expected and obviously the gig was a blast! Through our own dumbness we didn't meet them, ugh. 

I know I told you before, the post is not detailed at all but it was such much work already and I really can't be bothered to describe it more. If you have any questions don't hesitate to leave me an ask. Thank you for your time. You pretty much rock. Thanks to the people I spend all those amazing days with, you're the best.