created a last.fm account to give that thing a try since I actually can use it at home, now.

already noticed somethings I can't stand. first thing is you can mark tracks as loved but can't listen to them unless you subscribed. guess I must add them to a play list as well (edit: playlist are also for subscribers only). the second thing is, that either I am to stupid or you have to like the whole works of an artist, that is if you mark a song as loved you also get the other stuff of her or him.

anyways if I dont trash my account it's de_markanthony

listening to a real radio station like motor.fm has several advantages over last.fm, like the dj presents you nice new tracks with you doing nothing, no clicking through a similar artist selection.

Ok I do now have broadband so I should take advantage and blog more often... well I try. Starting with the last weekends this is one of these I am so lazy and now need to sum it all up blog posts.

DIED
Yesterday one of my drives died, again. I had two IBM 60gig drives that are known to die sooner then they usually do. The other died last year, so I had no important stuff on this one, nothing that could be replaced that is. yet still it sucks >_<.

VSD
Last Saturday, 9/6/8, I have been to Dortmund and had lots of yummy vegan foodstuff on this years Veggie Street Day (VSD). Been plundering the tents mostly with Sasa and Mali. Apart from slight flaws only the sushi was not recommendable, though I had none of the TIRM's stuff (this will change this Saturday since they do the same chili con soja for the gallusviertel stadtteil fest).

ROLLERCOASTER
On 8/31/8 I was half drunk (not from alcohol but from lack of sleep) with ChaCha (or is this ShaSha...) and his sister Natascha to the Fantasia Land in Bruehl after a splendid brunch. We had a brunchette ticket and a first row ticket. Really enjoyed riding the roller coasters esp. the black mamba.

WEDDING
On 8/30/8 was ChaCha and Betti's Wedding and I was there ^^ really enjoyed it. Her wedding dress was just awesome... Well you'd better been there yourself because words can't describe. (sleep count: 3hours due to snoring roommate)

BIRTHDAY
On 8/29/8 I was at Indy's birthday party at cologne which was fun. Met nice happy vegans. We had tons of yummy stuff. To be honest there was so much we did had lots of left overs, apart from ise's casserole and
indy's homemade-bailey's cake (ok technically there was one slice left but only because we all were so stuffed even before we started with the cakes)

I made an tahini-lemon-tomato-tortellini-salad with garden tomato and parsley (note to self: add more fresh tomato next time).

(sleep count: zero hours)

Been with the Gruink to the pictures, last Tuesday, to see the Don't Mess With The Zohan movie. Really enjoyed it despite the bad reviews it had.

Rating would be A.

got my first set of American Apparel (AA) that I will use for the wii fit from now on, its an army Fine Jersey and an army California Fleece Slim Fit Pant. why army? because I wanted a matching set. and therefor i was limited to black, white, brown, grey and army. black can be dull and white gets dirty quick. my PJ is brown. grey? no thanks. army? nothing is wrong with army, apart from being asked whether I am pro war or not at the checkout. (Just for the record: war sucks.)

On the website they have also navy... didn't noticed that at the store.... Anyhow I wonder why I did not bought something sooner from AA. they are no more expensive then other brands are. Maybe I wasn't aware of that or boh don't know.

I guess I will stock up on AA since I do like a new fleet of fine shirts for the summer.

EDIT: A friend of my sister was shocked after reading this as she thought army meant camouflage. No, its not it's a greenish brown or a brownish green.

Have a look at the AA Website, you can click on army. Though I will post some pics in september.

Hoodie on the AA website

Been with Ronan to the Iron Man movie last Tuesday. Great special effects and all.

This movie is of the sort "don't think about the story and have another beer".

Oh and Gwyneth Paltrow as Miss Money Penny Pepper Pot was just great.

Rating: B solid.

Berkeley:
Got myself a phantom Jack Wolfskin Berkeley backpack since I couldn't stand moaning about the lack of space my crumpler back offered.

happy so far with it.

City Journal:
Vandy@simtropolis is nearly done with the Koyama Island map I requested. Its a 24x24 csq (24.48kmX24.48km) map. A lot smaller then I originally requested but due to certain limitations we settled with this size.

I will set up pseudo web pages for the cities that can be found on this Island and there will be a CJ at simtropolis as well as roleplaying.

If you are interested in roleplaying an Assembly Person, Mayor or Special Interest group (or somebody else) feel free to get in touch with me.

Books
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Finished reading Triple by Ken Follet two weeks ago and noticed that I didnt bloged a thing so far. I liked it and can only recommend it. Its affordable 5 Euros on paperback and is a really good thriller.

This sure would also make good as a movie.

http://www.ken-follett.com/bibliography/triple.html

Twitter
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I am on twitter now. Mark Anthony and Koyama where both taken so I am Mark_Anthony.

Most lack of updates on my blog is because I think mhhh this is not noteworthy for a blog entry. Twitter jumps in this gap, quite well.

I hope it doesnt eat up the few spare time I got, just like studivz (german wannabe facebook) did in its early days. But I assume not. Twitter twitters all updates directly to my inbox and not like studivz leaves a message that something had happend and lures me to log in and waste hours of clicking through each groups forum.

Finally I could pick up the Peugeot pepper-mill Evian...

well shouldn't opted for vouchers for a store that I haven't ordered something so far. Well doesn't matter anymore since they managed to deliver. yeah!

Another thing that is new to my kitchen utensil arsenal is an ice maker I got from Birgit because she fancies a different one that can make ice slightly faster and is easier to clean or something. I had chocolate ice and pineapple ice so far.

Will give lemon a try today.

Last Friday I've been to Claudia's housewarming party and catched up with some aquitances of mine.

Gosh quite a bit happend since I last meet them and nobody told me. :-(

Well apart of Ruwen which I meet twice on the way to campus but only had time for shitchat...

To few get togethers, I assume.

Ok I missed Ruwens party but this was only one or two month ago (if I recall it right) last get together was claudias birthday in may.

Was also sleepy after last week, my timetable is packed and I had not adjusted my bedtime hour.

Brought Claudia organic "aufback broetschen" and salt; and added a couple of Bionade Hollunder and a bit of Mumbay (Bombay) Saphire for the other guests and myself.

On the same day was Luminale 2008 and from her flat we could see one of the Skyscrapers with light in the upper three floors, combined with the rooftops of medium dense residental... ^^v

Claudia has some pictures on her studivz photo album; you can find her in my friends list.

kob:
did some under the hood fixes to my comment handling, somehow old code made it back on the server :-( ... and added some improvements to my CMS.

I still get plenty of spam, maybe I need to add some number that you have to copy to some field because all comments are read by me before anyone else can read them and the amount of spam is annoying.

Nippon connection:
I missed it... well sort of. Still three days remained but the movies that I picked were either the days before or no tickets were left. To bad... I should register for there newsletter so this shouldn't happen again.

Nihon at the Long night of the Museums:
Melanie B. told me that she and two of her fellow students from the Japan studies are performing Japanese music at the Deutsches Filmmuseum (20:00, 21:00, 23:00, 24:00).

http://www.nacht-der-museen.de/frankfurt/

Anime and life mucic

There is also Mangamania at the Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt.

Love & live:
Washed my ipod nano… last month. Hoped it would be dry by now but I guess I need to exchange the battery so its not a stationary pod. *stupid me*

Made some cookies for work last week. And couldn't resist to make one extra large just to make the photo.

The recipe for biscuits can be found on http://lentilpenguins.blogspot.com/2008/02/triple-chocolate-chip-biscuits.html

Hadn't had the white rice milk chocolate at that time so mine is only double choc.

Been with Marianne to premier of 'Tagwerk... vom Tagebuch zum weblog' at the Museum for Communication (Museum fuer Kommunikation) last wednesday.

http://tagwerke.twoday.net/
http://tagwerke.twoday.net/stories/23731/

I'm on the 14th image (the guy with the light blue shirt and the blue crumpler bag)... oh my I do need a haircut >_<.

Marianne bought herself a calendar with quotes from diaries, they where also part of the exhibition (on the floor).

update February sorry for the lack of update OK hmm
what happens last February?

Caught A Cold
I caught a cold and was all sneeze and had headache. Had tea. Lots of tea. Yummy tea.

Birthday
I had birthday and got a nice set of presents. My plan was to have one big present but oh well. Melanie thought it was time for me to have a proper jacket for the more freeze days. So I got a Jack Wolfskin North Country Men. Which is really cool. I'm happy that she convinced me because when it is rainy or stormy outside with this jacket it doesn't matter. you can even only wear t-shirts (might not work in Alaska I guess). My original idea of a big present was a Peugeot Evian pepper mill as I didn't wanted that they spend so much on presents for me... Now I got both. vouchers for the mill and a good jacket. Oh and my mum added Sapphire Gin and special haircare, and Julia added a kellnermesser and a cake. I made one to but it wasn't that yummy, but my chili con soy was. images tagged my birthday 2008.

Sneak
Been with Marianne to the sneak preview at Turm Palast. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story was on, could been worse. Hilarious Movie.
Rating: A-

Books
Finished reading Shadow Man by Cody MFadyen (one of the books I Got from Romans sister in law)
http://www.codymcfadyen.com/shadow_man.htm

totaly missed to show off the buddha nero brought me from nepal.

Om mani padme hum.

Hope you all had a good start.

Been with Andreas, Birgit and Julia to a new year party with tons of yummy foodstuff (except the lasagne, no offence) at bad duerkheim (rlp).

take care.

xx,
mark anthony

p.s.
Last year (December) I've been with Marianne and Verena to The Lord Of The Thingies at the Chaincourt Theatre. Was fun as always but a little to long towards the end.