So I've just come back from finally seeing BLACK SWAN, so I'll take this opportunity to just-as-finally write an entry of sorts.
I guess it's been a month? Almost. Hah.
I guess there might be more 'finally' in this post than the two three I already mentioned. Well, here I go.
Machines
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My washing machine's runnin~g )
THIS cinema. Hnn. It always reminds me of my grandma, her tiny apartment with the bathroom outside of it, high walls, very special smells, Schinkennudeln and Butterbrezen. Still, I miss her so much. Is it strange that this is my 1st thought tied to this cinema? Only the 2nd thought is about the Rocky Horror Picture Show - and as you can still watch it there as I watched it 25 years ago is sort of 'history repeating itself' or it feels like a time-warp. Strange.
You know that there is no coincidence and you've always been magnetic for Japanese people, no matter where you are or were you go - flights to or from foreign countries, for example. It's nice that you exchanged numbers :-)
Butterflies. Reminds me of me visiting the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. last year. There was this special butterfly exhibition - I mean: living ones - and there were some of this huge brilliant blue/black ones flying around.
And there was this little girl, one of the butterflies landed exactly on her cheek and she was squeaking and wanted to grab it with her hands ...
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I always think about the fact that she's lived there whenever I'm in the area. The area means a lot of my childhood to me, even the IMAX although we just went maybe twice or three times. I've walked down that road next to the cinema - it always makes me think of that relative I've never known. But she's my ancestor, right...
Haha... just today we had a Japanese couple with two - or three - kids in the store. It was funny, I went closer and obviousl I understood them, grinning from one ear to the other (it was about how 'in' and cool some of the things were etc), but I didn't say anything. They left before I could, and then I thanked them for visiting the store, and they were lie 'eh what' xD
That's exactly the kind of butterfly exhibition I'd love to go to. I think there was one in Munich a little while ago, but we missed it unfortunately.
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Yeah, she's your grand-grandma and I do have so many memories. Not only in my heart, but in my flat, too. That porcelain elephant in the living room, for example. And a little wooden box with old German money in it that ran through her fingers. She liked playing cards, and we often played when we visited her, but I can't remember the name of the game right now.
I do not have a single photograph of her - but she might appear on some old ones, stoed at your grannies.
Some 7, 8 or 9 years ago there was a living butterfly exhibition in the Munich Botanical Garden, I went there with "DJ Heini" (the guy who took me to Sushi at Fuji's for the 1st time!).
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