I'm Ines and this is my blog. I live in Cologne, Germany, and study communication & media science. I love music, art and the simple pleasures of life which is basically what this is going to be all about.
♥ planning the festival season - I’ll definitely be at Melt! & Haldern Pop, more to come! ♥ summer rain ♥ Daily Aphorisms from The School of Life ♥ taking my little brother to his very first one-day festival ♥ new cheap sandals from the H&M sale ♥ accidentally (!) ordering books on Amazon, recieving them & looking forward to reading ♥ the last weeks of the semester ♥ going back to Amsterdam hopefully very soon ♥ black sequins ♥ new albums by Florence And The Machine & Jack Peñate ♥ making my own smoothies with my new blender - my favourite is banana-strawberry/kiwi-orange ♥ trashy TV á la Rock Of Love Charm School ♥ planning my first tattoo(s) & how / where to get them done ♥ looong refreshing showers ♥ Just another Festival Style Guide #1 & #2 ♥
“There comes a time in life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama & the people who create it & surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.”
I love pretty pictures and I’ve been tumblr-ing a lot lately. It’s pretty inspiring if you dig your way through the masses and masses of photos, quotes and re-re-re-re-bloggings. Here are some of my photo favourites:
For more pictures and sources see my Tumblr & browse through all the other amazing blogs out there.
As I type this I’m sitting in Berlin, being a little bored as noone answers their fucking phone. I never understand how people can just not answer their phones. Or switch them off completely. But I guess I’m just paranoid and afraid of not being able to communicate.
I arrived here around noon on Friday, we went to do some shopping, watched TV, had drinks in the flat and later left for Club NME at Magnet. The Holloways were quite good, although it was the 5th or 6th time I saw them and they had at least 2 new band members. It was a good night after all and dancing to “Clean Up Your Eyes” on an empty dancefloor at 4 in the morning is always a highlight. I ignored the hamsters, fell asleep right away and was woken up by a call around 10 saying that my lift / car share thing home was cancelled. Nice one. Since I was too lazy to find something new last minute, I decided to spend the rest of the day on the couch eating unhealthy food & watching TV and moved to Josie’s place in the evening.
Now I’m here, after some good sleep, and still got a couple of hours until my lift leaves for Cologne. I think I might go for a walk later. Or flea market. It’s incredibly nice outside and staying in bed would be a complete waste.
♥ sleeping in ♥ drinking coffee ♥ eating apple raisin cookies ♥ listening to the Last.fm radio & discovering lots of new music ♥ wearing my sporty Sunday outfit ♥ being bored ♥ watching trashy TV ♥ writing e-mails ♥ downloading things ♥ meditating ♥ reading life advice articles ♥ drinking vitamin water ♥ looking at pretty pictures, reading & blogging on Tumblr ♥ watching the rain outside ♥ writing applications for internships ♥ making dinner ♥ tidying up & throwing things away ♥ trying to be positive ♥ sitting on the couch ♥ making plans ♥ thinking about my daily routines & how I could change them ♥ reading inspiring quotes ♥ looking forward to my bed ♥
I started watching the nightly music TV programme again and this song is on at least once an hour (I realised MTV is less cool than I thought, they basically play the same songs every hour and hope noone watches longer). Anyway, Dizzee Rascal, I think he’s one of the coolest people in British rap music right now. I already loved his collaboration with Calvin Harris (“Dance wiv me”), this time he teamed up with Armand Van Helden and it’s a fresh song that will probably be stuck in your head forever. At least that’s what happened to me.
I come across so much inspiring stuff everyday and it never feels right to post it here. After all it’s a blog and not just a collection of photos and quotes. People often ask me why I blog, why I even bother publishing things online, why I spend time on doing this. It’s a tough one.
First of all, I like the idea of publishing myself, publishing things myself, just being able to put things in a place for others to read or watch. The internet is huge and has a lot of potential, there’s inspiration out there as well as utter rubbish and noone of us will ever be able to fully comprehend and absorb the giant wilderness that is the online and offline world.
We need to filter it, split it into small bite-sized pieces, make it digestible.
We all act as a filter somehow and we’re looking for others who are doing the same. People who see the world the way we do. Have a completely different view on it. Do inspiring things. Encourage. Live. And share it with others. I guess that’s why I’m doing all this.
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Oh, I created a Tumblr today, by the way. I guess it will be updated frequently from now on since I feel like it’s exactly what I’ve been missing for the past few months.
Today we sat down in the studio and decided to get Janna a new hair cut. She actuallly just wanted to have a tiny bit cut off but I suggested a New Young Pony Club style haircut with a shaved-off bit and she was instantly up for it. - “Ok, let’s fucking do it.” So we just kept cutting and cutting and it turned out to be really cool. It suits her perfectly and I think she looks absolutely stunning now.
People getting new haircuts is really inspiring so in the end everyone gathered in the studio getting haircuts. I was so tempted to get my hair cut as well, something new, something radical. I didn’t let it happen though, there’s just not much you can do about my hair. I don’t even think I’m too much of a chicken - I’m up for everything these days.
Boat trips and canal cruises are probably the most touristy thing ever. But very relaxing. I just had a bottle of appple-pear-raspberry juice and I think I might move here for a bit at some point next year.
Tonight we’re going to see Hatcham Social, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and something else I don’t remember at Paradiso.
