The Swellers on - upandgo! Allrighty Cowboys and Girls, hope you all are getting prepared to see your boy again! Time runs, I can't tell, apparently I even forgot to blog last week, just too much going during my last days. Not even two weeks and I will freeze my butt off in New York City baby, meeting my dodo and mummy. And then another week and I'm back home, with bruce, the wingmans and all my other guys over there.
Oh well I should start with the week before this week, even I can't really remember that much though....I guess last weekends parties did its best and deleted a lot on my harddrive :-) No, honestly, I can hardly remember what was going on the last week. I guess it was the week we went to Hollywood again, to see one of the best shows ever. This time next year were really awesome, followed by the all time mind blowing Strike anywhere, but the winner of the eve was Four Year Strong, man I can tell, this band kicked ass, BIG TIME! Probably the best live band ever seen. So there is one show left here in the states. I'm gonna see Set your goals once more, joined by Motion City Soundtrack and my new favourite Band out there The Sweller, dude, this sound is pretty rad! Awesome, love it!
After a emberassing long drink-drank-drunk-break in the last time we wanted to get it hard last saturday. I and Claudio were in the mood to get shitfaced and show the american party people how WE party, well....he did, I didn't...I had to deal with the effects of fast and much drinking pretty early that night, so it turned out not to be that much fun for me, but anyways...the night started awesome, Cynthia, a friend of Stella and Claudio took us to a huge loft appartement and three bands happened to play in the living room, dude this was sick! Imagine your flat is big enough that you easily can fit in 200 people and 3 bands...definitely awesome....the rest of the night, you know...not worth writing too much about:-)
On Sunday we went for a coffee with Matt, a very very nice swiss guy I got to know the last weeks and his gf Lilly, a mexican girl, also pretty nice and funny. But my stomach and my tired eyes killed me, so the best thing I could do was sleeping! My workweek started pretty cool, I finished my internship report and started to finalize all my projects, which actually can be pretty anyoing, cause you want it all perfect and bugfree and this costs plenty of time...but lets not talk about work, lets talk about AVATAR!!!!
Okay here's the story, as I mentioned in an earlier blog entry and all over twitter and facebook, my coworker Brian invited me to join him on his writerclub screening series for the movie AVATAR. And here's the best thing, including a QNA with director (also of Titanic) James Cameron. (by the way I might mix weeks and dates now, never mind) So yeah, what should I say, AVATAR is probably one of the best movies I've ever seen, I only watched it in 2D though, but anyways, good reflection of the human race, lets see how this all will end. But really astonishing was the appearance of director James Cameron, he made tons of money with his two most famous movies Titanic and Avatar and still is one of the coolest and laid back guys out there. The interview was pretty awesome, lots of humor and cool ideas! The intellectual writers didn't have any chance, he teased em constantly, I just loved him.
From one highlight to the other (thats my motto right now :-) ). Waking up on wednesday in the bright californian sun, ready to head to the California Speedway. My boss, which is one hell of a cool guy, took me and Claudio kart racing. So we headed east, through whole LA till we arrived at the California Speedway. We got off the car and couldn't believe our eyes, these karts weren't the ones we were used to from Germany or Italy.
My boss told us he wants us to have fun, not to get bored, so he rented us a kart with 30PS and 70miles, which are about 120kmh maximum speed. And that was SICK!!! I had sooo much fun, you wont believe it! The first rounds were a bit scary cause I just couldn't believe how much power they had and how fast you could accelerate. The boss drove a kart which was even faster and also had a shiftgear....oh man haha, he's out of his mind, but in a really really good way! We raced for almost and hour in sum and were exhausted like hell afterwards, but I tell you, that was one of the best experiences I made here.
After finishing some work at the office afterwards we headed to Silverlake, a part of LA I have barely been before. We met a couple of Stellas friends, some sweedish and american dudes, and we had a lot of fun going to this german restaurant. All styled like an old bavarian restaurant, a really lovely place, the food sucks though, but the beer rules and thats what counts isnt it?!?! :-) Afterwards we went to a pretty crazy mexican bars and alternated between beer and tiredness. That was the motto of thursday and friday, I was just soo tired, fell asleep a lot to early everyday but who cares (wow this hasn't been here in a while :-) Yesterday was cool, we went to a bar in Venice, partied with Matt and the other swiss guys, talked, drank and had fun.
But today was the day! I decided to buy tickets for the NHL game between the Kings and the Redwings last week, what a good decision! After making some errands in Santa Monica I headed down town to the staples center. My seat was in the uppest level, but as it should turn out it was pretty rad up there, saw everything and had a bunch of funny guys around me. The Kings happened to do pretty good the last games, 8 wins in a row and counting. So I was pretty excited, it also was the first live sports event I had here in the states. It was awesome, I mean the crowd wasn't as excited as they were supposed to be and the game looks a lot slower live but anyways, I ruled man, awesome!
The Redwings (or like the kings fans around me called them "Chickenwings - the only good wings") led three to nothing after the first period, the kings sucked big time. But this should change with the second period, the Kings scored 2 or 3 goals, man the crowd turned crazy after the third goal. With 4 minutes to go the Kings made the deal with the four to three and everybody counted down the time to the ninth win in a row! And it happened, man it was sooo great, still stoked, still in the GO KINGS GO mood haha!
Since I was in the hockey mood all day I went ice skating in Santa Monica tonight. Stella, Claudio, Michaela, John and a bunch of others were allready there at the open air ice rink. It felt really cool to stand on skates again, especially a couple of hours after having seen the Kings live and in color. After a nice dinner at a thai place I'm ready to sit back, watch a movie and get prepared for the SUPER BOWL tomorrow!!! Yeahha, I don't know what to expect but I guess it is a reason to drink anyways! ;-)
Allrighty here is one last video for you, the national anthem of the game today, sang by a I don't know, 8 to 10 year old girl, absolutely great. I love the theme of the anthem, and the americans love it tooo!
GOD BLESS AMERICA ;-)
Have a good one guys, oh wait, one last thing haha, I came home and noticed that our huge garden was gone. Instead of a nice view outside the window everything was covered with a tree. Margaret came back and told me the story haha that is sooo sick. We have a huuge tree in our garden, apparently all the rain in the last days washed out the ground and the tree was getting too haevy and just fell down. And believe me that tree is huge, could have distroyed our whole garage or the neighbours pool, but no, it fell straight into the garden but cut all the powerlines hahaha! So the entire street, included the Vons supermarket were out off power, wow felt like back in the days of jesus christ or something haha just kiddin. Yeah, man, wow, haha what a day.
But now, after 1500 words its time to end this misery!Gotta go, take care guys and leave comments if you want to:-)
Yours sincerly Donovan
Oh well I should start with the week before this week, even I can't really remember that much though....I guess last weekends parties did its best and deleted a lot on my harddrive :-) No, honestly, I can hardly remember what was going on the last week. I guess it was the week we went to Hollywood again, to see one of the best shows ever. This time next year were really awesome, followed by the all time mind blowing Strike anywhere, but the winner of the eve was Four Year Strong, man I can tell, this band kicked ass, BIG TIME! Probably the best live band ever seen. So there is one show left here in the states. I'm gonna see Set your goals once more, joined by Motion City Soundtrack and my new favourite Band out there The Sweller, dude, this sound is pretty rad! Awesome, love it!
After a emberassing long drink-drank-drunk-break in the last time we wanted to get it hard last saturday. I and Claudio were in the mood to get shitfaced and show the american party people how WE party, well....he did, I didn't...I had to deal with the effects of fast and much drinking pretty early that night, so it turned out not to be that much fun for me, but anyways...the night started awesome, Cynthia, a friend of Stella and Claudio took us to a huge loft appartement and three bands happened to play in the living room, dude this was sick! Imagine your flat is big enough that you easily can fit in 200 people and 3 bands...definitely awesome....the rest of the night, you know...not worth writing too much about:-)
On Sunday we went for a coffee with Matt, a very very nice swiss guy I got to know the last weeks and his gf Lilly, a mexican girl, also pretty nice and funny. But my stomach and my tired eyes killed me, so the best thing I could do was sleeping! My workweek started pretty cool, I finished my internship report and started to finalize all my projects, which actually can be pretty anyoing, cause you want it all perfect and bugfree and this costs plenty of time...but lets not talk about work, lets talk about AVATAR!!!!
Okay here's the story, as I mentioned in an earlier blog entry and all over twitter and facebook, my coworker Brian invited me to join him on his writerclub screening series for the movie AVATAR. And here's the best thing, including a QNA with director (also of Titanic) James Cameron. (by the way I might mix weeks and dates now, never mind) So yeah, what should I say, AVATAR is probably one of the best movies I've ever seen, I only watched it in 2D though, but anyways, good reflection of the human race, lets see how this all will end. But really astonishing was the appearance of director James Cameron, he made tons of money with his two most famous movies Titanic and Avatar and still is one of the coolest and laid back guys out there. The interview was pretty awesome, lots of humor and cool ideas! The intellectual writers didn't have any chance, he teased em constantly, I just loved him.
From one highlight to the other (thats my motto right now :-) ). Waking up on wednesday in the bright californian sun, ready to head to the California Speedway. My boss, which is one hell of a cool guy, took me and Claudio kart racing. So we headed east, through whole LA till we arrived at the California Speedway. We got off the car and couldn't believe our eyes, these karts weren't the ones we were used to from Germany or Italy.
After finishing some work at the office afterwards we headed to Silverlake, a part of LA I have barely been before. We met a couple of Stellas friends, some sweedish and american dudes, and we had a lot of fun going to this german restaurant. All styled like an old bavarian restaurant, a really lovely place, the food sucks though, but the beer rules and thats what counts isnt it?!?! :-) Afterwards we went to a pretty crazy mexican bars and alternated between beer and tiredness. That was the motto of thursday and friday, I was just soo tired, fell asleep a lot to early everyday but who cares (wow this hasn't been here in a while :-) Yesterday was cool, we went to a bar in Venice, partied with Matt and the other swiss guys, talked, drank and had fun.
But today was the day! I decided to buy tickets for the NHL game between the Kings and the Redwings last week, what a good decision! After making some errands in Santa Monica I headed down town to the staples center. My seat was in the uppest level, but as it should turn out it was pretty rad up there, saw everything and had a bunch of funny guys around me. The Kings happened to do pretty good the last games, 8 wins in a row and counting. So I was pretty excited, it also was the first live sports event I had here in the states. It was awesome, I mean the crowd wasn't as excited as they were supposed to be and the game looks a lot slower live but anyways, I ruled man, awesome!
The Redwings (or like the kings fans around me called them "Chickenwings - the only good wings") led three to nothing after the first period, the kings sucked big time. But this should change with the second period, the Kings scored 2 or 3 goals, man the crowd turned crazy after the third goal. With 4 minutes to go the Kings made the deal with the four to three and everybody counted down the time to the ninth win in a row! And it happened, man it was sooo great, still stoked, still in the GO KINGS GO mood haha!
Since I was in the hockey mood all day I went ice skating in Santa Monica tonight. Stella, Claudio, Michaela, John and a bunch of others were allready there at the open air ice rink. It felt really cool to stand on skates again, especially a couple of hours after having seen the Kings live and in color. After a nice dinner at a thai place I'm ready to sit back, watch a movie and get prepared for the SUPER BOWL tomorrow!!! Yeahha, I don't know what to expect but I guess it is a reason to drink anyways! ;-)
Allrighty here is one last video for you, the national anthem of the game today, sang by a I don't know, 8 to 10 year old girl, absolutely great. I love the theme of the anthem, and the americans love it tooo!
GOD BLESS AMERICA ;-)
But now, after 1500 words its time to end this misery!Gotta go, take care guys and leave comments if you want to:-)
Yours sincerly Donovan
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