As Murat proceeded me and named his first and excellent post on 60pages ‘Crisis what Crisis’ ( after a superbe Supertramp Album btw), I couldn’t help but had to find another title for my first post in ‘Countries in Crisis’ about Turkey. See above. Istanbul is where I [more]

My 60 Pages term comes to an end today and I look back with joy and sadness. Joy that I had the chance to be part of it for a short while and sadnees because I coulnd’t write as much as I wanted to write. When I started [more]

It’s this time of the year, for almost 30 years. Three decades and it always feels like the first time. The song and especially the video is ingrained in 40 western-european somethings. No matter what you listened to after the age of 14, even if it was hardcore, [more]

No matter what you think of there is already a song out there, it seems. I was thinking of last Saturday and the Thanksgiving dinner feast a good friend of mine threw and made like 12 friends very happy and thankful for the great food. It was the [more]

After I posted the last pick I found an article on The Independent Newspaper online: ‘From terrorist to tea with the queen’. The quote by Margaret Thatcher that I cited was a translation from german to english in my words. The term ‘Wolkenkuckucksheim’ I described as Lala Land, [more]

Three different topics which seemed to have no connections in the first place got linked to each other somehow in my head. It made me think loosely about Mandela, utter assholes, injustice, refugees from Syria in Istanbul, the responsibility of all of us to help somehow, dumb ass [more]

While working on a new project today I somehow ended on a trip down memory lane/ extended stream of consciousness whilst thinking of communication back in the days and nowadays. Here we go: I started texting with one friend on Whatsapp in the morning, skyped with another then, [more]

Today a friend of mine here wrote me an SMS, telling me that I can now have the dual citizenship in Germany ( referring to the ongoing negotiations of CDU and SPD not to forget the CSU regarding the upcoming coalition and the negotiations about the dual citizenship). [more]

After having a maaahvellous weekend with lots of sunshine and happy tunes, a sunday dinner with lovely friends and way too many drinks and cigarettes, monday replied with an awful headache, the worst hangover and the absence of the sun. Awful day! Tuesday (today) and the upcoming Winter [more]

was a Sunday! The Sun made it my Day. Yes Yes Yes! The Sun- always the sun!  

Looking for an apartment in Istanbul is a tricky thing. After having decided where to move to I am now contacting landlords and real estate agents and making appointments to visit the flats. It’s going to take a while for some reasons but every now and then I [more]

I saw this pic of River Phoenix today and it got me wandering from there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTp-gBfGVvU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpoqzt2EHaA Lollapalooza Festival 1994

or is it the message?! While researching, brainstorming, looking mainly in the internet ( and my brain) for new ideas to work into new concepts for my projects, this rather old but still relevant quote by Marshall McLuhan came across my mind. ( After being quoted for a [more]

Istanbul as a city is vast, chaotic, energetic, ass-kicking at times and simply beautiful at others. What strikes me most is the energy which keeps people going. It can be immensely frustrating to live here when you have to travel every day 2 hours to get to work [more]

Had a minor hangover and the most lovely day around town yesterday. Happy Happy to be enjoying a warm and sunny autumn!!

From Seymour, an Introduction: “In this entre-nous spirit, then, old confidant, before we join the others, the grounded everywhere, including, I’m sure, the middle-aged hot-rodders who insist on zooming us to the moon, the Dharma Bums, the makers of cigarette filters for thinking men, the Beat and the [more]

After writing so romantically about my favorite Top 5 movies last night and thinking about which one to watch… I suddenly (ok, not that suddenly) found myself in the middle of the dancefloor of the hidden club called QUIT in the heart of Pera in Istanbul, chanting the [more]

As the days are getting colder and lights are turned out round 5pm my desire to stay home and cuddle on my sofa become bigger and bigger. Listen to great music, knit my shawl for winter, watch a movie I’ve seen a hundred times again and again. Favorite [more]

Today was a good day! The energy of this city kicks big time right now and with music all the way from morning till now it really made a fantastic day!! With no words left in my brain I let the music talk. Started the day with SOUL [more]

Odd Title, true. (reminded me immediately of the Mel Brooks classic ‘Men in Tights’) But this is what I thought after I read an article on the DTN Website today about the next taboo which has been lifted in turkish parliament: A few days after the headscarf ban [more]

All good things start with good friends, good food, good drinks and lots to talk about. I presume that writing for this blog is going to be a good thing and so this started with a good friend, some tasty food and Raki. Imran and I met for [more]