Yesterday I watched a very nice Japanese/Korean movie called “Himitsu”.

After a fatal bus accident, a mother wakes up to discover that she’s taken possession of her daughter’s body. Grieving husband Heisuke is more than confused-and can’t get used to seeing his beloved wife Naoko’s funloving personality in the cute form of his daughter Naomi. Heisuke and Naoko decide to keep up appearances as father and daughter, and embark on a secret life that brings as many laughs as tears in this tragicomedy of mistaken identity. This film received Best Actor/Actress Awards at the 23rd Japan Academy Awards.

Himitsu was screened in ‘Kunsthaus Graz’ space04.

Yesterday we (Nina and me) made our first experience with cooking pancakes. Kids, you can try this at home!

Basic ingredients:

• Eggs
• Flour
• Milk
• Salt

Put together flour and milk, add eggs, put in a breeze of salt - et voila - pour the whole thing into a hot pan - the rest is rather easy.
The most interesting part is to fill the pancake with stuff. I tried mushrooms, asparagus and hard cheese for one and different kinds of spread for the other ones. Tasty!

Comments and ideas for further pancake stuffings will be appreciated.
:-)

November 1979 in a small pub in London: Peter Hein and Thomas Schwebel were watching a gig of “The Teardrop Explodes”. TwoTone, a special kind of Ska music genre, was en vogue (and also driven by a label with a very similar name). Soon they decided to introduce this kind of music to Western Germany. “Fehlfarben” was born.

February 2006: After they realized that they completely forgot to officially celebrate their 25th anniversary “Fehlfarben” decided to launch a “Geburtstag vergessen” tour across Germany. They started this year’s tour with an exclusive radio session on Austrian radio FM4.

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This nice play in 5 acts comes from Claude Magnier, translated by Hans Weigel.

France. After a car accident René (Christian Linzbichler) finds a cottage house. Nobody seems to be in there, so he uses the telephone and calls the local service. Jaqueline (Agnes Julia-Redl) is constantly unable to get some sleep so she used water-dissolvable sleeping pills. Unfortunately she left half the glass next to the telephone. As a result both, René and Jaqueline fell asleep in the same bed without recognizing each other. Trouble arises when Jaqueline’s husband Robert (Norbert Hermann) comes back from work…

I went to the premiere with my brother and was pleasantly surprised. Very well acted, very entertaining and also very well written this play has all it takes to be your choice if you like theatrical plays of that kind.

Booking information.

Many companies try to reach customers using slogans like “you can”, “do it” or “be different” - mainly for inspiring people to buy their products. Despite the fact that these phrases are invented by thoughtful market analysts aiming for better sales figures one can learn from the meaning that lies directly behind these words. Finally! I did it! I created my first blog.

More to come… Definitely!