D from all my ponies has tagged me and here are some details. I added books and hair which seemed important to me.
1. clothing:
A point I give much thinking but little effort to.
My clothes must hide my flaws, underline my features, they have to be comfortable and must make me look beautiful. This seems to become more difficult the older I get. And even before that. I am 1.80 m and I hardly ever find a piece of clothing with a waste line that is at the same hight as mine.
I don’t want to be dictated by fashion, my clothes have to be dictated by me, by my taste, my movements, my bodyshape.
My clothes have to be simple with rafinesse, special in the details. Colours have to suit me and that is why there are mostly grey, blue, beige, olive in all shades in my cupboard. I own one red t-shirt and a bright orange windjacket that I hardly wear.
My favorites at the moment are two blouses with stehkragen and small stripes, Jeans with wide legs, a blazer with small stripes and ballerinas. I seem to like stripes at the moment. I hardly wear heels and my passion for shoes has died down.
Almost every piece I have is a compromise in some way and that is why I decided it is time to get a tailor. I always dreamed about one perfect pair of pants, blouse, skirt, dress in different fabrics, everything combinable to a perfect flattering, comfortable, elegant but understated uniform. And I never want to shop for clothes again! Ever!
2. furniture
We once had a little comouflage tent in an empty room. That looked perfect. Everything we own is either second hand finds or makeshifts. We moved so often and left everything behind us. Every place we live in seems to be temporary, that is why we never put much effort in furnishing.
If we will ever have our own house, most of the furniture would be built in, like seats and tables and beds and shelfs and cupboards as part of the architecture. Every room perfectly designed for its purpose and our habits and lifestyle.
3. sweet
Marshmallows, sour jelly beans, wriggly worms and jelly babies. Geleefrüchte, Marzipankartoffeln, alles aus Gelee und Marzipan!
4. city
Cologne for its people and the Columba Museum, Berlin for the (my) history, Munich for being my hometown, New York, always wanted to live there, Cape Town, most beautiful city, London, for memories, Bangkok, the craziest city of all.
5. drink
Mostly tab water, I love coke with lots of ice, beer, frozen Margharitas, Sherry, black tea with milk and sugar.
6. music
I get almost all my music from my friend Ludger. I will listen to my favorites a hundred times and I will stop listening to music at all, because I can’t hear it any more. That is why I never got to be a regular music listener.
In general, I like women singing to guitar, (or as my friend Louis said, high pitched women voices) like Lily Allen. I hate rock and my favorite music for the last months was: The Whitest Boy Alive, Asa, Coldplay, Santogold, Yael Naim, Zero 7, Macy Gray, Bon Iver, Feist, Cat Power.
Pop only, never got into classic or jazz.
7. tv
No tv in the house because otherwise I would watch Oprah, Amerikas Next Top Model, The Apprentice, Survivor and The Biggest Looser all the time.
HBO series on dvd. I Have all six feet under seasons and it is still the best ever. My second favorite is Nip Tuck. And the South African series Home Affairs.
8.film
Mostly on dvd. Ensemble films like Short Cuts and Robert Altman in general. Lantana and Crash. Ang Lee. Yi Yi by Edward Yang. I forget films very quickly. So I my favorites are those who stay, like: Icestorm by Ang Lee, Matchpoint by Woody Allan, Nikita by Luc Bresson, Garden State, Laurel Canyon and High Art by Lisa Cholodenko, the Aniversary, the Antoine Doinel Trilogie by Truffaut, Marseille by Angela Schanelec.
Films I liked lately: Into the wild, Muriel at the Wedding, As it is in Heaven.
I am sure I forgot a lot!
9. books
At the moment I read Goethes Wahlverwandschaften for the first time. I started it twice but for the first time I understand it,and it is fantastic. I completely missed out on the German classics.
Favorite books:
Rot und Schwarz by Stendal, Anna Karenina by Tolstoi, Madama Bovary by Flaubert, Candid by Voltaire, Wuthering Hights by Emily Bronte, Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Oblomow by Gontscharow, Erste Liebe by Turgeniev, Ein Held unserer Zeit by Lermontow, Hiob by Joseph Roth, Chechov Erzählungen, Paustowski Erzählungen, Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland, Samuel Pepy’s diary, The Bible, Zeno Cosini by Italo Svevo, A Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank, Populärmusik aus Vitula by Mikael Niemi, Disgrace by J.M. Cotzea, The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan, Rave by Rainald Goetz, Ausweitung der Kampfzone by Michel Houellebecq, Wunschliste eines Bastards by Harmony Korine, The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, Cockfighter by Charles Willeford and the Hoke Mosley series, Strangeland by Tracey Emin, Ice and Fire by Andrea Dworkin, Unter Wasser Atmen by Julie Orringer, Was am Ende bleibt by Paula Fox, Die kleinen Störungen der Menschheit by Grace Paley
Non fiction: Reasons For God by Tim Keller, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, Blue Like Jazz by Don Miller, Velvet Ellis by Rob Bell.
I am anxious I forgot important books and I know I did.
10. workout
I never work out. I go for walks and swims.
11. hair
My hair used to be brown but now it is grey and I dye it. If I would live on an lonely island or in a monastery I would cut it short and grow it out to see how I look with grey hair. I hate going to hairdressers, and I don’t trust them. That is why my hair is very long at the moment. Sometimes I cut it myself. Short hair looks best on me but for that I need a good and regular haircut. that’s why I let it grow and tie it in a knot at the back. So it looks short and always right.
12. pastries
I never share Nici’s chocolate cake. It is made out of pure chocolate, no flour. She made it the first time for our wedding, never tried and lost the recipe. Luckily she found it again.
13. coffee
Never