First 5 weeks in Barca

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jeje, who'd have though that it would be that busy... apart from the friendly welcome weather wise (needed to buy after sun lotion the first weekend) I also enjoyed work. no rocket science, but due to the workload challenging enough. I like :)
met a good few new cool and nice people. discovered a latino restaurant where they have fabulous frijoles (beans). yummie... went to Germany for my moms 70th birthday. discovered Barca a bit more. went clubbing twice (until 7 o clock each, and one was a feckin mad night with the 3 M's). spend a good bit of money for new clothes - it's a rewarding feeling when an attractive 22 year old calls you "v. attractive" :-D - god loves italian designers, outlets and sales/rebajas, hehe

 

currently listening to: Skunk Anansie - Brazen

First weekend in Barcelona / El primero finde en Barca

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from having a welcome lunch with M. to hiking near Santa Coloma to eating yummie sushi to sitting in the sun and getting a bit tanned to dipping my feet into the Mediterranean to visiting an exhibition with photos from Bruno Serrolongue to meeting a cool chilenan guy (who is my even cooler flatmates BF)... all in all I walked maybe 20 k, and am now looking forward to having my first day at work tomorrow...

linkie to all pics

 

a song I heard last Thur in the Oval during a kind of surreal, weird, great and confusing encounter...

The taxi driver and his 25 Euros tip

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the picture you see here really originates to the headline... it was the last drink we had in that one Bar in Gracia/Barcelona (with M.+M) after a good few cavas, rums and of course tapas...







the pic shows "just" a regular G+T really... just a "tiny" bit more Gin than expected... anyway... the taxidriver bringing me home (me being somewhat intoxicated) sensed that I needed a lift to the airport the next day... so I gave him my number and said I'd be ready by 6 o clock.
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snore
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sleep (4 hours)
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waking up to my telephone ringing at 10 past six then was, well, sobering. 5 more missed calls from the driver too... anyhow, without this persistent pakistanian bloke I deffo would have missed the plane, or, how M. told me "make a Gustavo". so the 25 euros tip were well deserved me thinks...

it's the second time in my life I would have missed a flight if not for the taxi man... the first time was in Sevilla in 2007. I guess it's the spanish air...

oh, and with the weather being great and stunningly looking women around you I think I am doing the right thing, jeje

not really currently listening to that song here, but M. sent it to me today. subject line: "Klausis - Memories of your time here..." not sure what he meant with that now ;)
reminds me, leaving party today in Birchalls - in case you want to pop along. :)

day trip to Duesseldorf

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got up at 4:30 this morning, yawn... and now to CGI in Duesseldorf. hopefully all will go well and I'll be back to Dublin tonight... man, am wearing suit and tie way too often these days... :-D

one thing I did today I've never done before: long term car park. Rommel brought me up to the quick park no prob. hmmm... I'd say 45 euros saved, hehe

IMMA II and III

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First talking to my mom and J. this morning and then making my way down to the IMMA (Irish museum of modern art). Met S., since she hasn't been there for a while.

After a quality chat and a hearty lunch a stopover in Houston Station

 I then went back to the IMMA on my own, to check out the postwar america exhibition. Didn't take me long to pick my personal favourite (Kahn, blue sea),and somehow I managed to run into Brenda Moore-McCann. She just finished her book on Patrick Ireland (Brian O´Doherty) named "between categories" and did a complementary tour of the exhibition.
During her 2 hours tour she was able to explain the mind sets of some of the artist on display. She i.e. mentioned the performance of one artist sitting at his piano, not playing at all. He seemingly wanted to make somethig unexpected. maybe even provoke the audience. what he wanted to show too was, that silence is not silence. Ordinary sounds like the audience shuffling feet, coughing, whispering can be a performance too...

That made me think of the new Coppola movie "Somewhere" I watched in the IFI last night. Acting: good, screenplay: ok,  Visuals and sounds: very good. Some of the sounds were so detailed, accentuated even and played a huge role... Like Stephen taking a drag of his smoke(s). Or the car, changing from a normal sportscar to a carnivore.

anyway, back to Brenda - short storie when showing us the photos on the first floor... she mentioned that some time in the early nineties she visited Barbara and Brian/Patrick in their house in Umbria. It was really hot in the house in summer. so when they got a fan, Brenda was very happy! alas, it was for the dog :-D

Brenda, thanks again for the quality time!

update one day after: went to the Centra today in Fairview to buy a few groceries... and who do I meet? the guy who attended the tour as well (Ben iirc). Dublin is a small town...

currently listening to:

New camera

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O. was teasing me for ages to get a new camera. so I did. a nice SLR. Praktica MTL5B. to say it in Facebook style: I like :-D

took a few pics today as well, when E. took me to the Aviva for the Ireland/Argentina rugby match. thanks again mate! And L., sorry Argentina lost. I did cheer for them, I swear!

watched recently: The boy with the striped pyjamas

Evening walk down Sandymount

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Got lucky there with the light I guess... not sure which one of the pics is the best, but that one here I deffo like a lot...

currently listening to: Emiliana Torrini - Unemployed in Summertime