The title is a lot less perverted than you're thinking. I caught an episode of "The Late Show With Jay Leno" the other day - okay, it was an old episode featuring Ryan Reynolds, because I'm going through a very hard-core Ryan Reynolds obsession phase right now - and I noticed something odd. And by odd, I mean something that happens regularly, but I never really gave it much thought until now.
So Jay Leno comes out onto the stage, doing his little Jay Leno thing, and a hoard of people come up to him instantaneously, reaching for him, and pushing each other out of the way to get to him. Some of them, particularly the older men reach out an actual hand to shake hands with him (something I am told is normal in human culture) - that's fine. But most of them simply reach out a hand to touch him - and Leno complies, reaching out a couple of fingers just to touch these people.
If I were to ask what it was about celebrities that make us want to just touch them, that would be foolish and stupid, and hypocritical. Of course I would like to touch celebrities!
By the way, the more I write "touch" and "celebrities" in the same sentence, the more I feel like a sex offender.
You see what I mean? It sounds weird, but it's so accepted.
It has been too long since my last blog spot, so I apologize to my excruciatingly small number of followers.
On the brighter side of life however, I do have stories to tell from my trip to Germany! My mom, being the avid traveler and sightseer she is, decided on a spontaneous trip to Germany right before my college started, which was fine with me because I had never been there before. Before I forget, I want to make note of a few things I noticed whilst thur, and wrote down specifically to remember later:
1. I spotted over 200 leather jackets. No joke. So much love for the cow. 2. We traveled solely by train or subway, which was actually a great way to familiarize myself with the place, but now I will never get the soft, cool, female voice saying "Nächste Halt..." (Next stop...) out of my head. 2. EVERYBODY wears skinny jeans. No room for fat pants. 3. The Germans love Eminem apparently. "Love The Way You Lie" was playing even in the most desolate of places. 4. They also love their ice cream structures (I will elaborate on this later, as it was my favorite part of the trip). 5. New song by Peter Fox, a German singer called "Alles Neu", which I love. 6. The villages of Austria had solar panels on their buildings. ROWS AND ROWS of solar panels. Talk about oxymoron. 7. I suppose with more than 1 billion people populating the country, not including the rest of the world, we all had to find a way to share the Indians somehow. Seriously, they're EVERYWHERE. 8. Listening to German exhausts me, especially when excited, little, 6 year olds are speaking.
As a little summary of our trip, we basically traveled all over the south of Germany, and a bit of Austria. Nevertheless, Germany was much colder than expected, and nobody was prepared. Of course, we did the usual tours and sightseeing, with castles and monuments galore. Here are some cliche pictures for your viewing:
But y'all know me. I don't like cliche pictures. I had said before that I would elaborate on the ice cream structures that the Germans seem to love so much. In fact, I spotted over 10 ice cream cone structures throughout Germany, and thought it would be fun to photograph all of them. I have a plan to enlarge the pictures and create a poster out of them to hang on my wall, for no purpose whatsoever but to entertain my soul.
I hope you enjoy those ice creams as much as I did. I wish I could have taken each one back and situated them around my dorm room, but that would be highly ill-advised.
And yes, German is a very exhausting language to listen to. I wanted to take a nap every time I heard someone jabbering away in German, and was even more dumbfounded hearing a 5-year-old jabbering away at 10 times that speed. How can you make those sounds with your mouth?
I felt that our visits to Austria were much more scenic than Munich, which makes sense because Munich is a big city with it's usual city-like grime and grit. I think when I grow old and retire, I'm going to live in those valleys in Austria (where, by the way, Julie Andrews had run around singing in The Sound of Music):
On a completely different topic, I have now become obsessed with the song, "Alles Neu" by Peter Fox, a German singer, whose music is a mix between hip-hop and reggae. The music video is in all honesty, very strange, but also strangely addictive, as is the song. There's something about the beat, and the drummers' groove that makes me come back to this video/song over and over again. I just hope I don't get tired of it:
Peter Fox is definitely an artist to check out in general. He has this unique way of mixing beats and creating rhythms that make you want to listen over and over again to figure it out.
Unfortunately, I have yet to find someone who enjoys this song as much as I do. Oh well.
Once I create the ice cream collage, I'll post a photo of it on my blog, so keep checking back for that!
They touch babies too!
an, and was even more dumbfounded hearing a 5-year-old jabbering away at 10 times that speed. 