If you leave out the music I listen to while I work at the radio station, I don’t really have much time to listen to any other new music. This time I also don’t know the exact number of times I listened to this song, since I can’t scrobble the radio station, but I felt like they played the song around 10 times within 5 days. And that doesn’t make the song any better…

This week (02.22 – 28) I listened to Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” around 8-10 times (*click*).

In my first week of my internship, I was able to also write my first band profile. In order to get into writing it, I listened to the whole album several times while researching the band. And of course this is how this week’s song of the week developed. The album I’m talking about is ‘Ocean Eyes’ by the Rock-Pop band ‘Owl City’. They have been only slowly started to become successful over here in Germany – from what I read they made it in the US last year already. Anyways, they are worth a listen. Especially because I think many of the songs on the album are a nice introduction to the beginning of spring…!

This week (15 – 21 Feb) I listened to “Fireflies” by Owl City four times (*click*).

This week I finally tested listening to music on my cellphone (Nokia 5800 Xpress Music) and I have to say that I am thrilled! The quality is pretty good and now my train, bus and other trips will be more enjoyable. Luckily the installation of the last.fm scrobbler was easy too, so that when I now connect my cellphone to my mac, it will transfer the data onto my online music library. That way I definitely know, how much I listen to what music. And this leads me to this week’s most listened song. This time it is by a woman – Michelle Branch. I like to listen to her music once in a while; this week it was probably because I just put the first songs I came across on my cellphone to test it. This song is one of her more slow ones, but I think the lyrics are very emotional.

This week (08 – 14 Feb.) I listened to ”Goodbye To You” by Michelle Branch six times (*click*).

There is not really any reason why this song was my most listened track of the week. Last.fm simply put this into my personal music station in the most. Dashboard Confessional is one of my favorite bands and I think it is highly unfortunate that they are not popular in Germany.

This week (01 – 07 Feb) I listened to Dashboard Confessional’s ”The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most” four times (*click*).

Alright, so on Tuesday the Oscar Nominees were presented. While sitting at work, I was following online, who was nominated in which category and which movies are represented most. The amount of movies in the category ”Best Picture” was increased to 10 movies this year, in order to offer higher possibilities for ‘other’ movies like animation films. I think it is a great idea, but a the same time it gives me more movies to choose from, which might make my decision more difficult. Here is a list of my favorites of the some categories I chose.

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New month, new movies. And again I know I will be running into problems, since there are many great movies coming out. Here is my Febuary filmlist – hopefully I will be able to see all of them. Maybe that is a good idea for an evening out during my semester break? (Again, these are the opening dates for German movie theatres. For your country, please check your countries listings, I recommend www.imdb.com)

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After stubling over my SATC (Sex and the City) DVDs on a relaxing wednesday evening, I ended the evening at 2am in the morning after watching several episodes of the last season and watching the SATC movie for my I think now fifth time. In the following days I listened to the soundtrack up and down, down and up, which made one of the songs my most frequent heard song of the week.

Last week (Jan 19 – 31) I listened to Jennifer Hudson’s ”All Dressed In Love” four times (*click*).

Via last.fm you also can get recommondations of music, which you might enjoy. This happens either when you browse the artists you have already listened to, or when you listen to the radiostation “Your Library”. Last week while listening to that radiostation, is how I was introduced to an artist Five Times August. Immediately I liked one song, which then turned into my most frequent song of the week. It is a simple, good mood track.

This week (Jan 18 – 24) I listened to his track “Do It Again” six times (*click*).

The third week of the project has passed. The third topic was friendship.

For the past years, Duckie was residing in the bathroom, especially near the bathtub. Because that is where she always was able to spend time with her best friend: Water. And of course, a few bubbles are always mandatory. This time you will find her easily, since Duckie feels quite comfortable there and is more outgoing. But see for yourself:

Three movies in one week – it has been a long time ago that I have done that! While sitting in the movie theatre waiting for “13 Semester” to start, I saw the preview of Bruce Willis’ new movie “Surrogates“. When I made my January-Filmlist, I must have somehow missed this movie, since I usually like movies with Bruce Willis. Generally I have to say that my interests in the movies in January have changed, due to reports from friends. Anyways, let me get to the movie “Surrogates”.
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