Just finished Fearvana by Akshay Nanavati. It’s so incredibly inspiring and motivational, I can’t begin to describe how much I’ve learned from it. Highly highly highly recommend it if you’re struggling with life’s challenges and want to learn how to cope with fear and use it as a source of power. Because there are lots of practical tips and exercises in here as well, things you can do immediately to better your life step by step.
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Let’s just say my list of books is shorted to textbooks these days…
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I’m currently in the middle of Reading “The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind”, it’s not too bad, has a decent amount of action. I’ll have to let you know what I think of it once I’m done
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Page 298 - I’m still not sure about her poetry, some of the quotes are great but at the beginning most of them can bring you in very dark mood 
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I recently heard of a study that looked at the effects of listening to music before going to sleep. Apparently no music at all resulted in better deep and REM sleep over any music (instrumental or with lyrics) which is sad news for music lovers 
I know I posted this in the What are you doing section earlier today lol
Finding this randomly in my book just made my day 10 times better 
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I gave Irving another chance and ordered the above (among others off course because I’m not sure how many books it will take till everything to be as it was before the 
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Completely missed your reply. That’s pretty sad news indeed, I didn’t know that! Do you have a link to that study? I listen to music before sleep quite often so I might have been doing it wrong as well 
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Oh I’m glad you saw this because I’ve recently abandoned this in favour of relaxation before bed which music provides wonderfully. I haven’t found any better or worse sleep since so meh? The study was from a television programme called Trust Me I’m A Doctor. I think perhaps music before bed has become part of my routine, plus it’s the only time I get to properly enjoy music to myself. So in conclusion, I will continue listening 
The artist as a young man
A book about the Rammstein singer Till Lindemann - his father wrote it
It was carnival in the village and Till Lindemann was going. What did he want to wear? “Don’t know yet” he said. “For sure someone else as I am.”
This is exactly the question. Who Till Lindemann is, you don’t know exactly. On the stage, there is a Schmerzensmann (pain man), a dark lord from places, you wouldn’t enter alone. He sings satanic lines, behind him, with Rammstein, there plays a band, who knows a lot about satanic tunes. It is a mighty event.
In the book you learn to know a different Till Lindemann, at least a younger one. His father Werner Lindemann wrote it. It was published in 1988 and came out new now with an interview of his son. It’s called “Mike Oldfield in a rocking chair”, a portrait of the artist as young man.
Till Lindemann was 19 back then. He leaved with his father in a village near Schwerin. He had a room up in the old farm hous and was trained as a wheelwright nearby. In the book, his name was Timm, and he wasn’t happy as it came out.
His father didn’t ask him. By now he has in parts made peace with it.
Werner Lindemann was a celebrated poet and author of children and young adult books in the DDR. He was privileged and had nothing against the state, in any case not basically. His wife lived with the daughter in Rostock and come often for the weekend through the countryside. Till lived with him for two years. After his parents, he should have gone to university, studying literature and art. But he was: “unbelievably bad” in school, he says in the after word. That is actually a long interview with the publisher Helge Malchow. “It wasn’t to think about the higher degree.” So he needed get trained in something. And he went to an old master, who wanted for most not to be bothered. He called Till Mozart for his long hair and tasted at noon his first liqueur - “It was awesome.”
@raz7 to tired, will continue tomorrow.
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I’ll look for a magnifying glass and try to read it
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Oh! Then you can continue the translation 
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Ok, I continue
Till was very handy.
“He can do everything”, a buddy said, as he pushed his broken moped in Tills fathers yard. One day he has built himself a rocking chair, a tremendous thing, “the back nearly hit the ceiling”. And on it, he listened to Mike Oldfield, that’s the title.
He also listened to others back then. Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre, Alan Parsons Project, but also the Ramones. Either all this soft stuff ore really hitting hard", as he called it. And when he painted, then to organ music by Bach.
In the book you will be witness of a difficult relationship. There meet up two, who belong together and still being strangers. The father has a bad conscience, cause he hadn’t taken enough care as Till was little. “I have to talk more with the boy”, he says. “But how?” And the son driftes to a late puberty.
You accompany him, how he crashes his precious Trabant, how he get in a fight in the village bar, is afraid, his girlfriend could be pregnant. But Till is also the one, the kids go to, when they come visiting. The one who saves a little dog from death, give it as a Christmas present to his father and kills it under agony as a fox with rabies had bitten it. With his father he plants birch trees and looks for mushrooms, places a bird nest on the shelf and just loves natur, country, woods, the quiet. Und who pack up his things after he got into a fist fight with his father.
The publisher writers, the book was cult in the DDR, what ever that means. It is sometimes annoying with its will for originality (“in crying silenc new year morning rices”) and its sayings. But it takes a look at a man, who’s band us the biggest german culture export, who’s still disguised and the riddle is the marketing strategy. The father so has never seen this success. He died in 1993, one year before Rammstein came together.
Rammstein is the most successful german rock band. Founded in 1994, the brought out there debut album “Herzeleid” the following year.
Last year, as the band did their first stadium tour - the firts tour in 10 years - the 800000 tickets for 24 cities in 17 countries were sold out in hours.
2010 the concert in New York Madison Square Garden 18000 tickets were sold out in 30 minutes.
So, done! I won’t read it over now 
@raz7 @anomalia @HakManLP even so, the last two don’t need any translation 
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The last one, you mean. I’ve read it in German. Used a translator for many words (never whole sentences nor texts). But had to check your English translation to check if I understood anything.
(By the way, I’m not a Rammstein-expert but I haven’t heard anything satanic there.)
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Stumbled over this one two.
Even so I’m seldom listen to Rammstein.
I think the author Peter Intelmann isn’t a Rammstein fan, not even a listener of music in that direction.
That is a little sad, would like an article about it from an actual fan.
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I guess it’s never the same for everybody. Up until now, I’ve also found relaxation in listening to (calm) music before sleeping.
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Started reading this one today, love it so far
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Ok, this was brilliant! As in, it’s even better than Patti Smith’s Just Kids.
Next up, probably the Joy Division book.
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I’ve just finished it. To enjoy Irving, I recommend to omit the first 230 pages which are… I don’t really know what.
Added another book to my reading list: Hammer of the Gods
The other one I’m currently reading for the 2nd time since I had to dig through it for some stuff I needed for my assignment. Both excellent!
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