Top 5 remixes

I love remixes! If I find a song I like a lot I listen to it non stop for a few days. So if I find a good remix of it it's even greater because the song I've heard almost to death comes to life in a new way.

1. Youth - Daughter (Alle Farben Remix) by majestic

2. Skinny Love - Bon Iver (Moritz Guhlings Gefühls Remix)

3. Little Lion Man - Mumford and Sons (Monkey Safari)

4. Give Me One Reason - Tracy Chapman (The Tailors Djs Remix)

5. Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (FlicFlac & AirDice)

Enjoy!! xx V

Top 5 beautiful female voices

Summernights.
Sitting in the wet grass, counting stars, smoking last cigarettes, having a slightly fuzzy head from the one beer too much.
This is what I love most about these days. Having my friends around me, no one's talking. The voices fill our body's with happy but deep thoughts. It are the voices of the women who sing the songs of which we have the lyrics on our bedroom walls and in our diaries.






1. Julia Stone. After a career with her brother Angus Stone both of them try to make their own music by now.

2. Lana Del Rey. Her voice as well floats through you and leave a feeling of something unfulfilled, desirable and great.

3. Florence Welch. Leadsinger of the fantastic Florence + The Machine seems to fly away any moment. Her songs strike with power and still hit you right in the heart.

4. Emelie Sandae. Admittedly, her voice may not be as remarkable as the others the others but still it is a-mazingly beautiful.

5. Daughter. Her song "Youth" is one of my all-time-favorites. One of the voices that give you shivers.

Hope I could perhaps inspire your playlists a little.

xxx V

Top 5 places to be and see, when in ROME

FINALLY I have time again. Well, at least a little. I spent the last weekend (wednesday to saturday, we had a few days free) in beautiful Rome. It was my second visit, only my dad and me. This city is incredible! The italian lifestyle is admirable, don't let me even get started on the food! Also the whole culture - from the ancient romans to Michelangelo  - is amazingly interesting.
So anyhow I thought it would be nice to share my favourite 5 things to see or do wehn in Rome. Hope you agree ;)

1. Let's combine culture with breakfast: the best cappucchino I ever had was at the "Tazza D'Oro Coffe Shop". I had breakfast there every morning. The culture part here: It's right at the Patheon. Even if you're not into churches it's worth a short visit.
Fun fact: if someone tells you it doesn't rain into the huge hole in the celing, it's only partly true. It used to not rain in there befor the houses arround where builg, if the doors were opend. Today it doesn't rain that badly when they're opend but it does get wet in there :)

2.  Go into the Colloseum. But buy the tickets elsewhere befor you go. The lines are close to dadly. Still you have to have seen it from the inside. It's so different from what I imagined it to be like. Especially after six years of Latin in school I was stunned to see the enormous stadium from the inside.
And if you walk around Rome: don't be surprised, the Colloseum stands in what seems to be the middle of the city randomly. It's just...there suddenly.

3. Time for lunch. Grazia & Graziella is an awesome place in Trastevere, a borough across the river Tiber. Oficially there are no cars allowed there, so it's more of the scenic Italy as you imagine it. If you visit after being at the Colloseum you could probably rent bikes there at bike there.
Grazia & Graziella is a cozy restaurant with a pretty nice interiour, very heartly furnished. The food is simple but perfect, italian at it's best!

4. If you are up for a little shopping, you should check out the area you go through when you've crossed Tiber on your way back to the middle of the city. I will update what the area is called ASAP. There are lots of cute boutiques, vintage shops and little cafes.

5. For dinner try to find a rooftop restaurant. Most likely it's to find in a hotel. It may be a little more expensive but it's worth it! The roofs of thisinfinite city are amazing. In the light of the sunset, after a day of a lot of walking and talking an seeing there is nothing more beautiful than overlooking a city with more of 2500 years of hisory!

Enjoy your stay!

xxx V

Top 5 songs to lay back and relax.

Finally it's sunday! Or was, given the fact that it's 7 pm at my place already. But still: Sunday are for relaxing, doing nothing and avoiding everything stressful. Well, at least that's what it should be. So no matter if you had a perfect chill-out day or brought some power into this nothing-day it's the perfect time to listen to some relaxing music. Here are my Top 5 songs to lay back and relax:

1. Youth - Daughter.That's my let-me-cry-and-pick-me-up-again-song. Because we are the reckless, we are the wild youth.

2. All We Are - One Republic. Their songs are beautiful. I like this one in particular. I suppose it's the lyrics. Or th voice. Or the chords. Or everything together.

3. A Lack of Color - Death Cab For Cutie. Because of the first few lines: "And when I see you, I really see you upside down. But my head knows better, it picks you up and turns you arround." Awesome!? :)

4. I'm Not Yours - Angus and Julia Stone. Julia's Voice is a-mazing!

5. Ho Hey - Tyler Ward & Alex G. (originally by The Lumineers). Tylers covers are great! I love his voice and the people he works with are just as gifted. Every song is packed with passion and love for the music he makes.

Enjoy!

xoxo V

Top 5 reasons why I'm definetly NOT going to watch soccer tonight!

So in Germany soccer is like THE thing. Tonight is a championsleague game so it's almost obligatory for everyone to watch. The last few games a good friend of mine always told me I was supposed to watch the game and gave me an exquisit report on everything oh-so-gorgeous about the previous or running game. What's the catch? It's 22 guys running after a ball for 90 minutes, each 11 of them looking same. So here are my very own and probably not so much understood reasons why I refuse to waste these 90 minutes of my precious evening:

1. If I wanna see "Hot Guys" I'll watch, like, basically ANY movie. Best: chicflick! Or Spiderman, James Bond or something where they at least focus on the abs when they take of their shirts.

2. Imagine following scene: Me, sitting on the couch, staring at the mainly green screen and wincing everytime my parents clap or scream far too loud. Which is every time the ball is within 15 meters of the goal. Wow. A ball.

3. There is so much more I could do within these 90 minutes. Like homework. Or watch any series. Or read a book. Or even write this post. Duh.

4. Watching this game would be sooo mainstream. And I'm so anti-mainstream, like, Hipster or something. Anything. Not.

5. I would probably fall asleep quite soon (leave away the part with my parents) and that would stop me from doing my nightly activities. Which is literally everything due within the next 24 hours because I'm queen of kinda ignoring my duties by daylight. Maybe I'm cursed?

Not that bad...but rare!

Well, summing up you could say soccer bores me to hell. Any soulmates here? Or am I going to be stoned to death by tomorrow evening? Shoot me your thoughts on "The Nations Favourite Sport"!

Until then, enjoy your night folks!

xxx
V

Top 5 reasons why I adore Emma Stone

Emma Stone. I even love her name. It's so simple, memorable. If I think of someone named Emma she fits perfectly. My top 5 for her? Here they come...

1. No matter if "Superbad" and "Easy A", "The Help" or "Gangster Squad" and "Spiderman"... she fits every role perfectly, no matter how different they are. There is nothing worse than actors always playing what seems to be themselves.

2. Her boyfriend is Spiderman! Nothing more to say to that. I mean...look at him! ;)

3. She looks fab with no matter what haircolour.

4. She's got rarely any bad press up until now...has she?

5. The awesome idea of the handmade charity signs.

Emma and Andrew with their handmade charity signs.

Okay.  I know, there is much more to her. But these are the first five things that popped to my head. Did I forget anything?

xx V

Top 5: Books I read and loved

1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

2. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

3.  It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

5. The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell (Total chickflick but so much fun!)


Books 1. to 4. all were turned into gorgeous movies in the past few years. The picture is from last years production of book number 1, my al-time-favourite (for now).

xx V