The Art of Asking (A Thank you Note to Amanda Palmer)

 In their segment “Mein Lebenswerk” (“my life´s work”, a funny but confusing title considering it´s about other people´s work,) German magazine NEON asks people...

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Over the top and over the moon

 In case you should be wondering what it is I do for a living, the days:I´ll be back in the studio in a couple days to work on new songs! And there´s surprisingly many of them, given that...

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Hello? can you hear me? Errrm, no.

Do I want to to write about Adele, you´re asking? Well, hello! Of course I’d like to write about Adele. When nobody’s home I stomp through the living room, lustily belting out “Hello–oooooh!...

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Cats on cleaning robots and silverbacks with wine glasses – a report from the Frankfurt Book Fair

So that was the Book Fair! My first as “author” or “poet”–I was repeatedly designated as such, amicably and respectfully, and it delighted me and made be blush a little–but...

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A thousand hands

When the touch of a hand is too much A thousand hands shall wait patiently until you won´t fall apart at just the thought of a touch

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SLEEPLESS IN TÓRSHAVN (the complete saga)

Part 1: Teitur, Catherine, Jonathan and II’m flying to the Faroe Islands! I’ve only known about it for five days, so my brain is still catching up as I cross the little taxiway to the tiny...

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Favorite Award!

 Ms. Sandra Blackert from the lovely blog itsyour.life has given me the “Favorite Award” — Thank you very much! And I don’t have to do anything more than answer a...

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I’M A-STARTIN’ WITH PARTON

As many of you know, I am a fervent admirer of Dolly Parton. And since she’s releasing a new album this week, Die Zeit has happily entrusted me with a detailed Parton-portrait! Yeah. Yeeehaw....

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