It Ends Like This.

It's this time of year again. I can't believe how fast it went by. Right now, it is christmas night, everybody in my house is sleeping and I am sitting at the kitchen table, unable to sleep and listening to the new Erased Tapes sampler. The red christmas table cloth is reflected in the windows and some blurry image of myself.

What a crazy year this has been. So much has happened. In March, I went to Hamburg along with my awesome friends Mat and Till to shoot the photos for Paper Heart Clothing. The first shirts went into sale in April and are now almost gone. Thank you, everyone who supported this. I met many new friends and incredible people over the span of this year. I am so excited for everything that the new year will bring. Everybody, stay tuned for more news out of the Paper Heart camp, new shirts, new website, new ideas and dreams.

Now, in the third year of this blog, I will uphold the tradition of my TOP-3 lists. They go a lil sum like this:

Band of the year:

Blink-182

Album of the year:

1. Intohimo - Us; The Hollows
2. Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
3. The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above And Branches Below

Concert of the year:

1. Underoath in Munich (April 12th, my birthday show)
2. Phoenix in Stuttgart (jumped around on stage during the encore)
3. The Devil Wears Prada in Stuttgart (met the guys/never got so soaked)

Music video of the year:

1. The Marmaduke Duke - Kid Gloves
2. Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið
3. Coldplay - Strawberry Swing

Art Piece of the year:

1. Riceboy Sleeps Deluxe Album Packaging (Jonsi & Alex)
2. Stuck Up Screenprint (Mike Giant)
3. Happy Is The New Sad Sketch (Martin Krusche)

Breakdown of the year:

1. The Devil Wears Prada - Dez Moines (2:43)
2. We Came As Romans - Broken Statues (2:22)
3. Intohimo - Sherlock Holmes In A Swimsuit (2:07)

Surprise song of the year:

1. Ólafur Arnalds - Til Enda
2. Phoenix - Run Run Run
3. The Marmaduke Duke - Kid Gloves

New (though late) discoveries of the year:

1. Nils Frahm
2. Phoenix
3. Deadmau5

Breakfast of the year:

1. Smoothies, panini and scrambled eggs with Rucola and honey covered walnuts in Hamburg, right before the PPRHRT photoshoot with Mat and Till
2. Custom Müsli from my sister, including cranberries in white chocolate, frozen raspberries and Jelly Belly‘s
3. Fried Maultaschen at 3 pm (life-saving)

Most addicting TV series of the year:

1. True Blood
2. Californication
3. Flash Forward

Thanks for the memories. I am really happy, looking back at this year. Thank you everyone who was in it, you are family.

Wanda, Mat and Suse, Till, Juli, Johann, Martin, Hannes, Svenja, Magdalena, Anni, Thies, my roomies: Caro, Isa, Claudi and Nico, Carolin, Curly, Sebastian, Yannic, Steffi, Maria, Alena, Anna, Enno, Bernd, Nils, Leonie, Jule, Maren, Lisa, Sebi, Phil, Raphi, Kai, Lena and Sophia, Lennart, Anne, Tobi and Martin and everybody at Yackfou, Florian and Lars at Skull and my parents who are always there.