Haven't written here for ages. Got no excuse except for 'life', really. I shall not bore anyone who might be reading this with stories of how weird my life became after exams in mid-2011. Long story short, I am in university now, and yes it was Durham. Wooo! I also fell hard in love with industrial metal and German music and am also properly learning German. A years-long dream come true. *happy sobs*
I've become twice as more active on DA lately because of Rammstein fanfiction that I'm putting over there. Daily ramblings and weird stuff go there now, mostly. I'm going to keep updating the fanfic list, especially seeing as I've got major additions to make there - it's quite out of date now - and in the meanwhile this blog will now be flooded with my horrible translations of Till Lindemann's book of poetry, 'Messer', that was published in 2002. I figure seeing as it's been about ten years, perhaps it's safer to stick some translations in a blog.
Every translated poem will come with a disclaimer. They will be devoid of the original pictures or the German text because that is just pushing it a wee bit too far into copyright, and even then, I can't guarantee that the translations will always be here. I'd like to just make it clear that if there's ever a cease-and-desist, they're all going to be deleted and I'm prepared for that possibility. Otherwise, everybody can laugh at my horrible efforts at translating poetry I will perhaps never fully understand in ten years, let alone five months (which is how long I've been learning German). I was fourteen when I discovered a love for English poetry and by then had been learning English for over ten years. It took me longer for plays and metafiction. I hope to gain an artistic/poetic understanding of German eventually, so it should be good practice.
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