He is.
Last week I thought about having to write a description of someone we love in English class, and because we don’t actually have to do that, I thought I’d write one anyways, bc why not. Enjoy.
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He has dark brown hair, the sides are shorter than the hair on the middle, which is usually laying towards his left. Sometimes he puts it up into the air, making him look like a saiyajin. His eyes are also brown, warm and chocolate-colored. In the sun they are brighter, almost orange, and also a little golden. His skin is darker than most people’s; sometimes people confuse him with a foreigner, he even got almost beaten up for that - but in reality it’s because his ancestors were some kind of special sort of Vinschgauer. It’s complicated.
He has almost no beard; he sometimes tries for one, but mostly it just looks like dirt on his chin, that’s why he prefers shaving vigorously. His skin isn’t very clean nor smooth; when he eats greasy stuff like salami his pores usually get even more clogged. His eyebrows are the perfect amount of bushy, just enough that they help underline all of his weird facial expressions; and he is only able to raise his left eyebrow if he only wants to raise one, he cannot raise only his right one. His Adam’s apple is quite prominent, especially when he’s singing. His smile is wide and his eyes and forehead get all wrinkly when he’s laughing. I could explain so many faces he likes to pull, but that’d take too much time.
He is really tall, about 1,93 m; just the perfect height so that I can bury my face into his chest when I hug him. He’s got a little of a sixpack, a great butt and biceps and in general a nice body to look at, maybe a little too lanky if you don’t wanna hug air. He has warm and soft hands which are perfectly made for playing the guitar, and they are bigger than mine. He likes to play with them, when he’s greeting people he likes to shake hands, give high-fives, bro-fists etcetera.
Sometimes he just trolls you with that; when you wanna give him his hand because he holds out his, he pulls it away and dabs right in the moment you wanted to shake it. He has a lot of those little quirks. He likes to play with my purse and throw it around. He likes to call me Lünde even though he knows I hate it. And he has a lot of sentences he says ways too often, which are already a little annoying to me, like “Impressive!” with a weird th instead of the ss or “You good bro?”
School is his lowest priority in life; he almost never studies for class tests, because everything else is just so much more important. His band, theatre, the people he loves. That’s why he skips quite often, gets bad marks or only half-satisfying ones. He says he doesn’t care about anything as long as he’s positive everywhere, but I know he still tries his best in every subject, just like in all the other things he does. He’s so ambitious.
He loves being in a band, and it makes him extremely desperate that his bandmates don’t care a fracture as much about the band as he does. He fights for it, he organises everything, the gigs, the music video shots, the recordings, the press stuff, the PR, social media, their own songs. HIS songs. He writes his own songs. Until now I’ve heard 5 finished ones of them, he’s still got 4 to show us and currently he’s writing another one which talks about our friendship, the song I’m most excited for. He plays the guitar amazingly, and not only the guitar, he nailed all of the instruments he recorded for his song You’ll See. He also sings very well. He’s a bariton, I’d say. He can’t sing very high songs or else it sounds really exhausting. His voice is perfect for the genre he sings, low acoustic songs. His voice is warm like him, and slow, quiet, calm songs sound the best with it, and the songs he writes always match with his personality. He is also a good actor, even though he doesn’t enjoy playing theatre as much as musicals or singing. He gets better every time when he plays something, and he usually plays the asshole - and he’s really good at playing that. I gotta say, he surprises me every time I see him act, and not only because he manages to change his lines into something similar, but still right every time he plays.
He often says some lines in English, usually vines or similar stuff, and he’s got a weird accent when he does so. His south tyrolean accent in his songs really fucks me up cringing, but yeah. Like I said, he sometimes says stuff in English totally randomly, but so do I.
He loves his friends, family and girlfriend. The people he loves are everything for him; he does everything for them, they mean the world to him. Never would he leave somebody out or make them feel bad. If one friend is left out only a little, he comes up, puts his arm around them and speaks to them. He doesn’t give a shit about money and is not cheap at all, he is cool with blowing a shitload of money up just to surprise us, his friends. He is all about having a good time and making memories, especially with us. He is always affectionate and caring towards everyone, his family is so kind and good-hearted and amazing, his mom is super lovely and talented, his grandparents helpful and super cute and his brother effortlessly funny. He can get moody and boring if he “could be doing something that makes more sense”, but is most of the time in a good mood. He is thankful for the experiences he’s made, tries to learn out of every situation and cherishes the moments he’s spending with us, because he knows that these are moments he will remember for a long time.
He’s thankful for the musical.
His favourite drink is Gin Tonic, but only with Fevertree Mediterranean tonic water.
He wears ridiculous socks and has weird pink flamingo trousers.
He likes to smoke cigars together with Manu.
He gets headaches very easily.
He’s the funniest when he’s drunk.
He got very sick from green beans when he was in Salzburg, then he threw up for 3 days after that and now he’s got a trauma from them. He’s never broken any bone in his body except for his little toe. He’s got no allergies.
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It’s the 21st of September 2019 and I’ve decided to continue this love-struck textpost. I’ve found out so much more about him until now, and I am very excited to extend this text. Enjoy.
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He can be extremely insensitive, not realising what shit he has just said. Also there can be a few situations where he doesn’t realise what is going on around him, and later has no plan what has happened, making him look like a complete insensitive moron, also if he didn’t actually want it.
He is extremely self-opinionated, and only if you show him the cruel and plain facts, he will maybe accept that what he said was wrong. Being in a discussion with him is difficult, because he is very good at talking you into something you are not actually thinking. Because his flow of words can be really impressive and too complicated, you tend to just accept a lot of things he tells you, even though it’s complete bullshit and you might think it through a few more times. In general, when he has an opinion, it is extremely hard to change his mind, and that can get super annoying.
There’s two types of drunk he gets, either he’s totally hilarious, cuddly and funny and lets you do whatever you want with him, or he transforms into a moody asshole who lets out his bad mood onto everyone without thinking of the consequences, and there is no in-between.
He usually doesn’t separate love from sex. I must admit that I wonder why he’s still had one night stands, there’s gotta be some exceptions - but usually he doesn’t sleep around, knowing he must really love someone to properly enjoy sex.
He tends to show arrogance and narcissism in a couple of situations, but I think he secretly hates himself for it.
He is a real businessman when it comes to his music. He is working hard to be able to pay for the production of a song, a music video, or maybe just some sushi for lunch. Also when he gets the opportunity to learn something new, or do just whatever may push his career, he takes it. He may sometimes not get some personal situations and misses some opportunities, but never when it comes to playing a gig somewhere or just doing anything that may be in the slightest convenient for his career. Above I mentioned that he does anything for his band, but that has kinda changed now... he does it for his own success - but for his own good! He has a goal he wants to reach, and he’s putting all of his focus on that, but never forgetting how to enjoy life and hang with his friends with a good glass of Gin Tonic.
People who know him better, have all come to realise that he does not think with his brain, but with his heart. Not with his dick, either, absolutely not - but I haven’t met a single person that thought more with their heart than him. There aren’t many decisions this man has thought through thoroughly (lol English is weird), and whatever he does, he does it because his heart tells him so.
Speaking of heart! He has a rather awful and weird heart condition that gives him random heart palpitations. Sometimes it’s more frequent, other times not... the worst that can happen is that he just randomly blacks out, falls on the floor and can get up only when his pulse has chilled down a bit. His fam has paid Dr. Fliri, the cool cardiologist, hundreds of bucks for appointments and the portable EKG he carried around with him for some time, only to get no diagnosis at all. He unfortunately jokes around about that, but it’s always got that bitter undertone when he does so, for example by changing the lyrics when singing Irgendwann Bleib I Dann Dort to “bevor der Herzinfarkt mi mit 25 in di Windeln packt” - like dude, that is so inappropriate.
Speaking of heart, he has got two tattoos by now (lol, can you believe I started this blog post when he didn’t have any?), the first one is the audio wave of the last verse of his song “Thanks”, on his left underarm, which I still can’t believe; this guy’s got a tattoo of a song he’s written partly for me. And the second one is a design of six and five lines around his right underarm, the five lines symbolising a music staff and the six lines the guitar strings. The next tattoo he’d like to get is an anatomical heart, and I’m really fond of this idea.
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6th January 2023, and I’d like to finish this text to finally post it and put it in the archives, because I just adore the process.
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He is a responsible and reliable employee, having worked himself from intern up to radio host in only a year. He grew into a proper businessman, driving a grey Tesla, the second car he bought with his own money. Despite him making a full-time wage, he never became greedy or thrifty, as he changed from being an Android-guy to a full-on Apple user all around and going on a few trips. I have no clue whether or not he would still pay for a 100€+ round of drinks, I suppose so if the financial situation’s right, but we haven’t gone out for drinks together in years, so I’d have to see, lol.
He has become more chill over the years, his growth clearly visible. Even though he still sometimes has No Chill, it is a gift to watch him grow from a high school guy with big dreams into a young man living his dreams and still working as hard as always. He is as overachieving and ambitious as he was when I got to know him.
He doesn’t like vanilla flavoured stuff, which I find quite exasperating.
He now has ... uh, how many tattoos? 1. Thanks, 2. guitar lines in Ireland, 3. light bulb from Barcelona, 4. the heart he did together with me and 5. Liebele he did with Tina. The next one will be a map of his home in Lana and, the one I am very excited for, a lemon slice, standing for our favourite shot, the one and only: Tequila, will be next.
His difficult to assess music taste varies from gospel over soft- to hard rock, including all kinds of pop and ranging to country and house and is honestly just as wild as his character can be sometimes, but he has an incredible talent of always whipping out the best song for each and every situation we are in.
Just as astounding is his way of appreciating little situations, small moments where he feels at peace, happy and safe, and he will say out loud how he feels in that very moment. That is something that inspired me to do the same every now and then, and it gave and gives me a feeling of warmth because those are the moments we live for and that truly deserve the appreciation.
His most outstanding trait is and will always be his honesty. Without a filter he will tell you his opinion on things and will show you a bold and sometimes maybe even frigid view on whatever issue you may have. There will no be babbling around; elephants in the room have to be put aside before they even come to be, and if you aren’t gonna be honest and clear with him, don’t even bother bringing it up. If there’s a problem, if something happened, if there is bad blood anywhere, just talk it all out as honestly and directly as you possibly can, and there won’t be an issue. Not only is he willing to spit out every dirty detail about himself if it helps to air it out, but he demands that his friends do the same, which creates an insane amount of trust in his relationships and leaves me in awe about how strong the bonds between him and those few close people in his life are.
I will now FINALLY post this thing, after all those years of it rotting in my drafts, as I am not in love with him anymore (should’ve made a tally sheet about how often I said that and lied), but if anyone ever asks me why I love(d) him, these are the things I’m gonna say.
