Florian Habicht’s first book explores the pleasure of singing in the shower

Under the pseudonym ‘Otto Moon’, the filmmaker has written Sing in the Shower, It’s Your Superpower – a self-help book about the emotional benefits of singing in the shower and why it sounds so good.
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The filmmaker wrote under the pseudonym ‘Otto Moon’ Sing in the shower, it’s your superpower – a self-help book about the emotional benefits of singing in the shower and why it sounds so good.

When his late father Frank became ill a few years ago, Florian Habicht moved from Auckland to Northland.

With his ‘life hack’ of singing his heart out for a few hours in a private karaoke room off the table, the filmmaker returned to his teenage habit of singing in the shower.

For someone who considered himself a good singer, Habicht rediscovered, shower singing was nothing less than “a gift from God”.

He wondered if anyone had ever written a book about this fun, creative, judgment-free activity. He did careful research and discovered that this was not the case.

“I started to explore it more deeply and realized why water is such an amazing, magical thing.”

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To make the process of writing and illustrating his first book more fun and not so intimidating, Habicht used a pseudonym. The author of Sing in the shower, it’s your superpower: mindfulness made fun for adults (a practical guide) is officially Otto Moon.

In the past, Habicht said, his spirit had been crushed by “often heartbreaking” feedback from friends and colleagues about rough cuts of films he had spent years working on.

“With (the 2003 film) Wooden headsa friend of mine said to me: ‘Florian, don’t waste any more time on this’.

“I’ve had good ones too, but usually it’s really harsh feedback and my world falls apart.”

His first book – and perhaps the first book about singing in the shower – was a kind of self-help book, he said, with a lot of great stories about the magic of water and why acoustic singing in the shower sounded so good. .

Although a solo session with a karaoke system made him feel like “he can take on the world,” their sound quality wasn’t always at the same level as in the bathroom, Habicht said.

“You’re guaranteed to sound great in the shower.”

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