Such hope...

Peggy Sue: Cut My Teeth





Almost two week ago i was rushing to the cinema and there the above was.
Glowing big and bright up in the air, words that can only give a pessimist more faith in his way of thinking.

I googled and found it was a light sculpture from Filip Gilissen, a Sint-Lukas University College of Art & Design in Brussels student.
10 x 12 m, 1000 lightbulbs , 40.000 watt and boy it was bright.



Cut My Teeth is the first free track of the new Peggy Sue album 'Acrobats'.
Their second album after the amazing 2010 debut 'Fossils and other Phantoms'
For the release of their new album they're doing a little tour but only UK dates.

From their 2010 tour i missed them at Walk The Line festival but managed to catch the last 20 minutes at Lowlands a few months later.
I even bought a t-shirt and managed to have a quick chat with one of them.

Here's hoping there touring schedule will include Holland

Eindhoven: two nights, one day & an early morning

Friday and saturday is was working as volunteer at STRP festival in Eindhoven and it was a long but i have to say great weekend.
I was on the back up team but because of a fire at Utrecht central a lot of the trains were out of the running.
This caused that some volunteers were stuck at the train station and just couldn't come what meant more work for me!


After the first friday festival night I missed my train so i spend the night at Eindhoven train station waiting for everything to open so i could sit somewhere warm and maybe snooze a bit. Going home to Rotterdam just sounded like a waste of time and money, especially when i could discover a new town.

I decided to go and watch Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows just to be out of the cold and even though i still have to see the part that comes before the Deadly Hallows it was a understandable adventurous film.


After that i still had a lot of time left and i went to the library.
I brought my psychology book along with me so that if i got bored i could at least do something useful.
The library is very modern, open and relaxed place to read, i have to admit i fell asleep for a while, but it was such a relaxed place to just sit and chill.
They even had a little café in the library.


fast forward a few hours later
Before my shift started i got to see Die Antwoord and with all the hype they caused at Lowlands 2010 and their own concert at Trouw Amsterdam a few days after the Lowlands festival, i thought the performance was a bit disappointed.
Yeah they were loud and made enough contact with the crowd, but they just didn't do it for me.

Ah well my shift started at 23.00 til 6.30 behind the bar.
It was a long sticky shift but a fun shift and i've learned that i really should practice on tapping a perfect or anything close to perfect beer.

Procrastination

How to write a paper in college/university

1.Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well lit place in front of your computer.

2.Log onto MSN and ICQ (be sure to go on away!). Check your email.

3. Read over the assignment carefully, to make certain you understand it.

4. Walk down to the vending machines and buy some chocolate to help you concentrate.

5. Check your email.

6. Call up a friend and ask if he/she wants to go to grab a coffee. Just to get settled down and ready to work.

7. When you get back to your room, sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lit place.

8. Read over the assignment again to make absolutely certain you understand it.

9. Check your email.

10. You know, you haven't written to that kid you met at camp since fourth grade. You'd better write that letter now and get it out of the way so you can concentrate.

The college paper list goes over 20 steps so click the link to see how much steps it takes to really finish typing a paper.

Procrastination from ism studios on Vimeo.

The reason i'm sharing this is i'm acting out all of the above right now.

I want to see pretty much everything

-Paris Vogue August 2009 Contributors page, portrait by Melanie Ward

Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Pretty Much Everything in Foam Amsterdam

Last day of Motel Mozaique 2010

Went for a bit of Angus&Julie Stone, my gosh even the sound check was beautiful but I left after 30 minutes because I wanted to see Crystal Antlers.
Well I saw Crystal Antlers finish.

After that it was a lot of walking around until Moss began in Rotown.
I really liked their song 'I Apologize' but the rest of it was also very good.
Shortly after they played that song I went to WATT for Hudson Mohawke.

I've heard a lot of good things about him and he's also playing London Calling later this month so I was curious.
And boy Hudson Mohawke came hard! My gosh his set was a spark of electricity.

A spark because Gaslamp Killers set was the shot of electricity.

THAT ENERGY MAAAN

I was enjoying myself until they closed down the balcony and i had to go downstairs and join the crowd. Bye bye good view hello big weird crowd.
Ah well after that you could see the WATT people were ready to close it all down and it was almost 5am.
Good ending, can't wait for London Calling!

Happy the day began

Soft, colourful and really just a very nice thing to see.

From everything that was to see i just went to see the free Mumford&Sons performance.
I went home to drop some things off but then i didn't really feel like leaving due to tiredness and because my room is my safe foetus position.
Ah well today is a new day filled with other names worth going outside for!

Museumnacht '10

"...It's was the last form of something that was mass and it was real"

Art!

Yesterday i woke up feeling i needed to snap out of my long sleep.
I wanted to dress up, jump on the train and enjoy the company of others in amsterdam or something, so i searched for someone willing to join me on my impulsive day of fun!
Friend M had to work, i think it was a too early message for friend C and friend A was awake and willing so i found my buddy for the day!
After brainstorming we figured out it was going to be a day of Art at the Kunsthal

I fell asleep right after the brainstorm so it became a 45minute art thing experiencing Made in Holland, Dutch Inventions and The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie

After that it was time for an art film!
The four times Golden Calf 2009 winning film Nothing Personal.
I read about the film and somehow expected it to be boring.
It´s about a woman who moves to a different country without money and doesn't talk about her past, but it wasn't boring at all.
You don´t know why she picked up and left like that, but somehow it´s satisfying not knowing.