#78: what does being a fan of Black Box Recorder lead to?

The (long) story: I knew that there was a DVD about Benicassim 2003, and that Black Box Recorder was on it. I thought I would never find this, but then I underestimated the amazons heh.

Anyway, there's a small interview with BBR on it as well, where this is taken from. This is their answer to the "which bands are you going to see at the festival?" All three said "Suicide!" at the same time.
The interview's quite good though. Luke Haines, answering "who do you want to dedicate a song to": "All the family and people close to Saddam Hussein, if there are still any alive that is". You should've seen the look on Sara's face ahaha, she wasn't sure if she had to laugh or be mad at him. She was totally "uhh, what? No! I mean...huh?"

But from seeing that one song on the DVD, I think I can agree with the reviews I read: Black Box Recorder live is BORING. Sara Nixey is very Alison Goldfrapp like though.

Also, I'm in love with John Moore's eyes. (no, don't google him, you'll get every John Moore in existance except him. And I'm too lazy to find a good pic. Just look at his myspace or something)

Oh, and the interviews are subtitled in dutch as well. Awesome. It also has performances by Goldfrapp and other decent bands on it (no Suicide though!). Just a shame that the sound is actually quite horrible. But on the whole, I wish every festival would release a yearly DVD like this.

#77: aren't libraries supposed to be quiet?

No, that's not a sports hall or cinema or whatever, it's the library.

I no longer like going to the library, it's always way too crowded and too damn loud. Seriously, usually I like reading books/magazines there, but last time I was there, there was someone talking on the phone, right next to me, for at least 10 minutes (and said at the start of the convo "oh no, go right ahead, I'm in the library". DICK). And then later, someone calling for his daughter who was at the complete opposite of the library. I mean, seriously. The people working there don't seem to care about this at all. I'm really not going back there in the near future. I'm -this- close to doing the grumpy old man thing and sending them an angry email. Yeah, I'm that pissed off about it.

#76: oh (supermarket) shopping

That's where I got most of my food. It's less than 2 minutes away from home, which is handy.

#75: snow patrol

I hope you will all forgive me for posting a picture I didn't take myself, but I like this one so much, I want to show it to everyone.

And again, more here.

#74: Bart Peeters is my god

(guess which guy he is)

I've known him from tv (and some radio) since forever, but I only started loving him since he appeared in het Peulengaleis (my favourite dutch comedy show ever, very absurd humour). Actually, I should watch that show on DVD again, and I'll try to take a picture of his "cooking with Jesus" show.

#73: Ostend Airport

Empty, as always. There are like 6 flights a day, and 4 of them are cargo. There are a lot more flights during summer though. But they're all to Spain and Greece and stuff. I want flights to Berlin and London and Marseille and Stockholm and stuff :(

Anyway, we go to the airport (which is less than 5 minutes away by bike) every month or so, and have something to eat in the cafetaria, where you can watch all the planes!! ...standing still. If there are any around in the first place.
Actually, the picture I wanted to post was the view from the cafeteria, which is great, but I only had my spycamphone with me, and it isn't great at taking panorama pictures. So there you go.

But I still have a bonus picture, because the weather was so awesome today (rain -> sun -> rain in a matter of minutes)
I swear I could hear thunder when I took that picture. The darkness went the other way though.

#72: making it future proof

Yes, I felt it was time to change things again. This time no great make-over like the last time (where I just emptied all my cd towers and put all the albums on the floor, and then built everything up again). I moved my oldest/least listened to albums to the tower in my mum's room, then moved some artists from this tower to the 'big' tower. So now I have room again in this one, which is my main tower for when I want to listen to stuff in the shower. Now I have room for new albums here. But I'll probably have to change everything in 6 months or so. It's future proof until after the summer festivals, basically.

If you look at the larger picture you might recognise some albums! The 'single' albums (as in, I only own one album of that artist) are on the left, the 'multiple' ones are on the left. And on top of all that, of course, are Black Box Recorder/anything Luke Haines related heh.
(and in case you're wondering, stuff like Stereo Total, Placebo and Björk are in the 'big' tower, which is were artists with 4+ albums are. See, there's a logic to everything I do)

#71: when dinosaurs ruled the earth

I went to this 'birthday party' from Lipton Ice Tea, which featured a tennis match between Guillermo Vilas (who?) and Björn Borg(best tennis player ever - they even named a Star Trek race after him!), as a re-enactment of the 1978 Rolland Garros finals. Because that was 30 years ago, and Lipton Ice Tea exists 30 years this year, you see?
I won tickets by answering some very easy questions. I only participated because it was in the sports center a few blocks away, and you know, I don't dislike tennis.

It was rather fun. The match was quite good, these guys are like 55 but still play better than the top of women's tennis today. No, really, they do. Very technical play, very few errors, very long rallies.

They also had free Ice Tea! Which is one of my favourite drinks, so that was good heh. There was a lot of side animation as well, like BMXers jumping over random things like people. And yes, cheerleaders. Which leads me to the picture of the day! Hehe. Only because it reminded me of American Beauty.

More pictures here. Took good advantage of my camera's zoom, which is awesome. Probably the best tennis picture I took was this great action shot:


I'll shut up now.

(oh yeah, Borg won. He was ahead most of the time, so I secretly supported for Vilas. Also because he's left-handed and quite the clown.)