Yearly Archives: 2014

Lamlul

15 december 2009: Geert Wilders is bij de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen lijstduwer voor de PVV, maar hij is niet van plan plaats te nemen in de gemeenteraad: Ik sta helemaal onderaan. Ik ben hier de nummer 20. En als ik u één ding mag vragen: stem niet op mij, maar stem op onze kanjer, nummer 1, Sietse… Read more »

First Lines: De donkere kamer van Damokles

W.F. Hermans’s De donkere kamer van Damokles is a bona-fide Ductch literary classic. As I somehow managed to avoid it in highschool, I put it on my list of 40 books to read before my 40th birthday. With this one, it’s twenty-six down, fourteen to go, with roughly five years left. It’s World War II,… Read more »

Seen live: De passie

Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion and Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Jesus Christ Superstar are both topical Easter classics, which made a mash-up inevitable. Last week, I saw just such a thing in Amersfoort. While I’ve seen the movie-version JCS several times, I wouldn’t know all songs by heart. Bach’s Matthäus Passion, I heard of. It’s pretty ubiquitous—for… Read more »

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Seen Live: Daniël Lohues

As the British philosophers quartet Led Zeppelin once said, the song remains the same. Another year, another album and tour by Daniël Lohues. Together with Bernard Gepken (guitars, banjo, mandoline, vocals) and Guus Strijbosch (upright bass), he plays a large swath of his new album, “D”, and a section of his earlier work, while telling… Read more »