Yearly Archives: 2015

Seen Live: Mister & Mississippi

It took Mister and Mississippi just one song at a book presentation to get us interested in seeing a full show. Nearly two years later, we finally managed to catch them at Amersfoort’s new venue, FLUOR. Support act Postcards from Mars was nice enough, especially when the harmony vocals were on. Mister and Mississippi –… Read more »

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First Lines: Ik zal kijken wat ik voor je kan doen …

After having worked at the Dutch radio station 3FM for the past 17 years, DJ Gerard Ekdom recently moved to Radio 2. His 2008 autobiography ‘Ik zal kijken wat ik voor je kan doen …’ (subtitled “The life of a 3FM DJ”) documents how he realized his burning ambition to become a DJ. At my… Read more »

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First Lines: The Last Unicorn

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and it lived all alone. Because all other unicorns had disappeared. At least, no one had seen them for a long time. She went out to find them, and, aided by Schmendrick the Magician (who happens to be the world’s most incompetent magician) and Molly Grue, adventures… Read more »

First Lines: To Kill a Mockingbird

After reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, I cannot disagree with its status as a Important Novel One Should Read™. The story of how lawyer Atticus Finch tries to help a black man in America’s south in the 1930’s, as seen through the eyes of his six year old daughter is just that… Read more »

First Lines: Finders Keepers

Although Stephen King’s Finders Keepers is the second part in what has to become the Bill Hodges trilogy, it takes its sweet time to pick up the threads Mr. Mercedes left dangling. The story starts some thirty years before those events, with three guys robbing a reclusive writer of the contents of his safe (and… Read more »