This year, BLØF exists twenty years. To mark that occasion, there was a biography, a new best-of album, and, to top it off, a big show. And when I say big, I mean big. It was at the new Ziggo Dome venue in Amsterdam, which was sold out. That’s 17,000 people. The production and light… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Life
We’ll Never Be As Young As We Are Right Now (IX)
I can make the music louder Or I can make the songs all fade I can make every girl just wanna get up and dance And make the boys in the band start to play (…) I can make tonight forever Or I can make it disappear by the dawn And I can make you… Read more »
Seen Live: Roosbeef
The first time I heard Roosbeef was, strangely enough, on the radio. I remember it like this: back in 2008, I was still listening to the radio at work, and Rob Stenders had discovered this band that had a song he just had to play. That song, Onder invloed by Roosbeef, wasn’t exactly radio-friendly, and… Read more »
So I Got Myself an eReader
With my new apartment, the size of my bookcase has more than doubled. Which is a good thing, because the old setup was totally overcrowded. Still, if I keep on acquiring books like I do now, it is sure to overflow again. So, despite still having some fifteen books waiting to be read, I bought… Read more »
First Lines: The Fifth Elephant
The Fifth Elephant is the twelfth Discworld novel I read, and my first foray into The Watch series. (Due to it’s size, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld-series could seem daunting to the uninitiated. It was to me. I started with the first few in chronological order, which drove me to the brink of giving up. When I… Read more »