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One year further

2009-03-10T22:05:00.003Z

Hola,

And what a year it was. I really did a lot of things i liked last year. Working on the Canary islands was nice and sunny, and i found love at last. it costed me quite a bit of convincing, but after a few weeks we were living together. And that's ok. she is just a teatro-freak like me. So i don't have to worry about timetables and schedules anymore.

It's nice to be both part of the same work of art. A creative upper.

After Las Palmas i came to Oviedo. Where i still live now. you can see the apartment on the foto. I finally buil the decor for an opera. It have been 6 months of frenetic building, We did the job with two (which is very few to build an entire decor). I'm proud of what i build. i never thought I could build the "baile en mascara". It's a great achievement, and i finally found out that I'm good at what i do. Logic and mathematics did the job. I don't have children but i felt the decor like my baby. From paper to show. Incredible. In bloody credible

Well the apartment I'm living now is goooooood. on top of Oviedo, 8th floor with a large terrace. No sounds of neihgbours, always warm , spacious. A Zen place.

Everything alright you should say?

NOOOOO. I just wanted to stay one year in the same place, i didn't want more then just one year in the same house , enjoy the presence of my girl and have a home. My home. One year is asked to much i guess. Friday they said they had to cut staff, and the one to go was me. It has been some kind of trick or something. A downward spiral. And i was the centre of it. Although its shitty at the moment i was right and destiny told me to move to another place.

World here i come

Waiting to conect

2008-03-21T23:13:00.003Z

Hello cyberdears.

Finally i have a nice and more or less quiet spot to surf the www. In the meantime I'm living in Las Palmas close to the beach, really close. Almost all my free time i spend on the beach, suntanning with a 25 uv protection cream. I'm a tanned beach boy now. Nice and sexy.

I've had mi difficulties adapting to the changes. It's weird the first weeks to work and live here again. Changes, I'm getting more and more sick of them , every time it costs me a bigger effort to adapt. Am i getting old ???????????

I'm still waiting to get Internet at my place. Si i haven't been on the net a lot. It's about time, so i can read my newspapers and listen to the radio. I'm looking forward to have a desk and Internet.

And be able to send you some foto's

kisses,

El tren y tu RENFE

2008-01-29T13:26:00.000Z

Hello,

Friday at two thirty i'll take the train to Madrid , and won't come back here till summer. I have never worked as much as the past few months. For Las Palmas I have better prospects , nice weather a good job and more free time.

Tomorrow it's the closure of the festival. It's been a very good festival i guess, we only received good critics in the papers. Good job well done. For me musically Tristan und Isolde, but the nicest one was Iphigenie.

5 months Oviedo have passed like nothing. Madonna sucks ( time doesn't go bye slowly at all ). If time keeps going this fast i will be gray in no time.

Friday i have a turntablesession in Madrid, i have been playing records all week long now. I'm nervous already. Last Saturday i managed to get me at least one session in Gijon this summer. It was nice that i didn't start the conversation about a dj set . They asked me, nice so they do remember me from last time. In Las Palmas i hope at least to play once. A nice dark industrial set maybe.

I hope to blog a bit more the next few months. Maybe life gets a little more interesting the year to come. And there is a lot more time to get connected.

To all Asturian people reading this blog. Thanx for taking care of me the last five months. Para siempre agradecido

agur,
Abe

My window to the world

2007-11-19T20:16:00.000Z

Hello ,

As i told you in one of the earlier posts, when i work in the atelier of the Opera i make a lot of stuff. Finally i ended decorating my desk space. Actually i changed the entire room; It's a pity i didn't get a picture of the first day i came here. In the meantime i did a lot of stuff to change for the better. And when they told me i could store all my furniture in the Atelier until next year i don't have to think about spaciousness or weight.

I'm very fond of my desk decoration , it's the nicest space in the house and it's the place where i spend the most of my time. I only want to spend quality time here , and internal peace has its decorum to. For me it does anyway.

Schuss

Fiestuki con Mazo en Gijon

2007-11-19T20:02:00.000Z

y como

Dj Mazo in Gijon

2007-11-19T19:56:00.000Z

Triunféééééééééééééééé

Green green trees of home

2007-11-19T19:48:00.001Z

I do miss my hammock-tree , but keeping it as desktop makes me feel at home.

festivals , friends ( and alcohol )

2007-11-19T19:11:00.000Z

at last , the pics

2007-11-19T18:58:00.000Z

This morning i went to buy me a sd cardreader , and finally can publish some pics on the blog. I'll take some more pics the coming days. Nice that i can give some use to the camera again . Now i have to study photoshop a bit so i can take away the cigarette stains on my teeth. Watching the photo's i have to visit the dentists at x-mass.

sundy bloody sunday

2007-11-18T21:49:00.000Z

hello babes,

This afternoon we had the second show of Lucia de Lammermoor, although i had a rough time trying to stay awake and living the Polyester hangover, everything went just OK; A lot of applause when the opera finished so everybody happy.

Friday i rented a car for a week; this week i only have to work in the theatre , and have a little time to travel. My first stop was Madrid. A blitz visit, after 4 hours of driving i arrived at aprox 22h and went straight to the Polyesterbar and stayed there, on Saturday i went for a stroll and had some Indian lunch. It wasn't as good as expected , but i like cheap Indian food. Yesterday i went again to the polyesterbar, and afterwards we went to the dark hole. Some things just don't change. there were to much people en el elastico , and in the darkhole was Dj miguel giving the best of himself , so i didn't stay long. At least i danced a bit, things that don't happen often over here in Oviedo.

This morning i started the long way back ( 450 km) and arrived just in time to shower and go to work.

Cheers folks I'm going to have some Chinese take away, and crash in the sofa watching the tele.

The Polyesterbar has it's own website and myspace. Maybe you'll see my party face in it's fotolog. And what a face it was.

i need an sd cardreader

2007-11-14T19:45:00.001Z

Hello my friends,

Again it's time to write . I'd love to write more on my blog, but time is a precious gift in my life. normally we would have finished the construction of the next opera we 'll do. I have been working on it's construction for 15 days now, and it's really getting to much right now.

I don't like autumn , it makes me sad , and i start thinking things over and over again. I 've had a rough week , lack of sleep and a lot of child games in the theatre. I try to navigate trough these bad vibes, and always arrive in good spirits. I just love the theatre , but this week it was inevitable to duck for the bad vibes. To much time together in a theatre , makes people go nuts. Well tomorrow we have the premiere of Lucia de lammermoor and, i will have to discuss my contract for las palmas next week. Shiver and shake

While I'm working in the atelier of the opera i started making things with things they throw away over there. In all the days I've been working there i have made a lot of stuff for my room. My room almost looks like an opera scene. Taking my work home.

Lately i am a bit wired , autumn , work , soledad ,and a bit of other stuff makes that the next song is sticking with me all the time. Every time i hear it , i get reminded of the blond woman that i danced with at the X-RX show at summerdarkness. I hope she reads this one day , but chances are like euromillions.

I hope you enjoyed it , i have to buy me a memory card reader so i could publish a few photos. I'll try to buy one tomorrow, and publish some photos of dj Mazo and the life he's living in Oviedo.

Bye bye and see you soon. I hope that i can skip of to Madrid this weekend and get incredibly drunk in the polyester bar.

Asturian life ?????????????

2007-10-24T22:41:00.000Z

Holala,

In the meantime I'm living in Oviedo , the capital of el PRINCIPADO de Asturias. A good enough title for the city I'm living in. The day after i arrived here i had to start work immediately. The first opera we did , was a heavy Tristan Und Isolde (Wagner), we worked all days long and sometimes nights . Heavy stuff , nice music but 5 hours of opera is just toooooo much. After Tristan und Isolde we started we with Thais ( Massenet) a french opera with a lot of uppers and a few serious downers. The aperture touched my soul, and i had to hold my tears in my eyes sometimes.

I'm having a week of free time to spend, second time in two months that i have two or more days off. The first time i went to get drunk in Madrid. I got drunk and Txuxi let me play records in the polyester, mola . In total I spend 1000 kms to have a drink with my friends. And it felt goood.

Saturday I'll be spinnin cd's in Gijon ( la bola ocho) , a town near by. The second time now, and I'm nervous already. At least i have the Internet to look for some nice tunes. i have some doubts about which Cd's to take along. Maybe tonight I'll get wiser.

hot choclat

2007-10-24T22:27:00.000Z

I arose from the sleeping , since yesterday i'm conected again. Right in the middle of my only week of holiday( and i wanted to go and visit Poland). It took someone two months to reach my house and deliver me a decent modem . Setting the thing up you're asked to give the network a name , a difficult choice ,knowing that everyone with a laptop in the neighbourhood knows your networks name. I'm still single so i put hot-choclat, so everybpdy knows there's a Belgian living here.

Polyester Madrid

2007-07-02T20:52:00.000Z

At last at last at last. On my Blitz visit in madrid (36 hours ) i went to the Polyester bar ( and practically stayed ther for 36 hours) Photos say more than words

absynthe minded

2007-07-02T20:06:00.000Z

The next tw dj's. Sarini ( here on the photo with Marco )

and Jordi.

Thank you and come again

2007-07-02T19:20:00.000Z

Hello,

It's been a week now since i left las Palmas. I still feel the good weather in my bones and miss my friends a lot. I had a nice stay on the enchanted isla. everything went smooth and as i had planned and above all hoped. somehow i feel at home in las palmas, but it's so small and boring some times. but i discovered the meaning of friendship. although there aren't any places where i like the music or the place , it's the company i am with that makes it worthwhile.

As farewell and goodbye i threw a party at my place. travelling a lot learned me tat it's always difficult to say goodbye to everyone i like. It's an incredible stress for me , and i do feel down the last days before leaving. I know this beforehand so i thought to invite a lot of people to say goodbye all at once. I invited almost 50 persons to the goodbye-fest. And i bought booze and smoking material for the 50. Only 20 showed up at the end and i got a lot of booze left. I left it with egobwoy. The silly thing is the he doesn't drink short drinks, so i hope he gave a party with everything that was left.

I'll post some photo's of the dj's that turntabled at the party. people from Soria , Zaragoza , Las Palmas and Ibiza. Thanx a lot for playing nice music at the party. It rocked. bye bye and i hope to give an even better party next year when i am over there. Here you see PIKAS ( sorry por no tener foto buena tuya de la pintxada ) and TXITXO

Thank you , come again.

ps After publishing y needed to edit the post again. Seeing the photo of Pikas . He closed the party , as shows on the photo ( hahahahahaha). Sorry but i changed my mind you're on.

Con mutxo gusto

2007-06-05T20:45:00.000Z

A que si , que voy a vivir en un principado.

I'm going to work in Oviedo from august to feb 2008 . Yes, yes and yes again. I got what i wanted and mutx mooooooooooooooooooooooore. I'll have to start working there on my birthday. This really is a nice birthday-gift, and since i believe that new year starts at one's birthday, i'm going to kick the new year off in an unknown environment , doing what i most like. Coool

Curiosity killed the cat.

It's been a while that i've posted something. Excuse me with the frequent readers , but i've been wandering in troubled waters lately. Dijamos que se me nublo la vista (porloquesea). But i'm swimming towards open waters again.
After finishing the last opera i went home (Belgium) , to sleep in my own bed , and i taught have real Belgian meals. but my dad is on a diet and it was healthy food . Which was ok. Finally i got to eat bifstek frut at my brother's house. It haddent changed a lot since January and the dogs still remembered me. I haven't left my house mutx there , telenet television and the sofa are my best friends when i'm on holiday , in belgium that is. The Belgians weren't prepared for the way i looked. Everybody calling me Lemmy at a festival and my sister didn't stop laughing for a few minutes. Well they better get accustomed cause the moustache is going to stay.

I'm feeling quite strange today. Normally we would have to start work on Monday, but the container with the decor , hasn't arrived. I really felt for working, and didn't know what to do with extra free time. Monday i went to the south to fry and today i spent the day sleeping and waiting a call from the boss, cause we had to be on call (sounds sophisticated) . I slept and rested most of the time. the craziest week of the year (the third one of June) is coming up. And i wanted to sleep ahead.

Someone is calling me from the Stones concert in Belgium. I see a red door and i want it painted black . Thanx for calling later i'll try to figure out who called me. I just found out it's my primo calling me . Cheers mate. I didn't quite understand what you were saying.

bye bye

como esta el patio

2007-05-06T23:34:00.000Z

Hello,

It's Sunday night, and we just had a ante-piano rehearsal. We're doing Adriana Lecouvreur at the moment. The most boring opera that i have seen until now. we don't have any work during the show. i am one of the happy few that have to move some things at sight of the public. Makes it a little more exciting. Adrenaline. I personally am in charge of pipe 30 , and have to move some walls up and down.

It's the first time i have to use the ropes at sight. Well, i still got a week to rehearse and will do just fine at the premiere. I just have to loose the fear of hitting anyone or anything whilst dropping the walls.

We are working now at a completely renewed theater. Perez Galdos. It doesn't have a spirit yet. It's the second opera that's held in the theatre and everything is new and doesn't have the theatre spirit yet. Maybe at the premiere the Phantom of the Opera stops by to see us. I'm still waiting to see the phantom appear. But it doesn't. One day. One day.

Friday i did the washing and found the terrace completely destroyed. They are painting the walls and all the thick iron cables are dangling from the roof on my terrace. It just is impossible to hang the washing to dry there.

I am going to bed because tomorrow I go and visit Txixo. A friend that's going to draw something nice and permanent on my arm.

Ciao ciao,

Workaholic

2007-04-26T09:26:00.000Z

Hola,

This one goes out to the spanish speaking people , so they can read more relaxed. Yesterday I tried to post something in flemish, but it didn't work out so fine. I'll try again later on.

A la peña , no sé que les pasa. Nunca les apetece salir quando a mi me apetece . y nunca hay nada chulo abierto . Nuncaaaaaaaaaaa . Parece que ultimamente la llama les apaga pronto. I need big BIG CITY lights , right now.

Ayer me emboratché con 3 leffe ( doble ) , me las tomé casi de tiron tambien. Y ahora me he quedado con la mayor resaca desde que pisé suelo isleño. Son muy impredecibles estas cervezas Belgas. No deberia tomarmelos , sera la nostalgia que me da ganas de beberme cerveza que nunca bebo en mi propria pais. Porque me hacen mal. Es lo que tiene estar tan lejos de casa . hecho de menos a mi cama , y a los arboles en la ventana . Esta resaca me suena demasiado a Belgica.

Las vacaciones me resultan pesadissimos . No sé que hacer con el tiempo libre . Creo que soy un workaholic y adicto al teatro. Mejor. El lunes entramos en el teatro Perez Galdos , acaban de inaugurarlo y esta todo renovado. no puedo esperar hasta entrar. Ayer lei en el periodico que hacen vistas guiadas , y me temo que hoy me apunto. Creo que es a las 12 y me da tiempo creo. Si no me quedo pegado al ordenador iré.

Queria hacer el guirri hoy y pillarme un hotel de lujo en el sur por una noche. Sale a 70 euros. Quizas Quizas Quizas. La verdad es que ayer ya me gasté la pasta en unas piratas guapissimas. me hacian falta ya que rompi las feas que tenia yo. Muy guay.

Como siempre dudo demasiado las cosas y al final termino haciendo nada . Dudoso que soy .

El tabaco lo llevo malissimo. Pensaba poder controlarme y solo fumar un par de cigarros al dia. Pues son las 11 y ya he fumado 7 marlboro de las fuertes. Las mañanas son lo mas crudo tengo que admitir , al despertarme me entran muchas ganas de fumar. Odio despertarme asi. Quando termino este paquete lo dejo ( hojala para siempre ).

De momento estoy escuchando Agonoize , negro puro y duro. Como los bombones Belgas , con rellono de crema. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Un desayuno buen fuerte , a ponerme de buen humor para el gymnasio.

CIAO CIAO

at last

2007-04-25T20:28:00.000Z

Hello,

I just put a table in the living room and connected my mini mac to the Internet. It feels like ages that i posted something. Today is the first day that i feel relaxed in a month. I don't have to work until Monday. And it's already Wednesday. I wanted to go on holiday to the south tomorrow and Friday, but they say the weather is going to be bad tomorrow. Always when I go on holiday it rains or it's bad weather.
For example : This morning i wanted to go fishing with Lolo , but there were too much waves to go fishing. There is always something going on when I'm on holiday. And it's always over.

Last week i lost my wallet, with my Belgian drivers licence. Shit so i can't even rent me a 125 cc motorbike to run around the island. Until i go back to Belgium i won't be able to drive any vehicle, except bicycle. And i don't feel like driving bicycle. Not now.

Tonight I'm going to visit a nice nightclub ( bar) . They told me they play some nice music over there. I do like new stuff , and for sure new places to hang out. Let's see if it's OK , and that they let me in. Which won't be a problem.

Well the smoking, i smoked a package of Marlboro on Monday, i was completely " over men toeren ", bought cigarettes and smoking the cigarette made me relax a lot. So i have to quit again, and will do so tomorrow. I don't feel like smoking , really . But the worst moment is the morning. If i get trough the morning without smoking I'll quit again. It's really strange what nicotine does with a man's mind.

I'm going to have a shower and dress up for the evening.

Thank you and come again,

blog2.txt

2007-04-11T22:13:00.000Z

hola de nuevo,

Since yesterday i live in my new house. It's worth waiting for , today i prepared my first lentil dish. The kitchen is marvelous and gives me a good cooking feeling. I lea ve the terrace door open and it makes me feel free to cook what i want. Now i hope that my roommates like my cooking to. I forgot to buy so ap for the dishwasher, and I'm not used to using a dishwasher, but it's very handy I have to admit ( even without soap ).
Me giving up smoking is turning out just fine. I haven't smoked in a week, an d i don't feel like smoking anymore. From time to time i feel like lighting a fag but the urge quickly fades. Since i have s topped smoking , i have more free time. More ti me to do things or to bore me to death. Now that I don't form part of the smoke club anymore, I'm always in the t eat re , always working. I'm l ucky i like my job, otherwise i wouldn't have been able to quit smoking.
Well I'm proud of myself for stopping and ho lding on. I hope to go back to Belgium smoke free. Tomorrow I'll have to buy me shorts and sneakers, cause tomorrow I'll go to the health club for the fi rst time ever.

ciao bambin@s,

blog.txt

2007-04-11T22:07:00.000Z

Hello,

Well it's Easter today. For me a normal workday , at the moment I'm in the theatre . We just finished building everything and now we have to be at service. Basically we do nothing until they call us. It's a bit silly sitting and waiting all the time. In this theatre they don't have wireless Internet , so I'm writing this in notepad. I don't even have Word installed on my think pad. During lunch break I will have to walk the streets to put this nonsense on the www.

I'm still living with Toño and Amaia , a few more days i guess. They still haven't given me the key. And i haven't seen the apartment ( i hope to do so today). Normally i was supposed to move last week. I'm lucky to have some friends where i can stay on the sofa, and do my washing and cooking . I hope to really move tomorrow to my new place. I have to make my worktable later on . With all the tools and woodboard we have over here i can make me a nice place for my MiniMac. Black shining . Yesterday I bought a Buddha at half price. Something for the house.

Last week i haven't done much but work , eat and sleep . Living with other people and a clean kitchen has changed my eating habits again. I cooked a few times this week, and it felt OK. Maybe I'll try to change to cooking again. Although it's cheaper to eat menus in restaurants. First i want my own roooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom.
and a nice kitchen.

I'm losing my patience with all this apartment stuff. I have been looking forward to moving over there since two weeks. And today is Easter and i can't even cook me a nice meal in my own kitchen. But hey, ES LO QUE HAY.

Working next to the beach is a bit dangerous. I'm lucky there hasn't been much sunshine the last two days. Otherwise i would be all red like a gamba. Well i already am , I'm getting browner now. But yesterday they shouted gamba at me a few times. I always have the excuse of being foreigner. And I use the excuse as much as possible.

Well i am going to go outside now to chat with the co workers.

A week without smoking. And lovin it.

surfing someone else's wave

2007-04-04T09:28:00.000Z

Hello,

Well at the moment i'm on the sidewalk somewhere in las palmas, surfing trough someones unprotected connection. way to go . I have to be more or less quick cause someone could call the police. Well i was supposed to move to my new apartment a few days ago; Something is happening cause i still don't live there. And i won't for a few days to come i guess. well it's nice , cause i am staying with Toño an d Amaia. Really sweet people and they make my stay a holiday at their home. It's nice to revive a bit and stay in normal houses with normal kitchens and stuff

it's strange but i don't feel the desire to smoke. I stopped 4 days ago and physically i kicked off , and mentally i don't feel like smoking. It's going really OK and i hope i keep it going for the rest of my life. I feel better , and i taste and smell much better. I hope i won't become a fat guy. But I'll have to do some sports., Soon.

Bye bye,

I'll correct all my spelling mistakes when i have some more time , and sitting on a chair behind a table.

Kisses

voorgerechtje

2007-03-30T12:53:00.000Z

Always in dreamland

2007-03-30T11:52:00.000Z

Hola ,

It's been a while since i posted anything over here. Well i have two free days left ( of the five i had ), the other three i slept , and slept and slept. Like it always happens when one has a holiday , it's bad weather. I wanted to spend a few days on the beach, but it rains and it's cold. So nada , no beach. Instead i stayed in bed the most of the time. From the 24 hours that counted the day of yesterday i slept 21 . I don't know why cause i have slept long enough the last days . I suppose that there is no one to kick me out of bed , or something exciting to do.

Basically I'm bored when I don't have to go to work. I have to find me another hobby than just listen to music , and surf the Internet . I don't know . On Sunday we start work again and I'll focus me on that .

Normally , tomorrow i move to another apartment. I say normally, because like people do things over here there is always a certain risk that it's in a week or something. After my experiences wit the Zarzuela Theatre in Madrid I get suspicious when you agree something. In the end everything turns out fine , but everything ( everyone ) has it's own pace. And it's always different than my pace. It's like the procession of Echternach over here. Two steps forward, one step back. I'm really looking forward to go and live in another place. I haven't seen it yet, but my friend says it's really ok. I do believe him, and it makes it extra exciting that it's going to be a surprise . If i don't like it i am fucked, cause for the little time left here on the island it isn't worth the effort to move again. So this is the place I'm going to stay for the time to come. At least it's in nice company.

Well Wednesday i was lucky . I went shopping with Missy Ayres , i bought a new eau de toilette with a very nice discount. Afterwards i went to pick up a pair of shoes i had seen a month ago in Kubrick. I was lucky , they still had them and gave me a 50 percent discount. It made me very happy i have o admit cause they are a nice pair of vans. There is only one problem, I'll have to throw a pair of shoes away when i return to Belgium in July. So I'll have to sacrifice an old pair and wear them to work as off next week.

Today it's Friday, so I have to listen to all the STUBRU radio shows of last week before they replace them tonight. Now i have Mish mash playing. Lux jansen is ill today, but Lady Sovereign kicks ass.

Bye bye ,
Thanx for reading all of my shit.

2007-03-21T19:29:00.000Z

Hello,

Finally I'm having a day off. Yesterday we had the premiere of Lucrezia Borgia . Everything went , more or less, ok. So we had to celebrate por la noche . And we did celebrate.

This morning i picked up a parcel my mother send me a month ago. Finally i got some nice sheets and they smell like the laundry at home. Tonight I'm going to sleep like an angel with the smell of my Belgian bed. Let's hope i dream of all the beautiful Belgian people , i know.

The chocolate that came with the parcel tastes divine like always. I really have been waiting for this package to arrive. And it did.

Yesterday the director gave all of us a bottle of wine for a good job done. I didn't have a bag with me , so i gave it to Raul, and told him that I'd drink the bottle when he cooked for me. Well he called me this afternoon that I'm having dinner at his place tonight. That's quick.

Surfing trough you tube i found a video of Dirty Princess remixed by T Raumschmiere. Their big jump to the European market. I hope they make it so we can see them more often the coming years on several festival. Way to go Big Toxic

Sweet dreams,

maquinistas sin frontera

2007-03-11T14:56:00.000Z

My co-"workers"

From left to right: Gustavo ( Mendoza , arg ) , txux ( Oviedo) , Jesus ( Las Palmas ) David (Guanarteme) , Winnie ( ni idea ) Raul ( Cordoba , arg ) , Miguel ( Las Palmas) , Jordi ( Ibiza) , Yo ,( Bonheiden , bel ) , Diego ( Las Palmas) , Toño ( Zaragoza ).

Lolo isn't visible cause he took the photo , but he had a mayor hangover yesterday and looked like .... .

god is a dj

2007-03-11T14:45:00.000Z

Silent, Short But Good - A funny movie is a click away

estoy until the eggs

2007-03-11T00:37:00.000Z

Bueno ,

Ya hace mucho que he escrito aki en castellano. pues estoy hasta los huevos. Estoy cansado de la noche pasada y aun no tengo ganas de dormir. Ya hemos tragado tres dias de ensayos. Ya he probado el decorado y el director. Me va pasar exactemente igual que la ultima vez que he trabajado por el . Ya voy preparado.Es la risa . Estamos tragande 6 horas de ensayos cada dia. Es muchisssiiiimooo.

La opera mola bastante , el decorado es una caca , pero unos cantantes del copon. Y el Cuyas es super relax para trabajar.

Yesterday I had a strange night out. After the rehearsel we went to a mas cero fiesta en el gabinete. Nice , but always the same. There were a lot of people yesterday. More than usual. They are expensive fiestas and having a long drink in a cardboard cup really sucks . But as they say over here " es lo que hay" it's all there is. afterwards i took a cab , and the driver was obviously drunk. So I had me dropped off way to early. The party was under a highway bridge , and one of my colleagues played a lovely session. It's strange but , being Belgian and used to flat ground , having a party on a mountain top ?????
pretty dangerous at this time of night. I wanted to take a taxi home so i started walking and finally walked all the way home. ( one hour walking ). I only slept two hours . When most of the work was done in the theatre this morning, I sneaked of to the Palco . The best place to have a discrete siesta.

Maybe tomorrow we finish early. I do Hope so.
Ciao a tuti.

as soon as possible

2007-03-06T23:08:00.000Z

Few people call me , to which I grew customed since i don't call anyone myself. But the one day I forget my mobile at home everybody calls , I'll call you back asap.

Tonight we got paid , and i can charge my cell-phone . 10 days too late. The Chief was sitting in his Nissan Jeep and we were waiting on the other side of the road. One by one he called us to his jeep, handed over an envelope , we signed the paycheck and ciao, hasta luego Lucas. Strange indeed. It looked a bit like a movie or some kind of gang thing. 9 guys on the sidewalk and one in a jeep with all the money. I felt bad ass for a minute.

It's nice to opera again. And again. And again. Thursday starts rehearsal ,on stage, so we have to finish the trick tomorrow. And as off Thursday listen to Lucretia Borgia.

Ciao Ciao

Mellow mood

2007-03-04T19:25:00.000Z

hello,

I feel :

alone , exhausted , funny , melancholic , hungry , sleepy , sad.....................................post blue.
eenzaam, uitgeput , raar , melancholisch , hongerig , slaperig , triest ................................post blue.
solo , hecha polvo , extraño , melancolico , hambriente , sueñoso , triste ............................post blue.

time goes slowly (dixit madonna )

2007-02-28T16:25:00.000Z

And it's true

Hello,

This morning I had to be at the Cuyas theatre for some kind a meeting. it was a bit emotional entering there again. I really had some nice times there , and it was like a flashback. I saw all the operas we did over there, again and very fast forward. I feel I can't wait until Monday to start there. But I'll wait. I'm having the usual belly ache. I take my temperature every hour since the last shit incident in the hospital in Bonheiden. diverticulitis scares me. Yesterday evening I had a Little bit of fever (37,27°c) , and today i have had none. I had my lunch an hour ago and till now I'm fine. If i get worse I'll visit the doctor tomorrow.

This morning i had the idea of navigating to the site of VTM and i can watch the news in Flemish. I have to accept that its the VTM news , but it's better than nothing since EEN doesn't put anything on the web except for ring tones and " De kampioenen" comic. The nice thing is that I can choose who presents the news I'll watch. I think I'll have my Lynn-days and my Birgit days.

Be aware I'll be watching you when you do something really nasty.

When threre is not much to do.

lights out

2007-02-24T19:34:00.000Z

La bohème finished. Thursday we finished the opera we were doing. La bohème is a good opera. It took me a while to get into it, but it's a lovely one. Dark and sad. makes you wanna cry from time to time. I didn't see a thing but i could listen to it several times. I loved it. Thursday we spent 15 hours working , in breaking everything down. I still feel all the hard work in my body.

Yesterday i went to the carnival again. A quiet night , i didn't feel like dressing up , so i just dressed like i always do in Belgium. weird enough. Tonight is the very last night of this year's carnival. ( this is what i thought of Monday night). These Canarians are unstoppable. But tonight i won't participate. I 'm sick and tired of the carnival, and tomorrow I'm starting my beach-holiday in the south of the island. Relaxed , cheap and satisfying. Just what a holiday has to be.

fiesta, fiesta

2007-02-19T12:57:00.000Z

Hello ,

It's now Monday morning , and finally i have some time to blog a bit. It have been some very busy weeks , i have to admit. We have been working 14 hours a week lately ( which is a lot) , but Saturday night we had the premiere of La Bohème , and everything went well. Tonight we have the second run and Wednesday the last one. Almost finished . Up till now it all went well, and although there is no reason to be nervous , i am nervous anyway. 1400 people watching the opera creates a certain pressure. Today i am already nervous for the show of tonight. The adrenaline when the show starts is nice to feel. That's why i do this work in the end. And after every show i always feel empty, and content.

Saturday , I went to the carnival with Marco. I already went Friday night , but without the costume. It isn't as funny but I wanted to go out. And for the few days a year they let you drink out in the streets i had to grab the chance with both hands. ( which i did ). Saturday i was dressed up as bitch. And after the opera i went running home to change , and then we left for the carnival.
I was supposed to meet some friends at the carnival . With all the Smurfs , Prostitutes , Skeletons , Cavemen, Ghosts, Discoqueens , .......... I managed to find just a few friends. It is impossible to find someone over there. I was lucky to go with Marco , so i had some good company. I had a ball and finished the night at 9 o clock at some after party , in a discotheque where I'd never go to being sober.

Yesterday noon we had a lunch with all the colleagues of work. A Canarian BBQ , which is strange and not so nice. It's always the same food and people don't sit down to eat. I like to sit at a table when i eat. Makes everything more tastier. The rest of my Sunday i spend doing nothing and sleeping. Which i earned the last two weeks.

Tonight it's the last carnival party , but i don't think that i am going over there. Dress up for second time and all that stuff. Although tomorrow we have a day off. Well it depends on who is going , i still haven't found me a girlfriend yet. And it's about time i do so.

Ciao guapos , till next time

prevenidos

2007-02-12T23:40:00.000Z

Hola pola ,

Hoy hemos salido pronto del teatro ( las 8 ) y queria hacer me una noche internet. Bloggear un pelin . A partir de mañana empiezan los ensayos largos de La bohème. Hace dos temporadas estaba Carlos para explicarme todo , pero este temporada no esta , asi que tengo que hacer el puzzle yo mismo. A ver si os cuelgo alguna foto del decorado. Ya llevo dos dias la camera al teatro sin que este cargado. Tengo que cargarlo hoy. Este opera el decorado esta tan guapo como siempre quando esta hecho aki. Algunas escenas son obscuro , hasta por mi ( elektrooniko que soy ). Con la luz y la orchesta tiene que ser guapisimo. Que pena que no voy a poder verlo. Esto es lo unico jodido de ser maquinista:

Nunca vez la opera , que montes , por completo y con tranquilidad.

Sabado hay la primera funcion , voy a tener un buen chute de adrenalina , y nervios. Molaaa . No soy figurante este vez , menos nervios pero igual cantidad de adrenalinage. Tengo suerte que la funcion cae un sabado asi tengo todo el finde libre . Carnaval here I come. A ver si me cuelen en el espectaculo drag queen. Y sabado voy disfrasado de ...............

ciao ciao

carnavaal te qiuero

2007-02-05T16:13:00.000Z

holala ,

It's Monday afternoon, and it's about siesta time. but first i wanted to post something on this blog. passed weekend was a quiet one. and it's carnival-time over here. Since i won't have a lot of time the coming weekends , i fully enjoyed it. There weren't a lot of people Saturday night but we had a good party. Although they wouldn't let me in in the 100 pipers terrace. i tried three times and the bouncers haven't let me in once. next weekend I'll try with one of my shirts. A pity i didn't bring my black tie, otherwise there wouldn't be any problem. Maybe it were my tuk shoes , i don't know and didn't ask. Maybe I'll have better luck next weekend. My amigo Marco asked me in what i was dressing up next week. I just told him , that i don't need to dress up for carnival. I live it constantly , i guess. I'm going to do an effort next week dying my hair , iron it and put on some nice clothes. I'll tell the bouncer at 100 pipers that i am dressed as a Japanese cartoon figure and he'll let me in , for sure. Yesterday ( Sunday) i slept till 5 pm and afterwards went to sit out my hangover in the cinema. I saw Dream girls: Nice musical, i just love miss Knowless, but there was too much R&B in the film. I hoped the film would be better , but he wasn't. it was ok to be able to walk to the cinema. it's at 10 minutes walking and the walk back gives you time to think the film over. Let's hope they play some nice films the coming months.

The green house

2007-02-02T14:41:00.000Z

Buenas dias ,
I moved into my new house yesterday, and slept well. At night i don't have to put on the lights because there is enough streetlight shining trough. It really is a spacious room with a lot of sunlight in the morning. it makes me get up with a good mood.

Yesterday i went to have some beers with missy ayres and getting home was no problem. So close to everything. Apparently they have opened La Gamba again. So i have a stamcafé as off now. And it's a nice place to meet with people.
I decided not to have sugar in my new house. Cola Zero, Natrena ( for the coffee and the flakes ) let's hope i keep it going and lose my sugar-addiction , and save my teeth a bit.
Today i don't have to go to work. So that gives me time to do my kitchen shopping , i need some stuff , because the kitchen isn't the place to be over here. I'll have to go to the supermarket on daily base because i don't want to store any food in the kitchen. Gives me the creeps.

Bye bye till next time

stage 2 clear

2007-01-30T17:24:00.000Z

Hello,

Potluck.

I found a nice place to stay , a green house in the middle of the centre . With view on la plaza. I'm quite satisfied , and i'll have internetconnection. An empty room, except a dresser and a matrass. Just what I needed. It's at a five minute walk from the theatre. So i'll have time enough to siesta. I wanted to take a picture for you today, but i haven't left the sofa after work.Ii'll take one tomorrow , and blog it.

bye bye it's siesta time,

stage 1 clear

2007-01-28T08:20:00.000Z

Hola nin@s ,

Morgenvroeg vertrek ik naar Las Palmas , om te werken en van de zon te genieten. Ik weet niet zo goed wat ik er kan verwachten, ongeveer heb ik wel een idee , en hoe mijn verblijf er ginder uit gaat zien weet ik helemaal niet. Ik hoop er veel te werken zodat ik rustig het festivalseizoen in kan zetten in de zomer.

Eindelijk ga ik aan het grote machinistenplan beginnen, en als alles meezit moet ik slechts enkele maanden per jaar produktiearbeid doen. Als alles tegenzit sta ik hier binnen twee weken terug. Maar dat zal dan wel niet gebeuren ( hoop ik ).

Vandaag , zondagmorgend , ben ik om 8 uur wakker geworden ( veel te vroeg ). Gisterenavond ben ik in slaap gevallen op mijn eigen afscheidsdineetje. De premiere van ex-drummer zat nog in mijn kleren denk ik, en ja ik wordt al een dagje ouder. Het duurt percies iets langer om te recupereren na een zwaar nachtje stappen. Nu kan ik beginnen mijn valiezen te pakken. Alles was goed voorbereid dus heel veel werk zal het niet zijn. Maar ik moet voor 5 maanden kleren en grief in ne grote sportzak zien te krijgen . Terwijl ik mij verveelde in het palettenfabriek heb ik wel 100 keer nagedacht hoe mijn valies te pakken en wat mee te nemen. Vandaag zullen we zien of de gesmeede plannen bij NV Keuleers ook uit zullen komen.

Ale ik ga wat inpakken , en nog wat cdkes naar mij harde schijf kopieren.

ciao amigos,
En gedraagt ulle wat terwijl dak weg ben.

So we are back

2006-12-12T20:25:00.000Z

Well, An English one today , From when I got back from holiday , I have been in really depressive moods . Mainly when I'm alone .

First it's getting too cold and drowsy outside. Really depressing. It isn't the right time to be alone I guess. But hey , soon it will be spring and I'll be in lovely Spain , again. I ran out of money on my tanningsaloon membership card. I don't know if it's worthwhile to pay for my weekly sun rays. But it's a total relax thing, and I'll probably be there again on Thursday. To get my shot of lucky.

Second , when I am alone I get really down sometimes. It's a fierce struggle with myself sometimes , and some times are hard times. I get restless and all messed up in my head. Not good at all. Now that I learned to be open and spontaneous , it's a pity. So I am aware of being alone. I need company. Jk is coming to visit me next weekend and the day he bought his ticket it got better . I don't feel all alone now , it's like I woke up from some kind of hibernation.

Third , it is nice to look back at it , and somehow admit that I need people to be happy. It twists the idea of being independent another way round. Although I like to be on my own sometimes , for a larger period than normal people do. But alone is alone. There are a lot of parties starting as off last weekend, and there is a lot of people to see the coming weeks . And with a few drinks parties just go smoother. Socializing and talk about everything and nothing. Nice. I don't really like x-mass period. Surely not as a single, but that's the other side of the medal.

I started blogging again, normal way. HTML sucks , especially when I'm all tired of working.

pausa para el blogger

2006-11-13T18:20:00.000Z

Aloha,

Voy a tomarme un descanso un momento con el blogspot , ultimamente estoy enganchado al myspace. Me deja mas possibilidades modernas para ser creativo con pocos medios y es diseñado para pc analfabetos, como yo. Hasta que termino con mi curso de HTML, entiendo el fotoshop y manejo el frontpage voy a dejar de invertir tiempo en el blogspot. El myspace me chupa muchissima energia de momento y esta guay. Asi que usaré este sitio para escribir de mi o hasta que uso el Beta. A ver que possibilidades me da el beta. Por esto os invito a myspace. Y de vez y quando vereis alguna cosilla por aki.

I'm going to leave the blogexperience for a while here at blogspot. Lately i'm hung on myspace it leaves me more possibilities to be creative and it's designed for computerdummies like me. Until i finish the html course , understand photoshop and know how to use frontpage i'm going to hibernate the blogger stuff. Myspace is asking a lot of my energy lately and is very cool. So i'll use this spot to write about me . I want to check out the beta version first. So be welcome at myspace. And from time to time you'll read some stuff here at blogspot.

Agonoize and Sr Coconut

2006-11-05T14:23:00.000Z

Two completely different styles of music i have to admit. But one doesn't have to narrow his musicmind too much. If you want to hear what this music is about i have to redirect you to my space account. i hope that one of you adds me as a friend, it's a nice way to follow all your favorite music on the web. And you can name yourself a friend of Brian Molko

Well ,on saturday , Agonoize played in Vlissingen , an harbour town in the South of Holland . I went with Bagge and Emily. I had worked in the morning and was realy tired but i went along anyway. And it was worthwile. A nice festival in an old theatre , the sound wasn't realy what it had to be , but hey it's about the music. And i'm always pleased to spend some time in a country that isn't mine. Dutch people are so sweet to hang out with. Well i just went for Agonoize , and they played a nice set. Although they messed up at the end of their show. it was like they played a few songs at the same time. I think the beatmaster didn't know he was messing up and that made it ok. For the rest i saw In Strict Conficence ( too mellow for me) and Cruxshadows ( apparently the new hitwonder in gothland ). They sounded like Henry and the Angry Inch in electroversion. Very , very American. You have to like it, but i didn't. I have to listen to one of their cd's because i think they are ok on cd. The funny thing was that the singer wanted to hug the whole crowd, again very USA, and to me me it looked like a strange thing to do on a dark electro festival.

On monday i went to see Sr Coconut in Leuven. Seeing concerts on a monday are heavy, there were not so much people and just a few latinos. And it was prohibited to smoke in the theatre so it's my first concert in ages without smoking 'stuff' on certain songs. So there was no mambodancing like the time i saw them on Womad in las palmas. A few months ago i bought their new disc Fiebre Amarilla , and played it so often that i know every song. On the concert they played few songs of it, and after a while they switched to their Kraftwerk covers and their hits. I shouted when they started Smoke on the Water that he had to sing it in spanish, much better, but he just sang it in English, otherwise the cold Belgians wouldn't like it. Although Sr Coconut is an all German ensemble , except for Brito who is Venezolano , i prefer to see them on latino ground. Much more fun.

I think for x mass i'm going to buy a new camera, this one just isn't enough to take pictures in dark environments. Please Reyes think of me.

los niños del parque

2006-11-04T16:00:00.000Z

Como siempre hay comida de despedida quando salgo de Madrid. Olvidé de recargar las baterias de la panasonic y me quedaban pocas fotos. Asi que me sali esta seria de fotos de los despedideros. Muchas thank you para despedirme con cerveza, hamburguesas orujo y cafe.

As always when i leave Madrid we go and have a goodbye meal. I forgot to load my panasonic's battery and i just had a few fotos left. So i ended up with this serie of fotos from the goodbyesayers. Thanx for saying goobye while consuming beer, hamburgers , orujo and coffee.

Hay que curar para la visa

2006-11-04T15:48:00.000Z

Holala ,

Desde que he vuelto de Madrid estoy curando otra vez. He tenido un dia para descancar del viaje ( lo que me hacia falta) , y tenia que ir a curar en seguida. Todavia me tiene que llegar la cuenta de la Visa y yo sé quanto he gastado en vacaciones. Que remedio , he empezado en la carpinteria donde he trabajado antes. Lo conosco y el curo no esta mal. Solo es que no estoy acostumbrado de hacer tanta esfuerzo fysica desde mis curillos en almacenes y cosas. Lo tengo verdaderamente difficil ya que le falta una o dos semanas mas a que mi cuerpo se pone mas catja y no tengo dolores quando llego a casa. Encima me quedo dormido a las 9 de la noche en el sofa. Que putada . Queria blogear mucho antes ya , pero bueno el curo esta bien . Igual dentro de un mes puedo mover mis tetas solo con los musculos del pecho. Lo meto en You Tube , a que me creeis.

El enlace os muestra las maderas que tengo que cortar para todo la fabrica. Levanto toneladas al dia con estas maderas . Estoy casi todo el dia en el frio. No hay calefactor en la fabrica y las puertas estan casi siempre abierto para traer me maderas. Odio el frio, dentro de poco tendré que ponerme mi gorra Argentina del polo sur.

living with the Picapiedra

2006-11-04T15:22:00.000Z

Hola señores y señoritas , Hoy tengo dia libre, y voy a dejaros una nota en lo que es fashion ultimamente: El blogspot. Me gusta ver tanta gente connectarse a estos espacios personales en la www. Bienvenidos a tuti, y quando veo las cosas preciosos que haceis estoy muy , muy orgulloso. Aplauso para todo nosotros.

Mientras que mi amigette esta en Cuba yo cuido su casa y vivo con Fred (Pedro para los hispanos) y Wilma . Yo he vivido en esta casa antes de pirarme a Barcelona a vivir. Aki he pasado possiblemente la epoca mas feliz de mi vida , creo yo. Y da gusto estar aki otra vez con tantos recuerdos muy bonitos.

Fret es un "no me recuerdo como se llama" pero os adjunto una foto a que veis. Es un pelin tonta y apesta un poco, pero ya he vencido el miedo que la tenia , Missy Ayres save de que hablo. En principio me cagé de miedo y el animal pequeña y pacifista andaba por la casa y yo estaba encima de la mesilla del salon. Ya nos llevamos muy bien , jugamos y dormimos en el sofa. Se sube quando ya estoy dormido y quando me despierto de sus gruños la hecho, no es un mamifero para cariciar y cogerlo en brazos. Muy mona.
Wilma es una gata jovencuela, que me ha costado una semana conocerla, ahora nos llevamos muy bien , esta monada si me lo pongo en brazos, y si puede dormir con migo en el sofa y en la cama. Hasta ahora no me realiso como hecho de menos a vivir con gatos. Me parecen el chucho ideal. Aki tengo jardin y Wilma me trae pajaritos y ratones a casa. Me da pena tirarlas al cubo de basura pero al menos es la naturaleza . Quando llego a casa del curo y no esta la gata, salgo en el jardin y en estilo picapiedra la llamo. WIIIIIIIIILMA y viene corriendo. Mona no

Post hispanic depression

2006-10-22T19:21:00.000Z

Hello,

I'm suffering my usual post hispanic depression. it's always the same when i come back from spain. i get sucked into some kind of vacuum , and feel very lonely. i didn't bring so much stuff to keep me ocupied during the post-spain weeks. Normally i bring spanish films, revistas and music so i don't get bored the first weeks after coming back.

Yesterday was i love techno and i realy had the urge to go and dance a bit. i didn't feel like going alone and didn't want to pay so much for dj's I have seen enough times last year. i didn't even follow it on the internet . Shame on me

Since wednesday i only left my house two times, to buy bread both of the times. I slept and we.. ( only joking). Tomorrow i have to go to work in the carpentry , make palets. Nice , very nice. So once again i'll tumble in everydays routine. work eat sleep.

Today i started an internet course on HTML. So mongolo the special link is on his way. I haven't had the brains this weekend to link you. Maybe that way i get some understanding of the blogging experience. I just love INEM courses.

Since i got very clear during my stay in Las palmas , that i wanted to do the opera festival overthere, i'm going to conentrate for the three months left til Abseil. I'll focus on work and study. Make use of what the system offers me. I hope to get a hang of the HTML bussines so i can make this blog and my myspace an exciting experience.

Well, a long awaited televisionshow is coming up now, finally i get to see it. it's about 3 years old and it's very hard to download , so i'm going to watch it now.i

Ciao bell@s.

No sleep till Virgin

2006-10-17T21:48:00.000Z

Hola troncos y troncitas,

Es mi ultima noche Española, por un rato, y no pienso en dormir hasta que subo en el avion. Asi no me entero de las azafatas Virgin. He tenido unos vacaciones de puta madre. Cada dia me lo he pasado bien , como ke no, con tanta cariño y amor en el aire.

Yo siempro dijo que tiempo y espacio son relativos, pues un ejemplo sea.

Ya estoy hablando en el pasado y mi viaje no ha terminado aun , de momento estoy en casa Barco connectado a la dulce WWW. Anna me ha dejado un par de porros y una lilli y no sé como va terminar este carta o la noche. Muchas gracias chicas por quedarme aki , conectarme y bajar musicita. De momento me acompaña Nancy Sinatra (un disco que redescubri en las islas) a Txux no le gusta mucho pero ya no esta aki, bueno de Barco se fue un amphitrion glamouroso y cariñoso. Ya no sera la misma casa , ESPACIO ES............

Bueno Mongolo , muchas gracias por mi estancia en tu casa , ya años que me estaba preguntando como vivias tu. Ahora lo he visto y puedo hacer me una imagen de tu entorno quando llamamos . He comido y dormido superrico. Me han tratado como un PRINCIPE. Vallecas mola un Weuvo. Y la familia Mongolo mas aun.

No hecho nada mas que estar con amigos los ultimos 15 dias. Me lo he pasado pipissima .

Seguro que volveré dentro de poco , quando no lo sé ,TIEMPO ES.......

RELATIVO

Gracias per tutti ,

Links are googles first hits

Las palmas

2006-10-09T00:33:00.000Z

I'm having a real nice stay here on the island. It is like I have never been away. Nice to feel at home after being so long away. I realised I really do know much more people after living in canarias than in 10 years of living in belgium.

I'm very pleased that i take the boat to fuerteventura
tomorrow. It feels like an exotic trip. Unknown teritory . I just love it. On the foto you see Marco (right )and birthdayboy , nice way of celebrating a birthday

Estoy teniendo unas vacaciones del copon. Es como si nunca estaba fuera.
Me gusta sentir me a gusto quando he estado tanto tiempo en Europa. Me realiso que conosco mucha gente buena.

Me hace mucho ilusion pillarme el barco a fuerteventura. Para mi es un viaje muy exotico . Como mola el desconocido. la gente en la photo son Marco (derecha) y el chico que cumpli ni requerde su nombre. buena manera para celebrar un cumple

Happy 2006-2007

2006-09-04T19:25:00.001Z

Hello,

Since i don't like new years ' eve , and less celebrating it. i decided a while ago to celebrate new year at my birthday. Logically it is a new year in my existence on this planet. I'm going for my 34 th year now. Quite a long time when you look at it. In my head i still feel like 29 , not too old and not too young.

With every new year people always say that they have to better their lives ( propositos) and see the new year as the perfect start. I tried, i realy did, and thought of some things i could (have to , want to) change. I wanted to stop drinking alcohol for a while , cut back on the blowing, go vegetarian again, and to take time to work at myself on becoming a better and more communicative person.

everything went ooooooooooooooooooooooooooohkay till............

last weekend

I went to Holland to see Suicide Commando , they played in Rotterdam, for free ( IN HOLLAND ?), i just couldn't miss it. After the concert i went to lovely Den Haag. Realy nice people overthere, they had a great electro party going on, and indeed . Cutting back on blowing and drinking isn't a sensible thing to do when you go to Holland. I have to say sorry to myself i guess. i forgive myself , because i had a ball overthere. At last i went back to LaLaLand ( a recordstore in den Haag) to ask for a poster of the C.O.S. concert i saw there in Feb. They had about 100 posters left, but some weird liquid had fallen over it , and they all stuck together. What a pitty, the woman who worked in the recordstore was more pissed than i, so i didn't realy mind about the posters anymore.

Coffeeshops are lousy in den Haag. They aren't cosy at all. You don't go there to relax. At entering the shop we were shouted at by the bartender, that we had to blow with our coffees or he would throw us out. So basicly he said that we had to smoke mariachis .We smoked some jet-lag ( nice and tasty variety) because i always do as told and chilled a bit.

The worst thing was going to work this morning. I managed to get up and gave myself a little peptalk. My chef ( boss) had the idea barking at me a bit , i felt like shit and angry for ten seconds. I felt like being in Taller Palmar again .Then i blew it all away with a kiss , to Kylie Minogue ( it felt like she was singing especially for me ) and i got in good spirits again. I did my thing, worked late again and sang along with the radio.

I don't know why , i realy don't , do these people talk to me in a very dominant (fatcha ) way. I just don't get it. Inoffensive as I am ? Being at the wrong moment in the wrong place , again, i guess . Shit happend.

chat you soon on the WWW

Pukkelpop 2006

2006-09-01T22:39:00.000Z

To close this years summerfestivalseason i choose to go to pukkelpop. Pukkel is a zit , so it’s something like the zit festival. Sounds strange , i know but at the end i go for the music. Well the name says it all. There were enough boys and girls that could have been my kids. It makes me feel a bit old, but i’m stil a hardcore festivalfan. Although i guess the people weren’t prepared for a bunch of thirty year olds , with a fresh wage on their bankaccount and a strong desire to party. We were lucky to go with the van of Joske , so we had a hotel on wheels. We found a nice and quiet campingspot , a bit illegal but hey there’s 45000 people so the police would have other things to do than thowing the van. We stayed there the whole three days on the same spot. The police wasn’t ok with it but it all turned out just fine. Next time you see me in person , ask me to tell you the whole story. Funny. This time it wasn’t allowed to take your own drinks inside, i don’t like that, this obligation to consume their drinks and pay 2 euros for a beer or a glass of mineral water. Shame on them. We took everything along anyway, so we didn’t spend an awfull lot on beer. Nice way to go.

It was very busy cause there were to many bands to see and i tried to see everything that i wanted to see, and i managed to do so. In between the smoking and drinking i was satisfied about the music and enjoyed a lot of bands.

Nice closing of the festivalseason.

DAFT PUNK RULES

La session de clausura de este temporada de festivales he cerado con pukkelpop. Pukkel significa grano (los de la cara) se traduceria commo el pop de los granos ( los de la cara). Seuna chungo, lo sé ,pero al final estoy alli por la musica. Todo esta en el nombre ,habian bastante niñ@s de los quales podria ser el papi. Me hace sentir viejo , pero sigo siendo un hardcore festivalero. Pienso que la gente alli no estaban preparado para una banda de treinta-añeros que acababan de cobrar y con unas ganas de fiesta. Teniamos suerte que hemos podido ir en la furgoneta de Joske , teniamos un hotel sobre reudas. Hemos encontrado un sitio tranquilo para acampar, un poco ilegal pero habian 45000 personas asi que la policia tendria otras cosas que hacer que llamar la grua. Aunque a la policia lno les gustaba que estubumos alli , nos hemos quedado tres dias.La proxima vez que nos vemos en persona pide me que os cuento la historia completa. Que te cagas de absurdo. Esta vez no podiamos llevar bebidas a dentro, no me gusta que te obligan pagar 2 euros para una cerveza o un vaso de agua mineral. Shame on ellos. De todas formas hemos colado todo asi que no hemos gastado una fortuna alli dentro. He estado muy ocupado porque habian demasiados grupos para ojear y escuchar , y he conseguido de ver lo que queria ver. Entre todo el fumar y beber estaba muy satisfecho de la musica y he disfrutado de muchos grupos.

Una clausura de putissima madre.

DAFT PUNK RULES

pukkelthanx

2006-09-01T22:26:00.000Z

Thanx to :

Turbo Negro, Radiohead , Tiga , Nouvelle Vage , Mint , Feeder , DK7 ,Dirtry Pretty Things , Colder , Digitalism , Motor , Kelley Polar , Belle and Sebastian , Technasia , Tiefschwarz , Mstrkrft

Special thanx to:

Scissor Sisters ( for playing a disarming joyfell set) , Dj kammy ( for spinning me round round, Dead or Alive wise) , Dave Clarke ( for making my feet move two hours and a halve in a row) , Roni Size / Dynamite MC ( for entertaining me during my ten minute Dave Clarke break). Inge ( for the nice sandwiches and the lovely company ) , Cedric ( for being there at the Humo man) . Placebo ( for playing my sing-along Special K ( sorry to the person who was standing next to me , i know i sing out of key)) , Planet Pendulum and Caroline for the D’ n B’ company. Daft Punk ( for the long awaited second encounter). Hasselt police ( for being so comprehensive) , Bagge (for being tall and findable and the bacon and eggs ) , Joske ( for the minivan )

My gratitude to:

BLACK STROBE( for making me dance like only Zion Train can , for making me loose all sense of reality, for charging my positive energylevel , for making me space out for half an hour , for playing an awesome concert , for making people realise that a fusion of musicstyles can be refreshing and modern , for bringing me emotionally out of balance , for ................. )

Lost in translation

2006-09-01T21:02:00.000Z

Hello ,

Languages complicate life in a certain way. In English i have to use the capital I to talk about myself. Well i ain't gonna do that anymore. It costs a lot of time correcting these stupid spelling rules. In Spanish i have to put a lot of accents when i talk about the past. Well for the time being , you'll have to put most of them yourself . I ordered a spanish qwerty keyboard to cope with that problem, cause my brain can't take anymore shortkutkeys for spelling.

Holala,

Idiomas te complican la vida en cierto modo. En inglés tengo que poner un la i capital para hablar de mi. y no voy hacerlo mas ,. me cuesta demasiado tiempo corregir todas estas detailles gramaticales. En castellano tengo que poner muchos accentos quando hablo del pasado , de momento tendrais que ponerlos vosotros. He pedido un teclado qwerty español para solucionar este problemo, porque en mi cabeza no caben mas shortkeys para el spelling.

Deutschland

2006-09-01T20:47:00.000Z

I went to the Mera Luna festival to see Bauhaus and Blutengel. A very surprising trip. It had been a while ( like evrything has been a while when one has lived 3 years on the canary islands) that i was in Germany. i dindn’t understand German people at first but after a while i picked up the basic German, and it’s handy to be the foreigner. No comprendo opens all doors when it comes acompanied with an innocent friendly smile.

It didn’t rain and i saw some great bands . Beach surogat , sunbathing on the grass listening to some music on stage. since gothics don’t like the sunshine there was enough space for me to have a siesta on the festivalsite .

I must confess i sinned, out of frustration i nicked a lighter which states “ love satan and you don’t have to fear god”. My boss had a scary look on his face when he asked me a light last week.

Nice party , The best festival of the year ( far out ). But anyway strange people those Germans , i just love em.

De puta Madre ( Awesome) : Apoptygma Berzerk , Blutengel , Bauhaus

ni recuerdo que han tocado ( no idea i saw em) : Northern Lite , Gothminster. Girls under glass . Dope stars inc , Mesh , Funkervogt , etc etc

He ido a Mera Luna Festival a ver Bauhaus en Blutengel . Un viaje mas sorprendente, tengo que admitir. Hace un largo rato ( como lo es casi todo quando uno ha vivido tres años en Gran Canaria) que yo estaba en Alemania . Al principio no entendi ni J de los alemanes peo despues de un rato cogi el truco, es conveniente hacer el papel de extranjero: I don’t understand abre todas las puertas quando viene acompañada de una sonrisa innocente.

No ha llovido en todo el fin de y he visto unos grupos estupendos. Es commo un surrogat de la playa., tomar el sol tumbado en el cesped y escuchar la musica del escenario. A los siniestros no les gusta el sol, y por esso no habia ningun problemo de espacio para hacer me una siesta en el festival.

Tengo que confesar que hé pecado. De pura molestia he mangado un mechero que pone “el que ama satan no debe temer dios”. Mi jefe tenia cara de susto quando me pidio fuego la semana pasada.

Menuda fiesta , el mejor festival de este año, de lejos.

New stuff

2006-08-01T20:20:00.000Z

Moscow , Berlin , London , New York , Paris , Tokyo , ...
It's new and it's called
Chaos Total
I'll tell you all about it when it falls trough the letterbox.

Labor

2006-07-31T21:17:00.000Z

Hello ,

Today I went to work after two weeks of obligatory holidays. Except for the Dour festival I didn't do much. I went a few days to Blankenberge , a town at the Belgian coastline. Really touristic , I went a few days solo , and went for one day with my brother's family. A supersweet day. We had a lot of fun and playing with my nephew on the beach, and in the water was a more than ok experience. Thanx guys , I had a lovely day.

From Blankenberge , I went one day to the nude beach in a town called Bredene . I had to take a tramvia for 45 minutes. Got off and walked to the nude beach. It's crazy because it's small, and it's the only place in a country of 12 million inhabitants where you can legally have a sunbath naked and have a skin-dip. I don't think it's offensive to go naked on a beach, and do understand that certain people are offended buy naked people, but 500 meters of coastline just isn't enough. People don't hurt no one by running naked on the beach.

Everybody strip , strip , strip , strip, strip ,strip naked. Maybe this way we could have some more lovely beaches in our countries.

Dour festival : Sunday

2006-07-29T02:08:00.000Z

Hola,

I arrived at Dour at 8 pm and I can’t remeber a lot of things of sunday night. At least I had the nice idea to tick all the groups I saw on the timetable. so i can give you te scores of the day.

Bands to remember :

De puta madre (Awesome): Eek-a-mouse , Mad Caddies , The Datsuns

Merece mas que la pena (More than worthwile ): Les Cowboys Fringants, Nitzer Ebb , Buju Banton

Don’t like (No me gusta pa na ) : Animal Collective , The Dandy Warholes

Hij@ de la gran puta (Child of the big prostitute) : NADIE NOBODY

Hello,

Llegé a Dour a las 8 pm , y no me recuerdo mucho de domingo noche. Por suerte he apuntado todos los grupos que he visto, asi os puedo dar los puntos de hoy:

Dour , 10 days off : Saturday

2006-07-29T01:38:00.000Z

Hola,

El sabado me fui a tomarme otro desayuno r’n’r, sin cerveza esta vez. Y volvi a casa. Aki He comido duchado dormido, y despues me fui a Gent a ver miss Kittin and the Hacker. They had to play a 4 hour set. And la Kittin was tired after two hours playing , and you could read it on her face. I stayed the whole set , and waited for them to play masterplan or a few other songs they made tohether. They didn’t play any of the kind; maybe they played all the six songs in the five minutes I left the hall to change my creepers for my draven. But I don’t think they did. Anyway I had a nice time and arived at 8 am at my sister’s place. I had a swim , breakfast and a sleep. I got up at 5 , had a shower , and left again for the Dour festival. While I was driving, I decided not to go especially to see some dj’s playing. If I hear them at some festival or rave I surely will check 'em out and dance , but just go to a dj set I don’t do that anymore. It’s boring , and it certainly is , when one goes alone. So sorry to all the dj’s, but the Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan hit isn’t for you guys; see you at some kind of rave.

Bands to remember :

Merece mas que la pena ( More than worthwile) : Miss Kittin & The Hacker ( dj set )

Hello,

Saturday I had a R’n’R breakfast without beer and came home to eat shower and sleep. After that I went to Gent to Miss kittin & The Hacker.
Tenian que pinchar un set de 4 horas. La Kittin tenia cara de asco despues de dos horas. Me quedé todo el set y no han tocado ninguna cancion que han hecho juntos. estaba esperando hasta masterplan o lo de Sinatra .O tiene que ser que han tocado 6 canciones en los cinco minutos que sali para cambiarme los creeper por los Draven. Sin embargo he tenido una noche divertido y interesante. llegé a casa de mi hermana a las 8 , desayuné y me heché a dormir. Me levanté a las 5 y me fui al Dour festival otra vez. conduciendo por aya , he decido de ir nunca mas a ver un cierto dj pinchar. Si los veo y escucho en algun festival o rave , bailaré seguro. Pero ir solo para ver un dj no es para mi. Es aburido y seguro lo es quando uno va solo. Asi que a todos los dj, lo siento mucho , pero el exito de Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan no es para vosotr@s , seguro que nos veremos en alguna forma de rave.

Dour festival: Friday

2006-07-29T01:14:00.000Z

Hola ,

Today I had scheduled Kill your Idolls , Flogging Molly and finally Fischerspooner I woke up in good spirits : my boss called to say that I was fired for the week to come , there was a bottle of Jack daniels on the way towards me , and I passed my first night in my nearly new Nissan Sunny , it realy sleeps good in the car. I went to the festivalsite to have a rock’n’roll breakfast (mazout and a smoke). While I was sitting at the table to enjoy my breaky there was some good music gulping out of the tent aside. I listened the complete concert and then got up , walked around a bit and went to see Kill your Idols , one of the few groups at Dour that I wanted (needed) to see. There had been some changes in the timetable and it appears that it was Kill your Idols I heard during breakfast. I was a bit pissed that I hadn’t seen them but at least I heard them. After that I had a shower and a relaxed moment, and then I met up with Jos and Jack Daniels. I prepared me some whiskas , dressed for the night and we went to see some bands playing. It was nice playing hide and seek in the crowd,and have fun walking around and see a lot of bands . Finally the big moment had arived : FISCHERSPOONER (live). well I have seen a lot of concerts in my life and this was one of the worst. A stuck up basterd. The singer ( bandleader) fired the band after ten minutes of concert. He did’nt stop whining about the sound. Stopped halfway through every song. A complete mess; The crowd , and I was one of them ,wasn’t pleased at all and started yelling and throwing stuff at the guy. I’m not proud of throwing stuff at peoples head with the intention to hurt them, but I was very disapointed, and left halfway the show.

Bands to remember :

De puta madre (Awesome ): Kill your Idols , Brain Damage , Flogging Molly, Irration Steppas

Merece mas que la pena ( More than worthwhile) : A Brand , Apocalyptica

Don’t like ( No me gusta pa na ): Peeping Tom, Nebula, Mercury Rev , Shelter, Within Temptation

Hij@ de la gran puta ( child of the big prostitute ): FISCHERSPOONER

Hello,

Me levanté de buen humor: mi jefe me habia dejado un mensaje en el buzon de voz que no tenia que ir al trabajo la semana despues del festival , una botella de jack daniels estaba de camino y dormi por primera vez en mi Nissan Sunny . Es estupendo para dormir. Me fui a tomar desayuno Rock’n’Roll ( Mazout y porro) en el festivalsite. Estaba sentado en una mesa y escuché buena musica veniendo de la carpa que estaba al lado .Me quedé sentada durante todo el concierto de este grupo porque me gustaba mucho. Luego fui a darme un paseo y queria ver a Kill Your Idols. Llegando a la hora justa y al escenario justo, era otro grupo tocando. Al parecer hé desayunado con los sonidos de Kill your Idols, uno de los pocos grupos que queria ver de verdad. Estaba un pelin cabreado de no los haber visto , pero al menos los he escuchado. Despues me fui a tomar una ducha y tenia un momento relax. Luego me encontré con Jos y Jack Daniels. Me hé preparado whiskas, me vesti por la noche y fuimos a ver algunos grupos. Por fin habia llegado el gran momento : FISCHERSPOONER ( live). Mira , hé visto un huevo de conciertos en mi vida pero este ha sido uno de los peores. Un coñazo de tio.El cantante despidio el grupo despues de diez minutos de concierto. Seguia quejandose del sonido, paraba cada media cancion . Un desastre. El publico se enfado bastante, formaba parte de este publico, y empezo a gritar y tirar cosas al tio. No estoy orgulloso de haber tirado cosas con la intencion de herir una persona. estaba muy desilusionado y me fui en la mitad del conierto.

Dour festival : Thursday

2006-07-28T22:30:00.000Z

Hello,

Hace un par de años que yo estaba en el Dour festival. Sali el jueves de casa y estaba con los primeros para aparcar , cambiar la entrada , etc , etc. Podia explorar el festival con todo tranquilidad. Lo primero que me sorprendio era que todo la gente llevaban su bebida en botellas de plastico. Yo ni savia que uno podia hacer botellon , SHIT y no me habia traido ninguna bebida rico. Asi que he tomado un par de Mazout ( cerveza con coca-cola ), lo qual no querian darme al principio. En fin encontré un bar donde si me lo querian servir.

Una de las cosas del Dourfestival es que tiene muchos cambios en el horario, o grupos que cancelan ultimo minuto . Despues de 4 dias te dan igual los cambios y ni te enteras de que grupo esta tocando en que escenario. Forma parte del festival supongo.

Mi coche estaba aparcado a unos tres minutos de la entrada , asi tenia mi dormitorio y el armario muy cerca y la caja fuerte.

He pasado el dia fumando y bebiendo. Eran tanta gente que me meti a las dos en la Dance Hall y disfruté de la noche. Sin Whiskas. Me han ofrecido todo tipo de droga pero pasé.

bands to remember:

De puta madre ( Awesome) : Miss Kittin , Ellen Alien
Merece mas que la pena ( More than worthwile ): ART BRUT (indie) , Roni Size & Dynamite mc and Dillinja
No me gusta pa na ( Don't like ) : Primal scream
Child of the the big prostitute ( Hij@ de la gran puta ) : NADIE NOBODY

Hola,

It had been a few years since I went to the Dour festival. I left home on Thursday and went early so I could park and change my ticket , in order to scout the festival in peace.The first thing that surprised me was that people were holding plastic bottles with al kinds of fluids in them. I did not know one could do botellon. MIERDA and I hadnt brought me a nice drink. So I drank a few mazout ( beer with cola) , they didnt want to serve me mazout at first. Finally I found one tent where they did serve me one , or more.

A thing about the festival is that there are a lot of changes , and last-minute cancels. At first you dont like it, but after 4 days of festival you dont care anymore who is playing on which stage. Its a part of the festival, I guess.

My car was parked three minutes walking from the entrance so I had my bedroom , wardrobe and safe at hand.

I passed the day smoking and drinking. There where so much people that I stayed in the Dance Hall without drinking any Whiskas ( whisky-coke) and danced all night. They offered me all kinds of drugs but I passed .

COS in danger , nice fight girls

2006-07-10T22:46:00.000Z

Hey,

I read this link in the Humo last week.

It's Fuerte Fuerte Fuerte.

I think Chicks On Speed will think twice before performing in Cordoba ( Spain) again.

No to violence.

Liège and sjok

2006-07-10T22:02:00.000Z

Hola,

Last weekend was the first real festivalweekend. And what a weekend it was !

Friday night I went by train to Les Ardentes in Liège , a city in theFrenchh speaking part of Belgium. They are so sweet and friendly people , they treated me very well overthere . I could say something in my bestFrench and people gave me all kinds of info , only ordering the drinks was a bit difficult. I always asked for une bière , and they always gave me something else to drink. Funny, so i started to drink mojito , everybody understands that one. I saw a horrible Sven VÃth , a very nice Black Strobe , and then a lot of djs. I wanted to see Zombie Nation, and they really sucked. But it was a very nice experience. A nice clean medium sized festival with a lot of trees and some big dance halls. If they have a nice affiche next year I'll surely think of going there.

Saturday I went with a few friends to the Sjok festival. I had been there years ago. (Thatswhere i first saw Zion Train) . The festival hasn't changed much since then. Just a bunch of alternative people , looking for some fun and good music. The highlights of the festival Were the real Mc Kenzies and 45 RPM. The real Mc Kenzies are kiltpunks but played a straight , fast no nonsense folkpunk, with bagpipes, i liked it really a lot.Pithy I didn't know them before , but now I do so I can start down...... .

45 Rpm then.

Maybe it was for their up-tempo rockabilly, a bit more up-tempo rock'n'roll , because from al the slow rockabilly groups I heard Saturday this was one of the up-tempos.

Maybe it was for the lead singer. A tall blond German gal dressed in sailor suit. Sexy , an eye-teaser. She had a raw voice and was dowtown 50's. I'll try to find something of them on the web and link it. A shame I didn't take my camera along .

We 'll see you for the next festival. If everything works out just fine, with a lot of pictures.
Besos

taking a break

2006-06-20T12:05:00.000Z

hola,

En este momento operan mi madre de cancer de mama. Tengo miedo y todas las velitas estan encendidas aki en casa. Pero todo saldra bien. De este estoy seguro. Las ultimas semanas no me he connectado al www, porque no tenia ganas de estar mandando y buscando cosas. Todo la enfermedad de mi mami me tenia agotado. Se va quedar una semana en la clinica , y tengo la casa casi para mi solo.

El fin de semana pasada queria un descanso de todo lo que esta pasando aki, y me fui a Gante a pasar el finde con mi hermana. Alli tienen una piscina y estaba flotando todo el dia en la piscina con vinito blanco y porro. Suerte que me he hecho rayos uv las semanas pasadas, asi que no paresco a ninguna gamba, mas y mas paresco a un mono monissimo.

El sol aki no viene a visitarnos muy amenudo , y quando sale aprovecho cada minuto de su calor porque cada dia puede ser el ultimo del buen tiempo. Un poco radical , si el sol sigue un par de semanas asi , terminaré frito por todos lados, y me preguntaran si vendo hachis en las calles de Madrid.

Ya es copa del mundo de futbol. Estoy encantado con los Argentin@s , y los Españoles , ayer marco el señor Gonzalez. Mi alegria ( y el grito que lo acompañaba ) asustaba a la gente aki en casa. Mi madre vino a ver desde la cocina, y mi padre se desperto de manera brusca en el sofa. Asi puede ser futbol.

A partir de domingo empiezo a mi gira por los festivales , mucha musica de todos los colores y estilos. Os mantendré informado de las cosas guays que veo.

Ciao, besitos y hasta pronto en blog.

Good news for cat people

2006-05-29T15:05:00.001Z

Miss Kittin played a very nice session last Friday in Antwerp. It had been almost a month and a half since I could dance properly and non stop. At first I was a bit afraid that she'd go easy on me, she tended to play some strange things lately; But no , she played non-stop party beats. Just the touch of feminine obscurity I needed and wanted.

Since I believe that my karma gets a lot of energy when I dance , I filled my tank with petrol . So now I regained the energy to keep going smooth until July, the first festival.

For the rest , the looks of Caroline , assured me I am on course in alternative fashion. Which is really nice. Being part of the fashion undercurrent , was a goal and became confirmed seeing Miss Kittin. You can't see it good on the picture, but I felt really silly and shy , when I got this close to see her doing turntable-trix , to take the picture.

It was a nice show , worthwhile waiting and saving for. And they did serve Bombay , which isn't really common in Belgium. It took me al Saturday to recover but now I'm ok.

Whenever Kittin plays go and check her out .

kisses.

Nice ( not the city, the adjective)

2006-05-23T22:49:00.001Z

Hola todos. You all know , I'm proud to be Belgian. Not for the racial killings in Antwerp, not for the eurosong festival and surely not for the world cup soccer. One of the reasons why it's ok to be Belgian is one of these.

http://www.pukkelpop.be/

http://www.dourfestival.be
http://www.10daysoff.be/

http://www.summerdarkness.nl/

http://www.nandrinfestival.com/

http://www.rockwerchter.be/rw2006/splash.asp

So I guess my summer is filled with music , goooooood music. For all the friends who aren't Belgian, when you come to one of these festivals I'll buy you the entrance fee to the festival. Travel expenses are yoursl. But please don't come all at once , otherwise I'll have to saw lumber until December. There is on every festival a band to see. Please check out the pukkelpop one this is almost to good to be true.

Como sabeis todos soy orgulloso de ser Belga. No lo soy por los assesinatos racistas en Anveres , no por eurovision y sobre todo no por el mundial de futbol en Alemania. Si lo soy por los festivales. todos estos enlaces son de festivales este verano. Por fa ve el cartel de pukkelpop . Para tod@s hay algun grupo, y mas que uno para ver o escuchar. si algun amig@ no belga viene par hacer un festival os invito al festival. En serio. Pero no vengais todos a la vez, porque no tengo ganas de estar cortando madera hasta diciembre.

amsterdamned

2006-05-09T08:59:00.000Z

Hola,

Este fin de semana he estado en un festival punki en Amsterdam . Muy chulo. es differente ver un festival y salir de vez y quando para respirar, y estar en medio del centro. Muchos bares y coffeeshop cerca. Peligroso y con tantos punkis. El festival estaba bien, pero de tourismo en Amsterdam nada. Solo he visto los bares de camino del hostal hasta la sala de conciertos. Habian unos 18 coffeeshop y 6 bares de camino.
por la noche Amsterdam es muy , pero muy soso. Todo cierre a las dos de la noche, y los clubs que estan abierto son para los pijos, y no para los punkis.

He visto a unos U.K.SUBS fantasticos , a SHAM 69 , Peter and the Test Tube Babies , Goldwage , Sick on the bus y por su puesto Funeral Dress ( qiuen han sacado disco nuevo: Hello from the underground.) He grabado el concierto de Funeral en video, asi no me quedaba mucho bateria para sacar mucha photos. Asi que he puesto uno de la teraza coffeeshop mas cerca de la sala.

Para aseguraros

" Punk is still alive".

The hairdresser

2006-04-21T15:11:00.000Z

Yesterday I had a day off , and I used it to go to the hairdresser. It was a lovely day , I spend two hours in the salon. They washed my hair tree times to wash out all the paint. After an hour and a half I asked Jurgen if I could go and smoke a cigarette , cause I had really spent a lot of time in the salon. After the smoke they finished my hair. Thanx Jurgen for cutting my hair so nice.

I left the saloon very hungry and my sister prepared me a delicious Belgian meal, with veggie burgers.

And of course I had a big fan who just wanted to finish my beans.

last weeks playlist

2006-04-21T14:54:00.000Z

Zion Train , Fortification 55 , Hocico , Accessory , Tekton Motor Corporation , Electric Six , The Exploited , GBH , Placebo , The Streets , Villa Toro , Miss Kittin , C.O.S. , Dvorak , The Hacker , Sr Coconut , Atom TM , Dan the Automator , Green Nuns of the Revolution , Mamal , etcetecetec

la belleza de la naturaleza

2006-04-21T09:28:00.000Z

hola,

Last week when I drove to work, I was already late, I stopped to make this beuatiful picture. I smoked a cigarette and apolagised to the boss and everything was ok. It was a very pretty sight at 7 am.

La semana pasada conduciendo al trabajo , ya iba bastante tarde , he parado para tomar esta foto; fume un cigarro y en el trabajo me disculpe. Era una vista preciosa a las 7 de la mañana.

Arbeit macht nicht frei

2006-04-04T13:03:00.000Z

Friday I quit my job in the warehouse where I was working, I really didn't like the job and the last two weeks I felt like staying in bed. But I needed the money , so I kept going. On Friday I left and told the temp office I didn't wanna work no more in that warehouse.
This morning they called me and found another job for me, so tomorrow I have to go some place else, get to meet new people , and do another job. Nice

As off today I am officially unemployed and get welfare, so every day I don't work for the temp office , social security pays me money to stay home. Life can be sweet sometimes. Thank you Sarah for sending me the papers to get welfare.

Viernes he dejado mi curo en el almacen donde estaba trabajando. Estaba super harto y no podia mas. Necesitaba el dinero , y he continuado de trabajar alli. El viernes he dicho a las chicas del trabajo temporal que yo no queria trabajar mas, y esta mañana me han llamado para otro trabajo. Asi que mañana empiezo en otro sitio con gente nuevo y otro trabajo. Mola

A partir de hoy cobro paro. Asi que cada dia que yo no trabajo para la officina del trabajo temporal me pagara el estado. Whoeooeoe . Gracias Sarah para mandarme las papeles para areglar todo esto papeleo.

And the winner is: Gimme Gimme Gimme

2006-04-03T11:12:00.000Z

This is the winning photo of this two weeks of contest. Since I only had two entries this time and txuxi appeared on both, I selected Ger's photo. enhorabuena Ger a nice way to bring all my friends a bit closer to me by sending me this lovely photo. The price will be send real soon.

Meanwhile I'll think of other stuff to have concursos.

Moving Luke Slater

2006-04-03T10:48:00.000Z

Two weeks ago I went clubbing in Antwerp. With a friend we went to a show of Luke Slater in a club called petrol. It really was a bit soso , the concert. The good thing was that we went to visit a friend first and he served me a 15 year old whisky. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM. And the cherry on the cake was that they served Bombay at the petrol. We had a ball although the music wasn't really good.

With only a few hours of sleep I had to go move my brother ,who moved in to his new house. I worked all day, it's incredible how much stuff people collect. Remember my friends

less is more

After moving my brother , I went to sleep a few hours and then went to a party on a boat in Mechelen. It's super to party on a boat, cause the boys can go and p.. in the river. A bit dangerous though when you are drunk.

Again I had a nice night, with lot's of Mazout ( beer with cola), after a weekend drinking it doesn't affect my stomach to much. And Joske drove me home, he couldn't drink but I could. Thanks joske for taking me everywhere, these are the only benefits of not having a car

Sunday of course I slept all day

Arose from the silent

2006-04-03T10:35:00.000Z

Hello ,

It has been a while since I posted something on the blog , I just downloaded mozilla so I can do a lot of things more in the blog.

I quit my job last friday so today, monday, i'll have some time to write to you sweeties.

I'll try to describe the last two weeks chronogically. I have been realy bussy.

So have fun reading.

Kussen

enorabuena

2006-03-16T21:27:00.000Z

This week's winner of the colouring competition is Sarah . Congratulations Sarah. The price will be send to you real soon.

El ganador del concurso de dibujo de esta semana es Sarah. Enhorabuena Sarah. El premio te llegara por correo dentro de poco.

Next week is picture week , so please send your photos.
La proxima semana concurso de photos, asi que mandar estas photos chic@s.

kussen

like an ice cream

2006-03-13T21:08:00.000Z

Weatherforcast for this week

Centre
temperature - 4° C wind weathertype
min. max. direction force (Bft)
tonight -5 ESE 2 - 3 at first partly cloudy but dry, later variable cloudiness but dry
tomorrow 6 ESE 1 - 2 variable cloudiness but dry
wednesday-3 6 E 2 -> 3 variable cloudiness but dry
thursday -4 5 NE 3 - 4 variable cloudiness but dry
friday -2 7 ENE 3 - 4 variable cloudiness but dry

Whell this morning , it was -4 °C when I left for work on la moto. I was very well dressed against the cold, anyhow my thighs were frozen when I arrived at work. it was impossible to sit on a chair the first half hour. There is only airco in the warehouse, and I didn't feel like sticking my but in the air to warm it. So I walked around like a chicken, and told my colleagues I had H5n1 ( chickenflu , gripe aviar).

It's always nice to start a workweek with a joke. That makes a new workweek a bit happier

Saludos , amigos.

Dudas , doubts

2006-03-09T21:54:00.001Z

English? Castellano? look if anyone should have problems understanding the english i'll use in the blog , please send me a mail and i'll see what i can do.

Ingles? Spanish ? Mira si algiuen tiene problemas de entender el castellano que uso en este blog, por fa mandame un mail y veremos como lo areglamos.

Kortom weet ik nog niet in welke taal ik ga schrijven. Voornamelijk in het engels veronderstel ik. Als je het niet moest verstaan, laat mij aub dan iets weten.

la moto

2006-02-28T18:59:00.001Z

hello moto,

Estoy un poco cabreado con el bicho. Como podeis ver esta es mi moto. He He, se parece un poco a un Harley, pues no lo es para nada. Es mi medio de tranporte en un pais , donde hace falta un medio de transporte privado. Asi que con este bicho voy a todas partes. Me obligan de llevar casco, lo qual es mas que fatal para mi corte de pelo. La gente en la panaderia y el banco me miraban mal quando veian mi pelo hecho un braja por el casco. Por este misma razon me he comprado una gora. Ya no me miran mal.

Pues el cabreo, esta mañana fui a trabakjar, y justo despues de salir de casa empezo a nevar. Un frio, y un dolor, comparable con quando te comes un helado en un minuto, te parte la cabeza verdad ?.
En mitad de camino la moto no tenia mas ganas de caminar, y empezo a darme un monton de problemas. No caminaba casi nada y los cyclistas me pasaban. Y esto me da mucha verguenza tengo que admitir. Mañana lo llevo al taller que limpian el motor otra vez, y despues caminara como una loca otra vez. Asi que mañana tengo que ir en guagua al trabajo. Por lo menos los niñ@s estan de vacaciones y me puedo sentar en el bus. En Madrid me gusta el transporte publico, sobre todo la guagua a moratalaz con Txuxi, pero aki no me gusta nada.

Bueno chulos hasta otro en el blog.
Ciao y espero que os gusta el blog y que me dejais un mensaje de vez y quando.

introduction

2006-02-23T11:26:00.000Z

Hello, back from Madrid i realised i had to make a blog; a lot of things that i have to share with all of you; Since nobody can imagine how i live in belgium and what i actually do here i decide to make it easier for evryone to see what happens overhere. so you lazy bones, maybe this convinces you to contact me from time to time. have a nice day