Euromast!!!

Euromast!Huuuuuuuuhhhhh, gistermiddag dus van de Euromast ab-ge-seilt. De helden waren Ammer, Hugo, Herman, Ammer’s ma, Gita en ik. Als ondersteunend team waren ook aanwezig Marie-j, Mark, Bar, Bolle, en Ammer’s pa.

Ondanks dat het extreem fokking koud was op die euromast was het abseilen toch erg leuk, en had je er totaal geen last van het slechte weer. Het vreemdste vond ik wel dat je de eerste helft van het abseilen echt moeite moest doen om het (dubbele)touw door die 8 heen te raggen, en dat je zonder spierkracht dus echt geen centimeter omlaag zou kunnen komen. Ik heb trouwens nog even nagerekend wat de afdalingstijden waren, en ik moest concluderen dat ik ‘by far’ als eerste beneden was :-p (mede gefaciliteerd doordat ik als een van de eerste richting beneden ging).

Verder was het een goeie dag, wat nog extra onderstreept werd doordat ik met mijn auto en met piepende banden net niet in de achterkant van Ammer’s kar parkeerde :-p

Kosovo / Kalashnikov / ..?..

Gisteren Amsterdam met de ras Amsterdammer Endorfien a.k.a. Eef a.k.a. Evelien en Herman a.k.a. Erwin, en dat was weer pretty cool. Om 7 uur afgesproken bij Endorfien om te eten, dus we waren er rond 9 uur, dankzij een routeplanning naar een plek aan de verkeerde kant van A’dam. Na het eten gingen we A’dam in, en ik kan me alleen nog maar herinneren dat we op een gegeven moment bij een soort kleine lvc waren genaamd Kosovo of iets dergelijks.

Vanaf dit punt weet ik alleen nog dat er veel bier vloeide, en dat ik daar het overgrote deel van opgezopen heb. Het leuke is dan natuurlijk altijd om de dagen erna van de andere deelnemers te horen wat je allemaal uitgevoerd hebt… Okay, die andere deelnemers waren ook niet nuchter, maar twee weten meer dan een.

Zo weet ik nu dat ik heb rondgelopen in een FOUT truitje, veels te klein in de kleuren roze en mint groen… Hiernaast had ik plenty van armbandjes geleend, wat ook een foute keuze was. Die meid in dat kleine discotheekje herinner ik me totaal niet meer… De hotdog waarvan het overgrote deel van de saus op de straat belandde is mij ook ontgaan, en het ergste is nog dat ik ook niets meer weet van die leuke meid bij de hotdog stand, die ook geregeld bezoeker van leiden was. Oh, en het zingen over straat is ook een vaag punt, maar dat wordt gelukkig niet door alle aanwezige bevestigd :-)

De taxi naar huis weet ik dan nog een beetje… maar dat wordt waarschijnlijk veroorzaakt door de kleine schermpjes in de stoelen, en het ranzige materiaal dat daarop werd uitgezonden.

Al met al weer een erg geslaagd avondje!

The Color of Magic

Discworld!Some time ago I read my first book by the authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, “Good Omens”. I was so impressed by this book that subconsciously knew what was going to happen next…

A strong drive to read more that will only end when I have read all the books available by the same author. I had the same need with the books by Ronald Giphart, Dan Brown, Scott Adams, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, and a few others.

In America I bought the book “The Color of Magic” and entered into a discussion with the sales person about the Good Omens book. Later I had a few discussions with an artist in San Fransisco about “The Color of Magic” and the possibility that there is indeed more then dark and light (or good and bad) in relation to magic… now I’m starting with my second discworld book, “The Light Fantastic”.

Toko

In Delft there is a nice shop called Xotus. It is a big garden center with lots of exotic plants and flowers and also a big Asian supermarket. Here I like to buy boxes of Bapao’s in the flavor chicken or beef. I avoid the pig flavors because a pig is an impure animal.

In addition to Bapao’s I like to try new things, so usually I also buy some weird unknown product. Sometimes I make bad choices because the packaging normally does not contain any information in Dutch or English about the contents. I once bought a big carton with little river lobsters, just to find out that they are probably not meant for eating because they contain very little meat. Probably they were just for decoration. Once I got hold of a big bag of frozen duck tongues but luckily I realized it was something weird right there in the shop and could return the bad to its original place.

But usually the food I try is pretty good… pieces of crab leg that need to be fried, scrimp, strange egg-roles… they all contribute to the risk distribution I try to accomplice with the food I consume.

My last purchase was a bag of deep frozen product. The bag had Chinese text on it, so I just had the image to go on. The image contained a nice plate full of rice and vegetables. I thought it would be a bag of ready made rice, so I bought it. But no… the image on the package was again some optical illusion and it contained only frozen vegetables. The rice and the meat I had to arrange myself resulting in having to clean three pans instead of just one. Even worst, I need to return to the shop because I’m almost out of sate!

D. Trance 27

D-Trance 27!It was 1996.

There were just two sentences in English. Spoken with a very strong German accent. “Metamorphose is a physical and mental process able to genetically disfigure the starting structure. So as to tune your body into musical energy… this is metamorphose.”

The text did not make a lot of sense, but the strong German accent compensated for my lack of understanding. This was a song from my first (and Gary D.’s fourth) D.Trance CD.

Now, 8 years have past and the 27th D.Trance CD is being released. I’m happy because I can spend some happy times in my car driving and listening to the new beats.

Lucid Dreams scent inhaler

Lucid Dreams!In the US I had bought a scent inhaler in a bar where I spend 15 minutes sniffing up oxygen. I thought it would be a nice thing because I’m interested in dreams, but normally I don’t dream or I don’t remind what I have dreamed. Before I bought the inhaler I already enjoyed two strange dreams while I was traveling across America, so I figured that was something I would like to improve on.

Ever since I have the inhaler I sometimes sniff it before going to sleep, but until now the effect is absent. There is a different strange effect happening and that is that now sometimes I have some kind of smell flashback. It is just like I smell the inhaler even though if has a very strange smell that you normally don’t encounter.

Spanish tenant

Yesterday evening I met the Spanish girl that rented my apartment for a month. All I can say is that I was impressed.. impressed my the cleanness of my home when I arrived; impressed by the bottle of whiskey and the crate of beers that was left for me. And now I’m even more impressed because I was just offered some dried Mexican mushrooms. Nice for a tasty soup.

Koyaanisqatsi

In the US I bought a DVD by Francis Ford Coppola… Koyaanisqatsi – Life Out Of Balance. The music on the DVD is by Philip Glass, and this music is quite depressing but watching the movie at the same time quickly takes you to a special emotional state. All this because some ex colleague once told me about Philip Glass.

It is almost unimaginable that a movie that only contains images and music, without any spoken text, can point out so clearly that we are working hard to destroy our planet. It is probably better to focus on the description of the DVD cover. “Koyaanisqatsi contrasts the tranquil beauty of nature with the frenzied hum of contemporary urban society.”

Oh well, I’ll just go and sit in the sun for a while. :-p

Annarella

Lasciami qui
Lasciami stare
Lasciami così
Non dire una parola che
Non sia d’amore
Per me
Per la mia vita che
E’ tutto quello che ho
E’ tutto quello che io ho e non è ancora
Finita
Finita…