Amsterdam, Overtoom Caramba

Amsterdam branding

Uh Huh Me!

Ticket for PJ Harvey and John Parish at Paradiso, Amsterdam in May. Check.
Polly Jean H. Check
John Parish. Check. Well... yes, the guy who...well... will tour with PJ Harvey? The guy called John?

Ok, Wikipedia. Check. John, John, John:

Co-producing PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love (1995). Yo, check.
On which he also played guitar, drums, percussion and organ. Really?
Producing in 1997 16 Horsepower's album Low Estate? Äh?
Guesting on Goldfrapp's album Felt Mountain. Nee, toch?
Producing Dionysos, Monsters in Love (2005). Ah, ben merde, alors ! (this is Belgian French).
His song "Boxers" covered by Howe Gelb. Howe Gelb? Uh Huh Me!

Broken Cups (2)

Well the swing set is rusted,
The picture frame's cracked,
The photos have all faded to gray.
The faces you trusted,
Just never came back,
Yes childhood has eroded away.
And the songs that your mother sang,
As she rocked you to sleep,
You howl out of tune when you're drunk.
Wear good shoes on these streets,
Or you'll soon cut your feet,
On a piece of the broken cup.

After so many Johns and Janes,
Have stained your sheets,
Is it habit or thirst brings them back?
After so many pipers,
Have played on these streets,
Who is missed more, the children or the rats?
Yes we've traded our toy choo-choo trains,
And rosary beads,
For a bottle of gin and a fuck.
Now we sit 'round the bar,
Proud of how bored we are,
As we drink from our broken cup.

We sing, "everything, everything, everything,
Is now permitted.
All the oaths we've taken,
Have been graciously forgotten,
And every sin, every sin,
Is now forgiven."
And every sip somehow tastes rotten.

So let's drink to the men,
Who forgot what they lost.
They've got the best shoes that money can buy.
And a toast to our impotence,
Our cowardice, our sloth,
Nothing matters, why bother to try?
And three cheers for Mary,
Our virgin, our whore.
If she favors you, it's just dumb luck.
Now I'll lift up my glass,
To a life on our ass.
Brothers, lift your cup high,
While your waiting to die,
May we all find a trace,
A faint echo of grace,
Through the crack in our broken cup.

Broken Cup - Jason Webley

One More Cup Of Coffee 'fore I Go (1)

Your breath is sweet
Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky
Your back is straight your hair is smooth
On the pillow where you lie
But I don't sense affection
No gratitude or love
Your loyalty is not to me
But to the stars above

One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go.
To the valley below.

Your daddy he's an outlaw
And a wanderer by trade
He'll teach you how to pick and choose
And how to throw the blade
He oversees his kingdom
So no stranger does intrude
His voice it trembles as he calls out
For another plate of food.

One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go.
To the valley below.

Your sister sees the future
Like your mama and yourself
You've never learned to read or write
There's no books upon your shelf
And your pleasure knows no limits
Your voice is like a meadowlark
But your heart is like an ocean
Mysterious and dark.

One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go.
To the valley below.

Bob Dylan

Sandrine dances 4u

Texel Log I

Dialoog:

Sandrine!
Ko?
- Ik ben helemaal nat.
- Lekker.
Sandrine!
Kater?
- Ik ben helemaal droog.
- Mooi.

Ko!
Meisje?
- Ik ben helemaal nat.
- Lekker.
Ko!
Monster?
- Ik ben helemaal droog.
- Mooi.

Ko?
Ja?
- Volgens me ben je de grootste kiekendief ter wereld.

Steak for chicken

Mardi Gras came and went,
all my money has been spent.
How 'm I gonna pay the rent
sitting on -my ass/your face?

Who mistook the steak for chicken?
Who'm I gonna stick my dick in?
We're not those kids,
sitting on the couch.

My former life i -had a sister/was a high roller,
I abused her and I dissed her/walked my kids in a diamond stroller,
she got swept up in a twister/found my calling as a part time bowler
first I laughed and then i missed her/ traded my wife in for a new green roller.
Who mistook these baths for showers?
Who fucked up that leaning tower?
We're not those kids,
sitting on the couch.

Oh, get on a greyhound and ride away,
different dreams from yesterday/ live on birthday cake each day
tell your -grandma you're ok/grandparents that they're gay,
kiss her cheek/steal their money- and run away.
Me and my friends are so smart:
we invented this new kind of –darts/art
hit a bull's eye cut up heart/post modernist throwing darts
smoking crack and -cutting back/crack.
Who mistook this crap for genius?/who is dancing on the ceiling?
Who is gonna stroke my penis?/who is gonna hurt my feelings
We're not those kids,
sitting on the couch,
sitting on the couch.

Oh -even your mother is a crook/people are shiny like a brand new book
but if -I get/you take- a closer look
there's shit on every -road you took/hand you shook
You don't believe me?
Read the book/Look at your hand.
Who made all these things for killing?
Whose -empty heart/pussy hole- needs filling?
We're not those kids,
sitting on the couch.

Who mistook the steak for chicken?
Who'm I gonna stick my dick in?
We're not those kids,
sitting on the couch x 4.

The Moldy Peaches

JUYD in de proeftijd @ Café Proef

Date: Sunday, October 26 2008

Event time: 5 pm

Location:

Proef Eten & Drinken

Overtoom 160, Amsterdam

http://www.proefeten-drinken.nl/

Event Details

Jazz Up Your Dutch nog in de proeftijd @ Café Proef

Vanaf 5 uur wordt onze Nederlands weer op de proef gesteld. Op maat proeven we van de elleboog tot aan de mond van volgende worden: Ankerbok, Jopenbok, De Leckere Bok, Chouffebok, Branddubbelbok. We nemen dus bier als rode draad en kijken hoe het zo zit met onze Nederlandse en verdere 22 bieren koud van de tap. Een dubbel proef avontuur voor de tong.

Een een nieuw proef avontuur voor het oor: Ook vanaf 5 uur wordt lekker geproefd van de jazz trio en jamsessie in deze moderne bruine café.

Let´s celebrate the letter Z!

ZZ Top chrono: Zo starts our news time. Back from holiday since… mmh… 3 weeks. I was starring at the sea, starring at the sun for almost 2 weeks, with a gorgeous bike tour through the Landes, and minimal landscape impressions. To the left: deep blue - the ocean. To the right: deep green – the forest. To the sky: 360° cyan vision. To the ground: nothing but brown sugar. Ducks are still sweet and delicious in France, Toulouse still red, Marseille still hot. Battery charged.

Zweet home: Finally found a new place to move to, in the heart of Amsterdam … with a garden. New address: Wilheminastraat 98 HS, 1054 WN Amsterdam.

Zarathoustra: Still has something to say and recommends a book for all and nobody.

With “Dans, dans, dans” by Haruki Murakami will be danced in step. Of the Dolphin hotel, of a reunion with the mysterious Shepherd, of bizarre meetings with an attractive and nervous concierge, of a one-armed American poet, of a spleenish teenager, of a frustrated actor and a charming call girl, of a smug writer. Michael Jackson walks to the moon as Abyssinian prince and Boy George falls from the sky. Of borders between dream and reality, of the search for human contacts in the hypercapitalistic society. Of dancing as long as the music goes, an adventure for your literate foot: C’est la valse à mille temps.

Zooropa: Still planning to go to Germany: Wuppertal, Oberhausen, Cologne, Bonn. Let’s say November.

0: Points at work.

@ the Zoo: Zebra? A song. 2:15 minutes on “69 Love Songs” by the Magnetic Fields. Also gorgeous: Underwear, Blue You. Zébu? Et j´ai plus soif. For language handicapped fellows and phonology aficionados : Zébu > J’ai bu. I have drunk, so I am not thirsty anymore. Sorry.

jaZZ & muZic: SMV blew up my mind yesterday at Paradiso, Amsterdam. Victor Wooten for the 4th time live, Marcus Miller for the 2nd, and hello? Mr. Stanley Clark is nothing but a titan on bass and double-bass. Attending soon: Victor Bailey, Asia Dub Foundation, Hop Chips, New Model Army.

Zoiets: Or Something approaching a heartbeat of 1.808 beats/sec.

Zut alors!: I missed the apparently excellent exhibition “It´s not only Rock&Roll, baby” in Brussels, and the chance to see my beloved Belgian fellows. Very soon in the country of beer and fries again, probably before the end of the year.

Zapping to Zack, Zack: In contact with a music channel based in Amsterdam. Maybe an opportunity to get even more involved in live music. Let’s see what happens on coming Thursday.

Zenith & zodiac: We had full moon on Sunday 14th Sept. I turned 30 this month.

Zone, musical: An area where parking is allowed for a certain period of time. Starting my Electronic Music production course next week at the SAE institute.

Z: Who's Zed? - Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

Lost Highway (1): août/sept. 2008 (Landes/Provence)

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Amsterdam-Bruxelles (retard train, avion râté à Bruxelles).
Bruxelles-Paris (itinéraire changé pour Paris en Thalys).
Paris-Dax en train.
* Rejoint Jen à Dax (Landes, Aquitaine, France), 2 jours chez PO et Joanna.

Rando dans les Landes: mer et forêt de pins, sur un tapis de bruyère rose.
En vélo/à pied avec Jen: env. 125 km au total, 30 km en voiture, 95 km en vélo et à pied.

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Itinéraire :

A) Saint-Paul-lès-Dax
* Plage Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains

B) Dax
C) Soustons
* Saint-Paul-lès-Dax-Soustons en voiture avec PO et Joanna.
D) Port d´Albert
E) Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains

F) Messanges-Plage


G) Moliets-Plage
H) Lac de Léon
* 29 km, nuit au lac de Léon

I) Saint-Girons-Plage

J) Lit-et-Mixe
* 31 km, nuit à Lit-et-Mixe. Et quelle nuit... Caravane trouvée in-extremis, 10 Eur., pizza, nuit glaciale, café brûlant.

K) Cap-de-L´Homy-Plage

L) Contis-Plage
* Phare de Contis

M) Lespecier
N) Mimizan-Plage
* 35 km arrivée à Mimizan
* Rejoint Natasha, 3 jours à Mimizan avec Natasha, Jen.

Mimizan-Bordeaux en car avec Jen.

* 1 journée à Bordeaux. Adieux sur la Place de la Victoire. Jen : direction Dax près une nuit à Bordeaux, moi : direction Toulouse.

O) Bordeaux-Toulouse en train
*Rejoint Isabelle. 1 journé/1 nuit à Toulouse

P) Toulouse-Marseille:
* 1 semaine à Marseille (Sugiton, Cassis depuis la route des crêtes, En-Vau, Le Vieux-Port de jour et de nuit, Le Panier, la Pointe Rouge)


Q) Marseille-Eindhoven-Amsterdam

Jazz Up Your Dutch in taaltherapie @ Vondelpark

Date: Saturday, July 26/2008

Eventime: 7 pm

Address: Vondelpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Location: Meet directlz at the coffee house in front of the stage, upstairs.

Event Details
JUYD heeft helaas last van hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliofobie en moet in taaltherapie.
Vanaf 19.00 uur proberen we weer lekker lange nederlandse woorden uit te spreken om onze ziekte te bekampen. Met een drink in het zomerzontje.
Vanaf 21.00 is Eric Koller aan de buurt. Helaas ook ziek, maar met een niew programma.

ERIC KOLLER - Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliofobie
Na het overweldigende succes van ’Fool Koller’ speelt de nerderlandse theaterpersoonlijkheid Koller een nieuw programma. Hij wordt vergeleken met Mr. Bean en zijn voorstellingen zouden geïnspireerd zijn door Waardenberg en De Jong. Koller vervaagt weer op cartooneske wijze de scheidslijn tussen tragiek en hilariteit. Er is geen lijf zo elastisch als dat van Koller en zijn mimiek is bijna legendarisch. Is deze man een nijlpaar? Dat is nu vraag. Tot zaterdag volgend woord lekker oefenen: Hip-po-po-ta-mus.

New home wanted in Amsterdam

Hoi Amsterdam-based People,
 

I am looking for a new rental, on my own or to share on a civilized basis (up to 2 persons?) in Amsterdam. So, if you hear of something, if your friends hear of something, if the friends of your friends (who would be my friends...) hear of something... if God hears of something... you understand: that would be fantastic.
Thanks!

Let´s celebrate the letter H!

Home bitter home: I did find a lovely place for me in Amsterdam, but I will not be able to buy it for very obscure reasons. Patience, I say. Last week, I graduated as a voodoo master, and burned 40 puppets at the effigy of my bank advisor.

Home virtual Home: Still working on my website… Link follows very soon.

Hoi Ahoy: North Sea Jazz coming. More in the mood for fusion, jazz-rock, electronic jazz, not talking about core content like Charles Lloyd, Herbie Hancock, Sergio Mendes, Angie Stone, George Benson, Deodato, Victor Wooten, Angélique Kidjo, Phil Woods, Maceo Parker, Zappa, The Mars Volta. Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, C-Mon & Kypski, DJ Maestro featuring Rik Mol & Ro Krom, and DJ Tin Tin sound interesting. I finally decided to stay over in Rotterdam for 3 days, instead of travelling back and forth. This will be the occasion of a bit of city seesighting. Rotterdam being for Netherlands almost the same as the Ruhr area for Germany, it sounds very promising to me. I am already looking forward to seeing the port, great modern architecture, the Kubuswoningen etc.

Ha Ruhrgebiet! I will be soon in Wuppertal and Bonn/Cologne in September again. I hope to meet you all.

Heart & Ears: Beating at a pace of 8/4 beats/min. And every step a broken beat. Ears-related only: I am attending Massive Attack next week, Radiohead on the grass with a bottle of red wine and some nice music fellows, and SMV feat. Stanley Clark, Victor Wooten & Marcus Miller in Sept.

Holidays: Arriving in Dax on 23rd of August, I will be surfing on cold waves in Mimizan at the end of August, and on cool vibes in Marseille at the beginning of Sept. I plan to bike from Dax to Mimzan along the coast, between 2 colored strips: sea and forest, under a bleeding sun.

Headaches: Not recently.

Hup Germany hup! …tonight, risking a lot for supporting beloved Germany in Holland.

Hoi! From Amsterdam

News time

My Friends,

Let's celebrate the letter H.

Home bitter home: I did find a lovely place for me in Amsterdam, but I will not be able to buy it for very obscure reasons. Patience, I say. Last week, I graduated as a voodoo master, and burned about 40 puppets at the effigy of my bank adviser.

Home virtual Home: Still working on my website… Link follows very soon.

Hoi Ahoy: North Sea Jazz coming. More in the mood for fusion, jazz-rock, electronic jazz, not talking about core content like Charles Lloyd, Herbie Hancock, Sergio Mendes, Angie Stone, George Benson, Deodato, Victor Wooten, Angélique Kidjo, Phil Woods, Maceo Parker, Zappa, The Mars Volta. Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, C-Mon & Kypski, DJ Maestro featuring Rik Mol & Ro Krom, and DJ Tin Tin sound interesting. I finally decided to stay over in Rotterdam for 3 days, instead of travelling back and forth. This will be the occasion of a bit of city see-sighting. Rotterdam being for Netherlands almost the same as the Ruhr area for Germany, it sounds very promising to me. I am already looking forward to seeing the port, great modern architecture, the Kubus-woningen etc.

Ha Ruhrgebiet! I will be soon in Wuppertal and Bonn/Cologne in September again. I hope to meet you all.

Heart & Ears: Beating at a pace of 8/4 beats/min. And every step a broken beat. Ears-related only: I am attending Massive Attack next week, Radiohead on the grass with a bottle of red wine and some nice music fellows, and SMV feat. Stanley Clark, Victor Wooten & Marcus Miller in Sept.

Holidays: Arriving in Dax on 23^rd of August, I will be surfing on cold waves in Mimizan at the end of August, and on cool vibes in Marseille at the beginning of Sept. I plan to bike from Dax to Mimizan along the coast, between 2 colored strips: a blue one (the sea) and a green one (the forest), under a bleeding sun.

Headaches: Not recently

Hup Germany hup! …tonight, risking a lot for supporting beloved Germany in Holland.

Jazz Up Your Dutch @ Openluchttheater

Date: Friday 27 June 2008

Event time: 8 pm

Location: Vondelpark, Amsterdam

Event Details
Jazz Up Your Dutch gaat undercover in open lucht dansen! Gehuld in boerka, en in trance.

Vanaf 8 pm: lekker Nerderlands praten.
Om 9 pm trekken we onze borka aan, voor drie choreografieen met de dansgrope KRISZTINA DE CHÂTEL.

De van oorsprong Hongaarse Krisztina de Châtel heeft de afgelopen dertig jaar ruim vijftig choreografieën en twee dansfilms gemaakt. In haar voorstellingen gaan dans, muziek en beeldende kunst een samenspel aan.

BOERKA IN LANDSCHAP
Een gezichtsloze danseres, gehuld in boerka, doemt op uit de verte. Ze tast de omgeving af - op zoek naar een uitweg - en stuit op een muur die haar begrenzing vormt. Krisztina de Châtel maakte deze solo voor danseres Francesca Monti en de ruimte van Museum Belvédère in Heerenveen. Een grote glazen muur en de oneindige Hollandse horizon vormden belangrijke ingrediënten voor de choreografie. Speciaal voor het Openluchttheater Vondelpark wordt de solo aangepast: nu wordt de omgeving van het Vondelpark betrokken in de choreografie.

Choreografie: Krisztina de Châtel
Dans: Francesca Monti,
Viool/altviool: Heleen Hulst
Muziek: György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages for Strings - een selectie uit de delen voor solo viool en solo altviool
Kostuum: AZIZ

GO:
Choreografie: Massimo Molinari
Dans: Francesca Monti
Muziek: Simeon ten Holt - fragmenten van Soloduivelsdans II, uitgevoerd door Polo de Haas (piano)
Kostuum: José Drabbe
Lichtontwerp:Bernie van Velzen

TRANZ
Choreografie: Alekszandr Szivkov
Dans: Alekszandr Szivkov
Muziek: Plastikman, Björk
Kostuum: Alex Kissel
Met dank aan Aryeh Weiner, Laura della Longa,
ArtEZ Dansacademie,
Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel

http://www.openluchttheater.nl/
http://www.dechatel.nl

Jazz Up Your Dutch @ The Karnatic Lab

Event Location
Badcuyp, Eerste Sweelinckstraat 10, 1073 Amsterdam
Meeting @ Zaal Noordpool

Event Time
Tuesday, June 10 2008

Event Details
Jazz Up Your Dutch goes scientific.

Na de de Bimhuis Dance & Music Labor op maandag, oefent JUYD in de in Karnatic Labor. Vanaf 19.00u
Een cultureel avontuur met musici en specifieke klassische muziekelemente uit Züd-Indiёn. De jongste ontwikkelingen in hedendaagse muziek en jazz met niet-westere invloeden worden in eigentijdse composities en improvisaties ten gehore gebracht door muziekanten o.l.v. van Ned McGowan en Gijs Levelt. Vanaf 20.30u

Jazz Up Your Dutch @ Bimhuis, Monday Match

Event Location
Bimhuis, Piet Heinkade 3 , 1019 BR Amsterdam
Meeting in Bimhuis Foyer

Event Time
Monday, June 02 2008, 7 pm

Event Details
Jazz Up Your Dutch is weer thuis bij het Bimhuis!
Verder op avontuur met mooie nederlandse klanken voor de tong en drankjes als dit helpt. Vanaf 19.00u.
En een passief avontuur voor het voet met de Dance & Music Impro Lab. Vanaf 20.30u. Na afloop 22.00u gratis DJ PHILIPPONA Jazz Lost & Found

Voor elke editie van Monday Match kiest een danser een musicus als partner, of omgekeerd. Dit tweetal bedenkt de invalshoek voor een uniek improvisation lab. Ter plekke creëren zij een inspirerende match voor performers en publiek.

Jazz Up Your Dutch @ Dwaze Zaken

Location

Dwaze Zaken, Eetkunst Café

Prins Hendrikkade 50, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, 1012 AC
http://www.dwazezaken.nl/

Event Details
Een avontuur vor het oor: Nederlands praten vanaf 7u30 en lekker live jazz bij luisteren vanaf 9 pm.
Een avontuur voor het oog: Een veelbelovend interieur en op de expositiemuur in mei: San de Vries

Next Public Transport Station

Centraal Station

Meeting point

Meet directly at Dwaze Zaken

Koninginnedag 2008

Aujourd'hui, nous fêtons la fête nationale néerlandaise, le Koninginnedag, jour de la Reine. Célébrée depuis 1949 le 30 avril, date d'anniversaire de la reine Julianna (la fête nationale était célébrée précédemment le 31 août, date d'anniversaire de la reine Wilhelmina). La journée est ponctuée de diverses festivités, notamment la Koninginnenacht et surtout un marché au puces géant dans toute la ville. La tradition veut que, le jour du Koniginnendag, tous les citoyens soient libres de vendre et pratiquer un commerce de rue sans autorisation. Chacun y va de son marché ambulant, un immense marché au puces se met en place. Le Jordaan est l'un des quartiers les plus populaires pour cette brocante géante, et le Vondelpark est réservé aux enfants. Tout le monde s'habille, se teint les cheveux ou porte des accessoires orange, la couleur de la maison royale.

Avant que la fête nationale ne coïncide avec l'anniversaire de la Reine, la fête nationale tombait le 18 juin, date de la bataille de Waterloo et de la fin de l'occupation des troupes françaises napoléoniennes, événement qui tomba finalement en désuétude. Le 31 augustus 1885 est organisé le premier 'Jour de la Princess' Wilhelmina qui fêtait alors ses 15 ans. Le jour de ses 18 ans, la princesse Wilhelmina devient Reine et depuis, le Jour de la Reine est alors fêté tous les 31 août. Lorsque la Reine Juliana succède à sa mère Wilhelmina en 1948, le Jour de la Reine est fêté le jour de son anniversaire, le 30 avril. A sa succession, Beatrix, la Reine, actuelle, décide de conserver cette date l'honneur de sa mère, son propre anniversaire tombant d'ailleurs un 31 janvier, une date bien moins pratique pour des festivités de plein air.

Chaque année, la Reine rend personnellement visite à deux villes ou villages des Pays-Bas. Cette année : Makkum and Franeker

Pasée chez T. et revenue de mes périgrinations jordaaniennes avec le vinyle Born In The USA de Bruce Springsteen.

Jazz Up Your Dutch @ Cotton Club

Location
Cotton Club, Nieuwmarkt 5, 1001 JP Amsterdam, meet directly there.

Event Details

Nederlands in de praktijk vanaf 3.30 uur, jazz sessie van 16:30 tot 20:00 uur. Na het Bimhuis een de Badcuyp verhuist JUYD naar de Cotton Club, een plek met een rijke geschiedenis in Amsterdam. Line-up voor zat. 03/05 nog niet bekend

Hola amigos!

The ones who still withstand the English language and furthermore impersonal mails must bear with me. Please commit to this mail, we all go global. The replies will be in your very local languages and moods.

I´ll change my job! I said farewell (or Fahr zur Hölle? I cannot remember exactly) to my former employer yesterday, and will start working as a Product Manager for a music and web based portal as of April. Classic music, opera and jazz as key products at the moment. Upcoming: worldmusic, film music, electro etc. Plus all desktop applications, live streaming, event mgt etc. And this in… Amsterdam. Yes, this is the chance of my life. Yes, I am flying somewhere in the hyper sky…

I have a terrible new haircut and I was ill (no causal relation). I could hate the hairdresser at Elandsgracht if I did not know that time repairs almost everything in life.

In the musical pipeline: The Black Crows, Nick Cave, dEUS in April, Einstürzende Neubauten in May. All these venues with friends from Germany or Amsterdam, I cannot wait to see you all again.

I also discovered the excellent Wicked Jazz Sounds parties taking place in different locations in Amsterdam: wicked people dancing on wicked sounds, in wicked locations. Tomorrow again, dancing like King Leer.

Finally, I plan to go to North Sea Jazz (excellent line up this year! Okko? Hurry up: Early birds pay less), eventually Graspop Metal Meeting (Grigou: j´attends ta réponse, Volker Blauaugen: Interessiert?), and Lowlands for (almost) sure.

I am still living with my 6 Dutch fellows. I could hate my room if I would hate the hairdresser at Elandsgracht. I am looking forward to buying a flat in the very next future. I am wondering if banks will love me as much as I hate the hairdresser at Elandsgracht. Sounds like settling down here, found the city of my heart.

Jazz Up Your Dutch is not dead. Next meeting next week. This is the funny linguistic/musical group I set up 2 months ago. Basically we - reads people believing that they can learn Dutch in the Netherlands, speaks almost only American and English freaks, with me acting as a French diplomatic interface, this must have a deep political signification - meet twice a month at the Bimhuis. First we drink, then we try to speak Dutch, then we drink more, and we finally attend the jazz sessions at 10 pm. Non-native Dutch speakers in Amsterdam are welcome, native speakers as well: this may hurt your ears, but open your eyes to undiscovered linguistic possibilities in life.

What else? Short visit to Dublin 3 weeks ago. I canceled my Easter vacation in Marseille this week to search for eggs in Amsterdam.

Ach my friends! What about you?

Even krassen?

Jazz Up Your Dutch @ Bimhuis [reloaded]

Date
Tuesday, April 08 2008, 8 pm

Location
Bimhuis, Piet Heinkade 3, Amsterdam

Event Details
Jazz Up Your Dutch is the former group "Nerderlands in de praktijk". Shimon has no time anymore to organize the meetings, so here I am.
Samen Nerderlands praten, met een jazz session aansluitiend. Een leuke oefening, toch! Vanaf 8 uur s´avonds, twee keer per maand. Ofzo.

Throwing My Arms Around Paris (3)

Morrissey à l´Olympia, Paris, 04.02.2008 - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

Throwing My Arms Around Paris (2)

Morrissey at Olympia, Paris, 04.02.2008 - Death of Disco Dancer

Throwing My Arms Around Paris (1)

2008, 02/02: Amsterdam, Utrecht, Antwerpen, Brussels, Paris
2008, 02/05: Paris, Brussels, Antwerpen, Utrecht, Amsterdam

Meeting Audrey, Aurélyien, Oscar, Pierre, Sven
Got Sven´s new photos dedicated
Saw Oscar´s first steps

Morrissey´s gig:

Black and white picture of young Sacha Distel.
French song played before the show: cover of "c'est le printemps" by Léo Férré?

Set list:

I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
How Soon Is Now?
Last Of The Famous International Playboys
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
That's How People Grow Up
Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed
The Loop
Sister, I'm A Poet
Death Of A Disco Dancer
Irish Blood, English Heart
All You Need Is Me
Life Is A Pigsty
Stretch Out And Wait
I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
Billy Budd
The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
Tomorrow
Something Is Squeezing My Skull
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want

// First Of The Gang To Die