| Editorial - 28 November 2006 |
| I think I know what the post-office boys have concocted to make money
from when our postalmarket will be open for competition. Extort people out of their money in
conjunction with customs. Fuckers. Bought a few comicbooks from Canada for around 45 euro. Parcel was sent last thursday and arrived in Belgium friday-evening (how's that for speed !). Sure, okay, weekend ... no problem, but the non arrival on monday is already an indication of the slowness of our postalservice. When the computers have a whole weekend to sort the package, and it's being delivered on your doorstep during the day - and not just in the morning - is it then too bold to assume that it could've been delivered on monday ? Nope, tuesday ... So what have they been doing with it during the extra day ? Calculating the highest possible amount of money to extract from my wallet ... being 24 euro. That's just utterly insane. A little over half the value of the contents of the parcel ! Where do they get the idea of taxing me more than 50 percent ? Again ... fuckers. |
| Editorial - 27 November 2006 |
This must be one of the weirdest searches ever that led to my website.
Especially since I never post stuff like that. Porn. Pron. Pr0n. You know. This editorial is
going to give me lots more of those searches, but come on ... you can clearly see on the
resultspage that this site is about something else. You're welcome, but there won't be any
"bad girls getting bare asses spanked while sleeping" here. Is that even possible ?
Don't they wake up then ? Can't you grasp that it's staged ? click image for more |
| Editorial - 24 November 2006 |
| Now let me see ... what did I do yesterday-evening ? I went to Het Stuk with Franky and Eden because we were invited by Adriaan Van Den Hoof for drinks after the show by stage-company De Roovers. Joining us there were Veerle Dobbelaere, Sarah De Bosschere and Luc Nuyens (all part of De Roovers in one time or another) and Jimmy Dewit and Frank Somers, the other two thirds of Discobar Galaxie. After an hour or two we all decide to go to one of Leuven's most famous bars De Colff where Buscemi was spinning the tables in a DJ set. Had a lot of fun just hanging around, talking about PC versus Mac with Jimmy, about the play with Luc, about blogging with Veerle, and enjoying the music with Adriaan and Sarah. Now how's that regarding hipness ? Just one more thing ... it was much too late to go to bed and get up around half past six ... and yes, this post is slightly sarcastically aimed at all those who post pictures or stories of famous people they meet in Brussels, elevators, shops, parties ... |
| Editorial - 23 November 2006 |
Someone had the idea of photographing everything you eat this week and
post pictures on your blog. If you eat strange and funky stuff, or enjoy exotic dinners and
alluring beverages, it might make sense. But when you're hard at work stripping wallpaper in
your house and don't want to take time to make elaborate dishes, you'd end up with pictures
like these ... |
| Editorial - 16 November 2006 |
| Hmmm, this trailer just wet my appetite a little more. Damn, that song
seems to work with anything ... Now I want Project Gotham Racing 3, Perfect Dark Zero, Tony Hawk's Project 8 and this one : Gears Of War. Too much ... and I don't even have the money for the console in the first place. Stupid stupid stupid ... Damn you, corporate marketing whores ! Damn you, game developers ! Damn you, Microsoft ! And damn me, for falling for it. Oh and while we're at it, damn you, Tim Buckley from Ctrl-Alt-Del with your goofy comics ! |
| Editorial - 15 November 2006 |
| Just a short message to state that I don't care about the election for flemish blog of the year, but I do dislike the way it's been handled. Too vague. I have stated most of my claims as comments on other people's blogs - especially those who have expressed their views on the failure of this election (1, 2, 3, 4) - and I will not go into it again. Won't do any linking to them either as that's kinda what the organisers are hoping for. By the way ... don't newspapers give credit to other people's ideas anymore when writing an article ? |
| Editorial - 13 November 2006 |
Just found an excerpt from an interview Rolling Stone magazine had with
Jon Stewart
and Stephen Colbert.
They also had a little stand off - video style - concerning real issues (north korea, internet, iraq, gays, the
election) to decide who's the real american anchorman. As usual worth the view ... and that's
the truthiness. |
| Editorial - 11 November 2006 |
| Threw some new photosets online. Have been doing a lot of editing inbetween
several shoots and lessons. I knew in advance these two weeks would be too hectic, but since no one
else was showing interest in going, I felt I kinda had to go. Doesn't hurt that I like lotsa kinds
of music these days - makes it almost every time enjoyable. First was the double cd-presentation from Briskey and Buscemi. I've always liked Buscemi's warm samba-sound and his live-sets are enough to get anyone going. Too bad some many people think he's just another DJ. They probably like Tiësto better. Underdeveloped breed ... (note to self : don't digress). Briskey was a welcome surprise. Sorta like Buscemi, but different. Pleasant surprise. Nice to see a music-journalist producing decent music. Having people like Isolde Lasoen back you up obviously helps.  And the photos from the opening day of Leuven's Skatepark are up as well. Got some nice ones, no thanks to the dreary white and gray skies washing everything out. Making things appear more bland than they were. Don't like it. Need more blue skies dammit ... (note to self : you're digressing again). I did some cropping on some of these pictures as too many times there were others in the frame as well - the park was filled with people - and they pull the attention away from the main subject. Same goes for the many viewers in the background. I'll need to go there again. |
| Editorial - 9 November 2006 |
| Was supposed to go to the Microsoft seminar today. Celebrating the launch of Live, Office 2007, Vista and Exchange (LOVE). Could've been interesting to see some new features and experience the buzz, but the girlfriend's cold is trying to invade my system as well. Best to stay inside for a day and beat it before it breaks out. I'll read about the new features online and regarding the buzz and Bill Gates' visit and speech ? Oh well, seen him already and I don't want to behave all fanboy-ish like any Apple geek does when he sees a glimpse of a photo of Steve Jobs' black turtleneck. Nope, us pc-users are a little more down to earth and cool. |
| Editorial - 5 November 2006 |
| Yesterday (and early this morning) was FRaNKy's birthdayparty. The man just turned 30. Which had to be celebrated in a cocktailbar with friends and a lot of drunk germans. It just ain't a party until some german friends drop a glass or two, innit ? Festivities held up until 5 o'clock in the wee hours of the next morning. Much too late to go ahead and install the spanking brand new Xbox 360 we all pitched in for. Couldn't let the man go home without a wireless controller and PGR3, could we ? Not when he's the zen-meister when it comes to driving all sorts of cars in its predecessor PGR2. Rumour has it though that he went home for a few hours this afternoon to install the thing and start playing before joining us in The Joker for another weekly night of stand up comedy. |
| Editorial - 2 November 2006 |
| Found an interesting video from an interesting song a few days ago on You
Tube. I wasn't going to be posting a lot of these here, but since I've sinned against that policy
in the last two weeks I might as well go all the way. Forget about the policy and the reason behind
it - being that you never know when such videos go offline and your daily post is screwed. Snow Patrol's video for "Chasing Cars". Ain't it great ? |
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