De dag dat ik weer ga bloggen.

Dat is vandaag. Want ik mis het delen van onzinnigheden, zielenroerselen, maar ook muziek, kunst, recepten. Het is en blijft een koorts (c'est une fièvre). En, jawel, in het Nederlands.

Another Swedish band: Little Dragon

While being at the office writing, writing and writing we share a lot of music with eachother. And sometimes I hear some really great tunes. For example the Swedish (seems like i like everything Swedish...) band Little Dragon. Perfect music to listen and relax.



Since I found out I don't have a lot of money left in my pocket I decided I'm gonna stop spending for one month. Cheap meals, no drinking, no shopping, no coffees, etc. Let's see where it brings me...

Fail

I really fail in updating. THIS SHOULD STOP. TODAY!

I'm getting the itch here in the Netherlands and really want to travel again. Stockholm might be the next destination. Here some pictures of some of my last travels to Copenhagen & Malmö, Valencia & Barcelona and Lisbon & Aveiro. Yes, I always like to visit more than one place at the time.

Copenhagen

Valencia

Lisbon

Leather Jacket (Useless...)

My two favourite (leather)jackets had been stolen 2 months ago. Since then I'm searching for at least one replacement. Today was the day: I FOUND A NEW ONE. I think it's even better than my old ones. Fuckyeah.

Spill the beans

OK, I'm going to spill the beans. I'm not working while I should. My health is bothering me a bit, but it's not the actual reason. The main reason is the lack of focus. Or is that because of my health? I can't remember the last time I didn't have a cold. Acutally I should be used to it by now. Instead of working I'm trying to spend my time quite usefull. Cleaning, shopping, writing, taking pictures, making lists (you know, wishlists), browsing the internet to find some good music, booking holidays. Cause fuckyeah, I'm going to Portugal. After visiting a lot of lovely, interesting places in Scandinavia I decided to see the southern part of Europe with my own eyes. After Valencia and Barcelona in Spain it's Portugal's turn to have me around. So maybe some travel diary-blog post soon?

And about the music; WHAT A BAND IS THIS: Gotye. An amazing Belgian-Australian band. My favourite song till now is this one. I hate the video though. Go listen to it. This time without the video.

Besluiteloosheid

Het interesseert me eigenlijk niet zo hoeveel bezoekers ik nu heb. Ik zou er de statistieken op na kunnen kijken en een overzicht maken van de afkomst van de lezers. Hoogstwaarschijnlijk zijn de meesten niet Nederlands. Dus na wat gedraai en getwijfel, wat slapeloze nachten besluit ik van 'c'est une fièvre' een 'multilingual' blog van te maken. I have to think about how to do that though. I think I'll write in dutch and summarize the posts in english.

Nederlands?

Has been a while ago and a lot of things happened the last months. I'm gonna write it down later.
I'm thinking about starting to write my blog in dutch. Easier to explain myself. Although I'm improving my english. What about spanish?

Goodbyes

I have to say goodbye a lot lately. And if there is one thing I hate it is, you could guess, saying goodbye. Said it to everybody and everything that made this year special. But the good thing is that I'm having holidays right now (fuckyeah) and hopefully I will meet a lot of new people again.
Maybe I need to make plans, a list of stuff I really want to do during these free months. So I won't be bored. If you're interested in my 'thrilling' life stay tuned...

For now a picture I took some weeks ago in Almere. Love the reflection and angles of the building and the FLAT horizon. Makes me feel at home.

Guess who's back...

I'm back. Fuck yeah. ALMOST holidays and i'm so so so happy with that. Can't wait to visit both valencia and barcelona. Any suggestions?

One week...

To avoid that I haven't been updating for one week just a quick one this evening. I've been too busy last week.

I want a wall like this:

Pumped Up Kicks

Last night I went to Red Ribbon Rock with Laura and Anne. It was awesome. Nice weather, nice music, nice people, nice beers... Ilse and the rest of the crew did a good job.
Today we're going to see what Oddstream Festival will be like. It's a brand new multimedia festival in Nijmegen. I need to write an article. That's the only bad thing about it. Like I said before, I'm extremely lazy lately.

So for now this pretty cool song from Foster the People. Already heard it in Amsterdam. A deejay was playing it on the street. I couldn't get it out of my mind for the whole day, but didn't know the title and artist. But I found it anyway.

Buenos días

Lazy

I'm extremely lazy today. The weather is beautiful. I just slept outside for a while and baked pancakes for breakfast. That's pretty much it. I should go out and do something. And sorry for the lack of updates... I'm not so inspired lately.

Hello little heatwave!

A very very hot day today. Guess who needs to work? So no skirt. At least I'm glad I finish at 12 so I can go and have lunch with my beloved friends. And hopefully yoga in the park. Enjoy, pumpkins!

Longboarding

A few weeks ago I was in a skateshop in Groningen and completely fell in love with those longboards. Since then it seems like everybody around me has one. I would love to have a longboard myself and cruise around the city. The image is already in my mind.
Too bad I'm a dork riding it. Tried it but almost fell 10 times on a distance of 15 meters. I could learn it if I wasn't so afraid to really fall...

This is what me and my longboard would look like.

Crystal Fighters and Amsterdam

I'm totally blown away by the acoustic and spanish(!) version of xtatic truth. Yes, copenhagen's soundtrack.
I went to Amsterdam with Ilse and strolled around a bit, went for a little shopping and to see Ryan McGinley's pictures in real life. (Maybe more about this later.)
While trying on some dresses I noticed the guy in the shop was playing Crystal Fighters. I'm into their music, but was not a real fan. Well, after hearing the acoustic version of xtatic truth in spanish I definately am. I almost ran out of the fitting room half naked to ask the guy where I could find the song. I knew it was not on the original album. And indeed, it was a bonus track.
This version will be amsterdam's soundtrack from now on I guess. I'm still looking for a download of it. Now you can listen to this wonderful piece of art, cause that's what it is in my opinion, by clicking here.

Thoughts of a 17 year old

I wanted to see how one of my old blogs looked like and read what was in my head when I was seventeen years old. It's a good thing to notice I didn't stand still and changed a lot in these last 5 years. Probably I felt like a confused, messy rebel according to some writings. A rebel with love issues?

De zoetste liefde
Heeft de bitterste nasmaak.

It means: The sweetest love has the bitterest aftertaste. Actually it doesn't make sense to translate it. Some lines you can only say in the original language. With my heart broken once at that time, -Hopefully it stays like that.- I can not really tell if it's true, but it's just what I thought.

Picture time

Yes, it's me on the suniest and cosiest balcony of Groningen. Please don't mind my just-came-out-of-bed-face and -outfit.

Short shorts

Also a good day to wear short shorts.

What a shame

Last update was on sunday. I guess it was the weather which made me think of other things than my blog. (Feel free to fill in yourself what it was.)
Tomorrow it has been two years ago since Martin Bril died. One of my favourite writers of all times. I guess it will 'rokjesdag' or skirts day tomorrow as some kind of ode to him.