Hallowed be the coffee beans.

Sorry to come back with a rant

2011-01-31T13:08:27Z

but colleague,

when I spend the morning rescheduling appointments you accepted at the same time, I ask YOU to do the same for another date you screwed up, don't come to me for sympathy that you can't study during work time.

Do it right the first time.

Oh and thanks for screwing up what I asked twice before I took it back from you. You obviously can't be bothered today.

Football

2010-07-08T08:26:05Z

I second dallista's reverence to the physic octopus. I hope they don't 'accidently' drain his tank.;-)

I'm loving that the Dutch nation, for once is bummed out Germany lost.
All cuz they want revenge for 1974 (ànd 1978).
I'm amused because I seriously doubt the collective memory would be as vivid if it had been a disaster, but getting beaten at football...*shakes fist*;-P

But hats off to the Germans for their nice game!
Spain will be tough, but we have a chance.

Happy Birthday dallista.

2010-07-06T21:23:07Z

No mail I fear, the one time I think about a B-day...;-)
Anyway to compensate I called South Africa...;-)

May the next year be full of changes for the good!

This commercial break is NOT sponsored by Bavaria!

2010-06-20T16:36:36Z

but by me! Just for your amusement the Dutch commercials that make me giggle lately.

For all the kids who remember the sweaty backseat holidays in France
www.youtube.com/watch

Contrary to the commercial's intention I'd buy off this guy every time!
www.youtube.com/watch

And a commercial I haven't seem since babe-gate, two girls facing 6 months jail for wearing a dress without a even brandname...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrPlDVqO3I

http://budgie-uk.livejournal.com/1131303.html

2010-06-12T21:09:32Z

Fast Fiction Challenge 2010: Thirty Days... and Beyond?

FREE FICTION!!!
Now don't say I don't take care of you guys.
EDIT:

http://budgie-uk.livejournal.com/1131303.html

Better, Ozy?;-)

Moffat is a GOD.

2010-05-18T16:55:51Z

I see a roadtrip coming on!
www.whatsonstage.com/news/theatre/london/E8831274115261/Doctor%20Who%20Live%20Hits%20UK%20Arenas%20from%20October.html

Doctor Who Live Hits UK Arenas from October
Date: 17 May 2010A new stage show based on the BBC’s Doctor Who series will tour arenas nationwide later this year, opening at Wembley Arena from 8 to 10 October 2010.

According to publicity material, Doctor Who Live will comprise "a spectacular audio/visual experience featuring live music, special effects and appearances from the show’s most popular monsters".

Developed in association with Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat, the show will open in wartime London and feature Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels, Judoon and Oods, as well as specially filmed video scenes.

Moffat said: "This is everything I ever wanted since I was eleven. A live show, with all the coolest Doctor Who monsters, a proper story, and brand new screen material for Matt Smith's Doctor. I'll be writing scenes for it, and probably attending every single night."

The press release explains: "Doctor Who Live will feature special FX, optical illusions and spectacular pyrotechnics building to an epic finale. Specially edited video clips, drawn from the TV programme will be shown on a massive screen and accompanied by the music of longtime Doctor Who composer Murray Gold. These iconic scores will be brought to life by a 16 piece orchestra live on stage."

After Wembley, the tour, which is produced by BBC Worldwide, will visit Sheffield (12 & 13 October), Glasgow (14-17 October), Birmingham 18-20 October), Manchester (22-24 October), Nottingham (25 & 26 October), Cardiff (28-31 October), Liverpool (2 & 3 October) and Belfast (6 & 7 November).

Oh no...

2010-05-18T15:03:07Z

I just heard from my mum that a friend of my parents has died.
Only a little while ago she was planning a get together with his wife ( her friend from school ) and now the mourning card came.
He had heart problem but lately it all seemed to fine.

I can't concentrate now. He was 'one of the grown-ups', someone who as a kid I trusted completely because he was 'just like my dad'. Someone who was just there during my childhood, because there was no time where I did not know him.

And apart from the sadness I feel for him and the people who will miss him so dearly it also reminds me just a tad too vividly of my own parent's mortality.

Is it just me? TARDIS-Dalek lovebaby

2010-05-15T10:51:42Z

Or maybe it's just me getting a giggle out of the paper waste baskets at the Dutch train stations.

Because it makes me giggle.;-)

2010-05-13T20:06:40Z

For all you lovers of motherload of reality shows we've been getting recently or not...the new Heineken commercial:

Young at heart.;-)

2010-04-05T18:38:35Z

www.urlai.com/url/sgtsiler.livejournal.com

sgtsiler.livejournal.com is probably written by a female somewhere between 18-25 years old. The writing style is personal and happy most of the time.

Michel Fugain

2010-03-03T10:42:06Z

Bravo Monsieur Fugain, Chapeau, Monsieur Fugain!
I went to see Michel Fugain's concert yesterday.
If you could record the first decade of my life he'd be a big part of it. Now close to seventy in white pants and leather jacket he still can't hide the hippy inside, dancing around the podium singing with a voice that has lost nothing to age.
It was curious to see how many lyrics I still knew. I sang along to them long before I learned to speak the language while by now I have forgotten most of my French.
Inspired all I need now is a tent, a car, (preferably a 2CV,) my pocketknive (to open the local wine) and enough change to get me quite some way down the route du soleil.
Anyone?

NDW Labour pop!

2010-02-05T21:46:02Z

thanks to seanchaidh 's labour karaoke I remembered spend the evening going through eigthies German pop.
I almost forgot how populair Neue Deutsche Welle pop was and how much fun it is! I assume this never made it to Canada, but apart from that and the language barrier it is perfect!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OZREISON

2009-12-21T18:05:03Z

May your life be filled with kitties, doggies loving friends and loving hubbies...oh wait IT IS!! Big hugs, luvs ya! Kittyhaznoblame. I stoleth his bouncy.

Doctor Who Xmas squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

2009-12-14T15:10:57Z

How cute is this!!!

check out youtube for tiny follow ups of this

World Cup draw: I think we can!

2009-12-04T18:37:08Z

Well, we play:
Japan
Denmark
Cameroon

We should be able to manage methinks and if Cameroon is what I remember that should be a really cool game.

And also important: The music is gonna be really cool!!!

R.I.P. Ramses Shaffy

2009-12-02T00:48:53Z

The Dutch musical narrator of my youth has died.
May he truly rest in peace.

In his last years in his rest-home the strenght he always projected gone, this performance of a mellow song from decades ago still gets to me.

It is silent in Amsterdam,
The people have gone to sleep,
Hmmm, Hmmm,

The cars and cycles,
Are liveless things,
And the city now belongs,
the to few single people
like me,

Your,
From empty streets,
to be able to just talk to yourself aloud,
to be able to just sing to yourself aloud,
because the cars and the cycles,
are liveless things,

But the people have gone to sleep,
Hmmm, Hmmm,
It is silent there.
In Amsterdam.
And thank God nobody I met.

*cries*

It is silent in Amsterdam,
The people have gone to sleep,
Oohoo, Oohoo,
I light a cigarette,
And look at the water,
And think about myself,
And think about later,
I look at the clouds,
that are drifting past,
I'm then so afraid,
that the loneliness will stay,
That I will always will walk like this ,
at impossible hours,
that I will get used to it,
That this will keep on going,
When the people have gone to sleep,
Oohoo,
It is silent there.
In Amsterdam.
I wish I would finally
meet someone...

Queen with fur...

2009-11-26T08:30:04Z

If you wake up to this...it has to be a good day!

ROTFLOL

BBC TV Blah&Yay

2009-11-25T17:50:37Z

New series Paradox was as paradoxical as most of Alanis Morissette's song "Isn't it ironic" is ironic...
I gave it a go because of the trailers which promised dilemmas about when to intervene when one knows the future.
There was no dilemma, the question was not even asked. They were just too late.
Blah.
The basic plot device was a bore. They get a few pictures from the future, they tick the boxes identifying what they are and then try to intervene. No detecting, no clues, just:"Oh, this is a road sign"...boring.
The character were a bit characiture without any hint of silliness which might make it bearable. Broody arrogant geeky scientists make great Bond villains but leave them out of the serious series okay? And with Ashes to Ashes in mind and looking at this I start to wonder if all UK female police personnel actualy are self important b*tches...
Hopefully next week they will have a paradox but I'm not going to be around to watch it.

Shirley Bassey is a Goddess. I loved the Imagine documentary, the song and the lady herself. I want that CD, I want her to tour, I want to see her in concert.and my Lord I want to have her body when I'm 72. What a lady!!! She is one of those icons who without me really noticing has always been singing through my life. This documentary was brilliant as it only slightly covered her history but showed her struggling with the music, lyrics and recording techniques she was not used to and succeeding at it.

Ebil kitty being ebil.

2009-11-23T19:52:31Z

Just so you know I am alive something which amuses me.

Dutch sayings in English.

2009-11-22T11:56:27Z

Mildly entertaining but I'm always amused by Dutch mistakes English. In honour a new icon with one of the best I heard where a Dutch high military figure welcomed a visiting foreign guest.

Speed skating...red is not fast says Nike

2009-10-31T15:19:46Z

WTF???

Nike will not make speed skating suits in our national colours because the printing process for red makes it less fast?
WTF??? Oh and they don't make them to for the person personally anymore and they are unreliable in sizing?

Why are we still doing business with these idjits???

Nike...just scr*w it.

Dear Brits, I apologise.

2009-10-16T12:14:19Z

Geert Widers is a sad bastard.
I hope you nick him smuggling or jay-walking or insulting the Queen.
And yes... I think he has the right to free speech but I feel horrible inflicting his garbage on you guys.
Personally I think the peroxide ate away at his brain, because his ideas are stupid, shallow minded and discriminating.

Just because it makes me smile.

2009-10-16T11:06:32Z

It's an oldy but I think it is really cute. For the gamers amongst you:

Obama wins Nobel Peace Price.

2009-10-09T10:53:02Z

Don't get me wrong. I like the guy and he makes me hopeful for USA-global relations, something I haven't felt in oh eight years.

But when I read the headline "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples" it translated in my head to "apologising for the last guy". Basically he has not had time to get anything done yet. I hope he will, I'm fairly confident he'll try hard. Should he not get time first and a thank you after the fact?

This raises the question: should you get a Nobel Peace Price for apologising for Bush? Maybe you should!;-) Oh well, there have been weirder winners.

I wonder if tonight he'll be having a drink with Michelle, sigh and say:"It's verý nice, but honestly I'd rather have had the Olympics.";-)

WANTS...van Gogh's LJ

2009-10-07T21:32:02Z

www.vangoghmuseumshop.com/en-GB/ProductDetail.htm

16 kg of the complete collection of letters from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, with added pictures of paintings and art discussed, his own and work from others.
*drools*
Alas I must resist, plus they go online as well, but *keeps drooling*