Little mystery.

Every now and then stacks of random books, dvd's and cd's show up in my living room by the quasi fireplace. Half of the time we don't know who puts them there, no-one's claimed them. 

The Doctor's Orders presents On The Real @ Plan Brixton

A bit late I know. But I've been busy, my laptop crashed and the end of the term is near, joy!

 

  

  

  

  

  

 

  

  

 

Music and things.

These tunes remind me of springtime and all the goodness it brings and they have been on mad repeat. As in I've been listening to these so many times it's just not sane anymore... Well fuck sane, I'm beyond ready for some frisky spring airiness, butterflies are popping tiny pills in my stomach just by listening to these tunes.   

I also rocked down to The Doctors Orders @ Plan B last friday to get my 90's OG hiphop on, I cannot even tell you how that night left me all giddy and wanting for more. Thanks Rod! More photos to come.

And I'm also very much looking forward to this. Braaaaap!

Hangover photo upload III

Oldskool hiphop @ Plan B - London, a new day, messing about with light, dubstep @ Pardiso - Amsterdam

Remedies.

So. Uni has started again and it's been timeconsuming and brainwrecking in the best way possible. Decision, decisions! I'm exhausted to the bone and like a lot of you I've had to overcome the horrendous autumn flu. These are some of the niceries that helped me get through it:

- Lots of glasses of hot water with slices of lemon, raw ginger and a scandalous fat chunk of set honey. The best immune system boosting and throat soothing elixir imo.

- Ofcourse oranges and punnets galore of whatever was on sale.
- 2 tubes of Bonjela.
- Lovely txts, BBM chats and e-cards.
- Definitely NOT running in skimpy trackshorts. *ahemstupid*

Audio/visual sexyness (click on images for more information)

- A stack of media including: 2 Lovers, Atonement, Brideshead Revisited, Perfume and new Dexter episodes.

- The new autumn&winter 2009 issues of:

The prospect of going to the highly anticipated ADE with friends: (oh come come come along if you can)

Jiggy Dje's:

Lucious feelgood London vibe supporting tunes like these:

Redlight - Feel So Good


Gracious K - Migraine Skank

Yann Arthus-Bertand's amazing Home Project
(watch it on the biggest screen you can find)

Thoughts of white beaches, clear seas, roots and this itinerary :)

-x- love -x-

5 Years of Party&Bullshit in Photographs

So after 2 weeks of touching base, enjoying the sun and getting sorted at the other homefront, I'm back in London. I'm one week away from starting my 2nd year at uni and regardless of how much fun I've had, I can't wait. One of the necessary things that needed to be done was to organize the contents of my laptop, discs and hard drives. I found out that I have more than 10.000 images on one of my harddrives alone! I got a request to gather all the pictures that I took and that were taken of my Dutch friends over the past years; a hommage style artwork is in order. So I set up a Flickr account, 400 images so far and counting. Looking over the series, a very predictible pattern of hanging, partying and bullshitting occures and I know, how many photographs can one take of a bunch of slackers getting smashed before it gets boring and repetitive, right? It's not at all the case, they're memory generating images of awesome people having fabulous times and as I can see ourselved growing progressively older, slower, fatter and wiser an eyewatering feel of nostalgia creeps up on me. So for those who haven't been around (for long) I've posted some previews of what's taken place in my world the past 5 years. I want to thank all of those in the Netherlands, the UK and New Zealand for contributing but above all praise to those who would allow me to steal their souls! Bedankt mensen, me love you longtime. -x-

Unfortunately summer's almost over but good vibes are all around still. Here's to old and new friends, family, weird strangers, good times, inspiration, hooking my moms up with her first iPod loaded with 55 years worth of music, getting things done, charging batteries and having my pills popped. 1love

UK - NL Hip Hop

Here's a bit of nostalgia for you. As I'm preparing to go back to the Netherlands for a holiday, I thought I'd show you this video that I found a while back. A couple of years ago, one of my favourite Dutch beatbuilders Kubus and in-your-face UK rapper/spoken word poet Bangbang started a collab and produced an album called Pie & Mash. Their track 'Camera' features one of my alltime favourite Dutch rappers Sticks (ex Opgezwolle member, current Fakkelbrigadier) who I've had a major -lyrical- crush on since 2001 - Spuugdingen Op Die Mic'. It's about stigmatization and the role of the media in several conflicts. This video was shot in the Netherlands and these visuals brings back mad memories of my old neighborhood West1 in DenBosch (NL) where I lived with my moms from 1988 untill 2001.

Notting Hill Carnival 2009

Since 1966, every August Bank holiday, west London streets turn from your average posh neighbourhood into an overwhelming colorful sea of dancing, laughing, shouting, pulling and celebrating people. With a 20 mile route, 40 earrupturing soundsystems, hundreds of carribean food stalls, 40,000 volunteers and over 1 million visitors this is the largest street festival you'll come across in Europe. Last year I arrived in London 1 day too late so I had my Notting Hill Carnival cherry popped today. Normally, just the word carnival alone makes me puke but this was beautiful, I don't know how else to describe it. The energy was extroardinary. There were masses of healthy looking people, having a dance, a laugh, a smoke. It's amazing to see so many people simultaniously letting go, no shame, no fear. And the weather was fabulous! And the food, ahhh.... I'm knackered, I lost my voice, my feet and leg joints are busted, I ate/drank more than I probably should (*EDIT* I also broke a tooth and when the bus broke down in the middle of the road on my way back home, I accidentally stabbed a guy in the head with one of my nails :s) but it was very much worth it, can't wait untill next year and you should come too! x