!!! and C-mon and Kypski

Both of these badns were to be attended for free at Noorderzon. The first one was good, though short, because I had to go to London the next day, and the last one was just incredible. Nice light show, and party music, really go on!!

Are you experienced - William Sutcliffe

With mixed feelings I was reading this book and I still haven't quite figured out how I feel about it. In one way I agree with backpackers being terrible, but both the boys as the girls style is not my way. But I keep wondering, how did I do? How did I experience India? I recognize both the girl and the boy in their reactions, but still I have the feeling i did it differently.
But about the book; it's funny, entertaining and reads very fast.

Little Miss Sunshine

Sweet humoristic movie that resembles reality in a painful way. WHo is a looser, who is a winner. Dad in the movie has a special theory about that, but this doesn't prevent him from being, actually, a loser.

Ictus - Waits & Weil

My second show at Noorderzon in the Juliet tent. Fourteen people performing beautiful music in an excellent quality. Many many instruments, some humor, a crazy dirigent, nightingale singer, and someone that apparently can sing like Tom Waits without hurting his throat. Definitely worth paying for and a unique Noorderzon experience.
The band after it was somehow not very audible, so we just chatted and had a beer on one of the terraces. After that, Roos, Kristian and I went to the city, had a beer in het Pakhuis and went home.

Maf

Had a lovely dinner after a dissatisfying squash session. The meal of the day is cheap 8,50 for what you get.

het Nest - Sonsbeekfestival

Apparently Arnhem also has his own version of the parade; sonsbeekfetsival in the Sonsbeek park. Close to my parents place (Otterlo).
I only went there to see Katalijn performing some cabaret together with 12 other crazy people. It was nice to see her finally on stage by herself doing her things, it was moving, beautiful and funny altogether, not the least because she was doing it with two other nice performing women. We left early, but it is actually nice to spend the whole afternoon and evening. Nice arts, makes me happy :-)

Acrobat - Smaller Poorer Cheaper

Second night of Noorderzon and I was sitting in the Juliet tent watching naked man and naked woman doing incredible things with their body. As I am always a bit sceptic about nudity in theatre shows I was curious how this woudl turn out, as already in the annoucement it was said nudity appears, without having a legitimate excuse for it. OK, let's see. Id on't know if it was becasue I was prepared, or that it was just there and not like in some confronting plays, just halfway the end of the play someone undressing and stnading there for 2 seocnds. It was good.
Furhtermore they had very nice sometimes shocking sadistic pieces of art in it. To balance that with slapstick and just bizarre pieces. A man in a white trousers can literally walk on a rope to the ceiling, it appeared the rope is read, and a bag of red fluid was hanging at the top of the rope. This resulted in a body that got marked by the rope, as if he being punished.
A woman that rolls on his face just as easy as she rolls on her back.

well done people form melbourne!

Everything is Illuminated

I just finished reading Extremely loud and incredibly close and then a friend proposed to watch this movie. With Elijah Wood (how can he be free willy and frodo at the same time and still act someone else?) playing JOnathan Safran Foe, the actual writer of the book, or is het a pseudoniem? anyways. good movie, nice acting, nice shot material, aesthetically well, sometimes hard to follow, but that can also be becasue we were discussing too much.

Gingerbread man

THis movie was based on the novel by John Grisham. My father used to read a lot of books baout JOhn Gisham. But I think the books were more exciting than the movie, because there was though suspense no thrill. It was entertaining enough for sitting ona couch at a friends place while toher (better) movies and some yet unknown music was transferring to my laptop.

het pakhuis

This bar opened it's doors again about two months ago. I remember going there with Kirsten in one of my few visits to Groningen before I started living here. But it was closed down, despite the success of it, and luckily opened again. Just aftet it had opened I went there with Vence, then again with Sebastiaan about a week ago and then also last friday together with Froukje. THey have decorated it wel, play good music and the atmosphere is just right. The avergae age is about my age, whcih also makes it better.

Erin Brockovich

Besides having seen this movie already two or three times, it was a nice distraction from making my curtain (I am paitining a poem on my new curtain). It's a nice story, she is just tooo rude and honest and passionate and a nice lovestory besides that complete the picture.

El Txoko

This just opened tapas restaurant at the Kijk in't Jat straat is a good recommendation to all of you that like sophisticated food. It's also a new formula, with a bar that has all small kinds of toasts with a nice combination of tasteful ingredients on top of it. You save the sticks that are in it that represent a certain amount. Besides that you can also order warm tapas; patatas bravas of course and many fish and shrimp kin dof thingies.
I went there together with Froukje and we had too much food. We sat at the open terrace at the back, which was complettely full, also with people from louis XIV, the restaurant next to it.

de negende cirkel

Same as Hooghoudt, I never think of goling there myself. I entered it two or three times, busy as hell and not my kind of people. But this time I staid and I even had a good time (despite a drunken guy that was herrassing me). Dancing with beers with some of the most pathetic people around me (my friends not included of course). But hey, I had a good time

Hooghoudt

In the same row as der Witz you can find Hooghoudt. I never think of going there myself but last thursday I was with a group of my squashclub and one guy said to go there. So we settled at a table, had a good conversation, but then it was time to leave. There is nothing special about this place. I remember going there once with Roos and we sat at the bar, but it didn't really make an impression, because I only remembered that when I entered the bar.