Tuesday, September 25, 2007
There’s a lot of fun stuff in the next couple of months. Check out my event queue on Last.fm for what I know about, and let me know if you want to join in or there’s something I haven’t heard of yet.
Heads up: The Black Seeds are hitting Amsterdam again! They’re promoting the European release of the album Into the Dojo, out in this country today. (No, I wasn’t queueing for it. I bought it on their tour here last summer. So there.) In my opinion the album isn’t up to the standard of On the [...]
God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, “Sit up!”. “See all I’ve made,” said God, “the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars.” And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. I, mud, sat up and saw [...]
Monday, September 18, 2006
Robodock looks just fantastically fun, and is happening just down the road from the houseboat. I’ve been advised to catch Babylon Circus, ska at 1am Saturday night, but I must admit I’m most excited by the robots and fire everywhere. Robots and fire! Whee! (Thanks Erik for the tip.) With less robots but guaranteed plenty [...]
Monday, September 4, 2006
The Black Seeds played last night at Blijburg, and it went off (as expected). The festival atmosphere was awesome, laid-back and hippie, and by the second song they had I reckon everyone on the entire terrain crammed up in front of the stage rocking out. It was lovely to see the feedback loop, as the [...]
The Black Seeds are coming back, as promised, and playing Blijburg on September 3rd as part of a two-day festival. I know it’s early notice, but this is for the Dutch folks, so they can put it in their agendas while there’s still space. You don’t want to miss this one. (Kiwis and expats: this [...]
So I caught Fat Freddy’s Drop on Saturday, through a nice wee chain of coincidences. Thursday night we celebrated ending the Dutch course, and an American girl from the course (thanks Heather!) told me sometime in the evening that “Some band from New Zealand, Fat Freakies or something, are coming here in June or maybe [...]
I’m starting a habit: Café Alto once a week for the live jazz. Regular band Mondays and Tuesdays, good old-fashioned swing and boogie-woogie (*cough* as far as I know — not so good on naming styles); the other nights vary. They start at 10 and play until 2. No cover charge, but the beers are [...]
Catching up on what’s been happening the last week, I find that tomorrow will apparently bring the Glamour Stiletto Run on PC Hooftstraat. Anyone feel like wandering along and laughing at the ankle injuries? [via bookofjoe]
Monday, February 27, 2006
Tomorrow morning at 9:30 my flight leaves for Prague. Wednesday I’m taking a bus to Harrachov, then struggling through the snow to an unmarked border crossing into Poland, where I will vanish into the untracked wilderness. Hopefully I’ll emerge again, at the Szklarska Poreba workshop. Then it’s pragmasemantics and skiing for a long weekend, before [...]