If you'll never be pregnant, don't be a fucking pro-lifer.
I'll whoop your ass like the hulk if you are.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
I dream a lot and make wishlists for myself all the time so here it goes:
-Travel to Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia and Argentina.
-Learn to speak spanish on a C2-level and do some volunteering in a dogshelter
-Follow the master's degree Gender, Sexuality and Society. It's a master in sociology and I wouldn't dare to wish for it but a superhuge and nice room in Amsterdam would be really nice, but I'm never a person so lucky to gain such thing.
- I want a dog. And a man. In that order.
- When I grow up I want a job in a museum. Or with kids. Or in a library. Or something that has to do with reducing domestic and sexual violence. I'm besluiteloos as ever. :)
- A new bicycle.
Ok that's my wishlist in life. For now. Next tuesday I'm gonna leave with one of my best friends Taliet to Israël. We're gonna lie on the beach, swim in the dead sea, eat falafel and humus like crazy and travel around Tel Aviv, Haifa, Tiberias and Jeruzalem. We booked a hostel on the 1st night we arrive, that's the only plan we made. Be back in 3 weeks!
-Travel to Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia and Argentina.
-Learn to speak spanish on a C2-level and do some volunteering in a dogshelter
-Follow the master's degree Gender, Sexuality and Society. It's a master in sociology and I wouldn't dare to wish for it but a superhuge and nice room in Amsterdam would be really nice, but I'm never a person so lucky to gain such thing.
- I want a dog. And a man. In that order.
- When I grow up I want a job in a museum. Or with kids. Or in a library. Or something that has to do with reducing domestic and sexual violence. I'm besluiteloos as ever. :)
- A new bicycle.
Ok that's my wishlist in life. For now. Next tuesday I'm gonna leave with one of my best friends Taliet to Israël. We're gonna lie on the beach, swim in the dead sea, eat falafel and humus like crazy and travel around Tel Aviv, Haifa, Tiberias and Jeruzalem. We booked a hostel on the 1st night we arrive, that's the only plan we made. Be back in 3 weeks!
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Imagine this scenery:
You're at a show in another country, and you're there all by yourself. You don't know anyone who is there.
The singer of the band in question talks about kids getting medication at a very young age, about how it pisses him off when someone says 'that band is pretty good... for girls', he eventually cries (how dare he, as a man!) on stage because it saddens him this will be the last show, he talks about people being involved in the same kind of music and the scenery around it and how it gives us this feeling of unity, even though we're not all from the same countries, don't speak the same language and may not always understand each other. I'm moved and touched by what he is saying, because this scenery is not imagined but actually happened to me.
After the show I walk outside, it's already dark and notice the bandsinger and a guy from Germany are talking about the medication-problem, especially meds applied to depressions. I decide to join in the conversation, because I'm interested in what they are talking about and it feels so refreshing to finally talk about 'topics' again, something I really miss about the hardcoreshows in the Netherlands.
Another Swedish girl who will attend university to become a psychologist. It turns out to be an interesting discussion, international and interdisicplinary.
Wow, it struck me, this is so awesome, these people are so nice. If someone would ask me what hardcore is about, this would be it, this would be the situation i would describe to make it clear.
A place where people can say what they want to say, where there are people who think critically about stuff, where don't just do what everyone does, but dare to do it differently and can explain why they do things a certain way, and where there is respect for one another to say what the other has to say.
This is something I had been missing in the Netherlands. Maybe I was attending the wrong show, I don't know, or hanging out with the wrong people. Some people disagree with me on this but in my eyes hardcore and politics should always be related. If it's not about thinking critically about things that go on in the world and to step outside of that, then it would feel hollow to me. I need some depth, challenge and also space, and i think we all do, to say what you want, get inspired to see things from different perspectives and not get cut off because some asshole disagrees on what you are saying.
I'll stop this rambling post now before i start talking about what punk or hardcore should be, because i know it's different for everybody. I know what it means to me and what it should mean to me. I think that's what it should be everyone, to know what it means to you.
You're at a show in another country, and you're there all by yourself. You don't know anyone who is there.
The singer of the band in question talks about kids getting medication at a very young age, about how it pisses him off when someone says 'that band is pretty good... for girls', he eventually cries (how dare he, as a man!) on stage because it saddens him this will be the last show, he talks about people being involved in the same kind of music and the scenery around it and how it gives us this feeling of unity, even though we're not all from the same countries, don't speak the same language and may not always understand each other. I'm moved and touched by what he is saying, because this scenery is not imagined but actually happened to me.
After the show I walk outside, it's already dark and notice the bandsinger and a guy from Germany are talking about the medication-problem, especially meds applied to depressions. I decide to join in the conversation, because I'm interested in what they are talking about and it feels so refreshing to finally talk about 'topics' again, something I really miss about the hardcoreshows in the Netherlands.
Another Swedish girl who will attend university to become a psychologist. It turns out to be an interesting discussion, international and interdisicplinary.
Wow, it struck me, this is so awesome, these people are so nice. If someone would ask me what hardcore is about, this would be it, this would be the situation i would describe to make it clear.
A place where people can say what they want to say, where there are people who think critically about stuff, where don't just do what everyone does, but dare to do it differently and can explain why they do things a certain way, and where there is respect for one another to say what the other has to say.
This is something I had been missing in the Netherlands. Maybe I was attending the wrong show, I don't know, or hanging out with the wrong people. Some people disagree with me on this but in my eyes hardcore and politics should always be related. If it's not about thinking critically about things that go on in the world and to step outside of that, then it would feel hollow to me. I need some depth, challenge and also space, and i think we all do, to say what you want, get inspired to see things from different perspectives and not get cut off because some asshole disagrees on what you are saying.
I'll stop this rambling post now before i start talking about what punk or hardcore should be, because i know it's different for everybody. I know what it means to me and what it should mean to me. I think that's what it should be everyone, to know what it means to you.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Fluff Fest & Prague
So.. the almighty Fluff Fest of 2011 and my citytrip to Prague.
I took just one photo of the band Punch. Other amazing bands I saw: Beyond Pink, Glasses, Reconcile (though they were not as nice as when I saw them two years ago, promoting their merch a million times, telling the audience to 'shut up, motherfuckers'), La dispute, Glasses, Unrestrained and Positive Youth.
Furthermore I ate Vegan hamburgers, swam at the pool, got punched in the nose, ate icecream, hung out with the Germans and danced at the D.I.S.C.O like a maniac. Some guy said: how cool, you're the only one of us not drinking tonight and you're the biggest partymaker of all. WIN. I saw old friends again and made new friends as well. There no words to describe the awesomeness of Fluff Fest so lets just get on with the pictures of Prague.
The first evening I arrived in Prague I went to a show, a post-Fluff Fest-show at klub 007, a small basement where a lot of punk- and hardcorebands play.
Furthermore I ate Vegan hamburgers, swam at the pool, got punched in the nose, ate icecream, hung out with the Germans and danced at the D.I.S.C.O like a maniac. Some guy said: how cool, you're the only one of us not drinking tonight and you're the biggest partymaker of all. WIN. I saw old friends again and made new friends as well. There no words to describe the awesomeness of Fluff Fest so lets just get on with the pictures of Prague.
The first evening I arrived in Prague I went to a show, a post-Fluff Fest-show at klub 007, a small basement where a lot of punk- and hardcorebands play.
Beyond Pink from Sweden, most awesome band ever! That's what the singer of Unrestrained said as well, some guy responded: yeah, they're pretty good for girls. "That's like saying, yeah that band reconcile, they're pretty good for guys." My point exactly.
Unveil from Germany
Reconcile from Argentina
Unrestrained from Vermont, so refreshing to see a band again who actually have things to say.
Epic Indian Curry binging at Beas. You paid your meal per grams, apparently I took a meal which the chef said was 'for a pretty big guy.' Well that makes me a pretty big guy then I guess.
Luke, I am your father
Franz Kafka's birthplace
Chill hangout at a bookstore. They had all kinds of lovely books on history, politics, bikes, philosophy and literature from different countries.
Accidentally bumped into the museum of young art. I got in for free because I said I'm an art student, which technically isn't a lie.
Those were actually dead cats and dogs on the floor. 'Oh how sad' is the common reaction people give to it. Why make the distinction? People don't usually say that when there's a deerhead on the wall or a piece of steak on your plate.
The story behind this painting: During the second world war there was a great glorification of nazism and certain leading figures of that era. The artist of this wanted to make something of which the people would have stepped out of this and which would have made them stop perfectionizing it. It's not a statement against homosexuality, but it's something the people of that era would have considered repulsive, it's a contradiction on its own. What would be the greatest humiliation for a great nazi leader of that time? It would probably be people seeing an image like this.
Hmmm indian curry. Omnomnom.
I went to see the Swan Lake at the Prague State Opera. It wasn't definitely of the same level as the Russian ballet but I still enjoyed every moment of this play. For some strange reason the Czechs consider the five front row and the five back row seats the least good seats in the hall so I had a seat way up front for the cheapest price. Niiiice!
I went to the museum of Communism and definitely learned more about the topic, i find it so interesting!
Anti-American Propaganda
If you got sceneproblems, I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but Edge ain't one.
The Jewish cemetary
Finally hung out all by myself in a park, read in Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and then took the bus back home. Boooo, one thing though is that I always find it nice to come home, take a long shower and sleep in my own bed again. This feeling doesn't usually last long but thankfully I'll be heading to Israël in a month!
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