Happenings

Two pieces of news:

1. Housewarming on Oct 2. featuring the Boxers and Alexander's band (see above)

2. We made it to the second round of the Change Your World competition! This weekend we will compete with ten teams for a 10,000E prize.

I <3 my bike

Job search

I'm looking for a new job, anyone have any offers?

Boxer's gig at Maaiky's birthday

TGIF.

I went to the Tango today with Daniel and bumped into Maaiky and Jer, the usual suspects. They mentioned that I would be receiving pics from our past Sunday gig. Here they are:


view from the audience


Gas


Me


Bart

Last weekend was Maaiky and Jer's birthday bash. We were invited to play there, and though we weren't ready to unveil our new band concept, we thought it would be awesome to play at Maaiky's (and it was). The party was an amazing Sunday evening barbecue at the anti-squat palace, casa Maaiky, Eliza, Shoert, and Eva. There was a tent, a barbecue in an old oil drum, a surplus of couches, and an audience of 30 some people. Everyone was surprisingly enthusiastic about our music, which gives me a good vibe for our coming band development.

All pictures from Vincent Basler

Inglorius Bastards, remembrance of things past

Yesterday I went to check out the new Tarentino movie. Afterwards in Tikis, several guys remarked that they would probably see this movie multiple times, also in the theater. Not surprisingly, the Matrix was brought up (I watched it 2x in the theater and probably 10+ times since). I had a flashback to high school times. It was summer in North Carolina and I was with Gemma, Lucy and some boys. We ate Goodberry's frozen yogurt cream before the movie in an enormous empty parking lot. Lucy was raving about how she loved the movie. I still remember the black skin chunks dotting the purple of the blueberry ice cream and the texture of the yogurt on my tongue. It was really a madeleine moment.




Vanilla with blackberries


Goodberries

Food

We've been busy making lots of food since day 1 at Rochussenstraat. This was one of our first dinners:


Paella dinner with crayfish, squid, crab and shrimp


About to start our dinner

I have to say that I am glad that I pressured Inga into moving in a week ahead of her schedule...

For my birthday, we made way too much food. Marissa recommended that I make Le Gâteau Piège. As you can see, the cake got a little bit crooked, since *someone put the grill in the oven upside down, and I was too lazy to fix it. But, it turned out delicious and I am definitely making it again. I also found out that wide window ledges are good for something besides sitting.


Le Gâteau Piège on the drying rack

Alexander offered to make me a delicious cous cous dish as a present. In the morning, I made friends with my local Turkish shop owners by buying about half of the store, including three whole chickens for the spit.


Ingredients for cous cous

The dinner turned out really well. Everyone really liked the food. We walked fat and chubby to the outdoor theater. The next day, I had about 8 kilos of food left; enough for one school lunch, before the rest had to be tossed out :(

Birthday Menu
- Hummus + turkish bread
- 2 whole grilled jerk chickens
- Cous Cous (have to get recipe from Alexander)
- Vivian's famous potato salad

- Le Gâteau Piège
- Apple crumble (Vivian)
- Fruit salad (Kim and Cyril)

- Melon cocktails for North by Northwest (Fedde)
- Bathub cooled beer

The next step is to buy a recipe book to record all our favorite house recipes!