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!

This thing called zadelhoes

Amazing opportunity. Zadelhoezen or bike seat covers, are often placed on the seats of bikes parked in public places as advertisement for various companies/causes. These precious covers are alternatively coveted, saved, stolen, used and reused, but it seems like most of those advertising through this medium are design challenged. There is a great opportunity for graphic designers and design forward thinking companies alike to get their name out there...

Moscow times

In Moscow we spent a lot of time in Inara's kitchen. It was our gathering point and home base. Every morning I woke up to a banquet of cottage cheese, berries and other delicious food. Yulia's friend Genya took some great pictures, and here they are, thanks to Yulia for scanning.


Inara


Yulia and tea cups

Nerds

Yulia and Onno

Vijf bij Vijfeest

Another year rolls by. I hope I'm this suave by the time I'm 26...

Eve: I’m Eve Kendall. I’m twenty-six and unmarried. Now
you know everything.
Roger: Tell me. What do you do besides lure men to their
doom on the Twentieth Century Limited?
Eve: I’m an industrial designer.

--

Lieve vriendjes,

Ik ben bijna een kwart eeuw oud!! Daarom wil ik graag mijn verjaardag vieren op een fijne (hoop ik) zondag in mijn nieuwe buurt.

Programma, Zondag 23 Augustus
- 17:00 Eten (Rochussenstraat 297A, Rotterdam)
- 21.30 Klassieker North by Northwest (I <3>

Life etc, moving to Rotterdam!

After a few days of anxious waiting, we got the house in Coolhaven. I'm very excited to move, but it seems like we first have to complete an endless amount of paperwork. I'm guessing that it will take us another week before we get the keys to the kingdom. I already packed some bags and have been rearranging furniture in my head.



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I will miss my roommates, and I'm sad that I will have to say goodbye to this great blackberry patch I only recently discovered with Inga and Alexander. The result was 3 occasions for blackberry-pie-bars: cooking with Inga, for Peet's 60th, and for my roommates.


I recommend this recipe from Buns In My Oven

Other than that, the weather has been extremely nice for the past couple of days. On Tuesday, I finally fixed my bike and biked to Rotterdam with Inga and Yulia for a yoga class. It's good to be friends with architects :] Wednesday, I tagged along with Yulia, Onno and their friend, Kamala on an evening trip to Wijk bij Duurstede. We walked around the old city center and ate Chinese food on the floor of an empty 500 year old house. The house was amazing, with nicely proportioned rooms, a charmingly overgrown garden, a small gnome sized window overlooking the garden from upstairs, and thick clay walls keeping out the summer heat. We stayed there until it got dark, scaring ourselves with ghost stories. I will post some more pictures, if I get them from Yulia...



Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede: the only one in the world that you can drive under and located on a dijk, according to Onno

This weekend Marcel is coming back from Columbia, and we'll be going to Solar Festival in Roermond. I'm excited for my first camping-style festival. In exchange for tickets, we'll help with building up the Pleereef and we will be required to wear ridiculous/awesome outfits. We leave tomorrow morning by bus...