Another boring teenage life packaged in a blog.

Het is mij al vele maanden duidelijk dat ik dit blog te weinig update, ook realiseer ik mij ten volle dat het beginnen van elke post met een ’sorry dat ik zo weinig update’ behoorlijk irritant kan zijn! Toch stoor ik me d’r niet aan en begin ook nu weer vrolijk met een excuus: Sorry dat ik zo weinig update!

Okay, back to business: Tegan and Sara. De lesbische tweeling zussen hebben hun zesde album uit gebracht en zijn al jaren mijn favoriete band. “Sainthood” bevat voornamelijk up-beat energetische rock in dezelfde stijl als “The Con.” (ik vind het uiteraard helemaal geweldig maar ja, ik ben geen expert)

Ze zijn gewoon menselijk en laten dat ook duidelijk merken met een grote dosis humor. Ze zijn op hun achttiende begonnen en de eerste opnamen die van ze bekend zijn (ik via-via in super slecht MP3 formaat heb gekregen) zijn origineel uitgebracht op cassettebandjes en in de studio van hun High School opgenomen. Na hun school diploma te hebben gekregen zijn ze vertrokken in een oude stationwagon met apparatuur en gewoon ‘on tour’ gegaan langs kleine clubs en enig podia die ze tegenkwamen. Ondertussen hebben ze geweldige nummers geschreven, zeg nou zelf:

Go downtown, catch the early movie
The shows are cheaper, they don’t mind when I put my feet up
She’s out on the highway
She’s got a homemade sign it says
“Go ahead, try to figure out what my future looks like”

I don’t want to live my life like a movie
always thinkin I could’ve been something
Don’t run alongside and control me
Just film away and let me be

Tegan and Sara’s Divided Zoals gespeeld in Calgary. Mooi toch?

Tegan and Sara staan op het uitverkochte Crossing Borders festival in Den Haag en doen onder andere Brussel, Hamburg, Berlijn en Keulen aan. Ik heb inmiddels tickets voor Brussel (*nerveus op en neer springt*) Hieronder staat ‘Hell’, de single van het nieuwe album.

Hell – Tegan and Sara

Editorial note: Just because Elly thinks this isn’t scandalous enough to repost I’m so doing it! Maybe it will prove to her that there actually isn’t anything scandalous about me…

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Pick a friend or partner and answer 51 questions on them.

Dont change the friend halfway through!

1) What’s their name?

Henk Nieweg

2) Does he or she have a boyfriend/girlfriend?

yea

3) Do you get along with this person all the time?

Haha yes. If we feel like it.

4) How old is the person?

18

5) Has he/she ever cooked for you?

Probably not more than a cup of tea and toast

6) Is this person older than you?

No!!

7) Have you ever kissed this person?

No

9) Are you related to this person?

no

10) Are you really close to him/her?

Id like to think so

11) Nickname?

Hanky Spanky

12) Do they have a nickname for you?

No! I want one!

13) How many times do you talk to this person in a week?

Everyday

14) Do you think they will repost this?

Probably not.

15) Could you live with this person?

I don’t think he could live with my tardyness! And me with his insomnia! Maybe though.

16) Why did you pick this person?

Because he is sitting next to me

WHERE DID 17 GO. Hate it when that happens

18) How long have you known this person?

probably just over 6 years now

19) Have you ever been to the mall with this person?

Many more times than i would like to admit

21) If you ever moved away would you miss this person ?

Absolutely! Sadly, he is moving away!

23) Have you ever done something really stupid or illegal with this person?

Stupid, yes. School plays. Ilegal? No.. very lawabiding

24) Do you know everything about this person?

Probably not. But enough to be comfortable

25) Would you date this person’s siblings?

He doesn’t have any!

26) Have you ever made something with this person?

So many things! Films!

29) Have you gone skinny dipping with this person?

hahaha omg no.

33) Have you ever worn this person’s clothes?

No! Bout time!

34) Does this person wear your clothes?

I’d like to see him try!

35) If it was “freaky friday” would you switch bodies with this person?

Haha NO! Sorry! a bit TMI

36) Have you ever heard this person sing?

YES! Even though he would probably deny this

38) Do you and this person have a saying?

Many many sayings. I cant think of any at the moment though really.

39) Do you know this persons myspace password?

I don’t think he has myspace? But i know the password to his laptop

41) Have you and this person ever gotten into a fight that lasted more than 2 months?

No, but then again I dont think either of us have ever been in a fight lasting longer than a week with anyone.

44.) Have you and this person gone clubbing?

Uhm. Depends what you call clubbing.

45) Do you know how to make this person feel happy?

Hard one! I hope so! I make sure his teacup is always full!

46) Do you and this person talk a lot?

yea

47) Do you like this person?

NO.

49) Have you and this person got into a fist fight?

hahaha I would kick his ass!

50) Do you want to go out with this person?

I dont think Kate would agree!

51) Do you want to be friends with them forever?

Yea.

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Yearly Notations
Ergens vorig jaar heb ik in een vlaag van enthousiasme het domein DailyNotations.com gekocht. Gewoon omdat ik d’r zin aan had. Ik heb nooit echt interessante domeinnamen gehad (m’n achternaam.us, macvia.eu voor het ondernemingkje). Leuk, maar niet echte toppers zoals ‘Kansloosweblog.nl.’ Ook bleek ik als schrijver niet echt geschikt om sinds mei iets te schrijven. Mijn examenperiode en zomervakantie waren heus niet zo interessant. Na de zomer, na het examen, (na het behalen van het VWO diploma!!) vond ondergetekende het maar weer eens tijd om de pen op te pakken. Het begint inmiddels meer op yearly notations te lijken.

Een nieuwe start
Momenteel ben ik begonnen aan een studie Theaterwetenschappen aan de UvA, je zou zeggen dat je daar plenty materiaal zou kunnen vinden voor een web log. De binnenstad levert überhaupt altijd voldoende munitie voor een blog. Daarom gaan we DailyNotations maar eens nieuw leven inblazen.

Hele slechte Bert Visscher imitatie stem: ‘Goh Henk, wat heb je al die tijd dan gedaan?’
Daar gaan we het binnenkort over hebben, nog even geduld.

Something I dug out of a parenting forum I like reading. (I rate them on the amount of ignorance I find with the generally conservative parenting crowd.)

When I first heard about co-ed sleepovers my mouth just dropped open. I thought parents of the boys wouldn’t care, because it just seems like people worry more about girls than boys in this area. But then this one father put his foot down when girls started showing up for the sleepover and called the parents to take them home. I secretly cheered for him while the other moms went on about how he wasn’t “with it”–and this is how kids are today.

I’ve never really been a fan of sleepover-slumber-parties, but I see this kind of ignorance on almost every website and in real life amongst conservative parents. Girls and boys are friends. No, not friends with benefits, not secretly still doing it when you’re out of the room, just friends. Most of my friends are girls, that doesn’t mean I want to jump them as soon as their parents, or my own, are out of the room… This is all very 1920’s, dontcha think?

I don’t really get the reasoning behind this either. To these parties you’d invite your friends, people who all know each other and care about each other. Teens are, generally, not really into the whole fucking-in-front-of-your-twenty-best-friends thing. Especially in your own home. Another possibility could be that parents are scared little Jason’s birthday party is going to turn into a mass orgy. Since teenagers, especially those in the 10 to 14 year area where sleepovers are most common, are scared by and awkward even thinking about sex, I think it’s safe to assume this option is not going to happen either.

Not only are these reasonings idiotic, but I also see a major flaw in the chaste-one-sex-only-slumber-party. Homo/Bisexualism. Are homosexual teens invited? You could invite just one, but in that case you’d still need to be scared of him/her seeing one of the others naked. Or worse, what if the homosexual can’t control him or herself and ends up taking advantage of one of the pure and completely innocent teens?

What I’m trying to say: Get with it. Things changed since the 1950’s. People have friends of the opposite sex. Of course, that doesn’t mean they won’t jump each other after all. Scary developments in the 1960’s caused by those darn hippies made people realize they don’t have to be married to have sex… What if they take it one step further and teens start realizing you don’t even have to be engaged or in a serious relationship? Scary thoughts.

Conservative parents of America: lock your children in their rooms and meet in church to make the proper wedding arrangements.