I'm getting soooh tired of our dutch hyper-democracy . . .
Not only roads get delayed, hardly any other projects gets going without years of consultations and objections by nerdy activists, some of whom don't shy away from criminal violence and threaths. Which in my book would disqualify them from any form of democratic decision making.
no sound, no smell, and still: nag, nag, nag, 'not in my backyard'
people of Urk rather remain in the 19th century and keep opposing new windmills.
Wonder if they agree to welfare benifit (most stopped fishing decades ago) to be reset at the level of 1910: f 10,- a month ? I'd say, cut them off the powergrid and see!
Same with environmentalist, who keep their concience clean by buying so called 'green' energy which is nothing but nuclear power from France.
It may be a matter of taste but I quite like the latest generation of mega mills (4 next to A12 at Waddionxveen) , so much nicer, cheaper and more efficient than the designs of a decade ago (like the 2 'eggheads' at Leiden next to A4)
mast is 130 m high wings have gorgeous curves . . . and bend in the wind
In 2020 12 GigWatt or 30% of our national need will be operating, of which ~ a third at sea. Delft tech nerds have come up with moving access ramps, that enable maintenance at sea even in storms, improving efficiency even further. People who still maintain that these things cost more then they will ever deliver in profit from sales is talking about old technology and most of the amateur home turbines.
Come on, get the economy moving and build these zero-CO2 suckers, instead of financing terrorist and homo-killer countries (whose undemocratically elected presidents fly in a B747 ? ) with oil revenue.
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29-09-2009
here we go again :
the US prosecution system has a special form of class justice: it seems to go after people where masses of prosecutors and lawyers can find a buck and lots of publicity. Now that Michael Jackson is dead, and re-instated as a saint they still had a file in their bottom drawer on Polanski, so why now put some pressure on the Swiss, who, with their mediaeval justice system and farmers democracy are more likely to extradite him then the French or the Poles.
on my classic fav page you'll find 3 pieces from the pianist.
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29-09-2009
urban spaceman :
just saw a documentary on BBC4 about the sixties, when even the RC church went revolutionary and clergy smoked cannabis and they built a space Cathedral in Liverpool, which made me think of Winchester Cathedral, which made me think not of the New Vaudeville Band but of the Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band and this song:
Now that was a true revolution, nothing like kids today, left with no more fantasy than buying an I-phone. As a child of the sixties, if ANYTHING, i'd rather be called Urban Spaceman then gay, or Ad 6.0 ?
just maybe the nineties also had a handfull of good songs:
but only if you "got the dreamers disease"comment?
28-09-2009
meet the new vice Bundeskanzler of Germany and his husband : after the huge election win of the German Liberal party he's bound to be their next minister of foreign affairs
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28-09-2009
monday demonic worship: the movie trailer !
for more info
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27-09-2009
sunday worship: after last weeks bloodshed and gore, we need to come clean
If that's not sufficiently clense our souls, nothing will
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26-09-2009
Feike Otto van der Zee, vernissage @ Galery Vriend van Bavink, Geldersekade 52 Amsterdam
sorry it's not in English, the galery holder is the blond boy, he has posed for some of the works of Feike (the one who drinks orange juice, and Menne, the MVS reporter asks both his parents what they think of their nude son. His mother especially is proud of his beauty, and that he runs the gallery without public support.
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25-09-2009
notice :
for everybody from our region (Zuid Holland) who has not heard yet: the Boss will be closed untill renovations are finished end of november. They obviously had a visit from licence control, who did not like the half finished sanitation, though I quite enjoyed the toilets without doors ;) Hope this will avoid some waisted trips, and most likely will see you guys more often coming month at gay play.
Their space may be much nicer, there is a decent dj at events, a smoke room, lockers; the entrance fee is double, but most important: the men and fun, for now, don't match the Boss crowd.
Was there this friday soccerlads nite, but doubt I'll try these lads any time soon again: I don't like soccer, and, they may be testosterone overloaded, some have decent cocks, but what good are they if they're rude and can't fuck. With that frame of mind I doubt they'll ever learn.
rather prefer Erwin Olaf's soccer lads . . .
so, eh, lets pray rules & regulations won't make the Boss lose its sleazinesscomment?
24-09-2009
another movie that should be seen everywhere
about the people that are just as despicable as the nazis (i.m.h.o.)
but nice contour in the pants next to start button, just te same :
tasty jacket too !
"duly provocative, well-sourced and certain to go more viral than swine flu"
Scott Foundas, Village Voice/LA Weekly
"That clanging sound you hear is the closet-door lock in the executive men's room being boot-kicked off its hinges"
Dennis Harvey, SF Bay Guardian
"powerful, disturbing & significant. Director Kirby Dick = awfully persuasive"
Kenneth Turan, LA Times
"Incendiary"
Rolling Stone
also read 'Tea Parties Forever' @ NY-times
or Bill, twice !
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23-09-2009
short coming out/of-age film, tasty, sweet, dutch, no subtitles (yet)
for more on the Dutch Online Filmfestival and to vote for the one above: go here (just 1 more week, but going through all entries takes hours, so just search 'Bestemming' and give it a thumbs up!)
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22-09-2009
and if somebody again claims we loudmouths are talking from your asses :
Martin and me may not have posh university degrees, but do our research
shelves enlarge to read titlescomment?
21-09-2009
to get us out of recession gear :
We have to look away from the USA: their total disrespect for social ideas and the small consumer got us in shit for starters and with Obama they have not come up with anything but shit in health care, equal rights for homos, lifting HIV travel ban, no vision anywhere, just old frightened conservatives left to stuff their wallets.
We better look south or east:
Thinking about new concepts when I end up too old to continue motorbiking, I had a look at new car ideas: citroen's new ugly duck?
VW squeezing in the ex motorbikers market, but is it narrow enough to pass in between 2 cars standing still on motorways, does it park on sidewalks?
hybrids already made it to my friends and I like the way it drives off from our sunday dinnerclub-meets without sound, so will they work fully electric?
rather see the goold old East German communist ideal run away with the concept, but: "will a new Trabant come with less trammelant...."
or will I make enough money again to afford a fun car?
if not, paddling on, will surely help lose the 4 kg I gained last 6 months?
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20-09-2009
sunday filth worship
John Waters, movie queen of trash was in Amsterdam and Breda this week (after the Dutch intro the rest above is in English; where else in the world can you watch cult hero Divine eating shit on prime time national tv?). Another theater of the absurd director, Bruce la Bruce, the guy who puts so much porn in his movies, while maintaining that he always falls asleep when he's filming that, coz he finds it utterly boring, is an equal favorite of mine, ever since Hustler White. He returned to LA to make another zombie film (after Otto, or Up with dead people) with the greats of the porn world, like Francesco di Machio and Francois Sagat:
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19-09-2009
weekend planning
after a quite tasty golden shower event last night at the boss tonight, tonight , I see another queer musical tonight , @ dwh around 9h30 :
sunday afternoon + & proud T-dance in club Church, Kerkstraat 52 A'dam
and to compensate for so much sugar-sweetness watch here tomorrow . . . (coz, lets face it: a pure T diet is way too sugary for me, so I hurried to the NieuwezijdsKolk when I was done . . . surprise: loads of others had the same idea;)
2nd surprize: T-zer was watched 235 times last week on youtube when I deleted it just nowcomment?
18-09-2009
Egon Schiele :
André also sent me this somewhat better scan of a painting of a just as gorgeous man I've also respected and loved secretly, even though he lived more than a century ago and was never in the least identified as homo.
more Egon on my page on german art of the 1st half of the 20th century.
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17-09-2009
Franzl:
André sent me this scan of a painting of a gorgeous man I've always respected and loved secretly:
I wrote about him ealier and made a vid compilation of a VPRO program about him on the weblog march 4th. So sad that he was one of the early aids victims. I dearly miss his penetrating eyes, soft voice, and his incredible perfectly spoken Oxford English. You don't have to agree with all his reasoning; I personally have serious doubts about his mystic religious and ascetic points of view. Doubt is too soft a description; I squarely disagree ! And will never return to the womb of a religion that squarely states we homos are lesser creatures, and not part of their gods plan of our world. It took them a few centuries to accept the world was round and that the sun did not revolve around it (why you ask now) they still have problems with Charles Darwins generally accepted theory on the origin of species, because they are so obsessed with the biblical science that creation of mankind took just six days. So, the beauty of homosexuality in all aspects of nature, euthanasia, genetic science: that will surely take another century to penetrate their thick skulls.
Sorry, can't wait that long . . .
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Dusty:
Just thought I'd bring some leverage to get Leo to open up his weblog.
find closed up blogs counter productive for out and open guys.
What you're gonna do in private?
I feel I got nothing to hide or be ashamed/afraid of: privacy is for heterosexuals.
The only other argument to not show something is 'good' taste, but that's quite arguable.
Further, its annoying that one cannot place comments. comment?
11-09-2009
Louis Andriessen, Haags Hakkuh: and then some got a bit of time ? do watch this concert of a guy I worked with and respect tremendously.
The concert celebrates his 70est birthday; the 1st 30 minits is a composition of his father, the 2nd ½hour is a weird piece with the even weirder name for 2 piano's and orchestra that premiered last year in LA.
The second hour starts with a video bio with themes like Vermeer, Mondriaan, Boogy Woogy, shipbuilding, Plato, Dante, socialism, anarchism, and then we finish with the concerto version of his opera 'Writing to Vermeer'
At 2m21 is an interview with Beppie Blankert, with whom I made the set and light design for dubbelspoor, also with music played and composed by Louis, that we toured over 2 years all over the world which reprised last year in NL theaters. The 3rd hour ends with a piece by the young Andriessen and a Strawinsky finale.
Sorry, speech is in Dutch, but you'll get the drift if you let the music carry you off .
With Beppie I ended up in a conflict where her strictness conflicted with my anti authoritarian upbringing and free associative creativity, where I could no longer make the distinction between virtuosity and straight jacket; between vibrant and hot air.
I was also (for fun) part of the vast nude extra's crew of Greenaways' prospero's books filmed at various locations in NL with Sir John Gielgud (acting nude at age 80), of which I vividly remember a super heated fuck session on the NS train back to Amsterdam, with Eduardo, later owner of legendary leatherbar Argos.
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10-09-2009
that other center of the world, where the Romans dug a canal in front of where now is my home, around 2 millennia ago, yep, Delft :
do watch the amazing video of the one below being made : comment?
09-09-2009
Dutch 4 century celebration in New York
of course we also brought the slave trade and soon were in trouble with the law and church (that we brought with us too, along with syphilis) as we felt sodomite services could be required from the well endowed wide assed hot lipped male Africans.
Now I'm not to sure if I'd have objected if they'd service my ass.
I reported earlier, that native Americans had quite an open view on same sex relations, that is, before we Europeans messed with their minds. New York based Lesly Lohman gay art foundation invited artists to illustrate the 1st case of same sex intolerance in the New world, around 1647, about Dutch barber/medic Harmen Meyndertszoon van den Bogaert
and his slave/love Tobias, published in 2007 in the NY Morning News: part1 and part 2.
more on Mike Kirwan in the db/queerart masterclass or his own site comment?
08-09-2009
speed ?
with a delay of 2 decades and more than one decade after the rail construction work was completed, today finally the 1st high speed trains go from Amsterdam to the south, of course with a max speed that is just a third of what it is supposed to go until next year and the design of the nose is downright UGLY:
the boring magistrates haven't convinced me to scrap my motorbike just yet comment?
06-09-2009
true sunday worship :
let us pray for the revival of a divine sunday dance facility the gorgeous summer we had, but mostly for the return of a decent hassle free cruising facility at my local beach: Hook of Holland. Let the police there deal with what really needs to be taken care of, like hooligans spoiling other peoples fun.
divine inspiration at work religion catching up with the 21st century and
homos being a little less hung up about their true asset: sexuality
which includes a healthy dose of frontal nudity
or other ways of flaunting it we don´t live in the days of Henry VIII no more, now do we?
maybe in afghanistan...comment?
05-09-2009
Local news
1st: Arie Boomsma, gorgeous masthead of Dutch religious fanatic broadcast company EO has decided to call it a day. This spring he was suspended, because he posed for a gay magazine (which put him on the cover too with the text: "and god created Arie"). He commented with remarks like: my god does not discriminate against homo's. After his suspension everything seemed to be hunky dory again until 2 months ago another program of his, in which he planned to confront stand-up and other known Dutch comedy artists with religion, got axed. His superiors were of course coming up with justifications like "you cannot make fun about god"
For now, he had not made any statement but I guess he would like to say he sees no future in an environment where people end up on the stake for saying the earth is round and revolves around the sun. It's a miracle that they use electricity, produced on a sunday, to spread 'gods' word. Now that's what I would call blasfemy!
second:
Our ministers of transportation and of the environment have decided for the 20est time to go ahead with realisation of the 6 km final stretch of the A4. But I doubt I will live to see it realised. The trace you see on the image below has been decided on before WWII and has been laying bare ever since. Environmentalists and the cities of Schiedam and Vlaardingen have already pulled up their sleeves (once again) and drawn out a new barrage of petitions and referenda to block it once more. I would say: let their houses burn to the ground if emergency services cannot reach them anymore because the only motorway that connects my hometown Delft to the rest of the world has been blocked between 7 and 10 and from 15 till 20 each and every day for the past 3 decades.
hey,
the new MIKA is nicely silly, arroganty and campy, so needless to say: nr. 1 at HaHaHaHoHoHo.
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04-09-2009
Saw the Pink Floyd documentary again
Always felt ´saucerfull´ (the version with the church organ and the ultra bass) was my fav Floyd number, but just maybe it's time to change my mind:
interstellar overdrive had quite a few versions:
2: 2
3: 3 (best audio)
4: 4
5: saucerful I was present at this one, in 1970!
and their message today is just as valid as it was then . . .
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03-09-2009
de storm
This might be interesting for my friends from New orleans, like Roscoe:
A movie is coming out here about the last time our country was flooded, back in februari 1953:
here's some orininal 56 year old footage:
after 50 years of building sea defences we are quite a bit safer now:
That said, smaller scale problems remain, like changes in ground water levels around our own house, due to a renewed city sewage systems, that seperates rain water and sewage have lead to our ground floor rotting and the need to replace the wooden floor with a concrete one. Work on that is going on underneath my feet as we speek:
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02-09-2009
saw Radiohead sundaynight live at Reading @ BBC 3
2 words : awe inspiring
hope we'll get some of it on Youtube but doubtful (if you remember all Glastonbury 2009 footage was axed within 24 hours, sad, pathetic: shame on the BBC, supposed to be a public company ! they also hide behind bands and record company rights, but if they would make online forwarding part of their contracts, I'm sure no band would object)
Anyway, this full concert from Japan last year was mostly the same playlist and mouthwatering light, AV and set design and this time the band, more at ease with modern media then the Beep, OK'd online distribution themselves:
for the old masterpiece suckers like myself:
at 0:05:00 Just (You Do It To Yourself)
at 0:41:00 fake plastic trees
at 1:08:00 everything in its right place
at 1:15:00 iron lung
also guitar player Jonny Greenwood was almost not existent for the heterosexual BBC cam crew and editors; here he's gorgeously present.
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01-09-2009
don't know why
Had this gayplanet holidays folder on my coffee table. This guy on a cliff was on the front, not a masterpiece, but the ass kept drawing my attention and kept me opening the folder repeatedly as I was drawn to it like moths to the light or like flies to the shit? Anyway, I shouldn't make fun of gayplanet.
But at the same time I watched a commercial for cupasoup, where a guy was talking the weirdest company shit about the economy and the environment which made their soup different now.
And all the time I was thinking: "just say it: soep met BALLEN !" Which is ridiculous of course, as their soup is from a single portion sachet, just salt, sugar and E-flavours so there cannot be balls (eh meatballs, that is) in it. But hey? who cares! with the economy and the environment as it is ?
trust the Italians, to find superior meat for their soup-balls
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31-08-2009
limitations to the queer music charts :
Hey, I'm not always in the sissy musical mood, sometimes I want it, need it, hard and agressive!
this obviously did not stay on yawntube very long:
although I found it hidden away in a Brazilian interviewcomment?
Henk van Ulsen passed away:
It's weird: last year Carol van Herwijnen died, the very night I saw him perform at "de Parade" in Den Haag. Just now I heard Henk van Ulsen is gone, just after he did these poems by Gerard Reve:
so this vid I shot 2 weeks ago at Galerie Mooiman has most likely been his last recorded p.a.
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29-01-2008
amazing
looking up speedos for yesterdays entry I refound the slideshow highlighting db/queerart content. It amazingly never got deleted for violating "terms of service". comment?
Queer culture without cock and balls ?
That's called CASTRATION !
why do that to yourselves?
weathermannetje
adje lacht
adje huilt
Ships that pass in the night
and speak each other in passing Only a signal shown;
a distant voice in the darkness
So on the ocean of life we pass
Only a look and a voice;
a touch extacy
then darkness again and a silence.
after:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tales of a Wayside Inn
politically correct
is the most dangerous infection,
first symptoms:
blocking creativity,
spontaneity,
vigilance, economic renewal
and is spreading like wildfire
in the gaiiy community and
it's more contageous then any STD!
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
There is just nothing
I do better
like better
fun
laughter
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