kiekendief

Yes! Gisteren had ik even een camera geleend omdat ik allerhande blinde muren moet fotograferen. Na dat gedoe ging ik bij ome Roel eten, later kwam Silvia ook en nog veel later de grote rooie kater van de buren ook nog. Toen het laat was en iedereen er vandoor ging gebeurde er ineens iets met me, ik pakte de camera om mee naar huis te nemen en maakte voor de aardigheid een foto. En nog één, en nog één. Ik was niet meer te stoppen! Wow, ik werd er zowaar spontaan gelukkig van. Nu ben ik dus aan het sparen voor een camera. Een Canon EOS 20D welteverstaan, want dat is mijn vriend.

Anybody have a bootleg of Jerry Garcia at Oregon State Prison?

From Frets to Fred, both Gyz and myself participate in an exhibition/on a happening called ‘Double A-Side The Bootleg’. It goes on where Double A-Side in Den Bosch (August 2007, Artis, CBK and SM’s) stopped, only now it’s at FRED Basement Projects (45 Vyner, London, United Kingdom), starts at july 2nd and ends august 5. July 2nd from 6 to 9 though, is a private view (to which one needs to be invited) featuring surprise Live Music Performances!!

Anyway, Gyz is showing some of his screenprints from the ‘Yellow Pages’ series and I’m showing ‘Appropriately Entitled’, quite good stuff if I may say so myself.

Other participants are Rob Churm, Caron Geary, Kate Mayne, Angie Reed, Janine Rostron, Catriona Shaw, the one and only Tai Shani and Martin C. de Waal. Again curated by The Ken Pratt. More info on the ‘Double A-Side The Bootleg Facebook Page’, right here.

720˚

Opens Tonight!

Come smell the otters defining Dutch ‘plank culture’ in the brand new mama exhibition 720°, on display from june 26th - august 9th.

Featuring ‘12’, a documentary film on the original Fret Click and its illustruous pack of sjambeks, by Gyz La Rivière and a video installation on Louisa Menke.

Heal The World

12

This Friday 720° will open at showroom mama!

26 June 2009 – 09 August 2009
Opening: Friday 26 June 19:00 – 23:00
Artistic team: Gyz La Rivière (NL), Florian Waldvogel (DE), Louisa Menke (NL)
Curator: Gyz La Rivière

19:00 World Premiere ‘12’ at the Cinerama movie-theater
20:15 Opening 720° at showroom mama (But you can also go there from 19:00)
23:00 Afterparty at De Unie (€ 2,50)

More info is coming up…

image: ‘12’ poster design by Rufus Ketting

Spreek ik met de jarige?

gefeliciteerd pikkebaas!

Freggel Fleckl

I am editing like crazy with my man Robin ‘no war for Heavy Metal’ in the Freggel Grot! Still some time left to finish (with master editor Joppo) my documentary ‘12’, which you can see (and much more) from June 26th!

model fuckers spelen op openingen

After swearing I’d never be in a band no more, my friend Arnoud ‘De Nuge’ van der Zijden did it again and made five incredibly good tracks with garageband. I could not resist and we got together this band consisting of Jeroen ‘de Rev’ Rozendaal (de vogels, The New Earth Group) on keys, Jos Hoevenaars (Mono, The New Earth Group) on Guitars, de nuge (Oil, de vogels) on bass and myself (Homey Universalis) on drums. We’re called ‘Model Fuckers’ and Model Fuckers’ (instrumental) music sounds like nothing you heard before (except maybe some really weird 80’s film soundtracks), but you be the judge of that once you’ve downloaded our third ‘song’ (can you call a track a song, if there isn’t a singer for the song to be sung?) called ‘except for the Coca Cola thing the word ‘enjoy’ lost its meaning’ for free right here.

Read more on Model Fuckers here on Last.fm

Coffeeshop

Another family member in Rotterdam Noord…
Come tomorrow to the grand opening!

aighttttt!

Sunn O))), fucking hell!

Last monday I went to see SUNN 0))) perform in the Raymond Strantse Kerk (a church). I have only one thing to say about the concert: FUCK YEAH!!! I do have a pretty funny anecdote on what went on right beforehand tho. An hour before the show me and my man de Nuge smoked one in the museumpark, made a couple of jokes on ducks, homosexuality and security guards and we were off to church.

As we got inside the church to find ourselves a spot, I felt like peeing real bad and luckily ran into someone I know who works at the Church, who let me in on a little secret: an actual hidden toilet somewhere in the back of the church, just my luck! So I went and I went and felt pretty relieved, washed my hands, walked out the bathroom to enjoy a little organ music that was already playin’ to get us in this whole mystical mood that was going on, and BAMMMM! I suddenly found myself in a corridor with six (6!) doors. as I got in I didn’t know where to go and while turnin’ round to see where I came from I immediately forgot just that. I tried a door and it was closed, the one on its right lead to a staircase. I tried another one, or at least I thought so, but it turned out to be the exact same one (that was leading to the staircase). I began to worry some and I felt a little stupid that I had just opened the same door twice (imagine me playing the memory game). I tried another one and I was back in the hall where the door to the secret toilet was located and I was like ‘my god! is this really happening to me, this… this… stoner classic?!? WOW!’ I felt kinda privileged, like Alice (when she was ten feet tall), and when I finally took a right door and was back in the main… church… space (what’s the name for this space? like ‘Oecemenical Praise room’ or something… I mean ‘the room that makes a church a church’. A prize for the best name in the comments section!) Anyway, I had to laugh so loud (yet silently) and I immediately told the first person that called my name (Selwyn Slop) the whole thing. I must have looked like a complete idiot. But fuck it, I love my life!!!

In case you don’t have a clue what SUNN O))) is, here’s some youtube stuff and this is what their press text said on this tour: “Pure, raw, uninhibited invocations featuring O)))s core members: Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson ONLY. 2 Les Paul guitars, 4 Sunn fullstacks, 4 Ampeg bass stacks. No guests, no vocals, no keyboards. We hope you will join us!.”