October 7, 2004 at 11:57 am — by Gyz
When (I think it was) SLAP magazine or Think skateboards came with the EMB
T-shirt, all of us skateboarders back then wanted to have that T-shirt. In the
early 90’s the EMB (Embarcadero) square in San Francisco was the Mekka of
skateboarding. All the best street pros were skating there. All the names of
our street heroes were on that shirt. You can see it (if you look real good) on
the picture above.
During those days in 1992 and 1993 you could find my friends and me (each
weekend) skating and chilling at the Amsterdam RAI square. That was our EMB!
The original Fret Click started there, haha. Also in those days some crazy zine
came to life with the name ‘Huphter’. I think it was Huphter and skateshop
Rodolfo’s that made the RAI T-shirt with respect to us. So instead of all our
‘skate’ heroes on the EMB T-shirt, our names were on that RAI T-shirt. Those
years were AWESOME!
October 5, 2004 at 12:24 pm — by rufus.k
This week, dutch television broadcasted a documentary on the life
and social traumas of Audrey Hepburn. Her humanitarian efforts to
save the world couldn’t really interest me, although I’m sure she was
a real sweet woman. What grabbed me were images and footage of
some of the movies she played in, which I had never seen before.
Movies like ‘The Unforgiven’, ‘Sabrina’, ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ and
especially the one displayed above (‘Roman Holiday’ 1953) starring
Audrey and a handsome young Gregory Peck seemed intense and
in every way elaborate Hollywood material. But that’s not the point.
The point is: I fell in love with Audrey in the same way Billy Wilder
did. As I learned from this documentary, Wilder once claimed that
he thought Hepburn was kissed on the cheek by God. Audrey
(who did her small part in the Dutch resistance during World War II)
indeed seemed as calm as a lake, yet simultaneously as restless as
a dark forest. Although I haven’t seen it yet, I’d recommend you all
to go out and rent that movie (especially since IMDb rated it 81%,
not a bad score…)
In the same documentary a friend of Audrey’s (a pretty old lady)
of course claimed there was never anyone like her and never will
there be an actress as commited and elegant as, blah blah…
I started thinking of actresses I quite fancy myself and decided to
watch ‘Beautiful Girls’ (Ted Demme, 1996) once again. Uma truly
is devine as the untouchable Andera. IMDb mainly speaks about
Natalie Portman’s efforts in this movie –which are good considering
she was very young then– but Uma rocks the house, from the first
second she walks into cousin Stinky’s bar (Heavy’s Pruitt Taylor
Vince) you just know Timothy Hutton is NEVER going to get that
girl, she is a ghost, a myth (a promise of a better tomorrow).
Rated 71% by the Database, but screw that! This movie cannot
be rated. It’s just an Uma Thurman classic. Tonight I think I’ll either
rent ‘Gattaca’ or ‘Mad Dog and Glory’ again. Quentin T. must be
the luckiest guy in the world to have her phone number…
October 4, 2004 at 11:51 am — by Gyz
Boris van Berkum and me with our favourite kiddie books.
photo: Ari Versluis
October 1, 2004 at 2:59 pm — by Gyz
On August 27th in the year 2003 we did a lecture about
Big Powers, Religion and Globalisation at the Christian Arts
Seminar in Doorn, Holland.
From today you can read the whole lecture on pdf.
You can also download it on the left at the lyrics button.
Read it if you have the time.
Peace!
