HuMobisten

So, last saturday in Holland we celebrated the birthday of our Queen’s mom,
or is it her grandmother (I really wouldn’t know) a day early. Because of it
being a sunday on the regularly scheduled Queensday, God or Retail took care
of business and made sure this year Queensday (a day one half of the Dutch
population sell their junk on the street as the other half’s buying it) happened
on a saturday.
I bought me an excellent book on friendship, a framed picture of two goblins
catching butterflies, a book on Wave Surfing and the Matthäus Passion (St.
Matthew Passion) for almost nothing. Then I went to see Der Versucher jam
with the Ragtime Wranglers, a sort of western swing, cowboy.. blues… thing.
Anyway, as no one shakes maracas like Proberen, you can probably imagine
why I, immediately after his performance, went off escaping the largest
drunken crowd I’d seen in a while and finally see Brokeback Mountain (or
‘Berg van het Gebroken Kontje’, as our friend Proberen often calls it…).
Anyway, I thought it was even better than Capote (which I saw last monday),
which was nice and also left me speechless as the ending titles rolled over
the screen, but which also seemed to miss something. Or maybe I just
thought it was a bit too much here and there. I dunno… maybe I’m just sort
of too much myself lately.
That jazz on my paper work piling up to the ceiling I told you kids about some
time ago seems to be cleened up, or at least it’s in progress. I promissed y’all
I’d get back at that sooner or later. Well, here it is. Hard work, and pulling a
sharp focus actually helped. Surprise!?!

If you sometimes wonder ‘Who in hell makes those excellent drawings on the
Off the Road Show flyers?’, check out a ‘recently freshed up and pretty tidy’
website hosting the incomparable drawings and dreamy universe of miss Yke
Schotten, also nominated ‘best smiler in the world’.

Oh, and here’s the new I-WANT-A-MAC! commercials: ‘sounds like hours of
fun…’. Life is good when you’re a Mac Nerd!

Lots of movie watching yesterday. First I wanted to go see Avishai Cohen at
Lantaren/Venster, but I inevitably felt way too jerky for that and me and my
bud Baron Marcel Alexander W. the First’s roommate (dirty) Diana decided to
watch not one but two movies instead. First Alfie starring Jude as Michael (which
started out quite good but ended rather disappointing) and second ‘Bad Santa’
directed by Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World) and written by the infamous Coen Bros,
this thing could only be hilarious and weird. And so ’t was. Billy Bob Thornton’s
an alcoholic crook robbin’ malls disguised as, you guessed right, Santa Claus
who cares for nothing but the three B’s (booze, bullshit and butt fucking) until he
meets this small —kind of weird— kid coping w/ christmas crap of his own. If
you haven’t yet seen this, go out and rent that fucker!

On other film related news, you kids might not be surprised to hear I’m dying
to see Capote, Walk The Line and Ziyi Zhang as melancholic geisha as well.
Maybe you ARE surprised to hear this, but then you don’t know there’s three
things that make me cry more than anything, namely:
1. reading ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’
2. hearing ‘American IV / The man comes around’ by Johnny Cash
3. seeing ‘Ziyi Zhang’ perform in movies

Enough on celluloid, there’s ART to be seen next friday, namely at the same
Blaak10 Gallery the wonderful pictures of the previous post were taken. If you
don’t know Anna Hilti and her miraculous pack of CH friends, now’s the time
to get your ass off the couch, don’t go home shopping for the weekend and
start knowing their stuff tomorrow at six pm (and on some other dates as
their show’s fully booked w/ special occasions/performances throughout the
length of the exhibition). Tomorrow starts off with a ‘FLAMBOYANT OPENING
SHOW’, details: “Deep Trash LIVE Live Typo opening performance, Superhero
Flight-show with At No Bikini Beach (NL)”. Sounds good enough for me.

Ajeto!