The astonishing short gay marriage of the X-men

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June 2012

Sept 2012

A few months after Northstar (a.k.a. Jean-Paul Beaubier) and his boyfriend Kyle Jinadu married in the X-Men comic it seems that they split up already...

Meanwhile at the RNC in Tampa

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My new action man?

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The felt dolls of the board books of Cozy Classics are hilarious. Look at Pride and Prejudice or Moby Dick. I don't really think the books will be a huge success - but as soon as the start selling the dolls...

Novation Launchpad

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Thinking of Zedd and Madeon I am planning to try out Ableton Live in combination with a Novation Launchpad myself. The only thing is - where to buy it?

The new Mozart is called Zedd

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I like the way music is produced now-a-days. While I am still composing with sequencers (like Reason) the new thing is music controllers in combination with loops and samples. Creating completely new music out of existing ones. Madeons' Popculture is a good example (18 years old). But the best I think is Zedd (Anton Zaslavski), 22 years old from Kaiserslautern. Listen to his The Legend of Zelda mix or the awesome Slam The Door and you now why everone want to record with him. Also these guys create their own fame - without record company, without even an album. Just Youtube and Soundcloud and a bit of Beatport. Read this nice article about Zedd in the NYT.

Organized Elections

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With the Romney - Obama battle you would almost forget that in The Netherlands we have an election too. These are -as everything- highly regulated and organized. Even the size of the election posters is standardized. And if you look more closely also the colors (red, white, blue, orange, green and purple)

He is waiting for us

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We booked our trip to Borneo - cannot wait to see all our relatives in the jungle...