It is a gay (song)contest

10:57 mareku 0 Comments

While we already had the Finnish Lesbian Kiss in the performance of their song "Marry Me" which upset the Turkish, Russian and Georgian countries - during the counting of the votes intermezzo  Sweden added its own gay kiss with these two guys. So actually the only kisses on stage were gay...

I couldn't resist and just downloaded the new Dan Brown- Inferno

17:00 mareku 0 Comments

Robert Langdon is back - in Florence this time. Trying to save the world from a mad man (who is strangely enough dead already on page 1 of the book) who thinks that we have to get rid of 3 billion people in order to survive as a species on earth... The setting is typical Brown as are the cliff hangers at the end of each chapter.

The Dambusters 70 years later

14:19 mareku 0 Comments

Still one of the greatest attacks ever: The attack on 3 German dams carried out on 16–17 May 1943, today exactly 70 years ago, by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, subsequently known as the "Dambusters", using a specially developed "bouncing bomb" invented and developed by Barnes Wallis.

Return to (mini) Nyenrode

09:14 mareku 0 Comments

Because of the launch of huurwoningnet.nl by Minister Blok I was at Madurodam, mini Holland, were I never had been before. So I took the chance to visit my Alma Mater, Castle Nyenrode - which is actually a pretty good model (and in a far better state then the original)

White House Down: Olympus has fallen?

13:16 mareku 0 Comments

After the disappointing "Olympus has fallen" movie comes an other one with EXACTLY the same storyline: a group of terrorists taking over (read: destroying) The White House and a single guys saves the president (and the world) in a DIE HARD way. This new version is simple called "White House Down" - which is arguably a better title. With Roland Emmerich direction and Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx staring the line-up sounds better as well... We have to wait untille the end of June to declare the winner.

Blossom at marijns' garden

20:02 mareku 0 Comments

Malmö: Vi har ett resultat!

15:52 mareku 0 Comments

Well this years edition of the EuroVision Song Contest isn't the best ever if you listen to the entered songs. Maybe it will be a great show - but in musical terms a bit disappointing. Starting with the shameless copy of Loreens' Euphoria by Cascade (Germany) there are a lot of familiar kind of tunes.
But I managed to make my top 5:

1. Only Teardrops - Emmelie de Forest (Denmark) | Catchy tune, great performance
2. You - Robin (Sweden) | Solid track, perfectly executed
3. Only Loves Survives - Ryan Dolan (Ireland) |  Great singer, maybe to general song
4. An Me Thimáse - Despina Olympiou (Cyprus) | The best voice
5. Straight into Love - Hannah (Slovenia) | Special mention for best video (hope that the guys will on stage as well...)  ;-)

Oh: And a very special mention for Cezar from Romania with his song "It's my life" for the highest notes (by a guy) ever sung at a Euro Song contest....