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Erich Maria Remarque
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On the Road again
We are on the road again - this time to the very northern part of Europe: The Nordkapp. We will travel through Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.
David Leavitt in Amsterdam
Boring Eros Ramazzotti
Carmen at the Opera with the amazing Yonghoon Lee
Georges Bizet's Carmen can be a little bit of a drag - it's a sort of classical top 40. Come in Yonghoon Lee - a tenor from South Korea: he blew the audience away with his beautiful powerful voice at tonight's premiere at the DNO.
Sunday's Best: Top ten ebooks in my iLiad
With my Norddkap trip just days away it is time to decide with books to load on my iliad. Of the 50 books I will take with me (I expect long days because of the midsummer nights...) I am looking forward the most to these titels:- At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life - Wade Rouse
- No Second Chance - Harlan Coben
- 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith
- The memoirs of a beautiful boy - Robert Leleux
- Just too good to be true - E. Lynn Harris
- Exiles in America - Christopher Bram
- The Book of Useless Information - Noel Botham
- Het Diner - Herman Koch
- The Works (60 novels) - Charles Dickens
- NRC Handelsblad
No's apple pie
Please be so kind and sign my Kindle...
Gay parents
Jarko Witte van Leeuwen was featured on national television with his family as an example of gays adopting children from the USA. There was some (minor) discussion in parlement whether that is desirable - IT IS! ;-)
Anthony Woods - The new Obama?
Mosquitoes Starwars
Prone Cobra Stretch
Because my right hand is still in a cast - my gym routine is quit different: I do more core exercises like the Cobra and Superman movements. You really have to get used to this - but is very rewarding and great for your lower back and abs...
Sundays' Best: Top Ten audiobooks
With my iPhone always on hand, audiobooks are getting more and more fun. Audiobookbuilderis a great program to stitch all the CDs or MP3s together in a bookmarkable format. These are my current favorites:
- The Fellowship Of The Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien, read by Full Cast (BBC 1981)
- Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs, read by Augusten Burroughs
- Dreams of my Father - Barack Obama, Read by Barack Obama
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, read by David Sedaris
- Dear fatty - Dawn French, read by Liza Tarbuck
- Babycakes, Armistead Maupin, read by Armistead Maupin
- The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander Mccall Smith, read by Adjoa Andoh
- Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull, Thomas Mann, read by Boris Aljinovic
- Sense And Sensibility, Jane Austen, Read By Juliet Stevenson
- Economist weekly audio edition, read by various
Last post on Vox - I moved back to marque.blogspot.com
With Google integrating more and more stuff and vox standing still in its development, I decided to move back to blogger and my original blog which you can find at: marque.blogspot.com.
Thanks for visiting this blog here at Vox - please continue reading...
Thanks for visiting this blog here at Vox - please continue reading...
Mr. President we have such high hopes...
Just a couple of weeks after I visited Buchenwald, Obama did and Elie Wiesel made a very moving speech.
Barack Hussein Obama is GOD!
The expectations were almost impossible to achieve but he did it again: a water shedding speech by Barack in Cairo about the Muslim world. I feel this is truly the start of a new beginning! Of course he is omitting the inconvenient truths that women are generally subjugated in those cultures, gays are ostracized or killed outright, but hey: we have to start somewhere...
Gay pinguins save the world
After earlier experiments in separating the homosexual penguin couple in Bremen revealed great difficulties, the zoo decided to let them adopt a pinguin egg - and... it worked! Dad & dad hatched the egg and now are proud parents of a healthy chicken pinguin of the rare Humbold race :-)
Sid the Sloth
While waiting for Ice Age: The dawn of the Dinosaurs - I have been watching Ice Age I & II in blueray. Sid is still the man! (uh... I mean Sloth!). Johnny Legiuzamo as his voice is great too ;-)
Sundays' best: top ten Obama art
I don't think that a living president inspired so many people to produce art. But Obama isn't just a president :-)
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What is a hero? THIS is a hero!
He is the first guy to receive the highest military honor of the Netherlands - The William Knighthood Cross - in 55 years. Marco Kroon truly is a hero - saving soldiers in Afghanistan. This was really a big thing here: live tv coverage, Queen, cabinet, prime minister the lot - and that is how it should be: someone who defends our freedom, sacrifice himself and who is outmost couragous deserves our utmost respect.
Google Wave is stunning!
I am very impressed with Google Wave. It really will change radically the way we communicate. It's difficult to oversee all the new possiblities right now - but I my mind is already full of new ideas and concepts. So this the day that email, word, chat etc. died and Wave was born... If you see one video this week - make sure it is this one!
Ruben without his head :-§
As much as I like Ruben, it seems that I really liked his Ducati 748 more... ;-)
what is it with guys hugging?
It seems like a new craze: hugging. People are hugging all the time. Some sociologists pointed out that African-American boys and men have been hugging as part of their greeting for decades, using the word “dap” to describe a ritual involving handshakes, slaps on the shoulders and, more recently, a hug, also sometimes called the gangsta hug. It could have some sexual menaing but pro-hugging students say it is not a romantic or sexual gesture, simply the new “hello”. The high-five is, like, boring. So "Hugg" ! :-)
New Enduro Motor suit
To ease the "pain" from my unfortunate motor accident I gave myself a treat in buying a Rev'it enduro suit. It is great with three layers so it is always right for what ever climate and has plenty of handy pockets.
Woningnet supervisory board
Today I was elected member of the board of supervisors of WoningNet, an IT and marketing data company for housing societies. I hope I can contribute to make this great company even better. :-)
Sunday's best: Top ten Detective TV shows
What is it with Detectives that they are almost always single elderly men? Most of them have problems with their (ex) wives. Hardly any of them have children. And most of the times the seem very unhappy in their private lives. Maybe that is necessary to fully concentrate on the job (or it makes a better story ;-) ). While watching the Dalziel & Pascoe series, I was wondering what the best Detective TV shows were:
- Foyle's War - because of the stories and settings.
- Dalziel & Pascoe - This is one show where it is difficult to guess who done it right from the start (it takes me about 10 minutes :-)) )
- Wallander - because it is swedish...
- Morse - Because of John Thaw, and his car of course
- Columbo - Nice stories
- McCloud - Who doesn't want to be Sam McCloud?
- Frost - Nice social settings
- Midsommer Murders - Because of its English county sides and festivals
- Tatort - still going strong after almost 40 years. I like especially Hansjörg Felmy as
Kommissar Haferkamp - Poirot - Little outdated, but nice Art Deco settings
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