Amat victoria curam!

Just to save myself for the 16K dam-2-dam run next Sunday ;-)

I love mackerel (from the Dutch " makelare" = broker) - but until now I only ate it mostly smoked or out of a tin with tomato sauce (both very nice). But then I saw fresh mackerel at the fishmonger and thought - why not make a nice starter with that? It was hard to find recipes and to get rid of of the tiny bones - but in the end my creation of mackerel, grapefruit and samphire was perfect...

Amidst wonderful art we had a nice dinner with our bank guys with other art collectors at the Jan van der Togt Museum.

OK it is somewhat thinner and lighter, but for the rest I do not see the big difference between the 4S and the 5. iOS6 is the biggest news. So for now I will continue to use the 4S (with iOS6).

Wow these elections were really exciting to follow: would the populists win again? would the electorate punish Europa for bailing out the southern countries? No we know none of this: The Netherlands continues to be a very stable, European country. In fact the parties who are for more integration of Europe won most. I am still very happy and feel lucky to live here. If only the confidence of the consumers in the near future would go up...

These days I am more stretching then ever before. After running longer distances I noticed that I need to stretch to avoid walking around like a robot the rest of the day. Maybe it is also because of the new Amazon Serial from Neal Pollack that I am reading about this Yoga Detective ;-)

Kawasaki Z1000 - Black Edition ;-)

Nokia Lumia 920: great camera / superb maps / wireless charging / windows 8... YELLOW!

HipstaPrint, originally uploaded by marque joosten.

To be continued...

HipstaPrint, originally uploaded by marque joosten.

@conservatorium hotel brasserie

Sista lördag var det kräftfest igen med alla svensk föreningar i Holland. Jag och Nicolette hade en jätte kul tid och åt (för) många kräftor och sjunde för mycket ljuder...

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...

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...

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?

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.

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)

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

And... you would think you could afford some pants that actually fit :-)

Han blir inte fulare ;-)

hmmm... I am not sure seeing the guys in this illustration if I want to be in the 6 range... I feel more at ease at #2...

Maybe he doesn't know himself as well and that's the reason he's staring as he is... (nice color match though...)

Like a sort real life "Rocky" David Beckham statues are popping up everywhere. It is a new campaign from H&M for his underwear range. Shame only that the real David isn't looking nearly as good anymore as his statue...

After the raving review on Gizmodo I ordered the Therapik (terrible website) - now with the heatwave in Amsterdam the bugs are coming as well and I really HATE them. (and they me...)

This cat is obviously not afraid of my rattle snake buddy seat...

Today is Julia Childs' 100th birthday - so I have to prepare one of her signature dishes: Boeuf Bourguignon anyone?

According to stemwijzer (vote advisor) my best choice for the upcoming september elections would be liberals (D66) - something that they keep on telling me for the last hundred years or so and I meekly follow in the voting booth. (see the high score of the communist SP? scary!)

In the fifties there was all of a sudden this new craze at some US universities: squating the asian way - or hunking as it was called then. You can see on the photo above that some guys couldn't really hunk at all (second and forth from the left). It looks fun though... I wonder why it never came really in fashion and stayed that way - to difficult after all?

Thanks to the article of Mark Singer in the New Yorker I was wondering why I always run like a laboratory rabbit completely wired up? So I decided to run "naked". No Nike fuel band, No Nike GPS watch, No Nike plus sensor, No Polar heartbeat sensor, No iPod, even No shirt. Just some (Nike free) shoes and shorts (for my keys). It felt really weird running around like that. Very much aware of my breathing and sound of my shoes on the pavement. Nothing to check, not sure when to turn around...
After awhile though things got better and I felt actually free - nothing to worry about :-)
But no stats after my run either: Length, duration, heartbeat, pace - nothing.
I must admit that I am not sure what to do now? Maybe alternate wired with free?

Mark Singers' excellent and hilarious piece in this weeks New Yorker about a Michigan dentist who cheated at dozens of marathons (even inventing his own) in order to get...what? credibility? The more capabilities to sharing stuff the more stupid stuff we are doing in order to brag about it... ;-))
This dentist really took it a nudge to far and got lost in his own tricks and lies.

This weeks' discovery on spotify is Chris Connor - I really like her 50's albums. She is very COOL (like the title of this album - "The cool voice"

Now that my swedish study is over and done with it's time for something new. Making & producting music is always been a passion of mine - so what better then to pick up where I left Reason and with the help of my teacher Jord try to create some music :-)

An other sunday an other 16K run - during running I can not think of anything else then running. Maybe better this way beacuse my sundays are really predictable this way...

Very up-to-date dish out of the 18th century...

Since I am wearing my Nike Fuel band I have to check my status at least 10 times a day - I wonder: am I a prisoner of this device or what? Can I ever return to a normal life (without fuel stress)?

How did I ever listened to music before Spotify and even more: how did I discover new music and artists? I really have no clue :-)
So hurray again for spotify to help me to come across Susannah McCorkle. She was a very gifted singer indeed - her diction is truly outstanding and her repertoire consists of familiar and (quirky) new songs. Listen to her Most requested Songs album e.g.
Ashame that I wasn't able to see and hear her live and that she left us way to soon.

left: after 7 months - right: new

We had to change our flags today because only after seven(!) months the current flags are a piece of junk - the smog is so bad here along the highway that a nice flag will deteriorate amazingly fast...

In the D&G fall/winter 2012 gym collection you will find these nice Coca-Cola T shirts. Before you order some: they are €145 a piece. (ok, with free shipping) Oops!

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