Andrew Bird, Great Lake Swimmers, Timesbold, Shelby Lynne, Glorytellers, American Music Club, Beirut, The Guggenheim Grotto, Faultline, Candie Payne, Death Cab for Cutie, Alela Diane, RJD2, Jamie Lidell, Miles Davis, Courtney Pine, Charlie Hunter, Nerina Pallot, Rufus Wainwright, Joseph Arthur, Recoil, Feist, Karl Denson, Bruce Hornsby, Alexi Murdoch, Gavin Friday, Pink Floyd, Hooverphonic, Jackie Green, Wax Poetic, The Bad Plus, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Silje Nergaard, Jimi Tenor, Dez Mona, Zero 7, Nils Petter Molvaer, Nitin Sawhney, Talvin Singh, Medeski Martin & Wood, Joe Jackson, Harry Connick Jr. , Keziah Jones, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Zutons, Clap your hands say yeah, Sufjan Stevens, Depeche Mode, Warren Zevon, Yaron Herman Trio, Neil Cowley Trio, Arto Lindsay, Matthew Herbert Big Band, Dani Siciliano, Massive Attack, Eels
Movies
Lord of the rings I,II,III - The wind that shakes the barley - Intermission - Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels - Man on the moon - Titus - Hero - House of flying daggers - American Splendor - The fog of war - Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - The big Lebowski - Fargo - O brother, where art thou.
Bill Hicks - Relentless, Revelations, Sane Man, Tommy Tiernan - Cracked, Loose, Dylan Moran - Monster, Bill Bailey - Cosmic Jam, Part Troll, Bewildered, Robin Williams, Henry Rollins - Shock and awe, Billy Connolly - Live in Dublin.
Television
As the late Bill Hicks said: Lucifers Lightbox. So I kicked it out!
Books
Catch 22- Joseph Heller,
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley,
The Black Swan, the impact of the highly improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
The never-ending days of being dead - Marcus Chown,
1491 - Charles C. Man
Collapse- Jared Diamond,
The God Dillusion - Richard Dawkins,
jPod - Douglas Coupland,
Extremely loud and incredibly close - Jonathan Safran Foer,
The world is flat - Thomas L. Friedman ,
The classical world. An epic history of Greece and Rome- Robin Lane Fox,
Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor,
Persian Fire - Tom Holland,
The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde,
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis,
Freaconomics- Levitt & Dubner,
Dante Club - Matthew Pearl,
The dream of Scipio - Iain Pearse,
A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson,
McCarthy's bar - Pete McCarthy,
The echo makers - Richard Powers,
The Undercover Economist - Tom Harford
Heroes
Bill Hicks, for being the kick in the nuts of the establishment and political correctness. We miss you, Goatboy!
Gregory House MD, for being the kick in the nuts of the establishment and political correctness. "Men should grow up." ... "Yeah, and dogs should stop licking themselves. It's not gonna happen!"
George Carlin, for being the kick in the nuts of the establishment and political correctness. "The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked!"
Oscar Wilde, for being such a fagot and for being the kick in the nuts of the establishment and political correctness. We miss you, Oscar!
King Leonidas, who, with only 300 men at his disposal to fight at Thermopylae, defended Europe against a million Asian invaders (eat that, Dubbaja!) thus saving the embryonic democracy of Greece and as a reward got to name the most famous brand of Belgian chocolates...
Alexander III of Macedonia, aka The Great, For taking the fight the Asians started right back to their doorstep and being an enlightened despot that we could use right now, for kicking the Scythians ass, so that Andrew Bird could make a song about it.
Cicero, for writing De Res Publica. Recommend it to most world leaders, for they obviously have not read it.
Michael Collins, for starting a rumpus in Ireland and ultimately bringing down the British empire. For compromising at the heaviest price of all: his life.
Julius Caesar, for being a war criminal in the league of Hitler, Pot, Saddam and Bush (both of them that is, hoping Jeb doesn't live up to the family reputation). For bringing our ancestors under the yoke of Roman imperialism, thus bringing them relative peace, Greek philosophy and aquaducts. And for saying that the Belgians were the bravest of the Gauls (ultimately proving old Jools wasn't a god).
Yesterday I bought my colleagues chocolates. I’m not a very likeable person by nature, you see. I have to buy affection. I bribe people into liking me. But do not be fooled ladies, I’m just like the chocolates I offer you: a very dark, almost bitter tasting shell. But if you dare to take only the smallest of bites, your taste buds will discover the richest panoply of flavours. Both sour and sweet. The most exotic aromas will caress your tongue and lips and leave you ecstatic. Just one little lick and you’ll be hooked. You’ll want to wallow yourself in the liquorish caramel that is my love and sprinkle your voluptuous curves with little chunks of my passion. I will cling to your sticky back as a wrapper to a toffee.
You’ll stuff your face, you’ll want the whole box and you won’t want to share with your best friend. You’ll have to tell her about this amuse bouche of course. Tell, but never share. And when you come home at night and find your little box of lusciousness missing, you’ll fall to your knees, raise your eyes to the heavens and cry: More! More! More!
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Who I'd like to meet: my soul mate, but please hurry, I'm OVER thirty and my mum's getting worried...
jij bent allicht nog steeds een bonhomme de neige maar ik ga lekker bakken in berlijn! 30 graden! jippie! mijn fluorescerende benen zullen kankerverwekkend worden blootgesteld aan de uv-stralen...
en your status is set on away? what's that all about, je bent toch gewoon op vakantie?
too much acid... my infinitely depressed friend...but have You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks like He rushed it.”... haha, Bill hicks for president!!! even in his current state I Believe he'd do a better job than Bush...
hey Bruno, het klinkt allemaal erg bekend, hoor ik heb school gelopen in mjinde, een geloofwaardig aantal jaar in gent gewoond en uiteindelijk mijn vriend in Dublin gaan halen... aah destiny... "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened" anyway, have a great new year and
bent u trouwens de leukerd die dezen avond ten huize K en V mijn ruitenwissers en zijspiegels zo mooi gearrangeerd heeft? Of was dat een schelmstreek van een lokaal snotjoch dat aldaar, stijf van den drugs no doubt, eens wilde tonen aan zijn vriendjes dat hij wèl ballen aan zijn lijf heeft. Miss zelf een combinatie van de twee.
greetings and a happy new arse!
Ah, kiedekjirier, kiedekjidoa!
In fourth position: me, myself and I, the honour is mine, thankyouverymuch! American Splendor is a future classic, indeed, glad you enjoyed it, now give it back! :) mr. Foer's tweede is ook killer, de Dutch version staat hier te pronken in de kast, en niet onterecht.
