I'm a popculture nut, I'm fascinated by everything Arab, I love my food (and that includes eating it, cooking it, shopping for it and writing about it), I'm crazy about Bill Hicks and everybody who shares his state of mind, I buy too many shoes, I read too many magazines, I hate to travel but I love going places, I like to think big, I'm just pretending to know what I'm doing half of the time, and I'm glad you feel the same way...
Music
My life = music! It gets me up when I'm down, it brings on the pointless nostalgic in me... Favorite mood enhancers? Chet Baker (over and over again), Fiona Apple, Antony and the Johnsons, Dez Mona, Feist, CocoRosie, Patrick Watson, ILIKETRAINS, Just Jack, Lamb, Brel, Nick Drake, George Michael, Zero 7, Nine Horses, Ane Brun, Adele, Air, Serge Gainsbourg, Sufjan Stevens, The Arcade Fire, Badly Drawn Boy,Tim Buckley, Richard Thompson, Elton John (Seriously? Seriously! Let me prove my point!), Rufus Wainwright, almost all the jazz divas!
Motown gets me shakin'...
Movies
Still lingering: De battre mon coeur s'est arrete + Annie Hall + La Meglio Gioventu + Unfaithful+ Ae Fond Kiss + Requiem for a Dream + Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind + Lost in Translation + Big Fish + Das Leben Der Anderen + Manhattan + Punch Drunk Love + The Yacoubian Building + Donnie Darko + Syriana + Factotum + Igby Goes Down + Confessions of a Dangerous Mind + Kiss Kiss Bang Bang + Secretary (and all other movies where James Spader does the dirty) + Sideways + American Splendor
Television
TV's great! Stop nagging about it! Nip/Tuck, CSI (Las Vegas, of course! Grrrrrissom), One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls, Extras, The Office, The Catherine Tate show, Prime Suspect, 30 minuten (alles wat Arjan Ederveen doet), Weeds, The Daily Show, The Poker Channel, Have I Got News For You, Nighty Night, Grey's Anatomy, West Wing, Family Guy and of course still going strong: The Simpsons. Bring back Dr Katz!
"Can't we just get rid of wine lists? Do we really have to be reminded every time we go out to a nice restaurant that we have no idea what we are doing? Why don't they just give us a trigonometry quiz with the menu?" Haaaa, how we miss Seinfeld...
Books
I'm hooked on the 3 for 2 books at Waterstones and I'm always in for a 'compelling read'. Melissa Banks, Rupert Thompson,
Douglas Coupland, Nick Hornby, Jonathan Safran Foer... are providing exactly that... David Sedaris is by far the funniest man in my libary.
Heroes
Bill Hicks Jon Stewart Johan Anthierens Henry David Thoreau Andy Kaufman Maurizio Catellan Simon Amstell Theo Maassen
Christine Jesperson: I mean, they kind of rub my ankles, but all shoes does that. I have low ankles.
Richard Swersey: You think you deserve that pain, but you don't.
Christine Jesperson: I don't think I deserve it.
Richard Swersey: Well, not consciously maybe.
Christine Jesperson: My ankles are just low...
Richard Swersey: People think that foot pain is a fact of life, but life is actually better than that.
Michael: I'll say. You should get some. Your whole life could be better. Just starting right now.
Who I'd like to meet: Ik hou van de Icarus die wist dat de was zou smelten en toch naar de zon toe vloog.
Ik hou van het meisje dat wel zag hoe blauw de baard van Blauwbaard was - dat was juist de reden.
Ik hou van Doornroosje die alleen maar deed alsof ze sliep.
Ik hou van Sneeuwwitje, die de dwergen een stelletje neuroten vond. 'wie heeft er op mijn stoeltje gezeten? Wie heeft er van mijn bordje gegeten?' En van de dwerg, die helemaal niet zoveel van Sneeuwwitje hield:
'toen zij er nog niet was, waren wij nog zeven. En nu? Moet je ons nu eens zien.'
Van de reus die kwaad is, omdat iedereen zijn schoenen laarzen noemt.
Ik hou van wie niet in het sprookje past. Maar vooral
hou ik van Icarus die wist dat de was zou smelten en toch naar de zon toe vloog.
Tjitske Jansen
de vaste waarde van je dagelijkse blogposts is een van de mooie momenten van mijn dag. twee minuutjes weg uit mijn werk, recht in je hoofd. het is daar best wel fijn vertoeven. dank je.
