Been an awful week in terms of stress .. First follow up (last officious evaluation) for school-project was due to today. Let's say we broke the beast's back Thursday morning, THAT'S YESTERDAY. That's the beauty about working Object-Oriented, when coding correctly it falls into place. I didn't even know what my partner in crime was doing or had done till he showed me.. I provided him with the necessary code to access the MySQL-database. Throw in a mix it worked fine after a few tries. Finally the program went haywire when adding the "pdf-plugin" (java iText library) to autmatically create a pdf-files. I almost lost it, but after fifth time of adding the library it did okay. Whew!
So now for the best part of Friday .. LA MUSICA!
Swedish House Mafia - One
Make The Girl Dance - Kill me (Toxic Avenger remix)
Literally waiting to get the shot. For every good, sharp, well-framed picture I had to shoot 15-20 blurry ones. Animals are hard, but I'm pretty happy with the result and so was Poezie's owner. All black and white on demand.
Shooting took around an hour, processing 1.5-2 hours. Pictures taken: approx. 100
Just got back from 2 days of punk, hardcore and metalcore music @ festival Groezrock 2010 in North-Eastern Belgium (Meerhout). We've (= Jean, Stevy & me) seen great shows, eccentric people and of course .. Alex, the German who thought our gin had one funny looking colour. Sam, the drunk neighbour whom I taught to pee like a man! Bieke, who lost her lighter but found the warmest greatest guys from around. Ask Steven. The pics !
The bands! This will be a short overview of the bands we've seen, tried to include live video's of tracks we've heard.
A skylit drive
Post-hardcore band, the vocals are a bit .. female (his looks also actually). 30 meter from the stage it was hard to determine whether you were listening to a male or female vocal. Thought the supporting vocal of the bass-player is fitter.
Caliban
One of the big names in metalcore, the German Caliban. Second time or third time I've seen them perform, last time was the 10th anniversary of Graspop 2006. Those insane breakdowns are just perfect..
Haste the day
Christian metalcore band .. didn't really enjoy the god-loves-us-all-talk in between but hey, great song to sing by the side of your mate(s)!
Millencolin
One of the old school punkrock bands, been around for almost 20 years now. You might recognize it like many of us do from .. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2! No cigar is one of their best (or at least most popular) Fitting in is overrated anyway!
Funeral for a friend
Pukkelpop 2007 Gert (follow'm here) told me about Funeral, especially Into oblivion and Roses for the dead caught me in the moment (in a good sense). Although they're awesome I didn't enjoy the show, the bass was way to overwhelming, it really messed up the sound too bad really.
Zebrahead
Typical rapping poppunk band that loves having fun on stage, first noticed them ages ago with their hit "Playmate of the year" which was obviously a single to gain popularity, they have far better songs actually!
A Wilhelm scream
Shame I didn't check them out earlier .. performed quite good, crowd was going insane at their energetic music!
Strike anywhere
A well placed f*** you for mister R. Murdock at the beginning of this song (I think so). I it love when he speeches, there's so much wrong in this world and strike anywhere is one of the "few" bands who have the dignity to bring it forth the political views.
88 fingers Louie
Mmm don't know, wasn't really that interesting, I honestly never heard their music before yesterday but they seemed rather "boring" or I was too tired to pay attention.
Sum 41
This was the bomb .. the exact same opening, great show, they actually communicate and play with the audience .. I love bands who do something extra instead of just playing and leaving afterwards.
The Bronx
The Bronx's original goal was to bring passionate, blood-and-sweat punk rock into the 21st Century. Somewhere at that large festival-tent you could still smell that little club-sweat. I'd rather see them in a club with not even enough room to put up a decent podium.
Parkway drive
Heavy guitars, deep vocals, sickening speed .. that's parkway drive. Drive's set was, for me, the heaviest on Groezrock .. the feeling of smashing everything in my way. It's the kind of music that releases you from all thoughts of past and future for an instance, just you .. screaming from the top of your lungs together with a few thousand. You could read the appreciation on the frontman's face for the energy released by the crowd, he pushed himself so far he had to pause for a minute and jump right back in. The crowd was going insane at this one.
Story of the year
I don't know how but hell .. those guys have breath. They be jumping around and doing back flips with their guitars like it ain't nothing.
Bad religion
They don't look like punk gods (tattoos, etc ..) but they still stand after 30 years. Those lyrics .. simply got to love them. You can read it like a book of protest. The sad thing is, lyrics from 30 years ago still count, the question one may ask is .. will anything ever change?
Hatebreed
Too bad they had to cancel due to the Vulcano eruption. We sang Destroy everything anyway of course. Fuck vulcanos 2010! All credits go to not siskel (check out her gallery, pretty awesome pictures there!)
T-shirt was designed by Parkway drive, they got here just in time.
Electro Friday: the rising Every Friday I will post (a few) classic or new electro tracks (electro, dub, dnb it'll all be in there). To do this successfully I may call in the help from my acid-bro (jesus, how did we come up with that name) GJ, since he has been electronized for years and recommended me a bunch of smashing tracks. While getting some organisation into the blog other side-projects may arise, we'll see from here.
Damon bot Haha, a certain damonhayles_771904652149@hotmail.com added me on Live Messenger and entertained me: (in case you're wondering, I answered spaces from where I noticed I was talking to a program) damon says: hey cutie 優 says: Hey, who's this? damon says: Yay someone to talk to !! how are u? I found your name in the msn online members search 優 says:
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damon says: ....nice well u can also just watch me if u want....it's up to u oh babe what's your favorite color? 優 says:
damon says: make sure u fill out your correct b-day k? cause they won't let u in if you can't verify age I had to use my debit card to verify age but they don't charge, it's just to make sure you're not a kid 優 says:
damon says: I'm gonna turn off Messenger so my cam doesn't run slow....plus I really want u to watch me, I'm getting so turned on it's driving me crazy 優 says:
damon says: are u in babe?? Let me know when you see me, I'll be in my cam chat, we'll keep talking in there I just put on those panties for u ! hurry up ! if u need the link again it's http://www.freakyloving.com/zmp , I'm in my private chat so if u see another cam just login and let me know when you're in, I'll guide you to my cam room 優 says:
damon says: k 優 says:
.. and then the entertainment stopped. Quite creative move for a scam.
2 eye-drawings First time I drew this big, full A4 paper. I'll probably blacken the edged with charcoal, not quite out of it. Second one is obviously anime-styled.
Faaaaaaaaast food Pizza mozzarella & left over fishy (yea Jean, it's baked) my dad made in bitter sauce.
Light dessert Some light yoghurt and banana (in blender till you have some small pieces of banana left) Jim Breuer about alcohol We've all been there (yea keep kidding yourself "never again" after you wake up with your head pounding like a drill machine) .. the hangover. Jim Breuer, comedian, explains how the stomach works.
Steaming the chicken Didn't really feel like really cooking, you know standing in the kitchen stirring all the time. But I had to eat something right. Put some broccoli, carrots and chicken fillet in the steaming machine. MAGNIFICENT .. 20 minutes of letting a machine heat up water gets repaid by a health and tasty plate. (and daddy's tomato soup which is of course the best!)
Easter dessert So it's Easter .. it's a common sight to see every breathing human being stuff himself full with at least 5 kg of chocolate by the end of the week! The bunny brought me the usual, white brown and black chocolate eggs, I prefer black chocolate. The taste is pure and a piece a day healthy! This pastry was filled with chocolate mousse, very D-lish!
These cookies are top, I bought three or four large bags around the St Nicholas-time(6th ofdecember is a holiday particularly celebrated in Belgium, the Netherlands and some countries of Eastern Europe). Texture and taste are both very similar to Speculaas but the difference is found when you let it melt in your mouth, a mint-like taste of some kind pops up. I think it's being manufactured with subliminal adding of some herb extract.
