Merry Christmas and a Joyous 2012!

Zuneigung - A Game of Devotion

Substitute ;D

This one features two of my all time favourite Belgian bands/musicians. Ahh Arno Hintjens you are still wonderful and Belgian music owes a lot to TCmatic.

Wupperbol

There is something about these guys, though there music appears to be on the verge of the annoying and I do not understand a lot of their West Flemish dialect. The drive makes me simply happy. Love it.

Toilettengeschichten-toiletstories

First The Miserable Rich's James de Malplaquet incited by Joseph Patrick:

Then Studio Brussel inciting people to give a shit:

And finally, though not chronologically, Luc Tuymans as well:

There is definitely something about Belgium and toilets these days, please give a shit and donate for Music for Life , spitefully the final edition this year...

What makes a person?

I was watching this last night on youtube...

and it reminded me of my own childhood, but quite differently. In Mauro Pawlowski's case the different ethnic or cultural groups were fighting each other, first they (probably the male youth) played football against each other and this was always followed up by a fight, whereas here - on the German side of the border and in the same village as the local population - we were living side by side mainly with people of Italian and Portuguese origin and at least for me, German and female, it was fantastic to have also Italian life in the neighbourhood, with its quite different take on issues, like food and drink or television programme. My Italian neighbours first introduced me, still being a child, to fruit pickled in rum for example. The consequence for me was that different cultures made and still make me curious.

Open and Frank

Sometimes people are invested with this enormous presence of simply being, granting them an air of the unconditional, a true human being. These are the rare moments I'm craving for so much, what the heck, I adore them....

I Cannot Even Come Close...

... to telling how much I love this song and how overwhelmingly glad I felt to discover that somebody has uploaded it.

There is a sense of freedom in there that reaches its peak in being self-depreciating, a humour that suits me well. Pretentious moi,  ça va!

Dinge in der Schachtel - items in the box II

Without comment