Recordshop, Milan, Italy, 1980. Music shapes the way you experience the world. Sitting in a car looking out of the window listening to Lola by The Kinks or Careless love by Hugh Laurie is a completely different experience, amiright? The same goes for the music we grow up with. We not only choose our own music when we're but wee little ones, but we are -sometimes forced- to listen to the music played by our...
All pictures used in this blogpost are borrowed (stolen) from Batsheva's post 'How To Survive As A Cultural Minority' which, fun fact, actually inspired me in writing/reaching out to her on this topic. All credit goes to Batsheva and her photographer Yitta Fetman from You R Photography. In 1742 poet Thomas Gray ends his poem Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College with the words: "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."...
"If madness is the truth of knowledge, it is because knowledge is absurd, and instead of addressing itself to the great book of experience, loses its way in the dust of books and in idle debate; learning becomes madness through the very excess of false learning." Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, 1961, p. 22. (no I haven't read the book. yet.) Guess what! #Blogmas day 11...
My Christmas-rash, aka my non-religious, non-traditional and non-social background that prevents me from experiencing merriness, is acting up again. I curl my lip in disapproval when walking past blow-up snowman, I hiss at people cheerfully singing 'It's the most wonderful time of the year' and I double roll my eyes when Santa asks me what I want for Christmas this year. "Whatya looking at?!, I throw in for good measure while shaking my head and...
It's day three of 'I haven't written anything yet and it's already 22:35'. LET'S DO THIS!!! Today I went to Amsterdam (again) to attend Fashion Fest 2017 at the Tropenmuseum. What's fashion fest? Good question. I hadn't heard of it either before Thursday (that was one of the things the meeting was about), but it's a fashion contest where designers, makeup artists and hair stylists compete against each other inspired by an object from the...
Look it me! #originalcontentcomingyourway24/7 Yesterday's post was a mess. Today's post isn't going to be any better. However maybe that's also the charm of an unprepared #Blogmas. You never know what you get. And maybe it's also a good exercise. Although I do believe in 'quality over quantity' it's often the question what this idea of quality is and whether the quality in mind is achievable in the first place and if not achievable sometimes...
Today I had to go to Amsterdam. I also had to write a #Blogmas post. This is what happened. At home I was talking, or, you know, complaining to my mother how her profile name on Facebook isn't 100% correct. "It's 'van den Broek' not 'Broek'", I said to her agitated. She sort of agreed with me and said I could change it if I wanted it to (not that I know how, but that's...
With heartbreaking headlines such as 'More LGBT people killed in 2017 so far than all of 2016', there's a clear need to not only celebrate LGBTQ-ness but foremost to showcase how bigoted homophobes & co are the odd ones out. Especially considering that 2016 was previously crowned as "deadliest year for the American LGBT community on record", and surely we don't want this bloodshed to be our decades prom king.[1] "Why has no one ever...
