November 30

Got lucky twice today. First I missed the ferry, but it turned out I had mistaken the clock for one hour. I was perfectly in time for everything.
Then at school I got a free ticket for the cinema. The movie was 'Fight Club' and it was so cool. I felt kinda... reborn(?) after watching the movie.

Meanwhile, tourist guy below gets eaten by the doves on Dam square.

November 29

Today I went to the cinema, to a movie called 'The Ballad of Narayama'. It's a Japanese movie about a small village where people have to die when they are 70.

The movie was terrible, and with that very interesting. In one scene there is a man who fucks a dog, and in another scene a whole family is being buried alive. This film is brutal! Next to that, the volume of the music was ridiculously loud so that I had to sit with my fingers in my ears through the whole movie (at some points I took them out to hear the actual volume: the sound penetrated my ears painfully).

But I really liked it, maybe because of it's weirdness. The last scenes on the mountain were very touching.

November 28

Today, after breakfast, I decided to mingle a bit with the blog lay-out. I created the logo-picture, and I'm so happy with it! Here's a little explanation:

November 27

November 26

Björk made a wonderful appearance on Later with Jools Holland, performing Cosmogony. Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duk37-OIoW8&list=LL5G6nczjY103LgFeTwuub1A&feature=mh_lolz

November 23

I was making music in the evening, when suddenly I heard "The library is going to close in 15 minutes. Please prepare to leave." I hadn't written down anything yet! I quickly jolted some lines down and wrote wrote wrote the whole thing down. Even when people asked me to leave I was still writing as I walked down the chairs. But I finished it :)

Here's some autumn in Amsterdam:

November 22

A great day. It only took 10 minutes to bike to the ferry, and then 5 more minutes to reach central station, in comparison to the 45 minutes I used to travel! Also, the city was shrouded in mist which looked very cool from the waterside.

During some free hours I decided to check out the film-festival in the centre: the IDFA festival. I was lucky and got a free ticket for a movie called 'the Strawberry Tree'. It was great, and I got to meet some students from England who had traveled to Amsterdam especially for this festival.
(After the movie it turned out that it was the director himself that had given me the free ticket!)

November 21

Ai moooved, finally to Amsterdam.

It was harder that I thought, we had to ride the car 3 times. (I was so naive I thought we could do it in one time...). Here you can see that the car was packed, having a mattress and a bed above us, and sharing the front 2 seats with 3 persons.

November 18

This lady had a camera I had never seen before, it seems to be for stability.

November 16

Biking in the sun this morning was amazing, Amsterdam looked perfect everywhere I looked. Regardless of the bad reputation, the city looked like a place of peace and harmony.

November 12

I found a new room! After weeks of worrying, I finally got a new place. It looked great, and it's close to the city centre. It has it's own kitchen, and a lot of room so I can invite guests over. The only downside is that it's a bit expensive, but I think I can afford it. I'm really happy, and relieved.

November 11

I'm kinda tired of Amsterdam lately. The weather is cold, and the people are cold.
Anyway, I edited a picture of a friend, a kind guy with an angel face. Have a look below.

November 9

Ah, the months of tradition have arrived. I have a feeling that the centre of Amsterdam will make heavy use of Sinterklaas and Christmas.

November 8

I was worrying about money-issues on my way home. Then suddenly, 5 euro was laying at my feet. It seemed like such a funny coincidence! Nobody was around for miles, so I saw no other option than to take this money into my possession.

November 7

I had a lot of fun playing the piano today. Came up with some really nice melodies which, (breaking a certain tradition), are written in major and not minor.

November 6

Sometimes our dog refuses to go for a walk, that's why we got this little cart for her. She seems to be enjoying it, as if we finally treat her with the dignity she deserves.

November 5

I went to see Nils Frahm yesterday. I enjoyed it a lot, tears ran down my face during almost every song. Accidentally, a classmate of mine was there too, and she told me that she was rather disappointed with the concert.
The follow-up after Nils was a performer named Hauschka, I hadn't heard his music before. Yet his performance was almost equally interesting as Nils' performance. He had attached a lot of small vibrating things to the strings, or things that would vibrate because of the strings like ping-pong balls. The result sounded beautiful imo.

November 1

My landlord said some really disturbing things to me yesterday. I was sad about that... I share my grief with this kitten.