Not my button! :O

Can't stop, gotta date with hate

Greediness at its finest: me and step ordered tickets this morning to see the Lostprophets... twice. On April 13th in 013 and April 16th in one of my favourite venues, the Melkweg. :) :) :)

For all these times kid, for all these times

Bored, much? Found this on the interweb. An i-Tunes questionnaire:

How many songs total: 826

How many hours or days of music: 2 days

Sort by song title

First song: Abandon ship or abandon all hope - Four Year Strong

Last song: 911 for peace (live) - Anti-Flag

Sort by time

Shortest song: Fix me (Black Flag cover) - Rise Against

Longest song: World by storm - Aiden

Sort by album

First album: Aha shake heartbreak - Kings Of Leon

Last album: The 59 sound - The Gaslight Anthem

Top 5 most played songs:

1. Rise Against - 401 Kill

2. Four Year Strong - Bada bing

3. Rise Against - Everchanging

4. City And Colour - Sleeping sickness

5. Rise Against - Obstructed view

How soon is now

We (Mutti, Floor, me and Step) were supposed to go London this evening, but apparently the weather gods are against us. It's been snowing most of the week now and apparently 4 inches of snow is too much to take for this country. Public transport has been shutdown and the roads are covered with snow/ice. So much for our ultimate Christmas shopping spree :(

p.s. Step, you do know I don't drink any alcoholic beverages right ;) hahahahaha

You look like a monkey and you smell like one too!

Happy Birthday tooooooooo Chris!

21.. So you can go to the casino, or get drunk in America, hurray!

That's not a shoe. I'm not a shoe.

Yesterday chris and me went to the city 'really quick and just for a skirt'. Came home with 2 pair of shoes, 3 magazines, 1 dress and 16 packages smint. :O

Still I keep searching for something to put my faith in, to find my place

My birthday is coming up in two weeks and I'm (still) deciding what to ask the parents. I'm thinking about a Canon EOS 450D or a laptop. I know, I already own a laptop, but it's really slow and crap. I´m still searching for my perfect match and I´m deciding whether I should buy a MacBook or a good old HP. A MacBook might be a better investment, considering school work and stuff, but I'm more familiar with HP.

Decisions, decisions...

Take these storms away start a brand new story

♥♥♥

Destroyer

L O S T PROPHETS

But more than you'll ever know

Spotted: Mario and Luigi at the antidote tour. They were brilliant.

We watched this city burn

(The only decent picture of Dallas)

(...and the only decent picture of Chris. Dude was moving too fast)

Bring out your dead

Last night was awesome. After work I rushed to the train station and met up with Step so we could go to Amsterdam for the second time in 2 days. I thought the venue would be pretty packed when we arrived, but there was hardly anyone there. First to play: The Ghost Of A Thousand. They were... alright? I thought the singer had an awesome voice. Couldn't really tell what he was screaming/singing, though.
After playing for about half an hour Four Year Strong came up. It was awesome. They didn't perform any of their 90's cover, which I thought was a shame. Cause that would have been great! However, they did performed The Takeover, Bada Bing!, Catastrophe, Abandon Ship, Men Are From Mars, Semi-Charmed Life, Prepare To Be Digitally Manipulated, Beatdown, She Really Loved You, Maniac, Heroes Get Remembered (which is my favourite :)). #2 from Anti-Flag was watching as you can (or can not) see on the first picture. I was kind of distracted and didn't really listened to the rest of FYS when he came up ;)

After FYS Anti-Flag played. All I could think of was: "Alexisonfire headlines the UK dates, Anti-Flag headlines the mainland Euro dates." Last time I checked, Amsterdam is a city in mainland Euro. So why the hell was Alexisonfire headlining? I was and still am kind of pissed about it.
Anyways Anti-Flag performed The Press Corpse, Sodom Gomorrah Washington D.C., Turncoat, I'd Tell You But..., War Sucks Let's Party!, The Economy Is Suffering, The Smartest Bomb, 1 Trillion Dollars, Fuck Police Brutality, This Is The End, Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Die For The Government, Cities Burn and Power To The Peaceful. During one song #2 told a guy to crowdsurf from front to back, and he made it! That was funny. Also, Pat was drumming in the crowd during one of their songs, I just can't remember which song it was. Kids were trying to steal picks from #2 and Justin (which is a typical Amsterdam thing, I think.) Even though they weren't headlining they were really awesome and got the crowd going unlike Alexisonfire. Alexisonfire was good, but not as great as Anti-Flag. But I am prejudiced, Anti-Flag can't go wrong with me. There was some crowdsurfing and stagediving going on during the Alexisonfire set. George threw some kids of the stage, Dallas was amazing and Chris... Chris was awesome. He was going crazy on stage. The combination Chris + bass = always brilliant. #2 came on stage during This Could Be Anywhere In The World :)

To end this blog, the entire Alexisonfire set list: Drunks Lovers Sinners And Saints, No Transitory, Boiled Frogs, Born And Raised, We Are The Sound, Old Crows, Waterwings, Rough Hands, Young Cardinals, This Could Be Anywhere In The World, Accept Crime, Accidents and Happiness By The Kilowatt.

I'll do another post with pictures of Anti-Flag... and ok Alexisonfire too. More than 90% of the pictures were blurry, due to bad photographer (me) and the amount of smoke in the room. Someone was a bit enthousiastic about the fogmachine, me thinks.

This is The Blackout coming to your town

Friday the 13th: The Blackout + Young Guns in Amsterdam. We managed to stand near the stage, but after some moshing we ended up somewhere in the middle of the crowd :S

Young Guns tried to get some movement in the crowd, but they failed. The Blackout was good.

The Blackout performed Save Our Selves (The Warning), Top Of The World, The Fire, Children Of The Night, Said & Done, I Love Myself And I Wanna Live, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, We're Going To Hell... So Bring The Sunblock, I'm A Riot, Your A Fucking Riot, Fashion Concious Suicide, Spread Legs Not Lies, The Beijing Cocktail, It's High Tide Baby ♥, She Is Macho. Not quite sure if there were more songs, but they practically performed their entire album "The Best In Town".

Afterwards Young Guns were at their merch table. Step and I took a picture with them, even though they weren't any good. I look like I'm about to kill someone so I won't post them ;) Btw. the drummer looks like Caleb (Kings Of Leon) but shorter.

She lives in a fairy tale somewhere too far for us to find

(Summer '09)

Woke up early. Was on time (for once). Decided to take the same bus as Step. Ended up too late. Decided to come back home.
So, here I am again. I have some work to do for school. Actually, it's a lot, or not. I don't really get the assignment? I have to work tomorrow from 9 to 6 and afterwards I have to go back to school to finish and discuss some stuff with my group. Srsly? It's gonna be a busy end of the week with work, school and 2 concerts (which I'm very excited about) I might survive, I might not. If I do survive, I will post some pictures from both the shows.

Anyways, during one of our many cruises in the United States and Canada last summer, the guide mentioned something about a Frank Gehry building. Luckily Step was quick enough to snap a picture, while I was trying to figure out which building he designed. I, personally would never design a building like this, but on the other hand, it's fascinating. Especially the Guggenheim museum he designed in Bilbao, Spain. It's amaaaaaaaaaaazing. Just like the other Guggenheim musem by Frank Lloyd Wright in New York, which we visited. (I was superexcited, but my mom and Step were bored as hell -.-) I even purchased a book, postcards and a poster, which is hanging on my bedroom wall as we speak. Then again for every pro there is a con, the other 2 Guggenheim museums in Berlin and Venice are, in my opinion, not that amazing. Ugly is the right word, I guess.

Here are some amazing Frank Gehry buildings:

For once I want to be the car crash

Hell yeah, London is confirmed! I'm already setting up a wishlist (:

Come on baby, we ain't gonna live forever

Rise Against + AFI and more in San Diego on December 13th, one day before my birthday? Sure. The Blackout signing sessions in the UK? Sure. Anyways.... me and Step (+ vielleicht older sister) are going to London again. Probably. Still deciding which date we should leave and such...

Also... I'm trying to figure out what to do for my next birthday. God, I'm getting old. Anyways, I'm going to stop my (usual) word vommit and enjoy my week off. Sort off. I have to work -.-"

Peace.

I'm always wishing too late for things to come my way

I can feel your heartbeat through my shirt.

Thinking about going to London around Christmas.. because it's London. It's Christmas. It's Chris her birthday, well not exactly, but almost. And for the Urban Outfitters ofc (: Oh and in 2 weeks The blackout and anti-dote tour (:

The world is a vampire, set to drain

:)

I'm really going to hit the books right now. 736 pages left to read and to remember. I'm not even exaggerating :[

All these things that I have(n't) done

I should be studying as we speak, but obviously I'm not. I was browsing the interweb (as usual) and reading this blog. After reading his blog, I'm pretty sure I found my future husband: Someone who shares my obsession for huskies. Oh yeah. On the other hand, who can resist this?

Alright, back to Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and....

I'll take deep breaths and keep control, go on

3 weeks till The Blackout, Young Guns, Anti-Flag, Alexisonfire, Four Year Strong, The Ghost Of A Thousand :)

But first: exams...

Together we can burn this place down

(Anti-Flag, Tivoli, Utrecht 27-05-'09 ^She has a nice ass shot of #2 ;))

Wait...hold on. Reason #1 to stay here. "Alexisonfire headlines the UK dates, Anti-Flag headlines the mainland Euro dates." :D I was reading the blog on antidotetour.com from another Chris and he wrote that Anti-Flag played The Gre(a)t Depression live and Four Year Strong played "some old cover songs". She's So High? Ironic? Bullet With Butterfly Wings? Cause that would be awesome. You know what would be awesome too? If Anti-Flag did No War Without Warriors (How Do You Sleep?), The Weathermen Knows Wich Way The Wind Blows, If You Wanna Steal (You Better Learn How To Lie), Wake Up!

I'm really looking forward to seeing Anti-Flag, Four Year Strong, Alexisonfire and okay, The Ghost Of A Thousand live next month.

It feels like..

So today.. no ranting about school, but something else.. oh how i love mylifeisaverage.com (:

Today, my friend showed me that the word OK looks like a sideways person. Then I pointed out that QK looks like a ninja. I win. MLIA

Today, I managed to yell "pika" right before a sneeze. MLIA

Today, I filled a Windex bottle with blue Gatorade. I then sprayed it into my mouth infront of my mother. She began to panic and scream and get hysterical. I thought it was funny. She didn't. MLIA

I grew up in a college town, and one Halloween our doorbell rang and we opened the door expecting to see trickortreater—but what was in front of our open door—was another door! Like, a full-on wooden door, that had a sign that said “Please knock.” So we did, and the door swung open to reveal a bunch of college dudes dressed as really old grandmothers, curlers in their hair, etc, who proceeded to coo over our “costumes” and tell us we were “such cute trick or treaters!” One even pinched my cheek. Then THEY gave US candy, closed their door, picked it up and walked to the next house. MLIA

Today, I was browsing through my school's library and found that the Bible was in the Fiction section. I go to a Catholic school. MLIA

Today, my mom set her facebook status as: "going to see my oldest daughter, WTF" My other sister and I are debating whether or not to tell her that WTF doesn't mean With The Family. MLIA

Today, while waiting in the lobby of a fancy hotel, I saw a piano that played itself. I pretended to play the piano for an hour, gathering a crowd that gave my a rousing applause. MLIA

Oh, something tells me I'm never gonna live this one down

^ This and meet and greets with Anti-Flag/ Four Year Strong/ Alexisonfire/ The Ghost Of A Thousand in the UK? Sure. Reason #9032 to move to UK.

I'm a creep, I don't belong here.

401 Kill

As I watch your life go up in flames you'll swear up and down you'd like to change but when the sun sinks slowly into the sky now you're right where you started again with nothing to say without an argument or case and when it's said and done and done and said and now what's another day I can feel these changes right before my eyes I see a dying fire inside your eyes inside your eyes when will you stop and realize the worth and value of your life as you suffocate yourself within this mindless 9-5 wake up there's more and YOUR LIFE IS NOBODY'S BUT YOURS and now it's said and done and done and said and now what's another day I can feel these changes right before my eyes I see a dying fire inside your eyes you're running circles around my slow pace you've reached the finish line only to realize there was no race I'm sick of being stepped on for the things I choose I give and take and now I've taken all I could.

No telling what tomorrow holds

It seems like our blog is turning into a we'rereallyreallybusywithschoolandwanttorantaboutithere and here'ssomecoolbandswithawesomesongs blog. And it actually is! It's not like somebody is actually reading it, but this was supposed to be a fashion blog when we started about 1,5 years ago. In the meantime I deleted and edited a lot of post. We actually started over a few times already. But in the end I guess it's nice to have a little place on the web, where you can put your thoughts and save it. In the most literal way possible.

To get back to my usual here'ssomecoolbandswithawesomesongs update: A couple of days ago I 'discovered' Silverstein (who are btw doing a tour with Billy Talent trough Europe. Apparently with Europe they mean 8 dates in Germany, 3 in Austria and a couple of other dates in East Europe. Wtf?!) and Bayside. Pretty good :)
And I don't know if I mentioned it before (I probably did), but Four Year Strong is really really good. I'm glad they're replacing The Fall of Troy during The Eastpak Antidote tour 2009.

Oh, apparently you can watch Rise Againsts video for their single Savior. But as usual it doesn't work when I click on it. I get a "Sorry, this video is currently unavailable. We're doing our best to get it back." Damn you mtv! On the other hand who knew there would actually be a search result if you type Anti-Flag? Weird.

To stop my usual word vomit: Read this. It's so funny.

Fucked up beyond the rest, nothing in me that's left

people call us renegades

it was a good day.