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a friend of mine (who plays drums in my band) has got a decent telescope!
we often drive to places that are as dark as possible to get a glimpse of the worlds around us.
he knows his share of astronomy and we often track down mercier objects for fun.
other cool stuff sighted through his scope are:
mars (the poles were clearly visible)
saturn (obviously an orb with a ring around it)
venus (pretty small planet not much to witness)
the moon (looking for craters and trying to find prove for the theory of the moon being made of cheese)

and random stars or clusters

with the naked eye we try to spot as much starsigns as possible and falling stars and satalites, often enough we check what time the ISS is flying over and see if we can spot it!

ow the fun we have

an interesting site if you like looking up is www.heavens-above.com a detailed site about wich stars/planets/clusters/meteorites/satalites and such are visible at what time in your little corner of the world!

have fun!

waking up with a headache that could kill a whale and my ears still ringing I realised I had a pretty DAMN good week!

so let me tell you about it!

it all started with Elvis Fergis a nice bloke with some nice tunes he opened for Willy Mason, a young folk singer/songwriter wich was a lovely concert.
his lyrics are very clever and he really gets it going!

then I went to the Who!
the Cult opened for the who wich was pretty cool.
I'm a MAD who fan I've seen them before but never like this it was a great show lots of endless wire stuff great GREAT jams, just awesome on the whole!
I even got a wink from Pete Townshend, probably 'cause I was looking ridiculously happy or something.

then I went to see bowling for soup, not really my thing but I had fun.

then there was this festival with lots a dutch bands and I had a backstage pass wich equals free beer al day long HUZZAH!

and finally I had tickets to see Robyn Hitchcock and the venus 3, the whaddayasay? Robyn Hitchcock (some new wave guy) and the venus 3 (wich are actually 3 members from the minus 5! still doesn't ring a bell? the guitarist is Peter Buck who also does guitar on REM, ahhhhh now you get it?)
this was the small hall in paradiso, I've seen REM times before (even met Peter Buck and Mike Mills) but this time I could litterally sneeze on him if I wanted to.
awesome!

but wait! there's more!
same night in the big hall of paradiso Patti Smith performed! so I sneaked in and got to see her whole show wich was just magical I even remember weeping at times.
Patti Smith started earlier then Robyn Hitchcock so when I was watching Patti all of a sudden Peter Buck comes in and stands next to me! WHAT? YES! later he walks on stage and starts jamming with Patti they even played everybody hurts, fukkin awesome!

so then Robyn Hitchcock started wich was cool and after the encore is over Lenney Kaye (from the Patti Smith group) comes on and they start jamming for another half an hour, Peter Buck even played some drums.

let me tell you it was one hell of a night! Cameron Crowe could make a movie about it

so I woke up this morning headache and all and realised it's been a DAMN good week!

so how about you? what bands blew you away lately?

er.. yeah
sorry I figured that after like ten years of waiting on chinese democracy everyone'd know about it

and what a surprise, it ain't that good!
any of you guys heard?
any one else thinks Axl shoulda called it quits 9 years ago?

I seem to remember there are some REM fans on this forum.
I myself am a really big fan and there are lots of rumours of real big REM news being released today!

rumours say former drummer Bill Berry might be joining thhe band again! wich would be KICKASS!

and kinda logical since he drums on the john lennon cover: #9 dream and also played drums on their Rock n roll hall of fame thingy!

anyone else as excited as me? 

yessah! I got nothing planned for the next 2 weeks except school examns and tntb and maybe I can squeeze in some sleep

in the meantime you go play knytt! it rocks!

---EDIT---

I only finished the game just now! and I gotta say it's nothing but sheer brilliance.
it's so much fun to explore the world and so exciting when you find new territories!
I liked it better then seiklus wich is also very nice

oops must remember to post the link next time

MrColossal, I too am planning to make such a game!
maybe we could somehow colaborate or summin' whatever let me know! HEEEHAAAWWW!!!

*jumps on a horses back and rides toward the horizon*

I was surfing 'round the big ol' world wide web looking at some ICO forum when I found this game.

the Knytt is a small monkey like creature abducted from his homeworld by an alien only to crash on an unknown planet scattering 11 parts from the alien spaceship, it's up to you to gather those lost parts so you can go home again!

easy story, easy gameplay, easy graphics, hours of fun and wonder!

anyone ever played this one before?

I'm going to Rock Werchter again

!!!
arctic monkeys
bjork
bloc party
chemical brothers
faithless
heideroosjes
incubus
interpol
kaiser chiefs
keane
the killers
kings of leon
the kooks
marylin manson
mastodon
metallica
muse
my chemical romance
PEARL JAM 
queens of the stone age
razor light
snow patrol
beastie boys
frank black (ex pixies)
blonde redhead
damien rice
gabriel rios
the good the bad and the queen
goose
joan as police woman
klaxons
lcd soundsystem
tori amos

rumours of bands also comming are: smashing pumpkins, sonic youth, chris cornell (sweet!)

I don't care about all those emo bands and I've allready seen most of these bands but man I'm looking forward to seeing pearl jam, qotsa, incubus, kings of leon, metallica, beastie boys, frank black, the good the bad and the queen, lcd soundsystem and tori amos!

rabbit barely got away with his life on their last adventure trying to get the golden carrot back from Dr. platypus
unfortunately bear hurt his arm, chicken was clever enough to wear a helmet the whole time.

9 colours

2x

joining the AGS hatclub, with my 2 charming hats!


and Ivy who cares if it's not socially accepted? I walked around wearing these hats for 2 years!
and then they got stolen by drunk teenagers! grrr!

and also the AGS music making club!


yay!

I loved Krysis sprite so much I tried one in the same style, mine hasn't got as much charisma as yours K, but it was fun to draw!

130x130 - 6 colours
 

it's a boy!

FT rules mkay!

I was worried they would've hired somebody else!
so yes this is awesome news!

I'm actually almost constantly thinking about tntb but Gin where are you?!

will probably be going next year!
for this year I'm doing Rock Werchter and lowlands

thanks!

* FruitTree tosses a cookie

I'm glad you like the mood since I always hoped capturing a mood would be one of my strong points
and yes the cloaked guy was seriously scary the lil girl wasn't acting her fright
after your advice I actually borrowed a tripod, but the room was way too small to work it right, so I decided not to use it.

thanks for the nice words!

HUZZAH!

after years of being a lazy-ass poo-hole I decided it was time to...
GO BACK TO SCHOOL! yeehaw!
wich is pretty hard for me since I dropped out of school when I was about fifteen, as some of you old charlatans might remember.
I kinda forgot where I was going with this story but anywho, they (they being the High School for the Arts in Utrecht) accepted me as their student!
wich is awesome! out of 200 people that applied they picked 25, and I'm one of those!

* FruitTree boogies

ah what the heck!

* FruitTree boogies some more!

I'm going to study Audiovisual Media! (movies and television)
and I'm proud to present my 'project', the 3min lasting short that I had to make to become a student at this school.

clicketyclick

so tell me, am I really better than Roman Polanski? (teehee  )
no really I'd love to hear comments or critiques or random screams, really anything goes!
but I'll give you a cookie if you say something nice about my flic!

why aren't you guys comming to Holland? dammit!
Holland IS rock n roll!!!

come over here we've got legalised prostitution, drugs, woodenshoes!

most awesome competition so far 
too bad I won't be home all week!