Copenhagen

Copenhagen update

• Posted by Rob (#1) on May 21, 2006 22:25 CEST

Hej hej! Copenhagen was fun! My trip started a bit unpleasant though. I woke up with a hangover and then had to rush to catch a flight, of an airliner who announces a two-hour delay immediately after boarding.

But around noon I had found my way to Copenhagen and started on a shopping spree. I had not brought any clothes other than the ones I was wearing. But I like shopping in foreign cities so that was not entirely unintentional. A few hours later I was carrying new boxers, socks, jeans, a shirt and shoes. I changed into them (all but boxers) at a quiet part of Christiania and went back into town for pizza at Deep Pan Pizza Company, one of my favourite restaurants in Copenhagen. The cheese in their deep dish melts all around and is sizzling in the pan when served, while creating a funky off-beat Danish taste.

Later in the evening I met up with Kirsten and after another beer we dropped my stuff at her flat and then went back to Christiania to meet up with Andre and for the Pinboys gig, of course. Loppen is a nice venue, where I discovered Frisk is an interesting vodka with Fisherman's Friend shooter. We then got drunk some more and I went back in the pit to mosh during Pinboys. Caught the drumstick, chatted with the band members a bit, bought two t-shirts, got some free pins and then finally went to Kirsten's flat again for some well-deserved sleep after a punk rock show.

Saturday Kirsten and I had salad lunch at Hard Rock Cafe, shopped some more (new boxers for me, I liked the Smog models on sale) and went home with Andre and Fren to get drunk and watch the Eurovision. We were all routing for Lordi, the Finnish metal band performing Hardrock Hallelujah. Obviously we all voted for them with our phones and rejoiced in their victory. Then we got very, very stoned and stayed up until way too late after laughing our asses off.

No hangover this morning though, I had a great nightrest! Had a quick lunch after reading my first three (and last three) pages of Harry Potter ever and sent postcards to Din and Rachel (sorry Inge, your address wasn't on my phone and I only had like twenty minutes at the train station including lunch and buying stamps). And then I flew home so I could write this down.

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• Tags: Rachel, PinBoys, Din, Copenhagen, Kirsten, Inge, Loppen, Christiania, Eurovision, Lordi, Harry Potter
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Copenhagen, Pinboys, drunk

• Posted by Rob (#1) on May 20, 2006 01:55 CEST

Warning: this will not be the most elaborate journal update ever. International GPRS is expensive.

But.. Copenhagen is great. Pinboys were awesome. I'm drunk and so is Kirsten (way way more) but I'm not supposed to make fun of that. Good night!

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Thank you Yarosa

• Posted by Rob (#1) on May 15, 2006 21:49 CEST

I love Marleen! Not only did I get a pair of wonderful flashy green All Stars (Brocade) for my going away party, no, I also got a 60 euro coupon for Kinki hairdressers which I might just use on Wednesday before I'm off to Copenhagen for Kirsten and Pinboys! Thanks again, best going away present of my career so far!

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• Tags: Converse, shoes, PinBoys, Kinki, Yarosa, Copenhagen, Kirsten
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Back from Scandinavia

• Posted by Rob (#1) on November 21, 2005 11:03 CET

Scandinavia rules. Sure, a pint of beer costs 51 NOK (€6.50/£4.45/$7.65) and a pack of 20 fags sets one back 90 NOK (€11.45/£7.85/$13.50), but Scandinavia rules. The air is fresh. The gals are lovely, loose and bendy. The blokes are morons, but that only makes me look better in front of girls. Yup, I quite like it up north.

Flew into Copenhagen Thursday morning, called Kirsten to wish her mom a happy birthday, got a new tattoo at Baby Lou's, went to Malmö for the HorrorPops tour opening and even got a few hours of sleep between 5 and 8. On Friday I flew to Oslo, walked around with Left Alone and danced a bit more during their performance and of course during the HorrorPops' performance as well. I got the impression that I could've pulled but with a 7am flight it didn't seem like a good idea. In case the blonde girl chatting me up ever reads this: du har pene øyne and I'm truly sorry.

As said, took a flight back to Amsterdam early Saturday morning. Back to work for a couple of weeks now.. and I'll see everyone again in The Hague on the 6th!

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HorrorPops Video Collection

• Posted by Rob (#1) on September 10, 2004 10:49 CEST

Just three more songs and my HorrorPops live video collection is complete! It should be possible to grab Ghouls, Girl in a cage and Kool Flattop during the Oslo and Copenhagen gigs and have a live memory of the entire Hell Yeah! album except for the unplayed Emotional Abuse:

When I have everything complete I want to see if I can put the songs on a DVD as present for the band and as convenient way to show friends and family why I've been all around Europe as of late.

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