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Famous people meme

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I'm starting a meme:

List all famous people you have met and tell how. You must have actually spoken to them and preferably they had some clue who you are. Then appoint five people to repost the meme and say who you think they would love to meet.

Here's mine in approximate order of notability:

  • The Offspring. In 1996 I hosted the most prominent website and ran a mailinglist for the band. When the operator of the site, Cory Hammer, got a job at Epitapth to work on the then new official site, that eventually resulted in an after-show pass for me and the opportunity to hang out with Dexter Holland, Noodles and Greg.
  • Nerf Herder. They always chat up their fans after a gig and I made them say something funny on video. One of the band members used to date Alyson Hannigan (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for which NH did the theme song, American Wedding), so that's a pretty cool indirect bonus as well.
  • A. Travelled to London for a concert in 2001 (my first foreign trip just to see a gig). Hooked up with some fans who waited outside to meet the band. One of the band members threw a cucumber and some casino chips at us in a friendly manner. Fun. And Jason gave me a beer at the Amsterdam concert, which was a lot more intimate with a crowd of 30 people or so.
  • PinBoys. Saw them twice in Rotterdam and they remembered me the second time because we hung out a while the first time. In May I chatted them up on MySpace because I was going to travel to Copenhagen to see them (and the lovely Kirsten), which I did, so we chatted again.
  • Cheap Thrills. Another band I follow. I'm now making a web site for them and hope they will get signed and become more than a local Dutch band.
  • Patrick Volkerding. Met him at Linux World. I run Slackware, so to me he's quite famous.
  • Rob Malda of Slashdot fame. Met him at several Linux World's. We got along and had a running joke on both being Rob from Holland (he's from Michigan, I'm from the country). It's easy to meet high-profile people from the open source world, my list includes Richard M. Stallman, Eric S. Raymond and of course most of the active KDE developers through my participance in the KDE project.
  • Maxi from Mini and Maxi, a popular Dutch music/comedy act. One of the singers lives in Oostvoorne, where my parents live, and we talked briefly at a bistro there once or twice.
  • Judith Nijssen. Surely some people will remember the girl who covered "I will survive" with the Hermes House Band. She's married to my ex-employer. Met her at the office several times, and at their house when installing his wireless network.

I'm appointing: Inge (wants to meet Evanescence's Amy more than Lauri/Aki or James Marsters, I bet), Dorith (Kotani Kinya?), Charlotte (Rufus?), Neil (George Bush) and Kris (no idea so I'll just say Ville Valo). Happy meming!

Copenhagen update

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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.

Copenhagen, Pinboys, drunk

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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!

Thank you Yarosa

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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!

Give me a gig!

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Quick update on Give It A Name: it was sweet! And how could it not be, with bands such as The Ataris, Silverstein, Panic! At The Disco, Angels & Airwaves, Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, Lostprophets. And many, many more. Said hi to Rachel, met wicked, sexy people like Caris, shopped at Camden Town.. yup, London still works for me.

Some recent gigs I might not have written about yet:

  • 5/4: Versus The World (Melkweg, Amsterdam)

    This was a tad quiet and boring to be honest. Lousy crowd and the show, well, I've seen and heard better.

  • 7/4: Zombina & The Skeletones (Morlock, The Hague)

    Zombina being an example of better. The sound was way, way, way too loud, but that didn't stop us from shaking our booties.

  • 8/4: Cheap Thrills (Dynamo, Eindhoven)

    (Enters groupie mode.) Signed drumstick. Wiee! (Leaves groupie mode.)

  • 14/4: Less Than Jake (Melkweg, Amsterdam)

    Always nice to have a band where you can skank, but it was a shame Din was ill.

  • 21/4: Cheap Thrills/Dicemen (Latenstaan, Zoetermeer)

    Ah, Sweet Lake City. Sweet is was.. probably because I spent €25 on beer that was €1.25 a bottle. Hiccup!

So what's up next?

Gig here, gig there, gig everywhere

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It's only February but this year's gig list is already massive:

But I wouldn't be able to make my 50-a-year target without any future plans:

Rock on!

Tickets for HIM and GIAN

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Anyone looking for tickets for HIM (Brixton Academy, April 26) and/or Give It A Name (Earl's Court, April 29-30) per chance? I think I'd rather be seeing Pinboys in Copenhagen late April. Contact me if you're interested, I'm only looking for face value plus shipping, not profit!

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