Literatuur · 31. December 2022
Bought this lovely Victorian roller desk at the charity shop some time ago. It's been quite a task to get it to my tenth floor (particularly since the lift goes only as far as the ninth) and it needed a lot of work, but now it's a lovely, functional piece of beautiful furniture in my study. (Of course the Hammond Multiplex has only been put there for the picture; it looks a bit better than a laptop.
22. April 2022
Staying in this crappy apartment for as long as my own place is being 'renovated' by a corrupt housing corporation. I don't like it here, but the contrast could make it a nice addition to my photo series 'Where the Heart Is' (by the title 'And where it definitely isn't) . The big, white bed, all these empty walls and surfaces. Although it's an ugly, cold and unpleasant little place, it also gives me a chance to take pictures I can't take at home, so I'm trying to profit of it as much as I can.
ROCK & ROLL · 21. January 2022
I released a new single today - it's about meeting the love of your life at a place that that was obviously not designed for it... https://youtu.be/20I5gSDH2aA
ROCK & ROLL · 20. May 2021
Screenshots of me doing a video of my song 'City Witch Blues' this morning. I kept forgetting the words, and, what's worse, the video made it very clear that I'm overweight and shouldn't be on video at all looking like that. So it's going to be knäckebröt and water from now on and walk into the town and the supermarket instead of taking my bike. I hope I'll manage within a month to get the words right and look my ideal summer self again...
Photography · 24. April 2021
For the first time this year I did some posing - wasn't really in the mood, but photography has dried up a bit in recent months and this might give me some new ideas to get on with. It hasn't been very brilliant so far, but a first time never is and I had some limiting technical problems as well. I hope results will be better as it gets warmer - I'm still too much in a winter mood. Besides; I need to lose some weight. I was hoping it wouldn't be too bad this year, but once again there's this...
Painting · 10. April 2021
I picked this up outside the building - one of the neighbors probably got fed up with it, which I can understand, but I took it home anyway - not because of its artistic value but because I could use the surface - it's always nice to create something nice out of something unwanted or ugly or both. Nice idea too that the frame is already there and I only have to put it back after I've finished whatever it is going to be like. So I sanded and primed it and basically I could start painting right...
Photography · 02. April 2021
In the summer of 2019 I think this was. I was staying in Haarlem to look after my daughter's cats while she was on holiday, when the Levellers played at the venue around the corner. In the town where I live I hardly ever go to any gigs because of the distance and the somewhat scary neighborhood I live in, but since this was only a five minutes walk in a safe environment I bought a ticket and had a lovely evening. But once again, dragging my big Canon about just seemed too much of a bother, so...
Photography · 01. April 2021
I must have around a hundred - not really a collection, but they're not just a bunch of tools either. I picked them up over the years at fleemarkets , second hand shops and jumble sales, just because I couldn't resist them. Because of their beauty, but always with the idea in the back of my mind that some day I might actually use them to take pictures one couldn't ever possibly take with a more modern camera. I would like to spend a year of my life to a more basic sort of photography; going out...