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Frans

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About Me

Life is daunting, rich, explosive, sad, happy, crazy, erotic, surprising, awesome, inspiring, depressing, giggling, perfect, inviting, caring, pointless, tricky, musical, mind-boggling, too much, cruel, funny, loving, foolish, sensational, useless, worthwhile, unsettling, grand, failing, quiet, painful, modest, horny, boring, walking, spiritual, stupid, excruciating, overwhelming, sleepy, empty, underrated, timeless, too short, too long, muddy, cold, generous, pathetic, furious, futile, torturous, wondrous, changing, you name it.I'm part of life, and so are you.
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My Interests

People of all ages and all walks of life. Experiencing the unknown, ready for surprises, also on mySpace (They are beginning to trickle in......)

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with a good story about anything. Anyone who dares to dive below the surface and who is honest and courageous enough to share. Anyone truly curious, believing in "I welcome whatever happens next." Anyone taking time to live.Too profound?? How about meeting anyone as crazy as I am?!

Music:

Adams, Bach, Beethoven, Boulez, Feldman, Mahler, MESSIAEN - FROM THE CANYONS TO THE STARS, Reich, Shankar (Ravi), Shostakovitch, Philip Glass (Akhnaten / Kundun) - TORU TAKEMITSU - I HEAR THE WATER DREAMING (1987)

Movies:

Recently: BERGMAN - THE GREAT SILENCE No Country For Old Men, Sweeney Todd, Once Upon A Time In the West, Volver, Amores perros, Mystic River, Blue Velvet, Eyes Wide Shut, Spirited Away, Perfume, Manufactured Landscapes, Earth, The Simpsons, Pan's Labyrinth, Fellini's Casanova, The Sacrifice (Tarkovski)

Television:

Say that again?

Books:

García Márquez, Cormac McCarthy, W.G. Sebald, Tolstoi;Book of the week: HOUSE OF THE SLEEPING BEAUTIES (Yasunari Kawabata)

Heroes:

Survivors: they show true ambition and perseverance. People living life with dignity, compassion, and modesty. People without prejudice. People with (a) passion and commitment (artists).

My Blog

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

’Evil has now a face,’ one critic wrote last week when the film was released here in Amsterdam. Maybe.  Let’s wait until McCarthy’s novel ’Blood Meridian’ is t...
Posted by Frans on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:44:00 PST

ITS TIME: BURTON - SONDHEIM --- THE COEN BROTHERS - McCARTHY

        'Sweeney Todd' and 'No Country For Old Men,' slap Evil (with capital E) right in your face but with a very different impact. 'Sweeney' left me elated, 'No Country...
Posted by Frans on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:03:00 PST

A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES

    At the movies I saw back to back two stunning feature-length documentaries, Earth, the theatre version of the BBC TV series Planet Earth (2006, Alastair Fothergill / Mark Linfield),...
Posted by Frans on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:16:00 PST

The Happy Clown

I've always loved the Circus. The smaller the Big Top the better, because I saw the faces of the performers and the animals, and their smell was more intense, which increased the pleasure enormously. ...
Posted by Frans on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:31:00 PST

Turned Down By Life - reporting a chance encounter

In Amsterdam cafés you can run into life head-on. Sometimes we wonder about the meaning and purpose of life. What is the point of being alive? A few weeks ago a woman in her late forties told me her s...
Posted by Frans on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:42:00 PST

A Few Treasures in The Labyrinth

Surfing MySpace becomes after a while a sobering reflection on oneself, or rather a confirmation that we are mostly a self-serving and self-affirming species. I found myself looking for soulmates, peo...
Posted by Frans on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:47:00 PST