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RJ

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About Me

Journalist. I run Happy Chichester's MySpace site because the guy is one of the most amazing musicians I have ever heard. I run Little Mary Big's MySpace site because I used to play bass in that band. I don't run sites for Snoep Verstandig, Rites and Wrongs, Yahoo, Crumb, Mae West and the other dozen or so bands that I was in, though.

My Interests

Lots of them.

I'd like to meet:

The girl who lives on heaven hill.

Music:

Afghan Whigs, Alice in Chains, Catherine Wheel, all things Harold "Happy" Chichester, Hüsker Dü, Kiss (up till 1978), Ride, Sex Pistols (pre Sid Vicious), Slowdive, Soundgarden, Twilight Singers, The Who (pre Kenney Jones), The Monkees (pre reunion tours), Black Flag, UK Subs, The Tubes (first couple albums), shoegaze, vintage 60s stuff, etc.

Movies:

"Tales of ordinary madness", but mainly cheap horror.

Television:

Carnivale, Married With Children, stuff with detectives who solve crimes. My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé was the best series ever though.

Books:

Dutch autors, you wouldn't care. Bukowski too.

Heroes:

Just for one day.

My Blog

Should I blog more?

Yeah, probably. I just don't think that my life is that interesting. There's not too much to tell about raising the kids and working as a reporter. Don't get me wrong, it's interesting enough for me, ...
Posted by RJ on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:07:00 PST

Band weekend!

Last weekend was full of band shit. You know, recording demos with the one band, and doing a video with the other the next day. Demoing was this Saturday with the band that is still looking for the ri...
Posted by RJ on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:20:00 PST

Nevada disease

Way long ago (mid 80s) I used to be in a band called Yahoo. What we played? We called it country when we started, but it turned out as a mix between punk, hardcore, tongue in cheek country, ...
Posted by RJ on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:57:00 PST

Them Bastard Twilight Singers

Have announced the second leg of their European tour, and they seem to be skipping the Netherlands. Fuck! Now I have to find a way to get to Hamburg, Berlin or London, or even consider going to the Pu...
Posted by RJ on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:21:00 PST

Holiday

I'll be out of the country for a forthnight, without internet access. "Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, free at last." I'm gonna miss you all but will have a good time nonetheless. ;-)...
Posted by RJ on Mon, 01 May 2006 02:37:00 PST

Crumb

Went to see the Robert Crumb exhibition in Rotterdam. That guy has made some brilliant comics. ...
Posted by RJ on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:26:00 PST

Bad sex on Live Journal

This shit cracks me up... http://www.livejournal.com/community/bad_sex/
Posted by RJ on Fri, 19 Aug 2005 05:14:00 PST

Catherine Wheel

I would have loved to see them live, and I never did. Stupid me. I dug their first album Ferment when it was released, but somehow missed their show. And later on I didn't bother too much anymore. So ...
Posted by RJ on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:24:00 PST

Dinosaur Jr.

So I went to see Dinosaur Jr. last June, when they played Amsterdam. Prettee good, not to say fucking brilliant. They only played songs from their first three albums. Yeah. The Suicide Birds...
Posted by RJ on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hüsker Dü

Good as fuck.
Posted by RJ on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST