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dirk

I'm hooked on music.

About Me



I live in Antwerp, Belgium, I'm married and have three kids. A boy and two girls. I work on the planning of a factory but recently I also started my own Web Design company, so now I'm partly self-employed as well. It's my dream to develope that company so I can work completely self-employed, I've had enough of working for a boss by now.My hobby which has grown out to a part-time job is to maintain a Texas fansite which you can find at www.texasindemand.com. But I still LOVE it, so ... It's fantastic to get back all the friendship from the fans and the band.I love going to concerts, the more the better. It's great to discover new bands and watch my favorite bands, and then to take the kids along ... great.

My Interests



My most important goal is to keep my Texas website up to date which isn't easy, especially when they are touring, BUT I LOVE IT.I'm not a fanatic sporter myself, but I love bike racing and to go and watch the handball games of my favorite team.

I'd like to meet:



Great people, if possible with which I can talk about music.

Music:



Texas, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Heart, Chi Coltrane, Embrace, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Peter Green, The Who, UFO, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Doe Maar, Black Slate, Faithless, Zornik, Admiral Freebee, Arid, Cranberries, The Pretenders, Meat Loaf, The Corrs, Katie Melua, Shelly Poole (love her solo cd), Barbra Streisand (and my wife always starts to scream when I put her records on), The Mama's and the Papa's (I love the harmonies), The Carpenters (because Karen has the voice of a nightingale), Elvis, Gruppo Sportivo, Elvis Costello, ELO, Queen, ... 70's and 80's music especially from the new wave era, so I love different kinds of music to be honest, it depends on the "state of mind". Just don't give me hard metal or hardcore (or maybe when I had too much to drink, then I don't hear the difference anyway).

Movies:



Star Wars, Ben Hur, Spartacus, Gladiator, ... Just about all Science fiction and Historical movies.

Television:



Lost, Stargate Atlantis, ... and all kinds of music shows. I got a pretty big collection of music DVD's so if I want then there's always something on TV.

Books:



I'm not a reader but I love to read biographies now and then.

Heroes:



Yoda, Sharleen Spiteri, Ally McErlaine, Johnny McElhone, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks

My Blog

The Coffee House Gypsies

Some might wonder, who? Well, way back when I still had my Fleetwood Mac website running, there was this guy from Miami, full of ambition to make it in the music industry and Fleetwood Mac was his big...
Posted by dirk on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:11:00 PST

Dolores

Hey there music loving people, It's been a while, time you know. But for music there's always time, that's probably the greatest thing about it, there's music for every time in your life, for busy, s...
Posted by dirk on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:38:00 PST

flashbacks

Last night we had this small after tour BBQ and we were talking about another hobby of mine, Offshore radio stations. A while ago I started to collect recordings from my favorite offshore radio statio...
Posted by dirk on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:15:00 PST

in the mood

After a few days in the hospital at the beginning of the month, a (well deserved :-)) vacation in sunny UK, redecorating the living room, ...  I found the spirit again to throw myself 100t work a...
Posted by dirk on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:12:00 PST

The Feeling

About two weeks ago I was lucky enough to see "The Feeling" as supporting act for Texas in Paris. I liked them from the first note. They got some great tunes, very nice harmonies, great band on stage....
Posted by dirk on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:39:00 PST

Good

After all the bad news from two days ago I also owe you some good news. My Mum went to the doctor for the test results and like I said before, it's Parkinson, but the doctor gave her new medication an...
Posted by dirk on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:01:00 PST

Helpless

Do you know those days when you got tons of work to do, nothing seems to go as you want it to go, everything you hear is bad, it's far too cold outside, the car isn't working as it's supposed to do, ....
Posted by dirk on Tue, 30 May 2006 10:10:00 PST

Songs

Yipee, I managed to add an mp3 player so now it's not just one song playing all the time. Now, I can ramble a bit about some songs there;1) Saint by Texas: Well, first of all, as you know, Texas is my...
Posted by dirk on Sun, 28 May 2006 08:03:00 PST

Treasure Tones

I'm listening to the Treasure Tones songs now, great to hear how a song can even sound better when it's not recorded in a million dollar studio and overproduced by lots of equipment. I love Ally's gui...
Posted by dirk on Sun, 28 May 2006 02:51:00 PST

awake

Just woke up, don't tell anyone I slept that long. But that's been ages ago so ... The first thing I heard this morning was the mowing of the lawn next door, which means the sun is finally shining. F...
Posted by dirk on Sun, 28 May 2006 02:38:00 PST