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Kurt

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About Me

Professional amateur.

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

anyone who'd like to meet me. seriously. ok, maybe not.

Music:

Bands: Stereolab, Girls Against Boys, Evil Superstars, The Fiery Furnaces, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (with Blixa), Blonde Redhead, Belle and Sebastian, Ladytron, Low, McLusky, The Fall, Viva Voce, Patrick Wolf, CocoRosie, Sonic Youth, LCD Soundsystem, The Raveonettes and 641 others who'll be added later. Radio: Cucamonga (R.I.P.), Duyster. Festivals: Rock Herk, Pukkelpop, Domino, Les Nuits Botanique.
GIRLS AGAINST BOYS - Basstation:

STEREOLAB - Ping Pong

Movies:

Hal Hartley, David Cronenberg, F.W. Murnau, Wong Kar Wai, Mario Bava, William Castle, film noir, giallo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alicia Witt, Peggy Cummins, Meiko Kaji, Joseph H. Lewis, screwball comedies (30s), the 40s, Larry Cohen, Jacques Tourneur, Robert Hartford-Davis...
Tribute to Hal Hartley (by badeyesman):

David Cronenberg:

Television:

John Logie Baird for president! Have I Got News for You, The Avengers, The Prisoner, The Daily Show, The Twilight Zone, Toutes les télés du monde, BBC2, arte, Action (French channel)... am I boring you already?
Have I Got News for You: pot noodles

The Avengers (opening titles):

Books:

Emily Brontë, Thomas Pynchon, Peter Verhelst, Amélie Nothomb, Vladimir Nabokov. Others... to be added later.
Excerpt from Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow:

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
(video version by DJDLX)

My Blog

A display of hypocrisy

If you've never been in a spot of trouble, I hope you'll be part of it one day. Not because it's such a great experience (it is pretty awful), but because it'll show you just how lovely mankind is. It...
Posted by Kurt on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:10:00 PST

Brief update

Sorry if you haven't received a reply yet... I haven't been on MySpace for two weeks now and started to reply to all my messages, but there's a back log and I want to give proper answers.So be patient...
Posted by Kurt on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:45:00 PST

Defense mechanism

Rumours and lies have been spread.I choose not to comment. Not too much. Except this.What does it say when the target of  your attacks is someone who isn't around? Or what does it say when you fe...
Posted by Kurt on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:31:00 PST

My summer schedule

Doing anything special this summer? I'm not. Mostly because I don't have the time. I started this summer by doing a bit of copywriting. I do hope to do more of that in the future, because it's a neat ...
Posted by Kurt on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:32:00 PST

In the words of Samuel Beckett...

"We are all born mad. Some remain so.""What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.""You're on earth. There's no cure for that.""Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go o...
Posted by Kurt on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:06:00 PST

I will change my hobby

Yesterday an ex-rental tape fell 2 metres down, hitting not the ground, but two of my fingers. I can assure you that's painful, especially because it was an American ex-rental (clamshell box, sharp ed...
Posted by Kurt on Wed, 30 May 2007 05:36:00 PST

They're / their / there (Hal Hartley version)

I was pretty psyched to hear that Fay Grim, the new Hal Hartley movie, will be released this weekend in the theatres (US only, sadly), on tv and on DVD.Living in Belgium and being a Hartley fan made m...
Posted by Kurt on Sun, 20 May 2007 07:29:00 PST

50 favourite films (and then some)

Yes yes, I know... you can't just make a list of 50 favourite films... because you're forgetting so many and, if you want to be fair to everyone, you can only stick in one per director.So I'm sorry to...
Posted by Kurt on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 08:08:00 PST

YouTube finally has Slow Smile... back for good?

"Whatever I did, whatever I said, I didn't mean it, I just want back..."A Take That song that Slow Smile wanted to cover and frankly, hadn't they told me this was a boysband cover I wouldn't have gues...
Posted by Kurt on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:17:00 PST

Dutch internet ad warns against internet

The internet, a nice but dangerous place. The Dutch have a site that warns adolescents that the net isn't always a safe place. Hilariously proved by this young boy: ...
Posted by Kurt on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:08:00 PST