play black metal and burn some churches down.

sundaynight. 00:06am.

I've been awake for about 12 hours having a short night sleep after returning from Groezrock which was friday and saturday.
I'm tired like a motherfucker trying to fall back asleep and sleep for 2 months straight and wake up halfway june to get down with the good times.

this weekend wasn't.
I mean I can't complain you know, free entrance and all, selling records and merch, I've chosen do this and it has his up sides to it but definetly a lot of down sides. I don't wanna come off like a total prick, which I pretty much was this weekend.

Groezrock is the biggest fucking circus you have in punk/hc, what the fuck, have I been crushed by a rock which I enjoyed so much that I just stayed under it for the past few months and missed out on all the 'essentials'??

First off all what got me pissed is traffic, besides hating everything that isn't a bike and is used for transport, are traffic jams, the ones around Antwerp being the most notorious, so I'm sitting in the van getting more ticked off by the minute.
we arrive, reaching the same check in point like last year, dude tells me I'm way wrong and I should go somewhere else, to the main entrance, I start discussing with him, I got all my shit where we were standing now last year and it was indicated on the given map. So main entrance it was, cars weren't allowed to drive any further so I had to run the whole way, motherfuckers. The guest office at the main entrance is packed with people trying to get in, whether it's legit or not, whatever I wanted my fucking wristbands already and get to work being late as it was. There's some dude causing ruckus who I reckognize to be Rob whatever the fuck his last name is, former tourmanager of some metal tour on last years Ieperfest, who can't get in cause he's not on the list, but he's carrying some band's merch with him etc etc. People were fucking screaming and shouting and I'm about to lose my shit and I try to calm 'em down and start talking to the lady who looked like the avarage soccer mom who has never dealt with a pissed off metaldude yelling at her so close to her face she almost passed out because of his bad breath. I tell her she needs to call who ever knows what's up and get in contact with said band that is involved. end of story, end of drama. fuck you, worst fucking organisation ever.
I get my wristband, I don't get the others because they have to pick 'em up personally, that very moment I regret the fact that I helped her out with bad breath Rob trying to beat her up and that I should've let him and I'm imagining myself pulling out every teeth in her fucking mouth with the pincers she just used to clamb my wrist band URGH
So I run back to our van, get my buddies Olivier and Lucas to the entrance get the wristbands,run the whole way back and drive towards the merch parkinglot
At last some familiar faces who are even kind enough to help us load out and set up our shit.

Fridaynight was kinda lame, I have no idea what was playing, I probably wouldn't have cared anyways, Lucas was bummed he couldn't fight both of our boredom by intoxicating himself due to the failure of finding cheap gwhiskey, douche.
So friday ended quite faster then we thought it would and we prepared some posters to do a Ieperfest promorun the next morning all over the festival grounds.

We used said posters, layed them on the ground, put the merch we were selling on top and trying to get some sleep. Try to get some sleep and watch some drunk shithead fuck it up, the cold was pretty bad too. freeeeezing like a mother-fuckeeeer.

Saturday, for the first time in 5 years I kinda remembered how it feels to wake up hungover, sans the booze.
worst fucking humour.
Poster-run in the sunshine got me back on my feet though.
To many ignorant people with a bad taste in music.
I don't claim to be the music encyclopedia but I've got a fair idea of what's round-out good and what is bad..

-"Hey man do you have any Asking Alexandria cd's here"
<"No we don't, sorry"
-"Duuuude, you really should, they're awesome!"
<"Do you know Have Heart, they're pretty fucking awesome to"
-"hmmm, no. Never heard of 'em"

fucking wankers, if I would've said any other quality hardcore band the kid wouldn't have known it either, I did wrote down the name on a flyer telling him to check it out. As I watched him walk away, after a few metres he just threw it away.
Well fuck every one from that moment on who came asking me for a Asking Alexandria cd.
that being said.

-"Hey, do you have Asking Alexandria cd's?"
<"No we don't sell that shit, doesn't the band have it's own cd's with them, I'm sure they're selling a shitload of ugly-ass t-shirst in the weirdest fucking color cobinations I've ever seen, what about cd's then."
-" Uhn no, I already tried, and yeah they only brought merch.."
*dude leaves dissapointed*

Maybe I shouldn't of been such a prick to him, for all I know I could've mentioned a band like Rise And Fall who were playing later on and tell him he should check that out if he wanted, and maybe he would've and he would get into bands like that, maybe not.
now I'm just to fucking ignorant to care.

During the day I saw what was the last minute or so of Defeater's last song. great band, hands down, to give me goosebumps under 60 seconds, way-to-go!

Rise and Fall played an awesome set and killed it, fuck been awhile I saw them this good, got rid of the shit in my pockets and decided to let go of my frustrations by jumping on some people's heads. worked out pretty well I must say.


We finally got it going behind the distro table, Lucas actually sold his lame-ass BMTH hoodie for a lousy 7 euros (he could've asked the bitch for 20 and she would've payed it, you dumb shit) to buy beer.
Micha arrived after spending 3 weeks in Moscow, great to hang out again
if you're reading this, I've missed you and I love you, no homo



right now I've got Nas, Florence and her machine, Carry On and Title Fight fixing what's left of a worthless day

peace. 01:00am.

Yo' momma's so fat, when she was cremated all flights in Europe got cancelled!

As of late, I'm finding my way through out hiphop music, some of the older stuff, that was released in the nineties/beginning of 2000. While cleaning Bruno's house whilst he was moving we found an impressive amount of old hip hop vinyl collecting dust. This has put me on track in digging some stuff up and playing some cool tunes.

The past 2 weeks I've had Easter holidays off from school and been pretty much working all the freaking time, but it's been good none the less. We had sunny days for 2 weeks so I'm not complaining.

Went on a roadtrip to the Roman-Gaul museum with these fuckers:


Needless to say we had a awesome time hanging out, really looking forward to do some crazy shit with them again.

Last Monday we also had the Swedisch band EF playing. They have been on tour before with Red Sparrows, so if you're down with that you'll like them. EF has taken me by suprise by filling I think 75 minutes or longer with some very original music- and instruments and yet I kept interested.. Currently still on tour in Europe so catch them somewhere if you can, dates are on the myspace which is linked above!
The thing about that day that was pretty funny was the fact the band was staying over at my place. They arrived around 2.15 pm and without me or them knowing the store around the corner was robbed, where after the employees were able to follow the robber, who ran into our street. Since the band was almost loading out I left the door open. (supposedly he ran into our house and ran across the roof..) Before we knew it there were 4 patrolcars stopping in the street having us as possible suspects. To make a long story short, we had our house fully searched since they thought he ran into our house and were later no longer suspected of sheltering or being the dude who did it, since we weren't wearing and make-up and carrying a large butchers knive, I suppose it was pretty clear we weren't hahaha. so yeah another day on the block.

Other days were spent roaming and riding the streets, 'urban' exploring if you will, cause really, I've been hanging around Ghent for a few years now but there's some places that are yet to be discovered by me...








So apart from what's been up here, let's take a look at the world.
Despite the fact I realize a lot of people are so bummed about this and the economy is losing fortunes every day, it's pretty funny how some volcano no one has ever heard of is capable of causing so many chaos in Western Europe and in some other parts of the world.
Maybe you don't find it funny at all, perhaps my mate Micha doesn't find it funny cause he's stuck in Moscow for an unknown amount of time or it doesn't matter to him for all I know. I in some way don't find it funny that my collegues are stuck overseas on holidays so I now have to fill in for them.

The fact is that we members of the human race consider ourselves supreme to every other known species living on this planet, but time has shown us and will continue to do so, we can not get a grip on our planet.
We may try to contribute in doing our little part to save this world from total fucking destruction, but we are still guided by the Earth we live on, not the other way around.
So yes, I think it's funny, that some ash cloud all those miles away is able to put all air traffic to a halt in Western Europe, and we as a people are left motionless, not able to do a single thing about it.


It's a long way down

family resemblance

you eyeballin' me SON?!

on the EDGE

She'll hate me for putting this up but i love how the pictured turned out, and i like the painting in the background


wankers






I'm so happy and proud to say that my buddy 'Pidgeon'-Niels- Legit brother of brother-from-another-mother Ebert became a dad last week and I know he and Mitze will do AWESOME as parents. Otis is one lucky kid :)




I fell in love with this song a long time ago, when I was still riding bmx, this song was set as part of the soundtrack of some Road Fools movie I think. Whenever I hear this, it's weird I feel a different person for those 2 and a bit minutes



I found this record at Bruno's place, I'm telling you this is the shi-it!
I know nothing about hiphop but I know what I like and not, and this feel like it should be, everything clicks



oh yeah, check out Trash Talk's new song. something different but still raging, I think Lee's actually singing..



here's to you Iceland

peace

ILLMATIC.

I don't sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
diggin this hard


check out this fucktard


he reminds of how much I hate the majority of the human race

going nowhere. yet

I hate how all electronic devices have an unofficial expiration date which makes you buy shit over and over. Cell phones breaking down, laptop barely functioning and now my Ipod's doesn't play stereo sound anymore...

I love how the weather here has changed so abrubtly from sub-zero temperatures to sun filled days and temperatures upto 18 degrees
Spring and summer have officially arrived and I'm loving every bit of it, I've been riding out as much as possible. loving life
next week it's easter holiday and we'll be in for the chill

Summer also means cool shows and fests.
Break Even will be playing a show in Belgium on may 14 at the seaside, siked to see these guys play. They'll be releasing their full lenght, 'The Bright Side' on vinyl on Anchors Aweigh Records in april. get into it

something else you should check is Hopeless their new song called 'Warehouse' of their new 7". I think it's really good, definetly worth checking out


and last but not least
We have released another 13 names for the Ieperfestival on august 13-15, here goes:
BARN BURNER (CAN), CITY OF SHIPS (USA), 50 LIONS (AUS), FORENSICS (USA), GRAVEMAKER (CAN), KNUT (CH), LEWD ACTS (USA), MAXIMUM PENALTY (USA), NEXT STEP UP (USA) and UFOMAMMUT (I)

so siked to see KNUT play!
next time we'll be dropping names, the line-up will be complete and I can ashure you this will probably be the best edition we had so far.

more info on everything concerning the festival you can find here: Ieperfest 2010


peace.

just remember we're thousands strong.

I'll never look at winter the same again since I've spent it in the shithouse I'm in now. It's been about a year since I've moved here and last years winter wasn't that cold and long like this years. First thing you need to know about me, I fucking hate snow, it's wet and cold and besides the ability to throw it in somebody's face there's nothing 'cool' about it.
I'm lucky I haven't chrashed my face and knees into the city streets because of the ice, thats my second, I hate ice
I'd rather be trapped under ice than above, when you're under you are at least ovrwhelmed by cold making you numb to everything else. Slight downside is that you'll probably suffer from hypothermia and freeze to a sudden death, ace plan.

Over the winter something in our roof must've broken due to minus 0 temparatures, cause by now all snow and ice is melting down and is seeping it's way through the roof in the kitchen and bathroom, seriously fuck this house and fuck my cheap ass landlord.


So I've been here for about a year, moving in with Micha and Jean.
Since then a lot has changed for me and I feel a different person. I never took to much for granted in the past, or at least so I taught. When I left home last year I was 20, being a college dropout without a relevant education or anything that makes me stand out to be picked over someone else for functions I figured I could apply for. After struggling for a few months, thinking over and retracing my steps I rised above all of it, got me a part time job in a vegetarian restaurant and going back to college in order to persue my original goal from nearly 3 years ago, graduate a English - History highschool teacher. I passed 5 of my finals and failed 2. which is for being me quite an achievement.

2 years ago I had a life figured out for me, I just had to study and care about nothing else, still I failed all of my finals. This time it's all on my shoulders and I'm working/studying and I'm actually getting good grades...

Life's giving me a peek on how the bright side looks like cause I'm getting my scholarship after all, so lots of sleepness nights and working overtime have paid off.


right now I am yet again at the point of reading what I wrote and deleting every word I've written, cause really who cares... I care and it felt good to get this off my chest
my goal for 2010 is trying to do a band, and get things off my chest in another more musically, lyrical way and stop littering the internetz with crap like this

Besides all this stuff going down, I'm just living life, taking it in and try to make the most of it. I do have some things bugging me but I've learned to deal with them or getting them out of my way. Life is cold but good. Ieperfest winteredition went quite well although I really didn't wanna show up, it was a good night without too much bullshit, looking forward to the summeredition halfway august.

Seeing Floorpunch tonight, Kewl.
Summer here I come, destined for anything.


listen to life long tragedy and the beatles, for fuck's sake

Dear World

sincerely yours, Ieperfest

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