We are officially a 'thing' now

You read it, I'm off the market again, so to speak. Her name is Vera, she's an art school girl (:awesome:) and as cute as this cat:



And that's saying a LOT. Coincedentally, this cat really matches my current blog theme.

I bid you adieu!

We are Anonymous

We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect Us

Knowledge is free

We are Anonymous
We are legion

February 10th, Anonymous will bring down Scientology.

Spread the word.

Spread the video.
Spread the video.
Spread the video.

Upated my portfolio AGAIN.

Even more awesomeness now.

I modified the little description window, because the old one sucked. I also added my trademark cat silhouette. I also edited the frontpage, to include said cat.

Note: the frontpage doesn't look as well as it should in Internet Explorer. And it never will. Learn to use better browsers, people.

My portfolio, modified to add even more awesomeness

I modified my portfolio. The background colour now changes according to the time of day :)

I also noticed my feed was somehow valid, but it had some warnings. Which are resolved now. Enjoy.

And if you haven't seen my portfolio yet, now's as good a time as any to correct your mistake.

We're in this together now

You and me
Were in this together now
None of them can stop us now
We will make it through some how
You and me
If the world should break in two
Until the very end of me
Until the very end of you

Even after everything
Youre the queen and Im the king
Nothing else means anything

 

Nine Inch Nails truly is an awesome band, and Trent Reznor truly is a musical god. They write songs appropriate for all moods. Anger, Hate, Misery and even love, as the above lyric proves. Yes, I'm feeling happy, bear with me.

I'm so tired, of playing with this bow and arrow

Now my title has nothing to do with me actually being tired of playing with a bow and arrow. I'm a Sagittarius, would be a bit odd if I get bored doing what I do best, now wouldn't it?

In fact, it's a lyric from one of the best songs of one of the best bands in the world; Portishead. And guess who's going to be seeing them live? Wait for it... waaaaait for iiiiit... ME BABY! ME! The concert will be in april but already I'm excited, since I never thought I would get the change to see Beth Gibbons do her magic in real life. I mean, they haven't toured in 10 years, so I didn't think they would ever tour again. But here they are, about to release a new album and tour. Awesomeness.

Speaking of awesomeness, I have bought a new guitar, and it rocks. And you can rock with it. Heh. It's a Richwood, which is a good brand I'm told. Anyway it's a semi-acoustic purple guitar, and a picture you can find here:

It's totally awesome.

 

On a WHOLE different note, my weekend was the best one in ages. I met a new girl Saturday, we went on a date on Sunday and we totally had a 'click'. God I sound like a valley girl now >_>

 

More on her later ;) And of course, when I say later, I mean next time I get off my lazy ass and write a blogpost.

 

For now, take care of yourself, and eachother.

 

By the way, Sweeney Todd is the best musical since ever. Go see it.

 

English? Wtf?

Many people ask me why my blog is in English. Simple. Because it's not a Hyves blog but my own blog on www.michelmaas.com, exported to Hyves.

PORTISHEAD IN THE NL! Woot!

Yes, finally!

After 10 years, Portishead will finally give a concert in The Netherlands. So I'm going to look for my sleepingbag and my thermos, because I just GOT to get a ticket!

Presale starts this Saturday. I'll be first in line!

Wish me luck!

Ok, you may call me a hippie if you want.

No seriously, this one time.

Go ahead , I'll wait.

You done? Great, let's get on with the story, shall we?

As you're undoubtedly aware, I am a man with a mission. You've read my blogpost about the current state of the world, and my mission to (help) improve it.

Well then. We have to follow a Minor for school next year, and I've been thinking about it for some weeks now. Switching from Mechatronics in the beginning of the year to Audio Design, Psychology and now I've finally found one that suits me. Religion, Philosophy and Levensbeschouwing (there is no English word for it afaik, sorry. Closest I get translating it is life consideration).

I've written down my main study goals and what I want to write my paper on, and what I wanna do for my free project, and it is all supported by this minor. I want to research why people are so closed in real life while trying to contact eachother on the net. And, as you know, I want people to be more in touch. Always.

Now I'm not going to write down everything I'm thinking of doing for my free project or paper, but it involves some innovative social networking technology. Which I want to develop myself. Funny thing, when I was making notes about it on my iPod, I made a funny typo which I kinda like as a project name: Visipn. Now all I gotta do is squeeze a longer name out of it. Something like VISited Interaction Personal Network? VIral Social Interacting Personal Network? I don't know. But for you webdevelopers out there, you might guess what direction I want to take when developing this new technology ;)

Anyway, I'm still waiting for more info about the minor, and the OK from my teacher.

That's it again for this update, more as it develops. No pun intended.

And all we ever were, just zeros and ones

Another week gone by, and what have we learned from this week?

Well, for starters that creating an interactive broadcasting station is hard work. And that honesty is a hard thing to come by these days. Apparently, someone has been on a 'shopping' spree when we were presenting our stuff. As far as we know, a photocamera has disappeared, and some color filters for lighting. Seriously, who does that, among fellow students? This world is coming to an end faster than... well I had too much to drink last night, I can't make witty comments anymore. And you know that's serious business.

Last night I went out, which was nice as usual. Yoeran had Goldstrike, and I brought dropshot, both bottles are empty, you do the math. We were with lots of people, but still, damn. But we're still standing strong.

Now I started this blogpost expecting I could write a lot, and yes, a lot is on my mind, in a very positive way. But it's still too early (not time-wise but chronologically, if you know what I mean. I'm not sure if even I know what I mean >_>). So I don't really know what I can blog about. Maybe the weather... Nah, I'm 23, not 63. Like 23 is old! Pff!

So I'll go fondle my fiddle again now, and watch a movie I think. Nothing much to do round these here parts.

And goddamn Trent Reznor, you're a musical god.

This cake is delicious, and so moist!

I'm watching the X-Files again, it's been so long since I last saw the series but it's oh so good.

Anyway, I'm just blogging to blog now. Nothing really happened, apart from stress at school. Why do they always wait till the very last moment to do things? Or rather, to give me things to do. The mind boggles.

So here I am, editing covers for my newly 'acquired' X-files collection. Oh and by the way, moms, lock your daughters in tonight, 'cause it's weekend and I'm going out~. Going out, not coming out. Let's get that straight. Haha, I made a pun!

That's it for now,

Peace to my  homes in the hood.

The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.

It's me, I'm Michel, I've come home

Yeah so I'm listening to Kate Bush now, thanks again to Pleunie. She's become my personal DJ. Let me explain that.

I yell at her on MSN, "Give me a letter!", which she then does. I proceed to check my (much too huge) music collection (it weighs a metric ton, 56 gigabytes. Though my record is over 80 gigabyte, before the Great Crash of 2002. Yes I remember these things, I'm a geek) and see which artists start with the given letter. In this case, the letter provided was 'K', a good, firm letter. You can see everything there is to know about the letter K at Wikipedia.

Then I chose Kate Bush. The only Bush worth mentioning, in my opinion. I'm a sucker for the oldies, and this is certainly one of them. Although Within Temptation (admittedly) sounds a lot like them, with more guitars and goth fags running around at their concerts.

And because I just had to do some work for school I kinda forgot whatever funny stuff I was going to write down now. But boy, it was funny. I'm still laughing from it. Too bad it's lost, gone forever. Maybe I'll write a tribute post for it. Seems original!

I'm getting buying a new used guitar amp sunday. So I can finally rock in  style again. Jolien had the acoustic guitars unfortunately. Not that it matters, my guitar rocks her guitars. I even have a capo, ha! Beat that!

This music makes me dream away. Good for relaxing, I recommend it. Now I really don't have anything to tell anymore. Life is boring in Sint Willebrord. Luckily it's almost weekend so I can go out again. It's not a full moon this weekend, so you should all be safe.

Later noobs.

I'm not mentioning my ex this time.

Shit I did it in the title. I fail at life.

Anyway, another day, another blogpost, not that I'm going to be blogging daily from now on, my disclaimer still stands strong. I'm just in the mood for blogging thats all.

So I discovered (via Pleunie, much obliged) that the Horrorpops will be releasing a new album next month. Let me repeat that. The Horrorpops will release a new album next month. Exciting, exciting. For those of you who  who are mentally retarded, live in a cave, are blind/deaf, don't know the horrorpops, here is their myspace. When I say here, I mean the upcoming link entitled here: here.

Also, The Dreaming will release their first album on iTunes in a month. The Dreaming is the new band of the old singer of Stabbing Westward. I've been following them for a little over 4 years now, watching them grow and flourish, and now the time has come to let my child go out and explore the world. Christ, I'm getting all emotional from it.

I missed the bus today when I was going home, a rare occasion for those of you who know me well. I didn't know what to do with this gap in my daily schedule, so I decided to go hunting for Nine Inch Nails DVDs. Of course, none were to be found, but you know me, I can't quit shopping till I find something I need want. So this is what I bought:

• DVD of a concert of Ennio Morricone (if you don't know him, please say so out loud. A squad team will come to your house in 15 minutes and 'deal' with your problem.


• 3 disc DVD set of the best of The Muppet Show (yes I like the muppets. Bite me)


• 2 disc special edition in a metal case of Sin City

All together for only 25 euro's. Pretty cheap if you ask me. Other than that nothing really happened today. Well something did, but I promised I wouldn't talk about it (see title).

The girl I like is being a little bit distant. I hope this doesn't mean the worst. Meh, I don't think so, must be me. I know I am too enthusiastic much too fast. Keep it together Michel, you can do it!

I'm getting pretty good at this whole blogging thing. Look at my earlier posts and look at the posts I make these days. Sjeez. Must be my age, I need to write my shit down or else I just don't remember it. My age, or otherwise the booze.

And now I'm going to watch my 2 disc special edition of Sin City. With my terrible cold, *sniff*. Oh well, at least I won't be alone.

Ps. NEW HORRORPOPS ALBUM WOOOOOOOO

New theme!

In case you haven't noticed, I am using a different theme for my blog from now on. You didn't notice did you :(

:'(

Bored, so blogging

Well, I haven't gotten anything to do at the moment, so I thought, why not wright some of my thoughts down.

When I walk the streets, ride the bus or train or do anything that involves me going outdoor, I see all these people I don't know. There are literally billions of people in the world, yet we feel so alone. We're afraid to reach out and contact eachother. Why is that?

I saw 2 girls, getting out at the same busstop, they didn't even look eachother in the eye. They practically live next to eachother, yet no contact at all.

How could it have come to this? Fear? Or just the feeling of indifference towards eachother?

We live in a world with a society which depends on us all working together. We're getting more and more problems because we just don't seem to get along anymore. We don't communicate, which leads to a lack of understanding, which breeds fear. And we all know what fear leads to; Hate.

Someone recently asked me what my goal is in life. If that someone is you, then sorry that I've forgotten it was you ;)

My goal  in life is to get everyone in this world connected to each other,  communicating, socializing, even if it is just to say Hi once in a while. Call me crazy, but I think that it's perfectly possible, seeing where the internet is now and where it was 10 years ago. 10 years from now, it will be such a standard that everyone will be constantly connected. I wanna be the one (well, not by myself, but with a team of course) who gets them socializing, connecting, sharing and living together.

Together for a better world, because quite frankly, we're doomed as a society if we don't.

Now on to a different subject. I'm bored, no one nice is online, I'm missing a certain someone and I'm getting a cold. Im sitting here, listening to nice music (radiohead, nine inch nails and Sia (thanks Alieke)) dreaming and just doing nothing. Which is nice, the last week has been hell for me. There have been highlights, of course, the night out with Alieke topping it by far. I also got my long overdue ipod touch (which is still awesome) and a home cinema set which sounds godlike. Now all I need to buy is a cheap amplifier for my guitar and a capo, since capo's are cool.

I wanna keep on typing, but I don't think whatever I will type after this will be interesting, so I won't bore you any longer.

Go out on the street and just say Hi! to people! They will like it, I know I would!

Nightly musing

A short post (I think) written with my iPod touch. Just to let you know how I am and stuff.

Im feeling much better now that I'm away from Jolien and Nijmegen. I had a date with a very sweet girl, who I hope to see again soon. She's very busy at school though, unfortunately. We had a date, dinner and a movie. I thought it was very nice and we kind of hit it off. She's a very sweet and intelligent girl, easy on the eyes too ;) When I talk to her on MSN, I feel happy, a rare commodity to come by these days. God, I wanna see Her again soon >.<

its getting late now, and I got school tomorrow. Let's hope I dream of my special someone, and not of my stupid ex. She makes my blood boil at the moment. She's not the Jolien I once knew...

oh well, nightynight.