Plat du jour

Thanks to Greg, I discovered Fred Eerdekens' work.
Pretty, poetic.
Just what the doctor ordered...

Looking forward to see that Belgian guy's work, here in Brussels...

You must play as if there's no tomorrow.

Watching TV from a regular Japanese hotel room can be quite a depressing experience, especially after a few days of zapping and not finding anything suitable to watch. The only English speaking options are usually CNN or BBC World, CNN being so biased it's not even funny, and BBC World being so globally depressing, that I can't stand getting up and hearing those news, repeated and repeated and repeated. All the other channels are usually in Japanese. Sometimes, if you're lucky and if you find out which button is the "language selection" button, you can manage to switch movies to their original language (hopefully English), or sometimes you'll find an English-spoken movie, subtitled in Japanese. Anyway. I've never really been lucky about that. But then, on the last day of my latest trip, when of course I had to get up at the crack of dawn the next day, I landed on a movie channel and on the movie "Shine". "Shine" is a 1996 movie, I believe I had heard of it but never seen it actually, and it's basically a movie about the life of David Helfgott, a pianist (still alive). This was an amazing movie, a total surprise and I felt devastated and ...I don't know. Just go rent the dvd and let me know what you think. Now I just want to listen to Rachmaninov.

"Cecil Parkes: Rachmaninov? Are you sure?
David: Kind of. I'm not really sure about anything.
Cecil Parkes: The Rach 3. It's monumental.
David: It's a mountain. The hardest piece you could everest play."

I love Brussels so I took a picture

True Colors - Cyndi Lauper (I had forgotten how good this song was - I'm a nostalgic geek, live with it)

You with the sad eyes
don't be discouraged
oh I realize
it's hard to take courage
in a world full of people
you can lose sight of it all
and the darkness inside you
can make you fell so small

But I see your true colors
shining through
I see your true colors
and that's why I love you
so don't be afraid
to let them show
your true colors
true colors are beautiful
like a rainbow

Show me a smile then
don't be unhappy, can't remember
when I last saw you laughing
if this world makes you crazy
and you've taken all you can bear
you call me up
because you know I'll be there

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. (R. Rudner)

Well I don't know if it's because of Spring, but my I have a couple of friends who aquired pets over the weekend. Isabelle got a goldfish who ended up in a designer aquarium (a.k.a. a vase), at least for now. She feeds him pork chops. JC bought (and I am a witness) half a dog yesterday. It's actually very cool, and makes excellent pictures. On top of that, if one asks you if you own a pet, you can answer "half a pet" which is just... hilarious. He bought it in a rather weird decoration store downtown.

Besides that yesterday was the 1 year anniversary of my moving in my Brussels appartment, and I don't regret it one second. To celebrate, I cleaned behind the oven today.

Also have been dropping things in the kitchen all weekend, it started yesterday morning with some softener for the laundry, so my kitchen (and myself) ended up in gooey blue flower smelling chemical stuff, and the dropping-stuff fun ended tonight with me dropping the electric whisk (been trying to find the correct term for that instrument, this one sounds weird) full of chocolate dough (I was baking a cake), this time transforming my cat's dry food into chocolate covered ...dry food.

But I make a mean chocolate cake.

For the one, who is supposed to see me someday. (da>SPACE Continued)

Too bad I'll be missing this exhibit... Even the poster looks great!

Live da Life!

When in Shanghai, I want to go to da>SPACE!