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Read : Dead by Sunset – Ann Rule

basszje — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:51:42 +0000

Dead by Sunset is a long long story about a murder, it’s trial and it’s backgrounds. At first I didn’t really look forward to reading this since the back cover went on about the combination drama, women and families. You understand probably. Anyway since there was nothing else to read around I started.

It’s a true story, which usually sucks. It’s about the murder of a woman by her husband ( it’s no detective either so I can give that away ). And it’s quite chilling as well. The ‘perfect’ husbrand Brad with a good job, lot’s of money (learns you to go for that huh) turns out to be quite a nut job stalking, threatening and using both his children as wifes more as property than anything else.

The books deals the first hundred-so pages with a tiring family history but after that I grew on me. Maybe I’m getting soft on my age. The reason why is probably that the story is so hard to believe and the guy manages to escape so many times you want to know where its headed and if he ever manages to get convicted, basically for making other peoples life miserable.

It’s a good book if you like drama, especially themed around true stories, bad men and courtrooms. For the rest of us it’s still a good read if you encounter it somewhere

Even The Republic sometimes takes time to read. In South-America reading in English involves reading books simply because they are lingering around the hostel or second-hand bookstore, not because The Republic actually wants to read them..

Gelezen : Alleen maar nette mensen

basszje — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:32:00 +0000

Wat voor boeken vind je toch als je in een hostel rondhangt in Argentinie? Nou ja bijvoorbeeld ‘Alleen maar nette mensen’ van Robert Vuijsje.

David is een jonge joodse Amsterdammer, die door zijn donkere uiterlijk op een Marokkaanse jongere lijkt. Om zich af te zetten tegen zijn Amsterdamse (Oud-Zuid) kakkineuze milieu en uit nieuwsgierigheid gaat hij op zoek naar zwarte vrouwen, eerst in de Bijlmer en later in Amerika. Hij ontdekt dat hij daar gediscrimineerd wordt vanwege zijn uiterlijk. Een roman waarin scherpe tegenstellingen worden neergezet tussen culturen die in Nederland naast elkaar bestaan. Degene die de grens oversteekt, hoort uiteindelijk nergens meer bij. Het boek is vol vaart geschreven, hard en rauw

En dit citaat wou ik ook u, gewaardeerde lezer, ook niet onthouden. Over Koninginnedag en ene kroonprins.

Waarom zou ik meedoen aan een land waar een man van in de veertig een uitkering krijgt van meer dan een miljoen euro om in een juten zak op en neer te springen …

Vrijdagavondmuziek: Matamba

basszje — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:37:41 +0000

Reggae from Bolivia

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Dour 2011 – The bands you don’t know yet

basszje — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:00:35 +0000

My plans as always with the Dour Festival contain for about threequarters of the time walking around with a beer scouting out names I’ve never heard of but might be nice to check. So just for everybody who wants to hear some new and exciting stuff six songs you should check out. Other than usual, all music is quite relaxing. Check them after the break. Which do you like most?

K-branding

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Fool’s Gold

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Russian Circles

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Yussuf Jerusalem

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Karma to Burn

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Neurosis

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Dour Festival 2011

basszje — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:00:46 +0000

Good or bad, the list of stuff I saw the last week on Dour 2011 festival.

Rolo Tomassi, Kyuss lives!, Cypress Hill, I’m from Barcelona, Drums are for Parades, Leif Vollebekk, This will destroy you, Madball, Anthrax, Neurosis, 50 lions, Arma Gathas, Death by Stereo, Terror, Agnostic Front, Life of Agony, Fool’s gold, Yussuf Jerusalem, Clan d’estime, Cloud Control, Pennywise, Alborosie, K-branding, Russian Circles, Boris, First Blood, Angel Crew, Kap Bambino, Bomba Estereo, Hugo Freegow, Shitmat, Karma to Burn

International jews, niggers and the reds

basszje — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:36:54 +0000

Studs Lonigan is an interesting trilogy of books written around the beginning of the thirties by James T Farell. I picked it up recently at a secondhand bookstore in Ecuador.

It deals with the hopelessness of the crisis and the incredible racism occurring everywhere in the world around that time. As the history is often rewritten by the victor so is that part of our collective minds dealing with the Jewish people in the aftermath of the second world war. Still sticks a image of the allies trying to ‘save’ the jews from the holocaust. Studs Lonigan provides on that subject an interesting peak in the minds of the Catholic Irish (white) working class of the 30′s in south Chicago.

One quote;

“Well that’s what we get for letting the Jew international bankers get control of our country. You know what we need? We need a man like Mussolini here in America. A strong man to take things out of the hnds of the Jew international bankers and the gangsters. If we had a man like Mussolini over here for two months, he’d straighten out a lot of people and put them where they belong, behind the bar of against a wall “

Interesting thought

basszje — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:00:31 +0000

Abandoned childrens hospital

basszje — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:33:06 +0000

In Berlin there are many old building just standing around unused. This hospital for children was opened in 1908 with a extra building opening in 1987 but closed in the nineties (1997) and since then nothing useful happened with the building. (The large images look nicer, so click on them)

Rosa Luxemburg

basszje — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:58:39 +0000

Rosa Luxemburg

Vrijdagmiddagmuziek: Major Lazer

basszje — Fri, 21 May 2010 10:00:08 +0000

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